#tennessee

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[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Don't listen to what they say about Appalachia, it's great out here.

Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus)

Alabama to Pennsylvania, USA

Status: protected in several states

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[sincerelytennessee]

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2025

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Adrian Carrasquillo at The Bulwark:

WHEN YOU THINK OF A BOUNTY HUNTER, maybe you think of one of those reality-TV shows, like Dog the Bounty Hunter. But for me, it’s Star Wars that comes to mind. The mysterious rogue, Boba Fett, sharing a scene with Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back? The Mandalorian dispatched to find Baby Yoda? Their duties are clear. The bounty hunter is taking you in either “warm” or “cold,” as they say—arresting you or killing you. Unless, of course, you’re Baby Yoda. Now, thanks to Republicans in Mississippi and Missouri, the rules of bounty hunting could be applied to undocumented immigrants. Prospective laws in each state would allow residents to receive $1,000 a pop, to be paid if a tip on someone in the country illegally leads to an arrest. Meanwhile, the Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy Act—yes, the TRUMP Act—became Florida law yesterday; among other things, it provides for any law enforcement officer who assists in the arrest of a person in the state illegally to receive a $1,000 bonus. It turns out you can act as a bounty hunter even while wearing the uniform of the state.

The outsourcing and incentivizing of immigration enforcement extends beyond there. In Oklahoma, the state board of education approved collecting the immigration status of children when parents enroll them. In Tennessee, lawmakers are zeroing in on the cost of educating undocumented children with their own TRUMP Act—in this case, the Tennessee Reduction of Unlawful Migrant Placement, the Washington Post reported. The ultimate goal in these cases is not just to up the number of detentions but to challenge the landmark 1982 Plyler v. Doe ruling, which holds that states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education due to their immigration status. In Texas, state Republicans are looking to have law enforcement fingerprint children so the Department of Public Safety can maintain a database of kids under 18 suspected to be in the country illegally, which follows a slew of anti-immigrant legislation the state has moved forward since Trump’s win.

If the Trump administration has been frustrated by the pace of its mass deportation efforts at the federal level—with ICE leadership being reassigned and new leaders coming in amid a scramble to reach arrest quotas—the same cannot be said at the state level, where Republicans are seizing on this new punitive approach toward immigrants to push increasingly harsh new measures. Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez—the president of NextGen America, one of the largest youth voting organizations in the country, and a former U.S. Senate candidate from Texas—said these moves in her state, where one in three people are immigrants or children of immigrants, have been galling. “State and local governments have been happy to be laboratories for the most draconian efforts around immigration, especially in the South, despite a huge population of immigrants helping them grow in construction and agriculture across Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia,” she told The Bulwark.

[...] Another bucket includes legislation that would force different types of agencies to pose immigration-status questions to those people seeking essential services, from schools to hospitals. These proposals have been put forward in states like Arizona, Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas, with Florida already having passed a law along these lines. [...] There’s movement in that direction in several statehouses, too. In New Jersey last fall, legislation was introduced that would provide protection for immigrants interacting with government agencies, broadly limiting inquiries, collection, and disclosure of information. In Missouri, a bill being debated would prohibit health care professionals from recording or disclosing patients’ immigration status, while in Nevada a bill is being considered to prohibit schools from allowing immigration enforcement access without a judicial warrant. In North Carolina, there are two pieces of legislation under consideration that would together limit immigration enforcement at sensitive locations like schools, places of worship, hospitals, as well as near farms or construction sites.

Donald Trump’s harsh anti-immigrant policies have incentivized Republicans to out-flank him from the right at the state level.

[a-spell-so-exquisite]

THIS IS SO SPECIAL TO ME

au where will solace is appalachian not texan. hey? is this thing on? will solace is lucy gray baird. taps mic

[kuchipatch1]

yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!

do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?

do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?

do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"

Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.

[writing-with-olive]

when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:

In deep red areas you're a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don't vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much

In swing states you're an undecided voter who's gonna go blue if they don't vote how you like

remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don't work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they're losing something.

[i-like-swiss-cheese]

what a shame it would be if this were to be rebloged by a bunch of people, spreading the message further than the original reddit post could have ever reached.

Update because this got way to popular: the source of this image seems to be a bit fishy and not nearly as large as I thought it was. With that I would ask that, instead of going back to being apathetic, please reply/ reboot with any actually useful methods of resistance. Hopefully, we will find a way to resist and make a real difference, but even if we don’t please do not give up, they want the see nothing more than their biggest opponents eliminating themselves. And please check whatever resources have been provided so that we can minimize this damage

[moved-to-slayfk]

posting here because this just doesn’t feel right to talk about in the horseimagebarn voice but this is extremely important to talk about.

my partner and i have returned to our hometown to stay with her family and my own has gotten a hotel here too (they moved to the town we currently live in after we did) so we are all safe and out of the thick of it

however there are tens of thousands of people who are not both in my own town and in the many surrounding it. appalachia will take an extremely long time to recover from this and there are more storms on the way. all i see on social media right now is people asking for shelter because their homes have been destroyed, or people asking for help searching for family members who are missing. hundreds of trees have fallen. hundreds of homes have flooded. roads are literally falling apart. preexisting sinkholes due to shitty pipes are opening up and consuming land. dams are on the verge of bursting and the only way to stop it is to release water so quickly it floods whole towns. all but one of our cell towers are down, so only people with at&t have service and the rest can’t contact anyone. over half the town still doesn’t have power. a major water supply issue occurred and the entire town is on a water boil order with no electricity to boil with. people are trapped in their homes and workplaces or out on the street because they have nowhere to go. law enforcement is blocking off roads but trapping people in the process. people have to be rescued by helicopter. our animal shelter has no water or power and boarding facilities have been flooded. entire villages like chimney rock nc are gone, and entire cities like asheville are cut off from the rest of the state and are completely inaccessible. ALL OF THE ROADS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CLOSED. 400+ roads are closed because they are unsafe . that is INSANE!!!

when people say that climate change isn’t real, they don’t know what they’re talking about. climate change and its father capitalism are only going to continue to worsen lives in every way possible. i live in the mountains and our infrastructure is completely unprepared to handle hurricanes and it’s only going to get worse. it’s such a strange and eye-opening experience to live something like this when you think that it could never happen to you because that type of weather shouldn’t reach you in your environment. climate change doesn’t care where you live. it’s real.

western north carolina and the rest of the southeast that has been hit by helene need help. more people need to be talking about this so that the government DOES SOMETHING because the government historically fucking hates appalachia and it still does!!! the major state institution near me took DAYS to respond despite being the only place in town with power and wifi connection because they had to wait for the state to approve their response—they could have allowed thousands of people to evacuate days prior to the hurricane hitting us but they didn’t do anything before or after until it was too late!!! it’s bullshit!!! PLEASE get talking about this because something has to be done. climate change is going to continue happening and our mountains and the people in them are going to suffer immensely. hundreds if not thousands are now homeless. please talk about this look at the footage online of the wreckage and look how quickly our infrastructure crumbled. we need better. the people of appalachia deserve better.

i’ll get back to posting horses soon. but for now this is a lot. my friends are homeless and my family had to get off the mountain or be trapped there without power and water for days. we’re all safe but exhausted. i hope everyone who has been affected by this is staying safe. if you are in western nc, dm me. when i come back, if you’re in my area, im happy to bring supplies. stay safe everyone

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[davidaugust]

The TN Senate committee realizes that the Dear Leader is wise, strong, beautiful and good. His wisdom shall save us all. Anyone who denies that deserves prison, damnation and destruction. Dear Leader deserves to take anything he wants from you because he is Dear Leader. /s

@campbell4tn.bsky.social

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