author of MAGICAL/REALISM, @TinyRepBooks 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, @Noemi_Press 2017, any pronoun
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El Norte Recuerda retweeted
Today I received notification of the 60th death in ICE custody since Trump returned to office. Sadly, this appears to be a death by suicide.
When our country detains people, we have the responsibility of ensuring both their physical and mental health — not driving them, though incredible cruelty, to commit suicide. Dismantle ICE.
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
I need you all to understand that "donating harder" isn't going to to solve the "food not entering Gaza" situation. It just turns us into the sponsors of the Hunger Games where some lucky Palestinians survive and others don't. We need a shut down strike ASAP please call ur union
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
If you’re in LA, you can go check out my son’s mural right off of Crenshaw and Vernon, it’s pretty big you can’t miss it.
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
if I recall correctly, this film was made in part to counter tim burtons racist statement of black people not fitting his "aesthetic" which is such a baller move honestly. this movie looks beautiful and kat herself oozes charm
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Tim Burton did not say Black people don't fit his aesthetic. In 2016 he said diversity should fit the story, citing Brady Bunch tokenism. Wendell & Wild development started 2015; Peele wanted a Black lead for kids like him to see themselves.
bustle.com/articles/18664…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_%…
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I’m sure everyone has already forgotten about this but the Dominican man, Oscar Belgal, shot in the neck by ICE on 10/8, and slandered by Newsweek and others as “having a criminal history,” has just been denied medical release by a fascist judge. nytimes.com/2026/10/23/nyreg…
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
We hosted a landmark conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tareq Baconi and Nesrine Malik at London's Southbank Centre this week.
You can watch the whole event here: youtube.com/watch?v=652EVCK1…
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
“It is brutal that these days pursuing creative work so often means operating under the whims of a billionaire whose attention, when shifted, can cut the ground from under your feet.”
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El Norte Recuerda retweeted
First book of poems in eight years, out in April. I’m very proud of this and I hope you’ll preorder it. Much gratitude.
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El Norte Recuerda retweeted
I report on this topic so I think about this a lot! In fact some retailers/tech companies are already bragging about the avg size of AI-powered orders. It seems to supercharge consumption, as if we needed more ways to buy stuff. From Walmart and Meta earnings calls this yr:
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
A 79-year-old Colorado pastor who lost 35 pounds and the strength to walk after being placed in immigration detention 13 months ago has been released by order of a federal magistrate judge. wapo.st/4Bk8KXH
INSTEAD OF WRITING OPEN LETTERS EVERY SIX MONTHS SHOULDN'T WE JUST UNIONIZE
OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
No hate to OP but this is how AI normalizes sociopathic behavior, and ensures prices stay high forever. AI will figure out how to extract the maximum price from the consumer, create artificial demand, and accelerate profits to staggering new heights. Prices will never come down
El Norte Recuerda retweeted
Devastating news. Catapult imprint Soft Skull is due to publish my novel is a months time & everyone who worked there & interacted with me threw themselves into the book--it was an indie in the true sense of the word. They loved edginess, they went out of their way to help
The independent publisher Catapult, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was notified that “continued employment with the prospective buyer is not an option.” buff.ly/f4EapkJ
I never got into Mass Effect (don’t love sci-fi that’s just colonial military enterprise with guns in space) but yeah, this looks incredible
One of the best scores ever, too. These strings!!! The promise of yearning, heartbreaking, epic triumph and betrayal, worlds at the feet of evil, collective struggle? And then the Lost Elf theme? WHEWWWW
Call me cRaZy, but if literary workers had a real union, where Colleen Hoover and George RR Martin and Stephen King formed iron-clad solidarities with every writer and editor, and we all went on strike to protect each other from shit like this, we could stop this from happening
The independent publisher Catapult, cofounded in 2015 by Elizabeth Koch, will be acquired by an unspecified buyer and end operations on October 30. The newly formed staff union said it was notified that “continued employment with the prospective buyer is not an option.” buff.ly/f4EapkJ