@tntovt.bsky.social
Retired educator, Democrat, Francophile, reader, animal lover, collector of interesting old things
Reposted
It's ELECTION DAY in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District!
It's a special election to replace former Republican Rep. Mark Green.
Let's go @aftynbehn.bsky.social!!
It's a special election to replace former Republican Rep. Mark Green.
Let's go @aftynbehn.bsky.social!!
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It's ELECTION DAY in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District!
It's a special election to replace former Republican Rep. Mark Green.
Let's go @aftynbehn.bsky.social!!
It's a special election to replace former Republican Rep. Mark Green.
Let's go @aftynbehn.bsky.social!!
Reposted
They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.
They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.
They get pardoned when they commit crimes.
They ignore the laws.
There is zero congressional oversight.
They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.
They get pardoned when they commit crimes.
They ignore the laws.
There is zero congressional oversight.
October 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.
They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.
They get pardoned when they commit crimes.
They ignore the laws.
There is zero congressional oversight.
They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.
They get pardoned when they commit crimes.
They ignore the laws.
There is zero congressional oversight.
Reposted
Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
Reposted
Amazing how masks aren’t an infringement on their civil rights when they do this mess.
September 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Amazing how masks aren’t an infringement on their civil rights when they do this mess.
Reposted
Just to piss off Nexstar, Sinclair, and Trump. Linking to the Kimmel YouTube video which has nearly 3 million views.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Just to piss off Nexstar, Sinclair, and Trump. Linking to the Kimmel YouTube video which has nearly 3 million views.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Reposted
Five cops were shot in Pennsylvania yesterday. Three died. Haven't heard a thing about if from the "back the blue" team that was so upset about last week's school shooting.
Maybe it's because the shooter looked like this.
Maybe it's because the shooter looked like this.
September 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Five cops were shot in Pennsylvania yesterday. Three died. Haven't heard a thing about if from the "back the blue" team that was so upset about last week's school shooting.
Maybe it's because the shooter looked like this.
Maybe it's because the shooter looked like this.
Reposted
Some proof: Impact on TN via TN-specific data.
Bottom Line: 171K cut from TennCare, 328K will lose healthcare, and 130K households lose SNAP benefits, 9 rural hospitals close, TN economy loses $35B
Cost/Benefit analysis here:
youtu.be/mAzrAGZehRY
And HUGE churn also spreads to emp-based plans
Bottom Line: 171K cut from TennCare, 328K will lose healthcare, and 130K households lose SNAP benefits, 9 rural hospitals close, TN economy loses $35B
Cost/Benefit analysis here:
youtu.be/mAzrAGZehRY
And HUGE churn also spreads to emp-based plans
Tennessee Cost/Benefit Analysis of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (June 18, 2025)
YouTube video by RintheOpen
youtu.be
June 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Some proof: Impact on TN via TN-specific data.
Bottom Line: 171K cut from TennCare, 328K will lose healthcare, and 130K households lose SNAP benefits, 9 rural hospitals close, TN economy loses $35B
Cost/Benefit analysis here:
youtu.be/mAzrAGZehRY
And HUGE churn also spreads to emp-based plans
Bottom Line: 171K cut from TennCare, 328K will lose healthcare, and 130K households lose SNAP benefits, 9 rural hospitals close, TN economy loses $35B
Cost/Benefit analysis here:
youtu.be/mAzrAGZehRY
And HUGE churn also spreads to emp-based plans
Reposted
THANK YOU. Ppl need to stop saying he was “protesting” as that is misinformation & plays to their narrative.
Mayor Baraka & members of Congress were there LEGALLY to visit/inspect the *ILLEGAL* ICE facility that has not allowed any oversight.
NJ law bans immigration detention centers.
Mayor Baraka & members of Congress were there LEGALLY to visit/inspect the *ILLEGAL* ICE facility that has not allowed any oversight.
NJ law bans immigration detention centers.
May 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
THANK YOU. Ppl need to stop saying he was “protesting” as that is misinformation & plays to their narrative.
Mayor Baraka & members of Congress were there LEGALLY to visit/inspect the *ILLEGAL* ICE facility that has not allowed any oversight.
NJ law bans immigration detention centers.
Mayor Baraka & members of Congress were there LEGALLY to visit/inspect the *ILLEGAL* ICE facility that has not allowed any oversight.
NJ law bans immigration detention centers.
Reposted
My conclusions:
- the demands are a moving target; there is no benchmark Harvard can point to in addressin them
- the demands are incoherent...antisemitism, SFA violations, ideological homogeneity, bad management, & "too many Democrats"
- funding being threatened has nothing to do w/the demands
- the demands are a moving target; there is no benchmark Harvard can point to in addressin them
- the demands are incoherent...antisemitism, SFA violations, ideological homogeneity, bad management, & "too many Democrats"
- funding being threatened has nothing to do w/the demands
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
May 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My conclusions:
- the demands are a moving target; there is no benchmark Harvard can point to in addressin them
- the demands are incoherent...antisemitism, SFA violations, ideological homogeneity, bad management, & "too many Democrats"
- funding being threatened has nothing to do w/the demands
- the demands are a moving target; there is no benchmark Harvard can point to in addressin them
- the demands are incoherent...antisemitism, SFA violations, ideological homogeneity, bad management, & "too many Democrats"
- funding being threatened has nothing to do w/the demands
Reposted
🧵This is the cruelty they don’t want you to see.
Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp.
No criminal records.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on…
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp.
No criminal records.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on…
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler?
The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🧵This is the cruelty they don’t want you to see.
Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp.
No criminal records.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on…
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp.
No criminal records.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on…
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
Reposted
Federal talk of a national registry of autistic people is detering parents from seeking evaluation, diagnosis of children who may have the condition, @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/a...
Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry
Fears of landing on a federal list prompts parents, and adults, to cancel autism screening evaluations.
www.statnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Federal talk of a national registry of autistic people is detering parents from seeking evaluation, diagnosis of children who may have the condition, @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/a...
Reposted
President Trump 2.0 has openly committed more impeachable abuses of power than all prior presidents combined, including Trump 1.0.
The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff says he ‘strongly’ agrees Trump needs to be impeached | CNN Politics
Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.
www.cnn.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
President Trump 2.0 has openly committed more impeachable abuses of power than all prior presidents combined, including Trump 1.0.
The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
Reposted
WHOA-- in the last hours of this years legislative session, Indiana Governor & state legislature stripped the IU Faculty Senate of governing power 🧪
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
www.indystar.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
WHOA-- in the last hours of this years legislative session, Indiana Governor & state legislature stripped the IU Faculty Senate of governing power 🧪
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
Reposted
Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil
the cuts are already here
the cuts are already here
Johnson: "Do not believe the lies the Democrat Party has said. We had their ads taken down. They were running ads around the country in swing districts trying to convince people Republicans are going to 'gut Medicaid.' It's just simply not true & that's why their ads & billboards had to come down"
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Again, my wife lost her excellent job at a nonprofit Seattle hospital because the trump administration simply stopped paying medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing it into complete financial turmoil
the cuts are already here
the cuts are already here
Reposted
"now son do you know why i pulled you over tonight?"
"no officer, what seems to be the trouble?"
"well it's just a routine checkpoint son, i'm going to have to ask you a few questions. first off, in herman melville's moby-dick what is the white whale an allegory for?"
"no officer, what seems to be the trouble?"
"well it's just a routine checkpoint son, i'm going to have to ask you a few questions. first off, in herman melville's moby-dick what is the white whale an allegory for?"
WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP WILL SIGN ORDER ON ENGLISH LITERARY TESTS FOR TRUCKERS IN U.S.
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"now son do you know why i pulled you over tonight?"
"no officer, what seems to be the trouble?"
"well it's just a routine checkpoint son, i'm going to have to ask you a few questions. first off, in herman melville's moby-dick what is the white whale an allegory for?"
"no officer, what seems to be the trouble?"
"well it's just a routine checkpoint son, i'm going to have to ask you a few questions. first off, in herman melville's moby-dick what is the white whale an allegory for?"
Of course, it is ALREADY a requirement in order to get a CDL. More performative BS.
"We're gonna ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our policy, are all able to speak English" -- Leavitt says Trump will sign an order demanding that all truckers can speak English
April 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Of course, it is ALREADY a requirement in order to get a CDL. More performative BS.
Reposted
"The whole point of this country is that no one person should have too much power." – @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
We didn’t fight a revolution just to hand the keys to a wannabe king like Trump.
Not then. Not now. Not ever.
We didn’t fight a revolution just to hand the keys to a wannabe king like Trump.
Not then. Not now. Not ever.
April 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"The whole point of this country is that no one person should have too much power." – @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
We didn’t fight a revolution just to hand the keys to a wannabe king like Trump.
Not then. Not now. Not ever.
We didn’t fight a revolution just to hand the keys to a wannabe king like Trump.
Not then. Not now. Not ever.
Reposted
Reposted
Americans put in the Oval Office a man who does not give a damn about the Constitution or the rule of law, but only about consolidating power & wealth for himself & his cronies. Every day we can see the fateful consequences of this disaster--and We the People must decide how long we'll tolerate it.
April 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Americans put in the Oval Office a man who does not give a damn about the Constitution or the rule of law, but only about consolidating power & wealth for himself & his cronies. Every day we can see the fateful consequences of this disaster--and We the People must decide how long we'll tolerate it.
Reposted
Farm to Table Memecoins are the bedrock of a Sustainable Recession
April 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Farm to Table Memecoins are the bedrock of a Sustainable Recession
Reposted
Free and fair elections are under attack.
"Political appointees have also instructed career employees to dismiss all of their active cases without meeting with them and offering a rationale – a significant break with the department’s practices and norms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Political appointees have also instructed career employees to dismiss all of their active cases without meeting with them and offering a rationale – a significant break with the department’s practices and norms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit
Section is responsible for enforcing laws designed to prevent voter discrimination, raised alarm about voting rights enforcement
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Free and fair elections are under attack.
"Political appointees have also instructed career employees to dismiss all of their active cases without meeting with them and offering a rationale – a significant break with the department’s practices and norms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Political appointees have also instructed career employees to dismiss all of their active cases without meeting with them and offering a rationale – a significant break with the department’s practices and norms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted
It's an artisanal recession
April 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It's an artisanal recession
Reposted
According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
YouTube video by Mother Jones
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains: