Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 18/05/2026To make $1.8 billion a real number, this is like the President taking 100% of federal income taxes paid in total by every citizen in all of the Tennessee counties on this map. The President is embezzling those tax payments and funneling the cash to his political supporters. 1129
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Seriously?!? What is happening? Are y’all saying that high school kids in the year of our Lord 2026 should not be able to access ‘Roots’? Alex Haley is a Tennessean for the love of God and one we celebrate. That’s why there’s a museum in Henning & statue in Knoxville. www.wate.com/news/educati...wate.comAlex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools librariesKNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove… 43314
Reposted by Jeff YarbroThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026“It’s an insult to the intelligence of the people in this state.” @jeffyarbro.bsky.social shreds the lie🤥from Sen. Stevens & TN Republicans race wasn’t used to make the map, puts it in (racist) historical context, and says they couldn’t racially gerrymander it any better. #Memphis #JimCrow 10599217
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Two roads diverged—and this is the path that’s heading in a safer, healthier direction for the country. 2112
Reposted by Jeff YarbroThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/05/2026“The Southern stuff is pretty grotesque... It’s so undisguised.” @timmiller.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social react to Republicans trying to redraw Black-held districts out of existence across the South, and what it means for Democrats’ path back to the House. 1628374
Reposted by Jeff YarbroJohn Haubenreich @johnhaubenreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026As @jeffyarbro.bsky.social noted, exactly how stupid is the new hyper-gerrymandered / racist TN Congressional map? In the Nashville area, during the 20 min drive between the Krispy Kreme on Thompson Lane and the Krispy Kreme on Mallory Lane, you pass through FIVE different congressional districts. 094
Reposted by Jeff Yarbrojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2026very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself 753508714
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 01/05/2026FWIW, here’s the map we proposed after the last census. This is what it would look like to draw districts to ensure they represent the actual people who actually live in Tennessee rather than to rig the maps for partisan gain. 1127
Reposted by Jeff YarbroDahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today. 574609945
Reposted by Jeff YarbroTN Senate Dems @tnsenatedems.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Raumesh Akbari released a statement today after a 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read the full statement on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate... 085
Reposted by Jeff YarbroAlabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 29/04/2026Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that the U.S. Supreme Court's Callais decision is a slap in the face to the thousands of Black Alabamians who resisted Jim Crow, and willfully naive about how southern politics actually work.alabamareflector.comThe Supreme Court’s endless war on southern democracy and voting rights | Alabama ReflectorHard-won constitutional protections have been destroyed by a tendentious and fatuous reading of the U.S. Constitution. 43018
Reposted by Jeff YarbroBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026"The decision points to a future in which these states will gain more congressional representation primarily (or even solely) because of minority population growth, but then deny those citizens meaningful political representation." @ronbrownstein.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 36031
Reposted by Jeff Yarbrojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process. 232136523784
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 20/02/2026This ruling isn’t a surprise. The unconstitutionality has been clear from the jump. But farmers & small businesses have already been harmed. Most families paid $1,000+ of illegal taxes. US relations with the world already thrown into chaos. And all based on an abuse of power. 1178
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Must-read piece detailing 50+ hours of body cam footage from the May ‘25 ICE/TN Highway Patrol operation, which marked ICE’s big shift away from targeting violent felons and to a “show me your papers” dragnet. It’s informative, sickening, and enraging. 33018
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nashville, stay safe & stay warm. 1. Let faucets drip overnight. 2. Disconnect hoses. 3. Open cabinets under sinks. 4. ID your water shut-off. 5. Empty your ice maker. 6. Minimize time outside. 7. Keep your pets inside. 8. Puzzles, board games, books! 9. Take care of each other. 083
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Tennessee court enjoins the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis. It’s not about law and order when they’re not following the law. 0130
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 07/11/2025First measles case in Nashville in two decades. we live in the dumbest timeline 0143
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Turns out Americans voting for change in 2024 really did want lower prices and a stronger economy. They didn’t sign up for a radical overhaul of American government. 171
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Government shut down; air traffic controllers not getting paid; health care costs soaring. And this guy is directing the government to give him a quarter of a billion dollars. The corruption knows no bounds. 193
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2025How can Sen. Hagerty act so shocked? The January Report disclosed retrieving toll records for calls from WH to a handful of senators on night of J6. And it was public that he was in that handful. It’d be crazy for a prosecutor not to have those records when the calls were a big part of indictment. 340
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 07/10/2025-282 former DOJ officials sound alarm on compromised integrity & abuse of power. -6 former Surgeons General warn RFK endangering nation’s health. -Amid government shutdown, White House threatens to withhold back pay. -Two US cities challenging illegal troop deployments. That’s just today. 091
Reposted by Jeff YarbroThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025wild @MarshaBlackburn & Hagerty are making a big deal of this. calls from WH/Giuliani to Senators after 1/6 to halt certification is described in the Trump indictment By all means let’s see every doc/grand jury testimony mentioning them to confirm if phone records were relevant! 1637995
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Today’s Election Day to pick the nominees for the special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, which includes lots of Nashville. If you’re not sure, there’s a handy tool posted below. Polls open now and until 7pm. Go vote. 171
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025We’re missing basic civics here. It’s Congress—not the President—that has the constitutional power to call out the Guard. Congress’s laws let presidents deploy under narrow, specific circumstances. For nearly 250 years, courts have enforced those limits to prevent abuse of power. 75216
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025“Evenly divided” here means half of the private school vouchers go to families making less than the ~$170,000 limit, which is 95% of Tennessee families and half go to families making even more, which is the wealthiest 5% of Tennesseans. 78120
Reposted by Jeff YarbroJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/10/2025DOJ: CA NG is already federalized Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with? DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker Judge: You're a lawyer 282404332
Reposted by Jeff YarbroRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/10/2025If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week. 1063406807
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Good God, this is dangerous. And just an outright rejection of basic principles of constitutional government in the United States. 1206
Reposted by Jeff YarbroSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2025In light of Judge Immergut's ruling, there's a lot of noise today coming from the President's advisers and supporters about courts not having the power to provide prospective relief against domestic uses of the military. Via "One First," me on the rather significant early precedent to the contrary:stevevladeck.com181. Courts and Domestic Use of the MilitaryIn response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary. 381408517
Reposted by Jeff YarbroMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2025"An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month..."yahoo.comFBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar sayWASHINGTON (Reuters) -An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally ch... 822028675
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Got so tired of complaining about voter fraud without proof that he just went out and did voter fraud. Now that’s commitment to a cause. 0102
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025George Washington won the Revolution, presided at Constitutional Convention, and was our first President. When Senate proposed his face for US coins, he rejected it as anti-republican and signed a law barring any actual person’s image on coins, which held until Lincoln was put on the penny in 1909. 060
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025During 2024 campaign, Trump lied and disowned Project 2025. CNN and others in media actually fact-checked Democrats for deceiving & misleading voters by linking it to Trump. But it’s been the operational blueprint for his presidency from the jump. 1102
Reposted by Jeff YarbroWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2025The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT. 10147481630
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Using drones, helicopters & flashbang grenades to storm an entire residential apartment building in the middle of the night and then hauling off zip tied children in rented vans. The country’s entering a moral black hole here. 041
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Having a Dr. Evil style meeting on how your detailed plans are finally falling into place seems a questionable strategy. 040
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Historically bad decision for Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in hell this is. 0205
Reposted by Jeff YarbroAxios @axios.com · 01/10/2025In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint and proclaimed the U.S. armed forces as his weapon of choice against domestic "enemies."axios.comTrump's MAGA-fied military prepares for "war from within"In one historic speech, Trump eviscerated decades of civil-military restraint. 126431
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2025🧵 The people in the rest of the world understand what’s happening in America. Do we? 2144
Reposted by Jeff YarbroRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder. 521188616833
Reposted by Jeff YarbroThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social (an attorney): “Deploying military units to take part in policing Tennessee citizens violates the Tennessee Constitution… We either have the rule of law or we don’t.” @govbilllee open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate... 20965281
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The Tennessee Attorney General appears to have improperly withdrawn and surreptitiously revised two recent formal opinions about constitutional limits on Tennessee National Guard deployments. The AG now takes no position on whether the Guard is even subject to TN constitution. 24316
Reposted by Jeff YarbroRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies. 46455941392
Reposted by Jeff Yarbrojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar? 815088725
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The guy who was drinking his way through the FoxNews weekend shift like 5 minutes ago giving his version of the speech from Patton but with real middle school assembly vibes to a roomful of actual proven military leaders. All hat, no cattle.media.tenor.coma man in a military uniform says " that 's all " in front of an american flagAlt: Scene from Patton, speech in front of an american flag 37914
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Understand focus on the disagreements between Klein & Coates. But both express, in different ways, that Democrats can’t write off all people on the other side. Coates rightly rejects the ideology, but says “I don't want the people out. When you start talking about who people are in their bones —“nytimes.comOpinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines 110
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2025When Star Trek: Into Darkness had all of Starfleet leadership gather at HQ, fans rejected it as an idiotic plot-driven set-up that was too implausible . . . for science fiction. 194
Jeff Yarbro @jeffyarbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Tennessee farmers facing $100+ million in losses due to reckless tariff policies. Now, lawless immigration raids straining state’s relationship with South Korea that’s created more than 5,000 jobs from Clarksville to Spring Hill to Loudon. Got to learn about cause & effect folks. 130