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@freddieoconnell
as our first guest! I hope you’ll check it out, subscribe, and tell your friends. 💛
A number of years ago I left my iPhone unattended in the same room as Tom Hanks. The next day, I found this photo in my camera roll. To be clear: I’ve never met him. But I do believe he is exactly who we hope he is, and I don’t want to know if I’m wrong.
Expect delays- Overturned vehicle, northbound I-75 close to the Carbondale exit. Traffic backed up for miles. Crews are working to extract a passenger.
Thanks for the info, Renee!
This is how you do it!!!
@flwrshopnash
is putting their values ahead of their profits while the much larger businesses in town continue to hide their heads in the sand. Y’all - go support them!
Alexi Lalas just said “Crystal Dunn doesn’t look like she’s played soccer before” and it is not healthy for me to be this angry in the middle of the night
#USWNT
I don’t know how to wrap this up except to say that if you think you’re the kind of person who would have intervened in this accident today, you should probably start by making sure you are doing everything you can to help the people in your community who arent trapped in a car.
So let me be clear about the point of this whole story: The vast majority of the people who had jumped out of their cars in the middle of the interstate to help complete strangers were ethnic and racial minorities.
Wait just hear me out: if this is a “family size” package of cinnamon rolls and I am the only person who lives here then by definition I am my family and therefore this is one serving of cinnamon rolls
The cool part is you won’t even have to risk your life on a patch of hot asphalt to do it. You just have to start by GIVING A SHIT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT ISNT YOU.
Help the people who are trapped by poverty. Who are trapped by racism and misogyny. Who are trapped by underperforming social services. Who are trapped by age or stereotype or whatever the hell else, I don’t know.
All these people. Together. Forgetting about themselves and doing whatever it took to help the strangers trapped in the overturned vehicle. FORGETTING ABOUT THEMSELVES FOR JUST ONE DAMN MOMENT.
Why does it have to take a possibly fatal, definitely horrific emergency situation like this to bring people together? Why is it easier to abandon your vehicle in the middle of I-75 than to care about your neighbor’s well being on a normal fucking Tuesday afternoon?
There were plenty of white folks helping, too - don’t get me wrong. The two men directing traffic, for example. Using their very best entitled white man skills for good, by literally putting their bodies in front of tractor-trailers and demanding they stop.
According to
@joshc
if I want Wally to be internet famous I have to embrace gifs so I tried to make one but I am 42 and this is as close as I could get
@darth
@dog_rates
They were the kinds of people I can imagine that awful billboard (and every sign like it across this country) is directed towards. The kinds of people some folk think they need to get their country back from, whatever the fuck they think that means.
Ok here’s what I’m prepared to offer:
- I will buy a large flag
- I will borrow a pickup truck
- I will wear merch
- I will sit in a diner
- I will talk about being economically anxious, but for real
NOW will someone come interview me, a Biden supporter in the heartland?
To all the “hot moms” in Nashville and everyone else who spent the last three weeks fighting every day for gun control: THANK YOU. Please don’t let the lack of legislative action get you down. We need you in this fight! 💚💙
I met Terry today. He voted for the first time in his life at 62 years of age, because he finally got his felony record expunged. If Terry can work that hard to vote for the first time, you can take 10 damn minutes.
Lives depend on it.
In a single calendar year, Nashville has been hit with a tornado, a derecho, a suicide bomber, and the pandemic. Now, we’re paralyzed by a winter storm.
People & businesses are hurting. Meanwhile, a BILLION DOLLARS sits in our rainy day fund.
Is it raining yet,
@GovBillLee
?
This is my dog. His name is Wally. It has come to my attention that there are lots of other dogs named Wally out there. We would like to meet them. If you are friends with one, or know someone who is, please let us know.
#cowdog
#supermutt
It’s late and I’m tired and I worked for 8 months to get Elizabeth Warren the nomination and she didn’t even win my own district and then a tornado destroyed my neighborhood and I am tired, did I mention that?
Oh well. Try again tomorrow, I guess.
Not enough words to properly thank
@OdessaKellyTN
and
@Campbell4TN
for standing up when our gerrymandered town needed them the most. Odessa, I know you’re just getting started, and Heidi, I’m honored to be in your state senate district as of next year. 💙💚
Oh look, Chris Janson also doesn’t care about the health of his fans! I used to work for his management company but they laid me off in April so now I can come right out and say that this is reprehensible, yay!
It’s over. The stadium deal passed. The fix was in from the start.
To everyone who fought their hearts out: thank you.
To everyone who didn’t: [redacted]
Good night, Nashville. I’m sorry. We tried.
Early voting starts in 80 days.
@ThatEricAlper
@nycsouthpaw
I have so much respect for these interpreters! Here’s the one of the women who signed for Cardi B at Bonnaroo last weekend:
One year ago this week, I was unemployed, quarantined alone, & binge-watching Top Chef to stay sane when
@WCKitchen
offered me a job as their Nashville Project Lead. Helping restaurants and feeding my community has changed my life, and I can’t wait to celebrate by watching this.
What sucks is that the music industry had to sacrifice itself in order to help try and flatten the curve, and we did it, and we didn’t complain, and it cost all but the fortunate few our livelihoods, and none of that is going to matter, because this country is ruled by dopes.
Literally just two dudes wearing Saturday casual clothing, in the middle of I-75, calmly directing 18-wheelers on when to merge. I realized they had made a barricade with their cars to help protect the overturned van and the people surrounding it.
1. With the drug crisis as bad as it is, it’s insane to allow kids to take and eat candy from complete strangers. You know how many drug dealers disguise their drugs as candy? Plus, all the candy goes in the same basket so you have no way of knowing which candy came from where.
Enjoy your rolling blackouts, Nashville! Once the Titans siphon off $4 billion in tax dollars I’m sure there will be plenty of money left over to fix the grid.
This accident happened a few minutes south of that awful Trump billboard, the one that asked Jesus to help him “take our country back.” Although these days it’s asking Jesus to “drain the swamp,” it’s message has been clear for quite some time.
Four years ago, President Obama made the Stonewall Inn a national monument, and I adopted a scruffy little weirdo at
@nashvillepride
. Stonewall aka Wally, you are my best friend, and you make every day better. Happy Gotcha Day, bud!
#cowdog
#supermutt
#pride
#PrideMonthPuppo
When I lost my job in April, I was adrift. But after coordinating almost 25,000 meals over the last 10 weeks, I know exactly where I’m supposed to be. On this, our final day of
#ChefsforAmerica
, I simply want to say thank you,
@WCKitchen
, for giving Nashville (and me) so much.
Just want everyone to know that although I am not the mother of anyone, I’m able to feel immense grief and anger about today’s events. No need for politicians to preface your statements with your parental status. Tell me what you’re going to do to make the killing stop.
Can’t thank
@JasonIsbell
enough for walking the walk and giving so much opportunity to Black women during this year’s residency. A delight to hear
@adiavictoria
live, an even bigger delight for that to happen on this sold out
@theryman
stage. Bravo to all for a great show.
When I got closer, I could finally see around the stopped cars and get a better sense of what was going on. Flipped minivan. Family still inside. An imam had stopped his vehicle and was opening the trunk. A dozen people had their hands on the flipped car, looking inside.
I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law.
Riot units would be breaking up rallies. Tear gas would be flying. Jails would be filling up. Trump would be raging.
That man directed me on when to merge right, and the other man held up his hand to stop an 18-wheeler and motioned for me to pass through. I slowly pulled out onto the empty highway, because there was nothing for me to do but get out of the way.
The woman with the child was now sitting on the shoulder of the highway. The child was wrapped in blankets, and she was stroking its forehead. They were surrounded by other women. Everyone was so calm.
When I reached one of the men directing traffic, I rolled down my window and asked if they needed any more help. He said no, that they were pretty well covered, there was a nurse on the scene. In the distance, I finally heard sirens approaching.
I think this is where I get to say Some Personal News: Thrilled to announce my new role as Executive Producer of the forthcoming City Cast Nashville, a daily podcast designed to better connect us all to our town - our culture, our challenges, and everything in between. 💛💙
🚨 FOSTER PUPPY ALERT 🚨
This is Payton! She is staying with us for a bit until she finds her people. Anyone in Nashville looking for some puppy love? I highly recommend it.
(cc
@darth
, of course)
Heartbroken by so much today but the news of New Yorkers drowning in basement apartments last night is hitting close to home. Speaking from personal experience, you only live underground in Queens if it’s all you can afford.
Traffic slowed, then came to a halt, on both sides of the highway. People were pulling their cars over and getting out. I saw people running at full speed towards the vehicle. Literally abandoning their cars in the SB lanes and sprinting across the median.
Slowly, we started inching forward, merging to the right. As I got closer, I could see more. Two men had stopped their vehicles in the NB lanes, turned on their hazards, and were now out of their cars, standing in the middle of the highway, directing traffic.
On the left shoulder of the NB lanes, I saw a woman cradling a small child in her arms. Two women from the SB lanes came running with blankets they had pulled from their cars. A man ripped off his hoodie and threw it towards her. More people were stopping and getting out.
One of the morals of the story here for racist old white men who pretend to be Christians is not to persecute godly Black men during Holy Week, for they shall make your asses look foolish as hell.
I was driving north, probably about a quarter mile away when this happened. I did not see exactly what occurred, just motion. A minivan came from the southbound lanes, flew over the median, and landed upside down in the northbound lanes.
Just a reminder that you can’t control what the utter lunatics in charge of the country are doing, but you CAN control what YOU are doing.
Stay home. Check on your loved ones. Try to get some exercise. Work if there is work to do, but set some boundaries. Be kind to yourself.
Don’t let the copaganda language confuse you. Children were murdered. Again. Sending all my love and strength to our Nashville community today, and all my fury towards those who respond to tragedies like this with craven inaction.
An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd.
Women: I would like to exercise my constitutional right to an abortion
GOP: Nope, we are pro-life, your baby is a precious gift
Immigrant Women: My babies and I would like a better life in your country
GOP: Nope, we’re gonna rip out your uterus before sending you back to die
Wally wants everyone to know he is very excited to read his friend
@BlairBraverman
’s new novel but he might be slightly more excited about his snack ball
#cowdog
#supermutt
Good morning, it’s Stadium Week here in Nashville, and if you’re not already angry about how the Mayor’s office, their tourism overlords, and an NFL franchise have lied their way to the brink of getting billions of dollars of YOUR money, it’s time to get angry.
So because MNPD doesn’t believe women & the then-alleged bomber was a white dude, we now have to replace all the water pipes downtown before somehow rebuilding 150-yr-old architectural treasures + the businesses inside them with money we don’t have bc we’re broke? Is that right?
Sending thoughts of deep gratitude to the AT&T workers getting us back online, the journalists getting us the truth, the elected officials getting our residents get the help they need, and the law enforcement officers who saved lives and solved the puzzle.
If anyone who came to town for Bonnaroo is wondering what to do with their time in Middle Tennessee, I’d be happy to introduce you to the good people of Waverly, TN. Their lives have also been impacted by flooding lately, and I’m sure they’d love your help in digging out.
Context for those who don’t live in Nash: 2nd Ave has a lot of tourist traps, yes, but it’s also got gorgeous brownstone architecture and arching trees. I’ve marched down that street for Pride and social justice, I’ve run down it during countless half-marathons. It is beautiful.
24 hours ago, polls closed in Nashville. I’m still in disbelief. Mayor-Elect
@freddieoconnell
, you’re the bravest nerdy weirdo I’ve ever met. I know I’m gonna send you an angry text at some point in the next 4 years, but for now: Thanks for reminding us that hope is worth having.
Some personal news: I start fostering this nugget tomorrow! Palmer is 3-4 months and 10 whole pounds, and I can’t wait to help her find her people. Puppy content incoming…
Not a surprise but definitely a reality check for all of us here in deep blue, beautifully progressive East Nashville, where we are now “represented” by a Republican who is big on FFA because he loves grooming things. Anyway, excited to start calling his office every day.
I have never shared this with you guys... but through healing we reach new levels of honesty with ourselves and what made us who we are. Our stories can help create hope and change for other survivors.... 🤍
@people
@LegacyZeroYT
@ewarren
@PeteButtigieg
Hi BIMRD! I plan to mobilize in the general for whoever becomes the Democratic nominee. And you should try canvassing, just once. I love it. Helps me get to know my community better. xo
Good morning, Nashville! Did you know that if you are a Realtor here in Tennessee, your state trade organization is funding the TNGOP’s assault on our democracy? The only thing these monsters care about is money - might be time to turn off the spigot. Just a thought.
No. That is not Nashville. Nashville is the doors I knocked today, where neighbors are worried about kids and schools and how they’ll afford to stay in this town.
If you’re sick of our leaders spending public money on nonsense, sign this petition:
Dear Nashville neighbors: Before deciding to run for mayor, please, PLEASE ask someone you do not pay or live with if it is a good idea. (Already seeing some 🤔 names.) Too many hungry and unhoused people in this town for y’all to waste money like that! My DMs are open.
Neighbor came home while I was dropping off my dog. I said “Did you vote?” and she said SHIT and got back in her car.
LESS THAN TWO HOURS LEFT TO BADGER YOUR LOVED ONES, NASHVILLE
One of my smart followers pointed this out the other day:
@tpac
has ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ and ‘Hairspray’ on their upcoming schedule. Both shows are now illegal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey y’all. This is King. He’s a 10 year old handsome lad living in Nashville who has to be rehomed because a landlord thinks he’s “too big.” He’s 54 pounds. If you or anyone else you know happen to be in the market for a great family dog, DM me? We have 5 days. xo
“The Titans, estimated at $2.625 billion dollars, are owned by a billionaire family preparing to ask for a massive handout from a city that can’t staff schools or pick up recycling.”
This is a great breakdown of the impending stadium negotiations.
Don’t let
@brettawithers
deceive you — we are NOT obligated to build a new Titans stadium. Other NFL teams have privately finance billion-dollar stadium projects and the Titans can too.
Voting has started in Dallas, Texas! WCK is set up with free, fresh sandwiches prepared by local chefs near the American Airlines Center—home of the
@dallasmavs
🏀 Our Relief Team in Texas is also serving food in Austin & Houston today, more to come!
#ChefsForThePolls