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Adam Yockey

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Nashvillian. Books, music, travel, human rights. Views are my own.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/09/2026
In Opinion JD Vance has “made snide comments about working families with little ones at home,” Jessica Grose writes. “But what American mothers prefer is far more complicated than Vance’s caricature of the desires of frivolous and wealthy parents who don’t want to care for their own children.”
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Opinion | JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.
Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.
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Katrina Green, MD FAAEM, FAMWA (she/her) @kgreenmd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hey East Nashville, our fur baby prudence got outside on Sunday night and has been missing since then. She is very shy and skittish. We live in the little Hollywood section of Lockeland Springs, off the fairway of hole 12 on the Shelby golf course. If you see her, please DM me! 🦞
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
In her long life, artist Yayoi Kusama achieved something remarkable: two very different moments of stardom, almost as though she’d been two different artists.
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Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon
In her mass-produced ubiquity, Kusama became one of her own dots, spreading her image into every corner of our culture.
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Welcome to MUMIC CITY"
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/08/2026
The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel ft.trib.al/yjvQxNr
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The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel
The president’s agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and America’s finances worsen
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 13/08/2026
Tennessee taxpayers are paying about $1,961 each to fund the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, according to an analysis of the federal budget released by the Economic Policy Institute. @anitawadhwani.bsky.social reports.
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Report: Trump mass deportation policies cost Tennessee taxpayers $1,961 apiece • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee taxpayers pay about $1,961 each to fund the Trump administration’s deportation policies, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks to Republicans in Congress and Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"... An Indiana 40-year old, making $65k per year, who last year was paying $316/month for health insurance, will next year be paying $546/month for that same plan: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects.” David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer, in a statement on Friday evening.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
4.3 million people have already been dropped from Snap benefits and with 14 million children already living in food insecure households they have made food pantries working past capacity. This can't continue. Vote blue everyone. #USDemocracy www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Millions lose SNAP benefits as One Big Beautiful Bill’s stricter requirements kick in
SNAP enrollment has fallen sharply nationwide since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last summer. More than 3.5 million people have lost access to the food assistance, as states implement...
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Adam Yockey @adamyockey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The “pro-life” party…
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"Humanity — in all its grandeur and woundedness — must never be replaced or surpassed." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 11/05/2026
Commentary: "I love my home state fiercely, but years of witnessing discrimination and a lack of willingness by lawmakers focus on basic necessities like healthcare and education has broken my heart," writes @jhollymc.bsky.social. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/11/e...
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Editor's notebook: An elegy for Tennessee.  • Tennessee Lookout
Holly McCall, editor of the Tennessee Lookout, writes an elegy for Tennessee, which has passed a slate of anti-immigration measures.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/05/2026
Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq
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Southern Republicans Are Already Deleting Black Districts
The Supreme Court’s recent gerrymandering ruling has touched off an instantaneous demolition of Black political power as state lawmakers roll back the Second Reconstruction.
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“This is not conservative. This is cowardly. If your agenda cannot survive (when) black voters have a fair representation, then the problem isn't us voting. It is your agenda. Earn the black vote. Black people are not Democrat or Republican," says Tennessee state Sen. London Lamar of Memphis.
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
More good news! (Sarcasm font.)
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WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @wpln.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Report: Tennessee ranks last in per-student public school spending wpln.org/post/report-...
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Report: Tennessee ranks last in per-student public school spending
Tennessee ranks at the very bottom of the country when it comes to public school spending, according to a new report from the National Education Association. Tennessee public schools spend less per st...
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Dear GI

How are you?

Nice story about JE in NY mag. You look great on the picture.

I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY.

Have a great time!

Love,

Melania
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...
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Top C.D.C. Official Delays Report on Covid Shot’s Effectiveness
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
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Adam Yockey @adamyockey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“The guarantee of citizenship is the fundamental American promise. If you are born here, you belong here. And if you feel that you belong here, you are more motivated to contribute to our shared culture here.” Padma Lakshmi www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...
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Opinion | Padma Lakshmi: The Decision That Would Create a Permanent American Underclass
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.
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Adam Yockey @adamyockey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Not all heroes wear capes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026
i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
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Adam Yockey @adamyockey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“But we also dress out of defiance; to look fabulous is to deny the power of any dreariness around us. We dress for a better world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...
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Opinion | To Dress Up Is to Live
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez is free after more than two weeks in ICE detention. She posted bond and was released from a Louisiana detention facility late this afternoon. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/19/e...
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“There’s another young boy I met last time whose name is Liam Nias,” @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social said. “He’s 7, from Honduras, I believe. He reminded me of Liam Ramos, except no one knows this other boy — he’s just unknown and sitting there in this prison.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
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Joaquin Castro Is on a Quest to Get Detained Immigrants Released
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️ @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A budget is a moral document.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Updated:
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom?
'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I covered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's speech to the International Christian Media Convention on Thursday: it went heavily into Christian nationalism.
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In Nashville, Hegseth talks “Western values,” Christian nationalism  • Tennessee Lookout
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth touted “Western values” and decried foreign influences during a Thursday speech in Nashville.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT
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Chris Belasco @someclevername.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roughly 2 USAIDs
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Adam Yockey @adamyockey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
““To think you can go to Stonewall and just take down the Pride flag — that is telling of the time we are living in,” Ms. Lentz said. “It is unbelievable. The flag is not just an abstract symbol…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
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