Yup, it’s giving “exiled” and “feeling hunted”

According to @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social, the telephone rally played the whole Lee Greenwood song "God Bless the USA"

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We gotta get people back into reading the whole story

Actually maybe AI should just destroy humanity

One of the things that sticks out in this story by Lillian is these kids talking about their faith, particularly when they talk about their Ramadan fasting and how it makes them feel. Really excellent piece.

When a man hijacked a bus in Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday, the potentially catastrophic scenario ended happily. It turns out he was a pretty decent bus driver. He made regular stops to pick up passengers, the police reported. At one point someone tried to board with an expired bus pass. No dice.

BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole. In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.

New Epstein emails just dropped, and they involve Trump. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”

THEY HAVE NAMES?!?

Definitely going to read this from one of the best doing it.

Well @greenwell.bsky.social on how private equity killed good blogs is an automatic read for me: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/priva...

Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she’d pass the bar exam.

A horrifying read, based on NYT interviews with 40 people the Trump administration sent to an infamous prison in El Salvador. (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

This year, @nashvillebanner.bsky.social has spent a lot of time and resources reporting on the Tennessee Highway Patrol, like last week's report that the agency rarely documented why it was pulling people over when it worked with ICE in May:

Tennessee voucher schools don’t have to follow the same standards as public schools. The result is a lack of transparency and a patchwork of testing and curriculum heavily influenced by Christianity. ✏️: Lillian Avedian & @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

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Contraband cell phones, thousands of dollars in Cash App transfers, daytime drug handoffs at a nearby hotel. Some details from new federal indictment related to drug trafficking at CoreCivic's biggest Tennessee prison. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...

New this week: I wrote about Memphis. Crime was dropping prior to the Federal deployment in late Sept. While it has fallen fast since, it's not clear if this accelerated drop is due at least in part to a change in reporting practices. jasher.substack.com/p/walking-in...

An email from YouTubeTV informs me that “over the next few days” I will be receiving another email which will give me instructions on how to redeem a $20 credit as consolation for their fight with Disney taking away my football and Formula 1. I am a valued customer. I can feel it. Thank you.

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

The drop in gun violence in DC following the Federal deployment starting in mid-August has more or less completely subsided.

Andrew Otazo has plucked, bagged, heaved and hauled more than 17 tons of trash from the mangroves in Florida. Every piece of garbage he removes reclaims space for what should be there: bird nesting grounds and fish nurseries. https://wapo.st/4oS36Vx

What a time to be alive

"Blackburn took to ... X and called for her immediate firing. According to the complaint, six minutes later, MTSU President Sidney McPhee’s executive assistant called her to say that the president would be calling her soon and she needed to take the call." wpln.org/post/fired-m...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Inbox: US attorney and other federal officials will hold a press conference this afternoon to "announce the creation of the Homeland Security Task Force in Nashville" and tout recent operations.

Times are tight for a lot of Americans right now, but business is booming for CoreCivic. Company announced Wednesday that its 3rd quarter profits were up nearly 25 percent compared to the same period last year. Revenue from ICE was up 54.6 percent. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/06/n...

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Colleagues @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social and @stelliott.bsky.social obtained 1,700 pages of Tennessee Highway Patrol incident reports that detail the stops and arrests during the May ICE operation in Nashville. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/05/t...

Honestly this one tweet sort of perfectly illustrates the nationalization of all politics. People in Hopkinsville somewhat understandably think we’re all doing elections today because we’ve all been reading/hearing about the mayors race in NYC or whatever.

Great

Mayor races in Atlanta, Dearborn, or Jersey City. School boards around Boise and Denver. Judges in Pennsylvania. Bond measures in Columbus and Des Moines.  Our guide to Election Night spotlight all these, and so many more—and we'll update it with results.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

If the sandwich stayed whole, the defense meets its goal

"If the onions ain't hit, you must acquit"

Defense is now questioning Lairmore on cross-examination. They show a video still of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground, post-throw. "Do you recognize that sandwich?" the attorney asks. Lairmore won't confirm. "I did not go back to collect it," he says.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

This is an excellent, must-read, no-holds-barred obituary of Dick Cheney. (Written by two all-star Washington Post reporters who no longer work there.) Gift link: wapo.st/4oK1mhc

Seems to me that too many people, including journalists, don’t see obituaries as acts of journalism.

Harry Milner Whittington died in 2023 at the age of 95. He was famously the first person to be shot by a sitting vice president since Alexander Hamilton.

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

You'll notice this isn't happening at the Memphis Bass Pro Shop because the National Guard is there to keep the peace.

Sweet relief

Baseball intensifies