Those still capable of shame should be ashamed.

FWIW, here’s the map we proposed after the last census. This is what it would look like to draw districts to ensure they represent the actual people who actually live in Tennessee rather than to rig the maps for partisan gain.

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Raumesh Akbari released a statement today after a 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read the full statement on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that the U.S. Supreme Court's Callais decision is a slap in the face to the thousands of Black Alabamians who resisted Jim Crow, and willfully naive about how southern politics actually work.

"The decision points to a future in which these states will gain more congressional representation primarily (or even solely) because of minority population growth, but then deny those citizens meaningful political representation." @ronbrownstein.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

This ruling isn’t a surprise. The unconstitutionality has been clear from the jump. But farmers & small businesses have already been harmed. Most families paid $1,000+ of illegal taxes. US relations with the world already thrown into chaos. And all based on an abuse of power.

Must-read piece detailing 50+ hours of body cam footage from the May ‘25 ICE/TN Highway Patrol operation, which marked ICE’s big shift away from targeting violent felons and to a “show me your papers” dragnet. It’s informative, sickening, and enraging.

Nashville, stay safe & stay warm. 1. Let faucets drip overnight. 2. Disconnect hoses. 3. Open cabinets under sinks. 4. ID your water shut-off. 5. Empty your ice maker. 6. Minimize time outside. 7. Keep your pets inside. 8. Puzzles, board games, books! 9. Take care of each other.

Tennessee court enjoins the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis. It’s not about law and order when they’re not following the law.

First measles case in Nashville in two decades. we live in the dumbest timeline

Turns out Americans voting for change in 2024 really did want lower prices and a stronger economy. They didn’t sign up for a radical overhaul of American government.

Government shut down; air traffic controllers not getting paid; health care costs soaring. And this guy is directing the government to give him a quarter of a billion dollars. The corruption knows no bounds.

How can Sen. Hagerty act so shocked? The January Report disclosed retrieving toll records for calls from WH to a handful of senators on night of J6. And it was public that he was in that handful. It’d be crazy for a prosecutor not to have those records when the calls were a big part of indictment.

-282 former DOJ officials sound alarm on compromised integrity & abuse of power. -6 former Surgeons General warn RFK endangering nation’s health. -Amid government shutdown, White House threatens to withhold back pay. -Two US cities challenging illegal troop deployments. That’s just today.

wild @MarshaBlackburn & Hagerty are making a big deal of this. calls from WH/Giuliani to Senators after 1/6 to halt certification is described in the Trump indictment By all means let’s see every doc/grand jury testimony mentioning them to confirm if phone records were relevant!

Today’s Election Day to pick the nominees for the special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, which includes lots of Nashville. If you’re not sure, there’s a handy tool posted below. Polls open now and until 7pm. Go vote.

We’re missing basic civics here. It’s Congress—not the President—that has the constitutional power to call out the Guard. Congress’s laws let presidents deploy under narrow, specific circumstances. For nearly 250 years, courts have enforced those limits to prevent abuse of power.

“Evenly divided” here means half of the private school vouchers go to families making less than the ~$170,000 limit, which is 95% of Tennessee families and half go to families making even more, which is the wealthiest 5% of Tennesseans.

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with? DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker Judge: You're a lawyer

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Good God, this is dangerous. And just an outright rejection of basic principles of constitutional government in the United States.

In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:

"An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month..."

Got so tired of complaining about voter fraud without proof that he just went out and did voter fraud. Now that’s commitment to a cause.

George Washington won the Revolution, presided at Constitutional Convention, and was our first President. When Senate proposed his face for US coins, he rejected it as anti-republican and signed a law barring any actual person’s image on coins, which held until Lincoln was put on the penny in 1909.

During 2024 campaign, Trump lied and disowned Project 2025. CNN and others in media actually fact-checked Democrats for deceiving & misleading voters by linking it to Trump. But it’s been the operational blueprint for his presidency from the jump.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Using drones, helicopters & flashbang grenades to storm an entire residential apartment building in the middle of the night and then hauling off zip tied children in rented vans. The country’s entering a moral black hole here.

Having a Dr. Evil style meeting on how your detailed plans are finally falling into place seems a questionable strategy.

Historically bad decision for Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in hell this is.

In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint and proclaimed the U.S. armed forces as his weapon of choice against domestic "enemies."

🧵 The people in the rest of the world understand what’s happening in America. Do we?

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social (an attorney): “Deploying military units to take part in policing Tennessee citizens violates the Tennessee Constitution… We either have the rule of law or we don’t.” @govbilllee open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

The Tennessee Attorney General appears to have improperly withdrawn and surreptitiously revised two recent formal opinions about constitutional limits on Tennessee National Guard deployments. The AG now takes no position on whether the Guard is even subject to TN constitution.

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

The guy who was drinking his way through the FoxNews weekend shift like 5 minutes ago giving his version of the speech from Patton but with real middle school assembly vibes to a roomful of actual proven military leaders. All hat, no cattle.

Understand focus on the disagreements between Klein & Coates. But both express, in different ways, that Democrats can’t write off all people on the other side. Coates rightly rejects the ideology, but says “I don't want the people out. When you start talking about who people are in their bones —“

When Star Trek: Into Darkness had all of Starfleet leadership gather at HQ, fans rejected it as an idiotic plot-driven set-up that was too implausible . . . for science fiction.

Tennessee farmers facing $100+ million in losses due to reckless tariff policies. Now, lawless immigration raids straining state’s relationship with South Korea that’s created more than 5,000 jobs from Clarksville to Spring Hill to Loudon. Got to learn about cause & effect folks.

We really need to work on the messaging for this Nobel Peace Prize campaign

Women of America: a series of leathery, uncannily colored old men who look like they’re being propped up with a series of wires and two by fours are here to tell you how to be healthier

It’s oddly comforting when people who push deeply immoral public policy are shown to be horrible people generally. Like, it would be unsettling if Homan were a straight arrow who paid for operations for orphans.

It seems notable that the guy who was allegedly taking bribes to steer federal contracts to companies is the czar over $170 billion in enforcement & detention spending approved in the OBBB.

Did he give the $50,000 in cash back to the federal government? Or does he just keep that?

Here’s the deal. Regardless of what Kimmel said, ABC made this decision only in response to an overt threat from the government. That’s not how America is supposed to work. The government isn’t supposed to control who gets to talk.