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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 47m

WATCH: “A lot of your thing is you just debate gay people? It’s a little nosy.”

@adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social grills Nashville-based Michael Knowles on attacking 🏳️‍🌈 folks for clicks. (despite himself having played a gay character in a film)

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DPwNogg...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

ICYMI — “I don’t think there’s anything that will get me into Heaven. I think I’m not, maybe, Heaven-bound.”

Trump confesses on Air Force One

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

His Nobel pitch needs a little work

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

One of the Knesset members removed from Trump’s speech:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

All facts

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

“$60 Billion… They had more trips to the White House than anybody… Look at her sitting there so innocently.”

At the Knesset, Trump recognizes the Adelsons for being filthy rich and backing him as he pats himself on the back for moving the embassy to Jerusalem at their behest.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

JUST NOW: Trump asks President Herzog to pardon Netanyahu, who faces multiple corruption charges

(Birds of a feather — so he knows he’s guilty then?😬)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

“Israel released 250+ Palestinian prisoners + 1,700 Gazans… Hamas released 20 remaining living hostages – and was to hand over the bodies of 28 deceased hostages… there are 11,000+ Palestinians in 🇮🇱 detention, 87% never charged or convicted…” www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Sick

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

PRIORITIES: “Your taxes are coming down! See? Everyone’s happy, honey.” 💰

Instead of stopping health care premiums from skyrocketing for millions while millions more lose coverage, Trump rides around his golf course glazing himself for lowering taxes for his billionaire pals

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

🔥"This is a human rights issue. Racial profiling is not acceptable. Going to car washes & Home Depot is taking hard-working people away, not criminals. They haven’t done anything wrong.”

Bobbi Althoff rips Trump's immigration cruelty after her close friend was taken by ICE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

While @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower and others boast about the Boring Company’s record, in reality Musk’s Nashville tunnel digging company is accused of a massive amount of violations in Vegas. www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

FORBES: “The cryptocurrency appears nowhere on the financial disclosure the president files with the government... But make no mistake, Trump is one of the largest bitcoin investors on the planet.”

#GoldenAgeOfCorruption

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20h

I’m dying of second-hand embarrassment

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 21h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 HEY NYC — This clip alone is completely disqualifying. Absolutely humiliating stuff from @andrewcuomo, refusing to condemn Trump for going after NY AG Tish James.

A vote for him is very clearly a vote for Trump.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

True bravery!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

🤡

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