Chris Sanders
@chrissanders615.bsky.social
Resident of Nashville. This is not a work account.
Happy New Year to you!
January 1, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Happy New Year to you!
Good PBS report on Christmas music through the years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8W...
Why Christmas carols endure as popular music changes
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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December 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Good PBS report on Christmas music through the years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8W...
Merry Christmas to you!
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Merry Christmas to you!
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This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
Good report. Happy for those who have found a life in Mexico and hoping we can build something good in the U.S. in the coming years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4J...
Why Mexico City feels like home for these Black American women
YouTube video by USA TODAY
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December 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Good report. Happy for those who have found a life in Mexico and hoping we can build something good in the U.S. in the coming years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4J...
Good grief! www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Good grief! www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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99K!!! Thank you!
My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
99K!!! Thank you!
My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
My goal is to get to 100K by Christmas! If you appreciate my hard-driving investigative journalism, please share and help me get there! 🙏🙏🙏
The ban on gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals announced last week relies on a poorly sourced 2023 document that lacks a a real sense of encounter. Read it at christopherksanders.substack.com/p/no-gender-... .
No gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
A weak 2023 foundational document
christopherksanders.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The ban on gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals announced last week relies on a poorly sourced 2023 document that lacks a a real sense of encounter. Read it at christopherksanders.substack.com/p/no-gender-... .
Excellent piece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3e...
1972: The Historic Building Investigator | Look Stranger | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Excellent piece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3e...
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New at @nashvillebanner.bsky.social: an update the less visible side of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort that has remained active at Nashville jails. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/30/n...
ICE detentions rise in Nashville since Trump took office - Nashville Banner
A closer look at the Nashville numbers produced by Donald Trump's mass deportation effort as ICE agents increase enforcement and deportations from local jails.
nashvillebanner.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New at @nashvillebanner.bsky.social: an update the less visible side of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort that has remained active at Nashville jails. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/30/n...
Completely mundane and definitely like experiences many of us had in the 70s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAv...
A visit to Sears with Mom in 1977
YouTube video by Vampire Robot
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October 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Completely mundane and definitely like experiences many of us had in the 70s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAv...
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Be part of this, show up for #NoKings on Saturday — and join up with an organization afterwards — do what you can, it matters.
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Be part of this, show up for #NoKings on Saturday — and join up with an organization afterwards — do what you can, it matters.
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Yesterday, SCOTUS heard a case that could make it easier for GOP states to get away with racial gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterms. Should the court rule to weaken a key voting protection, it could kill what’s left of a vital civil rights law.
https://bit.ly/4osqNDX
https://bit.ly/4osqNDX
SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP
Read more here.
bit.ly
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yesterday, SCOTUS heard a case that could make it easier for GOP states to get away with racial gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterms. Should the court rule to weaken a key voting protection, it could kill what’s left of a vital civil rights law.
https://bit.ly/4osqNDX
https://bit.ly/4osqNDX
Immutable biological sex? A short pretend dialogue about a very real issue at the link. christopherksanders.substack.com/p/immutable-... .
Immutable biological sex?
A short pretend dialogue about a very real issue
christopherksanders.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Immutable biological sex? A short pretend dialogue about a very real issue at the link. christopherksanders.substack.com/p/immutable-... .
Speaking from Canterbury Cathedral on Friday, she said that "in an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter but stronger". www.bbc.com/news/article...
I hope that it can again.
I hope that it can again.
Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury
She becomes the first female leader of the Church of England, replacing Justin Welby who resigned over his handling of a safeguarding scandal.
www.bbc.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Speaking from Canterbury Cathedral on Friday, she said that "in an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter but stronger". www.bbc.com/news/article...
I hope that it can again.
I hope that it can again.
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A prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 🙏
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 🙏
"If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, heaven grant me a double portion of dullness!"
-Maria in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a comedy that helps sort out what is and is not funny.
-Maria in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a comedy that helps sort out what is and is not funny.
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, heaven grant me a double portion of dullness!"
-Maria in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a comedy that helps sort out what is and is not funny.
-Maria in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a comedy that helps sort out what is and is not funny.
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A state lawmaker has accused Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti of revising a legal opinion on use of the National Guard in violation of the state constitution.
via @tennesseelookout.com
via @tennesseelookout.com
Tennessee lawmaker says AG omitted, altered Guard deployment opinions
A Tennessee Democratic lawmaker is accusing the state’s attorney general of revising and withdrawing a legal opinion on National Guard deployment, enabling the governor to send troops to Memphis in…
www.newsfromthestates.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A state lawmaker has accused Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti of revising a legal opinion on use of the National Guard in violation of the state constitution.
via @tennesseelookout.com
via @tennesseelookout.com
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Memphis community leaders have set up text alert systems, issued legal check lists and demanded police comply with a longstanding civil rights agreement barring cooperation by Memphis police with federal and state agencies in activities that violate First Amendment rights.
As feds descend on Memphis, local advocates prepare to respond • Tennessee Lookout
Members "Free the 901," a group organized to push back on federal and state deployment of the National Guard to Memphis, protested Saturday.
tennesseelookout.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Memphis community leaders have set up text alert systems, issued legal check lists and demanded police comply with a longstanding civil rights agreement barring cooperation by Memphis police with federal and state agencies in activities that violate First Amendment rights.
A curious string of events. slate.com/life/2025/09...
Beer Is Officially on the Decline in America. No One Saw the Real Culprit Coming.
The war on suds has multiple fronts—but they all come from the same place.
slate.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A curious string of events. slate.com/life/2025/09...
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Commentary: A Friday press conference by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee about the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis was short on details, writes Rev. Earle Fisher.
No strategy, just spectacle: Copaganda in Memphis • Tennessee Lookout
Gov. Bill Lee's press conference on the Tennessee National Guard's presence was short on details, writes Rev. Earle Fisher.
tennesseelookout.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Commentary: A Friday press conference by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee about the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis was short on details, writes Rev. Earle Fisher.
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Bullets were left outside a Missouri LGBTQ center engraved with "die fags" on them. www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...
Springfield LGBTQ+ center closes after finding death threat etched on bullets at its door
The Springfield Police Department is investigating after bullets with the words "die" and an anti-gay slur were left outside of the GLO Center in Springfield. Bullet casings were also found etched wit...
www.kcur.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Bullets were left outside a Missouri LGBTQ center engraved with "die fags" on them. www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...
Happy Bi Visibility Day!
September 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Happy Bi Visibility Day!
Many helpful points. english.elpais.com/culture/2025...
Susan Faludi, the US journalist who foresaw the right’s reaction: “There’s very much a ‘Lord of the Flies’ feeling here”
The Pulitzer-winning author of ‘Backlash,’ a 1991 classic about the conservative pushback against women’s rights, discusses how the trend is growing stronger — and less subtle — than ever
english.elpais.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Many helpful points. english.elpais.com/culture/2025...