Felipe De La Hoz
@felipedlh.bsky.social
Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, @theverge.com temporary writer, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe
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Felipe De La Hoz
@felipedlh.bsky.social
· Feb 20
For new followers: I’ve spent about a decade writing on immigration, from explanatory to feature to opinion to investigative. Always looking to talk if you have insight, from inside gov’t, civil society, or if directly impacted. Signal is felipedlh.58, anonymity assured (do NOT use work devices)
I think it shocks some of my students but I emphasize that having a job outside journalism is fine and common. I also toss in practical industry talk that’s not strictly in the curriculum. On Monday we discussed contracts: “for-hire,” indemnity, kill fees, scope of work. Freelancers need to know!
If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I think it shocks some of my students but I emphasize that having a job outside journalism is fine and common. I also toss in practical industry talk that’s not strictly in the curriculum. On Monday we discussed contracts: “for-hire,” indemnity, kill fees, scope of work. Freelancers need to know!
One of those cases where you don’t need forensic analysis of the image. Just stop and think about it for a second; not just one but seven billionaires, the most important people in one the most dominant industries in the world. What are they doing? Why’d they be here? Where are the security details?
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
One of those cases where you don’t need forensic analysis of the image. Just stop and think about it for a second; not just one but seven billionaires, the most important people in one the most dominant industries in the world. What are they doing? Why’d they be here? Where are the security details?
Does the NYPD just have a permanent mobile command post and heavy presence at Washington Square Park now? Why do we need this? Why are we paying for it?
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Does the NYPD just have a permanent mobile command post and heavy presence at Washington Square Park now? Why do we need this? Why are we paying for it?
As we’re parsing the details of operations in NYC and elsewhere, a reminder to folks in DHS and elsewhere that I am reachable via signal. I can use disappearing messages and guarantee that I will take active steps to safeguard your identity
For new followers: I’ve spent about a decade writing on immigration, from explanatory to feature to opinion to investigative. Always looking to talk if you have insight, from inside gov’t, civil society, or if directly impacted. Signal is felipedlh.58, anonymity assured (do NOT use work devices)
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
As we’re parsing the details of operations in NYC and elsewhere, a reminder to folks in DHS and elsewhere that I am reachable via signal. I can use disappearing messages and guarantee that I will take active steps to safeguard your identity
Don’t like to comment publicly on unconfirmed or pending operations, but it seems like the cat is out of the bag and there is a lot of consternation about another raid in Chinatown. Here’s what I know: there is another raid planned for the area, but it is not happening yet 1/2
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Don’t like to comment publicly on unconfirmed or pending operations, but it seems like the cat is out of the bag and there is a lot of consternation about another raid in Chinatown. Here’s what I know: there is another raid planned for the area, but it is not happening yet 1/2
I watched thousands of people overrun the Brazilian Congress building while wearing a press vest I didn’t know the significance of as a teenager
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I watched thousands of people overrun the Brazilian Congress building while wearing a press vest I didn’t know the significance of as a teenager
If the agents did not possess a judicial warrant (signed by an actual judge) then this is, legally speaking, a home invasion and criminal menacing, and the NYPD should be able to intervene and make arrests
The children haven’t returned to school since last Thursday, too afraid to leave their mother’s side.
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived there and didn't show a warrant or identify themselves. Days later, the children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If the agents did not possess a judicial warrant (signed by an actual judge) then this is, legally speaking, a home invasion and criminal menacing, and the NYPD should be able to intervene and make arrests
I have been offline for a few hours and it seems like I missed some crazy shit?
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I have been offline for a few hours and it seems like I missed some crazy shit?
Just hook it to my veins
Truth Social users are not happy with Trump on this one.
“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Just hook it to my veins
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TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social tracks a sad trend; “a deep-seated regret, among immigrants, for having come to the United States at all.” flaminghydra.com/r/fc898c29?m... r
Bill of goods / Feline fame
Felipe De La Hoz on immigrants’ regrets; Ace and Jack on Hollywood cats
flaminghydra.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social tracks a sad trend; “a deep-seated regret, among immigrants, for having come to the United States at all.” flaminghydra.com/r/fc898c29?m... r
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“In another sequence, an agent rolled down a window, pointed a handgun, and said ‘bang bang’ before sneering, ‘You’re dead, liberal.’” www.thedailybeast.com/judge-shreds...
Judge Shreds Lies and Provocations of ICE Barbie’s Goons
Federal judge says Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino lied as body-cam videos show tear gas, brake-checks, and even ChatGPT-written reports.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“In another sequence, an agent rolled down a window, pointed a handgun, and said ‘bang bang’ before sneering, ‘You’re dead, liberal.’” www.thedailybeast.com/judge-shreds...
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WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
An important thing to keep in mind. He’s weak, and getting weaker
Trump ranting about sedition, hangings, and death because some members of Congress said that US military personnel have to follow US law is quite bad, yes.
But it's frustrated impotence more than actionable threat.
He can't get James Comey in jail, he's far from able to murder members of Congress.
But it's frustrated impotence more than actionable threat.
He can't get James Comey in jail, he's far from able to murder members of Congress.
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
An important thing to keep in mind. He’s weak, and getting weaker
I guess they had to go with “simple answer” because other formulations of that idea are too historically weighted
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I guess they had to go with “simple answer” because other formulations of that idea are too historically weighted
Just picked up a smoothie at my local deli and this is the charge… what?? Why is this the payee???
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just picked up a smoothie at my local deli and this is the charge… what?? Why is this the payee???
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
A lot of ink will surely be spilled in the coming decades about why the US voting public took a look at the strongest Covid-recovery economy in the world and decided to drag it behind the shed, but it probably boils down to the stupidest possible answer, which is that no one understands anything
Probably second only to nukes are the long-tail risks of playing with the Fed.
Trump on Jerome Powell: "I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. The only thing Scott [Bessent] is blowing it on is the Fed. The rates are too high, Scott. And if you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going to fire your ass."
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A lot of ink will surely be spilled in the coming decades about why the US voting public took a look at the strongest Covid-recovery economy in the world and decided to drag it behind the shed, but it probably boils down to the stupidest possible answer, which is that no one understands anything
Can someone explain how this isn’t training guys to assault? I mean, “AI girls never say no”? I don’t subscribe to the moral panic that porn, even heavy BDSM or CNC, will engender violence because everyone is a consenting adult performer. Premise here is that you can *make* people do what you want
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Can someone explain how this isn’t training guys to assault? I mean, “AI girls never say no”? I don’t subscribe to the moral panic that porn, even heavy BDSM or CNC, will engender violence because everyone is a consenting adult performer. Premise here is that you can *make* people do what you want
As Texas AG Ken Paxton vows to appeal the ruling against the state's racially gerrymandered maps, I'm idly recalling that the Biden Justice Department quietly dropped the corruption case against Paxton, going against federal prosecutors in Texas that wanted to indict. Another Merrick Garland banger
Justice Department declined to prosecute Texas AG Paxton in final weeks of Biden's term: AP sources | The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department quietly decided in the final weeks of the Biden administration not to prosecute Texas Attorney General Ken
www.ap.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As Texas AG Ken Paxton vows to appeal the ruling against the state's racially gerrymandered maps, I'm idly recalling that the Biden Justice Department quietly dropped the corruption case against Paxton, going against federal prosecutors in Texas that wanted to indict. Another Merrick Garland banger
Fun fact about public charge expansion under Trump 1.0: it took so long to implement and was so quickly paused (thanks in part to Covid), I've never heard of a denial explicitly under the expanded definition. Yet it worked, in that it scared a lot of people away from benefits they were entitled to
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Fun fact about public charge expansion under Trump 1.0: it took so long to implement and was so quickly paused (thanks in part to Covid), I've never heard of a denial explicitly under the expanded definition. Yet it worked, in that it scared a lot of people away from benefits they were entitled to
Ambivalent about saying more on the Nuzzi shit as it makes me incandescently angry but while it's fun to read all the salacious stuff we have a crisis of confidence in journalism and it's insane that one person can not only do so much damage but then *still* be hired and promoted by the industry
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ambivalent about saying more on the Nuzzi shit as it makes me incandescently angry but while it's fun to read all the salacious stuff we have a crisis of confidence in journalism and it's insane that one person can not only do so much damage but then *still* be hired and promoted by the industry
This is conceptually cool and all, and we need greater advances in clean energy, but I just fundamentally don’t want technovangelist freaks and fascists like Palmer Luckey to have private atomic energy monopolies
Valar Atomics, one of the buzziest Silicon Valley nuclear startups out there, said today that it became the first nuclear startup in history to reach criticality, a key milestone in achieving nuclear power.
what does this mean, and why has no startup before done this? my latest for @wired.com
what does this mean, and why has no startup before done this? my latest for @wired.com
Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality
A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it's the first to do so—but it had some help.
www.wired.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is conceptually cool and all, and we need greater advances in clean energy, but I just fundamentally don’t want technovangelist freaks and fascists like Palmer Luckey to have private atomic energy monopolies
I have not and will not ready the Nuzzi chapter but I don’t think it’s a great sign for her that I literally cannot tell which excerpts floating around are parodies
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I have not and will not ready the Nuzzi chapter but I don’t think it’s a great sign for her that I literally cannot tell which excerpts floating around are parodies
I’d like to think I generally turn in pretty clean copy but editors have saved my skin many a time
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I’d like to think I generally turn in pretty clean copy but editors have saved my skin many a time