NEW ON SITE: We are revealing the location of a 122-acre white supremacist compound in Tellico Plains, eastern Tennessee. The racist/fascist organization Patriot Front used this land for a training event, and several PF members live there. The land is run by a self-proclaimed "tribe" of racist heathens, led by longtime neo-Nazi Brian Culpepper. Ian Elliott, a PF member and adherent of the "Aryanity" cult, also plays a large role in the "Aryan Tribal Land."
#Murfreesboro, #Tennessee "must pay $500,000 as part of a settlement with the [ACLU] and other groups over an ordinance designed to ban #drag performances from taking place on public property." The city had falsely claimed that a 2022 Pride parade resulted in "sexualization of kids," then denied subsequent permits to #LGBTQ parades and events.
Murfreesboro has agreed to pay $500K of its taxpayers' money, repeal the bigoted ordinance, and approve future parade permits.
#Tennessee Republicans, spurred on by #chemtrail advocates, pass a bill that, on the face of it, appears to unintentionally ban all #CO2 emissions ("injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals into the air affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight")
9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of #Taxpayers, #Wildlife
The agency has a history of diving into big #construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short on projected benefits and, in some cases, create new problems that #engineers hadn’t bargained for.
👀Republicans in #Tennessee House voted to advance bill that would prevent local govts from reappointing state lawmakers who were expelled due to behavior.
Justin Jones, a state representative who was among the “Tennessee Three” removed from the legislature over his gun violence protests, is suing the state and several other state politicians. He claims his removal was unconstitutional and that he has been blocked from expressing his views and re-joining committees since returning to his seat. These actions are “an anathema to a free, democratic society,” the lawsuit says.
What happens when a small Appalachian town builds a lattice of second-story, outdoor sidewalks so pedestrians don't have to compete with cars for street space?
A contractor tipped off the #Pentagon that a 48-year-old engineer at Arnold #USAirForce Base in #Tennessee had taken home various government radio technologies.
In addition to $90K in #military comms equipment, investigators allegedly found a computer running software containing "the entire [base's] communications system," plus a USB drive with admin passwords and system keys for the Air Education and Training Command #AETC radio network. 17 #USAF facilities affected.
April 4, 1968, #CivilRights leader Reverend #MartinLutherKing Jr., was shot & killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in #Memphis, #Tennessee. Considered one of the greatest Americans to ever live, he was assassinated 56 years ago today.
NEW: #Tennessee Democrats are asking the Justice Department to investigate a new state policy that requires people with prior felony convictions to regain their gun rights before their voting rights are restored.
The superintendent of a youth detention center in #Knoxville, #Tennessee illegally puts kids in solitary confinement for laughing during meals, talking during class or getting lice. He leaves them for hours, days, sometimes even over a week.
The Department of Child Services has known about this, and continues to re-license the facility.
Astonishingly, the superintendent gave a WPLN & ProPublica reporter a tour of the facility. And reminisced to her about beating kids.
𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 that my artwork, "Fishing in the Fog," has been awarded the prestigious 1st Place in Fine Art America's "The Art of Fishing - 1000th Image Celebration" competition. I am so deeply honored by this recognition and grateful to share my passion for photography with you. Happy Friday!
🤦🏻♀️”GOP lawmakers voted to silence a Dem member of so-called #Tennessee 3 during tense House floor session after determining he violated newly enacted rules designed to punish disruptive members.
…directed at Rep. Justin Jones, which prohibited him from speaking & debating on bills for remainder of floor session…prompted loud cries & chants that drowned out proceedings even after House speaker ordered the gallery to be cleared out”