Men detained at Texas’s ‘dog pound’ ICE facility describe their experience – in art, letters and song

Nearly 500 men are detained at the T Don Hutto detention facility, and many have risked sharing their experiences in a unique way…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/31/ice-detention-texas-stories-art

‘Unsafe’ conditions at Texas ICE facility put immigrants at risk of injury or death, lawsuit says

Court filing alleges ‘physical abuse by guards’, ‘filthy living conditions’ and disease outbreaks at Camp East Montana…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/16/texas-ice-facility-immigrants-risks-lawsuit

 

Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians

As the war pushes deep into its third year, what does daily life look like for people living there and how has the conflict changed it?

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/sep/26/gaza-a-week-in-the-life-of-five-ordinary-palestinians

 

Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms

“Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Cao wrote, responding on behalf of US defense secretary Pete Hegseth to Gillibrand’s inquiry about the quality of life aboard the fleet. “This number includes the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/23/uss-lincoln-suicide-attempts

‘This is where I live now, the back of a truck’: a day in the life of a grandmother in Gaza

As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives. Each tells the story of their day, revealing the terrible toll of the conflict. At 76, Mansoura’s most precious possession is the key to her former home…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/sep/23/this-is-where-i-live-now-the-back-of-a-truck-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-grandmother-in-gaza

 

Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank

Report by Israeli human rights group says systematic and broad assault being waged on conditions required for Palestinians’ existence…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/sep/14/israel-palestinian-living-conditions-eliminated-west-bank-human-rights-report

 

A New DHS Report Proves Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Were Right All Along – Mother Jones

Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigrant detention camp erected in the Florida Everglades last year, routinely held detainees in “small metal enclosures” with just 18 square feet of floor space, a practice that the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog called “highly unconventional and does not align with standards for humane treatment,” according to a DHS Office of Inspector General report...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/a-new-dhs-report-proves-alligator-alcatraz-detainees-were-right-all-along/ 

 

‘It’s inhumane’: six US deportees held in one of world’s most repressive regimes

Believed to be first US deportations to fourth country, six face ‘horrific conditions’ in Equatorial Guinea, say lawyers…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/us-deportation-equatorial-guinea-fourth-country-trump

 

ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

The total denial of contact visits is an extreme restriction for any prison or detention site where people are locked up long-term, particularly a facility holding people accused of immigration violations. Prisons across the US housing people convicted of serious criminal offenses typically operate visitation rooms where families can sit at tables, only temporarily barring contact visits when there are safety concerns. 

The harsh policy, advocates say, is part of the Trump administration’s strategy of placing more and more people in crowded facilities while their cases drag on, subjecting them to prison-like conditions and restricting their connections to the outside – all which can increase pressure to accept deportations...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/ice-california-detention-contact-visits

 

Pentagon fires publisher and editor of US military news outlet Stars and Stripes

Max Lederer and Erik Slavin receive termination notices after publication reported on crew conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/pentagon-fires-publisher-editor-stars-stripes-uss-abraham-lincoln

 

Sen. Mark Kelly says ‘very difficult situation’ unfolding for USS Lincoln sailors : NPR

Kelly also criticized what he described as dismissive responses from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to concerns about conditions aboard the Lincoln. 

Kelly said he and other lawmakers are seeking an investigation and want a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit the carrier and assess conditions firsthand…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5933015/mark-kelly-navy-lincoln-sailors-investigation

Families of US sailors denounce Trump and Hegseth for ‘dismissing their experiences and calling them liars’

“I’m running very low on energy. I am burnt out,” he said in a separate text. 

In a third, he said: “I eat when I can. My coworkers make sure everyone in our unit eats and we all try to share food whenever someone gets more than normal. Keep praying for us. We are doing our best to make sure we protect our country and our families.” 

 The mother said that her son had been on many deployments with the navy. This was the first time that he had ever indicated a lack of food and other basic supplies. “Something genuinely wrong has happened,” she said… 

 “Our military deserve the best of the best,” she said. “They are fighting for our country, and the government has a duty to provide them with the basics. If they’re losing weight, that means you’re starving them.”…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/16/navy-families-denounce-trump-hegseth

 

WATCH: Trump says USS Lincoln's deployment was 'not nearly long enough' | PBS News

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump's comments, saying on X that "President Trump does not care about our servicemembers or their families."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-uss-lincolns-deployment-was-not-nearly-long-enough

 

Pete Hegseth dismisses reports of deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

Defense secretary said conditions on aircraft carrier deployed in support of Iran war have been ‘completely misrepresented’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/uss-abraham-conditions-hegseth

 

Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes

Settlers and soldiers cut off water and electricity to homes, and block medical care in campaign of terror…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/israeli-militants-besiege-two-palestinian-families-in-their-west-bank-homes 

ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures

‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/ice-detention-water-video

 

‘Graveyard for living people’: New report describes HORROR inside ICE’s largest detention center

A new report issued jointly by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch details the hellish conditions inside Camp East Montana, America’s country’s largest ICE detention center in Texas. It alleges rampant abuse inside the facility, including brutal physical attacks by the guards and people being denied necessary medical care. The report relied on interviews from former detainees who survived it.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJrRx6rwQtI

 

Worst states to live in: red or blue?

CNBC’s worst-states-to-live-in list sent Republicans into a meltdown because every state in the bottom ten voted for Trump, but the raw data tells a more complicated story than the outrage machine wants. Red states often do have lower taxes and cheaper living costs, but the tradeoff shows up in lower median incomes, higher uninsured rates, higher poverty, and weaker public investment. Texas and Tennessee can be great for business, cheaper for rent, and still brutal when people need healthcare, schools, or a safety net.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn996HoYBkI

 

‘Dire’ conditions at ICE facility severely violate human rights, lawsuit claims

At US’s largest immigration center, Texas’s Camp East Montana, plaintiffs allege ‘dangerous and abusive’ situation…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/lawsuit-camp-east-montana-texas-us-immigration-ice

‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jail

“We are detained, we are on hunger strike, demanding due process rights and the improvement of conditions,” one of the men said in an interview with the Guardian. “We are not criminals. We are people who enter [the facility] with a clean record. We pay our taxes. [We are] Fathers. Mothers. Spouses of citizens with existing petitions.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/new-jersey-ice-immigration