Usman T. Malik

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. 🧵

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”

A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

Beginner's Guide to Black Science Fiction and Fantasy A beginner's guide to black science fiction and fantasy

A bangin' list, as usual, from @geraldcoleman.bsky.social

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The laziest rheumatologist in the world

I installed a bookshelf bed for the cats so they’d leave my lap when I sat down to write

It has worked gloriously

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Eric Huntley obituary Activist and co-founder of Bogle-L’Ouverture, one of the most important black publishing houses in Britain

Eric Huntley, who has died aged 96, was the co-founder with his wife, Jessica, of the radical publishing house Bogle L’Ouverture, set up in London in 1968 to showcase black writing talent.

Here's a snippet

I adore my editor at Putnam. She has approved pretty much all the Urdu poetry that I wanted to include in my horror/dark fantasy novel and not pushed to cleanse anything in the name of commercial taste.

A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE will have quite a sampling of Urdu verse

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

Jesus Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Raymundo Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations.

Records show both men are from South Texas.

SECRETARY NOEM MUST BE IMPEACHED.

I was outside ICE headquarters today to tell Secretary Noem that we are fed up with her Gestapo agents.

Over 180 members of Congress support impeachment because her actions are unconstitutional. The people have had enough.

He said he never got truly mad and was a genuinely nice guy. They chatted at Nicky's all the time; and his wife was a fill-in for some of the scenes in The Langoliers.

And here I was just bemoaning the red tape of medicine.

What an amazing world this can be if we just listen.

Just saw a new patient who is from Bangor, Maine and knew King well.

He and his buds used to prank King all the time by putting a boot on his car wheels when King went into Nicky's (the local restaurant that closed after 32 years in 2020) so King would be annoyed.

Now help future scientists in Gaza

I enjoy detective work and finding answers for my patients, but I hate the paperwork -- which is funny because I actually like paper

I like being a medical doctor and a healer, but boy, there are days when the longing to do nothing but read and write overwhelms me and I want nothing to do with healthcare and its bureaucracy.

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s private island

Theeere it is

Yup. I was waiting for this to start happening.

Israel is still supported unconditionally by the European Union

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

This is Sunday, not Saturday. Brain fog.

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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In 2013, Jeffrey Epstein invited Elon Musk to hang out with him and Woody Allen, of all people!, in the Caribbean.

Musk said ‘Yes.’ (Per DOJ files).

He has so much explaining to do.

An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Argh. No worries. Another time. safe travels.

What part of Orlando are you in? If you’re close by maybe we can grab coffee or dinner tomorrow after my work? DM me.