Humza K
@humza.bsky.social
One part immigration attorney, one part TTRPG nerd. She/they.
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Humza K
@humza.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Ok. I think I gotta cut down my time on this place - the world is on fire, and being continually reminded of exactly HOW on fire it is, is doing a number on my being able to actually work towards helping in whatever way I can.
Much love to y'all.
Much love to y'all.
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People should pay attention to this story. Trump actually tries his "you're fired" shtick, directly!! But it's mere words!! Because the guy has a (good) union (which is smartly making a symbol of this story)
Ford meanwhile suspended him immediately and surely would have fired absent union action
Ford meanwhile suspended him immediately and surely would have fired absent union action
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
People should pay attention to this story. Trump actually tries his "you're fired" shtick, directly!! But it's mere words!! Because the guy has a (good) union (which is smartly making a symbol of this story)
Ford meanwhile suspended him immediately and surely would have fired absent union action
Ford meanwhile suspended him immediately and surely would have fired absent union action
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Trump isn’t some aberration. He’s the conservative movement’s logical and inevitable—and intentional—endpoint.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Trump isn’t some aberration. He’s the conservative movement’s logical and inevitable—and intentional—endpoint.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
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We live in a country doing unimaginable harm to our children because a plurality has either joined a death cult or has been gaslit into voting for it.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 1:20 PM
We live in a country doing unimaginable harm to our children because a plurality has either joined a death cult or has been gaslit into voting for it.
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Transphobes don't be creepy predators and friends with Jeffrey Epstein challenge: impossible
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Transphobes don't be creepy predators and friends with Jeffrey Epstein challenge: impossible
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Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔
February 8, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔
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This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
Dying Earth Moby Dick sounds fascinating. Like here's a world careening towards a now inevitable destruction, here's some dipshit careening towards a now inevitable personal destruction, and here's Ishmael the Inveigler ready to tell you ALL ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF SANDESTINS
Me:
Me:
Me:
Me:
Me: *exasperatedly* Motherfupper, is this short story somehow Dying Earth Moby Dick
Me: How is that even possible
Me: Better fix this before my editor gets it
Me:
Me:
Me:
Me: *exasperatedly* Motherfupper, is this short story somehow Dying Earth Moby Dick
Me: How is that even possible
Me: Better fix this before my editor gets it
February 9, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Dying Earth Moby Dick sounds fascinating. Like here's a world careening towards a now inevitable destruction, here's some dipshit careening towards a now inevitable personal destruction, and here's Ishmael the Inveigler ready to tell you ALL ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF SANDESTINS
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lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved
NEW: It’s difficult to account for the abuses trans immigrants face in ICE custody after Trump destroyed safeguards, oversight agencies, and data about detainees.
But 3 trans migrants told me what it’s really like: Medical neglect. Solitary confinement. Harassment. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
But 3 trans migrants told me what it’s really like: Medical neglect. Solitary confinement. Harassment. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
ICE Is Treating Trans Immigrants With A New Level Of Cruelty
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
www.huffpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
lots of people (on Both Sides™) had fun with Trump's “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison” debate line without stopping to think, even for one second, about the humanity of the actual people involved
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“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
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Not to diminish OP's comment, but IMO "sex pest" makes it sounds annoying rather than dangerous.
Isaac Asimov was a serial sexual harasser and assaulter of women. He belittled women, robbed them of agency, and contributed to the culture which stole opportunities from them.
Isaac Asimov was a serial sexual harasser and assaulter of women. He belittled women, robbed them of agency, and contributed to the culture which stole opportunities from them.
To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
February 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Not to diminish OP's comment, but IMO "sex pest" makes it sounds annoying rather than dangerous.
Isaac Asimov was a serial sexual harasser and assaulter of women. He belittled women, robbed them of agency, and contributed to the culture which stole opportunities from them.
Isaac Asimov was a serial sexual harasser and assaulter of women. He belittled women, robbed them of agency, and contributed to the culture which stole opportunities from them.
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I 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.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I 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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It'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.
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It'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.
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All 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.
probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
February 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
All 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.
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On 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:
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
On 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:
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‘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.’
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.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. 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. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘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.’
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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Even 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.”
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Even 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.”
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There'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
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
February 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
There'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
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
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one 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
February 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
one 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
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
This piece hit **hard** for me.
"I have only changed in spite of myself. Every scrap of progress has been torn from my clenched talons by citizens who loved me more than themselves and their neighbors more than me."
I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
buff.ly
February 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
This piece hit **hard** for me.
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This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
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Yuh-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.
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Yuh-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.