Jonathan Wiley

Head of security at Opry Mills reveals that they use LPR to notify repo companies when mall visitors are behind on their car payments. “3 or 4 people a week” come to him saying their car was stolen when in reality the mall had tipped off the repo company and gotten it taken.

Good thing he doesn’t live in Nashville 🫠. Anyone remember how he got pulled over doing 85 in a 55 last year and almost got into a fight with MNPD?

please for all that is good in this world, let me and my weird friends just make benches and stop trying to make the city actively worse. thank you.

The original east Nashville Spokes timeline. We’re too busy sitting on our hands, suing an inept federal administration, and reallocating our own Vision Zero dollars away from safety projects to do it our damn selves. NACTO Designing cities? More like NADA in Nashville.

Great bike ride today! Rode the greenway 25 miles and tried the new path around Ascend. Also, found a great category on hub for this horse 💩 behavior:

"ICE agents can access vehicle information and travel history from databases that collect information from electronic license-plate readers" MNPD wants $2.9M for LPR's in Nashville. Let's not aid in further enabling these efforts.

The Metro Nashville Police Department has requested $2.9M for License Plate Readers. We must say NO

Just going to leave this here…

We need 2️⃣ more students to sign up for our 9 & 10 year old Learn to Ride this Sat 3/21! (Almost-but-not-quite 9 year olds are also welcome!) Register at link events.humanitix.com/9-and-10-yea... & please spread the word! Registration closes at 7PM on Thu 3/19.

Registration is now open for the 22nd Tour de Nash, presented by LDA Engineering! Join us May 16 for Nashville’s largest urban bike ride and support Walk Bike Nashville’s mission to build a strong culture of walking and biking in Nashville. walkbikenashville.or...

"Rodríguez, who was in the car with her husband — a U.S. citizen — has been following all the legal steps to citizenship. In her job, Rodríguez has reported several stories that hold ICE accountable, and it’s unclear whether her detention was retaliation."

The number of times I’ve seen MNPD cars parked or driving on the sidewalk or in a bike lane in Nashville is astounding…almost seems like it might not be against policy? But also, come on, how hard is it to park your car somewhere that doesn’t endanger others?

INVESTIGATION: Over the last 5 months, the Banner and a coalition of partners analyzed 52 hours of footage and thousands of pages of documents from a joint THP/ICE operation targeting Nashville’s predominantly immigrant neighborhoods. Here’s what we found: (1/11) ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

Your coworkers who use AI too much

Fuck ice

ICE spotted in Inglewood. D7 has a large immigrant population, plus ICE targets Home Depot and we have one of those. If you see ICE call Music City MigraWatch 615-933-8409.

We’re keeping tabs on/trying to verify ICE encounters in Nashville. If you see something, let us know. I’m on signal at sgtaylor.01, email sgtaylor@nashvillepublicmedia.com or you can DM me. @iamstevenhale.bsky.social is at iamstevenhale.88 @stelliott.bsky.social is stephen.81

Don’t we have a Downtown library that needed renovations??? Seems a good use of this funding that was already approved in the DMC’s grant contract would be to… renovate the library the NDP’s subcontractors blew up. Ah but wait, the mayors office is choosing to limit this use out with the MOU.

I think about it all the time. And I think we shouldn’t give the private org ultimately responsible $15 Million for surveillance equipment.

lol the mayor’s office favorite way to refute every single point we make is simply to claim “it’s misinformation” with no substantive rebuttal. Dave Rosenberg did the same thing with fusus and every single thing we said about surveillance tech has happened since then.

Some Lower Broad bar owners appeal their reappraisals while others seek nine-figure sales — telling two different stories about Nashville's party center.

Nashville’s got free money for the NFL, but free bus fare? NO WAY. We mustn’t give an inch to the poor! It’s a violation of market principles!

Despite a THP spokesperson saying "all stops were made after observations of traffic violations," only about 14 percent of 607 reports from the May 2025 ICE/THP sting list a reason for the traffic stop.

A new court watch group in Nashville hopes to hold judges and the criminal justice system accountable, educate the public on issues, and help Nashville’s citizens understand what they are voting for. ✏️: @mikeiereiland.bsky.social

Nashville Department of Transportation faces off with citizens who want to reinstall seating on Korean Veterans Boulevard.

Diana says "funding structures" are an impediment to quickly implementing life-saving projects. Has anyone asked her who paid the ~$150k to remove the 9th Ave bike lane? Would love to know the answer to that.

Learn how to ride a bike this weekend with Bike Fun Nashville

This morning, officers blocking the Commerce Bike Lane told me they hoped I got hit by a car and threatened to "punch my teeth out" if I didn't move along.

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

Truly a mystery how the flex posts get broken…

I really hope Nashville politicians are paying attention to all of the alarming news that has come out around surveillance since passing the “guardrails” legislation. At this point, it should be glaringly obvious to everyone that there is absolutely no way to safely use surveillance technology.

Best comprehensive explainer of all of the problems with the Nashville Downtown Partnership & their various partners just dropped: open.substack.com/pub/promethe...

And a great, very well-sourced (& hilariously dark) read from Mike Lacy on the Nashville Downtown Partnership here: open.substack.com/pub/promethe...

NASHVILLE, show up for the public hearing this Tuesday, July 15th to speak at the public hearing against the BID legislation. The Nashville Downtown Partnership has an outsized influence on our city with no accountability or oversight. It’s time for council to tell them NO. More info in posts below!

“IN VIOLATION OF THE DEPARTMENT’S POLICY” Policies are only as good as the people entrusted to enforce them, my friends. That’s why we cannot give an inch on the surveillance state.

This is just gross on so many levels.

This happened on May 8th, the Mayor's office was notified on May 9th, but the footage wasn't released until the day after the Metro budget was passed on June 17th 🤔 Did council know about this? @delishiafornash.bsky.social @emilyfor7.bsky.social @quinevanssegall.bsky.social @ginnywelsch.bsky.social

Amid state-federal joint immigration sweeps last month in South Nashville, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper, tailed by ~4 feds, swooped in on a routine Metro traffic stop. The state trooper asked to "take over" the stop.

Understand CM Toombs general point about the hypocrisy of wanting services but not wanting increased taxes BUT it’s a bit insane to continue saying there’s no option but raising property taxes when they give SO MUCH MONEY TO MNPD

LAPD when they think nobody is watching