Steve Cavendish

If candidates won’t tell us about their positions, voters deserve to know that. It’s ridiculous.

GoFundMe created 1.4M donation pages for nonprofits; some Bay Area organizations had no clue "Why didn't they consult me?" said one man, who discovered unauthorized 'pre-made' GoFundMe pages for two of the organizations he helps to run.

Today we found that GoFundMe had set up a page for Nashville Public Media/Nashville Banner. We didn't authorize it. Neither did the 1M other nonprofits that GoFundMe set up pages for.

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Interesting for those hanging on to X accounts because of sports ...

What this headline should say is "The Tennessean is committed to religion coverage, as long as they don't have to pay for it."

Big chains w/ fiscal sponsors to fund positions through donations is horseshit. This is using a nonprofit to subsidize their profits


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Tennessee Achievement School District program ends in 2026 - Nashville Banner The last two schools in Tennessee's Achievement School District, Hillcrest High and Kirby Middle, will be returned to local management in 2026, ending the program.

One year after the Achievement School District’s term ended in Nashville, the Tennessee Charter School Commission has voted to reassign two Memphis schools to the local district, effectively marking the end of the state-run turnaround district.

✏️: Lillian Avedian

Thousands take part in Nashville 'No Kings' protest - Nashville Banner Thousands of protesters rally against President Trump and his policies in the 'No Kings' protest. Participants feel hope and community.

Nashville’s second No Kings protest drew thousands of residents, united in their anger at the Trump administration and its platform.

✏️: @ejturner02.bsky.social

“Who would ever trust the word of U.S. law enforcement or prosecutors again?”

As always, Margaret Renkl is indispensible.

The Chargers uniforms are a crime against humanity

When you've lost the Epoch Times ...

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Pretty sure I owned all of the Kiss albums with Frehley and the solo album with “New York Groove”

Jeanine Pirro Strikes Out Yet Again In Federal Court Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro failed to secure a felony indictment against the woman three times, then lost a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge. Ouch.

Jeanine Pirro’s office tried three times to indict a woman on bogus felony charges of assaulting an ICE agent. A DC grand jury turned her down each time. So Pirro brought a misdemeanor charge instead. And now a trial jury has acquitted her of that. www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...

You should check it out. It's got essays from great writers, interviews with interesting people and more. Haruch did a hell of a job wrangling all of this into a fantastic book.

5 years ago, @steveharuch.bsky.social asked me to join a very cool project he was editing called "Greetings from New Nashville," where a bunch of writers grappled with how the city has changed. It's even more relevant today. I was lucky to tackle the food scene.

parnassusbooks.net/book/9780826...

INBOX: special announcement by Nashville SC and Taylor Washington. I assume that's his retirement.

Great take. And like Beckerman, Roldan is supposedly a good locker room guy. Vital for someone who might be the 20th person on the roster.

“sir, the hut has been out-pizza’d”

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

Excellent piece on why the Titans fired Callahan by @boclaird.bsky.social

Gannett acquires local newspaper

Bob Bernstein: Owner, Bongo Java and Fido - Nashville Banner When Bob Bernstein announced Fido will close in three years, he was surprised by the response — both his and Nashville's

When Bob Bernstein announced that Fido, the beloved Hillsboro Village coffee shop, would be closing, he was surprised by the response — including his own. This week on BANNER & COMPANY, he talks with @genuinehumandk.bsky.social about the decision and the changing landscape of Nashville.

One of 9 great locations

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

At the mayor's press availability this morning where O'Connell will announc $100 million in capital improvements related to Choose How You Move, including 17 miles of sidewalks, smart signals at 115 intersections and more.

I laughed out when I saw a title card on a TV ad and the biggest thing on it was the Nine Inch Nails logo. That, my friend, is someone who understands marketing. Just inject it into my veins.

Was the original great? No. But it was really different for its time. And that soundtrack to the second one is a fucking masterpiece.

Two words: Daft Punk.