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East Nashville Urban Design @urbaneastnash.bsky.social · 4h

Help us raise $ to get pumpkins for local kids 👇

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Eli Motycka @ejmotycka.bsky.social · 18h

Broadway generates a ton of tax revenue. Twenty years ago, before the "It City" boom, before tourists were buying $12 beers, lawmakers signed away that money with the "Tourism Development Zone." www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

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State Board Begins Dividing Broadway Tax Revenue

Mayor Freddie O’Connell joined former Gov. Bill Haslam, city tourism honcho Deana Ivey and several business leaders Thursday for the first meeting of the Joint Capital Tourism Board. State lawmakers c...

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 23h

Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 22h

Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...

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Christa Pike on ventilator after failed execution attempt - Nashville Banner

Christa Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator a day after she survived two doses oft the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, according to a court filing.

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 19h

Is part of the standard “can’t use public dollars for things we actually want because the state won’t let us but CAN use public dollars to pay for a football stadium and a $30m/year marketing campaign to get more tourists”?

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, $30m a year to seek out “mega” tourist opportunities? What if we saved the symphony first guys

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seems like a good day to remind people that 25 years ago musicians were engaged in activism to abolish the death penalty. It seemed like that and prison reform in general would be the cause carrying us into a new era www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/a...

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Death Penalty Ignites a Musical Coalition (Published 2001)

Ann Powers Critic's Notebook column on death penalty as target of contemporary political music; hotos (M)

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

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What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Judith Tackett @judytacketttn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Urgent: Help me save Furball Friday! Send in your pet pictures to nashville@citycast.fm. And while you're at it, sign up as a member of @citycastnash.bsky.social! @kidlitmatters.bsky.social, please thank your daughter for saving my morning by sharing a photo of Baloo!

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wrote about how FNL was a heartbreaker when it premiered 20 years ago, and it's a heartbreaker to watch today [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...

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‘Friday Night Lights’ at 20: Can We Ever Get Back to Dillon? (Gift Article)

The football drama’s themes of community and hope are just as moving today, but ever more distant.

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only jersey I’ve ever burned is Deshaun’s and if anyone wants to mail me their jerseys my DMs are open, I’ll burn yours too

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well I think I’ve officially talked my mom’s caregiver out of moving to Tennessee

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MLB Payroll Ranks in the Division Series: Rays (27) vs. Yankees (3) Braves (9) or Phillies (4) vs. Dodgers (1) Brewers (19) vs. Padres (8) ChiSox (26) vs. Guardians (29) But let's impose a salary cap so there can be parity!

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spivey adds that as execution team were trying to establish IV lines for the lethal injection, Christa Pike was not only cooperative but trying to help the team, instructing them where to try to get a vein.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spivey says that through the day yesterday ahead of the execution, Pike was expressing concern about Colleen Slemmer's mother who was there to witness the execution and saying she couldn't imagine what it was like for her. Spivey reiterates concern and condolences for that family.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/10/2026

Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congrats to the new Davidson County Clerk, whose office is sending press releases without BCCing everyone and to which someone just replied all 🥳

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Charlie Weingartner @charlieweingartner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville had 15 fatal crashes last month. We lost Michael Magee, Joseph Ballentine, Andre Adams, Gjuanna Southerland, Robert Gerald, Julio Cesar Ramirez-Rondon, German Mengual, Savannah Stair, Emily Dollarhide, Juan Resendiz, Austin Franklin, Madisson A. De La Paz Garcia, and three other people.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 01/10/2026

Death row inmate Christa Pike is receiving medical care after her execution was halted nearly two hours of the State of Tennessee began. "I’ve witnessed, I believe, five executions in Tennessee,” said Tori Gessner with WKRN News 2 in Nashville. “Nothing about today was normal, typical at all."

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Death row inmate Pike's execution halted after nearly two hours • Tennessee Lookout

A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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Josh @josh-c.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is perhaps no coincidence that having my mind shaped by George Saunders's short fiction and later his writing about writing had me yelling "yes! yes! yes!" to every one of his wonderful "no! no! no!" responses to these interview questions about using AI.

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Model Behavior: George Saunders

“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I went to a lot AND I DO MEAN A LOT of Yankee games from 1993-2004 and I do not remember me or my friends being as cartoonishly grotesque as the men they keep showing in these ad bumpers. We were too busy sneaking smokes in the upper deck. What has happened???

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can’t be mad (this time) about losing to the White Sox. They had the Pope AND my dead grandmother on their side. Thanks for … uhhh … a season of baseball, the #Astros!

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve got one of Sol’s photos framed in my office and I love it. If your vibes are Western/PNW/rural/Americana and/or beautiful, slightly apocalyptic landscapes, her photography is for you.

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1. Start time impossible for work/school 2. No one has any money 3. General sense of malaise, but not shame 4. The people who WERE there were loud during the big moments. I was on my feet screaming, so was everyone around me. The silence after we blew the big moments was also loud.

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[strange gagging noises coming from Bud Adams’ grave]

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