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Patrick Ferrell

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Birthright citizenship did that
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/07/2026
only one way to stay in this, stadium old timey organ player needs to play Enter Sandman
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 30/06/2026
Soccer is designed so that if a game is really good, the reward is 30 minutes of the most boring shit you’ve ever seen before a winner is picked at random
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Ben Wright @benwright.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
MLS is drunk in Foxborough. That’s 1000% a pen for Ghana, ref is having a shocker.
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Ben Wright @benwright.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
With the top spot in Group D already in the bag, here's how the USMNT 🇺🇸 should line up on Thursday against Türkiye.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Just watch Thierry Henry once Lalas is done
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/02/2026
It has occurred to me that the optimal level of marketing for my podcast Volts, upon which my family's entire income depends, might be higher than its current level of zero.
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A newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week. Click to read Volts, a Substack publication with tens of thou...
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Matthew De George @sportsdoctormd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Second straight Super Bowl in which a dude named Drake has been mercilessly bullied
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Leo Messi finally wins the one trophy he's pursued his entire life: MLS Cup. Now officially the GOAT.
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Why Today? @winteroak.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Hey #Georgia!! Hate high electric bills?! Listen to this really important news about how YOU can help in an upcoming election!! Your vote rrreeeeeeaaalllyyy matters Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social #galege
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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 06/10/2025
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Quin Evans Segall @quinevanssegall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just so we’re clear on what’s happening. The beauty of local politics is that it is nonpartisan-we can debate issues on merits & not like we’re opposing SEC teams. Sadly, not everyone feels that way these days.
Donor history for Lauren Magli
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Pete Hegseth is planning a military coup in the right way by Ezra Klein
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Neil Kornutick @neilkornutick.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It passes! Congrats to @rollinhorton.bsky.social, the residents of the Nations and the CMs voting in support of more housing. Another step down, third reading in a couple weeks.
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Neil Kornutick @neilkornutick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Commission Clifton speaking about our historic downzoning and how it lead us to now “it’s a thing that was done to provide for wealthier people and forgetting about everyone else and we are part of a community that did this.”
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news
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How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"The biggest jobs killing bill in the history of the country" That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill. So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social? #energysky
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/06/2025
Huh, turns out everything Republicans said about "all of the above" energy strategy was bullshit meant to manipulate Democrats until they could take power and crush renewables! The key is for all political analysts to immediately forget this so that we can be surprised again the next time.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/06/2025
The Republican's budget bill kills the industries of the future while subsidizing the industries of the 19th century. It is insanity! Kill this bill.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/06/2025
At a moment of rapid demand growth and a growing electricity affordability crisis, the Republican's One Big Horrible Bill will RAISE TAXES on wind & solar—the only new sources of electricity we are able to rapidly add to the US grid—in four different ways.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/06/2025
This bill is unbelievably bad for America. This One Big Horrible Bill will raise energy costs, kill $100s of billions of new investment in energy & manufacturing, make our grid less reliable, increase pollution, and constrain our ability to compete with China for the future or AI. Total loser stuff.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 28/06/2025
The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/06/2025
This is exactly right. Anyone voting for the spending bill is voting for higher energy bills and blackouts.
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Wesley Smith @johnwesssley.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If the mayor endorses a four-lane design for East Bank Boulevard, it will be a home run. We have the data. The public overwhelmingly opposes the six-lane concept being proposed. Of the 881 responses to Metro's survey, 69% wrote a comment explicitly concerned with the number of lanes or width 1/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...
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nicole has a collaborative spirit @startleseasily.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Elizabeth doesn't think you should be allowed to abstain on the budget. I don't think you should be allowed to abstain on anything.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 16/06/2025
The Senate Finance committee just dropped their draft text for the Republican budget bill. www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne... Like the House, it is hot trash and terrible for America. But it is marginally better for clean energy credits. Some key details... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I have travelled across the country to watch the US for the past 30 years. I feel completely justified in my decision not to drive two miles to see this team.
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Liam Twomey @liamtwomey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A goal fit to win this specific final
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/05/2025
Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
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Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
From the 15th minute to the 25th, supporters held up flags reading “We are not all here” in English and Spanish. NSC security told them to take them down. They were ignored and remained up. As one person said to me “this isn’t political, this is our community.”
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
At the Nashville SC game, a giant flag for La Brigada de Oro, the Latino supporters section, which is not here tonight due to ICE activity. NSC officials tried to remove it, but were met with vehement objections by supporters clubs, who threatened a giant walkout if they did.
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Chris Ivey @chrisivey.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Recent Pontiffs and the World Cup: 🇺🇸 Leo XIV - ???? 🇦🇷 Francis - 🏆 🇩🇪 Benedict XVI - 🏆 *Emeritus 🇵🇱 John Paul II - 🥉 * Best finish 🇮🇹 John Paul I - 🪦 *33 days 🇮🇹 Pope Paul VI - 🥈 Get your bets in now for #USMNT
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Adam Whittaker Spookily @snaves.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
THE POPE CALLS IT "SOCCER"
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nicole has a collaborative spirit @startleseasily.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Here is the full text of @ginnywelsch.bsky.social's epic takedown of business as usual in Nashville's planning apparatus.
Thank you, Vice Mayor. I will be indefinitely deferring my bills. But I would be remiss if I did not point out that the process of getting here has clearly shown that the priorities of the planning department are at odds with the broader community as embodied in the community plan, NashvilleNext. How those priorities are chosen is anyone’s guess. The community plan clearly outlined what Nashvillians want, like walkability and affordability - yet planning continues to focus on things like the East Bank, where we have a blank canvas and can create whatever we can imagine, yet have a design that includes a 6-lane road through the middle of it. It’s mind boggling.  

My district has not grown in the over 20 years since being down zoned in 2003, and without adequate housing, we are losing the people and places that make our district unique. And our zoning is at fault. Three studies have come out recently that show that what I'm trying to do in my district with this legislation and how I am trying to do it is what needs to be done in Nashville, if we are to comprehensively address the housing crisis we face. It will allow new types of housing and create more housing opportunities that are sorely needed for the residents of Nashville. And yet, Planning continually asked me to slow down, to wait, to stop until they could present their own housing proposals in June. My intent was always to defer third reading on my bills, until after Planning’s housing & infrastructure study recommendations were put forth, and adjust accordingly. But I was very clear with Planning that I would not wait to start this process until June because Planning has a history of not meeting timelines, and slow walking real reform, and I wasn’t going to let my district’s housing situation continue to be unaddressed.

And nowhere was this more obvious than at the planning commission. The outcome of my planning commission hearing was quite obviously preordained. Rehearsed was the word most people used. Commissioners did not talk about the substance of my legislation, or land use policy, which is the basis on which they are supposed to be making recommendations. They didn't even ask me a single question. Instead, they recommended disapproval because they didn't like the process. They looked me straight in the eye and said that planning should be leading rezonings like I am proposing, not me, and told me not to bring my legislation to council. But zoning is the exclusive purview of the legislative body, this council, and neither I nor my colleagues need to ask permission from or get the blessing of planning to move zoning in our districts.

As the council, we should expect our departments to serve the people of Nashville. I know other council members have also had trouble working with the planning department, and regardless of what your issue has been with the Planning Department, I think we’re all wondering what guides Planning, and what determines their priorities? Because it’s not Nashville Next’s action plan. So, really, what guidance are they following? The planning department needs to have an accountable work agenda, and update council on a regular basis about what they are doing now and what they expect to do in future, as well as providing a comprehensive analysis of past efforts and their real life results. We as a council need to know if what is being done is actually addressing our needs. As was always my plan, community engagement and education about my legislation is continuing in my district. And my legislation will be back in some form because we need to tackle the housing crisis in my district. And we will do it, with or without planning. Because we cannot afford not to.

With that, I renew my motion to indefinitely defer.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NEW from the Banner: The Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE ran a massive traffic stop operation in South Nashville, detaining dozens of people. Buses left the ICE facility with many, reportedly bound for Louisiana. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/04/i...
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ICE and THP raid Nashville's Latino neighborhoods - Nashville Banner
Federal and state law enforcement conducted a mass traffic stop operation in Nashville, detaining dozens of people and leaving families in the dark.
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Mayor Freddie O’Connell @mayor.nashville.gov · 05/05/2025
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A group of Arsenal supporters have protested against the club’s ‘Visit Rwanda’ sponsorship and called for the deal to be ended before next season. Gunners For Peace has launched a video mocking the sponsorship, entitled ‘Visit Tottenham’. More from @alexjbrodie.bsky.social ⤵️
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Arsenal fans protest against club’s Visit Rwanda deal with ‘Visit Tottenham’ campaign
The Premier League club has been criticised for its association with the tourist board of the east African country.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 02/04/2025
The nation's largest public utility (the Tennessee Valley Authority, which supplies power to about 10 million people) now lacks enough board members to conduct business after Trump arbitrarily fires the board chair and another board member for no stated reason. 🔌💡
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Ben Wright @benwright.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Former Nashville SC and current San Diego FC midfielder Aníbal Godoy has received his American citizenship. You love to see it. 🇺🇸
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/03/2025
Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
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