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A. McAnarney-Castro
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Horror & Spec. Fiction writer.🐙
Mesoamerican chaos-muppet. 🇸🇻🇲🇽
Digital Manager @theyoungcenter.bsky.social.🌎🇵🇸✊🏽
Opinions & Terrors my own
My work, that is not yet finished🤲🏻: linktr.ee/alexmcanarneywrites
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I have a book ya'll! Thank you @gnashingteethpub.bsky.social for believing in my Monsters!
Been thinking about this poem a lot lately.
T.S. Eliot - East Coker from Four Quartets - The Dewdrop
T.S. Eliot's epic Four Quartets embodies a mystical vision of human life, time and memory sourced from Christianity and eastern philosophy.
thedewdrop.org
February 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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My next book? 😆
February 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
An American Hero.
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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America250 insists they are planning nonpartisan festivities, rather than creating a slush fund to throw the president militarized birthday parties.

But in reality, US history is being subordinated to Trump’s cult of personality.

This Presidents' Day, check out our latest feature:
Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
www.motherjones.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Codependency. A Body comedy.
my favorite horror movie of 2025. it’s camp !!
February 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Re-Watching Pontypool (2008)!

Spoken languages may have the power to turn people into raving lunatics...and this is why there are grammar police! They've been trying to protect us, & everyone always mocks them for being nerds and need to relax! When this happens, they will be the sole survivors!
February 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Something to take comfort in as I move forward with this WIP.

#HippityHoppitusSatanasRege
Mary Ruefle, with the bunny content you didn't know you needed
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I'm dying. And also, feel called out. 😅
i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this
February 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
It sucks to be working hard while SOME OF US are hardly working.
February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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February 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Texas – The League of United Latin American Citizens called for the release of all children being held at immigration detention centers Sunday.
www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
Protesters call for release of children detained at detention centers
The League of United Latin American Citizens called for the release of all children being held at immigration detention centers Sunday.
www.ksat.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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My review: Abraham Lincoln would have shot himself in the theater watching this movie.
February 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The thing about getting the writing gig going in your late 30s/early 40s is that carpal tunnel-tendonitis-sciatica-preexisting shoulder injury comes at you like a 1-2-1 lightning combo and suddenly you're on the floor, curled up in full-on ouch, only a half page in...
February 1, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Children and families should never go through the horrors Liam and his dad went through.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 4:27 PM
This is the acidic movie write up I was looking forward to.
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
A different kind of April fools

*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Diseño clásico, desde un trópico distópico.

On #nationalstrikeday we saying it with a dash of Salvadorian class.

Grax hellsalvador por el diseño.
January 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc

like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
January 29, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Drawing by a 5 year old girl at the ICE Children’s Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX. This child turned 5 in detention & has spent almost 20% of her life jailed along with 4 of her siblings. (1/26/26)
www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/...
January 29, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Something short I wrote after Renee Good's death a few weeks back for a colleague's blog in Mexico.

So much has happened since, and so much continues to go on.

The piece echoes what so many of us have said and felt, maybe even as writers, but I had to get it off my chest.

As always #ChingaLaMigra
The murder of Renee Good is just the tip of the ICEberg – MIRA
www.americas.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Photo of the day
January 29, 2026 at 12:37 AM