Marcela Garcia
@marcelagarcia.bsky.social
Columnist & Editorial Board member @bostonglobe.com's Opinion | Nieman Nation '26 | Pulitzer Prize finalist '25 | Born & raised in 🇲🇽 | My pups: Tiktok.com/@santoandbenito Sign up for my newsletter ¡Mira! 👀 BostonGlobe.com/mira
The senator cracked a joke after being gone for three months while his staff refused to answer questions.
McConnell Dramatically Breaks Silence in Return After 92 Days
The senator cracked a joke after being gone for three months while his staff refused to answer questions.
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NEW from me: A Q&A for the @bostonglobe.com magazine with the one and only Felix Contreras, creator of NPR's Alt.Latino and curator of Latin and Latin American music for the widely popular Tiny Desk. #HispanicHeritageMonth #HHM www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/m...
From the (tiny) desk of NPR’s Felix Contreras - The Boston Globe
‘Latin music isn’t a genre; it’s a conversation about identity happening in real time, across borders and across cultures.’
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Looove seeing @dbernstein.bsky.social writing for @globeopinion.bsky.social Globe Opinion Ideas ! Terrific analysis, ofc. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/02/o... #mapoli
Moulton doesn’t deserve the hate - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts politics is still a hardball affair.
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Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond. www.wired.com/story/pangra...
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond.
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Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
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A powerful incumbent, a crowded open seat, a lawmaker facing federal charges, and a 41-vote rematch make these the legislative races to watch in Massachusetts on Tuesday. MY LATEST @globeopinion.bsky.social column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/01/o... #Massachusetts #mapoli #bospoli
The four races I’m watching Tuesday night - The Boston Globe
A powerful incumbent, a crowded open seat, a lawmaker facing federal charges, and a 41-vote rematch make these the legislative races to watch on Tuesday.
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PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Judge tells Lindsay Clancy jury to keep deliberating after it says it is unable to come to a unanimous decision.
Lack of transparency is definitely a problem here, but many of the examples are people saying shit they would have said anyway. But THIS example looks like someone changing his tune on Steyer right after Steyer gave him a bunch of money...
My @globeopinion.bsky.social latest is on #DollyParton, motherhood, and my diamond engagement ring: Dolly Parton never became a mother, and yet she mothered millions anyway — and showed the rest of us that a legacy doesn’t require descendants. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/28/o... #Dolly
On Dolly Parton, motherhood, and my diamond engagement ring - The Boston Globe
She never became a mother, and yet she mothered millions anyway — and showed the rest of us that a legacy doesn’t require descendants.
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DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:
The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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It’s so insane that we have just accepted these third-country deportations as the new normal. Liberia Agrees to Take 1,200 Deportees From U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
Liberia Agrees to Take 1,200 Deportees From U.S.
The arrangement is one of the largest known deals that the Trump administration has struck to expel migrants who cannot be sent back to their home countries.
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My NEW @globeopinion.bsky.social column: Why is Rachael Rollins casting Michelle Wu as Boston’s Trump? In the Suffolk DA’s race, Rollins is tying Kevin Hayden to the mayor to court voters frustrated with the Wu administration. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/18/o...
Why is Rachael Rollins casting Michelle Wu as Boston’s Trump? - The Boston Globe
In the Suffolk DA’s race, Rollins is tying Kevin Hayden to the mayor to court voters frustrated with the Wu administration.
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Why didn't I freeze my eggs? My latest @globeopinion.bsky.social column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/14/o... @aoc.bsky.social
AOC is freezing her eggs. I didn’t — and I don’t regret it. - The Boston Globe
Freezing eggs can expand a woman’s options. But it can’t give her control over the one thing she wants most: her reproductive future.
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The first law of American politics is that pundits will draw sweeping conclusions from a single, narrowly decided result. A race decided by less than 0.5 percent of votes cast: had it gone the other direction, the headlines would be about the unstoppable force of progressive candidates.
My new @globeopinion.bsky.social column is about the new immigrant protections law that Mass. Governor Maura Healey signed last week. Healey called it "the strongest law in the country" — but is it? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/18/o...
The truth about the ICE law Healey just signed - The Boston Globe
What the PROTECT Act actually does — and doesn’t do.
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On the week of the El Paso shooting anniversary, caught up with @marcelagarcia.bsky.social and my former newsroom family at the @bostonglobe.com to talk about the city, returning home, and the stories that shaped the book. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/07/o...
El Paso is the country’s overlooked immigration anchor - The Boston Globe
Jazmine Ulloa, a former Boston Globe reporter, discusses her new book about how El Paso, not Ellis Island, is the country's true immigration gateway.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Nicaragua’s regime already oversees virtually every institution capable of influencing electoral outcomes, writes Gioconda Belli. “So why abandon even the fiction of free elections?”
Opinion | What Do Dictators Fear Most? Just Ask Nicaragua.
Nicaragua shows what happens when even dictators fear a rigged election.
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MY LATEST is on the border lesson Trump is missing in #Ceuta: The president seized on the brief migration surge in Spain to warn of an ‘invasion’ at the US-Mexico border, but the reality is far more complicated. @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/o...
The border lesson Trump misses in Ceuta, Spain - The Boston Globe
Trump seized on a brief migration surge in Spain to warn of an “invasion” at America’s southern border. The reality is far more complicated.
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"Sometimes we avoid art because it may be too good. With Argos, I’m worried — terrified — that Nolan will get it exactly right and I know what it will awaken in me," writes @marcelagarcia.bsky.social.
Everybody is watching ‘The Odyssey.’ I can’t. - The Boston Globe
Christopher Nolan’s epic confronts me with Argos, Odysseus’s faithful dog — and with the anticipatory grief of losing my nearly 13-year-old lab.
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Legislative experience and lived experience are better qualifiers for office than self-funding and privileged family connections. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/28/o...
Tram Nguyen is being outspent. Don’t count her out. - The Boston Globe
Tram Nguyen is betting that women voters, her refugee story, and a legislative record can beat money and political connections.
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65,765 people were in ICE detention as of July 11, in ICE's first data since April. Arrests hit a record 1,474 a day, and the largest group in custody has no criminal history at all. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
My @globeopinion.bsky.social latest: Tram Nguyen is being outspent in the MA-06 race. Don’t count her out. The Vietnamese immigrant is betting that women voters, her refugee story, and a legislative record can beat money and political connections. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/28/o...
Tram Nguyen is being outspent. Don’t count her out. - The Boston Globe
Tram Nguyen is betting that women voters, her refugee story, and a legislative record can beat money and political connections.
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In the @bostonglobe.com from colleagues @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, in a very welcome show of support for #Yale faculty, students and alumni who are fighting to keep our leaders from caving to Mr. Trump. #YaleDontCave www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...
Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe
Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.
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"When Harvard chose to fight back against the Trump administration, it did so at a time when we had few examples of successful resistance...Today, Trump is weaker politically, and we have mounting evidence that civic resistance works." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...
Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe
Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.
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It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Siete periodistas asesinados en siete meses en México: “Los matan porque se puede”. El crimen más reciente revela la impunidad que impera en delitos contra la prensa y expone la vulnerabilidad de los comunicadores, sobre todo, en medios locales al interior del país
Siete periodistas asesinados en siete meses en México: “Los matan porque se puede”
El crimen más reciente, el de Alejandro Leyva Aguilar en Oaxaca, revela la impunidad que impera en delitos contra la prensa y expone la vulnerabilidad de los comunicadores, sobre todo, en medios locales al interior del país
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The past of the ICE agent who fatally shot a man in Biddeford, Maine was full of red flags. But the agency, which was undertaking a massive push to expand the ranks of US immigration agents, hired him anyway. trib.al/gx1jMh9
How David Brouillette’s resume helped him get hired at ICE, despite warning signs - The Boston Globe
The Maine native showed red flags long before the deadly shooting of a 25-year-old Colombian immigrant in Biddeford.
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This is unconscionable. The Choice Facing Some Immigrants: Pay $1.8 Million in Fines or Leave. "Tens of thousands of immigrants have received letters to pay up or leave, as the government enlists debt collectors and seizes tax refunds." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump Administration Pressures Some Immigrants to Self-Deport With Fines Up to $1.8 Million (Gift Article)
Tens of thousands of immigrants have received letters to pay up or leave, as the government enlists debt collectors and seizes tax refunds.
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NEW @globeopinion.bsky.social column from me: In which I explain why I'm not rooting for Argentina in the World Cup final www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/o...
Sorry, Messi: Why Latinos are rooting against Argentina - The Boston Globe
Messi may be the greatest player alive, but for many Latino fans, old rivalries and questions of identity still matter more.
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