😤WATCH: When A RUTHERFORD COUNTY STUDENT tells the board his grandmother, a former
@rucoschools
teacher, DIED OF COVID because someone wasn’t wearing a mask… anti-maskers behind him LAUGH and INTERRUPT HIM.
Shameless.
In not shocking news,
@TNGOP
learned zero lessons from 2023. Silencing
@brotherjones_
only throws gas on the circus fire that is our state legislature.
WATCH: “They proved my point today… Speaker Sexton is drunk with power.”
@RepRagan
, Sexton & the
@tnhousegop
voted to silence
@brotherjones_
yet again, this time for saying
#KremlinCameron
is “drunk with power” — proving his point in the process.
RUTHERFORD STUDENT: “The biggest argument against masks is inconvenience… but to me nothing is more inconvenient than having my education taken away from me because you don’t want to wear a mask.”😷🔥🗣
A city in Tennessee has banned being gay in public.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee passed an ordinance claiming that “acts of” being “homosexual” is considered “sexual conduct” and may no longer be seen in public. The law is also now being used to ban books.
Last midterm
@MarshaBlackburn
was elected. Marsha doesn't even know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. She is on the committee to review our next Supreme Court justice. Midterms matter. Local elections matter. Mark the dates.
JUST NOW:
@rucoschools
approves a mask mandate for 30 days (it will be undercut by
@GovBillLee
’s overreaching opt out order… but it’s something)
ALSO: GRADY KNOX, who was mocked while talking about his deceased grandma, will be invited back for an apology 😷
City awarded $10.1 million in federal grant funds for water infrastructure projects: The City of Murfreesboro Water Resources Department is pleased to announce that it has been awarded $10.115 million from the Tennessee Department of Environment and…
Reminder: We can't remember the last time
@cityofmborotn
actually broke ground on a new park and the mayor sends his kids to private school. Althought this is an excellent point it will sail over the heads of those it is meant for.
⚡️JUST NOW: “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!!!”
Chaos erupts in the Tennessee House as Republicans pass the
@RyanWilliamsTN
arming teachers bill against the will of the people, with hundreds of students and parents looking on.
Oh boy.
@SenShaneReeves
you do
@TN_DCS
has children sleeping on office floors? Special needs kids in hospitals because they don't have the capacity to help them? That TN ranks high in children in poverty? That TN has some of the highest rate of medical bankruptcies? Proud?
Average rent in Murfreesboro is (depending on the source) $1200 to $1400 a month for a one bedroom. Totally unobtainable at or below the average income of $31k a year. We need affordable housing, additional public transportation, and a living wage.
This is what it looks like outside an old Kroger in Murfreesboro. Residents say up to 20 homeless people were living here. Police gave the people living here a no trespassing notice and now it’s up to Kroger to clean up this debris.
@FOXNashville
As
@RonFilipkowski
points out —
@MarshaBlackburn
is attacking Biden for withholding a weapons shipment from Israel… yet she voted against the aid package. 🤔
Thank you Ron for calling this out when locally her hypocrisy slips by and gets normalized.
By now most of y’all have seen the
@WPLN
@propublica
report about RUTHERFORD COUNTY locking up (mostly black) kids at an alarming rate under JUDGE DONNA DAVENPORT’s watch:
Her bio says she’s still an adjunct professor at
@MTSU
😳☹️
UNFAIR MAPS: Princeton’s gerrymandering project rates Tennessee “POOR”
This is how we get a GOP supermajority and 8/9 GOP reps in congress.
Crazy idea: Voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around. 🇺🇸
JUST NOW — MURFREESBORO PEDIATRICIANS: “From the medical perspective we feel CERTAIN, until cases fall, universal masking is the ONLY PROVEN METHOD to keep our children in class and healthy.”
Says the data is clear: MASKS WORK.
@rucoschools
@GovBillLee
😷
INBOX: “I am a RUTHERFORD COUNTY teacher. This is my last will and testament.”
With
@rucoschools
is one of the few to send teachers back in person, a teacher writes a will and offers to leave
@GovBillLee
a spine. 😷
We agree Mike Sparks. How about funding school therapists? How about expanding healthcare funding and subsidies? Would love to see you actually pass meaningful legislation in the next sessions.
They get tax cuts, we get toll roads.
They get tax cuts, we get property tax hikes from the city AND the county.
They get tax cuts, we get grocery "holidays" while paying some of the highest food taxes every other day of the year.
November is coming soon.
🗳🗳🗳🗳🗳🗳🗳
WATCH: “We don’t see regular people asking for this $1.5 BILLION corporate tax cut — we see lobbyists gathered around the screens outside.”
@brotherjones_
called out lobbyists outside as
@WilliamLamberth
& Republicans passed a massive tax cut, mostly to out of state companies.
🔥 🎯🗣️ MUST-WATCH: “As a white lady in Appalachia, me and mine are gonna support the ‘DEI Candidate’ - I’ve seen too many mediocre white men in loafers without socks fail up because of who their daddy knows (
@RepTimBurchett
)… when I hear ‘DEI’ I hear ‘twice as qualified’.”
⚡️ BOOKED INTO JAIL: “The five
@MEM_PoliceDept
officers fired for their involvement in the beating and death of Tyre Nichols have been booked into the Shelby County Jail…”
INBOX: We’re told MURFREESBORO
@cityofmborotn
just quietly repealed their controversial “decency ordinance”, which was being used as cover for anti-LGBTQ censorship.
There was no discussion, and it wasn’t on the agenda — but hey, good news is good news!
A politicized justice system does nothing to serve the American people.
Voters in Tennessee and across the country recognize this verdict for what it is — a political attack — and they’ll bring a change on Election Day in November.
WATCH: “You know lynching’s a hate crime now, right? How racist are you exactly, Paul?”
Rep. Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta) — who wants to change part of John Lewis Way to “Trump Blvd.” in Nashville — just said he wants to bring “hanging people from trees” back to Tennessee.
Thank you
@brotherjones_
for acting upon your words and showing up here in Murfreesboro.
If you haven't watched this season of "We're Here" on
@StreamOnMax
Jones supports the LGBTQ+ community here in Mboro as we faced the Community Standards Ordinance (aka Drag Ban).
WATCH: On the
@glaad
Awards red carpet Rep.
@brotherjones_
says TN Republicans “beat up on” the 🏳️🌈 & immigrant communities with so many laws to distract from all the ways they’re failing Tennesseans.
This is correct. The law was very real until the judge forced the change. It as of now is updated, but the fact remains in 2023 our city manger and our city mayor where perfectly okay with it. They voted on it back in June before the law changed to require public comment.
@unclegunky
@TheBoroHoller
It was only “unbanned” after a judge told them that they had to because they tried to use it to block a Pride festival.
And that “unbanning” didn’t actually go through until today.
More proof the pressure is having an impact — Check this out:
LAST YEAR: Tennessee House Republicans killed
@vincentdixie54
’s bill to tell 18yo students they can register to vote.
YESTERDAY: Same exact bill from
@RepMcKenzie
passes committee with no resistance👇🏽
A city ordinance banning public homosexuality has reached Rutherford County Libraries.
You read that correctly.
Now it is being used to potentially pull all LGBTQ+ books off of the shelves in a meeting Monday.
Subscribe to support my work, and read more. 🧵
@MarshaBlackburn
you can tweet all you want about "standing with Ukraine" today, but the reporting spanning the last several years shows your support for Putin and Russia. Excellent 🧵.
Please remember that
@MarshaBlackburn
, who DHS says is encouraging domestic terrorism, would not stop attacking Col Alexander Vindman for testifying about Trump’s extortion of Zelensky.
WATCH: “Roe getting overturned did not take away your health rights — that dubious distinction belongs to
@GovBillLee
and this radical Republican supermajority.”
Candidate for Governor
@jasonbmartin
(D) reminding Murfreesboro folks Lee & the
@TNGOP
made TN a
#ForcedBirthState
BREAKING - Scott DesJarlais, who has a net worth of half a million dollars & voted for the massive 2019 tax cut for himself, has decided that $2000 for struggling families is just too much.
What would $2000 mean to you?
RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “
@rucoschools
announced all schools in its jurisdiction will be closed to students for security reviews on Monday, in response to The Covenant School shooting in Nashville.”
Translation: No walkout in RUCO.
BREAKING - Vanderbilt study finds COVID death rate twice as high in counties without mask mandates.
How many lives were lost needlessly thanks to Mayor Ketron’s flip flopping on our mask mandate?
ICYMI —
@iamjohnoliver
covered right-wing
@CityOfFranklin
mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson’s various shenanigans last night. Never a good sign, Franklin! 🤦🏼 🎪
INBOX — a teacher at ROCKVALE HIGH in Murfreesboro tells us a principal, 2 assistant principals, and half the football and cross country team have tested positive for COVID... but school continues and they’re Keeping it discreet.
GALLATIN, TN: “James Gill, ex Liberty Baptist pastor & director of Sumner County Food Bank, arrested after a year-long TBI probe, charged with Felony Theft over $250,000, 2 counts of Prostitution Patron stemming from his involvement with the food bank.”
"We have been built and funded by the people of the United States and the Tennessee Valley and are beholden to them alone,"
Just an incredible, visible REBUKE of the Conservative project of privatization. The decision to keep the TVA has just SAVED the lives of many Tennesseans.
“Mask mandates lead to a decrease in Covid-19 cases and greater confidence and spending among consumers”
It’s not hard,
@GovBillLee
! Do the right thing.
🚨 STUDY: STATEWIDE MASKS MANDATES ARE BETTER FOR THE ECONOMY 😷
Hey
@GovBillLee
— you’re not just hurting people, you’re also hurting the economy you claim to care about.
"Court ruling tells the Mboro city manager, Mayor McFarland and the council that they "shall not enforce or take any action pursuant to the provision to Murfreesboro City Code 21-71 that includes 'homosexuality' within the definition of 'sexual conduct.'""
WATCH: “The Tennessee Holler holds power accountable — instead of trying to be P.R. for power… we have to be journalistic activists.”
@brotherjones_
&
@nehemiahdfrank
had kind things to say about us
@HowardU
this week🙏🏽
(Support us & get a hat here —> )
Any teachers or students who have evidence of unsafe operations: we will happily keep you anonymous and safe while sharing your photos/videos. DMs are open!
INBOX: A ROBERTSON COUNTY teacher says they’ve been THREATENED WITH FIRING if students photograph or video “the operations of our schools buildings when we open next week” 😳
Reports out of GEORGIA said students were suspended for doing so.
Outrageous.
A comment on our Facebook page by a
@rucoschools
Board Member said despite 50% student absence from a school
@GovBillLee
@SchwinnTeach
@TNedu
DENIED THEIR REMOTE LEARNING REQUEST (despite recently saying they’d approve them)
But “LEarNinG LoSs”, right? 😕
We want to take a minute this first day of Pride month and say we work towards a Boro where EVERYONE is welcome. We see you, we care about you.
Y'all means ALL.
🏳️🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️🌈
“I love my job, my family, and my kids, and I don’t want to have to choose between them. Thank you.”
- Barfield Special Ed Teacher 😷
#RutherfordSchoolBoardMeeting
We should be clear, this didn’t happen in a bubble. This man was fired because you all raised your voice! This is why Republicans are criminalizing free speech now. Because they’re afraid of what happens when we all make our voices heard.
RUTHERFORD COUNTY: As
@rucoschools
votes to hand $7 Million per year to a HILLSDALE-affiliated charter school, mayor
@JoeCarrTN
tells folks to prepare for a “significant” property tax hike. 🤔
#HillsdaleHeist
🏳️🌈
@franklinpridetn
is set for June 3rd — after Mayor Ken Moore cast the tie breaking vote to grant their permit. The turnout is sure to be large this year.
Noteworthy exchange about Lee’s private school vouchers between Sen.
@yarbro
& pro-voucher advocate
@MTSU
prof
@smithdanj1
— director of Koch-funded
@PERIatMTSU
… as Koch-backed
@AFPTN
leads the voucher push🤔💰
But college campuses are “leftist indoctrination centers” right?🙃
My name is Luis Mata and I’m running for TN State Representative, District 49!
I’m a community organizer, an immigrant, and a Proud Tennesseean.
Together, we can build a stronger Tennessee. Join the movement for people-powered progress:
#VoteLuisMata
Seriously? The supermajority is out of control because no one holds them responsible. Most of the
@TheTNHoller
videos show actions (and inactions) that never make the local news. Keep Hollerin, Y'all.
WATCH: “It’s the role of the press to be a check on power, not to be afraid to lose access for the sake of truth.”
After a
@brotherjones_
plea to hold GOP supermajority authoritarianism accountable,
@WKRN
’s
@THEChrisOB
reveals he’ll be a press secretary for
@GovBillLee
’s ECD.🤔
13.8% of people in Tennessee are diabetic.
@MarshaBlackburn
and
@SenatorHagerty
will complain about gas prices and inflation, but given the option to help they veto.
We the tax payers keep having to pay out for the zealots in charge. Elections are in JULY/AUGUST for council. Do not wait for the Nov presidential ballot
BREAKING - We are receiving reports that another RuCo teacher has passed away due to Covid. Will release more info as it becomes public. Our deepest condolences to the family and an entire community who are mourning today.
Hi
@SenShaneReeves
! How about working with law enforcement and your colleagues to pass some of the most basic gun safety laws. It would make their lives a lot safer! 💙
See you at the special session!
Each day our state and nation are faced with rampant crime. It is thanks to our hardworking and fearless police officers that our communities are protected and kept safe.
You and I know that it’s a
#ThinBlueLine
so we must always support law enforcement.
Senator Mark Pody (R) has introduced a bill to put body cams on Tennessee teachers “In response to reports of behavioral issues in classrooms and safety concerns in the wake of the Covenant School shooting”
Dems say it’s a dodge that ignores the guns.
.
@TimRudd34
voted AGAINST
@brotherjones_
bill stopping companies with state contracts from donating to elected officials who vote on those exact contracts.
Once again proving he doesn't work for us, he works for them.
@LauraBaMom
is running against him. 🗳
WATCH: “To the public this looks like PAY-TO-PLAY politics… it looks like our electeds are cheap dates.”
@tnhousegop
Republicans unanimously kill
@brotherjones_
’s common sense bill to ban corporations with state contracts from giving💰to the politicians that award them. 🤔🫤
Let's recap...
🚘
@GovBillLee
and
@TNGOP
pushed
@VW
workers in Chattanooga to NOT unionize. Workers voted 73% IN FAVOR OF THE UNION
📚
@GovBillLee
and
@TNGOP
Made "school choice" their top priority. 45+ school systems wrote resolutions AGAINST the program. It didn't pass.
Asked if Republicans are using special session to jam thru bills that don’t address the problem (criminalizing kids rather than protecting them) — tellingly,
@CSexton25
smugly lies about what Dems + most of TN want.
It isn’t “banning guns & ammo” 🤥
INBOX — RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “At this time, we do not see the need for this initiative in our schools.”
@rucoschools
director Dr. Jimmy Sullivan tells parents they too do not foresee arming teachers, after the Republican
@RyanWilliamsTN
bill passed yesterday.
EXCLUSIVE: Details from Gov. Bill Lee’s plan to dramatically expand Tennessee's controversial school voucher program, allowing K-12 students to receive taxpayer funding for private school regardless of need. (More in 🧵 below)
Remember what “less divisive” means to these people. It means weakening our commitments to defending black lives, to caring for the poor, to fighting a pandemic, to progress in general. They tried to pull us into the past & lost. Is progress is divisive, then so be it.
WATCH: “I want every local official staring at a budget shortfall to know who to thank.”
Rep.
@JRClemmons
lays out the ways
@GovBillLee
& the
@TNGOP
have “demonized” & “underfunded” public schools, says Lee’s private school voucher scam will force tax increases & budget cuts.
Once again, when Gov. Lee says “we,” he means “you.” Just like “we need to storm the beaches” meant “you need to storm the beaches while I stay in my cushy office & watch.”
Both
@MCScommunicates
and
@rucoschools
passed resolutions against the voucher scam. Parents and teachers spoke up and showed up.
Keeping Hollerin guys we can make a better Tennessee.
‼️ THERE IT IS —
@GovBillLee
makes it official, his voucher scam is dead for the year: “Unfortunately it has become clear that there is not a pathway for the bill during this legislative session."
He says he will try again next year.
There is a lot to unpack in this story, we suggest reading in it is full.
Most importantly, and we cannot stress this enough-
CHARTER AND VOUCHER SCHOOLS DON'T HAVE TO SERVE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN AT ALL.
WATCH: “If abortion was the best choice for your girlfriend, why try to deny that choice to other women?”
COLORADO all-star
@KyleClark
brings the thunder again, this time to Republican congressional candidate
@richard_holtorf
.
Jason Lancaster, 51, owner of Pinnacle Stables in Christiana, charged with multiple charges of raping teen girl.
More victims are possible.
If you have info or could be a victim, call Det. McPherson 615-904-3190.
JUDGE DAVENPORT: “I’m here on a mission… it’s not a job… IT’S GOD’S MISSION.”
RUTHERFORD COUNTY Judge Donna Davenport knowing violates the law on a regular basis to lock up (mostly black) kids.
Shelby, Giles, Lewis, Lincoln, Perry counties are all struggling to find water… thousands stranded at BNA… meanwhile this is what insurrection-supporter
@RepMarkGreen
is focused on:
Everyone’s voice needs to be heard, but it is time to come together as party and choose our next speaker.
Our borders are open, our economy is plummeting, and Americans are hurting. We have important work to do and we need to move forward as a united front.
It’s National Police Week and we are taking the time to thank the men and women who risk their lives to serve our communities. In Tennessee, we
#BacktheBlue
In the past 5 years, TN has been ranked as the fastest-growing economy of all 50 states, the
#1
state for fiscal stability, a top state for business, the 2nd lowest-taxed state per capita, & the lowest debt state in America.
Any state would envy the position that we’ve been in.
INBOX: A Redditor finds what appears to be
@GovBillLee
IN DRAG on page 165 of the 1977 Franklin High
@wcsFHS
yearbook — as he’s set to sign the
#DragShowFelonyBill
. 😳
Public? ✅
Minors present? ✅
But 46 years later it’s a felony?🤔
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