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50 results in articles and videos for “SHU”
- ArticleRyan's Take
The SHU: A Jail Inside the Prison
Ryan Nichols explains the SHU, the Special Housing Unit in federal prison: one room, a shower, food through the slot, for two to eight weeks.
- ArticleLegal Spotlight
"Hope You Don't Die": The D.C. Jail Officers Who Should Be Investigated
A first-person account of the corruption, abuse, and torture I witnessed inside the D.C. Department of Corrections, and the officers who need to answer for it.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Nobody Taught Them How to Act
Ryan Nichols on what he saw at FCI Beaumont, why men come home from federal prison not knowing how to act, and why there was no proper transition.
- ArticleEast Texas
Where to Find Mental Health Help in East Texas, Day or Night
Ryan Nichols lists mental health help for Longview, Marshall and East Texas: the 24/7 crisis line, mobile crisis team, local clinics, veterans help and 988.
- ArticleNews
End the Texas Lottery? SB 188 Owes Schools and Veterans an Answer
SB 188 by Sens. Hall and Hagenbuch would end the Texas Lottery and strike lottery money from the veterans' fund. Who covers $1.82 billion for schools?
- ArticleNews
Who Takes Your Land for a Bullet Train? Two Texas Bills Filed Today Say Opposite Things.
HB 728 would bar private companies from using eminent domain for high-speed rail. HB 270 would have TxDOT contract for an I-35 line and allow state money.
- ArticleEast Texas
No Warrant, No Camera. HB 847 Puts Plate Readers on a Leash.
HB 847 would require a warrant before Texas police use license plate readers, limit the data to violent crimes, and make agencies post yearly numbers.
- ArticleEast Texas
Crypto Kiosk Scams Hit Texas. HB 271 Would Pull the Plug.
HB 271 would make owning or hosting a crypto kiosk in Texas a Class A misdemeanor. What the bill does, the FBI scam numbers, and what it does not prove.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Abolish Property Taxes? First Show What Replaces Them.
HB 144 would create a Texas commission to study what replaces local property taxes if they are abolished. What it does, the cost, and what it does not do.
- ArticleNews
Day One Bill for Disabled Veterans. Read It First.
HB 106, filed on day one of Texas bill filing, would let disabled veterans who hold property in a qualifying trust keep their tax exemption. Read it.
- ArticleNews
Medicaid Expansion Is Back. Show the Math First.
Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin says she will work on Medicaid expansion. The Senate is still Republican. East Texas deserves the math before any vote.
- ArticleEast Texas
Protect Your Pipes Before the First Freeze in East Texas
Ryan Nichols on getting ready for the first East Texas freeze: the NWS forecast for Gladewater, pipe steps from TDI and the Red Cross, and checking on a neighbor.
- ArticleEast Texas
One Democrat on the Oil Board. 3,246 Wells Still Waiting.
New Democrat on the Texas Railroad Commission. Same list: 3,246 wells authorized to plug, 75 in five East Texas counties, one waiting since 2011.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
Let Me Talk to My Wife: Don't Lose the Sale
Agree with them or fight back, and you lost the sale. Here is what to say when a customer wants to talk to their spouse first. (903) 500-8898.
- ArticleNews
The State Says the Voter Roll System Fell Short. Show the Audit.
Texas officials admit the TEAM voter registration system fell short and ordered an outside audit. East Texas clerks carried it. Publish the findings.
- ArticleNews
Unofficial Is Not Official. Watch the Canvass.
Texas results are not official until the canvass. Here are the state deadlines for counting the last ballots and asking for a recount.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Local Control Was Right Then. Is It Right Now?
Austin spent years limiting Texas cities and counties. The majority just changed. Here are the laws on the books and what to watch in East Texas.
- ArticleEast Texas
East Texas Water Is On Defense. Watch the Bills.
Three East Texas lawmakers say our groundwater is on defense as the Texas House flips. Here is what they said and the bills to watch.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Plenty of Money in the Bank. My Card Still Got Declined.
My ad charges got flagged as fraud even after I said it was me. The block sits above my local branch. Has this happened to you?
- ArticleEast Texas
A Free Ride to the VA for East Texas Veterans
Ryan Nichols on free GoVET rides for East Texas veterans in Gregg, Harrison and Marion counties to the Shreveport VA, plus Marion County VSO hours.
- ArticleRebuild
I Am Building an Inheritance My Son Can Log Into
Fatherhood turned my own advice around: own the accounts, keep the record, build on ground nobody can lock. What I am leaving my son is the work, kept safe.
- ArticleReflection
Somebody Called Me Before They Called Anybody Else
When you survive something in public, strangers start calling. Here is what I can actually give them, and what I finally stopped trying to carry.
- ArticleThe Work
Twenty-Six of Twenty-Eight Left From the Page They Landed On
An article became the front door to my whole site in one night. It had zero internal links, and 369 of my 539 published articles have the same defect. Here are the numbers off my own database.
- ArticleReflection
I Let Somebody Watch Me Be Bad At It
For years I only did things in public I was already good at. That was not humility, that was armor. The small practice that is undoing it.
- ArticleJanuary 6
They Marked It Resolved. Their Own Answer Said It Was Still Being Investigated.
Twenty nine grievances. Twelve never answered. Eight never got a number. And the one marked resolved carries a written response saying the allegations are still being investigated.
- ArticleReflection
I Was Answering Questions Nobody Asked
For years I answered simple questions with closing arguments. Over-explaining does not make you look honest, it makes people wonder what you are worried about. On putting the armor down.
- ArticleReflection
I Used to Rehearse Before Church
For years I rehearsed my answers on the drive to church. A few weeks ago I noticed the drive had gone quiet, and nothing was wrong.
- ArticleRebuild
The Column Nobody Puts in the Comeback Story
Comeback stories get written as one column. The honest version has a second one that never closes out. You rebuild next to the loss, not over it.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
I Have a Quarter Million Leads and Cannot Afford to Email Them
A 200,000 address list, $500 to $1,000 a month to send, and a five year old consent problem. The case for and against hitting send, with CAN-SPAM facts.
- ArticleHistory & Service
The Night the Telegraph Wires Woke Up
On September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington saw a solar flare. Hours later, auroras and electrical currents disrupted telegraph systems around the world.
- ArticleEast Texas News
Longview's National Night Out Starts Tonight
Longview's free National Night Out kickoff runs tonight from 6 to 8 at Maude Cobb. See what is planned and how to register an October block party.
- ArticleBusiness
36 Robocalls Hit My Business Line In 72 Hours
A rotating-number robocall campaign hit my business line 36 times in three days. Here is the record and the five-minute fix any small business can copy.
- ArticleReflection
The Widow's Jar and the Empty Pantry
2 Kings 4: a widow with nothing but a small jar of oil. What that story taught me in a thin season, plus a fifteen minute inventory you can do tonight.
- ArticleReflection
The Five Minute Flag
The flag goes up before the phone comes on. Why a five minute morning ritual steadies a man, plus five two minute anchors you can start tomorrow.
- ArticleReflection
How to talk to a veteran about hard days
Five things to say and five things to skip, from a Marine who needed both. Presence over advice, questions over assumptions. Screenshot the card and keep it.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should New Texas Data Centers Bring Their Own Power?
Texas faces a surge of data-center power requests. Should new campuses supply their own electricity, or should the shared grid support their growth?
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The X Essay That Convinced 80 Million People AI Just Changed Everything
Matt Shumer's viral X essay "Something Big Is Happening" got 80M+ views. Here's what it actually said, and why it's worth reading.
- ArticleMotivation & Resilience
Do Not Give One Bad Hour the Rest of Your Day
One bad hour does not deserve the rest of your day. Use this practical ten-minute reset to stop the slide, recover your footing, and move again today.
- ArticleHistory & Leadership
The Box of Scraps That Helped Bring Apollo 13 Home
Apollo 13 survived a deadly carbon dioxide problem with an improvised filter adapter. The lesson is how calm teams build with what is actually available.
- ArticleReflection
Nobody in This House Needs Rescuing
Marine, then search and rescue. You get trained to run at the loud thing. Three days into a quiet house, I am learning that presence is a harder muscle than rescue.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Two Hundred Eighteen Pages Nobody Can Evict Me From
218 published pages on a domain I own. A post on a rented platform has a half-life. A page you own has an address. Here is what owning it actually costs.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
I Turned Down the Easiest Money on the Internet
I researched 36 affiliate programs and turned on none of them. Amazon can terminate a publisher over content it alone judges defamatory. Here is the standard I use instead.
- ArticleReflection
Calm Is Not the Same Thing as Numb
Numb looks exactly like calm from across the room. Here is how I tell the difference now, and what actually moved it: work with an end to it, water, and one honest conversation.
- ArticleReflection
Some Days the Win Is the Thing I Did Not Send
Ryan Nichols on the one rule he uses now: if he writes it in heat, it sits until morning. On PTSD, restraint, and why Genesis 50:20 is something you find out later.
- ArticleReflection
The Startle Never Left. What Changed Is What I Do Next.
PTSD told honestly. The flinch never went away. What changed is how long it owns me after. On recovery time, healing in public, and why the water still works.
- ArticleReflection
Nothing Out On That Water Knows My Name
For years, sitting still was not rest. It was a cell. Fishing was the bridge from braced to steady, and why I am learning stillness before my son gets here.
- ArticleEast Texas
East Texas Heat Advisory Covers Longview and Marshall Through 8 P.M.: What to Do Now
A July 23 heat advisory covers Longview, Marshall, Gregg and Harrison counties through 8 p.m. See official risks, symptoms and local cooling options.
- ArticlePolitics
House Passes H. Con. Res. 113: What the $95 Billion Reconciliation Blueprint Actually Does
The House passed H. Con. Res. 113 by 216–214. Learn what the $95 billion reconciliation blueprint authorizes, what it does not spend, and what happens next.
- ArticlePolitics
House Passes Stopgap Funding Through December 4: What H.R. 9770 Does, and What Happens Next
A facts-first guide to H.R. 9770, the House-passed stopgap funding bill: the December 4 deadline, programs continued, restrictions, Senate path, and shutdown risk.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: How Megan and James Heath Grew Pack N Mail
Meet Pack N Mail owners Megan and James Heath, Longview and Gilmer entrepreneurs named the SBA's 2026 Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Their story and lessons.
In the case files
62 matches in the record for “SHU”
Grievances (3)
Solitary Confinement Conditions
Conditions in the SHU including water cuts, denial of medical care, mental-health…
Water Shut Off as Punishment
Water shut off in the SHU for punitive reasons. Escalated to Step 4 g…
Rappahannock Regional Jail — Same Treatment, Second Facility
…in Gammons #51547, Richard Jong Pak #98201, Andrew Combs, Joshua Roberts #00046579, Abraham B, Worzel Jacobs #51556) docume…
Timeline (2)
Water-Shutoff Grievance Investigation Closed
…tor Lancaster signs the IGP investigation response on water-shutoff grievance 2022050-120. Escalated to Step 4; no remedy g…
Rappahannock Grievance Filings
…in Gammons #51547, Richard Jong Pak #98201, Andrew Combs, Joshua Roberts #00046579, Abraham B, Worzel Jacobs #51556) docume…
People (25)
All 25Documents (32)
All 32Doc 156 p3: No detox bath, mental health denied, Spanish grievance form
…t materials and discovery confiscated, electronic grievance shut off, staff gave him grievance form written in Spanish and…
The Final Call - p2 Officer Holmes, Scott Fairlamb, Sep 1 Chaplain
…National Anthom and God Bless America, told entire unit to Shut the Fuck Up and Fuck America. Sep 1: Chaplain rounds passi…
Habeas Corpus petition — page 13 (USMS memo findings, MTG/Gohmert visit)
…hheld for punitive reasons, standing sewage in cells, water shut off for days, cold meals, pervasive marijuana use by guard…