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At the same time that #Nashville was negotiating with the #NFL to host the 2030 #SuperBowl the #TNleg was breaking a #Tennessee law banning mid-census #redistricting (gerrymandering) in order to strip Congressional representation from the majority Black city of #Memphis then strip ALL Democratic Party members of their Committee assignments!
This conversion of the State Capitol into a #KKK ‘Grand Wizard’s Lair’ has sparked a #boycott by #AfricanAmerican athletes from playing in the state.
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RE: https://pataterie.ca/@chantaryu2/116590777130484917
For folks in #Tennessee , watching the “Roots” miniseries about #slavery in the #UnitedStates is now an act of #resistance to the #racist #BananaRepublicans in the #TNleg.
Especially if you’re a student in #Knoxville , where the book that the miniseries is based on has been banned! https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2026/05/15/knox-county-schools-bans-historical-novel-roots-by-alex-haley/90080042007/
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Protestors inside the #Tennessee state capitol in #Nashville; Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The #Republican-supermajority legislature voted to split Memphis’s congressional seat, long held by #Democrats, among three safe Republicans districts. #Memphis, particularly #Black Memphis, lost its representation.
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@pearlmania500 “All hate begins as self-hate.” - Dalai Lama
The #TNleg has shat 💩 itself. Again.
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As of next January, every #Sheriff’s department in #Tennessee will be required to have a 287(g) agreement with #ICE, whether they want to or not.
Yet another law targeting #Memphis. Multiple candidates for Shelby County Sheriff have vowed to eliminate our current 287(g) agreement, even making it a core part of their campaigns.
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-requiring-all-sheriffs-offices-to-work-with-ice/article_f18fd9ec-a0c2-4fcd-b086-c04cbf6a9894.html
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The #TNleg in #Nashville is making an ‘art’ of *performative politics*. Meanwhile the interstates in #Tennessee remind me of those in #Arkansas and rural #healthcare is ‘gone with the wind’. https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2026/04/21/nuclear-family-pride-month-tn-general-assembly/89707470007/
Did anybody vote for this? 🤔
#Resist #BananaRepublicans in #USpol.
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To combat a #workforce shortage of #STEM educated graduates, exacerbated by #vouchers diverting resources from #PublicEducation , the #TNleg passed a law allowing public high schools to teach ‘Hunter Ed’ for credit towards graduation. https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/cheathamcountyexchange/hunter-ed-can-now-be-taught-in-schools-for-credit/
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These cretins aren’t going to stop until they’ve stolen every last ounce of agency and autonomy from our city. And even then they won’t be satisfied. They cannot stand that #Memphis is its own beautiful, vibrant, Democratic self.
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A #Tennessee bill that would’ve classified #abortion as ‘murder’ and allowed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for women having the procedure was called for a vote, and “no votes were heard.” I guess it was aborted! 😂 https://www.wsmv.com/2026/03/10/bill-pushing-allow-death-penalty-abortions-tennessee-fails-house-subcommittee/
#BananaRepublican Jody Barrett submitted the bill. He *represents* Hickman and Dickson County, Tennessee in the #TNleg.
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@ddayen.bsky.social #TN7 includes Music Row in #Nashville and used to be represented by #Democratic Party member Jim Cooper. It only ‘flipped’ because of partisan #gerrymandering led by a #TNleg Speaker that was pardoned by #DonaldTheDeplorable a day before reporting to prison!!
A vote for #MattVanEppstein is a vote to keep the #EpsteinFiles hidden!
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And just like that, the June Anderson Women’s Center at Middle #Tennessee State #University was ‘disappeared’ after our President ‘bent the knee’ and complied without #resistance to the #DEI decree issued by #DonaldTheDeplorable and implemented by the #BananaRepublicans in the #TNleg.
What is the June Anderson Women’s Center at #MTSU ?
Answer here: “Chemical Eye on June Bustin’ Out” http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/060706_macdougall.html
But I have many more questions about so-called ‘leaders’ who accept #fascism in #USpol.
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Jeremy ‘Pants Candy’ Durham, the University of #Tennessee frat boy who became the first state legislator to be expelled*, has now also been convicted by a #Nashville jury for #DUI and reckless endangerment. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2025/05/07/nashville-jeremy-durham-dui-assault-guilty/83476908007/?tbref=hp
* He is still the only state legislator to be expelled for reasons other than the color of his skin. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3940048-two-black-state-lawmakers-in-tennessee-are-expelled-five-takeaways/
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Question: “What would it cost to name the #Nashville International Airport after #DonaldTrump ?” https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2025/02/07/nashville-international-airport-renamed-trump/78293871007/
Answer: The soul of the city!
Fortunately, unlike the extreme #resistance to the proposal from #BananaRepublicans in the #TNleg , there is strong support to rename the airport after the globally beloved #DollyParton. ✅
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Here's #Google making up some more crazy bullshit (they didn't even need AI to do it).
See the picture featured prominently by Google above the search results? The one Google has labeled "Todd Warner, Tennessee State Representative?" Yeah, that's not him. The guy in that photo is named Todd Warner alright, but he's from Pennsylvania, not Tennessee.
Oh, and he's a murderer!
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More Republicans behaving badly; this time it's Tennessee state senator Ken Yager (senate district 12). While visiting Georgia he was involved in a hit-and-run and found to be driving under the influence.
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#Tennessee State University is a #HBCU in #Nashville that is in dire financial stress and has been forced to impose 100+ #layoffs and must now cut academic programs despite receiving a $30 million cash transfusion from the #TNleg.
Meanwhile the former mismanaging President, Glenda Glover is drawing on her $800k golden parachute. #HigherEd https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2024/11/14/tennessee-state-payroll-struggles-glenda-glover/76306642007/
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Hate-fueled anti-trans laws passed by the increasingly bigoted #TNleg (they’re the ones that expelled two young Black representatives for violating House ‘decorum’) are causing deadly distress to young #Tennessee students. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/citylimits/tennessee-trans-youth-health-supreme-court/article_62c62d62-961f-11ef-a491-3b523d9200ce.html
#ProtectTransLives #ProtectTransYouth #USpol #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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#RutherfordCollegiatePrep is what you get when #Tennessee tax-payer dollars are diverted by the #TNleg to private, unregulated ‘#education.’ https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-100-students-left-rutherford-221918470.html
Hint: It’s a total 💩show.
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from #weird #BananaRepublicans in #USpol.
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#StrategicVoting by the #PrimaryFromTheCenter method survived a challenge by a #SobbingMAGA 💦 from #OakRidge. #JohnRagan lost his seat in the #TNleg state House of Representatives due to what he called “poison” votes - those cast by primary voters who are not in his opinion “bona fide #Republicans.” https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/09/09/tennessee-republicans-deny-oak-ridge-rep-john-ragans-challenge-of-august-primary-loss/
#Tennessee has ‘open primaries’ by law. #USpol
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#SchoolBoard members, administrators, as well as both #Murfreesboro and #RutherfordCounty law enforcement leaders all agree that the new #Tennessee law allowing K-12 teachers to be ARMED in the classroom is a collective brain fart 🧠💨 by #BananaRepublicans in the #TNleg. ✅
https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/murfreesboropost/school-districts-wont-approve-arming-teachers/?pubid=murfreesboropost#EnoughIsEnough
#IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
#RedFlagLaws
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A little over 1 year after elementary schoolchildren were massacred in the #Nashville #CovenantSchool shooting that involved an #AssaultRifle , the #StableGeniuses holding a #supermajority in the #TNleg passed a #GunLaw that puts MORE GUNS in schools! They have done NOTHING to take guns out of the hands of the mentally ill or red-flagged #ammosexuals. 😡
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/23/tennessee-house-republicans-pass-bill-to-allow-teachers-to-carry-handguns/73331384007/ -
#BananaRepublican #GinoBulso *represents* #Brentwood , #Tennessee , which is the same district in the #TNleg that used to be *represented* by Marsha ‘#PillPusher ‘ Blackburn.
He rose in the House chamber to vote against a new law that would ban first cousin marriage in #Tennessee. 👀 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTvDkdm/
Note that his grandparents were #FirstCousins and the descendents of first cousin marriages are likely to have #genetic disorders linked to recessive traits including low IQ. 🤔
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With #BananaRepublicans having their hold on the House majority down to just a *single* vote, people should be reminded of #KentWilliams from #Tennessee.
He was a Republican ‘backbencher’ in the #TNleg until he was surprising elected Speaker of the state House - by all the Democrats! 😂 👉 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/02/mr-republican-speaker-youre-not-a-republican-anymore/465/
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The #TNleg that voted to expel the two Black legislators among the #TennesseeThree last year has just voted to vacate the Board of Trustees of #Tennessee State University, an #HBCU. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-house-votes-in-support-of-the-full-removal-of-the-tsu-board-of-trustees
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The #Tennessee 11 are gun enthusiasts who want the #TNleg to care about the lives of children more than the campaign donations of the #GunLobby and the #NRA (which has been shown to be a #Russian asset). #TN11 #EnoughIsEnough
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@o_simardcasanova Keep in my that the #TNleg is the legislative institution that wrote and passed the “#RoadKill bill.” 👀 👉 https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/road-kill-bill/article_169364f3-aa5c-5657-9446-5bbfbb4174a3.html
Also, recall that Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) causes brain 🧠 degeneration. 🤷🏻♂️
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#Manslaughtering #MAGA grifter #KyleRittenhouse was paid by #TurningPointUSA to deliver uninvited #fascist propaganda at the University of #Memphis. 👀 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTkdhft/
The students there let it be known that #WhiteSupremacist #propaganda was not welcome on their campus. 👏
And since the #TNleg passed their ban on #DivisiveConcepts on campus, it seems the #BananaRepublicans shot themselves in the foot - again!