Stephanie Madison

Post-Trial Brief Supplies Comprehensive Account of Trump Administration’s Arrests, Detentions, and Threatened Deportation of Student Protesters

Two-hundred page account of the Trump administration’s effort to arrest, imprison, and deport foreign students who had the audacity to exercise their First Amendment rights. @knightcolumbia.org @aaup.org @mesa1966.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/post...

How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era "It will test every single shred of creativity we have to continue to try to serve our mission," says one public media executive, as Congress ends federal funding for public broadcasting.

How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era -- my analysis for NPR.

www.npr.org/2025/07/18/n...

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Scorching cells How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Just awful.

Over 60,000 Palestinians have died in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Police hunt for killer of couple hiking in Arkansas park with daughters Clinton David Brink and Cristen Amanda Brink were killed in Devil’s Den State Park, authorities say. Their daughters, ages 7 and 9, were not hurt.

Authorities in Arkansas are hunting for a man who killed a father and a mother hiking with their two young daughters at a state park over the weekend.

Gazans are starving. Here’s what lack of food does to the human body. Children suffering under severe food shortages can face lifelong consequences.

More than 2 million people in Gaza — including some 1 million children — face desperate and worsening hunger.

Doctors and nutrition experts say the children who survive the lack of nourishment are often face a lifetime of health woes.

Family says video shows Alabama man died after officer knelt on his neck The medical examiner ruled Phillip Reeder’s death a homicide but determined heart issues and drugs were contributing factors.

Relatives of an unarmed man who died as he was being detained by police last year say they recently viewed body-camera footage of the incident that showed Alabama officers kneeling on the man’s neck while he repeated “I can’t breathe.”

I met Palestinian activist, Awdah Hathaleen, years ago when he gave me a tour of an olive grove destroyed by Jewish settlers for a story I was reporting.
Today, Hathaleen was shot and killed by a Jewish settler who was sanctioned by the Biden admin, according to Hebrew news outlets.

If anyone has stomach for it, the government’s June 2022 sentencing memorandum starting at page 7 lays out the factual findings of Maxwell’s criminal trial
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Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crac...

NEW: Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats.

Authorities argue harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown won’t make schools safer.

By @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social

While working on a joint state-federal task force, a St. Paul officer lied to get a local teen arrested and the teen spent over two years in custody before charges were dropped. Prior Eighth Circuit decisions ruled out a Bivens remedy and held that § 1983 is off the table because the officer wasn’t acting under color of state law. The plaintiff moved to amend her complaint and seek limited discovery after finding new evidence that the officer was working under color of state law. Eighth Circuit: The earlier decision controls—no § 1983 claim, and new evidence wouldn’t change that. Affirmed. (This is an IJ case.)

two years of a teenagers life and no remedy. fucking outrageous.

An American toddler in foster care, a mom in ICE detention A brief jail sentence turned into over four months in an immigration detention cell for the mother and an extended stay in foster care for son

This week, I wrote about Ingrid Mejia, a Guatemalan egg farmworker who spent more than four months in ICE detention after a traffic misdemeanor, while her 3-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, was stuck in foster care. www.reuters.com/world/us/an-...

'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual a...

Carlos Daniel Terán says he thought he was going to die at the CECOT.

Andry Hernandez describes the place as “hell on Earth.”

Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n... w/ Manuel Rueda

Hospital warns staff not to defend chaplain detained by ICE Cincinnati hospital fired two chaplains for speaking out after colleague detained during routine check-in.

In a leaked message to staff, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital CEO Steve Davis warned against publicly defending a former colleague who has been detained by ICE, suggesting that "could be characterized as political."

Two hospital chaplains have already been fired.

www.salon.com/2025/07/25/h...

For 9 months, I’ve asked Sullivan, directly and through assistants, to speak with me for my upcoming book—a historical record of the Biden admin’s approach to Gaza, for which I’ve interviewed >120 other officials+sources to reflect on policy-making + what could have been done differently. Crickets.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

“Another officer says, ‘They’re starting to resist more now,’ to which an officer replies: ‘We’re going to end up shooting some of them.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

RFK Jr. has fired all members of the Preventive Services Task Force, which requires insurance companies to cover certain treatments. The Supreme Court ruled he could do so in June.

Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Inside the story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Gift link (the only reason I am still paying for the NYT)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

And here's the "It's worse than just lack of relevant experience" skeet I posted in reply.

Is the woman ok?

Opinion | When institutions crumble, strongmen step in Trump wants to be the sole authority. With trust in institutions cratering, he sees his opportunity.

In re: Colbert, my column for The Washington Post today deals with media companies and institutions capitulating in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA