Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One month away from running the NYC marathon to raise funds for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York! Stick it to JD Vance by supporting access to sexual and reproductive health care and make a donation here: donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne...donations.nyrr.orgTCS New York Marathon Donation 000
Reposted by Huma ImtiazJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11846871165
Reposted by Huma ImtiazSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in. 401241255
Reposted by Huma ImtiazStatus @status.news · 29/09/2026Paramount is nearing a deal to pay an eye-popping sum for a documentary about the late Lindsey Graham that is also said to contain candid footage involving David Ellison himself, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/paramount-...status.newsEllison’s Graham Doc GrabParamount is nearing a deal to pay an eye-popping sum for a documentary about the late Lindsey Graham that is also said to contain candid footage involving David Ellison himself, Status has learned. 94418
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 19953261
Reposted by Huma ImtiazMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 16/09/2026"alleged DEI sympathies" what are we doing here 121064
Reposted by Huma ImtiazKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light. 412167294
Reposted by Huma ImtiazDan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved. 32573239
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just American taxpayers with jobs and families, asylum seekers with no criminal record, held in miserable conditions at Guantanamo because of their race/national origin 26636
Reposted by Huma ImtiazNeil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Onion already said all that needs to be said about GW Bush's art theonion.com/george-w-bus...theonion.comGeorge W. Bush Debuts New Paintings Of Dogs, Friends, Ghost Of Iraqi Child That Follows Him EverywherePresident Bush has a new hobby — painting! — and he’s showing off some new watercolors of the undead Iraqi boy who lives in his nightmares. 013
Reposted by Huma Imtiazsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The “branding dispute” being that it’s legally established as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the president from the 1960s who was murdered in office by an assassin, and Trump wanted to slap his name on it too while he held power for reasons of pure narcissism. 321359318
Reposted by Huma ImtiazGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...gillianbrockell.comThe truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been. 3245801498
Reposted by Huma ImtiazPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit 816246487
Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I still think about their french toast and escargots. 040
Reposted by Huma ImtiazDefector @defector.com · 15/09/2026"How strange it is to watch a whole Slam and feel as though we learned almost nothing about the true power hierarchy at the top of the men's tour." defector.com/the-u-s-open...defector.comThe U.S. Open Men's Final Changed Nothing | DefectorHow strange it is to watch a whole Slam and feel as though we learned almost nothing about the true power hierarchy at the top of the men’s tour. In Sunday afternoon’s U.S. Open final, Alexander… 1122
Reposted by Huma ImtiazPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues. 31570522536
Reposted by Huma ImtiazWill Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is a massive loss for all of us.nytimes.comSmithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart. 715971
Reposted by Huma ImtiazCineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sep 5th 1999 - Chatur challenged Rancho to see who would become more successful. They agreed to meet 10 years later, but Rancho didn't show up. 📽️📅 3 Idiots (2009) 0123
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy. 592603829
Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’ve laughed at this half a dozen times now — the most inaccurate description of the nyc marathon. Thanks AI slop! 100
Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Got the new COVID vaccine at my local CVS in DC today — pharmacist said they'd just gotten them a couple of hours before at that branch. 121
Reposted by Huma ImtiazSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Robin Givhan always elevates the conversation and this essay is no exception. 211420
Reposted by Huma ImtiazNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There is something kind of bleakly funny about how much time and ink was spilled about how we'd moved past the GWOT and Forever Wars and come to terms with our mistakes and entered a new phase of politics and then every time a Muslim shows appears on TV the media snaps back to 2003 instantly. 392471349
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“His father said he couldn’t play soccer as he had for years because of the weight of the tracker. Classmates bullied him and made cruel remarks. He begged federal immigration officers to remove the bracelet, his father said, but they refused.” Driving promising young US residents to suicide 39240
Reposted by Huma ImtiazThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/09/2026A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.washingtonpost.comHaitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family saysPierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants. 21231138
Reposted by Huma Imtiazjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026like, i know there is basically a secular cult around this institution but who do these people think they are? who do they think they work for? 351437110
Reposted by Huma Imtiazjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comHow the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades. 9055671400
Reposted by Huma ImtiazLeah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form 349162113298
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026This is just brazenly Islamaphobic propaganda. This is what Bari Weiss has turned CBS into. 361519244
Reposted by Huma ImtiazBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviellodefector.comDolly, Josephine, And Me | DefectorLike all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ... 515430
Reposted by Huma ImtiazJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think it would be healthy for our culture if a putative journalist’s response to a colleague’s relation of some facts and context was interest or curiosity rather than blustering dismissal by way of fake statistics and facile generalizations. This should be deeply embarassing for her. 417029
Reposted by Huma ImtiazScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026No. Instead we get 42 segments on some inconsequential social media influencer named Piker (whom Loomer also tried to have deported). 411656
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026(Consequently: There are a lot of people I cannot take seriously.) 0845
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I cannot possibly take seriously anyone who reads Dolly Parton's politics as "neutral." 335448
Reposted by Huma ImtiazAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099433827
Reposted by Huma ImtiazHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026“A review of meeting minutes, local reporting, state opioid expenditure disclosures, and invoices obtained via public records requests reveals that at least twelve sheriffs’ offices and police departments have since 2024 spent their opioid funds on Flock cameras.”motherjones.comPolice are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock camerasHistoric opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement. 10403201
Reposted by Huma ImtiazThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”nyti.msOpinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer. 716940
Reposted by Huma ImtiazJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is a chart of the seven-day average of arrests being made, not people arrested. So imagine what the cumulative arrest lines look like, and how much faster the TOTALS for "no criminal charge" are rising than for all other groups. 513251
Reposted by Huma ImtiazLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just the purest, deepest evil. 15493178
Reposted by Huma ImtiazChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury. 964203027346
Reposted by Huma ImtiazMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026WHAT IS THE GRIM REAPER DOING THIS WEEK AND HOW CAN WE MAKE HIM STOP 10699
Reposted by Huma ImtiazDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP to a real one. Not an obscure clip to remember him by, but come on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWoY...youtube.comThe Rocky Horror Picture Show "Sweet Transvestite" (1975) - (4K)YouTube video by VideoXL 1125025
Reposted by Huma ImtiazHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/08/2026oh, so OpenAI is now against buying extravagant things and getting the next generation to pay for it? 3508
Reposted by Huma ImtiazGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/08/2026“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting: 711430454
Reposted by Huma Imtiazjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard Rnytimes.comTrump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait. 772787474
Huma Imtiaz @humaimtiaz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Officially halfway to meeting my donation goal for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York! donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne... Also 10 weeks away from running the NYC marathon for PPGNY, send thoughts, prayers, and whether I should pick the bus or the ferry! 221