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Let me pet your dog please
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NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Ahhhh… So Trump took billions from troop housing and gave it to them as “bonuses” - Got it. A con artist to the end.

www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Republican @RepThomasMassie says @AGPamBondi could eventually be charged criminally if she doesn’t release the Epstein files tomorrow
December 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you

LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times

F: Not a 600% cut

L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Leave the kids alone!” … unless they’re LGBTQ+.
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis effectively stole $35 million in government funding for healthcare and child welfare to unlawfully fund a state-sponsored election campaign against ballot initiatives on abortion rights & legal marijuana in 2024.

Florida leading the way in authoritarian corruption
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer funds as part of a brazen effort last year to defeat two ballot amendments.
www.orlandosentinel.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The first hospital in TN to announce it is closing its maternity ward since the Big Bad Bill passed is in rural Pulaski. Our state has been dead last in the country for our maternal mortality rates for 2 years now. This will make matters worse. #MedSky #ReproSky
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.

Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.

This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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3 Questions:

1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Housing for 950 more Nashville households, plus a 150-room hotel and a bunch of commercial space. All on just 13 acres adjacent to Nashville’s first (future) BRT line. This Southern Land Co development at the former Nashville Diesel College in East Nashville is pretty pretty good.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election.

As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.

Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.

www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Anti-abortion groups are pushing to ban abortion coverage for anyone who gets tax credits to pay for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

If Congress caves, this would be the first federal ban on private insurance coverage of abortion, and could push care out of reach for millions.
The big sticking point in the White House’s health care proposal
For many GOP members, an expansion of abortion restrictions in Obamacare is a must-have in any tentative health care plan.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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CNBC ON JOBS NUMBERS: "A big miss on the ADP payrolls… private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in November… fourth negative number in the past six months. small businesses shed 120,000 jobs… SMALL BIZ GETTING HAMMERED BY TRUMP’S TARIFFS…”
December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Is that why he fell asleep multiple times during a cabinet meeting yesterday?
Sen. Roger Marshall on Trump's health: "I'll work 110 hours a week. He outworks me. He's the first person I've ever known that works harder than I do. He runs around that golf course. He's in incredible shape right now. And you talk about sharp! He's playing 4 dimensional chess"
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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You know who really “hates Nashville”? The Republicans who did this to the city to steal their representation, while refusing to have a single town hall there ever. (cc: Speaker Sexton, @SenJohnson @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepJohnRose @MattForTN @RepMarkGreen @SenatorHagerty )
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.

Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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STAY IN LINE!

Polls close at 7 PM! If you are in line before 7 PM, you can still vote!

Call 1-833-DEM-VOTE if you have any problems.
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM