María Corina Machado “was brave, but it was foolish to expect that by calling for the invasion of her own country she would earn the invader’s gratitude.” —Alma Guillermoprieto https://go.nybooks.com/3LUGTZf
Revolutionary Nahuatl for January 7, 2026:
Ximoyaochihchihuacan.
Arm yourselves.
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xi- = command prefix
-mo- = reflexive prefix
yaochihchihua = arm [as if for war]
-can = plural
[SHEE-moh-YAH-oh-CHEE'-chee-WAH-kahn]
Thrilled to be on this list with so many people I know and admire!
Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup. This is what Trump should be doing.
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My latest translation is available for preorder! #BookSky 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Bad Bunny is more American than Melania Trump✌️🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Watching “The Night Of” on #HBO… it’s a direct descendant of Paul Newman’s “The Verdict” and almost as good. John Turturro only gives two kinds of performances: good ones and great ones.
“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.”
George Carlin, 1988
Hey ABC, sound familiar?
Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie!
This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work
Got galleys of the new translation! Spent over a year on this book by Gabi Martínez… love seeing it all come to fruition.
Funding an activist group opposed to genocide and war crimes is not a terrorist activity. But full credit to Sally Rooney for taking on the deeply skewed political posturing of the UK government, who have done little to end a vicious war of attrition.
🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽
@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.
We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!
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reading about the controversy surrounding that movie apocalypto and thinking how the spainiards who arrive at the end and the americans who ensue have done way more human sacrifice than the mayans ever could
what is gaza but the west offering human sacrifice to their gods of consumption and capital
Summer numbers: three books translated, totaling over 167,000 words. Believe it or not, I enjoyed every one of them!
Is UNTAMED ON Netflix a play on C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett? And if so, is better than the @paramountplusbr.bsky.social show? So far I’m definitely in the yes column…
I'm very annoyed today that McSweeneys is IP-blocked at my school.
“You look tired young man… Schnapps?” #Nosferatu
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
de las cuatro lecturas por trabajo, sin duda alguna me quedo con Altasangre de Claudia Amador que ojaláojaláojalá se publique pronto aquí porque todos merecemos disfrutar de una historia de vampiros que bailan cumbia 🃏
Rewatching “Man of Steel” and I can’t get past the fact that Zod (played by Michael Shannon) is basically Evil Hader…
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
The National Guard stands around his door/
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more…
