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Mar 10, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
The man who sold ammo to the 17yo school shooter who killed 10 & injured 13 in Santa Fe, TX school shooting and who sold 4k rounds of ammo online to the shooter who killed 12 & injured 58 in the Aurora theater shooting is likely to be appointed to the TN state school board. tnholler.com/2021/11/gov-le…
May 29, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
In a week where 1000s of Tennesseans still can't get their unemployment benefits, the US reached 100k COVID deaths, TN COVID cases continue to rise & our broken nation is wracked w/ grief & anger over the killing of George Floyd, here's what the #tnleg House GOP was working on: An extreme anti-abortion bill that even the most far right, pro-choice organization in the state opposes.

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Feb 24, 2020 20 tweets 7 min read
Tonight the #tnleg will be voting on a resolution honoring Rush Limbaugh, clearly a top priority in a state with hundreds of thousands suffering without health insurance & one of the worst gun violence problems in the entire country.

This is who the TNGOP want to honor {THREAD} He argued that white people shouldn't be blamed for slavery. "It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race," he said in 2013, adding that "if any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians."