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Weekly personal care items for all students! (Deodorant! Seriously!) Obviously —free tampons and pads and period undies! Laundry facilities in schools so kids know how to use in home and laundromat and university laundry facilities and take care of the clothes well! Haircare and hairstyling!

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Teas, herbal infusions, coffee, and Diet Coke (or Coke Zero if you are so inclined) available every day at 3PM when you’re having an out of body experience because your middle school child says “isn’t that from the 70s?” when they see a clip of a Charlie Chaplin movie!

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Comprehensive transit for your middle schooler! (No cars involved, obviously.) Community fridges full of ice cold water in reusable bottles you can return from your front door so someone else can remember to wash and dry them and refill them for the next day!

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Free weekly one on one and group therapy sessions with other middle school parents and guardians! Healthy free lunches that students will actually eat! Like one plant centric meal per day handed to you by a well paid professional right when you realize you haven’t eaten since the night before!

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My pitch is that we redirect the contract $$$ that is currently going to SpaceX into a “Parents of Middle School Students Fund.” We see what happens when we lavish one specific group of parents with resources. Like the kind of comprehensive support only billionaires have experienced.

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I must be missing something. He has high school football coach-rural chamber of commerce-hobby farmer with a $75k truck **vibes** (I know he’s a doctor, just talking vibes here.) Maybe those are the vibes people think are exactly right for their elected representatives?Idk

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What I want to know is WHY DesJarlais is always re-elected? I didn’t follow his primary campaigns because he wasn’t my representative until now, but it seems bonkers there weren’t ever any Republican candidates people liked more. Slimeball and wildly unethical behavior aside, he has no charisma.

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It is so weird! In the blink of an eye I went from Jim Cooper to Andy Ogles (baaaaarf) to Scott DesJarlais. I want my real congressional district back dammit.

“Into the Unknown” is so good too. I feel like it’s an even better vessel for Idina Menzel’s voice than “Let it Go.”

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All he does in between being an awful person is win elections.

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Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Or that her vibes are giving “trustworthy leader and generally okay human” after those disgusting, ridiculous campaign ads. SIGH. It reminds me of how my new frankendistrict keeps voting for Scott DeJarlais even though he is a total creep slimeball who has all the charisma of a mildewed beach towel

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Pedestrianize Broadway now.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Electeds don’t need to ask constituents what they want speed limits to be, if they like speed humps, or how they feel about turning right on red. Tell ppl what the body of research says about best practices, and cosponsor the legislation! My CM is so quiet on this stuff, and it is so frustrating.

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Andrea Plaid @ajplaid.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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The words "thank you" are written in orange letters on a white card surrounded by purple flowers sitting on a green surface.

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

That happened to me at Thoroughbred in Cool Springs, IMAX theater. I put in AirPods for noise cancellation but it didn’t help since the floor, seats & my teeth were vibrating! It was so annoying. I’m blaming the theater’s sound system, at least partially. Never a great moviegoing experience there

Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is so great! I’ll email my CM tomorrow.

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

$39 and if I spill something on it, nbd! It folds in half with a handle (for when I eventually get a nicer desk) so it’s super easy to store.

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I use an adjustable height folding table from Walmart. It’s slim for a folding table, narrower than what I’d use for Thanksgiving dinner overflow—though perfect for a little kid table at the lowest height! Its top height is ≈ standing desk. I throw on a heavy tablecloth to pretend it’s a real desk.

These new places are serving Victorian workhouse/orphanage. I assume they come prehaunted. The contractor leaves a burlap sack of miscellaneous bones and cursed objects in the butler’s pantry along with the manuals for the refrigerator and dishwasher.

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Oh man. I remember the Koch Bros getting their sweaty old hands all over it, but I should’ve guessed that the campaign team did not partner adequately with Black communities who were understandably leery of big transit projects. Sighhhhhh

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It was a big failure, totally agree, but can we hang that failure on primarily on Megan Barry? Was she such a flawed messenger, or was it a big lift to convince people to spend big money on transit when they were used to living in the land of low property taxes, no state income tax?

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I imagine a larger amount of the pushback came from conservative groups than progressive activists, no? I voted in favor, and I don’t remember hearing as much pushback from the left as I did from the usual anti-tax crowd, though to be fair I was busy with parenting life and didn’t follow it closely.

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What do you think is the most feasible solution to reduce WeGo trip time from OHB & Nolensville Rd over to the far reaches of Bellevue, for example, which would take close to 2 hrs one way? My fantasy is adding way more crosstown routes—with a slew of new buses and shuttles of course.

Which character would fare better if scooped up and dropped into the other character’s story? My vote is Enola, although she might need a few extra minutes to learn about like drones and surveillance satellites.

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Okay I loved that character so much I watched every episode of the last season after Fleischman disappeared into the wilderness and the show went off the rails, because I saw the Chris-Maggie relationship on the horizon and I had to see it. (And I almost went to graduate school in Alaska lol.)

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Every person this administration wrongly deported should be granted asylum and a path to citizenship. Won’t even begin to right wrongs like this. But it’s a place to start.

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What if a really cool person (or foundation) with a few million bucks burning a hole in their pockets started a nonprofit bus service in Nashville is what I’m saying.

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I know there is (was?) a state of TN passenger van leasing scheme for commuters at one point. People at the outer edges of Metro or in Smyrna or Murfreesboro could essentially rent a state owned passenger van with neighbors and coworkers who had to commute into Nashville, say within the 440 ring.

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Jenny @jensherpec.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The nonprofit I’m imagining into existence would not usurp or compete with existing transit, but supplement it, maybe even with the goal being for the public transit system to adopt the routes/vehicles/drivers over time.

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I know there are small transportation nonprofits for seniors and disabled folks, but are there nonprofits that operate where public transit doesn’t have infrastructure/vehicles? Like one that operates a handful of shuttle buses, passenger vans, or one full size bus to augment an existing system?

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I’m sure some people with that sweet sweet west side transit access use it as much as possible, but they probably have many neighbors and coworkers who only travel by car?

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My guess: people who have the most options tend to use public transit less. People over here walk pretty far on disconnected sidewalks and the side of the road to get to bus stops. But that’s just my guess.

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Yes! Thank you! I’m so happy that West Nashville has good bus service and parks and bike lanes, that is excellent, but those resources are desperately needed in 37211, and then beyond into Antioch—which would be the equivalent of the extremely generous bus line through Belle Meade out into Bellevue

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Yes! It would take an hour for us to get downtown (not accounting for the time to drive to the bus stop b/c we can’t bike/walk there right now) & 40 mins to get to Geodis—and of course that bus stop is not close to the stadium from Nolensville Rd! Driving takes 20 mins to Geodis, 30 mins downtown

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Not recent, but The Raven Cycle books by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton, are so so good. Patton’s voice is just impeccable. Thirteen Moons and Nightwoods by Charles Frazier, also read by Will Patton, are fantastic.