Laila Lalami

Every day I end up thinking about the book The Dream Hotel by @lailalalami.com, which my book club at @changinghands.bsky.social absolutely devoured. There's a minor character who goes to great pains to live off-grid, a tech-less phantom, and I think about her all the time.

Big night for @cortezmasto.senate.gov

She voted for another Trump nominee. Got into a fight with Cory Booker - and Emil Bove will get confirmed to the Third Circuit seat that should belong to Adeel Mangi til she launched her islamophobic attack on him

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

A woman with a 20-year psychiatric history began taking an immunosuppressant. Suddenly, her seeming schizophrenia vanished.

Telephone Town Hall Sign Up Congressman Lieu will be hosting a telephone town hall for constituents on Wednesday, July 30 at 6pm Pacific.

If you live in CA-36 (Westside L.A. and South Bay), please tune in to Ted Lieu's telephone town hall this Wednesday 7/30 at 6pm and let him know what you think about his cowardly silence on the genocide in Gaza. Sign up here: lieu.house.gov/townhall

This is so moving. The sender apologizes for sending so little, and the recipient is thanking him for what he/she sent. 💔

Paging @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov, who are quiet as church mice while Palestinians starve before our eyes.

'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual a...

"I thought this was going to be the last experience of my life," Terán told NPR from Caracas. "I thought I was going to die there."
www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n...

Beautiful! Happy birthday, Kate!

Tell the State Department to free Chris Smalls and other US citizens on board the Handala which was on a mission of mercy to Gaza.
X: @StateDept and @SecRubio
FB: @U.S. Department of State
Instagram: @statedept @secrubio

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

It did that, too.

My husband made our daughter work at Dunkin one summer and it was a bigger teaching experience than when I had her read The Communist Manifesto.

Yes, I’ve read it!

“I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” The last journalists remaining in Gaza are near death from forced starvation. There is enough food at the border to feed the entire population for 3 months. This is genocide.

In THE DREAM HOTEL by @lailalalami.com, a woman is detained for a crime she hasn’t committed yet—predicted by an algorithm. A chilling, urgent read about surveillance, autonomy, and resistance. Out now 🌟

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Today I spent 3 hours with Brad Lander and his family, giving them a private tour on Brooklyn’s Muslim, Arab, and South Asian histories. I am so grateful for their deep curiosity and desire to support my work and our communities.

Happy Birthday Mr. Comptroller. You’re fam now.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

This was Huntington Park, a neighborhood in LA. Huntington Beach would have been serving ICE treats and thanking them for being Nazis.

How nice you are! Thank you for reading. (And reviews have been generous, alhamdulillah!)

Zohran Mamdani making fun of the NY Post in his latest viral video. Caption says, “Inshallah, on the front page.”

When I’m waiting for reviews of my new book.

Democratic Senator bragging that she fought to keep a prison open in her state. What limited imaginations these people have.

BREAKING: Dr. Jonathan Caravello, a U.S. citizen and @cfaunited.bsky.social member, has been released from federal custody after days of unjust detention. This is a victory, but it never should’ve happened! We must #EndRaids and free all those unjustly detained.

“He hasn’t done anything wrong other than not being born in this country.” 💔

Masked agents + anonymous lawyers = they're doing something wrong and don't want the public to know.

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Good on Nadler! (And thank you for alerting me.)

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Total insanity. And applying this retroactively gives ICE the power to incarcerate massive numbers of people. This is where all those billions awarded to ICE will go.

This man is a pet groomer in Iran.

I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.

Wait for the last couple of meows.