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during commercials of @911nashville (a TV maxidrama featuring attractive people rescuing folks), consider helping our most vulnerable Nashvillians by donating food, shelter and warmth that will go directly to those in need through Open Table Nashville. Winter is coming. buff.ly/0ib7qKm?

This is huge news for people who love books & libraries. We should be talking about the fact that there’s one less book distributor in the world & it’s a huge one. Amazon wants you to stop getting your books & audiobooks from libraries. When libraries have fewer options for books, we all lose. 📚💙

A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

I’m looking for a cozy mystery set in fall or at Halloween? Any recs? 📚💙💬 #booksky

"Nashville Nice" is a unique flavor of Southern friendliness. But as more transplants move in and Lower Broad leans into its "party city" reputation, are cracks starting to appear in our collective civility? Call 615-760-2000 to join the conversation. Thursday at noon.

Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)

"What's your favorite book?"

Brown‑Forman's "net sales in developed international markets dropped eight per cent" due to "geopolitical uncertainty". Sales fell 62% in Canada, 16% in the UK, & 10% in Germany. 🍷 #EconSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As we continue to celebrate Black Business Month in August – here are some staff highlights! Drop yours in the comments. ⬇️

Education advocates say that Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill will take resources away from Tennessee's most vulnerable students wpln.org/post/how-tru...

You also get all the Ken Burns documentaries.

"A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

1) Paramount bribes Trump to settle a lawsuit 2) Colbert factually describes it as bribery 3) Paramount cancels The Late Show, a 62-year-old franchise

We're continuing to tell the stories of Hurricane Helene’s devastation of western North Carolina, and we want to know: What is one thing the storm destroyed that you would have saved had you evacuated? To tell our team, leave a voicemail at 828-201-2738.

While you’re taking advantage of @bookshop.org’s anti- prime sale, please buy my books? 🥹 bookshop.org/lists/nichol...

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories. First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist: www.propublica.org/article/blac...

Oh, be careful, Merriam-Webster, lest we suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of our lexical ground.

President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

I love contests #booksky #audiobooksy

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

We're honored to be a Scripps Howard Journalism Awards finalist for "The Year After a Denied Abortion," our story about a woman forced to continue a life-threatening pregnancy following Tennessee's abortion ban. Read the story (published Feb. 2024):

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

People say Microsoft Excel is unintuitive, but I disagree. Excel does what I expect at least 4-Mar of the time.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Forget A.I. What we need are glasses with lenses that do not get oily

Finished listening to Office of Historical Corrections. It was one of those I kept needing to go back and be sure I soaked it all in. Wow #booksky #audiobook

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far. Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

Developers in Tennessee could skirt local taxes by making an agreement directly with the state under new legislation advancing in the statehouse. The way the bill is written, it would only apply to Memphis. wpln.org/post/memphis...

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Feel today's sunshine, see the blue sky, in this broken messed up world, knowing you're loved.

ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions. The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers. By @craigsilverman.bsky.social

Some 1,000 NPS employees were fired, and hiring for seasonal positions was delayed. Here's what to know about the impacts already being felt at parks, and what it could mean for the busy season.

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.