Richie Narvaez

Statue of liberty Day of Action Gov. Hochul: Defend NY, Fund our future Protect immigrants! Tax the Rich! Make polluters pay! Tuesday, 3.10 Albany, NY @ 10 am

On March 10, we're going to Albany to tell Gov. Hochul: DEFEND NY, FUND OUR FUTURE!

In a time of crisis, we need bold action to protect immigrants, make polluters pay, and tax the rich!

RSVP at https://cit.ac/defend-ny

"You can't be railing against late stage capitalism AND talking about building your brand. No."

#OverheardAtAWP #AWP #AWP26

Fully 50% of Americans now support abolishing ICE — a record high — compared to only 39% who oppose that.

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How I arrived on Bluesky:

The First Two Pages: "The Skies Are Red" by Richie Narvaez - Art Taylor In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers […]

Dear Anthony Award ballot fillers,
Please consider "The Skies Are Red" for Best Short Story and ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER: A CLIMATE CHANGE ANTHOLOGY for Best Anthology. #bouchercon
More about both here: arttaylorwriter.com/2025/10/28/t...

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

ICE is trafficking pregnant girls to Texas to prevent them from having choice including in cases of rape.
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YouTube video by BreakThrough News BREAKING: Huge march through NYC against the US-Israeli war on Iran

NYC protests War with Iran

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“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Define "weird."

Nicely done! Maybe I will see you at AWP this year!

LatineLit | Independent Latinx Literary Magazine & Bestseller List LatineLit is an independent literary magazine publishing original fiction by and about Latinx lives. Explore the current issue and the monthly Latinx Bestseller List.

My LatineLit website is reborn!

I hired a great designer and she has produced a great new website for the magazine.

Any offsite open mics at AWP on Wednesday or Friday? #awp26

The History We Hide: Trump’s War on Memory MAGA wants to make us forget about our eliminationist past—so they can repeat it.

There really wasn't much of substance to engage with in Trump's SOTU, but the childish, 1950s-vintage vision of US History it ended with is notable for its ultra-nationalist and eliminationist logic. David Neiwert gets at it here. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media As streaming continues to dominate the film and TV industry, many Gen Z movie watchers are opting out and choosing physical formats instead.

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My short story 'Withhold the Dawn" will be performed tomorrow (not by me!) at Symphony Space for the Too Hot for Radio sister show of Selected Shorts. Livestream tickets still available! www.symphonyspace.org/events/selec...

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Largest nurses strike in New York City history ends as holdout workers ratify contract The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended this weekend when the last holdout nurses voted to ratify a contract and agreed to return to work.

New York City nurses get a deal, end strike, ratify contract. “The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended this weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labor action overwhelmingly voted to ratify a contract and agreed to return to work, officials said." abcnews.com/US/largest-n...

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.”

NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Yes! This is a still from the snowpocalypse movie QUINTET (1979) starring Paul Newman and directed by Robert Altman.

It's interesting that the NY Times' obit for Willie Colón mentions his failed 1990s run for the House as a Democrat, but totally omits his hard swerve into MAGA craziness (including ALL the ugliest conspiracy theories) over the last 10 years.

The Academic Machine Eats Our Labour Why the Knowledge Economy Runs on Unpaid Sweat

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#AcademicMachine

#KnowledgeLabour

#AcademicWork

#HigherEducation

#AcademicExploitation

#LabourOfLove

#PrecariousAcademic

#AdjunctLife

#AcademicBurnout

#AcademiaAndJustice

#RaceInAcademia

#GenderAndAcademia

#LabourStudies

#ScholarlyWork

DOA

Attempting to overhype #snowbombpocalypse26 so that when it eventually arrives it will wimp out and underwhelm. #blizzard #bombcyclone

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

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Q: Why does AWP barely touch the crises in academia? "70% of the academic workforce is now contingent labor."

Q: Why does AWP barely touch the crises in academia?
"70% of the academic workforce is now contingent labor."
—from Betty Tuch's excellent Lit Mag News #adjunctlife

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Tufts scholar Rumeysa Ozturk earns her PhD one year after ICE arrest ‘Despite the very brutal, illegal and unjustifiable experiences I faced over the last year, I remain hopeful that our world can become a gentler and more peaceful place,’ she wrote

Tufts scholar Rumeysa Ozturk earns her PhD one year after ICE arrest

Netflix: We're so poor, pls stop sharing your account 🥺 But you can give us a little bit of extra money to keep sharing?

Okay, fine, here you go.

Netflix: lmao nah, we're still flagging that shit, get lost.

I am going to EAT YOU.

Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list.

Ruben Ray Martinez (23)

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Terror, indifference and division limit ICE resistance in South Florida By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org - Terror, indifference and division limit ICE resistance in South Florida, insiders say

Everybody talks abstractly about how a quarter-century of far-right governance turned one of the most culturally and politically diverse states into New Hungary, but this ground-level look at Floridians and ICE really drives home the fascism of it all www.floridabulldog.org/2026/02/terr...

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.