💰TENNESSEAN: “Gov. Bill Lee traveled all expenses paid to a South Florida resort island conference hosted by Alliance Defending Freedom — a Christian legal advocacy group that pushed several controversial new (anti-LGBTQ) laws...” Endless Corruption. tennessean.com/story/news/pol…

🔔 RUTHERFORD COUNTY — reminder: Gov Lee’s rigged charter appeal board meet in Murfreesboro Monday about another charter school The last one they forced into the community Rutherford Collegiate Prep had a disaster opening, lost their asst principal and other teachers already

It’s easy to forget the entire push for Elon to buy Twitter came from the notion this platform was too biased, and now the owner nakedly shitposts right wing fever dreams all day and requires us all to see it all no matter who we follow and it’s totally fine bc he’s their guy

Great idea, we can just cut right to the chase and call it “Emperor Trump’s Big Beautiful Slush Fund”

INBOX: Montgomery County Democratic Party - Tennessee chair Charles Uffelman circulates an TN Equality Project petition calling on homophobic CLARKSVILLE councilman Travis Holleman to resign over his rants, disagreeing with Mayor Joe Pitts it’s a free speech issue: tnep.org/calling_on_cou… video: x.com/thetnholler/st…

Utterly embarrassing. Worse even than Vance saying make grandma do it. “Tax foreign nations” is not a way to lower the very real costs of child care

LIVE: Memphis Mayor Paul Young x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Covenant Mom: “As a Christian, I could not in good faith vote for Andy Ogles.”

From Tennessee Lookout: “Lawmakers have made a bipartisan push for Gov. Bill Lee’s TN Dept of Education commish Lizette Reynolds to leave post following Q’s about her qualifications & a recent ethics hearing.” Unqualified trainwreck, but still here to push Lee’s voucher scam. tennesseelookout.com/2024/09/05/ten…

“My ears were ringing. The whole classroom was smoking. One of my classmates on the ground bleeding so bad.” Heartbreaking. How many more? 🇺🇸

WATCH: MEMPHIS Paul Young tells Justin Kanew why he thinks the council should drop their lawsuit over gun safety referendums (he calls “futile”) — which Republican leaders blocked by threatening to withhold tax revenue. FULL: youtube.com/live/dBduZvowo…

The Tennessee Holler Paul Young Justin Kanew A reasonable conversation. Thanks to both. How long should Memphis tolerate being bullied and threatened?

WATCH: David Frum & Tim Miller on the obvious way 🇺🇸 is tragically different. #apalachee #Covenant #HowManyMore Full The Bulwark podcast: youtu.be/BvCaCfwIvNw?si…

Does anyone really believe the Tennessee GOP would finally support Memphis if we just stop resisting? And what are we willing to lose for some ARP funds. Our lives? Our votes?

Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”

This answer was embarrassingly terrible. Way worse than Vance’s, which we didn’t think was possible.

👂 Listen — Our full interview with Memphis Mayor Paul Young about his opposition to the non-binding gun safety law referendums and the council lawsuit is now live in PODCAST form here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

“Colin Gray, 54, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children… son has also been charged with four counts of felony murder, with additional charges expected…” abcnews.go.com/US/apalachee-h…