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Senior reporter, HuffPost national desk. Member, @huffpostunion.bsky.social. Reach me: mattshuham.01 on Signal (don’t use a work device or network) ❁ 646-397-4678 ❁ [email protected] ❁ [email protected] 📷 Rhiannon Adam

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Mar 17

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 7d

Re: the recent military jamboree:

In his 2024 book The War on Warriors, Pete Hegseth fantasized about treating Americans like overseas combatants.

“Marxists hate the Constitution […] DEI and CRT are enemies of our Constitution – domestic enemies.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

Trump Defense Secretary Pick Thinks ‘Marxists Are Our Enemies’

He also wants to rewrite the laws of war.

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff.

“This place is built to break us”

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 11d

Alligator Alcatraz has created a blueprint for obfuscation, misdirection and rights violations.

The Trump administration wants to more than double the number of people in immigration detention. Here’s what that looks like:

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 11d

A wave of new immigration jails is drawing widespread criticism for terrible conditions and restricted access to legal resources.

Alligator Alcatraz Is A New Kind Of Immigration Jail — And It’s Multiplying

A wave of new immigration jails is drawing widespread criticism for terrible conditions and restricted access to legal resources.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 14d

>>Hernandez’s attorneys... say his arrest was made without a warrant, based on no information beyond Hernandez’s race and his invocation of his constitutional right to silence... Late Tuesday morning... the federal government had decided to move to dismiss the removal proceedings against him

Conrad Swanson @conradswanson.bsky.social · 14d

NEW from @isabellabreda.bsky.social - Four weeks after ICE arrested him while he worked the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula, immigration officials released firefighter Rigoberto Hernandez from the detention center in Tacoma.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Firefighter arrested at Bear Gulch blaze released from ICE detention

The firefighter had spent nearly four weeks detained by immigration officials. His attorneys argue that was he wrongfully arrested and his constitutional rights were violated.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 16d

"If they deport me, I’ll leave with my head held high, because I’m convinced it will be for carrying out my journalistic work and not for committing crimes.” www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/22/i...

‘I’ll leave with my head held high’ | Hispanic journalist facing deportation pens letter

Monday, Sept. 22, marks 100 days of detainment for Mario Guevara.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16d

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him.

“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case

“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 17d

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 18d

A new report from MSNBC details Homan's alleged scheme to accept $50,000 from FBI agents posing as business executives.

Trump's DOJ Shut Down Bribe Investigation Into Border Czar Tom Homan: Report

A new report from MSNBC details Homan's alleged scheme to accept $50,000 from FBI agents posing as business executives.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20d

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 20d

>Giant stakeholders in the Kimmel affair chose to bend... Disney’s ESPN is poised to acquire the NFL Network...the deal will require the approval of the DOJ...Nexstar is looking to buy a rival, Tegna, for more than $6 billion in a deal that would require FCC approval www.huffpost.com/entry/amid-s...

Amid Shock Kimmel Debacle, These Big Corporations Need Trump Cronies To OK Deals

"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" is on indefinite hiatus after the host made comments about conservatives' reactions to the death of Charlie Kirk.

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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 20d

Fear is the mind killer
www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-...

If You're Wondering Where We Are In Trump's Authoritarian Playbook... Here's What Happens Next

Trump wants the ability to control what is said and who can say it. And he’s been getting it.

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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 20d

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:

*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 20d

Put @jimmykimmel.com back on the air, wackaflockas. Y'all are a disgrace to every single freedom fry you ate in 2003.

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Alanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 20d

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

Democrats Urge Trump Administration To Stop ICE Arrests Of Pregnant Women

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

www.huffpost.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20d

“…The two sources familiar with the internal deliberations say that multiple ABC execs knew Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line.

But it didn’t matter. The government was angry, and wanted another liberal scalp.”

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 20d

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 20d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20d

“ABC and Disney’s silencing of Kimmel — over a highly innocuous comment — is just the latest sign of how terrified major corporations and media companies have grown of the second Trump administration…

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20d

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected.

Now….

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Pulled 'Indefinitely' By ABC Over Charlie Kirk Comments

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has been pulled 'indefinitely' by ABC.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 20d

There is no domestic terror statute with which to designate antifa a terror group.

Want to know abt antifa? Preorder my book here www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20d

“ABC pulled comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air Wednesday after the Trump administration threatened to take action against the network if it did not.”

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 20d

it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20d

ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. nyti.ms/46vgZl3

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21d

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been.

Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said.

Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21d

“.. There has to be a line between crime and war,” said John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 22d

The Israeli military has killed *hundreds* of journalists in just two years –– including as part of a pattern of targeted killings. I wrote about several examples here:

gatheringstring.substack.com/p/israel-is-...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 22d

>“I have a Spanish surname and dark brown skin, so I carry my passport...
>“I’ll make sure to include English words so that someone knows ‘Oh, they can speak English...'
>“[I feel a pull between my anger] and also my desire to... make sure I come home every day...

www.huffpost.com/entry/how-la...

We're Latinos Who Feel Unsafe Outside Every Day After Supreme Court's Racial Profiling Ruling

"I do feel American. I do wonder, though, if my neighbors see me that way."

www.huffpost.com

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