Carolina A. Miranda
@cmonstah.bsky.social
"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
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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Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
hyperallergic.com
During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records.
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
"Chatbots are like a wormhole into your own head. They always talk and never disagree."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Chatbots are like a wormhole into your own head. They always talk and never disagree."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Hey you guys, @lataco.bsky.social has been doing ESSENTIAL work covering ICE raids and the ways in which they are tearing at the fabric of our communities. Now they are having a membership drive. If you want to support their work, pitch in here:
lataco.com/join
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November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hey you guys, @lataco.bsky.social has been doing ESSENTIAL work covering ICE raids and the ways in which they are tearing at the fabric of our communities. Now they are having a membership drive. If you want to support their work, pitch in here:
lataco.com/join
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Evidence that piles of books everywhere can be stylish. (Also, damn, all that Cuzco School art.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...
A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Evidence that piles of books everywhere can be stylish. (Also, damn, all that Cuzco School art.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...
On my schedule for this weekend: a trip to Roma market in Pasadena.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On my schedule for this weekend: a trip to Roma market in Pasadena.
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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You're probably wondering how I got here:
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
You're probably wondering how I got here:
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Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races?
I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!
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I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Karolinr Leavitt suffers from bottom tier sorority disease #comedy
TikTok video by temi_adeoye
www.tiktok.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Me and my mom on the bench in front of Trader Joe’s judging the guy in the cybertruck
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Me and my mom on the bench in front of Trader Joe’s judging the guy in the cybertruck
This is really good.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is really good.
Amazing how her traumas of assault don’t extend to a man convicted of actual assault.
SHAMELESS & UNSTABLE SYCHOPHANT: "There will never be another like him."
SANE AMERICANS: "Promise???"
SANE AMERICANS: "Promise???"
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing how her traumas of assault don’t extend to a man convicted of actual assault.
Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜
I guess it's a relief they cancelled my contract early?
amazing how quickly Bezos has turned the WaPo editorial page from a well respected institution to a low rent clownshow that somehow makes the WSJ editorial page look sober and reasonable
“Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I guess it's a relief they cancelled my contract early?
I love — loooove — the Davóne Tines/Julie Dash video in “MONUMENTS,” but the bench situation is dire.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I love — loooove — the Davóne Tines/Julie Dash video in “MONUMENTS,” but the bench situation is dire.
Bless Angelo Hernández Sias and n+1 for a deep dive into the new translation of José Donoso's "Obscene Bird of Night," an abject, mind bending and mind boggling novel I've been lightly obsessed with since I read it (attempted to read it?) in college.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Desire to Be an Imbunche | Angelo Hernandez Sias
Too long, too hard, too loose, too crass: these are the problems that abridgment seeks to fix. They are only problems to a writer’s enemies: politicians, skimmers, benefactors, and prudes. (For now we...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Bless Angelo Hernández Sias and n+1 for a deep dive into the new translation of José Donoso's "Obscene Bird of Night," an abject, mind bending and mind boggling novel I've been lightly obsessed with since I read it (attempted to read it?) in college.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
White Christian Nationalist adolescents who think they are living in a comic book movie.
Border Patrol's Greg Bovino just posted a new Batman-themed propaganda video to social media
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
White Christian Nationalist adolescents who think they are living in a comic book movie.
Everyday I wake up and ask myself, whose workplace can I ruin today?
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Everyday I wake up and ask myself, whose workplace can I ruin today?
During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records.
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
hyperallergic.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, underground bands played in tiny venues and distributed their music via bootleg cassettes. Artist Iván Navarro is resuscitating their work via his label, Hueso Records.
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
It's "the soundtrack to Operation Condor," he says.
hyperallergic.com/1055340/digg...
It’s looking like the worst Louis XIV quinceañera over there
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It’s looking like the worst Louis XIV quinceañera over there
Reposted by Carolina A. Miranda
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Reposted by Carolina A. Miranda
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Reposted by Carolina A. Miranda
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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