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I cannot believe the international community is still planning to host international games in the US. It’s not safe. Obviously. Cancel the games.

Of all Nabokov’s novels, perhaps none understands the weirdness, the gruesome mischief, of existence like his 99-page wonder Transparent Things (1972). For me, it’s a masterpiece — much misunderstood, but an icy tragi-comic gem. Strongly recommended.

Rebranding Indentured Servitude: "Immigrants will have a choice; the concentration tents in Florida that will be washed out to sea after the first hurricane, or unpaid work camps at farms/hotels etc. throughout America. You'll be paid in lodging, meals, and work clothing."

IMMENSE AMOUNTS OF PEDESTRIANIZATION

For the scholasticide website, Aya Elsehaimy writes about Yousef Abu Rabee, the 24-year-old agricultural engineer who helped the people of Gaza feed themselves during the first year of the genocide and was murdered by Israel for doing so. voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticide/…

"If Charlie Brown reads Freud, Mafalda reads Che Guevara." Meet the eponymous starlet of the best-selling Latin American comic of all time - a precocious, politically perceptive six-year old brunette in red: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Autorretrato de Juan Rulfo en el volcán Popocatépetl, 1947.

The The New York Times continues its self-invalidation tour… How many Ivy League degrees does it take for you to figure out Uganda is in Africa? Zohran Kwame Mamdani

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

In 2023, David Kipen included an old diary entry of mine in his calendrical anthology DEAR CALIFORNIA. I wrote the words in 2018, between July 4th and my birthday. I’m still grateful for my immigrant childhood. I have never feared more for my immigrant brothers and sisters.

La gentrificación, pensada como “colonización urbana” no solo es un fenómeno económico, sino también lingüístico. Cuando los gentrificadores no necesitan aprender el idioma local porque su estatus ya les garantiza privilegios, se da una forma de violencia simbólica (Bourdieu)🧵👇

We have over 30 injured families from Gaza currently in the United States getting medical care, and hearing the mother’s call home to their children in Gaza who are starving and have to answer the question “what did you eat today?” is one of the most heartbreaking things

Afternoon mail distracting me from the podcast questions I need to write

Congestion pricing by the #’s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering the zone daily * Delays in Holland tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * Broadway theater attendance up 12% * Subway ridership up

This is absolutely correct. Essays aren’t assigned because the world desperately needs another five-page take on the Aeneid, or the Republic, or Flannery O’Connor, or marriage in medieval Ireland; they’re assigned to develop and assess students’ understanding and abilities.

The Art Deco peacock doors, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1925

The 1762 Archive is a transnational, inter-institutional research and community engagement project focused on the digital reconstruction of the context and  contents of the dispersed 18th century Library of the Convent of San Agustin in Manila. 1762archive.org

This in a way is a secret weapon for Zohran, and why a lot of conservatives are sputtering about right now. You can yell out "Muslim!" or "Socialist!" or "African!" and his response, with a smile, is "yup."

Photography by Juan Rulfo, author of Pedro Páramo. Very interesting to me how his writing and photography show his creative vision from two different but related angles