I was in Oaxaca when federal agents invaded Los Angeles, where so many people from Yalalag lived or had family.

A surreal week with some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, people obviously not met with the same hospitality in the States.

I went to the mountains of Oaxaca 🇲🇽 for Yalalag’s Fiesta de San Antonio de Padua and saw how basketball brings together local indigenous communities every weekend. www.derange.co/p/basketball...

When parks and programs shut down, what holds a community together? Meet East Reading Fight Club--where kids trade idle streets for sparring rings, and where brotherhood is forged in breaks between rounds.

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For this week's feature, we went to Reading, PA for a day of amateur boxing. What he found was a struggling community uplifted by the sport, some great corrido music, and a crop of fighters who gave it their all at the Reading Rumble.

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ICYMI: our free monthly column, with recs and mini essays from our writers. this week we’re talking about negative literary criticism, the upstart London-rapper fakemink, a cool band from Copenhagen, and much much more:

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CALL FOR PITCHES: Derange is looking for literary journalism. We can pay $100 per piece, and the subject matter can be about anything. Ideally, your story will pair boots-on-the-ground reporting with narrative flair.

Full details here: www.derange.co/about

NEW FEATURE: Artemii Lysikov fled a war, fought a felony, and spent 10 months in ICE captivity. It's a good thing he can paint.

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For this week's feature we've got
Martin Dolan on the rise of Shane Gillis, how his shtick has become more severe since Trump's second term, and a review of his show in Albany, NY.

www.derange.co/p/shane-gill...

It's really hard to condense 5,500 words to a Bluesky post, so here's a sample.

Here is our first feature, a monster of a piece that looks at the tradition of American brutality, billionaires reverse engineering our social media algorithms, the high-rolling ways of the Nelk Boys, and much, much more. By @ocksportello.bsky.social
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you've probably seen videos of power slap, the insane new venture from dana white where people take turns slapping a defenseless person in the face. last month, I got all access to power slap 14 in new orleans for @derangepub.bsky.social www.derange.co/p/what-is-po...

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"It is no secret that we are living in absurd and consequential times. There are a plethora of events happening right now that are reshaping our daily lives. Our ambition is to publish pieces that reflect these events in their tragedy and comedy alike."

"What I have done, and intend to keep doing, is gather a crop of talented writers who have been underserved and underused by the existing media world. The core idea is to build a home where these writers can simply write, while we will provide them with the tools to help crystallize their ideas."

"Before I begin to lay out the convoluted line of thought that led to this publication’s creation, allow me to explain this in the simplest way I can. Derange is a place for stories, a place for writing, a place for documentation."

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And we're live. Derange has been in the works for a minute now, and I can't wait to see where it goes. This is a new publication about...everything(?) Find us at the link below. #writing #substack

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Wrote about the new Tyler Childers album for @pitchfork.com #hillbillyhinduism

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