senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Yelling the truth about Tennessee.
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Even Grok isn’t buying it Tariffs are a tax on you
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
“Staggeringly dishonest” Tariffs are taxes on Americans, and Bessent (and Trump) know it
Not sure why everyone is doubting Giuliani’s spokesman’s story it sounds totally plausible and not suspicious at all
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
Judge Blocks Flights Sending Hundreds of Children Back To Guatemala “It is a dark & dangerous moment for this country when (Trump) chooses to target orphaned 10-year-olds and deny them their basic legal right to present their case before a judge” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
“These proposed budget cuts across the board make me rethink the next time I go to the polls.” Trump and Republicans are cutting an affordable housing grant many rural Americans have relied on to build homes — including in East Tennessee. apnews.com/article/trum...
We agree, @robhuebel — seems Dems should be talking about this: “State Dept denied Trump intervened on Alexandrovich’s behalf, but that appears implausible. Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption… a gift unicorn grazing in Dems’ backyard — And yet?” zeteo.com/p/why-arent-...
REASON: “Trump's tariff regime is making everything from American-made steel weights, imported yarn, and Amazon's "everyday essentials" more expensive while his immigration crackdown is causing worker shortages in key industries.” reason.com/2025/08/29/t...
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WASH POST: “A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration would turn it into a trusteeship administered by 🇺🇸 while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort… temporary relocation of Gaza’s more than 2 million population…” 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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We keep seeing this exact gaslighting over and over — @RepJohnRose & Sexton also said this to NC5 $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts only impacting people who *shouldn’t be on it* + “waste/fraud/abuse” is nonsense Also: if all this fraud exists, why 0 arrests?
HAMILTON COUNTY: “@hamcoschools learned of a student suicide a week before the board voted 6-5 to end the federally funded in-school therapy…” Republicans axed the Centerstone contract because they helped 🏳️🌈 kids. Ugly stuff. Hate over kids’ safety. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
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CNN: “At least 47 killed in Gaza City on Saturday, 6 children… footage showed a row of dead children shrouded in floral blankets… Video from after the attack showed numerous children wandering dazed, covered in blood and dust…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
SHARPTON: “I don’t endorse candidates, but I do take attendance.” 👀 Rev Al noted Cuomo & Adams were absent from the “March on Wall St” to protest Trump’s assault on DEI and attempts to control Democratic-led cities led by Black mayors… But @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was there.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
🐔 Rep Chuck Fleischmann (R) tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press he will “never” do a town hall www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
“Actual issues that impact our real lives” In Chattanooga, Candidate for Governor Jerri Green (D) asks if folks care about rising grocery prices (YES), women’s rights (YES), or trans athletes (NO) @marshablackburn runs on it, but we’ve had 0 trans athlete issues in Tennessee
AP: “When Trump awarded a contract for $1.2 billion for 🇺🇸’s largest immigration detention complex, it handed it to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small biz with no experience… its address a modest home in suburban Virginia.”🤔 Golden Age of Corruption. apnews.com/article/trum...
“Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight”
Sadly, this onion headline will never get old
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
“For the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.” Must be nice! abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...
UPDATE: The firefighter Trump’s ICE goons arrested in Washington was on track for legal status. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yikes, JD Vance better hope JD Vance doesn’t hear about this!
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CHICAGO…
WATCH: “‘Thoughts & prayers’ means we’re doing nothing— they’re worried about a Cracker Barrel logo and children are getting shot.” @jwilliamj8.bsky.social & the #Jaam crew rip the empty response to another avoidable tragedy. Failing our kids. Full @thejaampod.bsky.social: youtu.be/C4IhbpU0ugA?...
WATCH: “That’s a you problem.” @jwilliamj8.bsky.social & the #Jaam crew react to Snoop saying he’s scared to go to the movies because there was a lesbian couple in a Disney’s “Lightyear” and he didn’t know what to tell his grandson. Full @thejaampod.bsky.social ep: youtu.be/C4IhbpU0ugA?si
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BERNIE: “Secretary Kennedy is putting Americans’ lives in danger, and he must resign.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Republicans keep saying the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are only cutting “waste fraud and abuse”… and yet not a single arrest. Funny how that works!
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
ICYMI — JUDGE: “This case represents the consequences of a decades long drumbeat of anti-immigrant sentiment and misinformation being broadcast & broadcast & broadcast…” 2 immigrants shot in Washington, gunman sentenced in June. Barely even a story. 🤷🏻♂️ www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
The Dems are saved! 🙃🤦🏻♂️ Somebody help this man. A party’s need for new leadership has never been more obvious.
DR. MUSTAFA: “So we’re not allowed to film what’s going on, but 🇮🇱 is allowed to kill these children? That’s the rules we’re playing by? — Yes, I felt my life was in danger, but I’m not going to center myself on this. We have to center those kids in Gaza.”
“A 14% price increase” When Trump & @MarshaBlackburn tell you there has been no inflation, they’re lying
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
🧵 x.com/waltermaster...
“You cannot pretend as if he did not try and stay in power the last time he lost an election. That actually happened.” Abby Phillip & @mizzwelch.bsky.social refuse to let the Republicans on the panel pretend Trump is not a threat to our democracy. 🇺🇸
Another swing state Dem pledges to refuse AIPAC’s money. theintercept.com/2025/08/29/a...
“These policies have horrifically impacted people in rural America that vote for them because they weaponize their faith and lure them in.” - @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
Some perspective…
So good
ABC: “A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Trump's sweeping global tariffsare unlawful, potentially dealing a significant blow to the president's effort to reshape the country's trade policy unilaterally…” abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-gl...
GOV. WHITMER on marriage equality 🏳️🌈 attacks: “Treating people equally is a Michigan value… LGBTQ+ Michiganders make our state stronger, better, and more vibrant.”
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WATCH: “Its not exactly an Agatha Christie mystery.” @marcelias.bsky.social & @raskin.house.gov say Trump’s seat-stealing, mail-in voting ban, and inevitable invasion of Blue cities to intimidate voters are all to steal the 2026 election. Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLI...
ICYMI — Republican Former State Senator just had his law license reinstated by the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee after getting pardoned by Trump for campaign finance crimes. He pled guilty, only did 2 weeks. www.fox13memphis.com/news/brian-k...
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
ILLINOIS - @govpritzker.illinois.gov : “Trump doesn’t seem to understand it’s actually Republican states that have the crime problem.”
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
GIZMODO: “Jim O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy secretary, has been selected to take over the CDC… the sure-fire tell that this man waves a freak flag is his deep connections to PayPal co-founder and all-around weirdo Peter Thiel.” gizmodo.com/the-cdcs-nig...
Define “fairer”, Governor. 🤔 This video is as good an ad for California’s #YesOnProp50 campaign as you’ll see.
🚨 Medicare Cuts👇🏽 This is what it looks like. No matter what lies @MarshaBlackburn and the GOP tell about Trump’s big ugly bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
TODAY'S HOLLER: We Are Failing Our Kids 😳 Blackburn & Rose Keep Hiding 🐔The Dictator Wannabe Says it Out Loud🤨 & more Check out today's links & videos: mailchi.mp/0ee00c9f1ab9... CHIP IN MONTHLY and Grab a Holler Hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/
TODAY'S HOLLER: We Are Failing Our Kids 😳 Blackburn & Rose Keep Hiding 🐔The Dictator Wannabe Says it Out Loud🤨 & more Check out today's links & videos: mailchi.mp/0ee00c9f1ab9... CHIP IN MONTHLY and Grab a Holler Hat: tnholler.com/holler-hats/
WATCH: “The script is sadly familiar by now.” Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social of the ‘Mass Shooting Generation’ 💔 tells CNN common sense gun laws are popular but the NRA & special interests own Republicans— as Trump slashing mental health funding guarantees more school shootings.
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition
🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”
As @SpeakerJohnson @RepTimBurchett and others make it clear Republicans are going to attack trans people (to distract from common sense gun laws) — GROK tells @philinvestigates.com the data shows there is “no substantial link”
“They tried to modernize… if they don’t get back to keepin’ it country it’s not gonna work.” A Cracker Barrel co-founder in WILSON COUNTY, TN weighs in on the failed logo change, and subsequent freakout. Full: www.newschannel5.com/news/if-they...
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
AP: “Israel declared Gaza’s largest city a dangerous combat zone and recovered the remains of two hostages as the army launched the “initial stages” of a planned offensive… death toll in Gaza has risen to 63,025…” apnews.com/article/mide...
“What does that have to do with taking money from Blackstone?” The Israel part of @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social’s interview with @ritchietorres.bsky.social is getting attn, but this part was also great. Hey media— what Adam is doing is called FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS. They are still currently legal!
WATCH: @mikenellis.bsky.social & Kanew react to Fox host Trey Gowdy, a former Republican member of Congress, finally saying “we’re gonna have to have a conversation of freedom vs. protecting children” — 5000+ mass shootings later Full: overcast.fm/+AASGpQdIl8E
“I just don’t think you know what you’re talking about” 1 wild part of the @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social - @ritchietorres.bsky.social interview was at the end when Torres whined about Friedland having an “agenda” and dismissed the opinion of a Jew who lived in Israel and just bared his soul to him
Johnson's superpower is he sounds mellifluously gentle even when saying insane things.
For those asking…
CBS: “A judge ordered a new trial for three former Memphis police officers convicted of federal charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, after defense lawyers argued another judge was biased in his belief at least one of the men was in a gang.” www.cbsnews.com/news/tyre-ni...
Thet taylor Lorenz hit piece is basically serving as an unpaid ad for those chorus creators
“SCIENCE OR TRUMP? The question of whether to follow the data or follow the president is especially acute for those charged with keeping Americans safe — from foreign threats, economic crises, diseases…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
“I truly believe we CAN build a system represents working people.” ICYMI — @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner is a marine and oyster farmer running to replace @SenatorCollins, who should be “concerned” His site: www.grahamforsenate.com
🔥 @airborne1970.bsky.social : “When you get rid of SNAP benefits— what’s a poor family gonna do? The middle class has carried this country since Reagan said ‘trickle-down economics’. Time for the billionaires to carry this country. That’s how 🇺🇸 will get great. But not under this regime.”
Watch what they do, not what they say
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
“The interview has resonated deeply across the internet.” newrepublic.com/post/199737/... If you haven’t see the interview where Friedland exposes Torres yet, here are some highlights: www.instagram.com/reel/DN5_ePk...
🔥 @mizzwelch.bsky.social : “It’s the complete moral collapse of the 🇺🇸 government… the cabinet meeting with 3.5 hours of superficial praise is so cringeworthy… he redecorated the Oval Office like Marie Antoinette and built himself a ballroom because he has zero intention of leaving…”
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Don’t look away
“A dangerous crank — what on Earth are you on about??!” @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.
The TN-6 field has a new entry. (We know what you’re thinking, but Dirk beat you to it) www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...
CINDY MCCAIN: “The desperation is overwhelming.”
This is how it’s done.
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
“Who pays the tariffs?! Who pays the tariffs?!” Bama folks not playing
Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.
“Me saying this will hurt my own family.” @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social tries to get staunch 🇮🇱 supporter @ritchietorres.bsky.social (D) to see their actions are fueling (not excusing) antisemitism. (Per @trackaipac.bsky.social AIPAC has kicked in ~$1.5M) full: www.instagram.com/reel/DN5_ePk...
INTERCEPT: “Student newspaper The Stanford Daily filed a First Amendment lawsuit suing Rubio & Noem over tactics in deportation cases… What’s at stake is if you’re free to voice an opinion critical of the government without fear of retaliation…” 🇺🇸 theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...
Ex Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to @timmiller.bsky.social : “A vote to withhold weapons from Israel is a totally credible position. That is a position I would support… The bigger Q you're asking is about the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship.”
Trump’s ICE goons now literally arresting firefighters. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
