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  • In the blink of an eye, California turns on In-N-Out's CEO

    07/22/2025 7:09:57 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 127 replies
    SF Gate ^ | 07/21/2025 | Madeline Wells
    Billionaire In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder stirred up a storm of online controversy over the weekend when she revealed that she planned to move her family out of California to Tennessee. The news comes as In-N-Out begins to expand heavily into the South, launching a new joint headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville — where Snyder will also now be based. Snyder revealed the coming move on a recent podcast appearance, saying, “There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not easy here.” The clip, from a new episode of...
  • MARK GREEN has resigned from the House. He hasnt voted in a few weeks.

    07/21/2025 12:59:38 PM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    X ^ | Jul 21, 2025 | Jake Sherman
    MARK GREEN has resigned from the House. He hasnt voted in a few weeks. . House is now: 219 - R 212- D 4 vacancies ... How/when do these vacancies get filled? By whom? ... They trigger special elections but often governors play games with when to schedule them depending on whose party the vacancy favors ... Special election for Tennessee - not an appointment. So usually several months from governor declaring the writ and the election ... Two Dem elections are in September. One in Virginia and the other in Arizona 7th. .... 3 of those are D vacancies...
  • Electricity bills projected to jump 20% in coming months for these 13 states

    07/18/2025 4:31:04 PM PDT · by george76 · 67 replies
    American Thinker ^ | July 16, 2025 | Olivia Murray
    2024, prices jumped 800% at PJM Interconnection, a “traffic controller” part of the grid that provides service in 13 states as well as D.C. .. PJM operates the largest power grid in the U.S., with around 67 million customers—that’s more than 20% of the American population. ... amid a dwindling supply and an increase in demand, “Prices for power plants landed at $269.92 per megawatt-day, compared to $28.92 per megawatt-day” in 2023. ... prices are set to spike again, and the projection for this year is around 20%. If you live in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey,...
  • GOP Rep [Burchett] says he believes Epstein files were destroyed

    07/10/2025 11:30:46 AM PDT · by RandFan · 70 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/10/25 8:26 AM ET | by Sarah Fortinsky -
    Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday he believes a client list associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once existed but was “destroyed” by the Biden administration. “I think the files existed at one time,” Burchett said in an interview on NewsNation’s “On Balance” with host Leland Vittert. “I think they were destroyed in the previous administration.” The Justice Department (DOJ) released a memo earlier this week concluding that Epstein did not keep such a list that was allegedly used to blackmail high-profile individuals — contradicting conspiracy theories circulating for years that suggested otherwise.
  • Mark Green resigns from Congress to take mystery job — narrowing Republicans’ threadbare majority

    07/06/2025 7:48:26 AM PDT · by CaptainK · 80 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/6/25 | Ryan King
    Tennessee Rep. Mark Green announced that he has resigned from Congress to take a mysterious new job — narrowing Republicans’ already ultra-slim majority by one seat ahead of messy fights such as the looming government shutdown battle in the fall. The retired US Army officer had revealed his intention to step down last month after passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but had refrained from giving an exact date. On Friday, he tendered his resignation, which is effective July 20, per his letter to GOP leadership.
  • DOJ Charges 324 in Largest Healthcare Fraud Takedown in U.S. History — $14.6 BILLION Scheme Involved 96 Doctors, Nurses, and Pharmacists Targeting Medicare and Medicaid

    06/30/2025 11:43:19 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June 30, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    The Department of Justice on Monday unveiled a record-shattering crackdown on the corrupt underbelly of America’s health care system. A jaw-dropping 324 defendants — including 96 medical professionals — have been charged in 50 federal districts and 12 states for orchestrating over $14.6 billion in intended fraud, largely targeting Medicare, Medicaid, and federal health programs meant to serve the elderly, disabled, and the poor. The takedown, spearheaded by the DOJ’s Health Care Fraud Unit in coordination with HHS-OIG, the FBI, the DEA, and over a dozen state attorney general offices, marks the largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history....
  • GOP Lawmaker Demands DOJ Investigate Socialist NYC Candidate Over Terror Ties, Communist Links

    06/28/2025 9:03:00 AM PDT · by lightman · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 28 June A.D. 2025 | Sarah Arnold
    A Republican lawmaker is demanding that Attorney General Pam Bondi direct the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani— a socialist Muslim who wants government-run grocery stores and to shift the tax burden to homes in “whiter neighborhoods.” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) urged Bondi to probe Mamdani and initiate denaturalization proceedings, claiming he made false statements during his citizenship application. The lawmaker accused Mamdani of joining a communist group at the same time he was filling out his U.S. citizenship forms in 2018. “At the same time, he's filling out these...
  • Judge will order Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release before trial, but ICE plans to detain him

    06/22/2025 6:31:55 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 34 replies
    AP News ^ | June 22, 2025
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee plans to order the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while he awaits a federal trial on human smuggling charges. But Abrego Garcia is not expected to go free because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will likely take him into custody and possibly try to deport him. In a ruling on Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the U.S. government’s motion to keep Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial. She scheduled a hearing for...
  • Democrat mayor SMIRKS as he defends 'doxing' ICE agents

    06/19/2025 10:22:12 AM PDT · by DFG · 41 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/19/2025 | MARYANN MARTINEZ
    A Democratic mayor is defending the public release of names of federal immigration officers involved in mass migrant round ups, claiming that the real concern isn't their safety, but that masked agents are 'whisking people' away. Names of agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were posted to online by the City of Nashville, as part of a public records request that mandates information about immigration be posted online to a city website. Mayor Freddie O'Connell is currently under investigation by two Congressional committees for allegedly helping illegal immigrants in Music City evade deportations. 'I understand the concerns but it's...
  • Tennessee Sues to End Program Funding Colleges With High Hispanic Enrollment

    06/11/2025 11:23:45 AM PDT · by karpov · 5 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 11, 2025 | Douglas Belkin
    A lawsuit filed in federal court in Tennessee on Wednesday seeks to end a program designed to funnel tens of millions of dollars to colleges and universities with a large percentage of Hispanic students, charging it is racist and unconstitutional. The suit was filed by the state of Tennessee and advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions against the U.S. Department of Education. In 2023, the advocates’ suit against Harvard University led to the Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional to consider race in university admissions. A federal funding program designates schools as “Hispanic-Serving Institutions” if they have at least 25% Hispanic-student...
  • House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green announces retirement from Congress for private sector job

    06/10/2025 7:37:11 AM PDT · by Twotone · 14 replies
    Just the News ^ | June 9, 2025 | Misty Severi
    House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced Monday he will resign from the lower chamber once it votes on the reconciliation package again to take a job in the private sector. Green, who was first elected to the chamber in 2018, has been serving in the lead post on the Homeland Security committee since 2023. He helped orchestrate the impeachment of former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024. The chairman, who previously expected to resign from Congress last year, did not state who he supported to replace him. He also did not state what the private sector job...
  • Mark Green announces retirement from Congress before end of term

    06/09/2025 6:23:15 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 26 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6-9-25 | Elizabeth Elkind
    House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., is departing Capitol Hill early, he announced on Monday. Green said he is leaving Congress for the private sector after the House votes again on President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" in the coming weeks, in a statement first obtained by Fox News Digital. "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up. As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from...
  • A city’s dream deal promised jobs, money. Then residents learned it was with Elon Musk.

    06/01/2025 3:03:02 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 76 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 1, 2025 6:00 a.m. EDT | Holly Bailey
    MEMPHIS — For decades, this storied American city has watched companies come but mostly go, its vacant storefronts and blighted buildings a reminder of its days as a thriving manufacturing hub and the painful decline that followed as those jobs vanished.As Paul Young, the city’s mayor, puts it, Memphis has been “the city people forgot about.”Then last summer, Memphis landed what Young and local business leaders called the city’s largest corporate investment in a generation — a “transformative” development for a place that has struggled to convince outsiders of its continued potential.The project was something every city dreams of, Young...
  • Juveniles among 7 injured in shooting at Jackson, Tennessee, park, say police

    05/26/2025 8:55:13 AM PDT · by crusty old prospector · 25 replies
    ABC News ^ | May 25, 2025 | Bill Hutchinson
    Gunfire erupted in a Jackson, Tennessee, park Saturday night leaving seven people, including juveniles, injured and police seeking the perpetrators of the shooting, authorities said. The shooting occurred at the Kate Campbell Park northeast of downtown Jackson, according to the Jackson Police Department. One of the gunshot victim was hospitalized in critical condition, two were in stable condition and four others were treated and released, police said in an updated statement Sunday morning. Police officers responded to the park after receiving reports at around 8:41 p.m. of a shooting incident involving juveniles, authorities said in an earlier statement.
  • Fire that destroyed historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say

    05/22/2025 11:58:21 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 17 replies
    cbs ^ | 5-21-25 | Kiki Intarasuwan
    U.S. Fire that destroyed historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say By Updated on: May 21, 2025 / 6:11 PM EDT / CBS/AP The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple, a historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday. The Memphis Fire Department said the fire on April 28 was started on the interior of the church, and authorities are searching for a person of interest. Memphis Fire Chief Gina Sweat last month described the inside of the church...
  • Tennessee bars public schools from requiring use of preferred pronouns, names

    05/12/2025 1:51:45 PM PDT · by Morgana · 12 replies
    Christian Post ^ | May 12, 2025 | Ryan Foley
    A newly enacted Tennessee law prohibits schools from punishing employees and teachers for referring to trans-identified students by their given name and pronouns, as public school staff in other states have faced professional repercussions for declining to use trans-identified students' preferred names and pronouns. Tennessee's Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed House Bill 1270 into law Friday. Lee's approval of the legislation follows its passage by the Republican-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives in a 77-18 vote and the Republican-controlled Tennessee Senate in a 27-6 vote. The vote in the Senate fell along party lines, with all support for the measure coming...
  • Tehama County teens arrested for alleged school attack plot

    05/12/2025 6:37:55 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 13 replies
    Krcr ^ | Sun, May 11th 2025 at 10:39 PM | by Sophia Bruinsma
    Sheriff's Office in Press Release 5/11/2025, Two teenagers from Tehama County were arrested after allegedly plotting an attack on Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, authorities said. The investigation began on May 9, 2025, when a Tennessee resident contacted the Tehama County Sheriff's Office. The individual reported concerns after engaging in online gaming with one of the teens, who discussed school violence and shared a manifesto and plans targeting the school.... The suspect also sent photographs of himself and an accomplice posing in attire similar to the Columbine school shooters, according to the sheriff's office. Allegedly, the attack was initially planned...
  • This Court Case Could Blow a Grand Canyon-Sized Hole Through Federal Gun Laws

    05/11/2025 11:39:51 AM PDT · by george76 · 55 replies
    Townhall ^ | May 10, 2025 | Jeff Charles
    Does the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms apply to fully automatic machine guns? The US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee is poised to rule on the matter. Jaquan Bridges pleaded guilty to possessing a machine gun after engaging in a 2023 shootout with police officers on a Tennessee highway. Courthouse News reported that Bridges “was arrested with a Glock .40 caliber pistol with an attachment that converted the handgun into a machine gun, but fought to dismiss the charge on constitutional grounds.” He claimed the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in New York State...
  • Mag 4.1 Earthquake Shakes Knoxville TN Area

    05/10/2025 10:03:45 AM PDT · by Robert A Cook PE · 30 replies
    USGS ^ | 10 May 2025 | Robert A Cook PE
    A Mag 4.1 earthquake just a few miles south of Knoxville TN at 9:00 EDT 10 May 2025 shook the geological region around between Knoxville and Atlanta GA this morning. No nationally reported reports of damage or injuries, but a low magnitude earthquake less than 5.0 seldom causes much damage. Hillside rock falls and tree falls in the already wet soil after several days of rain are likely the closer to the epicenter one goes. Unlike California's very broken earth and rocks, where small magnitude earthquakes are not felt very distance from the epicenter, the very large, very rigid Eastern...
  • Nashville mayor says ICE arrests of dangerous criminals are not ‘focused on making us safer’

    05/07/2025 7:51:39 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    NY Post VIA Fox News ^ | 05/07/2025 | Greg Wehner, Fox News
    US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted operations in Nashville this week, resulting in the arrests of a convicted child sex predator and an alleged gang member, but the mayor of the city said the arrests were not focused on making the city safer. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared Democratic Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s letter to the city about the ICE arrests. “Our top priority is keeping people safe, and we’re deeply concerned that what appear to be federal actions are making that harder,” O’Connell wrote. “Overnight, we understand that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents detained people...