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@motherindie.bsky.social
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Nashvillian. Interested in Nashville politics, roller derby, reading, drinking strong black tea all day long. Got a new job so the disclaimer: opinions are my own, not my employer's, obviously.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 27/07/2026
Years ago, I did a study for Vanderbilt about how easily employees could commute by transit. Employees earning over $80k mostly lived west and had great bus access & could commute easily. Those earning under $40k mostly lived east, with terrible access to transit & commutes would be very hard.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not shocked; but still, damn...
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The vast majority of this area has HALF a bus route (it splits near the top). We all know in our bones why the Vandy area matters more than a very diverse working class area, but we don't have to be ok with it. To be clear, this map highlights discrimination.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Totally insane that Nashville Soccer Club got me to sign up for free tickets but didn't mention we would have to STAND the whole damn time. My chronic pain could never. Guess I'm still not going to see a NSC game.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I ain't never shown a picture ID at the Olive Garden except when I ordered some alcohol drinks to cleanse my palate of the terrible taste. Sure as hell wasn't for pasta.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If I had a dollar for every time the weather radio went off, I wouldn't need to go to work Thursday. Is there no better way than to send give or take 13 severe thunderstorm warnings as if I didn't notice the blaring siren-like hell sound of the first one?
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avidreader8.bsky.social @avidreader8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Pride was awesome so clearly I am favored by all higher powers.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I'm trying to manifest for this to GTFO for Pride tomorrow.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Damn thieves blew up the library, get paid exponentially more than a regular Metro worker, and are too damn incompetent to have an operating reserve. Damn this city and it's willingness to bankroll these incompetent troublemakers. Taxpayers work too damn hard to have them in charge of our money.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Could someone please do an analysis which I am sure will reveal a disproportionate percentage of rainy weekends here because God apparently hates Tennessee. Could it rain while were stuck indoors working please?
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Mash @itismashagain.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This guy shouldn’t be on death row to begin with. A jury voted to give him a life sentence. They were overridden by the judge who wanted him executed. Alabama has since ended the ability of judges to override a jury’s sentence.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For so many women, the trauma of being raped doesn’t end at the hospital door. That’s where the 2nd one starts. The treatment, the follow-up care, the months of putting yourself back together. All of it lands on the one person who did nothing wrong. #ProtectSurvivors
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Sickening that nothing was done about this utter corruption. 🤢🤮
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I teared up this morning when I realized that this is the only thing my immigrant wife has been allowed to vote on in her 25 years in America and it was taken from her and our whole community. She says she isn't the type to call the mayor like me, but she's really upset. "This is fraud," she said.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
More about the Seven Mile Creek greenway extention in South Nashville where Metro Nashville Parks nixed an already funded project and took our funding, redirecting it to something different than what we voted for in Participatory Budgeting. @freddieoconnell.bsky.social
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South Nashville neighbors demand answers on stalled greenway
YouTube video by NewsChannel 5
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Cancelled my birthday dinner because they made it sound so horrible out there then five minutes later they post that it's over.
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Ben Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
NDP can’t be trusted to handle fossil fuels. Cargo bikes and electric tools for all nashvillebanner.com/2026/06/08/n...
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It couldn't possibly be that we are more experienced in detecting and avoiding bullshit. Gotta be that we're not techy enough.
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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...
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Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point
Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
3 years ago I submitted 9 ideas for Nashville's participatory budgeting. The one promised to our neighborhood was funded but Metro Parks is refusing to complete it. Frustrating when I had so much hope three years ago.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wow this is bizarre. I wish California was sovereign. I'd move back to my birth country and they'd not have to subsidize welfare red states anymore. No war from states that cannot afford to exist without blue state money.
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:
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Robin @jesusurbanist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Open Spaces & Greenway Commission does not have a current roster of members, does not publicly notice their meetings in a timely fashion, and does not post their meeting minutes or agenda anywhere. Which is all a violation of the Open Meetings Act.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One of my Vanderbilt professors cames inches from running into me with his car. If I hadn't already earned an A...
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We should all get cheap ticketw to every starium that has been shoved down our throats with our tax dollars.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If a trans kid comes out to you, no they didn't.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The DMV or whatever they call it in Tennessee sent me a text that my number is next in line...and then called the man who is actually next in line. Typical Tennessee.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Damn it, Bill Lee. You have blood on your hands.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Of course the Nashville Downtown Partnership tried to run over folks. Once you've blown up a library and gotten away with it, you can do anything.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Executing a man without testing all the evidence is evil.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Can you imagine having a nice, boring yet respectable name like Christopher and then going by Butch? Yes, I'm feeling salty about the fussy ass privileged in this city taking everything while what little the poors have is stolen.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My daughter and I skate this ridiculously miniscule greenway. Expansion would have made it possible for us to walk to it and Whitfield park, our closest park. They stole the funds we voted to allocste to this expansion and we still have no access unless we drive. As my wife said, "That's fraud."
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Robin @jesusurbanist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We probably need to do an audit on all participatory budget projects from 2023 to see if there are any others which will not be completed, and which departments they happened in.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Back when we were submitting ideas, I put in several. I found out later that all our ideas that required Wego participation were tossed in the trash because Wego refused to particpate. Participatory budgeting is a JOKE. I'm so done with this city.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
@oliviahill247.bsky.social is on the greenway baord. I don't have time today between two graduations and the party for them and recovery from surgery that makes typing difficult, but I hope this unfair nonsense can be fixed.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
So angry. Metro Nashville Parks is canceling the Seven Mile Creek greenway extention we voted on through participatory budgeting several YEARS ago. They claim they can't get it done before the funds run out. They have half a million dollars and YEARS ALREADY. @freddieoconnell.bsky.social fix this!
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Corrupt "Supreme" Court uses false data to back up lies in racist scheme. I'm shocked. Shocked!
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I see comments full of hatred for parents. You will never change a mind that way. Dr. Anna Morad & the mom she worked with DID change minds. Shame doesn't work. If it did, I wouldn't be gay & zero right wing Christians would fall pregnant out of wedlock. Be smarter & kinder. Make real change.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Wow. When I tried to log in it said "scheduled maintenance." That's a lie.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Was trying to obsessively check my grades...
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ridiculous Nashville. This crap went on in Boston all thr time. Part of why we moved decades ago. Now Nashville isn't so friendly to her citizens anymore.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/05/2026
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose again this week, reflecting ongoing bond market volatility as surging oil prices due to the war with Iran heighten inflation worries.
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US long-term mortgage rate bounce back to levels seen 4 weeks ago
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose again this week, reflecting ongoing bond market volatility as surging oil prices due to the war with Iran heighten inflation worries.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I emailed the state to find out my new Tennessee Congressional District. They sent me to this site to look it up: tncot.cc/tndistrict
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Zone Lookup Instant App
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Sarah Fitzpatrick @sfitz787.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director’s Unusual Calling Card
“Ka$h Patel” bourbon is his newest innovation.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What a condescending @#$%. We know how the corrupt as hell court works you twerp.
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Indie @motherindie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I wish. I'd use that California birth certificate to move back. Tennessee would fail without taking blue state dollars.
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Erin Jean Warde @erinjeanwarde.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
NO I DO NOT NEED AI'S HELP RESPONDING TO A DM ON INSTAGRAM
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