El Norte Recuerda
@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...
Oh my god 😭
The law is a highly specialized language that requires a very strong set of rhetorical skills. Why? Because you are building an argument (rhetoric), presenting evidence (research and citation), citing precedent (critical reading, research, interpretation). Law is not made in a logic vacuum.
In my opinion, a legal case should be about the law instead of the concept of powerful rhetorical ability. It should be about the law instead of performance art. Making it about these other things cheapens the entire question of whether someone broke the law and whether society achieved justice.
Advocacy depends on powerful rhetoric, economical language, and rhetorical skill. Poetry is the only way you’re going to learn skills like metonymy, the effect of stressed syllables, scansion, rhetorical methods only the most skilled orators use to this day. Please stop devaluing the humanities
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The law is a highly specialized language that requires a very strong set of rhetorical skills. Why? Because you are building an argument (rhetoric), presenting evidence (research and citation), citing precedent (critical reading, research, interpretation). Law is not made in a logic vacuum.
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Advocacy depends on powerful rhetoric, economical language, and rhetorical skill. Poetry is the only way you’re going to learn skills like metonymy, the effect of stressed syllables, scansion, rhetorical methods only the most skilled orators use to this day. Please stop devaluing the humanities
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Advocacy depends on powerful rhetoric, economical language, and rhetorical skill. Poetry is the only way you’re going to learn skills like metonymy, the effect of stressed syllables, scansion, rhetorical methods only the most skilled orators use to this day. Please stop devaluing the humanities
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I wrote a 2026 media prediction for Nieman Labs. It's about how I think more newsrooms will use AI (and that the AI will have a right-wing bias). Check it out here: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I wrote a 2026 media prediction for Nieman Labs. It's about how I think more newsrooms will use AI (and that the AI will have a right-wing bias). Check it out here: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
The first two seasons of Arrested Development are impeccable comedy
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The first two seasons of Arrested Development are impeccable comedy
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An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
ICE agent arrested, held on ‘no bond’ order at prosecutor’s request
Samuel Saxon is charged with felonious assault, strangulation and domestic violence.He pleaded not guilty to all counts.
www.cincinnati.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
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i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
(Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)
A long time ago, there was a tweet about the difference between US diaspora poets vs poets of the home country.
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A long time ago, there was a tweet about the difference between US diaspora poets vs poets of the home country.
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine.
But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE
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Since we are talking poetry and words, the phrase “rent-free in your head” makes me so sad… the idea of rent is so corrosive and pervasive, it’s considered an exception to have thoughts, feelings, ideas, poetry in your mind, rent-free!!
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Since we are talking poetry and words, the phrase “rent-free in your head” makes me so sad… the idea of rent is so corrosive and pervasive, it’s considered an exception to have thoughts, feelings, ideas, poetry in your mind, rent-free!!
Actually, can someone update my Wikipedia page? I can’t do it (you can’t author or update your own page) and it’s missing my latest book, MAGICAL/REALISM and the long lists. I’m sorry to ask like an egomaniacal asshole but it’s bugging me! And maybe it might help with the academic job search?
And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Actually, can someone update my Wikipedia page? I can’t do it (you can’t author or update your own page) and it’s missing my latest book, MAGICAL/REALISM and the long lists. I’m sorry to ask like an egomaniacal asshole but it’s bugging me! And maybe it might help with the academic job search?
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And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄
This is catastrophic on like, generational infinite levels, but here’s another thing: Netflix will own Game of Thrones and all other associated properties. So really: That’s all, folks.
Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly moving forward with exclusive deal talks with Netflix
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks
Warner Bros. Discovery has selected Netflix after the streaming giant offered $30 a share for the studio and streaming assets.
www.thewrap.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is catastrophic on like, generational infinite levels, but here’s another thing: Netflix will own Game of Thrones and all other associated properties. So really: That’s all, folks.
At this point I’m begging you to boycott Amazon, if you want a future.
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
At this point I’m begging you to boycott Amazon, if you want a future.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
You can’t be fucking serious.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You can’t be fucking serious.
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This is pure censorship—using DEI as cover.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is pure censorship—using DEI as cover.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
If you’re showing off your Spotify Wrapped this year, I know you’re morally bankrupt, and that even running ICE ads isn’t enough to cancel your subscription. Never mind that Spotify is a fascist corporation that invests in AI military tech, and would rather create AI slop than pay artists.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you’re showing off your Spotify Wrapped this year, I know you’re morally bankrupt, and that even running ICE ads isn’t enough to cancel your subscription. Never mind that Spotify is a fascist corporation that invests in AI military tech, and would rather create AI slop than pay artists.
“Now”?
We're doing pogroms in America now
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“Now”?
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ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
anmly.submittable.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ANMLY is now open for new work!
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!
> anmly.submittable.com
*Fee waivers available*
Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!
> anmly.org/ap41
Twitter is literally unusable
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Twitter is literally unusable
GIVE $15 TO WIKIPEDIA TODAY YOU COWARDS
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
GIVE $15 TO WIKIPEDIA TODAY YOU COWARDS