#tennessee

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Lee shouldn't have even a prayer of a chance of getting re-elected.


Democracy Matters :verified: - 2024-09-02 22:35:06 GMT

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) Calls for Prayers, Not LegislationTennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) called for prayers in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school, while noting that “there will be a time to talk about the legislation,” ABC News reports.

#BillLee will need all the prayers he can get for his next election.

#VoteRepublicansOut #Tennessee #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year.

Lee was expelled from fifth grade after pointing his finger in the shape of a gun.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-expulsions

Belle was horrified. Lee had never even been sent to school detention before. His grades sometimes flagged, but he had been working hard to improve them. The family didn’t own a gun and Lee would have no idea where to get one. Belle recalls the principal saying on the phone that she knew Lee was a good kid. His punishment, Belle thought, seemed like an extreme overreaction.

#tennessee #finger-gun #school #expulsion #education #school #schools #elementary-school

artsound2@diasp.eu

A Tennessee Republican state lawmaker says he’s worried Tennesseans might overdose on vaccines if they eat too many tomatoes.

State Rep. Scott Cepicky claims vaccines can already be added to foods like lettuce and tomatoes, and to tobacco products, so he has filed legislation to require grocery store items containing vaccines to be labeled.

“University of California Riverside has already perfected the ability to put human vaccines into our lettuce right now,” Rep. Cepicky told his fellow lawmakers Wednesday while discussing his legislation. “Also, tomatoes, has the ability to do that also per UC Berkeley. And then big tobacco, RJ Reynolds and stuff has perfected the ability to put a human vaccine in tobacco products.” ...

Rest of story: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/02/vaccine-laced-lettuce-and-tomatoes-tennessee-gop-lawmaker-worried/
#ScottCepicky #GOP #tomato #tennessee

azurecerulean@diasp.org

A City in #Tennessee #Banned Public #Homosexuality—and We All Missed It | The New Republic

#Murfreesboro passed an ordinance in June banning “indecent behavior,” including “indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct.” As journalist Erin Reed first reported, this ordinance specifically mentions Section 21-72 of the city code. The city code states that sexual conduct includes homosexuality.

https://newrepublic.com/post/176915/tennessee-town-ban-public-homosexuality

artsound2@diasp.eu

Tennessee!

Last week, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) announced that he had appointed Laurie Cardoza-Moore to serve on the Tennessee Standards Recommendation Committee to oversee “Social Studies materials being reviewed for use in classrooms statewide.” Cardoza-Moore, known for holding extremist views and promoting conspiracy theories, has called "U.S. history textbooks" currently used in classrooms the "greatest national security threat to the United States."
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#tennessee #conspiracy #theories #LaurieCardozaMoore