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Round 1
A group at the University of Tennessee Knoxville is being accused of posting flyers advertising something called “Kirkaversary”—a September 10 gathering described on the flyer as celebrating “the first New Year after Kirk.”
The flyer says it was set for 8 p.m. on HSS Lawn and included language distancing the event from another group called “Jerk for Kirk.”
Libs of TikTok shared screenshots of the flyer and what it said were messages from a UT Knoxville chat, tagging Chancellor Donde Plowman and asking what she thought about students planning the event.
(I wouldn't be surprised if she never responded)
Now, I’m all for college students having hobbies. Clubs, intramurals, campus events…
But organizing an anniversary party for somebody’s assassination is not edgy political discourse.
It is just deeply weird and disturbed behavior made presentable with a Canva template.
And if you are going to advertise it around campus, maybe don't act surprised when it leaves the group chat and becomes everybody else’s problem
Round 2
A case of mistaken identity has gotten so out of hand that a Winchester police officer, his wife, and their four-month-old baby have reportedly received death threats.
The confusion started after a Cedartown, Georgia, police officer named Trenton Garner shot and unalived a miniature donkey while assisting with a search for a missing child late last month.
That shooting is being investigated by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and the Cedartown officer involved has been placed on leave, according to reporting out of Georgia.
But Winchester Police have had to announce that their Patrolman, also named Trenton Garner, was not involved.
He's never worked for Cedartown Police, and he is not the officer being investigated.
Same name.
Completely different man.
And yet, somehow, people decided the appropriate response was to threaten the Tennessee officer, his wife, and their four-month-old child over something he didn't do.
Gotta love a good old fashioned mindless mob
But PEOPLE!
Be mad about the actual incident if you want.
Ask questions. Demand answers. Follow the investigation.
But please make sure you’ve found the right guy before you turn into the internet’s least-qualified detective.
Maybe this is how conspiracy theories start 🤔
That's two down and one to go, and with today being the 25th Anniversary of 911, what do you think happened with tower 7?
Round 3
A Cheatham County mother and stepfather are facing neglect charges after deputies say an 18-year-old with autism was found living alone in a shed during the summer heat.
According to the Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office, Amanda Sewell brought her son a small air-conditioning unit last week—but investigators say the power to it was cut off twice.
And the longest stretch without power was reportedly three days.
Three days. In a shed. In *this* Tennessee heat?
Sewell and Brandon Cox are both charged with neglect of a vulnerable adult.
Cox told News 2 that his stepson doesn't have autism and that living in the shed was the teen’s own choice.
But law enforcement says Sewell herself reported that her son *does* have autism, and the charges remain in place.
And look—families caring for autistic young adults can face very real challenges.
But as a local autism advocate told News 2, the responsibility still belongs to the adults.
An 18-year-old may be legally grown, but that doesn't mean “he chose it” becomes a magic sentence that makes unsafe conditions okay.
If the allegations are true, the issue is not whether he wanted his own space.
It is that somebody apparently confused “independence” with “living in a storage shed with the AC disconnected.”