d. patrick rodgers @dpatrickrodgers Twitter profile

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8 years

Sometimes I wrestle with something I'm writing, conquer it & am proud of the outcome. Then I see someone use it to wipe off a wet barstool.

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d. patrick rodgers

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6 years

My new favorite thing is Mick Jagger leaving dorky dad comments on his teenage son's Instagram posts.

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Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip.

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1. Incredible news, delighted to see it 2. My girl has seen some shit

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Here’s Hank Aaron hugging his mom at home plate after breaking Babe Ruth’s homer record. Vin Scully on the call. RIP king.

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5 years

Have you ever jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace? I do it every day pal.

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I’m going to the criminal Justice center in downtown Nashville to find out why the hell Vanderbilt police arrested my reporter for doing his job

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3 years

Writers filing their copy to me well over the assigned word count

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4 years

Lol @ Ronald Reagan’s diary entry after watching ‘9 to 5.’

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4 years

My favorite performance of 2020 is 33-year-old Maya Erskine playing 13-year-old Maya Ishii-Peters playing a bitter middle-aged woman named Debra.

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3 years

“Get a job cop!” lol

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4 years

Reality is slowly killing satire piece by piece.

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1 year

Things are going great in Tennessee.

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2 years

Gaetz comes to Nashville to appear on Mike Huckabee’s ridiculous TBN show, shows up at beloved East Side bar and venue The 5 Spot, is run off by local hero.

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2 years

this dude came into our bar in nashville tonight and made literally everyone there feel uncomfortable. then the guy to his left scared him off and then we all cheered 🥳 #MattGaetz #eww

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4 years

Chattanooga chief of police with the only correct response.

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5 years

@LilBanditMusic She just needs what all good hackers need: more paper

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5 months

A group of swastika-brandishing neo Nazis called “Blood Tribe” marched in downtown Nashville today and this is what Tennessee’s senior U.S. Senator is posting about

Sen. Marsha Blackburn

@MarshaBlackburn

5 months

Biden has left our border wide open. We need to build the wall.

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3 years

Nightmares are absurd. I just want to sleep but my brain forces me to watch mean little movies? Rude.

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1 year

This is all true. The TN GOP never expelled the members of the House who committed these acts. But break out a bullhorn in support of grieving kids? A bridge too far, apparently.

Pith in the Wind

@pithinthewind

1 year

"We've had admitted child molesters on the floor," said @VoteGloriaJ . "We have had members that peed in each other's office chairs. We’ve had someone who has illegally prescribed drugs to their cousin-mistress. And nothing ever happened to those folks.”

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1 year

Tennesseans: Please protect us from gun violence. TN GOP: Let’s protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits.

Nashville Scene

@NashvilleScene

1 year

Republican Sen. Joey Hensley’s bill protects gun manufacturers, dealers and sellers from lawsuits.

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@dpatrickrodgers

6 years

@hilmonstah Can you imagine being like "ugh dad shut up" to the guy who wrote "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

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6 years

Doctor: "Son, you were bit by a venomous snake. You're going to die." Me, dying: "Bitten." Doctor: "What?" Me, summoning last breath: "It's 'were bitten.' 'Bite' is an ... irregular ... verb." *dies*

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d. patrick rodgers

@dpatrickrodgers

7 years

Me holding a grudge:

The New York Times

@nytimes

7 years

Paleontologists have found entombed in amber a 99-million year old tick grasping the feather of a dinosaur

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3 years

Yeah I’m into NFTs (Noel Fielding’s tops)

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@dpatrickrodgers

4 years

Some good news. Inbox: " @NashvilleZoo is pleased to announce the birth of a healthy giant anteater. The mom, a 17-year old named Praim, delivered the male on February 28 at a normal weight of 2.69 pounds. Both she and the newborn are doing fine."

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@dpatrickrodgers

2 months

If you’re wondering why Tennessee’s Republican U.S. Rep. John Rose has such a young son, Google “how John Rose found his wife.”

CSPAN

@cspan

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A child on the House floor while @repjohnrose delivers remarks.

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@dpatrickrodgers

4 years

Not that anyone asked but THIS is me with my dog

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

What's your favorite Tennessee town name? Lots of people like Bucksnort and Soddy-Daisy, but I'm kind of an Ooltewah guy myself.

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@dpatrickrodgers

2 years

Photographer @formvscontent got this shot of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee at today's 2022 Ag Day on the Hill. What a natural!

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@dpatrickrodgers

10 months

I decided to retire the Scene’s Best of Nashville writers’ choice award for Best Twitter Account. But not before giving it to the very deserving guys at @NashSevereWx one last time — and in perpetuity.

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Many of us who have long enjoyed Twitter have been having a harder time with it since a certain bizarre tech billionaire purchased the app and started tinkering with things

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d. patrick rodgers

@dpatrickrodgers

7 years

"Struggling" country singer Sturgill Simpson busking outside the CMA Awards in downtown Nashville with his Grammy in his guitar case.

Adam Gold

@GoldAdam

7 years

Sturgill Simpson #CMAawards live stream starts in 5 minutes, y’all!

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1 year

I’ve seen the greatest minds of my generation develop thousand-yard stares and deep senses of cynicism from covering the Tennessee state legislature for a single session

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4 months

Eli has been released and not charged with a crime.

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4 years

Muting the replies on this bad boy, but glad folks appreciate it. Support local journalism!

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@dpatrickrodgers

1 year

A live look at how Cameron Sexton and the House Republicans' plan to punish Justin Jones is going

Erik Schelzig

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1 year

Justin Jones takes the oath on the steps of the Tennessee Capitol.

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d. patrick rodgers

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5 years

Mom pretending to like the crappy finger painting you brought home from kindergarten

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4 years

This is the energy I’m getting from the White House physician.

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2 years

Don’t have the heart to tell my kind but politically naive friends who were shocked by Gov. Lee’s re-election that there’s a pretty good chance Tennessee will elect a Republican former WWE wrestler as governor in 2026.

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2 years

People will come to Nashville for a weekend and wear the dumbest hat of their lives the entire time

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2 years

He got in one little fight and we all got scared

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2 years

Let Walton Goggins host the Oscars as Baby Billy

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3 years

Me retweeting myself.

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1 year

@alexsteed Yes he rocks

Reuters

@Reuters

3 years

Misneach, the dog of Irish President Michael D. Higgins, pawed at his owner vying for attention during an interview

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4 years

Here we see Gov. Bill Lee unveiling his plans to combat COVID-19 in Tennessee

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@dpatrickrodgers

4 years

There’s a kid on Tik Tok who found an impossibly deep hole in the woods, and he posts clips of himself and his buddies dropping objects down it. Here he is doing his thing. Just guy stuff.

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4 months

Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk told reporters through a spokesperson Tuesday afternoon "This office will not prosecute a reporter for peacefully doing his or her job."

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@dpatrickrodgers

2 years

When you ask someone who grew up in Middle Tennessee in the 1990s what they are thinking at any given moment

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4 years

Cool system we’ve got here.

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2 years

Me to the barista: Do you follow @NashSevereWx ? Everyone in the coffee shop in unison: Yes.

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5 years

@nickusen Probably one of my favorite GIFs of all time.

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3 years

Hey I saw something on Facebook that is Actually Good

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6 years

My friend's 5-year-old just walked up to me, looked me in the eye, ripped a dollar bill in half and left the room. I have some questions but frankly it was the most baller thing I've seen in a while.

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3 years

Lol

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3 years

Thinking fondly about when, in 1992, former Sub Pop and Caroline Records employee Megan Jasper pranked a New York Times reporter by giving him a bunch of fake slang terms and the Times ran them on the front page of its Styles section under the head “Lexicon of Grunge.”

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly have “the couple at the end of the bar would like to buy you a drink” energy

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4 years

The statement notes that @Belcourt employees will continue to receive full pay during the closure. Also [shouting at the top of my lungs]: THE THEATER WILL CONTINUE TO ACCEPT DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS. Long live the Belcourt.

Nashville Scene

@NashvilleScene

4 years

The @Belcourt to close until April 9: The local film center closes its doors in response to COVID-19 concerns.

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9 months

The scene at today’s All Out for Palestine Peace Rally in Nashville: For the second Saturday in a row, crowds have gathered in Centennial Park and along West End calling for a ceasefire.

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d. patrick rodgers

@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

I went to public schools in a conservative Christian Tennessee suburb. Parents there absolutely care more about censoring four-letter words and nipples than they do about educating children on historic atrocities, fascism, antisemitism or racism. Completely inverted priorities.

The Tennessee Holler

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NEW: The MCMINN COUNTY school board has just BANNED “MAUS”, the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust — citing 8 curse words and an illustration of a woman that was objected to, with a 10-0 vote.

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4 years

Strange thought but hear me out ... what if a normal thing were to happen

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2 years

Someone in the Gulch got raptured right outta their Air Force 1s.

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@dpatrickrodgers

6 years

State Dining Room in the White House: 2009 vs. 2019

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@dpatrickrodgers

6 years

@jrlind Never forget!

Mick Jagger

@MickJagger

9 years

At the Nashville Parthenon http://t.co/7kWZkZzhSH

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9 months

Trying not to correct someone who keeps saying “Central Tennessee”

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@dpatrickrodgers

5 years

Exciting news for the @NashvilleScene : Beginning next week, @jrlind will rejoin the team as a full-time news & politics reporter. We looked at 25 candidates for the position. Ultimately he was, without a doubt, the right person. More good news on this front coming next week.

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2 years

Getting mixed messages here

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1 year

Nashville: [exists] Tennessee Republicans:

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5 years

This is Ranger! He’s up for adoption via @nashvillehumane and just came by the @NashvilleScene for a visit. cc: @darth

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4 years

Someone just sent the @NashvilleScene a dollar and a picture of their ass in an envelope with no return address or further context.

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

Bad news for fans of, you know, representative democracy.

Nashville Scene

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Tennessee legislature gives new electoral maps final approval: Nashville split into three congressional districts amid protests.

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4 years

The Fashion House Nashville’s launch party

MOOCH aka MOUCH aka Vanilla Gorilla

@MoochAbout

4 years

What’s happening here? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY

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5 years

My grandmother was 88 when she was out checking on the cows in her pasture one morning. She fell and broke her hip; laid there singing gospel songs and listening to the birds until 5 p.m. When my uncle found her, she said she figured someone would come for her sooner or later.

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name a badder bitch than kylie jenner.

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Oh my god

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3 years

Went to pick up some food and a lady thought I was her Uber driver and tried to get into my car. She opened my door and I yelled “I’m just a person!” which in hindsight didn’t do much to clarify the situation.

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Me explaining Old Nashville to New Nashvillians.

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2 years

I had an ex whose favorite prank was to buy those gas station pouch pickles & slip them into strangers’ purses when they weren’t looking. She wouldn’t see the payoff but the thought of someone finding a spicy dill on their person the next day cracked her up. Pretty good bit tbh.

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2 years

I try not to bellyache about change too much, because development tends to be the price of living in a city. But as someone who’s been going to rock shows in Nashville since I was 13, watching vital independent venues like Mercy and Exit/In vanish makes me pretty goddamn sick.

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@dpatrickrodgers

2 years

"Bless your heart" can have like 17 different meanings, depending on context and tone. Many non-Southerners do not know this.

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@dpatrickrodgers

1 year

Hell yeah, this is how you know a movie is gonna rock

Ben Shapiro

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1 year

My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen. My full review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET.

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3 years

Babe are you OK? You’ve barely touched your Baloney Cake.

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@dpatrickrodgers

6 years

Me: Well if I've gotten it twice, shouldn't it be called "stereo" instead of "mono"?! Doctor: ... so we offer B12 shots if you'd like one. Me: OK yes please I'm very weak.

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@dpatrickrodgers

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What am I thinking about? Oh nothing. Just WSMV’s 1999 severe weather promo “Snow Wars” starring Nashville icons Bill Hall, Snowbird and Myron the Weather Rat.

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

Former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has some words for Tennessee’s leaders.

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3 years

He’d be called AT&T Buildingman

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

What Nashvillian among us has not pulled into the wrong entrance of the Regal Hollywood 27 at least a dozen times

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2 years

Fan mail.

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4 years

The party truck from John Rich’s Redneck Riviera bar appears to have broken an axel and is stuck at an intersection in the Gulch.

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

@CafeteriaJangle “I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.”

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@dpatrickrodgers

3 years

Standing on a street corner in the American South on New Year’s Eve listening to dozens of people fire automatic weapons into the air, wondering why I have such existential anxiety

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@dpatrickrodgers

4 years

This 2005 quote from Studio Ghibli‘s Hayao Miyazaki has really made my day ... Harvey Weinstein insisted he make cuts to ‘Princess Mononoke.’ Miyazaki said no.

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@dpatrickrodgers

4 years

So did Kroger stop carrying issues of the Scene and other free community publications in its lobby in order to make room for ... um this

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@dpatrickrodgers

2 years

Nashvillians @JasonIsbell and @amandashires and family at Saturday's Bans Off Our Bodies protest in downtown Nashville. More shots by the excellent @raydipietro for the @NashvilleScene here:

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Merging onto Ellington Parkway

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@dpatrickrodgers

1 year

If you live in Nashville and want to vote in the upcoming Metro elections, today is your last day to register to vote or update your registration. Link below. Nine days until early voting.

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Proud Boys in the foreground as Marsha Blackburn speaks against transgender health care in downtown Nashville. These are the supporters Tennessee's senior senator attracts. Photo by @formvscontent .

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@dpatrickrodgers

7 years

"President Trump" still sounds so nonsensical. Like "Senator Eminem" or "Prime Minister Mr. Bean."

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@dpatrickrodgers

4 years

Folks we love to see it and we have nothing snarky to say about it whatsoever. Long live @Grimeys . Good on @taylorswift13 .

Rolling Stone

@RollingStone

4 years

Beloved Nashville record store Grimey's was having trouble paying its employees' salaries. Then Taylor Swift intervened

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Roughly 180,000 people will be attending Taylor Swift's three-night stand at Nissan Stadium in Nashville this weekend. That's the same number as Davidson County voter turnout for Election Day 2022.

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