Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

This isn't immigration control, it's genocide.

Some spots of good news. The clot did not move to my lungs. I got the job. I got the house. It's raining, because the sky still cares about the earth.

This is James. I currently have a blood clot in my arm. He keeps resting his head exactly where it hurts, gently. I swear, he knows.

There are people who've been sick for 2, 3, 4+ years now & still aren’t believed by the people closest to them.

Long COVID is real. Gaslighting is real. Support the people in your life trying to stay safe. You don’t need to experience it to care

Yes

Trash Talk. Oh.

Literally describing themselves as occupying a blue state like hostile territory with the military and federal forces.

It's by design. Hollywood traffics in dehumanizing stereotypes of Mexico and Mexicans.

Excellent. This kind of racist newsroom bullshit is why I left being a staff writer at the LA Times to become a novelist and independent essayist. It is idustrywide.

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partners, a ‘learning moment’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Madness.

I think about him. The one who got away. Well, ran. Ran away. Writer too. The way we finished each other's sentences wasn't the way others do. Caramel combustion all the way along. When he found her? HER. She was possible. Churchy smiley real estate agent. He wears bow ties now.

🚨 Update on the Republican budget bill!

Quick reminder: It's impossible to "look Latino." Latina America is as diverse as the United States. When people use "Latino" as a physical descriptor, what they mean is Indigenous. All the Americas have the same history. Sometimes, the invaders and slaver owners spoke English. Sometimes Spanish.

Same for my son's paternal great grandfather, who was one of more than 1 million US citizens forcibly exiled to Mexico under Herbert Hoover for the crime of looking "Mexican" to racists. Julian was 10. The US tried to draft him, in Mexico, for wwii. They knew they'd sent citizens away.

So they passed a bill banning regulation of AI for 10 years. Appalling.

Oh, me too.

“Alisa, can you define your personal brand in one sentence fragment?”

He really is Central Casting Perfect for what he is

I agree!

This is exciting. My new S*b*tack about my near-death experience is one of the fastest-rising newsletters in spirituality. I was a materialistic atheist when I died in 2015, but that all changed when I went Somewhere Else.

Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.

She's such an absolute pos

Yes! 100%.

There are 73 million pet cats in this country. How has no one created this yet?

I think new homes should have an option to include a special cat closet, a small room where a built-in litter box goes. It should be vented to an exterior wall, easy to clean, accessed by a cat door, with higher-end self-cleaning boxes. To clean the room, the homeowner uses an outside door.