El Norte Recuerda
@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Oh my god 😭
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An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
ICE agent arrested, held on ‘no bond’ order at prosecutor’s request
Samuel Saxon is charged with felonious assault, strangulation and domestic violence.He pleaded not guilty to all counts.
www.cincinnati.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
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i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
A long time ago, there was a tweet about the difference between US diaspora poets vs poets of the home country.
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A long time ago, there was a tweet about the difference between US diaspora poets vs poets of the home country.
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
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Since we are talking poetry and words, the phrase “rent-free in your head” makes me so sad… the idea of rent is so corrosive and pervasive, it’s considered an exception to have thoughts, feelings, ideas, poetry in your mind, rent-free!!
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Since we are talking poetry and words, the phrase “rent-free in your head” makes me so sad… the idea of rent is so corrosive and pervasive, it’s considered an exception to have thoughts, feelings, ideas, poetry in your mind, rent-free!!
Actually, can someone update my Wikipedia page? I can’t do it (you can’t author or update your own page) and it’s missing my latest book, MAGICAL/REALISM and the long lists. I’m sorry to ask like an egomaniacal asshole but it’s bugging me! And maybe it might help with the academic job search?
And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Actually, can someone update my Wikipedia page? I can’t do it (you can’t author or update your own page) and it’s missing my latest book, MAGICAL/REALISM and the long lists. I’m sorry to ask like an egomaniacal asshole but it’s bugging me! And maybe it might help with the academic job search?
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And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄
This is catastrophic on like, generational infinite levels, but here’s another thing: Netflix will own Game of Thrones and all other associated properties. So really: That’s all, folks.
Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly moving forward with exclusive deal talks with Netflix
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks
Warner Bros. Discovery has selected Netflix after the streaming giant offered $30 a share for the studio and streaming assets.
www.thewrap.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is catastrophic on like, generational infinite levels, but here’s another thing: Netflix will own Game of Thrones and all other associated properties. So really: That’s all, folks.
At this point I’m begging you to boycott Amazon, if you want a future.
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
At this point I’m begging you to boycott Amazon, if you want a future.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
You can’t be fucking serious.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You can’t be fucking serious.
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This is pure censorship—using DEI as cover.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is pure censorship—using DEI as cover.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
If you’re showing off your Spotify Wrapped this year, I know you’re morally bankrupt, and that even running ICE ads isn’t enough to cancel your subscription. Never mind that Spotify is a fascist corporation that invests in AI military tech, and would rather create AI slop than pay artists.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you’re showing off your Spotify Wrapped this year, I know you’re morally bankrupt, and that even running ICE ads isn’t enough to cancel your subscription. Never mind that Spotify is a fascist corporation that invests in AI military tech, and would rather create AI slop than pay artists.
“Now”?
We're doing pogroms in America now
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“Now”?
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ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
Twitter is literally unusable
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Twitter is literally unusable
GIVE $15 TO WIKIPEDIA TODAY YOU COWARDS
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
GIVE $15 TO WIKIPEDIA TODAY YOU COWARDS
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
Has anyone watched Hedda? I can’t decide what I think. Like I love so much about how it queers the text, and Tessa Thompson is intoxicating, but it’s … missing something. I want to LOVE it
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Has anyone watched Hedda? I can’t decide what I think. Like I love so much about how it queers the text, and Tessa Thompson is intoxicating, but it’s … missing something. I want to LOVE it
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We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful and counterintuitive take on why that unread stack might be as essential for our inner lives as the read www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
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• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
• “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.”
• “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.”
• “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”
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I added this popup extension to my browser so it's even easier to see when opening a steam page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
AI warning for Steam – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download AI warning for Steam for Firefox. Show the AI Generated Content Disclosure on Steam store pages as a modal popup.
addons.mozilla.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I added this popup extension to my browser so it's even easier to see when opening a steam page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...