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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 16h

A Nashville asylum-seeker and nursing mother of two, separated from her children after being detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, is speaking about her three-month experience in the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

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Nursing Nashville mom reunited with kids 3 months after ICE arrest • Tennessee Lookout

A Nashville asylum seeker and mom of two describes her time in a Louisiana ICE detention center after she was detained against agency rules.

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 10h

ICYMI: With diesel fuel prices in Tennessee hovering near all-time highs above $6.10 per gallon, two state lawmakers are asking Gov. Bill Lee to temporarily allow farmers and loggers to use cheaper tax-exempt diesel to transport their harvest on public roads.

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Tennessee lawmakers seek relief for farmers, loggers amid record-high diesel prices • Tennessee Lookout

Two Tennessee lawmakers ask Gov. Bill Lee to allow farmers to use cheaper tax-exempt diesel to transport their harvest on public roads.

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 8h

"The baby,” she said, breaking into tears when referring to her 1-year-old daughter, “The baby, I think … I felt … she knew I was her mom.” A Nashville asylum seeker and mother of two speaks after her release from three months in a Louisiana ICE detention facility.

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Nursing Nashville mom reunited with kids 3 months after ICE arrest • Tennessee Lookout

A Nashville asylum seeker and mom of two describes her time in a Louisiana ICE detention center after she was detained against agency rules.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 8h

Daily Wire’s action movies remind me of “Team America World Police” ie an “edgy“ film portraying the enemies of the current ruling party as pawns of evil foreign villains. But it’s targeted at the audience that would have found the puppet sex and body fluids scandalizing and taking itself seriously.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 13h

The #TN budget gives $10 million to establish a lakefront #statepark at Clark Center Park in Oak Ridge. But only if the county can raise or give $6,250,000 in matching funds before June 30, 2031. Info on upcoming fundraiser included. hellbenderpress.org/news/popular...

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Hellbender Press - Popular lakefront area near Oak Ridge could become a state park

Clark Center Park swimming area. &nbsp;Ben Pounds/Hellbender Press Major effort needed to secure co-funding from local area The state&nbsp;budget&nbsp;for the fiscal year beginning&nbs...

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We’ve let the debate around Israel get away from the relevant issue, which isn’t “does Israel have the right to exist?” but instead “do we want to keep giving or selling them weapons or joining them in wars?” That’s what our government and by extension people, in theory, control. My answer is no.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I support further investigation in the Nolan Wells case and believe others should too.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I am going to make #TADC more true to Caine being from the 90s by turning a character who looks like Karopi into Lola Rabbit.” I mean, interesting exercise and nice designs but doesn‘t prove anything apart from that the 90s had multiple stuff in it.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Oh so who are we going to base our attack ads around?” “How about trans people, the group that can’t fight back easily by voting against us because they often don’t match their ID cards?” It’s calculated.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know I was perhaps overly optimistic that the Atlantic article on Universal Daycare would talk at all about the program in the only state that has it. Not one mention of New Mexico in the piece, which would contradict its theme about what benefits best serve all families, regardless of income.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Venn diagram of people who write opinion columns about people in urban areas not caring about rural and small town issues and the people like me who actually cover small town and rural/suburban county issues has almost no overlap.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Full disclosure. I’ve heard it. I like it. Maybe I’m biased as a Tennesseean in terms of both hearing it and liking it. But that has nothing to do with any kind of moral judgment.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Social change almost never looks like large numbers of people apologizing. It nearly always looks like large numbers of people pretending they always agreed with the new thing. That’s when you know you’ve won.

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Amos Ozempic @gordondouglas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, these articles are always "here's why we should do nothing". A waste of effort for all involved.

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the electorate at large, famous for not having children in daycare.* * 59% of American families with children under 5 not in kindergarten use some non-parental daycare. nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/di...

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Fast Facts: Child care (4)

The NCES Fast Facts Tool provides quick answers to many education questions (National Center for Education Statistics). Get answers on Early Childhood Education, Elementary and Secondary Education an...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

there are a billion things these so-called "pro-natalist" pricks could do to eliminate these punishments. but they'd have to get over capitalist political morality regarding work and income, and these is no sign of that happening whatsoever

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

yes! the US social benefit system, such as it is, is viciously anti-parent and anti-family!! particularly if you are median income or lower bsky.app/profile/padr...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

centrists only talk about this stuff to troll Democratic proposals, it's the explicit frame of the Atlantic piece. it's like back during Black Lives Matter when a white guy would get shot by the cops and Republicans would pretend to care for a few minutes

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

in reality Democrats are the only US party interested in child benefits. conservatives and centrists hate the welfare state, they think the working class must be forced to work by the threat of destitution. so every policy must have a work requirement, which is impossible for stay at home parents

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

you could do it like a classic European socdem-Christian Dem compromise, we get free daycare, you get stay at home parent subsidy. if Republicans wanted to offer that bargain to, say, President AOC I guarantee she'd accept it in a heartbeat

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ray Hagan participated in his first meeting of the Anderson County Board of Education as its newest member on Sept. 10. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

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The Courier News

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Anders @derzquist.net · 29/09/2026

But the actual space can be anything accessible. Chain coffee shop, someone's garage, etc. I absolutely love lodges & halls of classic clubs & fraternal orders, but all of those came long after a cohesive structure formed and made due with far less ostentatious settings for many years.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 29/09/2026

The old dudes posting up at McDonald's five days a week are actually taking what's available to them (cheap coffee & a staff uninterested in shooing them away) and creating the vaunted Third Space.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 29/09/2026

Lots of Third Space Discourse envisions a pattern where individuals go to a place and then connect with others to form a group. But I think the real dynamic is where people first form a group and then go adopt a space to (formally or informally) make their own.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Not heard Choosin' Texas" discourse is internet in a nutshell. Some people are doing good analysis and discussion about whether there is a mainstream culture anymore, age, demographic, streaming vs. radio, etc. And other people just use it to make no conclusions other than telling people they suck.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new community center is coming to Oak Ridge’s historic Scarboro neighborhood next to the Atomic Elks Lodge at 262 Wilberforce Ave. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ll admit that in my sphere of influence as a small town reporter I’m mostly interested in getting people to be aware of local issues and talking about them rather than push opinions. But that’s a unique circumstance that doesn’t apply to you.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ironically the two of us have the same basic framework that politicians on a national level aren’t the ones to shift popular opinion or come up with new ideas by themselves. The difference is that I’m fascinated by the question “if they don’t, who does?”

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, you could always just try to convince other people of things. You know, the way opinion writers have for centuries?

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People need to realize with the midterms that it’s less about convincing people to vote for your candidate or party or that voting matters. It’s informing people that an election is happening at all.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anderson County’s contract for Flock license-plate-reader cameras is headed back to the county Budget Committee after officials determined the current agreement was not properly approved. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

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Śéáń @fiercemilder.com · 28/09/2026

"If you want to rule the galaxy after your death, don't hire an assassin who uses a dagger modelled after the landscape wreckage of your old space station that points to one of two keys to your secret base when trying to kill your son,because your granddaughter will then use it to find and stop you"

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is music made in a country as opposed to a ship on international waters.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FYI: these posts are both jokes. But I’m betting more porn aimed at men passes the Bechdell test than any other genre.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But how likely is it to get turned into a donkey?

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/12/2024

Goal of the protagonist in: French novel: "to fall in love" British novel: "to get married" Russian novel: "to become a great man" American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The only discourse about Lesbian bars I care about is whether they have fire exits,

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tony hawk's prolapse @ivnob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

RE: ella langley, once you hit your 30s the hot 100 becomes none of your business. get ready to learn sun ra, buddy

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a Tennessean I appreciated my state being treated as its own entity and not lumped in with others, although the song‘s references play fast and loose with the fact that due to our state’s shape east and west aren’t close to each other. But Texas is probably even moreso that way.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Roberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Translation: “The first NFL game ever in the Maracanã could be decided with a shot onto goal, like this stadium’s history is used to. 56 yards for Tyler Loop to try to win the game for the Baltimore Ravens. Here’s the snap, here’s the kick towards GOOOOOOOL! GO BALTIMORE RAVENS! IN THE LAST SECOND!”

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve realized saying “we need to have a reckoning about…” is usually code for “I‘m worried about this but have no idea how to solve it or move forward as a society.” Tbf I’ve been there a lot.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry I refuse to say anything about job interview iced coffee or the mask requirements at Massachusetts Lesbian bars. I do not care. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’ve made better use of your time than me.

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just a heads up. When most people complain on Threads or Bluesky about “leftists” they just mean non-Harris voters. They’re usually not really wanting to argue about anything else except in that context. I’ve realized even as a Harris voter I don’t find those conversations interesting right now.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

literally the only thing the microsoft edge browser is good for is aggregating paywalled news stories

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Indeed, even within the law, public libraries frequently have a lot of resources in that vein, not to mention MSN and Yahoo frequently distributing paywalled stuff without paywalls.

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