Humza K
One part immigration attorney, one part TTRPG nerd. She/they.
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- Reposted by Humza KI think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
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- Reposted by Humza KIt's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
- Reposted by Humza KAll the former spooks with whom I’m mutuals have been too. Whatever Wyden is signaling by releasing the letter about his concerns regarding CIA activities, it’s serious.
- Reposted by Humza KOn top of everything else, here is Marimar Martinez's defense attorney explaining how to delete a tweet, after a prosecutor last week said he assumed there was a way to do it but wasn't sure:
- Reposted by Humza K‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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View full threadReposted by Humza KEven though a court had granted the habeas petition, Kira Kelley’s “client … was being told that she would be transferred to Sherburne County jail to be detained for the duration of her pending immigration proceedings unless she signed self-deportation papers prior to the transfer going through.”
- Reposted by Humza KThere's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley, climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira..., who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
- Reposted by Humza Kone of the best things ever is when you see a cat and you just put your hand out and the cat's tail perks up and they trot over and rub their little soft face on your hand
- Reposted by Humza KThe guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
- This piece hit **hard** for me.
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- Reposted by Humza KYuh-Line Niou was one of the electeds I most respected during the first years of COVID. She was out there on the ground literally getting meals to folks in need in her district. Very glad to see this.
- I am running for State Senate. Join me: forms.gle/Q151nPYHfiYg...
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- Reposted by Humza KPretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient
- Reposted by Humza KA tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
- Reposted by Humza K@juliaserano.bsky.social provides an excellent rebuttal to the idea that Dems need to triangulate against trans people in order to win moderate votes. (Calling Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom). Lots of receipts for her argument.
- very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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- Reposted by Humza KDem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
- Reposted by Humza KFar-right Americans want you to believe that having nice things is impossible, and that serving billionaires is the only thing you can do. This is a lie. The rest of the world has solved many problems Republicans pretend are impossible.
- Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0
- Reposted by Humza KEven if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Humza KI don't know if Charles R. Saunders was the first Black author to tackle the Cthulhu Mythos, but he's the first I know of. His story goes into very unusual territory immediately, being told about two Black men and dealing with the history of slavery in the US. deepcuts.blog/2020/08/29/j...
- Reposted by Humza KIt arrived! It's still so unreal for me.
- I am happy to announce we are featured in the latest issue Tabletop Gaming! It even features a cover by @greywizard.bsky.social! I have loved gaming magazines since I was a kid so this is all particularly exciting for me 😁 www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/tabletop-gam...
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- Reposted by Humza KA federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.
- Reposted by Humza KAbolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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- Reposted by Humza KYep. Please don't let this shiny object distract from real reforms.
- To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available... That's already been official ICE policy for over two years. www.ice.gov/news/release....
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- Reposted by Humza KVery excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/
- Reposted by Humza KHappy Birthday Langston Hughes!
- @xplainthexmen.bsky.social and @titanupthedefense.bsky.social got me through a lot of the first Trump admin. Been missing TUTD, not ready to say goodbye to J&M just yet, but deeply grateful for both of these.
- Sharing some news that those of you who have listened to 513 already know -- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men will be coming to an end later this year. www.xplainthexmen.com/2026/02/all-...
- Reposted by Humza KA different kind of April fools *SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
- Reposted by Humza KCBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:
- Reposted by Humza KAs Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home. Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
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- Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
- Reposted by Humza Kreposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
- Reposted by Humza KToday I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- Reposted by Humza Kwhat impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines
- Reposted by Humza KOur labor movement could not exist without the work of Black union members and leaders. During #BlackHistoryMonth and every month, America’s unions celebrate the elders and ancestors who came before us and those fighting now for racial justice in the workplace and beyond.
- Reposted by Humza KI have been tracking this woman's story since it happened. She absolutely is a hero. The regime smeared her good name, engaged in a cover-up, and the agent who shot her exemplifies the kind of violent cruel out-of-control men who work for DHS.
- Reposted by Humza KOne of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.
- Reposted by Humza KDHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
- Great post from @wyrdscience.bsky.social discussing "politics in games" and why more of that is a *good* thing, using three games (This Guilty Land [ @amabel.bsky.social ], Stonewall Uprising [ Taylor Shuss ], Votes for Women [ @downtowntbrown.bsky.social ] ) as case studies.
- Read the rest. It is great in typical Dan fashion wyrdscience.substack.com/p/standees-i...
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- Holy CRAP these are all amazing. Read the thread.
- Have found tumblr user probablyday's #woosterposting series. In shock
- Reposted by Humza KI’ve harped on this for years but the reason there’s a seemingly (or at least relatively) “low” amount of corruption in US politics is because we’ve legalized all of it.
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