@daviddorantes.bsky.social
Writer and Journalist in #Texas. I'm always hunting for good stories. Email me: david.dorantes@journalist.com
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The US attack on Venezuela relies on the same deception that justified the war in Iraq: the idea of self-financing wars with oil.
Read the story from @alexjn.bsky.social on our site.
Read the story from @alexjn.bsky.social on our site.
January 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The US attack on Venezuela relies on the same deception that justified the war in Iraq: the idea of self-financing wars with oil.
Read the story from @alexjn.bsky.social on our site.
Read the story from @alexjn.bsky.social on our site.
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More than 170 U.S. citizens have been held by immigration agents, according to a report from our friends at @propublica.org.
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
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January 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
More than 170 U.S. citizens have been held by immigration agents, according to a report from our friends at @propublica.org.
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Blue states have repeatedly tried to rein in crisis pregnancy centers.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
This confusing Supreme Court case could reshape oversight of crisis pregnancy centers
New Jersey's broad subpoena against an anti-abortion chain has made for some strange bedfellows.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Blue states have repeatedly tried to rein in crisis pregnancy centers.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
But as faith-based organizations, pregnancy centers have a powerful shield: the First Amendment.
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Ya de regreso en Londres, agradezco como siempre al generoso espacio de @literalmagazine.bsky.social por publicar mis reflexiones durante mi estancia en Hawthornden Castle, y la celebración del premio Inés Arredondo para Ana García Bergua.
"How to honour this imperative of literature, which is an imperative of life? How not to forget, surrounded as we are by the ever more meretricious laws of the publishing market?" @adrianadiazenciso.bsky.social
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Being a Writer: Some Questions and a Celebration - Literal Magazine
During these weeks of quiet, of silence made up of breeze or wind, the rumour of the River Esk down there, soft rain, and birdsong, I often think—inevitably—of the Scottish poet William Drummond, cont...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ya de regreso en Londres, agradezco como siempre al generoso espacio de @literalmagazine.bsky.social por publicar mis reflexiones durante mi estancia en Hawthornden Castle, y la celebración del premio Inés Arredondo para Ana García Bergua.
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El 14 de noviembre, el Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte nos avisa a los becarios que vivimos en el extranjero que nuestro pago correspondiente al mes de noviembre "podría reflejarse" en los primeros diez días de diciembre. ¿Quién se hace responsable del daño que nos causan?
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
El 14 de noviembre, el Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte nos avisa a los becarios que vivimos en el extranjero que nuestro pago correspondiente al mes de noviembre "podría reflejarse" en los primeros diez días de diciembre. ¿Quién se hace responsable del daño que nos causan?
Slash #Slash, el guitarrista de Guns N’ Roses, sacó un gran disco de #Blues con escencias de #Rock y #Funk, escribí sobre eso en @literalmagazine.bsky.social la revista de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social. Va: literalmagazine.com/don-saul-sig...
Don Saúl sigue la senda del blues profundo - Literal Magazine
Good to be Alive Al verlo enseguida se sabe que Saúl Hudson es el guitarrista Slash. Pocos músicos de rock tienen una imagen tan icónica como ese integrante del grupo Guns N’ Roses. El sombrero negro ...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Slash #Slash, el guitarrista de Guns N’ Roses, sacó un gran disco de #Blues con escencias de #Rock y #Funk, escribí sobre eso en @literalmagazine.bsky.social la revista de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social. Va: literalmagazine.com/don-saul-sig...
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Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland
📸 Allison Michael Orenstein
#womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #otd
📸 Allison Michael Orenstein
#womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #otd
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland
📸 Allison Michael Orenstein
#womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #otd
📸 Allison Michael Orenstein
#womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #otd
En #Portland, #Oregon, se está gestando un gran movimiento de #Poesía en #Español y mi historia está en @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social, va: literalmagazine.com/en-oregon-se...
En Oregon se prenden flamas de poesía indispensable - Literal Magazine
Algo muy hermoso, poético e histórico está sucediendo en Portland, Oregon. La Asociación de Poesía de Oregon (OPA, por sus siglas en inglés) eleva la apuesta en estos tiempos convulsos en Estados Unid...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
En #Portland, #Oregon, se está gestando un gran movimiento de #Poesía en #Español y mi historia está en @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social, va: literalmagazine.com/en-oregon-se...
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Hegseth basically forced more than 800 top military commanders to sit for a MAGA pep rally.
Hegseth uses unprecedented meeting to fat-shame generals
The US military's top brass were silent as the secretary ordered a return to the "highest male standard."
www.motherjones.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Hegseth basically forced more than 800 top military commanders to sit for a MAGA pep rally.
September 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Don't worry, we all know he's a liar, don't let him intimidate you!!!
Trump sues The New York Times for defamation, seeks $15 billion | AP News share.google/decmBowCq6PA...
Trump sues The New York Times for defamation, seeks $15 billion | AP News share.google/decmBowCq6PA...
Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
The lawsuit names several articles and one book written by two of the publication’s journalists and published in the lead up to the 2024 election.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Don't worry, we all know he's a liar, don't let him intimidate you!!!
Trump sues The New York Times for defamation, seeks $15 billion | AP News share.google/decmBowCq6PA...
Trump sues The New York Times for defamation, seeks $15 billion | AP News share.google/decmBowCq6PA...
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"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," he claimed in a Saturday speech to a far-right rally in London.
Elon Musk urges Brits to "fight back" against their political enemies
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September 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," he claimed in a Saturday speech to a far-right rally in London.
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Causing climate change is killing us.
Even if you ignore the climate change bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2...
Even if you ignore the climate change bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2...
Why Destroying the Planet is Destroying Us
YouTube video by ClimateAdam
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September 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Causing climate change is killing us.
Even if you ignore the climate change bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2...
Even if you ignore the climate change bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2...
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The murder of Iryna Zarutska has shocked me profoundly. The brutality, the bystanders, the social media reaction, the instrumentalization.
Obviously many brave souls would have helped, would have saved her or would have soothed her.
Outrage is omnipresent.
But... ⬇️ 🧵
Obviously many brave souls would have helped, would have saved her or would have soothed her.
Outrage is omnipresent.
But... ⬇️ 🧵
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The murder of Iryna Zarutska has shocked me profoundly. The brutality, the bystanders, the social media reaction, the instrumentalization.
Obviously many brave souls would have helped, would have saved her or would have soothed her.
Outrage is omnipresent.
But... ⬇️ 🧵
Obviously many brave souls would have helped, would have saved her or would have soothed her.
Outrage is omnipresent.
But... ⬇️ 🧵
El #Libro de #Cuentos ‘Travesías interiores’, editado por @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social, reune obra de varios escritores hispanos en #Texas y se presentará en #Houston. La #Literatura en #Español avanza con fuerza en #EEUU. Si andan por #Houstotitlán vayan!
September 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
El #Libro de #Cuentos ‘Travesías interiores’, editado por @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social, reune obra de varios escritores hispanos en #Texas y se presentará en #Houston. La #Literatura en #Español avanza con fuerza en #EEUU. Si andan por #Houstotitlán vayan!
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“The Fourth Amendment protects every individual’s constitutional right to be ‘free from arbitrary interference by law officers,'” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent. “After today, that may no longer be true."
Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE
The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“The Fourth Amendment protects every individual’s constitutional right to be ‘free from arbitrary interference by law officers,'” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent. “After today, that may no longer be true."
Lene Lovich es una de las figuras más enigmáticas y poderosas del #Punk #NewWave de #Inglaterra. Ahora regresa para abrir la gira de Devo y The B-52’s por Estados Unidos. Debido a eso escribí un texto en @literalmagazine.bsky.social va: literalmagazine.com/lene-lovich-...
Lene Lovich y el fino arte de transgredir - Literal Magazine
Say When Lene Lovich está en la carretera otra vez. Locuaz, vivaracha, irreverente, crítica, mordaz, atrevida. Esas palabras definen la carrera musical de uno de los grandes íconos femeninos del punk/...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Lene Lovich es una de las figuras más enigmáticas y poderosas del #Punk #NewWave de #Inglaterra. Ahora regresa para abrir la gira de Devo y The B-52’s por Estados Unidos. Debido a eso escribí un texto en @literalmagazine.bsky.social va: literalmagazine.com/lene-lovich-...
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🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
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🚨BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Thursday, striking down Louisiana’s state legislative maps for violating the Voting Rights Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Court Delivers Major Win for Black Voters in Louisiana State Redistricting Battle
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Thursday, striking down Louisiana’s state legislative maps for violating the Voting Rights Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
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New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and @texastribune.org, brought against state and local governments.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to rele...
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and @texastribune.org, brought against state and local governments.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.
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"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."