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@Super70sSports
Lil' ditty, 'bout Don and Suzanne, two 'merican kids doin' guns and toucans.
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Jesus weeps.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders just signed a measure loosening child labor protections in the state.
The bill eliminates a requirement that the state verify the age of children under 16 before companies can hire them.
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You literally have no idea what you're talking about.
I'm the chaplain at the school; three of my children were down there protesting completely respectfully and peacefully.
Repent.
I am calling on all members of the Tennessee General Assembly to support the quick expulsion of Reps Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson. Their actions yesterday were a danger to folks working at the Capitol, disrespectful to the recent tragedy and violated the rules!
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Brother Jones is pro-democracy.
In Tennessee, he swims upstream.
He has stood with our families since our dreadful day.
#CovenantStrong
🤍🖤❤️🖤🤍
Just now: The
@tnhousegop
-majority House rules committee voted down a rule proposed by
@brotherjones_
to keep guns out of committee meetings.
Unsurprisingly, every rule proposed by
@TNDemocrats
was voted down.
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Excuse me,
@MarshaBlackburn
,
@BillHagertyTN
and
@AndyOgles
, what shall I say to the seven-year-old who wets his pants in my class rather than go down the hallway to the restroom because he's too afraid?
That you're working to make his life safer?
Can I say that?
#CovenantStrong
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This is NOT what democracy looks like!!!
(TN Statehouse - 'the People's House' - lobby this morning, the start of the legislative session, from
@TheTNHoller
)
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@hahnscratch
Child advocates are (rightly) saying that this will further erode the safety net protecting particularly exploitable youth.
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My man Jack. Love him so.
#covenantstrong
#GunReformNow
Many protestors are gone — but this young man, whose father was a pastor at COVENANT, remains.
He wants Tennessee legislators to act on common sense gun laws.
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My dear friend
@deborahdenson
created this image of our son Jack on his now-famous Statehouse bench.
Not one GOP lawmaker looked him in the eye that day. He sat there several hours. 💔
#proudDad
#covenantstrong
#howlongOLord
#goodtrouble
#jacksully
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We are in a crisis of leadership in Tennessee.
This legislator is one of the very few in our state to bravely come to the aid of our school in the wake of our tragedy.
I would gladly vote for her.
#CovenantStrong
#TennesseeThree
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I am a Phil Collins fanatic and now also an Isaac Kearney devotee!
This lip-syncing toddler has got to be Phil Collins' most adorable fan
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Waiting for pastors from the Nashville evangelical community to make their voices heard in the wake of what's happening downtown.
And waiting.
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
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Lee Beaman and
@Beaman_Toyota
- Our family has been a loyal customer for 20+ yrs.
No more.
Your support of Ogles, who has STILL not met with our school families, nine months later, will cause us to move away from your company.
Because "it matters who leads."
#CovenantStrong
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These are my people, doing the Lord's work.
And our state's leadership apparently doesn't have time for them/us.
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
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Our first chapel back as a school community.
Wonderful time of togetherness and celebration.
God's faithfulness on display.
#CovenantStrong
❤️🤍🖤🤍❤️
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We've taught our first week of returned school
@CovenantKnights
and are completely exhausted.
What have our legislators done to make our state safer? Genuinely curious.
#CovenantStrong
#PasserSolomon
#TNLeg
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Senators Hagerty and Blackburn (and Governor Lee, for that matter) could make it to a Buc-ee's ribbon-cutting, but couldn't make it to our school in the midst of our tragedy.
Tells you everything you need to know about where we are as a state.
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍❤️🤍🖤
The world's largest
@bucees
is now open in Sevier County - just one more way Tennessee is leading the nation!
Great to celebrate this record-breaking day with
@MarshaBlackburn
,
@SenatorHagerty
,
@RepHarshbarger
, members of the General Assembly & local leaders from across East TN.
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Eve of Special Session:
This past Fri, teacher showed me her textbook. She tried to open it, but couldn't. After wrenching the covers open, found that bullet shrapnel from 3/27 had lodged itself inside.
#TNLeg
, are you ready to make REAL changes?
#CovenantStrong
❤️🖤🤍🖤❤️
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Please don't use our school as a pawn in your game.
You clearly don't know the story line here (we're not a high school).
Go elsewhere, please. For God's sake.
#CovenantStrong
❤️🤍🖤❤️
It’s been more than 4 months since a trans psychopath shot & killed 6 innocent people at Covenant High School in Nashville. 4 months and still no answers. The FBI & local police committed to releasing the shooter’s written manifesto, but now they’re quietly reneging and trying to
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Thank you, brave voices at our Capitol today!
Our legislators are afraid of their citizenry, peacefully raising their voices.
Pray for us in Tennessee 🙏🙏🙏
They’ve turned on a loud buzzer for us but we aren’t leaving!
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I watched them enter our building without a hint of hesitation. So grateful 🖤❤️🖤
Congratulations to
@Tennessean
2023 People of the Year: the five
@MNPDNashville
officers who entered The Covenant School to confront the assailant after the murder of six people:
Det. Ryan Cagle, Det. Michael Collazo, Ofcr. Rex Engelbert, Det. Sgt. Jeff Mathes and Det. Zachary
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How did our secret get out?!?
Our evil plan to abolish lasagna would've worked, too, if it weren't for that meddling Senator from Iowa!
#abolishlasagna
#sexblimps
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Do-nothing senator whose caucus blocked border reform at the behest of their party leader throws stones at the sitting President.
Literally nothing to see here.
Biden’s border visit is a dog and pony show, and a sham effort to appeal to suburban moms because the border is now the number one issue.
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Pray for us in Tennessee.
We need real leaders.
Not this.
Tim Burchett was asked what he and Biden were talking about last night. He says Gaetz challenged him to try and delay Biden as much as possible so he got him in a conversation about Corvettes and chocolate chip ice cream.
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Its NOT OKAY to openly lie about what happened.
Especially at this high position in government.
We ALL saw what happened.
Mike Johnson describes January 6 insurrectionists as "people who were just there and happened to be walking through the building"
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This is seriously wrong. America is NOT becoming great again.
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As CS Lewis wrote: "Our joy is not complete until we have shared it with another."
So, here is last evening's rainbow again, just to spread joy to you friends. 🤍♥️🖤♥️🤍
#CovenantintheSky
#CovenantStrong
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@RepJohnRose
@WhiteHouse
I happen to know that Dr. Biden met with members of the families two days after the tragedy (before the TNGOP created the Tennessee Three), so put down your false indignation.
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I know I keep asking you: Pray for us in Tennessee.
The world is taking notice that democracy is suffering.
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If I sound angry, its because I AM!
TN Senate Judiciary Cmte met today with various gun-related bills on their docket.
The parents of one of our school's victims was on hand.
They took up NONE of the bills.
Tabling them til next week (Spring Break for Nashville)
Ugly. Dastardly.
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Conservatives in our state want you to think (and be very alarmed) that beer is being peddled to kids and that everyone is forced to get all their clothing at one store.
Neither is true, but every student in our state IS required to go through active shooter drills regularly. 💔
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Can Tennessee be the place where things begin to change?
#TNLeg
#MomsDemand
#Everytown
#GunReformNow
#CFBT
#CovenantStrong
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Pay him nothing because he does nothing.
I requested my salary be withheld during a government shutdown.
We need to get our fiscal House in order, secure our border, and put in the work to pass all 12 appropriations bills like we told the American people we would.
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Pro-life is a scam.
Don't give in,
@GovBillLee
#CovenantStrong
Republican lawmakers call on Gov. Lee to cancel special session on public safety
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@KeenanPeachy
These are my friends, walking in the steps of Jesus. For you to turn this into a screed against one of the very few legislators who stood up for our school community is loathsome.
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Aidan's heading downtown in the rain to protest.
Lord, watch over him and let them be HEARD.
#thisiswhatdemocracylookslike
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On CNN last night: "I'm to the right of most Tennesseans." But I don't care. I will silence dissent (the TN3), gerrymander at will, and let everyone in the state open carry, to hell with the consequences (several in his district attend the Covenant School).
Vote
@voteclairej4tn
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"The state of the State is that we REALLY don't want immigrants, we want to disable public schools, we want everyone to open carry, we're closing rural hospitals at a record rate, but business is booming in Tennessee, and that's all that really matters!"
#BillLee
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Tennessee legislators: In the name of all things righteous, STOP saying this is solely a mental health issue, and have the guts to DO SOMETHING next week.
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The level of disrespect shown to this grieving family is shameful.
@repgillespie
and
@Senbrenttaylor
should have at the VERY LEAST met with Tyre's parents, who traveled from Memphis to be at the legislative session. 💔💔💔
Pray for us in Tennessee.
TYRE NICHOLS’ FAMILY: “We all know our son got pulled over for a pretextual stop and ended up murdered… my stop and your stop are two different stops.”
@repgillespie
&
@SenBrentTaylor
have just sent their overreaching bill to
@GovBillLee
’s desk without sitting down with them.
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Their sins will find them out.
Thank you, Linda, for being beacon of hope!
#TNGOP
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
NEW: Tennessee
@MomsDemand
volunteer Linda McFadyen-Ketchum was just dragged out of the Tennessee Senate gallery by State Troopers. Lawmakers claimed observers were too loud during their discussion of a bill to allow more guns in schools. WE SEE YOU GOP!!!
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Church, we good with this?
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On the eve of our school's anniversary of tragedy, I call upon our
@TNLeg
to bring about true gun reform.
You have postured long enough.
#CovenantStrong
🤍🖤💔🖤🤍
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How could I ever endorse this person? He's done zilch for our wounded school community, which is in his district. He'd rather pose his family for a Christmas card, all holding assault rifles.
No thanks.
#covenantstrong
I've just received
@realDonaldTrump
's endorsement! Now I need yours:
🇺🇸I flipped TN-05 RED in 2022
🇺🇸I’m challenging the most radical Admin in American history.
🇺🇸I’m one of the Left’s TOP TARGET in 2024.
Will you join President Trump?
ENDORSE HERE >>
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These are not the words of a leader.
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍❤️🤍🖤
Asked about today’s deadly school shooting, Haley says people just want to pass common sense gun reform measures to “feel better”
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@Rezaie1986
@MattSmethurst
Lyon G. Tyler, Jr. passed away in 2019 (not noted in graphic), but was an active member of our Sunday School class up through 2017.
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We've not heard from our representative since our tragedy.
I guess he's too busy pulling stunts like this.
#CovenantStrong
❤️🤍🖤🤍❤️
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@NC5PhilWilliams
...and, given ample chances, the candidate won't repudiate them! Nor will she apologize for horrible comments surrounding the Covenant shooting. Franklin, you've been warned.
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Two very full days of school with all of our students.
Exhausting, exhilarating, wrenching all at once.
God makes beauty out of ashes.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support...both are vital!
❤️🤍🖤🤍❤️
#CovenantStrong
#PasserSolomon
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Please stand strong,
@GovBillLee
, and don't let a small minority dictate the agenda.
#CovenantStrong
❤️🖤🤍🖤❤️
Despite overwhelming support from the majority of Tennessee and law enforcement, the
@TNGOP
executive committee just passed a resolution asking
@GovBillLee
to betray Covenant families and drop the special session on gun safety.
Extremists run the party.
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Pray for us in Tennessee.
Our leaders are going to congratulate themselves after passing this horrible measure. 🙏🙏🙏
“It is unconscionable that the Tennessee General Assembly is on the brink of passing a bill that would bring more guns into schools — against the will of parents, law enforcement and teachers.”
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Honorable Mention in the
@NashvilleScene
's "You Are So Nashville If..." Contest (but FIRST place in MY book):
"YASNI you wish your state representatives were as scared of guns as they are megaphones." — Andy Gasparini
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍❤️🤍🖤
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Pray for us in Tennessee.
We need leadership.
Not sycophancy.
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LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT GUN REFORM.
How long, O Lord?
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
KT Security Solutions, an Alabama-based security firm, has developed a collapsible bulletproof shelter that can be installed inside classrooms to protect kids from school shootings.
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So proud of my Covenant parents and my St. B's parish family for showing up downtown this afternoon! Thank you to ALL 9,000 friends (!!!!) who linked arms.
We're bending the arc!!!
(artwork by
@cpalions
2nd grader)
❤️🤍🖤🤍❤️
#CovenantStrong
#stbsisfamily
#voices4safertn
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This made my day. Week. Month.
Go go go Maryam!! ❤️🤍🖤
She has stood by and hugged our parents ever since our tragedy.
Andy Ogles??? Zilch, zip, zero.
Send him HOME.
#CovenantStrong
💪❤️🤍🖤🤍❤️💪
Maryam Abolfazli has officially launched her campaign for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District seat, which is currently held by Republican Rep. Andy Ogles.
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@SenJohnson
"I get angry when advocates for strong public schools speak out about the voucher scam we're trying to pull."
There; fixed it for you, Jackie.
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She missed an amazing service of worship and tribute. Her loss.
Don’t miss this part.
@marshablackburn
could not pause her war on Hunter Biden for the few hours it took us to say goodbye to my friend
#KatherineKoonce
AT MARSHA’S OWN CHURCH. She debases the life of
#CovenantSchool
headmaster.
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The first funeral was so very beautiful. Death does NOT have the final word.
#covenantstrong
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Our students and school had just been prayed over by a beautiful missionary couple from Kenya minutes before the shooting began.
I beg
@RepMarkWhiteTN
and his colleagues to be courageous enough consider additional (obvious) measures.
#covenantstrong
#howLongOLord
#Covenant
starts each and every day in chapel with
@matthewsully
. Praying before isn’t the answer. Gun control is the answer, my friends. Gun control is the answer to the prayers of parents of murdered children at
#Uvalde
#SandyHook
#Columbine
and hundreds of others.
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Will my PCA brothers and sisters come alongside this voice in the wilderness?
Thank you, brother
@DPCassidyTKC
for crying out.
You can't simply pray about a kid being gunned down because he rang the wrong doorbell. It's going to take more than prayer. God doesn't do what he's commissioned us to do. He's entrusted work to us, empowered us for the work, and is with us in the work. But the work to be done -
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@mikeglenn
I understand not knowing what to say (I've been there) but:
You lost me at, "I wish they would just shut up."
I am thankful for the prophetic witness of the Tennessee Three who are doing Kingdom work in the face of this tragedy, doing what Jesus would do.
#CovenantStrong
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The eyes of the nation will be on Nashville next week, as the
#TNLeg
is called into its Special Session by Gov. Lee.
We've been praying daily on the steps of the Capitol that our state's leadership will make decisions that actually make our citizens safer.
#CovenantStrong
🖤❤️
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Augment. Amplify. Shout it from the rooftops.
This person is a pox on our democracy.
Pray for us in Tennessee. 🙏🙏🙏
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Made me feel sick to my stomach.
@AndyOgles
, we don't need you in office.
You're only making things worse.
#CovenantStrong
I deserve a better US Representative than
@AndyOgles
. I voted for a better Representative. It galls me that he still has yet to say a mumbling word to his constituents who survived
#CovenantSchool
shooting, but he’ll waste our dime on theatrics & honor a murderer.
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Andrea and I just got back from CHURCH.
What a beautiful display of community at work!!!
#CovenantStrong
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Don't ignore what's been happening in our state.
The gerrymandering of middle Tennessee has left Nashville split into three congressional districts and diminished our city's voice to where none of our now-elected federal officials have to truly engage with our community.
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A beach. A university oval.
Its the guns Its the guns Its the guns.
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WATCH: “Covenant parents are here pleading for action (on gun violence), meanwhile we have multiple bills aimed at
@Justinjpearson
&
@brotherjones_
.”
@AlisonBforTN
is running for House vs.
@JohnnyGarrett4
— who has 1 of 3 (!) bills to keep voters from sending expelled reps back.
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Pray for us in Tennessee.
We need leadership.
Our 'leaders' are kicking us when we're down.
You could imagine someone being so stupid that they think regulating guns won’t save lives, but it’s hard to see this as anything other than intentionally telling a grieving community to get bent
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Praise the good we see.
As some Republican-led states reject federal funds for a summer food program, Tennessee will participate in a Biden Administration program designed to give parents extra cash to buy food for their children during the summer months, reports
@anitawadhwani
.
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Absolutely no evidence to support this claim.
There was no one from the medical community asked to testify.
Is there no shame???
Really they'll do ANYTHING (including re-traumatizing our community) to make it NOT about the guns.
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
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Saturdays are nice, because the
#TNLeg
take a break from doing any more damage to democracy in our state.
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Stick together, kind people 💙
Chaplin at Covenant School calls out Cali-Carpetbagger & chronic microphone-chaser
@robbystarbuck
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@VoteGloriaJ
showing leadership where Marsha wouldn't/didn't/couldn't.
#CovenantStrong
❤️🤍🖤🤍❤️
@VoteGloriaJ
took my letter about losing my friend in the
#CovenantSchool
shooting to
@WhiteHouse
. Yesterday, as news broke that she’s running for US Senate, I got a reply from
@POTUS
.
Gloria Johnson is already doing
@MarshaBlackburn
’s job. Let’s make it official.
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On March 27, we didn't have a 'preference.'
But, you go on quoting Thomas Jefferson.
#covenantstrong
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"Arm the teachers!" they say.
"It can only help," they say.
Let your legislators know what a bad idea this bill is.
Nashville teacher threatens to ‘shoot up’ preschool, police say
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All three legislators who, in theory, "represent" Nashville, voted against this aid package.
They are hard-line extremists who need to be ousted in November.
#ogles
#rose
#green
Rep. Victoria Spartz, originally from Chernihiv region of Ukraine, voted against the US aid package for her home country 🤯 Here's the list of other 112 Republicans who didn't support the move
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“I’m not a congressman, I just play one on social media.”
We’re fine without your prayers and (non-existent) support.
#emptysuit
#CovenantStrong
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
It’s been one year since the indescribable tragedy took place at the Covenant School.
One year without these six wonderful and innocent souls. My heart is with their families as we remember them.
Evelyn Dieckhaus
William Kinney
Hallie Scruggs
Katherine Koonce
Mike Hill
Cynthia
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It's jarring for me to read the word "OWNER" associated with a juvenile detention center, but here we are, with one trying to buy votes in the legislature.
Pray for us in Tennessee. 🙏🙏🙏
Co-owner of Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center, Jason Crews, started significantly ramping up political contributions to Tennessee politics after our investigation into solitary confinement.
Story by
@NC5_BenHall
:
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"There are so many ways to love God..."
~
@DavidDark
Rookie lawmaker
@AftynBehn
outlines plan to eliminate grocery tax
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Nashville needs to take a long shower after this three-day roll in the Christian Nationalist mud.
And, btw, Steve Berger, we won't quit.
#JusticeforGrant
🫵 Pastors and leaders, it's time to lead courageously, not fearfully.
Your communities need you to stand strong and uphold biblical values.
You are called to a spirit of power, love, and self-discipline. It’s time to embody that.
Are you ready to step up and lead with bold
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His gesture meant so much to me.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
#Everton
#NilSatis
#UTT
#NSNO
After last year's shooting at Covenant School here in Nashville, Bill Kenwright found out that one of our members was the pastor of the school. Everton, as ever, was in turmoil at the time, and I'll never forget that he still took a moment to mourn and grieve with us. A good man.
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Pro-life is a scam.
Embarrassed by my state yet again.
WATCH: “We shouldn’t think about the worst that can happen, we should think about the best that can happen.”
42 Republicans Block😳Republican Rep. Slater’s bill to give paid family leave to state employees who take in foster kids (
@VoteGloriaJ
&
@JasonLPowell
say is good policy)
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So a film-maker and a journalist were brought in by
@TNGOP
to testify before the TN State Senate Health and Welfare Committee that psychotropic drugs are the cause of many mass shootings. Chairman Sen. Rusty Crowe suggested that our school's tragedy was a result of drugs.
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Praying for our friends in Florida, as democracy and free thought collapse around them.
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Wknd flew, & I don't feel rested nor prepared. But yet miss my students & fellow teachers terribly, & can't wait to see them in the AM.
Pls continue 🙏 for our traumatized lot as we start this new wk. Everyone holding so much. 2/fin
#CovenantStrong
#passersolomon
#takefirststep
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WATCH:
@Jodyforstaterep
Barrett — sponsor of a bill to make protesting in the street a felony — doesn’t know the “exact details” of John Lewis & the Selma March 🤔
@VoteGloriaJ
rightly points out it would have been greatly impacted by a bill like this.
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A very good human.
This pic from our school's Field Day in May, when he brought his players to love on our kids.
So sad to see him leave Nashville.
But I know his phone is ringing off the hook.
#MikeVrabel
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#CovenantStrong
📷📷❤️🤍🖤
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Thank you for your prayers. God is hearing us!!! Source: Tennessee School voucher bill not expected to pass House finance subcommittee Tuesday
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Tell us you have a hard heart and don't understand the situation without saying actually it.
🖤🤍💔🤍🖤
#CovenantStrong
#PasserSolomon
#GunReformNow
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