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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 18h

Here's Cat Murphy, a student journalist with the University of Maryland's Capital News Service, refusing to honor Rep. Andy Harris's false claim that she could not legally record his comments in this public setting @merrillcollege.bsky.social @cnsmd.bsky.social

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 14h

Update: another one: Columbus Dispatch reports: “A suspicious package containing a white powder and addressed to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office was intercepted by the U.S. Postal Service on Oct. 14, prompting an FBI investigation.” www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

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FBI investigating suspicious white powder sent to Frank LaRose's office

The mailing to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office was intercepted by the US Postal Service and had a white, powdery substance, LaRose said.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 18h

Two state election offices reported receiving envelopes containing suspicious white powder Tuesday, both now confirmed not hazardous: - Oklahoma State Election Board - Louisiana Secretary of State www.kansas.com/news/nation-... lailluminator.com/2026/10/13/w... www.facebook.com/Louisianasos...

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Oklahoma shares new details about white powder sent to state election board

Officials say white powder sent to the Oklahoma State Election Board three weeks before the general election was a harmless substance.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/10/2026

NEW: The women were victims of domestic abuse. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys and anyone who would listen. It didn’t matter. They were all taken to an immigration detention center.

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These Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.

It’s especially intimidating for immigrants suffering abuse to call 911. With this in mind, Congress has long treated people who need help as victims, not targets for deportation. Under the Trump admi...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Donald Trump has asserted the right to jail millions of people who've never been charged with a crime, without bond, for the duration of their immigration proceedings, which can take years to resolve. One circuit judge said Japanese internment was "limited in scope in comparison." Will SCOTUS agree?

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@mattshuham.bsky.social's byline makes its return to TPM with an analysis of one of the most important cases before the Supreme Court.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

After four years away, I have a story at @talkingpointsmemo.com once again!

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Federal agents with HSI, ICE's investigative arm, searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C. residence this morning. My report for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of criminal investigation

Trump and key allies have accused Omar of immigration fraud, and have called to expel her from the country

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Incredible reporting: bsky.app/profile/timm...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

>> “That man [brandishing a modified AR-15-style rifle] is Brenden Cuni—an ICE supervisor with the agency’s National Fugitive Operations team who has been involved in several arrests in the New York City region and Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge last winter.” www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Martín Soto, a primary organizer of people detained at Delaney Hall who went on hunger strike to demand their release and to improve conditions, has been released. Soto was detained for more than 9 months, 4 of which were spent in solitary confinement. Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DeLIuSe...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

>> ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!

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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I report, you decide: web.archive.org/web/20260905...

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Wayback Machine

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Harrison Mann @harrisonmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jake Sullivan had his spokesperson call into NPR *during @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social's interview* to complain he was treated unfairly in Ahmed's book about how the Biden administration fathered the Gaza genocide. Sullivan wants us to know he was in fact "working tirelessly" to help Gaza.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another massive raid took place in Memphis recently. 121 people detained by ICE. DHS said "federal and state warrants were executed," but "advocates say the operation was based on two Tennessee Bureau of Investigation warrants for illegal gambling and drugs." www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/c...

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Memphis Safe Task Force, local officials distance themselves from ICE

As the Memphis Safe Task Force's one-year anniversary arrives, ICE's involvement is being downplayed by officials.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've thought a lot about this 2023 quote from Stephen Miller: “You would need to switch to indiscriminate, or large-scale, enforcement activities... going into any place where there’s known congregations of illegals and holding everybody on sight..." omny.fm/shows/the-cl...

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Hour 3 - Stephen Miller - The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Stephen Miller, former president Trump’s man on illegal immigration, joins Clay and Buck to talk about big problems going on at the border, which is the most wide-open and lawless ever under Biden – a...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This club raid in CO, which resulted in 115 immigration arrests, didn't get much attention. The feds claimed "significant drug trafficking" & "prostitution." 16 months later, there's been only one conviction tied to the raid – a security guard's misdemeanor possession. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The New York Times on CROSSING THE RED LINE: “Indispensable... Ahmed doesn’t merely document decisions [by Biden & his aides on Gaza]. He also illuminates the habits of mind that underlay those decisions—habits that will require a political revolution if the Democrats want to uproot them."

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

>> “There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” [Mohamed] told me. “And when we ask [guards] why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.”

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In response to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story, the Florida Democratic Party issues statement calling on Florida GOP leaders — Ron DeSantis, Byron Donalds, and Ashley Moody — to take a stand against Marshall Rawson. "We don't need to send a Nazi to Tallahassee." floridadems.org/2026/09/flor...

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

>> In internal documents provided to the Guardian [following a FOIA lawsuit], [ICE] said it did not have miscarriage data [after Oct. 3, 2025] because of a change in its medical accounting system.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026

I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...

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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect

‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wrote last year about @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social’s coverage of an Oklahoma death-row convict who was spared by a GOP governor, just moments before the scheduled execution. Someone who can handle a story like this ought to be hired pronto by a first-rate news org. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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Laurels and Darts: Execution forestalled in Oklahoma; White House tries to talk turkey, gets gobbled; RFK Jr.,purple-prose muse.

On the ground in Oklahoma at the eleventh hour. Plus: White House tries to talk turkey; gets gobbled up by ABC News. And RFK Jr., purple-prose muse.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One thing I cherished during my time at HuffPost was the opportunity to serve on the @huffpostunion.bsky.social contract team. In January, after months of negotiation (and a strike pledge signed by 100% of our ~70-member union) we secured a fair deal – including dignified layoff rules! ✊

The author in a group photo of the HuffPost Union's contract committee, which recently negotiated another collective bargaining agreement with BuzzFeed management.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I actually wasn’t hired as HuffPost’s immigration reporter – I took on the beat after the LAST round of layoffs. I’ve also done a range of stories on U.S. politics and policy, including Trump's attacks on the "administrative state" and federal workforce: www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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Trump Has A Plan To Sabotage The Government — And It Worked Perfectly His First Term

The first Trump administration's strategy caused a "brain drain" and a generational blow to American agricultural research. And Trump’s not finished.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I used public records and interviews with Texas National Guard troops themselves to detail previously unreported accounts of abuse on the state-run border deployment known as "Operation Lone Star." www.huffpost.com/entry/operat...

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Observers Have A Warning About What's Going On At The Texas-Mexico Border

There’s little oversight or accountability for how Texas soldiers guarding the border treat migrants and asylum-seekers, critics say.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My colleague Ryan Grenoble and I also revealed Bill Gates’ previously-unreported financial stake in mass deportation. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g... (This story included a lot of plane-spotting at Newark Airport: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA0J...)

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Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Has A Surprising Stakeholder: Bill Gates

One of the billionaire's investments has become a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I investigated the administration’s efforts to target migrant children, including immigration agents' secret threat that kids would face “prolonged” detention unless they gave up their rights and left the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr... www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...

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ICE Targets Teens With Sick And Twisted 18th Birthday Gift

The teens spent time in government-contracted shelters. Now, the feds are putting some of them behind bars.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I interviewed federal agents, legal experts and immigration activists to identify and understand some of the administration's most aggressive (and often illegal) arrest tactics: www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...

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'Pull Up Your Pants!' ICE Raided A Plant And Detained Dozens — With No Arrest Warrant.

One agent called the raid a "s**tshow." A federal judge had a different term for what came next.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I traveled to multiple states to cover federal law enforcement, immigration detention centers, and the militarization of the U.S. border: www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

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The ICE Crackdown In Minneapolis Is Rapidly Escalating. So Is Local Backlash.

Trump's agents bring violence and terror. Everyday people are responding with cameras, whistles and defiance.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve forefronted the stories of people facing the United States’ immigration enforcement machine, including those who’ve experienced violent street arrests, were detained in immigration court, and faced indefinite detention in domestic ICE jails and overseas gulags. www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...

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I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like.

"This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm proud of the work my colleagues and I have published over the last four years, so I hope I can take a moment and highlight some of it. (You can see more at mattshuham.com/clips)

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm going to miss working with you so much!!

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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today is my last day at HuffPost. After 11 years, I was laid off as part of the 33% cuts at BuzzFeed. My team, the National desk, was cut from 7 reporters to 3, after being cut from 14 to 7 just over a year ago

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Nathalie Baptiste 🇭🇹 @nhbaptiste.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today is officially my last day at HuffPost. So thankful for my union, this would be so much scarier without them 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

After 3 years, it's my last day at HuffPost. I was laid off as part of the larger cuts at BuzzFeed. I'm not sure what comes next but I'm proud of our union for holding it down. If you’re an editor or lit agent looking for someone to write about trans rights and politics, hmu at levikalish@proton.me

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today is my last day at HuffPost. Like many others, I was hit by mass layoffs at BuzzFeed. I've done my best to hold power to account and tell complex stories with care, and I'm going to keep doing that. So please keep sending me tips! Contact: mattshuham@protonmail.com, 646-397-4678 (cell/Signal)

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026

It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

one undercover agent attended a lefty boxing practice and had an oopsie

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