In its first two months, Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force arrested thousands of people. Only 6% appear to be white mlk50.com/2026/02/10/i... @mlk50.com

Following Legal Path to Citizenship, Antioch Woman With No Criminal History Detained by ICE nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/06/t... @nashvillebanner.bsky.social

DC professor (a Jefferson descendant, he says) wants to exhume the body of Jefferson's nephew from Nashville City Cemetery as part of his effort to find evidence Jefferson did not really father kids with Sally Hemings, the women he enslaved Nashville says 'no' www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

A Tennessee Republican introduced a resolution urging the federal gov't to streamline legal immigration for those who embrace the nation's values. Democrats had a few words for him. tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/10/l... @tennesseelookout.com

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration is seeking to broaden the state Homeland Security's investigative powers and shield its records from the public. Some critics are calling it an effort to establish a “secret police." tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/10/t... @tennesseelookout.com

The NES Board on Monday unanimously approved an independent review of its response to Winter Storm Fern and announced a $1 million donation to the city’s storm recovery fund.

Tennessee GOP bill would require immigration checks for local government aid, require agencies to turn over names to the state's new "Centralized Immigration Enforcement Division" and make it a crime for public employees that fail to comply tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/09/t... @tennesseelookout.com

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

Trump announced today on Truth Social he had approved $60.6M in aid for Tennessee following winter storm Trump’s post didn't specify which counties are approved for aid or which types of aid they can receive. tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/06/t... @cstephenson.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com

Tennessee Republicans reject resolution to honor Renee Good tennesseelookout.com/briefs/tenne... @tennesseelookout.com

U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy renews backing for vaccination “freedom of choice” on visit to Nashville tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/04/u... @tennesseelookout.com

The death toll from last week's ice storm in Tennessee rises to 29 statewide, while 4300+ households in Nashville remain without power nearly 2 weeks later. Tennessee still awaits expedited major disaster declaration from the White House tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/02/f... @tennesseelookout.com

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will be in Nashville Wednesday as part of his "Take Back Your Health" tour. @timhenderson.bsky.social with @stateline.org reports on how Kennedy may be affecting childhood vaccine rates.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee leaves mention of immigration enforcement out of final address even as GOP leaders introduce a spate of anti-immigrant bills, some crafted in consultation with Stephen Miller tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/03/t... @tennesseelookout.com

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Just in: In his final State of the State, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee proposed a 100% increase in private-school vouchers, even as lawmakers say the state is building an unsustainable entitlement program.

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

How Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton helped keep payday lender Advance Financial's struggling sportsbook alive People could take out a high interest loan then place bets in the same store. AF owners are big donors to Sexton. tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/27/h... @friedmanadam5.bsky.social

Mayor Freddie O'Connell has not much good to say about Nashville Electric Service response to widespread power outages

Thousands in Nashville are facing a second week without power after Winter Storm Fern; 23 dead across Tennessee as of Sunday tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/02/f... @tennesseelookout.com

FEMA approves $11M in expedited emergency response funds for Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/02/f... @cstephenson.bsky.social

As of Saturday am, 50,000+ without power in Nashville, as Nashville Electric Service response is scrutinized. Power first went out last Sunday for most. Dangerously cold temps forecast this weekend. Statewide death toll has now reached 21 in Tennessee. tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/30/t...

‘Not what our faith teaches’: Nashville faith groups host vigil outside Homeland Security office tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/30/n... @cstephenson.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com

Gov. Bill Lee statement on Nashville Electric Service response to winter storm (70,000 households still without power on day 6):

72,000 in Nashville still without power as outage enters its sixth straight day with bitter cold in forecast today and all weekend. This has been hell for so many people here and there's no clear end in sight. map.datacapable.com/i/nes/

Nashville Mayor O’Connell Echoes Public Frustrations with NES: ‘Help People Understand’ nashvillebanner.com/2026/01/30/n... @nashvillebanner.bsky.social

States reeling from winter storm encounter a smaller FEMA The Trump administration was quick to mobilize initial aid, but it’s not clear how a shrunken agency will handle the long-term recovery costs. @cstephenson.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/29/s...

National Guard says soldiers are deployed for storm aid. But Davidson Co lawmakers are requesting more targeted help in hard-hit Nashville, where 100k remain w/o power for a 5th day in freezing temps with little relief in the forecast tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/29/n... @tennesseelookout.com

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Tennessee Rep. Johnny Garrett, a Goodlettsville Republican and candidate for Congress in Tennessee's 6th District, has filed a bill to bar some U.S. citizens from running for federal office, a move likely to face constitutional questions. Sam Stockard and @anitawadhwani.bsky.social report.

One update: Tennessee Medicaid officials said today about 5200 immigrants without legal status receive prenatal care under the CHIP program annually. State officials are considering cutting them off entirely.

8 weeks under siege in Minnesota, by my colleague @maxnesterak.bsky.social minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/23/8...

Tennessee considers ending program that provides prenatal care to pregnant women without legal immigration status. “We’re looking into whether...we no longer wanted to cover services related to the unborn child, whether we could do that” tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/23/r... @tennesseelookout.com

Tennessee requires 8800 existing commercial drivers’ license holders to prove citizenship, legal immigration in person as Trump targets immigrant drivers and narrows the range of legal immigration statuses eligible for CDLs. tennesseelookout.com/briefs/state... @tennesseelookout.com

Some federal rural health grant $ for Tennessee may depend on ending "certificate of need" law, which mostly helps nonprofit hospitals by requiring a demonstration that a community needs more services before building a new hospital. tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/22/p... @cstephenson.bsky.social

Immigrants advised to shelter in place as feds confirm launch of Maine enforcement operation, dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day” mainemorningstar.com/2026/01/21/i... @mainemorningstar.com

Diabetics rationing insulin. Jaundiced babies missing appointments. Appendicitis festering untreated for days. Expectant mothers laboring in hiding. Minnesota doctors say the immigration crackdown is forcing patients to hide, endangering lives. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/20/m...

hey, y'all. my name is madi and i'm a reporter for the minnesota reformer. i cover the trump administration's impact on minnesotans, which means i've been out on the streets covering ICE in the twin cities. let me walk you through how we got here:

Tennessee lawmakers renew push for grocery tax break tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/21/t... @tennesseelookout.com

Businesses are posting signs on their doors telling ICE to keep out. Observers are visible outside of restaurants, stores and schools. "Upstander" trainings are reaching capacity — and so are neighborhood signal chats. In the Twin Cities, the resistance is everywhere.

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

Amid reports of ICE activity, what we know about immigration enforcement in Maine mainemorningstar.com/2026/01/20/a...

A cloud of fear hangs over Minnesota immigrant communities minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

"Changes need to be made in this bill. Secrecy can protect bad actors," says Deborah Fisher of the Tennessee Coalition of Open Records of a GOP-backed bill would conceal the names of all law enforcement officers involved in immigration enforcement.

Survey of Tennessee construction firms: 9% reported ICE job sites visits 18% reported workers failed to appear at work, or fled, “because of actual or rumored immigration actions”; 32% reported subcontractors lost workers due to ICE tennesseelookout.com/briefs/immig... @tennesseelookout.com

A chaotic ICE raid on a construction site across the street from a Knoxville high school took place while class was in session. No one alerted the school. "That meant no lockdown and no alerts while armed agents swarmed the area." www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

"Memory recedes into the backdrop. History becomes scenery. Agents of an institution that once treated King as an enemy of the state now blissfully occupy his memorial space. This is how power often behaves: it absorbs history, flattens it, and renders it inert" mlk50.com/2026/01/19/a... @mlk50.com

Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Several of the 13 “worst of the worst” criminals that the Department of Homeland Security said were arrested in Minnesota through its immigration enforcement operation were actually handed over to ICE by state prisons before Operation Metro Surge began.