CMs should be continually reminded that they have a responsibility to govern on behalf of all their constituents, not just the ones with the time to come to these meetings

Tonight’s soundtrack: another banger from my multimodal queen

This is how it feels to Post btw

They are not technically SROs - they’re shared apartments. We’ve had coliving operations here for many years but they tend to skirt the edges of the existing roommate laws

In a place that can make you change, fall in love again and again

Somehow I’ve ended up on GOP text lists and the results are predictably insane yet hilarious

To the pedal tavern playing Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield: they could never make me hate you 💙

Nashville’s 4th Ave bus lane is a Vision Zero project that affects ~the entire city. Delaying it, watering it down, or killing it are all unacceptable.

Media always overdetermines election results, treating even close ones as national mandates. At least for some months. And they've always treated Trump voters as realer than other Americans (see: diner safaris). What stood out with 2024 was acing like it was a binding referendum on the culture.

This is so funny. “Yes, we acknowledge that zoning was historically a tool of exclusion and racism. But has CM Welsch Engaged the Community on whether we should get rid of it???”

All I’m gonna say is that you can ride a Citibike to LaGuardia 🤷🏼‍♂️

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Just a Regular Person taking the bus to an appointment with ~a dozen other Regular People

🎵I’ll be the biggest star, at this bench/bus/bike lane/big balls spar🎵

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

Y’all know what to do open.spotify.com/track/0410Rg...

My takeaway from this is that we should start ignoring the superminority of billionaire condo/bar/sports team owners that currently shape our public spaces and do what we said we wanted to do together, as a city, in our myriad Plans and Visions

Sprawl is expensive. Maybe we should allow more growth in cities on the Cumberland. Just a thought. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/15/s...

This is the ideal song to play while you’re puttering around on your bicycle, btw. It simply can’t be topped!

Today’s bit: rode my bike to help my friend’s mom fix her car

Next pizza Monday at Buffalo Wild Wings send tweet

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

In so many ways, my Wario

I see we’ve moved on from spreading Christ’s love

Nashville should do this

Charlie Kirk fans threaten HBCUs because they want to lash out at Charlie’s enemies, and theirs, and they’re conceding that means black people. Not ONLY, but definitely.

Here’s a good explainer from @willsommer.bsky.social about why Kirk was a singular figure in the right.

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." - Marcus Aurelius

Nashville had an incredible opportunity here to 1) do the right thing 2) embarrass Elon Musk, and 3) prove conservatives wrong by building the bus lanes called for in Connect Downtown. No further engagement needed, no outreach, no hand wringing. We did all that already. Build it.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Metro Water truck driver just honked at me and rode my ass for riding my bike in the travel lane on Gay St lol

Nashville should do this with the mall we own. What’s stopping us? It’s ours, and I’m sure there’s a way to make it revenue neutral if funding is an issue

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Republicans shouldn't be allowed in the same restrooms as children.

The raid on the new South Korean factory in Georgia shows that when hurting people conflicts with actually making America great again, MAGA will always choose hurting people.

Just passed a group of youths in the hall of our apartment building (presumably on their way to the bars) and a girl asked “what’s like, the demographic of your building?” And he said “umm… old people” 💀

look I hate to say it but the land use policy of these particular abundance bros sounds more like Nashville’s NIMBYs than its YIMBYs. Duplexes and ADUs???

Future planning commission testimony: “why are we allowing YIMBros aligned with Peter Thiel and Alex Hochman to upzone our cherished neighborhoods? We welcome new homes on ____ Pike. There’s plenty of room. Why rush into eliminating our single family zoning protections?”

Every word of this is gutting and perfect. Good people shouldn’t have to work this hard to make our city better

Coke products at Costco 😌

The enemies of abundance are landlords? Much to ponder

We should look at this. Maybe assemble some sort of plan for downtown. To better connect it to the rest of the city, maybe.

The way every city is fielding the same inane arguments from the same wealthy homeowners that don’t want the unwashed masses in their neighborhood

Dense apartment buildings historically gave middle-class people a chance to live in upper-class single-family mansion districts they could never afford otherwise. Sherman Pl, JC Heights

Landlord caucus in shambles. Hate to see it!

The NIMBY argument against replacing single family homes with apartments on affordability grounds asks you to believe that a 100+ year old $895,000 fixer upper with $4,750/month mortgage payments is somehow *more* affordable than a larger brand new $3,425 apartment nearby.

Frankly I’m disappointed in Nashville’s NIMBYs. This is the good stuff! Step it up!