Third Act Tennessee

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Golly it must be fun to be off the charts clever and get to write about the mind-boggling antics of Andy Ogles set before the backdrop of my surreal little hometown, Nashville, TN. I chortled throughout this piece from the Scene.
#BetsyPhillips #nashville

Photo credit goes to the amazing John Partipilo 😍

I think she’s gone now. You can let your dog out.

Noem’s road show in Nashville includes this: a presser where she hypes the criminality of immigrants, berates our mayor, Freddie O’Connell, for not having ICE’s backs, and levels threats to Belmont, a local private Christian college who apparently sees DEI as a Christian tradition.

Re-reading this blurb, chosen for brevity’s sake, I’m seeing how biased the language is. I’m sorry for boosting you, Housler. We have plenty of good reporting here. I chose poorly. 😞

Tennessee Democrat Justin Jones Asked to Leave Nashville Airport Ahead of Visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem - Tennessee Star Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) said he was asked to leave Nashville International Airport (BNA) on Thursday.

Kristi Noem’s staff asked TN Rep. Justin Jones to leave BNA ahead of her presser after being granted permission by BNA and the Secret Service to attend her event. Jones had intended to ask some hard hitting questions about recent ICE operations in his district, questions Noem meant to avoid.

In Nashville the Good Trouble action is Sat. July 19, joining forces with the Annual Rep John Lewis march. The march begins at 8am at the corner of Jefferson and Rosa Parks Blvd, ending at the Nashville Museum of African American Music followed by a sidewalk protest on Commerce. Hydrate, people!

The 3rd rally outside the Federal Courthouse in Nashville for due process and justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia took place July 16 as another hearing took place to decide on next steps for the wrongfully deported man now accused of crimes without evidence.

Wrongfully deported Kilmar Garcia, back in the US thanks to court orders, faces charges that emerged from a past TN traffic stop that bore zero consequences at the time. A soothing salve for a presidential ego? Join us for his arraignment at the fed courthouse in N’ville to ensure justice.

RAPID RESPONSE PROTEST SUPPORTING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA · Indivisible !!RAPID RESPONSE!! A group of local organizations are calling for a RAPID RESPONSE protest to support the Constitutional rights of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was in this country legally but was ille...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “RAPID RESPONSE PROTEST SUPPORTING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

How to deny climate change using the IPCC report » Yale Climate Connections The new Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there has been no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or ...

Climate scientist Jeff Masters explains how our new Energy Secretary Chris Wright is using numbers selectively plucked from IPCC reports to mislead Americans about climate change.

Desert Farmers and Chefs Can Guide Us in a Braised New World It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world.

“It is time to turn the corner from corn & soy monocultures to the sesames, prickly pear cactus, garbanzos, millets and mulberries of the world that desert dwellers have eaten in delicious dishes for millennia.”

Gary Nabhan's interesting new op-ed for @foodtank.bsky.social w/ hints of #agroforestry

Nashville, TN! You have a solidarity and sign making gathering on May 1st at 4pm CT. AND a downtown march on May 3rd from noon to 2pm CT.

For info on both events
uvotn.org/hq/may3/

To register for the May 3rd march
www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

How Maryland Hit Its 30x30 Goal (Gift Article) Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first.

Good news for Earth Day! Nine U.S. states have set goals to conserve 30% of their land by 2030-and MD got there first.

This story is part of a NYT series, "50 States, 50 Fixes." Tune into NPR at 10AM eastern this morning to hear from authors @carabuckley.bsky.social, @catrineinhorn.bsky.social & I.

Soot from wildfires across Western North America have had a similar impact, accelerating Greenland melting as well.

We live on a round planet, and everything is connected!

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated.

Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.

Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵

If we could have been in Nashville, we would have. @thirdacttn.bsky.social

Never, ever a good thing when 1937 starts coming up in your flood comparisons.

The Ohio River valley is about to have a really bad week.

water.noaa.gov/gauges/PTRI3

The authors see some "genuinely promising technological advances" on the supply side.
"On the demand side, the psychological barriers to behavior change will not be resolved without confronting the drivers that ‘create’ air travel consumption and artificially accelerate demand."

TENNESSEE GETTING 🔥🔥🔥’d UP!! #EldersResist #Thirdactorg #thirdacttn

"The 'radical flank effect' shows that when radical activists push boundaries, they often make moderate voices in the same movement appear more reasonable. Recent research found that even when JSO provoked public anger, support for moderate organisations such as Friends of the Earth increased."

Most of yesterday's intelligence hearing focused on Signal.

Something else not to be missed: this exchange between Sen. King (ME-I) Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. King asked why the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment did not mention climate change, after doing so for 11 years.

Get it on the calendar. Details coming soon.

The last book you mentioned here was a wowzer so I’m paying attention.

BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

That US was not this US.

Why we're running out of eggs

#FactoryFarming and #IndustrialAgriculture are at the centre of our broken #FoodSystem.

They have to go, to be replaced by #agroecology and #CropDiversity - legumes, vegetable and fruit; healthy nutrition not empty calories
unherd.com/2025/03/why-...