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Atlanta Is Challenging Big Corporate Landlords Without Waiting on Trump The metro area has some of America’s highest rates of institutional home ownership, and local governments are pushing back

President Trump wants to ban big investors from buying more houses. Some local governments are already on the case – and Atlanta is ground zero.

10.02.2026 12:00 👍 35 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0
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Davidson County Emergency Winter Housing Assistance Program (EWHAP) Official website of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.

Important: At my direction, @nashville.gov has allocated $750,000—and the Titans have contributed $250,000
—to an Emergency Winter Housing Assistance Program to help people impacted by Winter Storm Fern with housing payments.

Let’s keep people in housing.

www.nashville.gov/departments/...

09.02.2026 14:12 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

FREE LUNCH TODAY MCFERRIN PARK AREA

RTN and World Central Kitchen are partnering to give away 250-300 meals today at 12pm at Sylvan Street Baptist Church at 326 Arrington St. Wanted to give you a heads up in case you knew of some folks that could use a hot lunch.

01.02.2026 15:51 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is serving meals to families impacted by the recent snowstorms in Tennessee. Locations and times are at wck.org/news/meal-lo...

31.01.2026 15:05 👍 59 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2
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Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed Seventy-five percent of Americans disapproved of the civil rights leader as he spoke out against the Vietnam War and economic disparity

Conservatives despised and villainized Dr. King throughout his entire career. Within a generation they were praising him and feigning commitment to his principles. That's a lesson I like to keep in mind.

20.01.2026 00:17 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

When I worked in crisis communications, my first bit of guidance was: "Do not put anything in email you don't want on the front page of the paper, on the 6 p.m. news -- if you don't want everyone to know it, don't write it." Amazing that in 2026 journalists still don't get that.

14.01.2026 19:55 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn't Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling

Do not forget to read @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's brilliant refutation of Helen Andrews' Great Feminization essay.

29.12.2025 18:23 👍 48 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Interestingly shaped buildings at 11th Ave North & Buchanan Street

Interestingly shaped buildings at 11th Ave North & Buchanan Street

A single story building covered in artful graffiti

A single story building covered in artful graffiti

Brick facade building with Leon's Liquors painted.

Brick facade building with Leon's Liquors painted.

Elephant art gallery

Elephant art gallery

#NorthNashville
Buchanan Street

21.12.2025 14:24 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Emily Siner came to me a year ago with this idea: What if we take an in depth look at the Geier v. Tennessee case over TSU funding? A great idea, since the Tennessee legislature continues its involvement in the only public HBCU in the state. This is part one of four.

15.12.2025 17:08 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Cities made a bet on millennials — but forgot one key thing Can cities learn to love kids again?

Good read. A lot of the LIHTC PILOTs coming through MDHA recently have been heavy on 3+BR units. Something worth watching.

www.vox.com/policy/46981...

01.12.2025 01:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

27.11.2025 13:47 👍 314 🔁 95 💬 38 📌 42
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Why the Comey Prosecution Is Falling Apart In the criminal-justice system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.

Charges against James Comey and Letitia James were thrown out by a federal judge today. “The basic safeguards of the criminal-justice system are proving to be some of the most effective checks on Trump’s power,” Randall D. Eliason argues:

25.11.2025 00:36 👍 213 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 1
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Partnership will address code violations with home repairs Metro announces initiative with Rebuilding Together Nashville to prevent displacement

As Metro attempts to address local housing needs through zoning policy, a new partnership is channeling its focus on preventing the displacement of longtime Nashvillians.
https://bit.ly/47AbALj

11.11.2025 21:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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City of Charlotte Launches New Accessory Dwelling Units Program The City of Charlotte Housing & Neighborhood Services Department is making it easier for property owners to add accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on their property with the new Queen City ADU Program.

if you're gonna pass a law enabling ADUs (which you should), package it with plan books and forgivable loans in exchange for affordable rents. I regret to inform Nashville that Charlotte appears to be doing something "very cool"

www.charlottenc.gov/City-News/Ci...

11.11.2025 13:56 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Reviewing records of ICE, THP immigration operation in Nashville - Nashville Banner A review of records from ICE and THP's immigration sting in Nashville raises concerns about racial profiling and lack of transparency. Advocates demand accountability.

Colleagues @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social and @stelliott.bsky.social obtained 1,700 pages of Tennessee Highway Patrol incident reports that detail the stops and arrests during the May ICE operation in Nashville. nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/05/t...

05.11.2025 14:10 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Agenda rundown for next Nashville Metro Council meeting - Nashville Banner The Nasville Metro Council meets Tuesday, and the agenda includes a wide range of appointments, rule amendments, resolutions, and legislative proposals.

The Metro Council will consider a River North rezoning and a potential 308-acre expansion of Beaman Park at its meeting on Tuesday. Here’s our rundown of the agenda:

✏️: @stelliott.bsky.social

21.10.2025 15:24 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Hey Nashville! Join us at the Southern Festival of Books where Serina K. Gilbert and I will be discussing From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land: Stories of a Tennessee Reconstruction Community.

Our Session begins at 3 pm and will be broadcast on
C-SPAN. 🧵

www.sofestofbooks.org/schedule

19.10.2025 14:06 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Grown-up NIMBY lady lives in a house her parents own.

Grown-up NIMBY lady lives in a house her parents own.

🔥

06.10.2025 22:03 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1
Nashville Sites

For fans of architecture, did you know that Nashville, TN has SO MUCH Black architecture that there's an entire driving tour you can take to see the 9 most prominent buildings? Written by our own @learothawms.bsky.social it is FREE on Nashville Sites.
nashvillesites.org/tours/mckiss...

02.10.2025 17:55 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 3

I cannot agree with @rollinhorton.bsky.social more. Housing preservation is just as vital as new development, particularly for those most vulnerable to displacement.

01.09.2025 14:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

16.08.2025 19:36 👍 300 🔁 91 💬 4 📌 6
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Kentucky hospital group warns of closures, reduced services, job losses due to Medicaid cuts Healthcare in Kentucky is facing a tough future with billions in Medicaid cuts on the horizon, according to the Kentucky Hospital Association.

Kentucky hospital group warns of closures, reduced services, job losses due to Medicaid cuts www.lex18.com/news/coverin...

03.08.2025 16:32 👍 313 🔁 123 💬 37 📌 20
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It’s official. Just tap.

It just got easier to #RollwithWeGo.

www.wegotransit.com/wego-now-acc...

02.08.2025 02:10 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 3
Michael Shannon is James Garfield

Michael Shannon is James Garfield

Nick Offerman is Chester A. Arthur

Nick Offerman is Chester A. Arthur

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

29.04.2025 15:56 👍 3075 🔁 496 💬 170 📌 531
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For more info on this day and a look at the villains responsible for it and other acts of terror in the Music City, check out @betsyphillips.bsky.social Dynamite Nashville.

19.04.2025 13:47 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Musk-Altman Showdown Over OpenAI Overhaul Set for March Trial A federal judge set a March trial in Elon Musk’s challenge to Sam Altman’s plans to overhaul OpenAI’s business structure, setting the stage for a high-stakes clash between the two billionaires.

A federal judge set a March trial in Elon Musk’s challenge to Sam Altman’s plans to overhaul OpenAI’s business structure, setting the stage for a high-stakes clash between the two billionaires.

05.04.2025 07:10 👍 79 🔁 27 💬 10 📌 0
newsmax is ringing the opening bell at the stock market

newsmax is ringing the opening bell at the stock market

let’s see who has the unfortunate task of ringing the opening bell tomorrow … ah perfect

03.04.2025 03:42 👍 19828 🔁 2989 💬 601 📌 415
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24.03.2025 21:11 👍 37 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 7
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Thought I was running late but looks like either they were waiting for me or technical difficulties. We are going to build so many homes for flamingos.

24.03.2025 21:05 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1

Josh Haston is speaking in support of RS2025-1101, which requests depts to "research and determine the feasibility of the
creation of a special revolving loan fund to issue loans for affordable housing that allow for smaller investments from members of the Nashville community."

19.03.2025 00:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0