Ito Romo
@itoromo.bsky.social
Author of El Puente/The Bridge and The Border Is Burning. Former Professor of English Language and Literature. Texas Institute of Letters. ‘Filth Eaters’ to be released May ‘26. Deep Vellum Publishing.
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"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."
www.publicnotice.co
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Bruce Springsteen’s STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Bruce Springsteen’s STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Mexican writer David Toscana has won the 2026 Alfaguara Novel Prize with his work The Blind Army, a dark fable about the Byzantine emperor Basil II. The prize includes $175,000 and publication of the novel. The book will be available in bookstores on March 26.
📚 El mexicano David Toscana gana el premio Alfaguara de novela 2026. Según el acta del premio, Toscana se aleja “del relato histórico convencional para ofrecer una lectura simbólica, casi mítica, sobre la guerra, el poder y la resistencia”
El mexicano David Toscana gana el premio Alfaguara de novela 2026
La edición XXIX del galardón, dotado con 147.000 euros, se celebró en la galería de cristal del Palacio de Cibeles en Madrid
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January 27, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Mexican writer David Toscana has won the 2026 Alfaguara Novel Prize with his work The Blind Army, a dark fable about the Byzantine emperor Basil II. The prize includes $175,000 and publication of the novel. The book will be available in bookstores on March 26.
It may be time to break the glass. ❤️👊🏼❤️ Hold your people close.
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
It may be time to break the glass. ❤️👊🏼❤️ Hold your people close.
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Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
Happy birthday to my baby brother Rodrigo. Since he’s not on the internets, kids show your dad and tell him that I love him while you’re at it. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your brothers close.
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Happy birthday to my baby brother Rodrigo. Since he’s not on the internets, kids show your dad and tell him that I love him while you’re at it. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your brothers close.
“The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America.”—Cesar Chavez
from Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Showed Us the Way, Maryknoll, 1978, 52-55.
Hold your people close. ❤️👊🏼❤️
from Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Showed Us the Way, Maryknoll, 1978, 52-55.
Hold your people close. ❤️👊🏼❤️
January 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
“The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America.”—Cesar Chavez
from Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Showed Us the Way, Maryknoll, 1978, 52-55.
Hold your people close. ❤️👊🏼❤️
from Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Showed Us the Way, Maryknoll, 1978, 52-55.
Hold your people close. ❤️👊🏼❤️
Hold your people close.
Tell them often that you love them. ❤️ Peace.
Tell them often that you love them. ❤️ Peace.
January 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Hold your people close.
Tell them often that you love them. ❤️ Peace.
Tell them often that you love them. ❤️ Peace.
Happy 85th birthday, madre querida! Still as beautiful and amazing as ever! You are our everything. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your people close. Tell them often that you love them.
December 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Happy 85th birthday, madre querida! Still as beautiful and amazing as ever! You are our everything. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your people close. Tell them often that you love them.
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Does anyone have any good resources for talking to kids about ICE? My 10yo is panicking about our friends and neighbors, and I feel maybe 75% equipped for honest but age-appropriate conversations and 25% way over my head.
(I don't want vague platitudes/reassurances or doomerism, pls and thanks)
(I don't want vague platitudes/reassurances or doomerism, pls and thanks)
December 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Does anyone have any good resources for talking to kids about ICE? My 10yo is panicking about our friends and neighbors, and I feel maybe 75% equipped for honest but age-appropriate conversations and 25% way over my head.
(I don't want vague platitudes/reassurances or doomerism, pls and thanks)
(I don't want vague platitudes/reassurances or doomerism, pls and thanks)
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Obama includes NORTH SUN as one of his favorite books of 2025! Huge honor for Ethan Rutherford, editor extraordinaire Jill Meyers, & for Deep Vellum, the only small publisher on this list, the only nonprofit publisher on this list!! @deepvellum.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Obama includes NORTH SUN as one of his favorite books of 2025! Huge honor for Ethan Rutherford, editor extraordinaire Jill Meyers, & for Deep Vellum, the only small publisher on this list, the only nonprofit publisher on this list!! @deepvellum.bsky.social
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The Ruins! Congratulations to Ye Hui & his remarkable translator, Dong Li! We published this remarkable book in a beautiful bilingual edition. Chinese metaphysical poetry forever!! @deepvellum.bsky.social
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Ruins! Congratulations to Ye Hui & his remarkable translator, Dong Li! We published this remarkable book in a beautiful bilingual edition. Chinese metaphysical poetry forever!! @deepvellum.bsky.social
*Filth Eaters* listed on *Publishers Weekly* Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Literary Fiction. Super happy. Thanks for preordering. If you’d like to: link in comments or wherever you buy your books! Gracias, @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
*Filth Eaters* listed on *Publishers Weekly* Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Literary Fiction. Super happy. Thanks for preordering. If you’d like to: link in comments or wherever you buy your books! Gracias, @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social
Adding an "e" to the end of a singular "tamal" is called (in linguistics) linguistic interference/L1 interference/negative transfer: applying grammar rules from your native language (L1) to a 2nd language (L2), often creating errors. So, 1 tamal 2 tamales.🎄Happy Holidays!
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Adding an "e" to the end of a singular "tamal" is called (in linguistics) linguistic interference/L1 interference/negative transfer: applying grammar rules from your native language (L1) to a 2nd language (L2), often creating errors. So, 1 tamal 2 tamales.🎄Happy Holidays!
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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releasing on Tuesday: a bunch of tiny stories that are like the nematodes on SpongeBob, just mindlessly gnawing at the edges of the world. and making their own sound effects.
Preordered! 🖤
States of Grace
Stories
Expanded edition by Stephen Graham Jones
Available December 9th!
@sgj.bsky.social
States of Grace
Stories
Expanded edition by Stephen Graham Jones
Available December 9th!
@sgj.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
releasing on Tuesday: a bunch of tiny stories that are like the nematodes on SpongeBob, just mindlessly gnawing at the edges of the world. and making their own sound effects.
Ray Santisteban's 2006 documentary film of my grandmother, Sofía González Villarreal, and the amazing nativity scene she created for over 60 years at her home in Laredo, Texas.🎄Remember those who came before you. ❤️ Hold your people close. @raysantis.bsky.social
Laredo Christmas: The Nacimiento Tradition
YouTube video by Ito Romo
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December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Ray Santisteban's 2006 documentary film of my grandmother, Sofía González Villarreal, and the amazing nativity scene she created for over 60 years at her home in Laredo, Texas.🎄Remember those who came before you. ❤️ Hold your people close. @raysantis.bsky.social
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Felicidades to my dear friend Ito Romo on his forthcoming novel FILTH EATERS—a decade in the making. A sweeping, haunting reimagining of the vampire lineage. So proud!
PRE-ORDER: store.deepvellum.org/products/fil...
@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER: store.deepvellum.org/products/fil...
@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Felicidades to my dear friend Ito Romo on his forthcoming novel FILTH EATERS—a decade in the making. A sweeping, haunting reimagining of the vampire lineage. So proud!
PRE-ORDER: store.deepvellum.org/products/fil...
@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER: store.deepvellum.org/products/fil...
@deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social
Just going to leave this right here. ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Just going to leave this right here. ❤️
Nothing like walking through your neighborhood to vote. ❤️👊🏼❤️ VOTE!
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Nothing like walking through your neighborhood to vote. ❤️👊🏼❤️ VOTE!