Daniel A. Horwitz

If you told me that we invaded Venezuela so that this guy, specifically, could snort the country’s entire drug supply, I would believe you.

Do you like it when the President makes your life worse? Yes/No/Unsure

Republicans: 83/6/11

Independents: 20/65/15

Democrats: 4/89/7

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

'Eyebrow raising!:' Metro Council member questions no-bid contract with former MNPS insider A Metro Council member is raising questions about a large no-bid contract that Metro Nashville Public Schools handed to a well-connected consulting/lobbying firm with ties to former district insider.

Great scoop by @philinvestigates.com.

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You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won

I support the energy of this thread. (I have also encountered a former US Supreme Court clerk who boasted about this.)

Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

Pretty optimistic to think we’ll be bombing just one

ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases A judge ruled that the Navy’s long-standing policy to withhold records from its criminal trials violated the First Amendment.

ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases

A judge ruled that the Navy’s long-standing policy to withhold records from its criminal trials violated the First Amendment.

At this point I am begging the @tennessee-titans.bsky.social to put out a statement saying they want all the storm debris around town cleared so that @nashville.gov will fund and prioritize it.

Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works

It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.

Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:

Seriously everyone relax. Kash is on duty

As a friend pointed out: honestly astonishing to think about what would have happened if trump had come in and done literally nothing on the economy

Yes, and it’s great, actually! You don’t have to worry if there were a bunch of untranscribed hearings that are missing from the record!

A Balancing Act: Waiver Rules in Tennessee Appellate Practice Tennessee appellate practice is a precision business. Absent rare exce

This is the least important thing you need to read right now, but if you are interested in an article I wrote for the TBA Journal this month about Tennessee waiver law, you can read it here: www.tba.org?pg=Articles&...

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

The next Democratic Congress needs to get her back and force her to answer questions about the fuck plane

Metro Nashville: Don’t haul away your storm debris! We want to pick it up and weigh it so we get more disaster money!

Also Metro Nashville: {leaves massive woodpiles untouched all over the city and refuses to pick them up}

The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac1 In 2019, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted “the ‘Tennessee Public Participation Act’” (TPPA),2 Tennessee’s first meaningful anti-SLAPP statute.3 The TPPA ushered in a host of critical protections for people who are sued for defamation (libel or slander), false light invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and a host of other speech- and petition-based torts. The purpose of this whitepaper is to catalogue Tennessee’s TPPA jurisprudence on every issue that matters to litigators. A. THE THREE-STEP TPPA ADJUDICATION PROCESS TPPA petitions to dismiss must be adjudicated in discrete steps according to the statute’s “delineated” “dismissal procedure.”4 Appellate authority sometimes 1 By Daniel A. Horwitz, Horwitz Law, PLLC. This whitepaper is current through March 4, 2026. It is not intended to be legal advice, and it should not be relied on for that purpose. It is copyrighted material, however, and it should not be reprinted without consent. To cite this whitepaper, please use the following citation: Daniel A. Horwitz, The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac, HORWITZ.LAW (Mar. 4, 2026), https://horwitz.law/the-tennessee-public-participation-act-almanac. 2 See Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-17-101. 3 “The term ‘SLAPP’ stands for ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation,’ meaning lawsuits which might be viewed as ‘discouraging the exercise of constitutional rights, often intended to silence speech in opposition to monied interests rather than to vindicate a plaintiff’s right.’” Nandigam Neurology, 639 S.W.3d at 657. Tennessee has had a limited version of an anti-SLAPP statute since 1997. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-21-1001, et seq. 4 Reiss v. Rock Creek Constr., Inc., No. E2021-01513-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16559447, at *8 (Tenn. Ct. App. Nov. 1, 2022) (“[W]hen a party files a motion to dismiss based on the TPPA, the dismissal procedure delineated in the TPPA should be followed regarding…)

Here’s a more readable .pdf version: horwitz.law/the-tennesse...

The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac - Horwitz Law The Tennessee Public Participation Act Almanac[1] In 2019, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted “the ‘Tennessee Public Participation Act’” (TPPA),[2] Tennessee’s first meaningful anti-SLAPP statute....

I finally found the time to put this together. So it’s out!

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‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Absolutely fucking not. Goddammit

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It cannot be said often enough that these are deeply sick and evil people who have neither scruples nor shame.

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

Well they’ve got all this extra time now so why don’t we give them mandatory jurisdiction over all the SSI appeals

“Strait of hummus”

I cackled

I would like anyone who opines favorably on anything that this Administration does on any topic to think very hard, before hitting publish, about the fact that these people are incompetent in every possible way and have the worst judgment ever measured in live human beings.