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Cookeville, Tennessee
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🧵🦎 As North America's largest salamanders, they rely on stream rocks for shelter & breeding.
When people build cairns or stack rocks, they can crush adults, expose nests, or destroy entire egg masses. With 100–300 eggs laid under a rock, entire generations can be lost. #GSMNP
🧵🦎 Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) officials are reportedly asking visitors to stop stacking rocks in streams, after an Eastern Hellbender salamander was found crushed beneath a rock inside the park.
BREAKING: Gov. Bill Lee is calling a special legislative session on May 5 to “formally review the state’s congressional map.”
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Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
🚧COOKEVILLE: Bunker Hill Road will be closed beginning April 29 at 7:00 AM until Friday, May 1 due to the Henley Drive project
• From the south: use West Davis Road
• From the north: use Sams Street to access Henley Drive
• Hillsdale Subdivision residents use West Davis Road
📷 After weeks of dry weather, even the Dale Hollow bald eaglets seem to appreciate a good Tennessee rain. We’re not saying this eaglet smiled at the rain… but… look at that face.😄
#tnwx #TNWeather #Tennessee #baldeagle #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers
⚠️ POWER OUTAGE: Putnam County is currently among Tennessee’s hardest-hit counties for outages, with ~2,000 customers without power (~12%) — despite having had no active warnings over most of the evening. #tnwx #Cookeville
🌩️Lightning strikes light up downtown Cookeville as much-needed rain moves into the area.
Keep weather alerts ON tonight, and follow Upper Cumberland Breaking News for updates.
#tnwx #cookeville
📷 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: The Storm Prediction Center is now monitoring developing storms across Middle Tennessee for possible severe weather overnight. The main line of storms should be moving into Middle Tennessee around 1AM.
#Cookeville #tnwx
🚨 BREAKING: Tennessee just passed one of its most controversial self-defense bills in years — expanding when deadly force may be justified to protect property. The bill now heads to the governor's desk.
Read our full report on the new park addition:
https://t.co/pRbZgnPGTK
Cookeville’s newest amenity, a splash pad, is expected to open by Memorial Day—just weeks away. It’s part of the new 31-acre Cane Creek Park expansion.
Will the 2030 Super Bowl in Nashville feature a country music halftime show?
If so, will it be someone with Nashville's stamp of approval, or will it be an industry choice?
We'll ask the big question: Will we finally get a country music Super Bowl Halftime Show?
The Halftime Show hasn't featured a country music artist since 2003, when Canadian artist Shania Twain performed alongside No Doubt and Sting.
Vote in the poll below! ⏬
🚨 Per Dan's source, the 2030 Super Bowl will be held in Nashville, TN!
"It is signed and ready to go."
Listen up, Appalachia especially you hollow-dwellers in Kentucky still drying out from those “once in a lifetime” floods that somehow keep hitting the exact same geologically blessed seams where rare earth elements and critical minerals sit thick as thieves in the coal refuse. This isn’t climate Armageddon. This is disaster capitalism with a Silicon Valley accent and the map doesn’t lie.
It’s no coincidence that the precise ridges and valleys getting drilled for rare earths, blasted for new “infrastructure” roads, and scalped by mountaintop removal are the same ones now swimming in biblical flooding. They carve into the mountain, reroute the drainage, strip the cover that held the water back for centuries and suddenly every holler turns into a death trap when the next “natural” deluge rolls through. Then, right on cue, the tourism trail systems get green-lit: scenic overlooks, bike paths, and “economic development” corridors that just happen to snake through the freshly cleared, freshly buyout-ready land. Cozy little federal grants, state matching funds, and private “partners” turning your flood-scarred holler into an Instagram-ready playground for outsiders while the locals get the boot.
Data centers aren’t abstract cloud magic. Each hyperscale AI beast chews through land measured in hundreds of acres (some topping a thousand), power equivalent to 100,000 homes, and millions of gallons of water a day for cooling. They need rare earth magnets, copper, and the rest of the periodic table’s premium shelf just to hum. Washington and the tech oligarchs scream “national security” and “supply-chain independence” from China yet the domestic solution conveniently involves clearing your backyards. Old mine lands? Reclaimed? Flood-scarred? Perfect. Cheap power grid already in place, fresh roads getting paved under “infrastructure” bills, mineral leases getting signed, and tourism trails prettifying the handover.
Meanwhile, the opioid and fentanyl plague… another crisis the same regime can’t seem to slow keeps the population numb, divided, and demographically compliant. Flood hits? No serious rebuild money for the working folks who actually live here. Instead, tidy little federal and state buyout programs (hundreds of millions funneled through FEMA, USDA, local deals) that raze homes, turn property over to “public use” or private redevelopment, and leave families with checks that wouldn’t cover a decent used truck. The land gets wrapped up nice and quiet. The deals stay under wraps. The new roads go in. The trails get built.
And somewhere in a boardroom in Northern Virginia or Palo Alto, another technocrat high-fives his ESG compliance officer while the server racks roll onto what used to be your family’s holler.
This is textbook enclosure, 21st-century edition: drown the commons, drug the resistance, blast and pave the resistance, then hand the keys to the new feudal lords who need your dirt, your water, and your minerals to keep the AI training clusters spinning 24/7 while they lecture you about “sustainability” and “green tourism.”
It’s not incompetence. It’s not bad luck. It’s managed displacement dressed up as compassion and Mother Nature’s wrath. The same political class that can’t define a woman or secure a border suddenly executes precision strikes on the precise map coordinates where the future’s raw materials sit and the flooding, the buyouts, and the shiny new trails all line up like dominoes.
Connect the dots or get bought out. Your call, neighbors. But don’t pretend you weren’t warned when the server racks move in, the trails open for business, and the “For Sale” signs go up on what used to be your mountain.
At 8:38 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles northwest of McMinnville, moving southeast at 50 mph.
NWS Nashville has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Smith, De Kalb, White, Putnam County in Middle Tennessee...until 900 PM CDT.
📍 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼:
• No reason needed to vote early in Tennessee
• Valid photo ID required (state/federal)
• Check your ballot or location: https://t.co/SfFurnKxst
• Follow @uc_breakingnews on all platforms for election news and updates
🗳️ Early voting is open across the Upper Cumberland. Vote April 15–April 30 for the May 5 county primary in Putnam, White, Jackson, and Overton.
Why this matters: in local races, the primary can be the deciding election; low turnout means a small number of voters decides.
📅 Key Election Dates to Remember
• May 5 — County Primary (now)
Early Voting: April 15–30
• August 6 — State/Federal + County General
Early Voting: July 17–August 1
• November 3 — General Election
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