#Introduction I keep meaning to update the bio on my profile, but until/unless I do this I’m going to post a proper intro here, since I haven’t done so since I joined the #Fediverse 3 years ago. I’m Kevin, 61 years old, currently living in #Tennessee but was born in #California and lived most of my life in Washington State, both Spokane and Seattle. Blind since birth, but while it certainly can make everyday life annoying sometimes and downright frustrating at other times, to me that’s just a factoid. I hold explicitly #progressive views, and right now I’m voting exclusively #Democratic because, and please hear me here, there is no other bloody choice! I struggle with depression, and the past year has taken a huge toll on my mental health, with no end in sight. I do persevere, and a huge shout out to #Mastodon for being there when I’ve really needed support. Thanks for just being there!

A peaceful anti-#ICE march turned ugly when the #Tennessee Highway Patrol drove into the crowd, hitting at least three people

https://mlk50.com/2026/01/13/anti-ice-march-tennessee-highway-patrol-drove-into-the-crowd-hitting-at-least-three-people/

> Patrollers also arrested a woman who appeared to be trying to prevent them from driving further into the gathered pedestrians

A peaceful anti-#ICE march turned ugly when the #Tennessee Highway Patrol drove into the crowd, hitting at least three people

https://mlk50.com/2026/01/13/anti-ice-march-tennessee-highway-patrol-drove-into-the-crowd-hitting-at-least-three-people/

> Patrollers also arrested a woman who appeared to be trying to prevent them from driving further into the gathered pedestrians

Dudes… watch the video… there WAS NO ATTACK!!!!

Several national #Republicans shared statements of support for #ICE after the #shooting. “Attacks on our law enforcement cannot be tolerated,” said [ #JanSixer] Rep #BarryLoudermilk of #Georgia.

Rep #AndyOgles of #Tennessee wrote that “if you put an ICE agent in mortal danger, self-defense is JUSTIFIED.”

Local & state officials [& anyone with eyeballs] have disputed federal accounts of the shooting & whether the agents were in any danger.

#law

Is it always election season in the U.S? Here's @bolts's guide to who's voting for what this month across eight states. Tomorrow's key races include a Congressional seat in Tennessee and mayoral runoffs in Georgia and New Jersey.

https://flip.it/Xu3CGU

#USPolitics #USNews #Elections #Tennessee #Georgia #NewJersey #News #AftynBehn

Is it always election season in the U.S? Here's @bolts's guide to who's voting for what this month across eight states. Tomorrow's key races include a Congressional seat in Tennessee and mayoral runoffs in Georgia and New Jersey.

https://flip.it/Xu3CGU

#USPolitics #USNews #Elections #Tennessee #Georgia #NewJersey #News #AftynBehn

📣Who knew TN was so cool? Aftyn Behn is ready to flip TN-07 Blue!
Learn more about @aftynbehn4tn and her plans to keep TN families healthy.

We can flip this seat!

👉 Return your ballot by MAIL or COURIER.

👉 It must be received in TN by Dec 2

👉 Need help? Go to https://VoteFromAbroad.org

#TN #Tennessee #Vote #uspolitics #votebluefromabroad #tndems #USpolitics

"Also destroyed were the works of Heinrich Heine, a writer of Jewish descent, who a century earlier had foreshadowed the hell to come: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'"

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
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"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters."

~ Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
/1

https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

📣Who knew TN was so cool? Aftyn Behn is ready to flip TN-07 Blue!
Learn more about @aftynbehn4tn and her plans to keep TN families healthy.

We can flip this seat!

👉 Return your ballot by MAIL or COURIER.

👉 It must be received in TN by Dec 2

👉 Need help? Go to https://VoteFromAbroad.org

#TN #Tennessee #Vote #uspolitics #votebluefromabroad #tndems #USpolitics

"Also destroyed were the works of Heinrich Heine, a writer of Jewish descent, who a century earlier had foreshadowed the hell to come: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.'"

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
/5

"Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud and Wal-ther Rathenau, Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, and Hermann Hesse were among the authors whose names were read aloud in a litany of protest against those who defied 'the national will to live.' The mob threw hundreds of volumes — seized from libraries, synagogues, and churches — onto the massive fire."

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
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"On the evening of May 10, 1933, the first day of the summer semester, students and professors joined members of the local Sturmabeilung around a bonfire at the Opernplatz in the shadows of the Humboldt monument."

~ Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), p. 174, on the bonfire of books the Nazis organized in Berlin in May 1933

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee #Nazis #Hitler #BookBurning
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"Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out prohibited volumes."

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
/2

"One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters."

~ Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

#Trump #Republicans #libraries #BookBans #LGBTQ #Tennessee
/1

https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close

"My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” Because this is not what I voted for. I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the most dangerous place for workers in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country." -- Aftyn Behn. #TN07 #Tennessee #1u

"My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” Because this is not what I voted for. I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the most dangerous place for workers in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country." -- Aftyn Behn. #TN07 #Tennessee #1u

NEW: How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
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Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation

#news #guns #criminaljustice #crime #government #tennessee #domesticviolence

NEW: How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
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Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation

#news #guns #criminaljustice #crime #government #tennessee #domesticviolence

@gleick Yep, Marsha is getting all worked up about this, essentially pointing out that Smith had a reason for looking at her (and Hagerty's) phone records. Smith didn't randomly pick 8 senators. #Tennessee is represented by some dim bulbs.