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Nashville resident and dog owner Was the fall of Rome this stupid?

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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 23h
Enjoyable podcast for Nashvillians open.spotify.com/episode/2SZJ...
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The Jesus Scene and Other Nashville Miracles
The Aunt B Radio Hour · Episode
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Two hours after President Trump claimed on social media that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," Russia fired a missile at a CHP-5 thermal power plant in Kharkiv and reportedly other infrastructure in Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...
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Ukraine war latest: Russia pounds Kyiv's energy infrastructure as Trump’s energy ceasefire claim catches Ukraine off guard
Key developments on Oct. 10-11: * Russia besieges Kyiv's energy infrastructure as Trump calls for an energy ceasefire * Ukraine's drone production jumps 370% in 2026, says defense ministry * Russi...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/10/2026
Ukraine has repeatedly offered cease fires and Russia has always refused
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just got back from the Middle East. What I saw made clear that Trump and Hegseth aren’t telling the American people the full story about the cost and damage of this war. Here are my four biggest takeaways.
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Indivisible Franklin TN ❌👑 @indivisiblefrankli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Join us! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Earlier this year I had to tell my kids not to watch any video of Renee Good’s execution. Then I had to tell them to avoid any video of Alex Pretti’s execution. Now I’m going to have to tell them to avoid a federal execution of a man in a wheelchair by firing squad.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/10/2026
This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“A familiar feature of fascism is the transformation of politics into spectacle. Fascism wants to reduce active citizens into voyeurs—especially voyeurs of cruelty and death. Such degradation of a democratic public is key to fascism’s project and to its success.” www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wa...
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 09/10/2026
🇺🇦 The Russian-occupied town of Oleshky is beginning to starve. Former residents and Ukrainian refugees say those left in the town face an impossible choice: stay and risk starving to death or leave and risk being hit by a landmine or drone. Watch the story ⤵️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We’ve lost our moral authority in the world. We’ve lost our humanity. We are a cruel, disturbed nation. Please vote because we need an enormous blue wave. apnews.com/live/trump-m...
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Live updates: Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fascists apnews.com/live/trump-m...
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Live updates: Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW AD: Introducing SCANDUEL! The only betting app where you can parlay Ken Paxton’s scandals — and get paid! Here’s a tip: Always bet that he did the thing. 💰
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm attending Oct 17 No Kings event, “No Kings: Vote Early Bellevue, TN, 37221” - www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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No Kings: Vote Early Bellevue, TN, 37221 · No Kings
Join us at Red Caboose Park on Highway 70 in Bellevue, TN, from 10am-12pm. March to vote early at 12pm. **We decide who represents us. We decide what comes next.** For more than a year, millions of ...
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
excellent piece
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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 07/10/2026
ProPublica documented 506 U.S. citizens detained during Trump’s immigration crackdown, including at least 70 children and teens. DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake. The report lays out the cases, videos and court records. buff.ly/vT9Y7Kx
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump admin has declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms — meaning observers from the group won't be at a U.S. election for the first time in more than two decades.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/10/2026
Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.
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Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible?
Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump family runs the government, and the government pays the Trump family. This is not a coincidence – it's deep corruption that never would have been tolerated before a convicted felon took over the White House. Vote against all Republicans.
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nothing to worry about all good
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.
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Luke Russell @lukerussell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What in the actual fuck...
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Trump approves firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon says
Nidal Hasan sentenced to death by military jury in 2013 for carrying out deadly shooting attack at army base in Texas
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CNN @cnn.com · 06/10/2026
The Senate battleground map is shifting after signs of improvement for Democrats in several red-leaning states. CNN’s Arlette Saenz breaks down what races made the list, including a new state to watch emerging in the final stretch. Read more: cnn.it/47ANXBn
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My god MEGYN KELLY: “No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on with four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because — I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs.”
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great work by ProPublica!
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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How @propublica.org Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. / by @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mr. Smith we have texts proving you were at the Rick Springfield concert on October 3, 2026 — busted
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“This dehumanising language, talking about immigrants as vermin, and this racial purity language, like they’re ‘poisoning the blood of our country’. What does that mean? If they’re poisoning the blood, what’s the pure blood? We know where that story goes”(
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ekinggill @ekinggill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o... addressing a mostly white crowd in MN, [Trump] declared: “You have good genes, you know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory, you think we’re so different? You have good genes in MN.”
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A suggestion for the Bulwark Pope: If the Chicago White Sox make the World Series, how could His Holiness not go to their first home game on Monday, Oct. 26. And the day before, on Sunday, he could celebrate Mass in Springfield, OH, to show support for the persecuted Haitians.
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Clem H. Fandango @sferroni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shorter Trump administration: Data centers good. Homes bad.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In light of we've learned about the execution team's struggle to establish IV access before Christa Pike's failed lethal injection, here's a story I wrote in June after Carruthers. The new protocol TN adopted in 2025 reduced training in IV placement. nashvillebanner.com/2026/06/30/t...
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Lethal injection protocol likely led to botched execution - Nashville Banner
Tennessee's current lethal injection protocol includes reduced training on IV placement, an issue that caused the state to halt Tony Carruthers' execution.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Monsters, all.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WILLIAMSON COUNTY’s Pastor Kevin Riggs: “There’s nothing Christian about @MarshaBlackburn’s statement.” (He says he will be voting for @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social for governor)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump and Ronny Jackson have a chuckle about the botched execution in Tennessee: "The medication didn't exactly work. He [Jackson] would answer it better than anybody. How does that happen? It shouldn't be very difficult."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
Death row inmate Christa Pike is in critical condition after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, her lawyers said. Follow live updates:
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Live Updates: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution
The inmate, Christa Pike, was “alive right now” after surviving an attempt to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyer said. He called on Gov. Bill Lee to reduce her sentence to life in prison.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 01/10/2026
I would have *so* much fun spamming this with niche theological questions.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RIP peace Jaimie 🙏 😞 A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment. | NPR www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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