An unannounced change took effect on September 15, adding another layer of difficulty for thousands of families and lawyers trying to locate detained loved ones. Read more: lataco.com/final-remova... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Jaylyn Preslicka

There’s a new ICE surge happening in the Greater Los Angeles Area now. At least 20 people have been taken by noon in Southern California, numbers we haven’t seen in a long time. @lataco.bsky.social

We ranked the 54 best Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles. These are all places we think will blow you away in one way or another, through food, service, vibe, and more often than not, all of the above. See it all in our interactive guide: lataco.com/best-mexican...

Oct 8th 1984 - After catching their first ghost at the Sedgewick Hotel, business quickly picks up for the Ghostbusters with more paranormal sightings. On Oct 8th they were featured on the front page of USA Today. 📽️📅 Ghostbusters (1984)

"My fondest memorye as a childe ys the A.I.-generatid voyce of my fathir, sayinge, 'as sure as handes are vague globs of paste, my son, and as true as hydrogen tarifffs are enshrined yn the bill of rights, you are loved by your ChatGPDad.'"

The war on knowledge doth continue, the United States againste itself, againste its future generaciouns. Take awaye everyethinge not needed to serve the corporaciouns.

The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say

You know it. The pleasure of being left alone www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/13/r...

The Pleasure of Being Left Alone

“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

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“It’s like the place we never got to, to which I keep / arriving.” — Jacob Sheetz-Willard  . . . This poem appeared in Chestnut Review, Autumn 2024 (Volume 6, Number 2). Shared here with deep gratitude.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Now open to all! Michael Douglas in-person Sat. at the Egyptian ⭐️🎬 Michael Douglas Marathon + Career Conversation starts at 2pm on Oct. 10th. “One Helluva Ride” book signing to follow! ROMANCING THE STONE, THE WAR OF THE ROSES, FALLING DOWN, THE GAME: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

The joy of having a good film club membership at @thefridacinema.org, I spent 5.5 hours there tonight seeing one of my favorite horror films and then going right in to see a documentary on Bea Arthur with a Q&A from the director after.

"laughing is falling, we were falling-falling into the Soufrière sky and suddenly your laughter was the room in which we now sank, everything overturned by the bacchanal, the salt-shaker, a glass of water and yes, without realizing it, we laughed." poets.org/poem/birthda...

From “Birthday Letters” (I)

We were unsure at first, our eyes darting / sugar birds as humans draw near,

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"If many of Steven Spielberg’s films are marathon novels, DUEL is a sonnet—it has room to play because of its formal constraints."

I Gave You The Road, Why Don’t You Take It?  - Duel (1971) | BW/DR

If many of Steven Spielberg’s films are marathon novels, Duel is a sonnet—it has room to play because of its formal constraints.

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It's Banned Books Week. One of our favorite activities is to go through the list of frequently-banned books to see what our totalitarian gerontocracy doesn't want us to read. Another is to try to figure out which right-wing group was mad at each book and why. libro.fm/collections/...

Emily Van Duyne remembers the late feminist Robin Morgan and her influence on Sylvia Plath’s legacy. buff.ly/jroQKFU

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

On the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, my best friend Dani, also a writer, wrote to tell me that Robin Morgan, the landmark American feminist activist, organizer, and writer, had died. In th…

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Just received my DNA results and apparently my lineage can be traced back to a pumpkin patch nestled in fog on a cool October day with the sound of crows in the distance.

Feeling like the giant corporate entities that don't pay taxes can take a long walk off a short pier today? Well our friends at @bookshop.org are offering an anti-Prime Day deal on October 6 and 7. We have curated several of our favorite food books to tempt you. buff.ly/lak9cXt

Add These Ravenous-Approved Books to Your Reading List

Do you like books? Are you one of the people who actually read at least one book (or 50) each year? Great news: Ravenous has an online bookstore and some recommendations for you.

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my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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In honor of Banned Books Week, the American Library Association has published a list of the 150 most challenged books documented between 1990 and 2025. buff.ly/kxnCpMk

Inside the ALA’s list of the 150 most banned books of the last 35 years.

In honor of Banned Books Week, the American Library Association (ALA) has published a list of the 150 most challenged books documented between 1990 and 2025. The ALA’s Office for Intellectual…

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I watched both East of Eden and the Lanterns finale this weekend and I said … wait a dang minute is this the same picture? also look we have gift links now! I think! but also don’t look if you don’t want to know what happened in Lanterns. or East of Eden. www.vulture.com/article/lant...

Lanterns Said ’Timshel’

Through a coincidence of the TV calendar, two very different series land on the same closing question about human nature.

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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