ADOPTABLE Skeeter wants you to know today is National Rescue Dog Day! Please SHARE to help me find a home for my gorgeous Bluetick foster, ADOPTABLE Skeeter!

Happy Diane Nash Day! Today we celebrate Diane Nash’s birthday. Born in Chicago, Nash attended Howard University in Washington, DC, but transferred after her first year to Fisk University in Nashville.

Join us as a spectator Saturday to benefit The Mary Parrish Center! It’ll be a a day of fun, community & friendly competition — all to benefit survivors of domestic violence. Registration is $10. (Upgrade for another $40 to maximize your impact!) Tickets at link in comments🍀

These people are ALL groomers. Nothing but grift and grooming.

HURRY! Registration for The Mary Parrish Center Pickleball Tournament closes THIS Sunday, April 19, at midnight. Register today (link in bio)🍀

Bernard LaFayette has died. abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

This shirt was especially apropos for today.

East Tennessee Children's Hospital becomes the Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital reflecting a “generational collaboration that will transform pediatric care in this region.” 🦋Thank you, Dolly!🦋 1/2

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day

🚨🚨Introducing my latest foster gal!🚨🚨 Meet Skeeter! 🦟 She’s a 4 year old Bluetick Coonhound who’d never been allowed off her backyard chain and had never been in a home. Her details are below. Please SHARE! Interested in adopting? Email [email protected]

Nashville emergency: 3 Overnight Warming Shelters Available: Fairgrounds, Expo 1: 401 Wingrove St; Madison Community Ctr: 550 N. Dupont Ave; SE Community Ctr: 5260 Hickory Hollow Pkwy.

the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams

Happy new year! ⭐️To adopt a Coonhound like Lurlene: misfithounds.org ⭐️To adopt a Pibble like Rhythm: LITERALLY ANY SHELTER! ⭐️To adopt a Pointer like my Dolly: PointerRescue.org

Merry Christmas from Rhythm, Lurlene and me! 🎄To adopt a Coonhound like Lurlene: misfithounds.org 🎄To adopt a Pibble like Rhythm: LITERALLY ANY SHELTER! 🎄To adopt a Pointer like my Dolly: PointerRescue.org

Not only did Trump’s DOJ redact ALL 119 pages of the Epstein grand jury documents, they didn't even index the contents of the additional court filings. Transparency indeed.

NASCAR settles antitrust suit brought by Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports following expert testimony: NASCAR owes $364.7M in damages to the two teams due to illegal, monopolistic, unfair trade practices. apnews.com/article/nasc...

Its National Roof Over Your Head Day. The leading cause of homelessness for women & children is domestic violence. The Mary Parrish Center provides rapid & transitional housing to survivors escaping domestic violence. To give 👉🏼 linktr.ee/mary_littleton

🍁Happy Thanksgiving!🍁

FDNY Union demands answers after discovery of 68 boxes of evidence confirming first responders’ exposure to lethal toxins at Ground Zero despite NYC, DEP claims no such evidence existed. abc7ny.com/post/fdny-un...

So… I just keep loading and unloading the dishwasher until I die?

#VeteransDay #LawfulOrder

154 years ago today, the Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on their first ever concert tour to raise funds to save their school. If you haven’t experienced a Jubilee Singers’ performance, you are depriving yourself the opportunity to be deeply moved. fiskjubileesingers.org

If Starbucks’ baristas molested children with the regularity of Christian pastors and priests, you wouldn’t have been able to get your hands on a pumpkin spice latte in decades.

🍂 Happy Fall! 🍁 🧡 For a pibble like Rhythm, visit www.NashvillePittie.org! 🧡 For a hound like Lurlene, visit www.MisfitHounds.org! #adoptdontshop #pitbullrescue #houndrescue #hound #pitbulls

Its been an amazing week of generosity for The Mary Parrish Center, but Housing Hope 2025 ends at midnight. There’s still time to shop the Giving Catalog www.housinghopenashville.org/catalog Your donations are vital for survivors & their families to live free of violence.

“Why does she stay?” “Why doesn’t she just leave?” “Why does she keep going back?” The number one reason: HOUSING. Did you know the leading cause of homelessness for women & children in the US is domestic violence? Help provide housing for survivors. www.HousingHopeNashville.org

🍀GREAT NEWS!🍀 Housing Hope has been extended through Sunday, September 14. We’re so excited for the overwhelming response to Housing Hope 2025! So, let’s keep the momentum going! All gifts support survivors of domestic violence and are 100% tax deductible: housinghopenashville.org/catalog

❗️ A radiation catastrophe could occur in Kharkiv: Russia is shelling a laboratory of the institute storing several dozen pounds of enriched uranium - NYT ▪️The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has been already hit by Russia 74 times;

“The impact of your donation allows a child to go back to school without fear; allows a survivor to sleep through the night for the first time, sometimes in years.” Shop from 16 different gifts to benefit survivors of domestic violence now: housinghopenashville.org/catalog #BreakTheCycle

For years, my brilliant friend Michelle endured violence & abuse. Her breaking point came the night her husband entered their room with a knife — she knew she had to escape. The Mary Parrish Center provided her with a safe, cost-free apartment, giving her the security she needed to start over. 1/4

Survivors face many obstacles when fleeing violence. Starting over means finding safe housing, but it can also mean finding a job, transportation, and childcare. Help a survivor start their new life today with a gift from Housing Hope's Giving Catalog. Shop now at housinghopenashville.org/catalog

Its Day 1 of Housing Hope Week, the annual online fundraising event benefitting The Mary Parrish Center! Shop our unique Giving Catalog to choose from 16 different gifts that help survivors of domestic violence. 🍀Gifts start at $25 & are 100% tax-deductible🍀www.housinghopenashville.org/catalog

Today is National Food Bank Day! Please join me in supporting Tennessee’s largest direct service provider — Nourish Food Bank — by sharing your funds, food and time! Signing up to help or give is easy! Visit www.NourishFoodBanks.org today! #NourishFoodBank #NationalFoodBankDay

as someone who has definitely had moonshine from a random hillbilly at a tailgate, so am i

From @betsyphillips.bsky.social: A deep dive into the Work Projects Administration's interviews with formerly enslaved people reveals something about our history.

Happy Independence Day

Despite his best efforts, Gilbert didn’t graduate from the service dog program. He was just too friendly.

Senegal women’s national hoops team forced to cancel a 10-day training trip to US after feds denied its members’ visas. Senegal is not on the travel ban list. firstandpen.com/senegal-wome...

#OTD 1940, a TN man was lynched. His name was Elbert Williams. NAACP leader Williams was kidnapped from his home in Brownsville by a group of white men led by the local sheriff & the night marshal. Three days later, Mr. Williams’ brutalized body was found in the nearby Hatchie River.

Its Juneteenth! Lift every voice and sing! Learn: nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/hi...

I don’t know where Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is from, but she sounds like home. #NoKings

Said goodbye to the sweetest, most joyful spirit this morning. We had a good run, Dolly. I love you, sweet girl.

New Susan Collins just dropped

The girls are fighting!

Fort Snelling National Cemetery 📷 Photographer Frank Glick, 2011 #MemorialDay

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Where is Kilmar Abrego Garcia? Is he alive?

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

Mom tries to comfort her daughter after they survived a Russian missile strike on Sumy this morning. Heartbreaking.