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Felipe De La Hoz
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Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, @theverge.com temporary writer, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
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Just picked up a smoothie at my local deli and this is the charge… what?? Why is this the payee???
Credit card charge for $6.24 at The Epoch Times for some reason
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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e.g.
the old media suited Mr. Epstein. R. Couri Hay, a well-connected press agent, was another of Mr. Epstein’s correspondents. In 2011, Mr. Hay sent an email to warn that Tina Brown (the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, who was in charge of Newsweek and The Daily Beast at the time) had assigned a story on Mr. Epstein to the writer Alexandra Wolfe (whose father was Tom Wolfe). “This is for Newsweek, the magazine that is on the stands, not the website,” Mr. Hay explained. He offered to help. He told Mr. Epstein that the planned article was to be about his “reemergence in New York” after “your previous problems.” He suggested providing “names and numbers of pro Jeffery power brokers for Alexandra to call.” Mr. Hay went on to note that the
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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*Democrats demand costs be subsidized, Republicans shut down the government to prevent it*

ABC News:

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“As both sides blame each other for the shutdown, millions of Americans who bought into the ACA marketplace find themselves caught in the crossfire of the stalemate.”
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Me pitching a 5,000-word feature: 🙂
Me writing a 5,000-word feature:
A late 19th century illustration of Akashi Gidayu preparing for seppuku
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Unnerving character Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men saying “if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Huge showing of many federal agencies, though seems like mainly show of force. Few arrests
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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SRT is here with the bearcat
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Federal agents are staging a massive operation downtown near Canal street. Show of force with reportedly dozens of agents from agencies including ICE, FBI, IRS, DEA, etx
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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“Hell of an act, what do you call it?” “Breakfast!”
Enormous plate of chilaquiles, rice, beans, and two eggs. My feeble attempts to eat it have thus far yielded few results
October 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This was a “small” latte. I even had to confirm with them, I was like “are you sure this is mine, the small?” It was!
A large towering above my camera
October 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I have had a very productive and interesting trek through Salt Lake City thus far but I have to say the portions here would kill me in six months flat
An omelette with melted cheese, bacon, avocado, and mushrooms taking up about half a large plate. The other half is dominated by an imposing pile of hash browns. Flanking this is the largest scone I’ve seen in my life, a behemoth of fried dough
October 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I have to say, I am quite pleasantly shocked by how much the Salt Lake City public transit system fucks
The “I was unfamiliar with your game“ meme
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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This suit got me through a menswear market, artist studio, concert, and birthday party all in one day 🫡
Me in a dark brown-gray suit with a tie patterned with buckle and harness motifs, a striped contrast club collar shirt, my hexagonal tinted glasses, and an orange corduroy cap stitched with “fascist lives don’t matter.” I have a silver film camera over my shoulder and am lighting a cigarillo with a match while standing in a graffitied awning
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This is just not something that happens in a society that still purports itself to be a liberal democracy. We’ve crossed that threshold
Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours. When he got home from work, Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics and furniture missing, and all of his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings and hadn't received answers from Chicago police.
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Lucked out and found someone locally selling 16 rolls of cold-stored Provia 400 for quite cheap. Very nice find
35mm roll of film held between my fingers, Provia 400 slide film
September 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Lucked out and found someone locally selling 16 rolls of cold-stored Provia 400 for quite cheap. Very nice find
35mm roll of film held between my fingers, Provia 400 slide film
September 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Good opportunity to repost one of my old memes
The "why can't you just be normal" meme except the mother is "circuit courts" and the screaming child is "EOIR"
September 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The DW from Arthur holding onto the outside of a chain link fence meme
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Ah yes, love the beauty of the early fall season (live look at me right now)
drawing of a lil guy being very sick and hacking and coughing
September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I wrote this almost one full year ago and I am going to keep saying it over and over until the Dems get it through their thick, consultant-addled skulls
newrepublic.com/article/1864...
So yes, if voters are on the one hand bombarded with a simplistic and all-encompassing vision of a country beset by the perils of masses of faceless immigrants and, on the other, hear crickets or a sort of tepid agreement with the promise that Democrats will actually be better at handling it, of course their opinions are going to trend in a restrictionist direction. It’s no contest, and there’s no way for liberals to actually win on these terms. Attitudes will keep getting harsher, and they’ll keep rushing to catch up, but of course they’ll never manage to outrun the shameless fascists, untethered as they are by considerations of either humanity or reality—just look at J.D. Vance’s flippant admissions that the Ohio pet-eating story is false but that it doesn’t matter in service to the narrative. For low-information voters—and the truth is, almost every voter and a substantial chunk of elected officials are low-information on immigration, which is a policy issue that inflames much passion but that almost no one understands, below the very surface level—all they see is strong versus weak. This isn’t going to work, and it’s past due time to try something else; liberals must coalesce around a concrete, straightforward, memorable, and forceful pro-immigration message that constitutes a full alternate vision, not just playing defense or being shackled to the right’s terms. So allow me to humbly propose a better approach for Democrats. Point to how immigrants helped economically revitalize a depressed Springfield, Ohio, and cities across the United States instead of just ridiculing the pet-eating lie. Don’t let the right ever get away with talking about birth rates without hounding them over how this squares with the prospect of new arrivals. Force right-wing figures to explain how, exactly, the U.S. would have become a global economic and cultural locus without massive immigration, or how all this contemporary business about revitalizing domestic high-tech manufacturing or keeping domestic food production running could be accomplished without it. Ask voters: Do you like the prospect of Social Security and Medicare remaining solvent? Great, immigration is the straightest path there. Just say it: Immigration is good. We should consider ourselves lucky to have had so much, and we should strive to have more. This psychopathic and—you can say it—white supremacist fixation on punishment and control of migration is not just a moral stain but a disastrous economic policy. If carried out to its full effect, it would represent one of the greatest acts of national self-immolation in our history. Say it over and over, a coordinated message across the country, a full alternative to what is a terrible but at this point default vision. Some voters will hate it, and centrist commentator types will lose their minds. That’s fine, because staying the course is a losing message—and, not to mention, just plain wrong.
September 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Viktor Orbán looking smug
September 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A guy with a jarhead haircut licking a military style boot on someone’s foot
August 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Kind of wild to get this as an official press release from the agency
Email from USCIS’ media office with the subject line “News Release: USCIS to Consider Anti-Americanism in Immigrant Benefit Requests”
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Believe it or not this one story has two of these guys
"The contractor world is full of Republicans. I'm not anti-ICE. We're supportive of what the president is trying to do. But the reality of it is our industry has to have the Hispanic immigrant-based workers in it," Harrison said.
August 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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The "say the line, bart" meme with a screenshotted quote from the story overlayed over bart, reading "I am a Trump supporter, but I just don't think the raids is the answer."
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM