Geeky | Campy | Southern | Gay | Liberal | Activist | Laugh often (usually at myself) | Ponder whether we’ll make it or fuq 🌍 up beyond repair🤞🏼he/him #blm
Nashville, TN
Joined July 2008
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NEW: @cbsnews polling shows majority of respondents supporting a nationwide ban on AR-15 semi-automatics
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The 2nd Amendment has limits.
"Anyone can have a slingshot. Nobody can have a nuclear weapon. We have decided all along that there's a line to be drawn somewhere. Clearly that line needs to be drawn tighter."
- Pete Buttigieg
Most agree: AR-15s should be outside that line.
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I want EVERY American to take a moment to watch EVERY SECOND of this clip. Then tell me who is here to look after your children in school?
Because it sure ain’t gun toting, book banning political terrorists masquerading as the GOP.
I’m sick of listening to the BS nonsensical defense of the indefensible at the expense of children’s lives and it’s time YOU were too
#DemsAct #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #ONEV1 #FAM46
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Active shooter at University of Oklahoma. People shocked at the advice to “run hide fight.”
This is what we teach. This is what my ten year old has learned in his drills at school and has since taught me. 🇺🇸
This has to end.
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i guess what i really hope libs outside of tennessee take away from today is the understanding that southerners aren’t all dumb hicks voting against our own interest. we’re being shut out and actively repressed by a bunch of diet fascist confederate apologists.
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DO NOT USE THE PHRASE "NASHVILLE LEADERS" TO REFER TO @tnhousegop @tnsenategop @ltgovmcnally @csexton25 OR @govbilllee.
NOT ONE @TNGOP LEADER IS FROM #NASHVILLE.
THEY'RE CUTTING OUR #METROCOUNCIL IN 1/2. STEALING OUR SPORTS & AIRPORT AUTHORITIES.
SEE #WarOnNashville HASHTAG.
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Breaking News: A Shelby County commissioner says the Republican state government is now threatening to pull funding for Memphis schools and infrastructure projects if they vote to re-appoint Rep. Justin Pearson to his democratically-elected seat. fox13memphis.com/news/memphi…
Here we go…
NEW: “According to Shelby County Commissioner Erika Sugarmon, leaders in Nashville threated to pull state funding for projects in the Memphis area if commissioners were to reappoint @Justinjpearson.”🤔 #TennesseeThree
fox13memphis.com/news/memphi…
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If what is happening in #Nashville is constitutionally permissible then we may as well declare that democracy is Dead and stop acting like we’re going to change this by increasing turnout. A voter suppression timeline….
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My teen daughter’s girlfriend lives in CHILÉ (as in South America) and we just heard that they talked about the Nashville anti-gun rallies in class today (again, in South America!) Keep going young Tennesseans, the world is watching you. 🏳️🌈@0liviajulianna
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This is so, so wrong.
In the 227 year history of Tennessee, only nine people have been expelled from the General Assembly:
-6 for refusing to confer citizenship on formerly enslaved persons.
-1 for taking a $1,000 bribe to kill a bill.
-1 for gross sexual misconduct.
-1 for alleged misappropriation of federal funds.
Never has a duly elected member of the legislature been expelled for doing what we elect them to do – give voice to their constituents.
Expelling Representatives @VoteGloriaJ, @brotherjones_ & @Justinjpearson will set a dangerous precedent. It will say to members of the General Assembly that they can speak on behalf of their constituents only if what they have to say is palatable to the Speaker of the House. It will say to Tennesseans that their voices only matter when Speaker Sexton agrees.
Nothing about these proposed expulsions is normal. They are a highly irregular abuse of procedural rules meant to silence dissent.
All Tennesseans must call on @Csexton25, the @TNGOP and all members of the Tennessee General Assembly to protect democracy and withdraw these resolutions at once.
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WATCH: Despite pleas from thousands of Tennesseans who deserve action to stop school shootings, Republicans pushed gun safety legislation to next year on a party line vote.
@SenatorLamar and @SaraforTN opposed the delay.
As long as session is open, Democrats will keep pushing. – at Nashville, TN
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Wow. This is a generation that has had enough of gun violence. But you aren’t seeing any of this on cable news today. So, let’s all take a moment & thank these young people for refusing to accept gun violence as normal. Please share far & wide.
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Republicans in Tennessee are now moving to expel multiple Democratic members of the Tennessee state House for standing alongside students protesting inaction in the face of gun violence.
Fascism on full display.
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BREAKING: Tennessee GOP leaders try to EXPEL 3 members of legislature who stood with student demonstrators at the state capitol today asking for gun safety regulations.
Expulsion up for vote, and their member IDs have already been shut off.
Absolutely unconstitutional.
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A march memorializing the victims of Monday’s Covenant School shooting heads east from Public Square Park in downtown Nashville.
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Students in Nashville are walking out next Monday to demand gun safety. More information below.
It’s not drag queens, it’s not books, it’s not Black history, it’s not trans rights— GUNS are KILLING KIDS.
Nashville: JOIN US and #WalkOut of class and to the state capitol to demand gun safety on MONDAY, APRIL 3 at 10:13 AM. Join us: bit.ly/tn-walkout
