🔥 “IT’S A TRAIN.”
Since even Boring’s own estimates show the Elon tunnel will only handle a tiny fraction of NASHVILLE traffic, Joe Lee suggest tying some Tesla cars together and putting them on a track for a real solution 🚂
(The anti-tunnel resolution passed)
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Join us for our next SASSI School! We will take a deep dive into techno-fascism in order to understand the people, ideas, interests, and ideologies shaping our current political moment and its impact on the South. Email us with any questions and to register: sassisouth@proton.me
Also please don’t talk about Middle Tennessee until you’ve talked to people IN Middle Tennessee k thx bye
Nashville’s experience reflects a broader national trend: When surveillance technology can’t pass through democratic processes, route it through non-profits that operate beyond public accountability.
Days before Thanksgiving, the mayor of Nashville quietly submitted a resolution to enable $15 million in state surveillance funding to flow to a local nonprofit — a controversial move that could stymie accountability over the use of such surveillance technology.
Actually incredible resource here. One click to copy all Metro Council emails? Brilliant. (They don’t check the general inbox, don’t tell anybody.)
If you don’t want to be surveilled when you go to the Ryman or Robert’s, take a sec and write them a nice email about it. 🦞
He gave a super polished response and I’m impressed!
Mamdani's win reminds us that what we take for granted, the Americans call Marxism.
Moving on from Kavanaugh Stops to Kavanaugh Shootings.
Trump was asked by 60 Minutes about immigration agents using aggresive"H tactics like busting people's windows.
"Have those tactics gone too far?"
"No", Trump said, "I think they haven't gone far enough."
This is what that looks like in the real world.
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"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."
Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.
Join us: www.equator.org
Breaking News 1m ago A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag.
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
I forgot to share yesterday's excellent podcast on @citycastnash.bsky.social, which explains what a limited equity housing co-op is.
Spoiler alert: It's another tool in the affordable workforce housing arsenal.
How fortunate we are that the United States is so bereft of serious crimes that we can afford to have FBI agents standing around the Metro all day watching for turnstile-jumpers.
