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Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be transferred to Tennessee for hearings on criminal charges • Tennessee Lookout federal judge in Maryland approved the transfer of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention in Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be transferred to Tennessee ahead of hearing scheduled next week in Nashville on claims he is being vindictively prosecuted by the federal government after they erroneously deported him.
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SNAP use by county -- in some rural Tennessee counties one in five people rely on SNAP for food
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Media coalition sues Tennessee prison officials to get more access to executions A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee's top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media's access to the entire process when...

Media coalition sues Tennessee prison officials to get more access to executions

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Stockard on the Stump: National Guard could roam Memphis streets for a year • Tennessee Lookout Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee the federal government will fund troops in Memphis through Sept. 2026.

"Hegseth notified Gov. Bill Lee in a Sept. 23 letter that the U.S. Department of Defense is prepared to authorize and fund up to 1,000 Tennessee National Guard personnel to work with the Memphis Safe Task Force through September 2026."

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Despite bipartisan lawmakers’ urging, Lee declines to bridge SNAP freeze with state dollars • Tennessee Lookout With the looming prospect of federal food aid disappearing for nearly 1 in 10 Tennesseans starting Saturday, state Democratic lawmakers – and at least one Republican – have urged Gov. Bill Lee to foll...

While other states, including Republican-led ones, are finding ways to temporarily replace SNAP, sending $ to food banks & beefing up other anti-poverty programs, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declined to use state funds during SNAP freeze
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

New Yorker's Ronan Farrow producing HBO documentary on Sean Williams. Johnson City settled a lawsuit for $28M brought by sexual assault victims who alleged local police covered for Williams, implicated in scores of rapes against women/kids
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ICE detentions rise in Nashville since Trump took office - Nashville Banner A closer look at the Nashville numbers produced by Donald Trump's mass deportation effort as ICE agents increase enforcement and deportations from local jails.

New at @nashvillebanner.bsky.social: an update the less visible side of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort that has remained active at Nashville jails. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/30/n...

This is the intake room at the Memphis jail, thanks to Memphis Safe Task force. It's 200 men.

Memphis school board expands student busing to reduce absences caused by immigration enforcement -- in yet another instance of a city taking steps to protect its residents from actions taken by the federal government

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Rural Tennessee residents are going to be hit hard by SNAP freeze. In some rural counties, one out of every five residents relies on SNAP for food.

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Memphis educators say Hispanic students are showing up to class distressed and distracted, or not showing up at all, in the wake of a controversial federal law and immigration enforcement surge in the city. From @brihatch74.bsky.social with @chalkbeat.

Knox County postpones vote to bar nonprofits getting county money from serving immigrants • Tennessee Lookout The Knox County Commission voted to temporarily shelve a pair of proposed ordinances that would compel nonprofits receiving county grants to pledge not to serve immigrants without legal status. The…

“You are proposing to penalize Knoxvillians for being good. You would turn food pantries, clinics and shelters into checkpoints and faithful servants into informants,” Matthew Nance, a Knox County resident, told the Knox County Commission Monday. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.

"This is not just about expanding a bus route, this is about protecting lives and families."
Memphis-Shelby Schools adopt emergency plan making more kids eligible to ride buses as traffic stops, arrests by Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force keep families in fear
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Department of Children's Services faces sharp questions about kids continuing to sleep in offices • Tennessee Lookout Children continue to be housed in Tennessee state office buildings, Department of Children’s Services Margie Quin chief acknowledged.

4 years ago we posted video showing foster kids forced to sleep on bare office floors, spawning outrage
DCS said Tues. the practice continues: "The services they are getting inside a DCS office are not dissimilar from what they are getting in a transitional home”
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Democratic AGs, governors sue Trump over SNAP benefits as shutdown hits day 28 • Tennessee Lookout A coalition of Democratic state officials sued the Trump administration asking a federal judge to force the release of food assistance funds.

Democratic AGs, governors sue Trump over SNAP benefits as shutdown hits day 28
Nearly 700k in Tennessee won't get the monthly food benefit starting Nov. 1 without immediate action from court, Congress.
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Knox County postpones vote to bar nonprofits getting county money from serving immigrants • Tennessee Lookout The Knox County Commission voted to temporarily shelve a pair of proposed ordinances that would compel nonprofits receiving county grants to pledge not to serve immigrants without legal status. The vo...

After facing vocal community pushback, the Knox County Commission postponed a vote on two ordinances that would have required local nonprofits receiving county grants to pledge not to serve undocumented immigrants.
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TN Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger told a Johnson City TV station she had gotten no complaints about the government shutdown.

Dozens of people emailed the TV station saying they had, in fact, complained but gotten no response from Harshbarger's office.

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Maury County installs first tornado sirens more than 1 year after Columbia tornado • Tennessee Lookout Maury County, Tennessee, is installing its first tornado sirens following demand after an EF-3 tornado in the city of Columbia in May 2024.

Maury County installs first tornado sirens near schools, parks

21 tornadoes have hit the county since 1950 but Maury & other rural counties have struggled to figure out how best to use/pay for the warning sirens
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Tennessee Sen. Blackburn to support food program funding during shutdown • Tennessee Lookout U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Monday she is backing legislation to keep Supplemental Nutition Assistance Funding from lapsing.

Tennessee Sen. Blackburn signals support for bill to keep SNAP food aid funding during government shutdown
The program will pause Nov. 1 if no action is taken, impacting 1 in 10 Tennesseans (nearly 700k) who rely on SNAP to eat
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“We’ve been deeply affected in a very negative way by everything that’s happening,” said Alejandro Romero, general manager of the Memphis Edge District’s Sabor Caribe. “The sales have dropped like 60% or 70% in the last 15 days.”
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Trump could bail out farmers hurt in his trade war, again. Here’s what happened the first time. • Minnesota Reformer When Donald Trump returned to the presidency, he restarted the trade war he had initiated during his first term. The major buyer for U.S. soybeans has been China, but the country has bought none this ...

Trump is considering another round of bailouts for farmers, this time for $10 billion. Some of that money may come from revenue from the tariffs – paid by American consumers – which caused the trade war in the first place. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/27/t...

Federal judge vacates Biden-era rule protecting transgender patient from discrimination • Tennessee Lookout A federal judge has vacated a Biden era rule that extended anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ patients in federal healthcare programs.

Federal judge vacates Biden-era rule protecting transgender patients from discrimination

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Tennessee governor warns of SNAP lapse, blames Democrats for shutdown • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee warned SNAP recipients to prepare for a lapse in their benefits starting Nov. 1 and blamed congressional Democrats.

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Trump Officials Float New Plan for Abrego Garcia: Send Him to Liberia The proposal was the latest twist in a byzantine saga that has transformed the Salvadoran migrant into one of the best-known symbols of President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

The Trump administration floated a new plan to deport Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia for a second time, after he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March. Lawyers for the Justice Department said on Friday that the African nation of Liberia had agreed to take him in.

Ruth A. Lawrence, Doctor Who Championed Breastfeeding, Is Dead at 101

As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/h...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will not use state reserves for SNAP food aid if shutdown holds, despite maintaining more than $2 billion in emergency reserve funds.

About 1 in 10 Tennesseans rely on SNAP to eat.
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Mayor Young tells Hispanic leaders Memphis Police Department is working with ICE • Tennessee Lookout Memphis Mayor Paul Young confirmed the Memphis Police Department is cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young tells Hispanic leaders that Memphis Police are working with ICE

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Food aid interruption would mean hard decisions for nearly 700K Tennesseans The continued government shutdown could interrupt food aid for 700,000 Tennesseans, putting beneficiaries at risk of missed meals and impossible finances.

Food aid interruption would mean hard decisions for nearly 700K Tennesseans https://wpln.org/post/food-aid-interruption-would-mean-hard-decisions-for-nearly-700k-tennesseans/

A day and night in Memphis: Trump’s task force expands surveillance A child sitting in the backseat of a car pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol peeks through the window during a traffic stop at an Exxon located at

A day and night in Memphis: Trump’s task force expands surveillance
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