“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life… The present is always changing the past.”
via @holstee
🌺 NASHVILLE: @flwrshopnash posts a response to the RNC declining to provide floral design services for their fundraising event this weekend feat. Trump and others, and challenging other businesses to do the same.
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WEBSITE: https://t.co/V4YQTrL2Wt
I have the Reappointment & Minutes for Rep. Justin J. Pearson in hand! TN House Clerk I'm on the way!!!... #Memphis to #Nashville 💯
Proud of the Shelby County Commission on the unanimous vote.
BREAKING: 3-judge chancery court panel rules that Metro is likely to win on home rule arguments, grants temporary injunction against cutting Metro Council from 40 to 20
This was stressful to coordinate and emotional to experience, but I’m so damn proud of everybody in the supporters end for taking part in six full minutes of silence during last night’s match, in remembrance of the six Nashvillians murdered at Covenant S… https://t.co/LaFPGM0qqZ
WATCH: “This is not democracy.”
@NC5PhilWilliams lays out some of the ways democracy has been smothered to death in Tennessee — through absurd “voice votes” and last-minute amendments that rewrite entire bills.
MORE: https://t.co/PsvfvXWTK4
“Research from the Princeton Gerrymandering Project shows that there is not a single competitive seat in the state senate”
I knew it was bad, but damn
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@bradbatt@CSexton25 The session was in recess when they engaged with a passionate response merited the butchering of six lives at #CovenantSchool. This expulsion was a convenient way to rid yourself of accountability for not addressing the issue that we need #GunReformNOW to #BanAssaultWeaponsNow
A GOP lawmaker told me this very thing this week: that we need to ban assault weapons nationwide. But the far right and @TennFirearms have pushed conservatives to crazytown. Another lawmaker, @SenJohnson, told me he would vote to relax gun laws EVEN IF HIS CONSTITUENTS OPPOSED IT