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Greene County, Tennessee
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If Putin assassinated trump before 6th/20th he’d send us in to full civil war, wouldn’t it? TN sec of state warning against fake election txts just now made me think it. They’ve set the distrust internally, they could maybe just sit back and watch us eat ourselves at this point
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@phiggins@indieweb.social retweeted
Withholding 144 m in funds from
public schools for the voucher program that could not get passed last legislative session and now offering loans to hurricane survivors while corporations received 1.9 billion?
Not cool. Not Tennessee values.
SCROOGE-LEE: Gov. Bill Lee is taking heat for announcing a $100 million LOAN program for East Tenn. counties wrecked by flooding. If a county participates, they’ll have to pay 100% of the money back.
Earlier this year, Lee gifted $1.9B to big corporations—most went out of state!
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Seeing this so much locally, too. FUD is profitable I guess in the short term.
As we continue our unprecedented response to Hurricane Helene, the nation is beginning to understand that impacted areas have been the target of a relentless vortex of disinformation, dialed up by bad actors and platforms like X. 🧵
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As we continue our unprecedented response to Hurricane Helene, the nation is beginning to understand that impacted areas have been the target of a relentless vortex of disinformation, dialed up by bad actors and platforms like X. 🧵
The plot of final destination 8 sounds awful
@phiggins@indieweb.social retweeted
.@RepTimBurchett (and others) voting not to fund the government and shut it down then turning around 2 days later and acting impatient about federal aid is really next-level cognitive dissonance
ICYMI — @timburchett voted not to fund the government and shut it down… then 2 days later joined Gov. Lee in requesting federal aid (later than other states) and acted like the White House was the holdup.
Tim probably hopes nobody connects those dots. But they connect.
I mentioned @POTUS could secure a big win for TN dems by preemptively FEMA’ing the hell out of what we just went through. My county lost old bridges, and we were just told we have 2 day reserve water supply. Hospitals evacuated, most roads under water, houses floating downstream
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👇🏽🎯 @Vivian_E_Jones is an @Tennessean reporter — she is absolutely right.
OUTRAGEOUS for @MarshaBlackburn to say this as she ducks a debate with @VoteGloriaJ, avoids local media and hasn’t done a public town hall in 7.5 years.
Shamelessness is her superpower🦸🏼♀️
I mean, I tend to frown mocking mispronunciation of words because it means you probably learned it from reading, but Haitians come from Hay-ti, and no one has ever written “Haitia”.
Have we always been at war with Haitia, or Euratia? #idiocracy
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The whole Devin clan funny 15 minutes before me.
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Oh the positive side I’m sure there are like 15 @taylorswift13 tickets going on Craigslist tonight.
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"If Harris wins I'm moving to another country"
Oh so you think people should be able to cross international borders to leave a political situation they don't want to be in? 🤔
Big salsa knows this. They want you to pour the narrow salsa into a wide mouth container, to ensure you waste any remaining salsa from fear-mongering propaganda about double dipping etc. #HarrisWalz will stop this unnecessary gouging.
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I love that this happens, and love the folk I’ve met through this. Except you, Patricia, I didn’t -ask- your lawyers to send me you tax filing, that was their mistake.
xkcd.com/1279/
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