As the sun sets over our Tennessee mountain home, we're grateful for a supporter of the Smokies who has always carried these mountains in her heart. 🌄💛Thank you, Dolly, for sharing your love for the Great Smoky Mountains with the world.
This Tom Rinaldi feature on Pochettino last night was really good. The joy on his mom's face when she talks about him getting hired by the USMNT is incredible.
Pete and Chasten Buttigieg were "swatted" by an anonymous person who called CPS and fabricated a story about Pete was committing violent crimes against his children.
The police eventually concluded the report was completely false and politically motivated, but not before the Buttigieg's 4-year-old twins were separated from their dads for a full day and put through a forensic interview.
This is exactly why the right-wing demonization of LGBTQ+ people and their families is so dangerous. This political attack weaponized the child welfare system against a family and traumatize two little kids in the process.
Whatever your politics are, targeting little children because you don't like their parents is evil. And Christians, of all people, should be the first to say so.
Not long ago, reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act were bipartisan votes that Democratic and Republican presidents signed without controversy.
Now the right-wing Supreme Court majority has gutted the VRA, and GOP-led legislatures are erasing Black voters from the map. https://t.co/R8TzQu8zXw
Progress for Tennessee students is powered by collaboration. As we reflect on 2025 and look ahead to the opportunities of 2026, we’re deeply grateful for the partners who make SCORE’s work possible.
Our new SCORE overview video shines a spotlight on the collective effort driving student success across Tennessee — and the momentum we’re carrying into 2026 as we work together to improve outcomes for every student across our state.
In 18 years as an ER doc, I ask about immigration status about as often as I ask about insurance—which is never
My job is to respond to the person in front me, as if neither immigration or insurance matters
Because in that moment, neither of those things matter
So tell me, what do Americans want me to do when the person dying before me is undocumented? Let them die?
And what if they’re uninsured? Check that they’ve paid their monthly dues before I check their pulse?
We should stop making this an argument about providing emergency care to certain populations
And start asking how it reflects on us all if we’re truly willing to withhold care in those moments of emergency, just because of what a piece of paper might or might not say
Governor of a state that went for Trump by 20+ points.
A governor who was reelected by the same state after vetoing several anti-trans bills.
Don't tell me that Democrats can't fight back effectively for LGBTQ youth when Andy Beshear is clearly getting it done.
The impending shutdown of USAID is unconstitutional and reveals complete ignorance or indifference to how vital its work -- in global health, conflicts, disasters and beyond -- is to Americans and humanity. https://t.co/TfmcYP5Tuh
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
Atul Gawande, former USAID official: “Two weeks ago I was combatting diseases. We had 21 serious outbreaks at the time worldwide. Three are serious now: an Ebola outbreak in the capital of Uganda. Bird flu has broken out in 49 countries. Our efforts to contain them have all been shut down.”
What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries. There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.
So you’re telling me two teams with a combined 0-3 record vs Top 25 are showing us all they aren’t playoff caliber…
I’m shocked. Stop looking at the number in the loss column and start looking at WHO they played and WHO they beat!!
12 team playoff is great, we just didn’t get the best 12 teams.
Trump just said he’s going to eliminate the Department of Education. He didn’t give you a how or what happens with the necessary funding for your children that come department. He just gonna put locks on the doors.
Y’all voted for these next 4 years.
Kamala Harris: A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election we accept the results. And anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. At the same, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party but to the constitution
"Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars," Vice President Kamala Harris says, referencing an old adage.
"I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case. But here's the thing: America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars, the light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service."