When we had a councilmember with mysterious spending habits the CM was censured, his case went to the state, he was fined and he can't ever run for office again unless he pays the fine.
With our federal representative we accept his excuses, there are no consequences and we keep paying him.
What’s notable about this for me is the guy is with the Danish People’s Party, a hard right anti-migrant party. Aka Danish Trumpism
No international right wing unity. These parties are smeared by association with Trump’s policies while not getting the benefit of an int’l supporter
There’s hope
Turns out, when you ask people “do you want expensive land in the middle of a city with a housing crisis to be used for a loud, high pollution and dying sport that already has a track 30 minutes away?” the answer is “no.”
Shocking
tennesseelookout.com/briefs/poll-...
Diverse base of support Johnny has 👍
Tfw Rep. Shaw and the TN Holler guy are fighting.
![A listener called into Hannity’s show to discuss their child’s cancer diagnosis and advocate for cancer research funding: “With the lack of funding, basically, all you get is parents like me who have had a kid with this, starting organizations and coming up with money to carry on the research for them. So that's why I wanted to call and … advocate for research.” Hannity responded by arguing that “most of the solutions for cancer are going to be found in the private sector, not with public money.” The caller noted that “with such a small number of kids getting this [cancer diagnosis], yeah, it's definitely something that doesn't get looked at as much.” Hannity responded that “even if the government spent … $300 million on this particular cancer tomorrow, it's not going to be your answer.” [Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show, 2/12/25]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:65vkd7kbacss37t7uj75g2qt/bafkreig7li7swgl2sefl6mdwns3uq34zu6v2h4d2pid2tarzo2ei2hpndi)
A listener called into Hannity’s show to discuss their child’s cancer diagnosis and advocate for cancer research funding: “With the lack of funding, basically, all you get is parents like me who have had a kid with this, starting organizations and coming up with money to carry on the research for them. So that's why I wanted to call and … advocate for research.” Hannity responded by arguing that “most of the solutions for cancer are going to be found in the private sector, not with public money.” The caller noted that “with such a small number of kids getting this [cancer diagnosis], yeah, it's definitely something that doesn't get looked at as much.” Hannity responded that “even if the government spent … $300 million on this particular cancer tomorrow, it's not going to be your answer.” [Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show, 2/12/25]
People are calling into right-wing radio shows to voice frustrations with the Trump administration
www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...
What a fucking asshole⤵️
Although the Black voters make up more than a quarter of Fayette County’s population, they have zero representation on the 19-member, all-white county commission.” -- John Cusick NAACP Legal Defense Fund. @cstephenson.bsky.social for @tennesseelookout.com
She’s running for Congress again
Finally some good news in this world.
Game recognize game
Game recognize game.
So little self-respect for a group preaching about rugged individualism.
Breaking: Trump totally knew about the 25-year-old racial eugenicist with access to your SSN and completely approves.
Our political system is at the mercy of a bunch of breeding fetishists, and it’s hurting everyone.
Why wouldn’t he? That’s how he’s in office right now.
🦞
…Any Republican saying they are different is lying. And Dems need to start acting like it. Tie these bills to all GOP politicians, supporters of the bill itself or not. Because even if they are opposed, voting for them emboldens and produces these bills, so there’s no practical difference.
…which is to say, in essence, a vote for Charlie Baum is a vote for Monty Fitts and his vaccine lettuce. A vote for Mark White is a vote for Ed Butler and his pro-domestic violence bill…
…Barrett, Fitts, Capley, Cepicky et al do not see any reason to restrain themselves. They have no reason to moderate, all are in safe districts. But if they start losing colleagues (and therefore their voting margins), that gives them their only real incentive to stop…
And a big part of why they didn’t lose is because many Republicans in swing districts know how to come off as “reasonable” and win what are (or should be) close seats. Gillespie, Sparks, Baum, Burkhart, etc.
Because none of them lost, both the leadership and lunatics like…
Because, after acting fools and causing statewide outrage in ‘23 and ‘24, not a single Republican lost their seat in 24’ in Tennessee at the Federal or State level. Put another way, the lesson they took from 24’ is that there are no consequences for them and they can pass whatever they want…
…Leadership is sponsoring an unconstitutional bill to ban undocumented kids from public schools. One legislator is banning doctors from asking battered spouse if there are guns in their house. Another wants to ban pride festivals?
Why? Why are we getting these bills proposed and passed.
There are no reasonable Republicans in Tennessee, a thread.
In TN, the Legislature just passed vouchers. They just passed an expensive immigration bill with an unconstitutional provision persecuting legislators for voting on bills…
It was never about fiscal responsibility.
Nature is healing
How do you define a neighbor!
Well, “not this guy” is a good start.
Ok I’m really doing it
