She's been found and is safe! Thank you all!

Friends, the daughter of a friend has been missing for more than 24 hours. She's from Cookeville, Tennessee, but could be anywhere by now. Please keep an eye out, and if you are the praying type, please pray for her safe return.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Why newspaper reporters shouldn't all sit in New York: Tennessee and Kentucky are actually different places.

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Yes, @acshilton.bsky.social!:Special elections always create opportunity for change—& an off-cycle special on different dates (early runs 12-26.Nov! Election Day 02.Dec!) w/no incumbents? Wide.Open.Race! @aftynbehn.bsky.social is 💯% the change-making, committed, candidate we need—Vote Behn in CD7!

Friends: Tennessee has a special election coming up Dec. 2 for its 7th house district that is winnable for a Dem. If you're feeling like celebrating by keeping our momentum going, consider chipping in to @aftynbehn.bsky.social's campaign. www.aftynforcongress.com

Look, I don't want to make this about me, but my cousin's husband went to college with Mamdani and so basically this is partially my win too.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

This is wild. Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony, by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

Hey @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social, if you sold tiny Jerri Green for TN Gov stickers on your website, I'd plaster a bunch of these canned goods I'm about to put in blessing boxes all over my bright red town with 'em. Just saying!

Happy Halloween from our oldest and youngest doggos

Please read and share. www.ruralhealth.us/nationalrura...

This case is truly bananas, y'all.

Curious: and small Democrat groups in conservative areas planning Democrat branded blessing boxes or weekly food handouts during the shutdown? I'm thinking of starting one here, but would love to hash the idea out with others.

The government is just selling off stuff we, the taxpayers, paid for? Found on Facebook marketplace, from a federal building in Chicago, of course.

Has Redbull Rampage always been this horrifying? The crash updates in my feed are just, yikes.

I'm in an area where Trump won 86 percent of the vote. We lined two sides of a city block this morning. Definitely way larger turnout than I've ever seen.

Look, if I'm going to spend my life going to protests in rural Tennessee, I'm going to wear a unicorn costume and dance my tail off.

Old enough to remember when my editor yelled at me for being in the office too much. "This isn't where you find stories! No stories are happening here!" Paying commercial office space rates for journalists to all sit in NYC is silly.

2025 problems: I bought an inflatable unicorn costume but after Trump's 100 percent China tariff announcement I realize I should have bought a chicken 😭

Lol I avoid shaming PR folks (they have a job to do, and that's life), but this pitch is actually the worst pitch you could send me, a person who hates billionaires and loves firm boundaries.

Anyone have a favorite inflatable unicorn suit they recommend? You know, just because.

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Turns out a lot of y'all with Live Laugh Love signs only really wanted that for white folks.

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

On a scale of 1 to Oh God, Make It Stop, how much am I going to regret getting my toddler a pint sized harmonica?

I made it to his 1 year checkup before they banned the MMR. Y'all, the relief is real.

Me, annoyingly explaining the grand jury selection process to my partner: it's random, you're just selected out of a database... Him: in this case, a federal database? Me: yes, that...oh...wait, they've been demanding voter information from states. Him: and sharing data between agencies.

A thing I learned as a small farmer digging into USDA data for a story on farmers is that I am not the norm. The average farmer's net worth is more than $1.4 million. And cash poor, land rich is still rich. So, a bail out is mostly helping rich folks.

I run comms for a tech startup and I've been screaming about this for the past year. What my colleagues are giving me to clean up is actually worse than if I just did the work for them from scratch.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Thinking of something @prisonculture.bsky.social kept repeating at a workshop I attended last year: "Most people are not brave"

Wild to see my grandparents' family home (sold out of the family a decade or so ago) now in the New York Times. (It's the mid-century modern home in Santa Paula, and what the previous owners did to the kitchen cabinets is criminal.)

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Hey, if you're in rural America and listening to your neighbors shooting into the dark and feeling very alone, I'm here with you.

"Jose" and "Joel" are irrigators. They are taking their morning break and share, "Today we will connect 2,000 pipes in the lettuce fields. It will take us 10 hours to do this. We work in a team of 3, one person drives the tractor and the other two lower the pipes." #WeFeedYou

Okay, I keep seeing Ghost suggested as the alternative for Substack, but with my subscriber numbers it would cost me $199 a month to send out a free newsletter. Is Wordpress my best option?

so sick and tired of the worst people you've ever heard of ruining everyone's lives and destroying the planet

🎁 article. "Nearly every crop has a precise window for optimal harvest. When that window is missed, crops become undesirable to retailers, resulting in food waste and higher costs. CNN reported on an Oregon cherry farm with 30 acres of unpicked, rotting fruit...a loss of ~$250K as a result."

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I appreciate that the American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending COVID shots for infants, but as a parent of an infant, we need pediatricians to actually carry them. I can't find a shot anywhere that will give shots to infants. (Yes, I've tried the health department)

This summer I found out the judges at county fairs never taste the canned goods and it scrambled my brain. What's the point? Today I learned there's a Facebook group called "rebel canning" where people share recipes that haven't killed but definitely might. Now the first thing makes more sense.

Ms. Rachel: “How did it get to this point…I feel like I’m in a nightmare where I’m explaining not to kill thousands of children.”

My friend was dating this lovely young cyclist who was tragically killed by a driver who crossed the double yellow line. They're raising money for a cycling scholarship in his name. If you're so moved, you can give here. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

This is very cool! And as a farmer, I did not know about it!

Friends, I need advice on how to support someone who just lost an infant. It's not someone I'm super close to now, but we have known each other since childhood. I'm also not located anywhere near them. Would love any advice you can offer.

Actual footage of Senate Republicans trying to get this bill passed.

If I’m knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *need* an LLM. If I’m not knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *trust* an LLM.