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Helps us see the ways the GOP helps Trump become the President he is today.

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That didn't last long

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Super excited about eggs though

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The jokes write themselves

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I would say it differently but yeah

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You should read up on what happened at Appomattox.

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Must be fake... all these Russian bots that are my friends think the GOP is going to win in a landslide

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"Thérèse of Lisieux is the best counterweight to any theology or spirituality of perfectionism. She was my liberation." —Richard Rohr

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His death was the reason I first began to listen closely to you. And while our collective failure of memory continues to upset me, I am grateful that we have ways to avoid total erasure.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

... and AFTER the elections are over... just to make sure McConnell can be wheeled in to cast his vote.

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NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Ben @benintn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We lie... we cheat... we steal..." - Mike Pompeo

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Ben @benintn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The frontrunner in the race for Tennessee governor has decided the answer to cruel and unusual punishment is more cruel and unusual punishment.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Ben @benintn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I oppose the death penalty.

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Ben @benintn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're used to competing for Elon's approval and oil company money.

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Ben @benintn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I certainly hope Senator Blackburn agrees to participate.

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Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) Formula

Well, they changed the BEP to a new plan called TISA, which doesn't undo decades of funding inequities but changes the incentives and funding plan www.tn.gov/education/be...

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Tennessee’s New School Funding Formula: A Promising Opportunity for Education Equity

While there is no clear conflict of interest, what TVAAS didn't do was add funding to districts. Tennessee continues to struggle with teacher pay and implementation of the Basic Education Plan (BEP). southerneducation.org/legislative-...

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For 30 years, Tennessee’s public school funding formula, the Basic Education Program (BEP), remained virtually unchanged in its design and impact, and is noted by experts as one of the most opaque and...

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Bredex bought by McGraw-Hill division - Nashville Business Journal

McGraw Hill, which managed the TCAP student assessment, has links to Bredesen. Around the time he was elected Governor, he sold his firm, Bredex, to McGraw Hill. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/st...

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Bredex bought by McGraw-Hill division

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DrJ,EdD @joejeph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Add teachers into this mix in places like Tennessee, where former Gov. Phil Bredesen's First to the Top program created a teacher evaluation system (TVAAS) that rewards certain forms of teaching excellence but is based on pre- and post-test measures of student achievement.

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I have come to view the extractive buy-up and domination of classroom time by testing and #EdTech (all owned by private equity) as de facto child labor. Especially in school systems in communities of color. They trade our children on the stock market and in mergers and acquisitions.

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Worth noting that Marjorie Taylor Greene is out with a video criticizing Trump for his policies and failures related to keeping prices down.

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