Thank you so much to @claywallace.bsky.social for having me on to talk about two last-second anti-trans bills in Kentucky! #kyga26
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Thank you so much to @claywallace.bsky.social for having me on to talk about two last-second anti-trans bills in Kentucky! #kyga26
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NEW: Hope everyone placed their bets on the number of shell bills this session. #KYGA26
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Yes
Among the new bills tonight: HB 888 would prohibit any future collective bargaining agreements tied to local governments and school districts.
Existing CBAs would be grandfathered in. #KYGA26
More on Senate Bill 351 in my latest for Queer Kentucky 👇 #kyga26
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Such an important story + thread 👇
NEW: A few Ky. Republicans filed a bill that would keep transgender teachers out of the classroom.
Let's chat Senate Bill 351. #KYGA26
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Kentucky House just passed HB 503, the legislative budget for the next 2 years. It would give legislators a 2% raise. They ruled a Democratic amendment out of order that would have stripped out the raises. #kyga26
the long travel nightmare that is simply being a clifton resident continues
Are they really??
Ok update it isn’t — I wrote a story about James Ramsey leaving U of L from my phone while dying my hair more than a decade ago.
I’ve filed a lot of stories in a lot of odd places but writing in a salon chair I believe is a first
HB 1 will be in the Senate Education Committee tomorrow at 10 a.m.
"About two dozen Kentucky communities, including Lexington and Louisville, also have 'fairness ordinances' that prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people, which their local human rights commissions can act on. There is no statewide fairness law."
The latest from John Cheves:
💔💔💔 thank you
House Bill 1 — the federal scholarship tax credit bill — just passed out of committee.
Three Dems passed on their vote, only one Dem voted no.
HB 1 can get a full House vote as early as this afternoon. #kyga26
Generally, to drum up conversation and interest. And then use those convos and feedback to change the bill into (hopefully) something better.
It also helps get around the bill filing deadline because as long as the bill is filed in time, it can change thru amendments/cmte subs past that
In a convo about cuts to graduate programs at
U of L's Pan-African Studies Dept., Prof. Ricky Jones raised an interesting q: Will UofL bring back supports designed for Black students and faculty following a recent ruling against Trump's DEI restrictions?
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NEW: Midseason stats from the first half of Kentucky’s 2026 legislative session #kyga26
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will join Rep. Jason Petrie tomorrow in Frankfort to present a resolution in a committee meeting that calls Congress to submit to states a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution for their ratification. #kyga26
Resolution: apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/...
NEW: Nine things I'm watching, wondering, thinking, etc. as we head into the second half of Kentucky's 2026 legislative session. #KYGA26
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School decision-making councils become advisory panels only under Shelbyville Republican lawmaker’s legislation.
Massie Update
Y’all, the next edition of The Gallery Pass is going to be delayed a bit so I can see how a few votes turn out tomorrow. We’re alive, we’re good, I’m just trying to bring y’all the freshest news. #KYGA26
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Catch up on the week’s news in Kentucky policy and politics with the latest issue of @thegallerypass.bsky.social!
#kyga26
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A Kentucky Senate committee has passed bills that would limit administrator pay increases to those given to teachers and require more training, as the legislature hones in on public school accountability. www.lpm.org/news/2026-02...
Kentucky’s SNAP error rate is low enough that the state’s health cabinet doesn’t plan to request cost share funding from the General Assembly this budget cycle, per Department for Community Based Services Commissioner Lesa Dennis.
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i did not slide down half of a “must clear” street and end up in a ditch for some of y’all to come on here and complain.
y’all can’t drive and that’s why the schools are closed.
learn to think, and then learn to drive. good lord.