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Steven Hale

@iamstevenhale.bsky.social

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Nashville Banner criminal justice / public safety reporter. “Death Row Welcomes You” author. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676743/death-row-welcomes-you-by-steven-hale/

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · Nov 11

Love to all new followers.

I work at the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social which you can subscribe to here: nashvillebanner.com/newsletters/

I wrote a book about life and death and community on TN’s death row: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676743...

Death Row Welcomes You by Steven Hale: 9781612199283 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of monsters and abominations. ... Death Row Welcomes You demands that we not look away."- New York Times...

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 2h

“The only prison I fear is the prison of the mind … and I busted out of that years ago.”

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 3h

I guess it stands out to me because there were all these right wing caricatures of “wokeness” or examples of white folks trying to portray themselves as heroic allies and Dolly was just like “well golly, why would we keep doing something hurtful?”

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 3h

One Dolly moment I think of regularly is how she explained her decision to remove the word “Dixie” from a Dollywood attraction. In her perfectly Dolly way she presented it as the easy and obviously right thing to do.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 7h

“I ain’t dead yet!” — Dolly Parton

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 14h

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 12h

Truly great content

Spencer Sharpe @jspencersharpe.bsky.social · Aug 17

We won. Watch me and @neilkornutick.bsky.social race the 55 in downtown Nashville on a Saturday night

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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 23h

Aftyn Behn will be the Democratic nominee for the 7th District special election to replace Mark Green.

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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 1d

AP has now called the race for Van Epps.

Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen enough.

Matt Van Epps is going to win the GOP nomination for the 7th District special election to replace Mark Green.

The Democratic race is still a toss up

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

Marlon Brando hearing "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 1d

Halfway into his term, how is Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell doing? Let us know what you think by filling out our community survey.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell reaches mid-point of term - Nashville Banner

Freddie O'Connell's first two years as Nashville Mayor marked by transit referendum, East Bank development, and more. What do you hope to see in the next?

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 2d

"It's not an album. It's a product for sale, and it sounds like one."

defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 2d

The Retconning of George Floyd by @radleybalko.bsky.social: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

The retconning of George Floyd

Bari Weiss's Free Press is the latest outlet to tout a conspiratorial documentary alleging that Derek Chauvin was wrongly convicted. It's all nonsense.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 5d

“Amelia Waters’ son had been at South Central Correctional Facility in Wayne County, Tennessee, for less than 12 hours when a group of inmates approached him with knives.” nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/03/s...

Another CoreCivic prison faces allegations of inmate abuse - Nashville Banner

South Central Correctional Facility, run by CoreCivic in Tennessee, faces allegations of violence, extortion. Families describe a troubled prison environment.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 5d

I talked to three mothers about their sons' experiences at CoreCivic's South Central Correctional Facility. They described an understaffed facility where violence, extortion and drugs are prevalent but assistance and communication from prison officials is scarce. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/03/s...

Another CoreCivic prison faces allegations of inmate abuse - Nashville Banner

South Central Correctional Facility, run by CoreCivic in Tennessee, faces allegations of violence, extortion. Families describe a troubled prison environment.

nashvillebanner.com

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 5d

[to no one in particular at the coffee shop]

“I’ve also read Shakespeare, as it happens”

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 6d

Fair. I’d be interested to hear about other uses you’ve seen, particularly locally.

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 6d

That's a fair enough point -- there are always tradeoffs. With a lot of the AI in use currently, the misuse / flaws seem to outweigh the compelling uses.

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, great, we should keep going with this helpful technology

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this