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Carolina A. Miranda

@cmonstah.bsky.social

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"Elegante y muy cabrona." I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others. https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 4d

"It’s a stunning vision of our inequitable, climate-challenged future: Wander around the area today and you’ll find a neighborhood reduced to ashes as Lululemon still stands."

I spent the summer hanging out at Rick Caruso's malls as he allegedly mulls a gubernatorial run:
nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

A color photograph shows a fountain with bronze female figure atop a pedastal before anodyne chain stores like Blue Mercury and Planet Beauty.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 10h

Role model!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 14h

*hair gets greyer*

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 14h

So a bag of charging wires not going to make me rich, huh?

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 14h

We are becoming apartheid-era South Africa.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 15h

I worked at Time mag when they brought in some McKinsey style consultants to make us more efficient and it was ridiculous comedy that probably cost a lot more than the journalism we were producing.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

How do I get on the Seafood City party list?

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

Me drinking lavender matchs latte at Caruso malls:

New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 3d

Carolina A. Miranda (@cmonstah.bsky.social) doesn’t groove with the Grove.

nyra.nyc/mallfresco

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

Tl;dr

“Bari is my BFF and she has, like, totally done things. Plus, CBS is for olds.”

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

Appointed by Meta as an adviser on AI bias, anti-DEI campaigner Robby Buck has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, trans people, vaccines, crime & protests

The Guardian repeatedly contacted Meta for comment but received no response

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

“Black households were the only racial group last year in which median income fell and the poverty rate rose, according to the Census Bureau.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

“Pinochet — who issued an amnesty law in 1978 to immunize himself and his government from prosecution — blamed the people below, insisting he could not control their ‘excesses’; Rauff blamed the people above, insisting that he was only following orders.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

How to Get Away With Crimes Against Humanity

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no i saw a writeup on Jorge Luis Borges in NYT relatively recently that had me ready to call editors in the middle of the night

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

At what point is it ok to mention that Diane Keaton is partly responsible for LACMA’s new building. Asking for a friend.

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 2d

The latest from mallworld courtesy @cmonstah.bsky.social: An update on Rick Caruso's faux urbanism, post fire @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 3d

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

That’s Twitter.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3d

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime.

Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot.

A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame.

Let’s give them their own museum.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

Not that he was seriously in the running, but you know what I mean.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

There is a poetic justice that Trump lost the Nobel to a Latina, from Venezuela no less.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

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