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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If you really want to understand Frank Gehry's genius, look past the titanium showpieces, @cmonstah.bsky.social writes. She explores the remodeling projects through which Gehry made the mundane into the extraordinary:
Frank Gehry’s Best Work Was Not His Flashiest
If you really want to understand the late architect’s transformative genius, look past the titanium showpieces that made him a household name.
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Disney Hall is great. Some of his small projects are perhaps even greater.
Today’s winning TikTok
January 4, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Today’s winning TikTok
Me and my South American group chat have decided to go bed until 2027.
January 4, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Me and my South American group chat have decided to go bed until 2027.
Fuck every streaming service that won’t let me enjoy the credits.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Fuck every streaming service that won’t let me enjoy the credits.
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MDC will now be home to a leader who our country says is so dangerous they needed to be violently deposed.
The very same building also holds people that fled his regime who are being detained by ICE because we are not granting them asylum.
The very same building also holds people that fled his regime who are being detained by ICE because we are not granting them asylum.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife have arrived at Stewart International Airport, outside New York City, following U.S. strikes in Venezuela. They are expected to be transported by helicopter to Manhattan, then driven to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Katy Tur reports.
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
MDC will now be home to a leader who our country says is so dangerous they needed to be violently deposed.
The very same building also holds people that fled his regime who are being detained by ICE because we are not granting them asylum.
The very same building also holds people that fled his regime who are being detained by ICE because we are not granting them asylum.
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Who did this 😂
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Who did this 😂
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I’m not one for illegal foreign interventions, but this means that the Peruvian shamans are so far one out of two.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Peru shamans foretell illness for Trump, Maduro's exile in 2026
Shamans in Peru gathered for an annual New Year's ritual on Monday where they made predictions for the year to come, including illness for U.S. President Donald Trump and the downfall of Venezuelan co...
www.reuters.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I’m not one for illegal foreign interventions, but this means that the Peruvian shamans are so far one out of two.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Interestingly, Venezuela was the first place to which a nascent US republic offered foreign aid in the early 19th century: it was to support liberation struggles against the Spanish in South America. Fast forward to our appalling present.
January 3, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Interestingly, Venezuela was the first place to which a nascent US republic offered foreign aid in the early 19th century: it was to support liberation struggles against the Spanish in South America. Fast forward to our appalling present.
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It's pouring rain in Downtown Los Angeles but protesters are arriving at Pershing Square for a protest against the attack on Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
It's pouring rain in Downtown Los Angeles but protesters are arriving at Pershing Square for a protest against the attack on Venezuela.
For Christ’s sake Maduro was a tyrant who stole elections.
NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
For Christ’s sake Maduro was a tyrant who stole elections.
Los Angeles in one supermarket billboard.
January 3, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Los Angeles in one supermarket billboard.
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A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Nightmare.
U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say
President Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela, including military facilities, U.S. officials told CBS News, ratchet up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
www.cbsnews.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Nightmare.
From Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
From Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
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David Horsey, Seattle Times
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
David Horsey, Seattle Times
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Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
www.nybooks.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
DHS stole the work of a Japanese artist to make a wildly racist post.
Unfortunate that they misappropriated the work one of the coolest artists around en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi...
Hiroshi Nagai - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:50 AM
DHS stole the work of a Japanese artist to make a wildly racist post.
The research assistant keeping me company while I read.
January 1, 2026 at 11:33 PM
The research assistant keeping me company while I read.
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This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This man's media team is a bunch of goddamned geniuses, someone scouted for locations and figured out they could set up this very shot. Look at it, it's incredible. Look up pics of Adams being sworn in at the ball drop, which look chaotic, cheap, and undignified in comparison.
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1/ WSJ reports that Trump is always dozing off, struggles to hear, refuses to wear compression socks, get adequate sleep, or follow medical advice, relying intead on his “good genetics” to keep him alive. www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
1/ WSJ reports that Trump is always dozing off, struggles to hear, refuses to wear compression socks, get adequate sleep, or follow medical advice, relying intead on his “good genetics” to keep him alive. www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...
Die Hard was so ahead of its time: European terrorists, Black computer hacker, Japanese American CEO (who’d been imprisoned at Manzanar), white reporter who threatens to call border patrol on a nanny and the best architecture critique of any action movie. (“The benefits of a Classical education.”)
a man with a beard in a suit and tie
ALT: a man with a beard in a suit and tie
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Die Hard was so ahead of its time: European terrorists, Black computer hacker, Japanese American CEO (who’d been imprisoned at Manzanar), white reporter who threatens to call border patrol on a nanny and the best architecture critique of any action movie. (“The benefits of a Classical education.”)
Follow up with the artist in six months to see if she’s been paid.
Trump, celebrating New Year's at Mar-a-Lago, bids $100,000 for a painting
January 1, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Follow up with the artist in six months to see if she’s been paid.