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Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy)

@urrealism.bsky.social

Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.

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Stop.

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Turns out Walt Whitman saw Bari Weiss coming some 150 yrs ago. His description of hacks: "kept-editors, spaniels well-train'd to carry & fetch, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents... , the lousy combings and born freedom-sellers of the earth."

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Who Was Renee Nicole Good—The Woman Shot By ICE Agent In Minneapolis Good was a mother of three and had dropped off her six-year-old son at school when she encountered a group of ICE agents, according to her ex-husband.

Good was a mother of three and had dropped off her six-year-old son at school when she encountered a group of ICE agents, according to her ex-husband.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Important piece by Pete Coviello, my department head at #uic. Grateful for his thoughtful take.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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Just illustrating the Bowie line.

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“I’m afraid of Americans.” Bowie.

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My mom could have been at their airbase, working for the Red Cross.

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😹

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What did R. Crumb know back then?

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