Wendy C. Ortiz
@wendyortiz.com
Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
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Wendy C. Ortiz
@wendyortiz.com
· Dec 1
I honestly think buying my books as a SET would make a reader in your life very happy/angsty/overwhelmed/jolted/aroused/grateful/satisfied.
Put a green bow around it 💚
Excavation: bookshop.org/p/books/exca...
Hollywood Notebook: bookshop.org/p/books/holl...
Bruja: bookshop.org/p/books/bruj...
Put a green bow around it 💚
Excavation: bookshop.org/p/books/exca...
Hollywood Notebook: bookshop.org/p/books/holl...
Bruja: bookshop.org/p/books/bruj...
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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greg bovino seen vibrating into the ground and haphazardly flipping sand onto his thorax
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
greg bovino seen vibrating into the ground and haphazardly flipping sand onto his thorax
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Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”
We live in a world where I have to zoom in to photos, count people’s fingers, zoom in some more, check for misspellings, and look for weird anomalies before I can even trust the image I’m seeing. And someone, there’s always someone, who is trying to say that ai has feelings. GTFOH
January 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
We live in a world where I have to zoom in to photos, count people’s fingers, zoom in some more, check for misspellings, and look for weird anomalies before I can even trust the image I’m seeing. And someone, there’s always someone, who is trying to say that ai has feelings. GTFOH
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FUCK ICE!
January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
FUCK ICE!
If someone I knew irl told me they thought ai had feelings, I would calmly state that it does not have feelings, and then I would probably never trust them again 💕
January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
If someone I knew irl told me they thought ai had feelings, I would calmly state that it does not have feelings, and then I would probably never trust them again 💕
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AI cannot feel.
Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo.
You should feel judged.
Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo.
You should feel judged.
January 26, 2026 at 7:25 AM
AI cannot feel.
Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo.
You should feel judged.
Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo.
You should feel judged.
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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
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listen, we are going to do BEAUTY and we're going to do it TOGETHER and we are NOT leaving anyone behind and it's going to take real work and we are going to get tired but the end (there is no end) will be more life and more beauty and more of everyone and we are going to do it
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
listen, we are going to do BEAUTY and we're going to do it TOGETHER and we are NOT leaving anyone behind and it's going to take real work and we are going to get tired but the end (there is no end) will be more life and more beauty and more of everyone and we are going to do it
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between the Dreamhaven guy running through tear gas and the Moon Palace owner standing up to Jake Tapper in a live interview, mpls indie bookstore owners are really showing up.
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
January 25, 2026 at 7:19 PM
between the Dreamhaven guy running through tear gas and the Moon Palace owner standing up to Jake Tapper in a live interview, mpls indie bookstore owners are really showing up.
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01/25 9:45AM
Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.
Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.
January 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
01/25 9:45AM
Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.
Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.
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I told a saucepan to go fuck itself.
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I told a saucepan to go fuck itself.
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I'm not saying I'm burned out but earlier today I barked "what (do you want)?!" at a noise and it was a magazine falling off my desk
January 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I'm not saying I'm burned out but earlier today I barked "what (do you want)?!" at a noise and it was a magazine falling off my desk
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LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.
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Every so-called reputable media outlet should go a day without the 🍊 man’s photo in the paper. One day without his face.
January 25, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Every so-called reputable media outlet should go a day without the 🍊 man’s photo in the paper. One day without his face.
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one of the best poets we have
for this #smallpoemsunday, snowy & heavy, I’d like to share these four tanka from Harryette Mullen’s Urban Tumbleweed
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM
one of the best poets we have
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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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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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You don’t need to watch execution videos to remain informed
Guard your spirit for the fight ahead
Guard your spirit for the fight ahead
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
You don’t need to watch execution videos to remain informed
Guard your spirit for the fight ahead
Guard your spirit for the fight ahead
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One day will be the last that they commit an execution in the streets and we can and must bring that day closer however we can
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
One day will be the last that they commit an execution in the streets and we can and must bring that day closer however we can
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dawned on me just now that at some point ice is going to arrest someone who's in ice
January 24, 2026 at 1:09 AM
dawned on me just now that at some point ice is going to arrest someone who's in ice
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Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs.
It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous.
"LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!"
"ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous.
"LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!"
"ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
January 23, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs.
It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous.
"LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!"
"ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous.
"LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!"
"ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"
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Friday #FlowerReport
Cabrillo National Monument
Cabrillo National Monument
January 23, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Friday #FlowerReport
Cabrillo National Monument
Cabrillo National Monument