Matt Shuham

One man who suspected he had prostate cancer when he was first detained by ICE had to wait 6 months to get diagnosed.

“I am afraid that I will die … if I do not get the medical care that I need urgently … I am scared that without the Court’s help, I won’t get any cancer treatment at all.”

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.

New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

ICE Denies Wrongdoing In Death Of Man In California Immigration Facility "ICE can deny wrongdoing, but the reality remains the same: Alberto Gutierrez Reyes died while in their custody," Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez told HuffPost.

My latest for @huffpost.com: ICE Denies Wrongdoing In Death Of Man In California Immigration Facility

"ICE can deny wrongdoing, but the reality remains the same: Alberto Gutierrez Reyes died while in their custody," LA Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.

Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

>Four days into the conflict, US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 742 Iranian civilians, including 176 children, and wounded 971 others, per [Iranian rights group] Human Rights Activists News Agency. The first day of bombing saw a missile strike a school, killing at least 165, mostly young girls

Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is ‘Part Of God’s Divine Plan’ One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

@brandibuchman.bsky.social has more: www.huffpost.com/entry/troops...

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

>> [Concerned troops] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times”...
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Trump Says He Brought 'Justice' To Iran. His War Boosts Fears The U.S. Has Gone Rogue. The administration’s latest escalation is boosting the global view of the U.S. as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically and illegally and risking innocent lives.

NEW– Trump's war on Iran boosts the global view of the US as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically+illegally & risking innocent lives

Combined with his broader agenda + US record from Gaza to Iraq, international wariness of America is at new heights
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Tweet from Pam Bondi that reads: Today, @thejusticedept unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack on Cities Church in Minnesota. At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, with more to come throughout the day. YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you. This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith. 🇺🇸

Attorney General Pam Bondi says 30 additional people will face federal charges for the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul last month. (That's on top of those already charged, who include Don Lemon and others.)

Almost one year after DHS agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, agents have come to Columbia's campus again — this time, apparently *lying* and saying they were looking for a "missing person" in order to get access into a building

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."

To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.

>...much of the leaked [data from White Date, a website that has been described as “Tinder for Nazis,”] still lives online at a website [that hacker Martha] Root created, okstupid.lol

the Cincy enquirer has def taken up a front page cause, the Feb 20 print edition top headline is: “Haitians sparked a revival in Springfield”

That is the Cincinnati enquirer’s idea of a matter of fact, straight news front page print headline now in the current climate

The Fate Of An Imprisoned American Journalist Hinges On What Trump And Iran Do Next Reza Valizadeh was arrested in September 2024 after he traveled to Iran to visit his parents.

NEW–Amid fears of a massive war, successful US-Iran diplomacy is increasingly hard to imagine

Trapped in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison is an ailing American journalist whose case helps explain why: Reza Valizadeh

New details here on the calculus among Trump/GOP/Tehran:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

'COWARDS! COWARDS! COWARDS!': Los Angeles Votes Down A Policy To Protect People From ICE Immigrant workers in Los Angeles face an impossible choice: Go to work and risk being snatched up by ICE, or stay home and risk eviction.

ICE raids have forced many immigrant workers in LA to make a horrific decision: go to work and risk arrest or stay home and risk eviction — which can force people to leave the U.S.

LA officials say they oppose ICE but they've refused to pass eviction protections www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre.

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ICE Officers Chase Driver Through Streets Of Savannah, And A Teacher Ended Up Dead Linda Davis' death has called attention to the dangers of vehicular pursuits.

Police in this county have a "no chase" policy. "This is really unfortunate and, more than likely, preventable," the police chief said.

#LindaDavis

www.huffpost.com/entry/teache...

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

“We didn’t go in thinking we were going to find so many instances of really forcible family separation... Women would come in just sobbing, saying they weren’t even asked if they had kids.”

“We were all crying on the plane...thinking about our children” –mother separated from her 5-year-old child

Leading @huffpost.com this morning.

Parents are getting deported without having any idea where their kids are. www.huffpost.com/entry/parent...

"UNCONSTITUTIONAL MESS"

Attorneys for Don Lemon and Georgia Fort say DOJ has squandered the presumption of grand jury regularity with it's "nakedly political" actions.

"In the United States of America, we do not prosecute journalists for doing their job."

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“I refuse to bend that knee. I refuse to be silent. He gave me a platform, and I’m going to use this platform as much as I can.”

Agent investigated in Chicago woman’s shooting, her lawyer says The attorney for Marimar Martinez says prosecutors told him the agent who shot her five times is facing a criminal probe.

NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️

Free speech something something

ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today:

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...