As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.

40% Deet spray on every surface, long pants, boots…ticks were so thick you would’ve thought I wore tick attractant. Pulled off upwards to 40-50. What is going on??! They’ve never been this bad. On a positive note, the butterflies love the milkweed I planted in the field.

Think of the absolutely most corrupt behavior of a sitting President, and Trump will exceed even your imagination. We can’t even predict absurdities in corruption because these pale in comparison to what he’ll actually do. 🤬

Striping committee membership from state reps removes representation from every single person in those reps district whether they voted for them or not. Completely undemocratic. Absolutely unacceptable.

In case the pressure on NES to improve customer service has been diminished with time, let me report that it took me about 2 hours (multiple long holds, two dropped calls and customer service “research.”) to get electricity on at one of my rentals. @mayorfreddie.bsky.social

No Kings in Nashville was galvanizing and a great way to spend a beautiful day. I came up with what I thought was a clever sign and it was super fun to spontaneously find others who had similar signs!

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

Tomorrow!!!

These Iranian Doctors Risked Their Lives So You Could See These Images www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.

I did this training. Helpful and well organized.

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Worth the time for a long read. Our founding and now: radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...

State Terror Has Arrived www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Y’all, they know we know they’re lying. They don’t care. They know we can see the videos. We can no long be incredulous at the boldness of their lies.

Tennessee has at least one letter now. The harm done by RFK Jr. is immense.

ICYMI: Here's my op-ed in the NYT today about Trump's occupation of Minneapolis and other American cities, and why it's uniquely dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.

Even the polar bears are anti-fascist in Nashville. Anti-ICE protest/march was well attended for such short notice with lots of drivers honking and waving in support. #antifascism

Cartoon by @badiucao.bsky.social.

Impressive and important work by @philinvestigates.com. @newyorker.com your piece this week regarding political violence catalogued some of the recent events but missed the monied and coordinated menace wanting to normalized political violence. This is a bigger threat than the solo actors.

New interview! On Trump corruption in Central America and the Middle East and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The cruelty.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

2012:

Best image of the day:

Jane Mayer makes a great point that Trump has made so much $ off his recent grift, he no longer needs Musk. So corrupt. Truly curious why this corruption is not a bigger deal for voters.

😕 pretty much

Tennessee, we could have had this. 😢

Nope, @nytimes.com I cannot stomach the VP on The Daily this am. Too full of rage and dread over blowing up the deficit and defunding effective funding to give to the ultra-wealthy. I hope you held his feet to the fire, but even if you did, I just can’t listen to his unpatriotic word vomit. 🤮

If everyone received the vaccine at 10 yo, it would prevent HPV in the entire population. Eventually no one would carry the virus & it could not be spread to others Side Benefit is reduction in cases of both #Cervical and #Penile cancers.

Read now and put the recommended solutions on the list of “future to do.” That is, if we get the chance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...

There's more than this essay can capture, but this is a good start. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

An appropriate response.

No child has to die of measles. We have actively and collectively decided to let children die rather than prevent a vaccine-preventable disease. We are stupid, and our children pay the price.

I guess it’s useless to ask how these Advance Financial ppl sleep at night, but holy cow, what terrible greed.

Amazing to watch the understandable hubris of Anthony Bourdain’s first episode of Parts Unknown in Myanmar. I watched the other day, and the discussion about possible democracy taking hold in Myanmar was from the perspective of the presumed “fact” that our democracy was not fragile. Gutting.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Who among us could cope with all of this and a minimal level of support? Not me.

Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

This is anti-science, anti-intellectualism, anti-standards.

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

It IS a defining feature. Lots of numb folks walking around looking for new ways to numb them selves. My numbing drug of choice is work for sure.

“In the effort for transparency.” So, transparently, they will strip rights away and deport American citizens.