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Engineer, intellectual, mal-vivant, former Democratic congressional candidate for Tennessee’s 6th district.
Max Miller, Chris Brown, and the ghost of OJ Simpson are gonna team up to find the real domestic abusers.
Imagine sucking so bad as an incumbent that the easily-purchased governor of your own party endorses your opponent.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5h agoTennessee Gov. Bill Lee endorsed against Trump-backed Rep. Andy Ogles, a fellow Republican, ahead of the Thursday election. Lee said that he was endorsing Charlie Hatcher, Ogles’s Republican challenger who served as Tennessee’s agriculture commissioner.
Aw man, imagine how much faster your computer and internet would run if all the AI robots who spend all day giving each other digital handjobs disappeared overnight.
Travis is advocating for a basketball team composed only of people who aren’t allowed to go to the bathroom in the state he’s proposing. As a joke. Anyway, sports talk radio is a fucking scourge and Clay Travis can go fuck himself.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h agoJFC! Clay Travis: "I am putting in an application to get a WNBA franchise for my home, Nashville. It’s going to be the most inclusive team that has ever existed. Only trans. Only men who identify as women on the team. Our motto: one love, two balls. The Nashville Balls... The best women are men."
Looks like someone dropped $1000 on Chaney Mosley becoming the TN-06 nominee sometime in the last 12 hours. 🦞
Thursday, when the locked shares for employees and pre-IPO investors are allowed to be sold, should be a fun day to watch.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdaySpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
One presumes Trump thinks this is the get out of jail free card like Bill Cosby got for raping those women when the Republican DA said he wouldn’t prosecute him 16 years earlier.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
If you didn’t early vote in the Tennessee primaries this year, here’s a reminder that Election Day is THIS THURSDAY, not Tuesday. 🦞
Back in the days before the internet and cell phones, we used to have answering machines, which is like voicemail but your friends would actually leave a message because you couldn’t text or even email. (1/ )
This is close enough that one of them is gonna have to bribe Trump for an endorsement.
Nashville Banner@nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 4d agoMarsha Blackburn has published internal polling challenging a poll that showed John Rose closing in on her in the governor’s race. ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social
If anyone knows authenticity and strict adherence to source material in adaptations, it’s Susan Orlean.
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoSUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS
When the Supreme Court has said you can’t be sued for libel as long as you’re in office, but it doesn’t apply to anyone else in your administration can, provided there’s actual malice involved.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”
Does AI Charlie Brown live in Brooklyn?
Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎@blongley.bsky.social · 5d ago
The only thing I can think of that might create fewer jobs than a data center is a parking lot.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
It’s amazing how a dude can be an expert in infectious disease, geopolitics with specializations in the Middle East, the history of white oppression in the US, and one particular Ancient Greek poem, and still have no idea what a clitoris is or where to find one.
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d agosaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
*standing up on the plane* You know, a town with money's a little like the mule with the spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it. The name's Lanley, Lyle Lanley. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatest—Aw, it's not for you
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* No, getting together a TV couple with will-they/won't-they romantic chemistry is NOT a mistake. You may be listening to conventional wisdom about the TV show Moonlighting, but as has been comprehensively shown by an array of critics, that program's problems had nothing t-
If you’re obsessed with the lab leak theory you’re gonna absolutely go wild about this theory that the sitting US president in 2020 helped Xi cover up what was going on with Covid in China and then willingly pumped out propaganda on the internet running cover for the Chinese leader
Kalshi and the Beans have very different predictions for TN-06 @nashvillebanner.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com
Theres a non-zero chance that the completely fictional article I wrote for McSweeney’s in 2017 about Comey is somewhere in the grand jury evidence.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d agoMS NOW EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service felt pressure from the Trump admin to surveil James Comey. Documents detail worries about the legality of the directive to surveil Comey — including surreptitiously tracking Comey's phone without a warrant — in the wake of his 'seashells' photo.
Bennie Moreno is making a scene so the SEOs pick this up instead of the fact he did absolutely nothing against his former son in law that burned his daughter with scalding hot water and likely broke his two year old granddaughters collarbone
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the one…
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Gotta say I didn't have “two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead leads a room packed wall-to-wall with sexagenarians in a singalong of Donna Summer’s cover of MacArthur Park” on my bingo card. But I'm not mad that it happened.
Soon you’ll be able to recognize the active shooters by their gas masks.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Schools in at least three states will be equipped with drones this year that can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. The drones are capable of reaching a shooter within 15 seconds.
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
Douthat must have *aced* the fake-Ghislaine-Maxwell interview by asking her about all the dirty dirty sex.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.