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Just some dude (he/him) in Nashville. MidTN DSA 🌹

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminder that Donald Trump, Jr.’s venture capital firm is a major investor in Polymarket. He is also an adviser to Kalshi. Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators are suing states attempting to regulate prediction markets and Trump himself has said the platforms will “thrive” under his administration.
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New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation that puts residents at risk
Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are already regulat
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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 20/09/2026
It’s wild that our local @demsocialists.bsky.social chapter @midtndsa.bsky.social has very nearly been around for 10 years. Come celebrate with us at Rosemary next Sunday! New ppl welcome!
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Law & Order in 1996 w/ a pretty elegant portrayal of what the 2026 AI Collapse is going to look like:
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Turns out the state of Tennessee doesn’t know how much the data center industry is costing us. Our bill seeks to change that by pausing the tax exemption and implementing new reporting requirements.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/08/2026
The masked secret police known for their use of excessive force are planning to spend up to $20 million on a dangerous new accessory. trib.al/BHHNFfj
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This definitely sounds better. AI sucks for so many reasons, but I don't know that you're going to convince her with a confrontation (even if light hearted—tone doesn't always transmit well in writing).
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Would it be in your budget to find a human artist to do a picture that she could share on social media and such? Not something I've looked up before, but I would imagine that there are some available at a reasonable price.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
At least twice, I thought, “Oooooh, what they’re trying to say is… wait, no it isn’t.”
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I used to pick up little bits of a less-regional Canadian accent from coworkers. Now you have me curious how common this is.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So you agree meme, text reading: So you agree Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio are perpetrating war crimes
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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you have to adopt republican policy to beat republicans, republicans still won. Glad I could clear that up for you.
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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE is murdering people in the streets and ADL is out here spending its resources trying to get journalists to attack DSA.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/07/2026
today, ny becomes the first state with a statewide data center moratorium even though the hochul data center pause is less aggressive than ny's data center moratorium bill passed in may, it's still "a gigantic step forward," one advocate told me
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New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/07/2026
Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.
A screenshot of an article snippet featuring a photograph of J.K. Rowling credited to Twocoms / Shutterstock.com. Below the photo, a heading reads "J.K. Rowling" followed by "Net worth: $1 billion." Two paragraphs of text follow: "Before she was a best-selling author, 'Harry Potter' creator J.K. Rowling lost her job as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International because she was caught writing creative stories on her computer while on the clock. She used her severance to begin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Today, Rowling is a billionaire, thanks to the book series that has sold over 500 million copies and a blockbuster film franchise."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Here are the 22 Democrats who voted with Republicans to protect Trump's ability to get militarily involved in Lebanon:





Cuellar (TX)	Moskowitz (FL)
Davis (NC)	Norcross (NJ)
Gillen (NY)	Panetta (CA)
Golden (ME)	Perez (WA)
Gonzalez, V. (TX)	Schneider (IL)
Gottheimer (NJ)	Sherman (CA)
Gray (CA)	Soto (FL)
Hoyer (MD)	Suozzi (NY)
Landsman (OH)	Torres (CA)
Latimer (NY)	Vargas (CA)
Lee (NV)	Veasey (TX)
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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Saw this on Insta and BROKE MY ANKLES coming to repost it. Being anti-carceral includes social interactions! Hating christofacism includes not treating people as forever saints or condemned sinners. It’s hard. We’re trained to be punitive and grace isn’t instinctual/takes effort. But it’s worth it.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
That account produces in my mind such a sublime feeling of the surreal. Surely, this is satire, you think as you read. Surely, as you read more posts. Surely?!?… as you read further….
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump’s own Surgeon General released an extremely rare “Surgeon General’s Advisory” in 2018 urging all Americans to carry Narcan spray
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Mumbling this to myself to the tune of “Killing in the Name.”
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If they happen often they're not really "accidents" are they? I'm getting really tired of this routine where every time a cyclist or pedestrian is killed, neighbors tell the media how the street has always been dangerous. These deaths are preventable.
According to neighbors, the street is very busy and accidents happen often.

"It's hard, you do have to look hard and you have to wait, and no one's waiting anymore," said one neighbor.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I think the green ones may be “may bugs,” but I think people use them interchangeably. They both seem to be quite bad at flight plans.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Why is the X on the top right when you look at an image on Bluesky? It should stay on the left along with “cancel” for your post or the back arrow.
A horrifying array of good products. Well, mostly a series of things that would go into an American casserole—butter, peas, canned tuna, shredded cheese, egg noddles, among other things—but also Gatorade.

The X to close the image is on the top right because everything is wrong with the universe.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The green kind of junebug or the copper kind?
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
DSM-Tokyo Drift
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I think it would be cool to have some live music at the letter tear down. Let the people dance and rejoice.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over
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Middle Tennessee DSA @midtndsa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“Is my councilmember supporting regulating data centers?” Good question! Let’s find out. Yours not in the sponsor list here? Follow the link in the original post below and find your councilmember. Let them know what you think! nashville.legistar.com/LegislationD...
Screenshot of the sponsor list for BL2026-1391, the bill regulating data centers. Sponsors at this time are: Rollin Horton, Delishia Porterfield, Brenda Gadd, Jordan Huffman, Ginny Welsch, Kyonzte Toombs, Jeff Preptit, Emily Benedict, Jason Spain, Sean Parker, Sheri Weiner, Terry Vo, Russ Bradford, Jacob Kupin, Sandy Ewing, Courtney Johnston, Sandra Sepulveda, Erin Evans, Mike Cortese, Olivia Hill, Burkley Allen, Brandon Taylor, Clay Capp, Jennifer Gamble, Jeff Gregg
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Middle Tennessee DSA @midtndsa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nashvillians are standing up to support BL2026-1391 to regulate data centers in all of Davidson County. Find and contact your councilmember to let them know you support this: nashville.citycast.fm/explainers/c... You can watch here as folks speak out: www.youtube.com/live/rlknMo2...
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06/11/26 Planning Commission
YouTube video by Metro Nashville Network
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 09/06/2026
I know we're all used to hearing the quiet part out loud these days but "especially in the minority communities," jeeeezus
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
because of woke you cant even denigrate an entire nationality wholesale anymore without being called a racist
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/06/2026
This is bigger than the Legos story.
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Nashville Severe Weather @nashseverewx.com · 08/06/2026
Flood Watch Until 8p, Heat Turns Up This Week. New blog here nashvillesevereweather.com/2026/06/08/f...
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Flood Watch Until 8p, Heat Turns Up This Week
We have a Flood Watch in effect today thru 8p. 1.5 – 3″ of rain will be possible today from showers/storms, which could cause flooding – especially in low-lying areas. The latest …
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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 08/06/2026
“allowing its employees to smoke in the property,” and “improperly storing combustible, hazardous, and flammable materials in the property.” The filing claims that “other negligence … will be obtained in discovery.” nashvillebanner.com/2026/06/08/n...
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Travelers sues NDP over Nashville parking garage fire - Nashville Banner
Travelers, Metro Nashville's insurer, sues Nashville Downtown Partnership and Block by Block for negligence in a fire that damaged a downtown parking garage.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?
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A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The problem with late capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money
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‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers. Get ready now
“We’re seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they’re dipping into savings.”
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One reason to stay engaged as best you can in politics here, as disappointing as it can be, is just how ghoulish and inhumane many of those elected to represent us are. That’s not the only space to organize in, but please don’t ignore it. Especially with our rural friends and neighbors.
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Let people have fun and build community where they’re doing it! Growing up in the Southern suburbs, I had a lot of associations with sports and toxic ideas around masculinity. But there’s nothing inherent to sports about that. One’s own correlations shouldn’t be license to take joy from others.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Screen shot of Paramount+ interface that says "You're Laughing at CBS."
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Miller @millerwey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ah, crap. Did I park in the Reagan lot or the Goofy lot?
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