Marcos Gonsalez
@marcossgonsalez.bsky.social
queer 🇲🇽🇵🇷 author, aesthete, prof | latest book on José Estaban Muñoz & queer of color theory, Beacon Press | bylines: TSQ, Lit Hub, Camera Obscura, TIME, elsewhere| Agent: Lauren Abramo
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really wild to think that there are 3 books out there in the world, by me.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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Deadline to apply is February 10th!
Are you a creative and intellectually curious editor ready to grow lists in environmental history, history of medicine, urban history, and labor history?
We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇
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We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇
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Now Hiring: Acquisitions Editor, History
Acquisitions Editor, History UNC Press is seeking a creative, intellectually curious, and mission-driven publishing professional who will acquire general
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February 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Deadline to apply is February 10th!
dismantle this entire agency.
AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
February 3, 2026 at 2:00 AM
dismantle this entire agency.
ICE does not need to exist.
January 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
ICE does not need to exist.
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Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
Journalist Don Lemon is charged with federal civil rights crimes in anti-ICE church protest
The Department of Homeland Security says journalist Don Lemon has been charged with federal civil rights crimes in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a...
apnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
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"Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of science degree, an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. The program has 25 students seeking a major and 31 seeking a minor."
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...
Texas A&M eliminates women’s and gender studies program
University leaders also said six courses were canceled and 48 exceptions were granted under new rules on race and gender.
www.texastribune.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of science degree, an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies. The program has 25 students seeking a major and 31 seeking a minor."
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...
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We’re hiring! UC Press is looking for an Editorial Assistant (hybrid, Oakland) to support acquisitions, work with authors, and help bring scholarly books into the world: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
January 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
We’re hiring! UC Press is looking for an Editorial Assistant (hybrid, Oakland) to support acquisitions, work with authors, and help bring scholarly books into the world: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
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you have to USE impeaching Noem to make a BROAD public case to dismantle DHS.
January 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
you have to USE impeaching Noem to make a BROAD public case to dismantle DHS.
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I don't think they want power, they certainly do not want responsibility. I think they want easy jobs and are always annoyed when begrudgingly compelled to do anything at all, most of them anyway.
Can’t get over the absurd self-own of not pressing forward to abolish ICE and take apart DHS in a moment when the GOP is backpedaling. If not now when? Do Dems think they’ll have more power after more murders and abductions? Even as a negotiation tactic why not start by asking for everything?
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I don't think they want power, they certainly do not want responsibility. I think they want easy jobs and are always annoyed when begrudgingly compelled to do anything at all, most of them anyway.
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
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You should not piss off nurses.
National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice
Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 PM
You should not piss off nurses.
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
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Bovino embarrassed them by failing, not by being a Nazi
His replacement will be a Nazi because it’s Nazis all the way up and down over there
His replacement will be a Nazi because it’s Nazis all the way up and down over there
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Bovino embarrassed them by failing, not by being a Nazi
His replacement will be a Nazi because it’s Nazis all the way up and down over there
His replacement will be a Nazi because it’s Nazis all the way up and down over there
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1/26: 10:15 a.m. CBP 🧊 cluster raids starting in Koreatown, Pico/Union, Salvadoran Corridor this morning.
ICE also in Riverside
ICE also in Riverside
January 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
1/26: 10:15 a.m. CBP 🧊 cluster raids starting in Koreatown, Pico/Union, Salvadoran Corridor this morning.
ICE also in Riverside
ICE also in Riverside
this cover, this book, this playwright—I need this book now!
Puto: Plays
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January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
this cover, this book, this playwright—I need this book now!
first day of classes tomorrow cancelled—a snow day!
January 26, 2026 at 2:54 AM
first day of classes tomorrow cancelled—a snow day!
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They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.
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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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"Trump is using all the instruments: quotas for ICE arrests; paramilitary force of thugs drunk on their own brutality; spectacle of random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. Our brains struggle to find logic. This logic has a name. It’s called state terror
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 PM
"Trump is using all the instruments: quotas for ICE arrests; paramilitary force of thugs drunk on their own brutality; spectacle of random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. Our brains struggle to find logic. This logic has a name. It’s called state terror
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation
this cannot stand
this cannot stand
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation
this cannot stand
this cannot stand
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