Huma Imtiaz

Neoconfederates on Twitter whining about how we lost the bygone slavery era and replaced it with convenient and delicious Ethiopian food.

Quick question: Are people insane?

Please go vote for my dog by liking this photo so I can win some free wine (Freddie already got a dog treat bag and dog wine this morning so he’s sorted). www.instagram.com/p/DUvur4sEfZ...

Please go vote for my dog by liking this photo so I can win some free wine (Freddie already got a dog treat bag and dog wine this morning so he’s sorted). www.instagram.com/p/DUvur4sEfZ...

For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

So hard to see someone living your dreams.

reminds of that old bible story of how people were hungry and jesus conjured himself a security detail bsky.app/profile/carl...

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

No notes. Perfect.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Opinion | We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us

Very good piece by @jamellebouie.net He has a moral clarity I wish we saw more often in opinion journalism.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Medicaid Expansion Dead in Mississippi Due to Trump Cuts, Top Republican Says Mississippi won’t expand Medicaid this year because of federal Medicaid funding cuts under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" killed Medicaid expansion in Mississippi, lawmakers say.

It would've helped 300,000 people.
www.mississippifreepress.org/medicaid-exp...

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

I don't know what happens next, but Liam and his family are not being deported today.

UPDATE: The court granted Ramos' family a continuance at today’s asylum hearing, per school officials in his district.

"Today’s ruling provides additional time, and with that, continued uncertainty for a child and his family," says Zena Stenvik, superintendent of Columbia Heights public schools.

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

a bubble map of the change in nonfarm payrolls

Looking at raw employment growth makes it obvious how hard DOGE hit DC—the DC area has lost 56k jobs over the last year, more than 4x the next worst (San Francisco)

Over the last year, the DC metro area has lost more jobs than the largest-growing US metro area (NYC) has gained

Screenshot of text saying local vibe, extreme cold warning with icons alongside the temperature

Accurate.

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

For years, Weil has written these elegies about the weather that might be a bit much but are often the most interesting writing in the paper. I want a local publication that runs this. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10

Hon hon…hon?

Thrilled to see the wonderful Arooj here (who you should all be listening to: www.aroojaftab.com)

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics