El Norte Recuerda

To not condemn this in the strongest of terms is spineless.

Mayor of Hyattsville responds to the violent ICE confrontations that have happened there over the last few weeks with a confusing statement in which he says it's illegal for local cops to intervene in ICE official duties but also it's their duty to intervene for bystanders, agents, arrestee safety:

Been saying this. It’s the Apocalyptic Imagination.

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Jared Kushner’s Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts

The oligarchs are going to make sure they control all the media, that includes video games.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

As a Mexican, the salsa erasure feels pretty egregious idk

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social really engaging with your concept of the avatar self, though my alienation/dissociation comes from different reasons than yours, it really puts into words how i engage with media to escape (im finally reading your book! I have audio and physical)

Oh I’m so glad that resonates with you! Thank you so much for reading! 🙏🏽💓

Hmm. Maybe I’m overreacting to the week-long Twitter doxxing campaign where people tagged ICE and various government officials to arrest me. And the headlines about Palantir and domestic surveillance of phones. No battery issues before, but I’ll take it.

Hi quick question. When I woke up, my phone was at 100% battery. After I made my kid breakfast, it dropped to 54%. Am I being tracked lol

I want to scream. And if we protest in any way, they’ll come for our f*milies.

The literalism of his music all but confessing to the murder in every detail, from dismembering his gf in anime to dragging a body into a trunk in music videos, the funerals at his shows, the meme-ification by fans, the belief that their content or comments will be in the Netflix documentary …

Why hockey took over romance bookshelves Hockey is not America's most popular sport, but it has become the go-to setting for romance writers who want some fire and ice. Not all the authors know their hockey, though.

For the Duluth News Tribune, Jay Gabler wrote about why so many romance novels are set in the world of hockey:

Maybe you're not looking at it deeply enough.

Yeah see, this is an example. Like you think it’s OK to respond with this AI-generated meme to my post, and your pfp and account name is “Trump and Epstein were friends.”

Everything is fandom. Every discourse is a meme. Everything is a shit post, regurgitated from the mind of the Internet.

Writers are so far out of touch. Like we don’t understand, in a very serious and fundamental way.

I thought I understood online radicalization with 4Chan and gamergate. I want to study fantasy, fandom, and fascism in my postdoc. But ever since I started learning about Charlie Kirk, groypers, transmaxxing, and now D4vd and Discord, I am … out of my depth every hour. Media is so far out of touch.

I don’t think any of us realize how different young people’s reality is from the millennial reality Bluesky, Instagram, and other old social media runs on. Fandom is everything now —politics, identity formation, discourse, community. Charlie Kirk is just an introduction, D4vd will break your reality

YouTube video by Library of Congress Horror in Hostile Worlds: Agustina Bazterrica and Stephen Graham Jones

hey, cool: Agustina Bazterrica and me in DC at the National Book Festival. Not sure if the audience'll be in this, but there's better than a thousand people out there:

I'm sorry to hear this. And yes, same. It's a little bit worrying, because this is how I live until I find a TT job. I hope things pick up.

Writers and speakers: have you noticed a decline in your event invitations? So far, I'm only speaking at Stanford and Butte College this semester, when usually I average ~8 events per semester. Is it budget cuts, DEI limitations, anti-woke climates? Magical/Realism came out just last year. Strange.