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Chris McDaniel
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News Producer at Last Week Tonight. Previously an investigative reporter at BuzzFeed News. Winner, 2011 PAX East Super Smash Bros. (N64) Championship. Signal: csmcdaniel.89
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October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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In court today, Kaplan heard about migrants sleeping in areas that reek of sewage and ICE agents “holding up a water bottle and spraying it into the mouths of the individuals who wanted water as if they were animals.”
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August 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Those imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador without due process "felt dead." A hunger strike was put down with rubber bullets and pellet guns. They were never allowed outside in four months.

When they asked for lawyers, guards would say "that word doesn't exist here."
An attempted hunger strike in April made conditions worse, González said. Guards fired rubber bullets and plastic pellets at some detainees. When they asked for a lawyer, he said, guards told them: “That word doesn’t exist here.” At one point, the detainees used sharp iron pipes to cut themselves and write messages in their blood on white sheets as an act of protest, Suárez said. “We are not terrorists,” the messages read. “We are migrants.” Advertisement They were served meals of tortillas and beans three times a day, González said. Blanco said the food was the only relief in his day; detainees would occasionally be given pancakes for breakfast or hamburgers for lunch, he said. There is no outdoor space for recreation in CECOT and only certain corner cells have access to the sun, Suárez said. “With time we all lost our fear because we were practically dead people living,” Blanco said. “We felt dead.”
July 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM