Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾

A section from the 2024 Ballad Health Community Health Needs Assessment for the Johnson City Medical Center. It explains the objective of improving regional health by addressing disparities and access challenges. Key findings list chronic disease, behavioral and mental health, and obesity as the top health priorities. The report notes that 39% of Washington County adults have mental health or substance use conditions, with top root causes being drug and alcohol use, lack of access to quality healthcare, and poverty.

"39% of adults in Washington County suffer from either mental health or substance use conditions. The top three root causes were drug and alcohol use, access to quality healthcare, and income/poverty."

The top three root causes: Poverty, Poverty, Poverty

My most radical political position is that I don’t think we should do a fascism

How stupid do things have to get before we all stand up against fascism?

Bar owners speak out against restricting alcohol sales hours Bar and business owners spoke out Thursday on an ordnance to make 1 a.m. the last call for the sale of on-premise alcohol in Johnson City.

Abigail Honeycutt noted business owners have convinced Washington Co. Sheriff Keith Sexton to help supplement weekend law enforcement in the downtown for six months

“If this is a real public safety issue, we just solved it and it cost you nothing”

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If we're so concerned about gun violence in Johnson City maybe we should talk to the Republican state legislators who tried to expel the Tennessee Three for speaking up about gun violence 🤔

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🚨 FOIA email shows Johnson City Manager Cathy Ball was lobbying the state lege to stop alcohol sales at 1am—in a special carve-out law just for JC—all the way back in Sept 2024

The law was introduced in Feb 2025. The 1am resolution last month, surprising bar owners and workers

Forever‘s a long time, but I feel you

Facebook post by Rep. Diana Harshbarger featuring a recruitment ad for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The caption reads:“President Trump and his administration are working overtime to deport criminal illegal aliens. Now Americans have an opportunity to do their part. ICE is hiring: great signing bonuses, student loan repayment opportunities, and no age caps.You can apply here: JOIN.ICE.GOV Department of Homeland Security” Below the post is a graphic featuring the ICE logo and a stylized image of Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer. The text says:AMERICA NEEDS YOU“America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out.You do not need an undergraduate degree. You may be entitled to up to these benefits:”$50,000 Signing Bonus$60,000 Student Loan Repayment25% Premium PayDark background with white and red text, emphasizing a military-style recruitment tone

This is disgusting and insulting and fascist 🤬🤬🤬

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this."

“Are you abandoning your jobs?”

🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…”

A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social

IYKYK 🪑

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "As a state rep, I get paid about $600 a month. That's not much to live off of. Many of my colleagues, including myself, we have day jobs that help us pay the bills. And by breaking quorum, we are leaving those day jobs behind... So this decision was not made lightly."

Did you say “admitted to the bar in 2024?”

The DEI of it all. This is insane.

Screenshot of a New Yorker article titled “How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away” by Ronan Farrow, published March 24, 2025. Subheading reads: “When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?” To the right is a black-and-white photo of a woman standing in a wooded area, wearing a sleeveless dark dress and holding an object at her side, looking contemplative.

“In the middle of November, 2020, Kat Dahl, a federal prosecutor in Johnson City, Tennessee, received an unusual assignment. Dahl had been appointed by the Department of Justice to work with the Johnson City police…”

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“If the city and the police department actually felt the full weight of that damage… they would be banging down your doors to provide transparency.” — Kat Dahl, former federal prosecutor and whistleblower at a Johnson City, TN town hall tonight

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

This guy should have been locked up years ago!!!

This you, bro?

Donald Trump’s tariff blitz brings US levies to highest levels since 1930s Washington has locked in tariffs on almost 45% of American imports

Trump Is Winning His Trade War. What Will That Mean for the Economy? The president’s vision for reshaping global trade is falling into place, but he is embarking on an experiment that economists say could still produce damaging results.

One of these newspapers is doing straight reporting of the facts with appropriate context. The other is editorializing in its news coverage to normalize authoritarianism

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.

The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

Every Monday at 4 p.m., protesters greet the Nazis as they leave the office at the Heritage Foundation.

The authors of Project 2025 have their headquarters at 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE.

Never trust someone who would cheat at something as inconsequential as golf.

It wasn't an excuse at Nuremberg.