Trump: "David has done a very good job. David Ellison. He just had a very big win. It's gonna be a great success."

I've maintained from the beginning that I want the original benches restored on KVB, on Church Street, and better pedestrian access throughout Nashville. Real benches. Permanent ones. Preferrably with shelters.

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

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I lost my job six months ago.
I've exhausted unemployment benefits and applied for at least 50 jobs and gotten two (unfruitful) interviews.

Friday, I got an alert that my credit score when down because of reduced credit usage.
Throw the whole country away.

I turned on the local NPR affiliate for a few seconds. It was sponsored by JLL (I think I got the name right).

The company advertised that it sought investors to use their AI tool to buy up housing worldwide.

There's already a pedestrian memorial a block down on Brick Church right before Moorewood Drive.

There's already a pedestrian memorial just a block down on Brick Church.
Structural violence leads to deaths.

You're so Nashville if your kids can recognize a Tony G apartment on sight

BREAKING: WSJ reports Russia is giving intelligence to Iran to hit U.S. forces.

Meanwhile, Trump has lifted sanctions on Russia, allowing them to sell more oil.

So…we are basically paying Putin to kill our troops. Let THAT sink in.

abundance bros drowning high five meme

The rightmost column of Table 1 summarizes the key findings. Even a major positive shock to housing supply – sustained year after year – would take decades to meaningfully ameliorate residents’ affordability challenges. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where the mismatch between prices and non-college wages is the largest, even under the highly optimistic lower bound scenario it would take about 20 years for house prices to become widely affordable; under the upper bound scenario, it would take over 100 years. Both scenarios require enormous, localized shocks to the housing stock. This simple exercise clearly illustrates that interventions focused on market-rate supply alone are unlikely to generate widespread affordability in any meaningful timeframe.

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Roughly 93% of apartments built in Nashville between 2012–2021 were considered luxury units.

For what is abundance when only the wealthy can partake?

Team doing so bad they gotta subsidize tickets with merch.

I am the riff raff

Nashville created a path to prevent evictions after the ice storm — but few tenants are benefitting Evictions have been a concern since the ice storm. The city has tried to soften the blow by creating a special court process.

Nashville is trying a special court process to prevent evictions related to the ice storm. It's been slow going thus far.
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Update: The federal indictment against Kyle Wagner confirms our reporting, that Wagner was arrested and charged with cyberstalking right-wing agitator Jayden Scott (who allegedly stalked a Minnesota reporter before this) and NOT federal agents. /

A “scuffle” in which the police chief strangled a child.

The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left

@betsyphillips.bsky.social happy unethical historian lawyer disbarred day.

Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.

Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.

Can’t verify this but frankly it explains a lot.

Just unspeakably cruel

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Officer accidentally discharges rifle during search at Lake Nona Middle School, Orlando Police say During a search conducted at Lake Nona Middle School, Wednesday, investigating a reported possible armed person, an Orlando Police officer accidentally shot their gun, police reported.

Officer accidentally discharges rifle during search at Lake Nona Middle School, Orlando Police say

As of last night, The Remix Way has distributed 18,200 hot meals this week. It's been an absolutely enormous, all volunteer-run effort. We are exhausted but we've done it because we deeply love & care for our neighbors and want them to know they have not been abandoned or forgotten ❤️

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Hey has anybody heard anything about support or relief efforts from the NFL franchise to whom we gave $2 billion that we could have spent burying power lines instead?

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Va. Senate honors Joan Mulholland, 81, a '60s Freedom Rider, for her Civil Rights work Joan Mulholland, 81, of Arlington was a student at Duke University in the 1960s when she became a Freedom Rider in Mississippi.

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