Teresa White
@woman-in-white.bsky.social
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Flavor Flav helping out Nashville. ❤️⏰
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Nashville Severe Weather
21 days ago
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.
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Nellie Cubed
22 days ago
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. 📚💙
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Jessica Lussenhop
25 days ago
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
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/
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I’m looking for a cozy mystery set in fall or at Halloween? Any recs? 📚💙💬
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This Is Nashville
about 1 month ago
"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.
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
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)
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Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-insurance-denials-patient-progress?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1758402013&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The StoryGraph
about 2 months ago
"What's your favorite book?"
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Michael J Armstrong
2 months ago
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
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Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% | CBC News
The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/brown-forman-jack-daniels-quarterly-sales-american-alcohol-boycott-canada-1.7619950
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Mayor Freddie O’Connell
2 months ago
As we continue to celebrate Black Business Month in August – here are some staff highlights! Drop yours in the comments. ⬇️
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WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio
2 months ago
Education advocates say that Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill will take resources away from Tennessee's most vulnerable students
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How Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' may strip resources for low-income students and those with disabilities
The Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill" will bring changes for Tennessee students from kindergarten to college.
https://wpln.org/post/how-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-may-strip-resources-for-low-income-students-and-those-with-disabilities/
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You also get all the Ken Burns documentaries.
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Ben Werdmuller
3 months ago
"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."
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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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 — a change El...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-spacex-rocket-launch-environmental-regulation-rollback
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damned teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️👻
4 months ago
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
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ProPublica
4 months ago
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.
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Nichole
4 months ago
While you’re taking advantage of
@bookshop.org
’s anti- prime sale, please buy my books? 🥹
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Nichole's Books
Books Nichole wrote or contributed to
https://bookshop.org/lists/nichole-s-books
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ProPublica
4 months ago
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)
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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-tax-loophole-steve-cohen?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-1
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ProPublica
5 months ago
The new
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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:
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Merriam-Webster
5 months ago
Oh, be careful, Merriam-Webster, lest we suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of our lexical ground.
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OPB
5 months ago
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.
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Trump upends historic Columbia River Basin agreement, bringing uncertainty to salmon recovery efforts
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.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/12/trump-upends-columbia-river-basin-agreement/
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Scott Galloway
5 months ago
Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.
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The Tennessee Holler
5 months ago
WATCH:
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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. 🇺🇸
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I love contests
#booksky
#audiobooksy
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6 months ago
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Spoon & Tamago
6 months ago
This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio
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ProPublica
6 months ago
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):
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She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
https://projects.propublica.org/the-year-after-a-denied-abortion/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=5-2
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NPR
6 months ago
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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NIH autism study will pull from private medical records
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-5372695/autism-nih-rfk-medical-records
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Max Leibman
7 months ago
People say Microsoft Excel is unintuitive, but I disagree. Excel does what I expect at least 4-Mar of the time.
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ProPublica
7 months ago
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)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
https://propub.li/4i15LbF
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Nichole
7 months ago
Forget A.I. What we need are glasses with lenses that do not get oily
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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
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
7 months ago
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...
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ProPublica
8 months ago
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)
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School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state…
https://propub.li/4iE6cJV
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Marianna Bacallao
8 months ago
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.
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Memphis lawmaker proposes a way around local taxes for developers
Developers could skirt local taxes by making an agreement directly with the state under a new proposal in the Tennessee Senate.
https://wpln.org/post/memphis-lawmaker-proposes-a-way-around-local-taxes-for-developers/
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Randi Mayem Singer
8 months ago
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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Nashville Severe Weather
8 months ago
Feel today's sunshine, see the blue sky, in this broken messed up world, knowing you're loved.
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ProPublica
8 months ago
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
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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind…
https://propub.li/4hZq8qH
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NPR
8 months ago
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.
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How federal layoffs are impacting national parks, from reduced hours to safety fears
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.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
10 months ago
"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.
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/15/ftc-pbms-unitedhealth-brian-thompson-cvs-caremark-cigna-pharmacy-benefit-managers/
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