I woke up yesterday morning, looked out my window and saw the neighbors had hung this flag on their children’s playground.
Pull up a seat, and join me, friends, for The Chronicles of Being Black in a Rich, White suburb
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The maga GOP have caused Henry County hospital to end services to pregnant women due to their extreme anti-woman abortion legislation. This will be one of the many closures due to their draconian laws. TN GOP are endangering the lives of women and girls. https://t.co/kEtR2vYyLN
It took only one year after Dobbs for TN to lose obstetrics in its first hospital with our trigger ban, how many more will follow? Already, 55% of our rural hospitals have no OB services. This is deadly. You can thank the TN GOP, we said this would happen. https://t.co/kEtR2vYyLN
🏳️⚧️ From the sender: “shaken up… I was not asked consent to have my medical info released to the TN AG by @VUMChealth…
feeling very frightened & dehumanized…”
They add their info was potentially released from a period they weren’t even on a state plan. https://t.co/fxgfXrF9Yl
Lt. Gov. Randy McNally is on a hot mic, asked to rank this year in terms of craziness. Says income tax protest and TennCare removal protests were more intense.
Then Sen. Adam Lowe quips that they got "all the attractive moms in Nashville" to come protest against guns.
@mattyglesias@lxeagle17 Maybe our foremost objective isn’t gaining more political power it is reducing gun violence in our state. Our kids are dying out here.
This nation was built on peaceful protest. No elected official should lose their job simply for raising their voice – especially when they’re doing it on behalf of our children.
NEW: The teachers at the Nashville school where three students and three teachers were killed 🚨WERE ARMED🚨
Police hit a moving target less than 30% of the time, but MAGA extremists want us to believe teachers should be sharpshooters. https://t.co/bPqjC2FUAj
The more I think about the pre-recorded message from Bill Lee the angrier I get. First he tries to paint himself as a victim as his wife is close to those who died. Then he not only over-spiritualizes his comments, he misrepresents Scripture.AND he basically tells us to calm down
A crowd led by Moms Demand Action swelled outside the Tennessee statehouse today, calling for action from state lawmakers in the wake of the Covenant shooting.