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Australia's leading predictive analytics website offers Australian sports fans innovative tools and content to enhance their enjoyment of major sporting events both domestically and internationally Our goal is to transform the sports fan experience by providing readily accessible data-driven content for sports enthusiasts like us © 2015-2025 Hypometer Technologies Pty Ltd (ABN 78 609 507 744) Proudly part of Cipher Sports Technology Group Ask around about music education graduate Stefania Osorio Amórtegui and you’ll hear the same words again and again and again.  Spend any time with her and you understand that those descriptors “I feel like life gave me everything I needed to study and just…do my best,” said Osorio Amórtegui who completed her Bachelor of Music in Music Education.   Osorio Amórtegui’s best looks a little something like this: Winning the Rowan Symphony Orchestra’s concerto competition on violin winning the String Ensemble concerto competition on viola serving as concertmaster for the orchestra and being one of two students selected to perform with faculty in Schubert’s iconic “Octet.” Additionally she and the Rowan String Ensemble collaborated with dance students for a special performance that had musicians moving around the stage with dancers requiring memorization in lieu of reading sheet music.  “She’s so prepared it’s ridiculous I’d say she played better than me,” says Dr associate professor and head of strings at Rowan of that performance Schwarz and Osorio Amórtegui have a long history he traveled to the National University of Colombia to host a violin masterclass where Osorio Amórtegui was a student she was completing her performance degree at their conservatory at the time and was considering her next move she began exploring options in the United States and Europe to become a music educator One of the professors she inquired with was Schwarz who Osorio Amórtegui says made things easy by explaining the overwhelming and confusing process from inquiry to application to audition to enrolling Pursuing music education at Rowan meant another four-year degree for Osorio Amórtegui which she says was the best decision because it gave her time to acclimate to the culture and language She was accepted to Rowan and began planning for her journey.  After postponing the Fall 2020 semester in the wake of the pandemic Osorio Amórtegui arrived in early 2021 to a snow-covered campus She recalls approaching Wilson Hall for the first time and being wowed by the beauty of the campus covered in white It also was Osorio Amórtegui’s first time in the United States her first time living alone and away from home She used a translator app for everything and asked another international student one who picked her up from the airport upon her arrival how to set up a bank account and get a new cell phone that would work here.  I was feeling every emotion all at once,” she recalls of her first couple months on campus navigating finding employment to buy groceries while starting new classes in a new country.  On top of her studies as a music education major for violin performance with minors in viola and jazz studies Osorio Amórtegui was also studying English She listened to podcasts and made flash cards she studied while going about her day to day She bought a book of words and phrases and made it her mission to use at least one a day in a sentence or conversation She also made a conscious effort to talk to anybody and everybody she encountered to test and learn the language.  “So many factors make things more difficult for international students It is impressive to see her have it so together and juggle all these things,” says Schwarz recalling a point during Osorio Amórtegui’s final semester she had but an hour free each day teaching lessons and working to support herself.  you would still find her helping out a classmate.”  Osorio Amórtegui plans to bring the same energy to her career as an educator as her professor and mentor Schwarz Throughout her time at Rowan she says she never felt stuck and always left his lessons with the tools she needed and a plan for how to improve.  it’s always ‘let’s see what we can do,” says Osorio Amórtegui.  The summa cum laude graduate will celebrate the completion of her degree at the college’s Commencement ceremony on May 14.  She has her sights set on a full-time teaching job in the area or pursuing a graduate degree to continue learning and growing as a musician and educator.  Osorio Amórtegui grew up with supportive parents who insisted she follow her dreams Her family back home in Colombia remain her driving force.  “My parents really wanted me to go for my dreams the same way their parents did for them,” she says recognizing her family’s sacrifices that paved the way.   Every spring, Rowan University highlights one graduating student from each school and college. Read more stories about this year’s featured graduates.  Rowan University • 201 Mullica Hill Road • Glassboro ©2025 Rowan University. Consumer Disclosures | University Catalog Read the Notice of Availability of Rowan’s Annual Security & Fire Safety Report Come back closer to the match starting time for the WTA insider live blog CHICAGO (March 1, 2025) – Chicago Fire FC today announced that the Club has signed Chicago Fire FC II midfielders Harold Osorio and Sam Williams to short-term agreements. Both Osorio and Williams will be available for today's Chicago Fire FC home opener against D.C. United at Soldier Field. Kickoff against D.C. United is scheduled for at 7:30 p.m. CT. The match will be broadcast live on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, and transmitted locally in English on WLS 890 AM and in Spanish on Que Buena 105.1 FM via the Uforia App. Both Osorio and Williams traveled with the Fire for the Club’s season opener against the Columbus Crew last Saturday. They took part in Chicago Fire’s preseason camps, earning minutes against Brazilian First Division side Fortaleza and MLS Western Conference foe Sporting Kansas City in Florida and playing against LAFC, Portland Timbers and San Jose Earthquakes at the Coachella Valley Invitational. Both also played in a closed-door scrimmage against Las Vegas Lights FC to close out preseason. Osorio, 21, joined Chicago Fire II, the MLS NEXT Pro side of the Club, in August 2022 from Alianza Fútbol Club in El Salvador’s Primera División. The El Salvador international has since played in 33 matches across all competitions for Chicago Fire II, including the MLS NEXT Pro regular season, MLS NEXT Pro playoffs and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Osorio scored nine goals as a midfielder in 2024, second on the team behind league-leading goal scorer David Poreba (18 goals). Williams, 19, joined Chicago Fire II in January 2025 from the University of North Carolina. Williams began his career with the New York Red Bulls Academy, where he became the first graduate to reach 2,000 minutes for New York Red Bulls II during the 2022 USL Championship regular season as a 17-year-old. At North Carolina, Williams was named to the 2022 All-ACC Freshman and All-ACC Academic Teams. Transaction: Chicago Fire FC (MLS) signs midfielders Harold Osorio and Sam Williams to Short-Term Agreements from Chicago Fire FC II (MLS NEXT Pro). But she's so much more than a messaging guru will always say something that really pokes and inflames people to provoke them into seeing what they might not otherwise have recognized And in a moment when so many people do not know what to say or how to say it — or seem to have lost the use of their vocal cords and spines — she is someone we can ask to tell people what they should be saying because she knows just how to frame the most important questions of this time Share For those who’ve been looking for leadership from above she made it very clear that nicely asking Democrats to do something has never brought about real change Stop trying to get Chuck Schumer to do something This conversation is an incredibly practical guide to what you need to — and can — do Anyone and everyone can lead: we make the future We know some of you prefer reading to watching so we’re publishing text excerpts of the conversation below we encourage you to watch the entire video above we are opening this video and transcript to all But we’re also asking candidly that folks support the half dozen or so people who now write for and edit and otherwise support the work of The Ink by becoming a paying subscriber today and to help us keep bringing you conversations like this one Your support allows us to open these ideas to as many people as possible Get 20% off forever Give a gift subscription I wanted to start maybe on a positive-ish note by asking you who is telling the right story right now Who do you see in the pro-democracy movement And I know that your answer to this may not take a lot of time because it may not be a very long list of people let's start with a story that you helped bring to light I thought he was absolutely spot-on in many ways I don't know whether we'll come back to this but I thought his response in particular when you held his feet somewhat to the fire about why other Democratic leaders are not stepping up That was probably him at his most diplomatic But I thought his description of reality was really spot on but ensuring we're speaking truth to each other and the burgeoning general strike movement who is getting it most dramatically and maybe for you infuriatingly wrong it's the siren song of the authoritarian that they are fomenting a counterrevolution against a revolution that never occurred you're being put upon by some usurping minority whether that be people seeking asylum in Australia whether that be Southern Europeans in the case of Brexit It's always some other who is coming to get you and they have amassed too much power And so I think what is most infuriating beyond just the absolute unwillingness to locate a single vertebra let alone a spine is the layering on of the misdiagnosis of why we are here when we blame when we make believe that the people with too much power in our society are undocumented immigrants and trans people If it weren't so pathetic and sad it would be funny So I think that that is what is particularly infuriating Talk to me about specific moments in the last month where you've seen someone give a press conference you've seen someone give a floor speech — give me the hall of shame because I consider you one of the only people who I could ask to do that and you'll just do it I think I'm extraordinarily disappointed by many of our senators because of all the extraordinary work that I know movement groups like Lucha in Arizona went to not only refusing to stand up to this administration but also actively sponsoring the Laken Riley bill It is about creating an unjust — even more unjust — legal system in the name of genuflecting at the altar of immigrants are the problem I think that Amy Klobuchar has said things that are really infuriating and incensing I think obviously Chuck Schumer's stance of “We’ll just rap about the price of eggs.” Hakeem Jeffries It's so interesting when you see a lot of the folks on TV and when you're under a Biden presidency or an Obama presidency maybe you don't notice the mediocrity as much because it doesn't like risk the republic — and now to see some of those same people they’re not evil or awful the way that we're talking about on the right but they are so profoundly mediocre and not up to the task of responding to a once-in-a-century emergency I referenced earlier before the conversation that you had with Senator Murphy and I was reflecting because obviously I spend a lot of time listening to people because if you want to be decent at messaging you have to spend a lot of time listening to people I mean in focus groups where we are asking them deep questions we are uncovering their underlying assumptions and beliefs about what is going on And so I think a lot about what people's underlying motivations are and the psychology of how they came to be where they are and doing what they're doing And I think when I think about these folks who have risen to the halls of power it kind of makes sense because to be honest that they're behaving in these milquetoast ways but also it is an accurate fact that that has worked for them The things that they have done in their life have brought them to The New York Times newsroom because — let's just widen the net of culpability a little bit here — has brought them to the pinnacle of journalism has brought them to the pinnacle of politics has brought them to the pinnacle of whatever it is I assume they desired to do once they became old enough to have a thing that they really wanted to do And so… If taking certain steps and engaging in certain ways and refusing to upset people has been successful or at least successful within a trajectory that you define for yourself then it actually kind of makes a lot of sense that random lady with big hair being like There's a hostile takeover of our government happening on your watch this has worked for me and it has achieved the things that I desire to achieve I think part of what explains the election loss going back to November is this problem you and I have talked about before of a tendency to kind of misappraise what is really And you are someone who studies this and measures it There are things you and I are worried about There are things you've been screaming about that it turns out way more people should be worried about it than are a lot more people should have been concerned about things that I struggle with my own sense of how grave this is you hear conversations or you watch a normal TV show And normal people living their lives are not living as though this is the most serious crisis since the civil war and we may be a few months from irreversibly losing democracy this concern that everybody watching this shares but is it out of sync with how regular people read things The first is that in the lead-up to the election And what the credulity chasm means is that when we look at the fundamental attitude that was most predictive of voting for Harris versus doing something else and by something else I mean voting for Trump That's like a Baskin Robbins tasty level of flavors I'm excited.” It was whether or not people believed the agenda would come true So this notion that the country has shifted rightwards is actually not supported by data What has actually happened — and what happened through the election — was what the people who got it were saying: “No And all of this will come to pass and come to fruition.” And in fact, there's a Project 2025 tracker that shows that already within this first month of being in a hostile takeover they have made good on one-third of the Project 2025 agenda which I would argue we are still in — it is a basic facet of human psychology This is not a uniquely U.S. phenomenon, but there's a U.S. layer on top of it that John Jost, the psychologist at NYU there's kind of a fundamental human need to feel like I can predict what's going to happen Tomorrow is going to be somewhat like today There's a fundamental explanation for the universe because to question that and to really truly be living within that — the badness or the recognition of the badness I should say — it requires a level of upset and a level of agitation and a level of awareness that is understandably very difficult for most people being able to help out your parents when their water heater breaks and being able to send your kid to university And so to ask people to layer on another thing is a lot And I think that what we are experiencing over and over again it's winter and a hot tub is nice and winter in most parts of the country Anticipating this is actually why it is absolutely so fundamental that we be crystal clear and that our leaders be crystal clear that what's happening is in fact what's happening because not every problem that is named can be faced but zero problems that we refuse to name and refuse to recognize can actually be faced And this is where I think the strategy of hat in hand may I have a tuppence begging Democrats to locate a spine is wrong And we need to stop pushing in that direction because I'm afraid that I'm doing it wrong When I see Elon Musk shadow presidenting his way through these agencies it's as grave a series of things as you know And I talk about Elon Musk's anti-constitutional coup I feel like I am describing reality as clearly as I can given what I understand about this country and what people claim to care about And I also feel like I can almost hear with that double consciousness Everybody watching this is going to care about this who actually outnumber the people watching this “Your grandma's social security check is in danger?” Like Because this kind of parallels the whole thing in the election about crime and eggs and democracy Am I doing it wrong when I really fixate on the anti-constitutional coup by Elon Musk You're wrong in voter-facing and public-facing messaging to call it that And it's for the reasons you've already intuited even though it is actually a physical document Whenever we are in the language of protecting institutions protecting democracy — democracy never bought anyone dinner the way that the average American thinks about democracy is the system as it is presently construed our messaging implies that what we are asking for is a return to January 19th people weren't psyched about that day either We say: “This is a government of the bullies for the billionaires.” Trump and the billionaires who bought him you can name either of them — are coming for your life and your livelihood And he is conducting a hostile takeover of our government so he can take our money.” both within focus groups and within our own internal polling that we continuously do the most the highest impact way that we can characterize what Musk is doing is “a hostile takeover of our government and an armed robbery of our money and our and our very deliberate there there is absolutely nothing that we can say that will ever be as loud as what we can do we are rightly incensed about the fact that these people who purportedly have sworn an oath to govern in our name apparently can't be bothered to work on Fridays and don't want to use the mechanisms at their disposal to throw sand in the wheels of government in order to stop this hostile takeover But understand what has stopped autocracy in other places and within our own history when we think about the civil rights movement when we think about the movement to get the Americans with Disabilities Act Imagine if the Montgomery bus boycott folks were like Let's ask the Democrats if they would pretty please end this whole completely unjust Or when folks newly in the throes of the HIV AIDS crisis dying en masse from this disease that apparently came out of nowhere watching their loved ones suffer and struggle We should ask the Democrats if they would pretty please do something about this.” No, that isn't what they did. They broke into the New York Stock Exchange, as you may know, and they hung a banner from where the bell gets rung saying, “Sell Burroughs Wellcome” which is the pharmaceutical corporation that was making AZT at the time to actually bring money into this fight and force research and so on And so what we do is so much louder than what we say physically opposing this and speaking about it and writing songs about it and making parodies and making TikToks and painting “Fuck the Fascists” on the side of their barn That is actually what sways public opinion What sways public opinion is what we call social proof People do the things they think people like them do And so it's this chicken-and-egg problem where you're walking around New York or I'm walking around the Bay area or someone's walking around in the middle of America and you don't see anyone else freaking out And so it's about the doing more than it is about the saying It's almost like when we talk about protest And you're hoping for maybe Democrats to be part of this You're the subject opposing that object and you're kind of inviting them to be part of the subject They're another thing you are mobilizing against for different reasons But you are mobilizing against their passivity and then against the things the right is doing I think… and feel free to lob the charge of hypocrisy at me because I'm about to perform a big old hypocrisy on you I'm obviously extraordinarily pissed off at Democrats I have spent the last many years of my career helping elect Democrats And so you can understand how it feels especially galling to me and many of you it is the fact that when our public discourse — this is where you're going to come at me Democrats refuse.” Then that is the narrative That is the discourse that is in the public And insofar as people continue to view the Democrats as the rightful centerpiece of the opposition — which is a reasonable conclusion they're purportedly the opposition party in a duopoly — it looks like the regime is unopposed And so because in life you cannot actually make other people do things — it is very You can't actually physically make people do things You can only really focus on what you're doing but I'm saying what would actually cause a sea change among the calcified leadership — and yes there are extraordinary Democrats who are doing the right thing as we said earlier — is when there is a mass movement And so that means that every single one of you listening right now: If you want to at the Black Lives Matter resurgence that happened in 2020 public opinion of BLM moved ahead by 12 points It was only when the protests stopped And the right-wing coordinated backlash happened that opinion swayed back When Trump was first promising the Muslim ban during his first run and people took the extraordinary step of driving to the airport Nobody drives — your wife doesn't drive you to the airport That is not a thing that happens to everyday Americans That is actually what altered people's perceptions of whether or not the Muslim ban was okay or not It's ordinary people showing that they disagree So this is so helpful and you are always so helpful Even though I’ve spent so long engaging with your work And a lot of people are responding to that also I hear your point on managing the correct level of infighting or criticizing Dems You talk about calling your representative Your idea about painting the barn really struck me because a lot of people — everyone who subscribes to The Ink And I don't think a lot of people have thought of it as what you said but a very tangible thing you can do is increase the perception of people around you about the number of people who feel this way Because that is something you can do and you can measure I'm not saying don't do the calling your reps and stuff but that stuff just feels so remote to people I know like changing the perception about the number of people who feel that way around you And the other thing to recognize and to realize, and we have a running list that we just keep for ourselves for our team of the actions that are happening right now It couldn't possibly be comprehensive — stuff is popping up everywhere It's just the stuff that comes across our radar Do you know how many people go to the average school board meeting in most towns Do you know how quickly and easily you and two four of your friends will be the only people at the school board meeting A lot of what has happened in our politics is that we actually stopped organizing wonderful organizations that I admire and respect and like count as colleagues we all became so fixated on channeling ourselves through the electoral process everybody moved to field and called it organizing Organizing is finding out who runs the PTA in your town Are you actually talking to people and radicalizing them in the original definition Are you actually radicalizing them in a new political understanding of what is happening So that they can withstand all of these constant right-wing drumbeats that say it's the immigrants or it's the Black people or it's the trans people or it's whomever So that they actually have an authentic consciousness and that they themselves then are talking to other people You show up at your school board meeting and the two of you or the three of you or the four of you they are being constructed at the national level But they have to be implemented at the local level Let's just take, for instance, Aurora, Colorado. That is where they want to massively expand a detention facility In order to continue with their evil draconian plan of concentration camps for people who happen to not have been born here and It is a particular town with a particular city council with a particular set of folks And right now there is a battle going on to define Aurora to massively expanded detention facility there People in that town and surrounding communities could go and say “We are Aurora.” They could do food trucks of every ethnicity I'm going to go to Aurora as they do all this This is my pledge: I am going to make a 10,000 or however many food truck caravan from every contiguous state to D.C polka — I'm not intentionally leaving out any kind of music fill in all the musics — dance party to show not tell that immigrants are awesome we can not survive in a dual narrative or a three-part narrative in which immigrants are either villains America is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave One of the only silver linings for me of this whole era is that the thing that I wrote about before I met you And it was very difficult to convince people to care A lot of liberal and even progressive people were like It was actually hard in 2018 when that book came out very skeptical of why anyone would say anything negative about the ones who give money away and do all this stuff It’s thanks to AOC and Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and others the warning of oligarchy — is this as salient and helpful with the mass public as we seem to think it is Having people truly understand that this is a government by the bullies for the billionaires I guess just the wrinkle is in a country where still a lot of people kind of want to be billionaires Oprah hasn't given us the car or whatever she's supposed to give us very deep kind of yearning and with it an admiration and a cultishness around the extraordinarily wealthy that may be the only thing that has bipartisan agreement in this country is just how extraordinarily furious people are because I think the fundamental difference is that in the olden times this cult of people are rich because they're made out of awesome because they're uniquely capable and hardworking and so on And the fact that the reason that they're rich is because they've stolen from you But the notion that the reason why people have so much money is because you don't — that is increasingly salient where this gets hard — and this brings us back to the earlier conversation of you can't just articulate the problem for people although that is absolutely extraordinarily essential — they also have to feel that the articulation of the problem lends itself to something that they can do And so in the universe in which what people are “supposed to do” is petition their government in some way or another It's extraordinary the degree to which people think the jig is up on that particular theory of change And so I think we are now in a place in which people need to be directed their anger and their ire need to be directed into what I am calling the “Mangione without murder” strategy I just want to say on the record here that I'm telling you If we actually had people going to the places Why aren't we showing up in the parking lots of their churches And this could both be MAGA Republicans and CEOs Singing hymns that are actually about what Jesus preached And so I think that the challenge with the billionaire articulation is not that it is not landing You are correct in your supposition that it is absolutely landing every election is a contest between their billionaires and our billionaires I know people are really responding to how clear your advice is And I think it's making a lot of people feel like they know what to do more clearly than they did before I want to go back to that and compile all of your advice Let's focus on marching orders for everybody here People are in agreement with you about how grave this is and how serious it is People feel incredibly undefended by elected Democrats in general and are not expecting them to change very soon So the first thing I would say is in the preservation of your own mental health and wellbeing Pick a thing that you care about and can be motivated to stay the course with There are so many things happening at once that we can all become like cats with a laser pointer and make ourselves nuts You go as local as possible about that thing then you decide with yourself and a handful of your friends Do something fun and entertaining and get together beforehand You look up in the public record when the next school board meeting is in your local community And you go there and you make statements about ensuring that all children have the freedom to learn the truth of our past and that all children have the freedom to belong and be who they are within their schools And you oppose any kind of effort to implement the draconian fascist agenda in your own community You can do that within the context of immigrant rights You can do that in the context of disability justice The next piece of advice is to wear your beliefs Get yourself a “Fabulously Fighting Fascism” t-shirt One of the things that is most important to the right and to any authoritarian force is to suck our joy put up a billboard in the middle of nowhere that shows people across the gender spectrum just having themselves the best possible time You will get so much local media and local attention even if it's in the middle of nowhere because it is a saucy message So I think the name of the game is really resistance And ridicule is a key and essential element that I have danced around That is a place where deep and authentic organizing actually happens and needs to happen much One of the most important keys to fighting autocracy is a strong in a lot of the messaging that you do and the formal proper messages you draft for TV ads or other communication It's often the beginning and the end where more hope and uplift come in and in the middle is where you explain the obstructions to that promise A lot of people really can't see the after of this I find it very difficult to visualize 2026 I could see a scenario where it's totally fine And I could imagine a scenario in which most people I know don't live in this country anymore Can you help us picture the after in a hopeful way if we get this right if we do all the things you're talking about And that is either extraordinarily terrifying or fantastic The reason why it is potentially fantastic is because it takes a fundamental rupture a big rupture that we think that we have already had but we have not — because we are still waking up in the morning and going to the store and answering our telephones and checking our social and getting our kids to school and all the things that That rupture has not happened for most people And it is only in a fundamental rupture that we get a period — and obviously the decimation of it is one of the most tragic and horrible things in American history But Reconstruction wouldn't have happened without the Civil War The New Deal wouldn't have happened without the decimation of the Gilded Age and God forbid Moments of extraordinary rupture are moments of extraordinary possibility where when people were hanging out in the colonies to do the Boston Tea Party and to petition the king And I'm not discounting the fact that things were pretty bad for most people and enslavement and no women's rights and so on I'm not making believe that that period was a beautiful era in American history The only point that I'm making is that there has to be a rupture so fundamental that people are like How about we just don't be a colony anymore How about we decide that we are going to invent a new country from scratch?” Obviously not really from scratch because of the destruction and usurpation and genocide of Native people — again I am not trying to say this was like a beautiful era All I'm trying to say is that in the unknowing in the what-the-fuck-is-going-to-come-next as we were discussing at the top of our conversation To think that a system that is working largely as designed with notable and noteworthy and laudable exceptions are not actually serving our interests and are not stepping up to the plate To think that they would behave any differently is to not understand that the entire progressive movement is begging the master for money to buy tools to take down his house And because we've continued to limp along in this but maybe we'll pass this one little policy,” is not to recognize the fact that actually within U.S there is no correlation between majority support for a policy and that policy passing And so we have to stop thinking that tinkering at the edges of the old ways And I don't know if this isn't sounding hopeful The most fundamental truth of life is that the future is made out of the decisions that we take collectively What comes next will be decided on the basis of what we do Leave a comment Readers like you make The Ink possible and keep it independent and help build a free and fearless media future by becoming a paying subscriber And if you’re already a part of our community We hope you’ll consider giving a subscription to The Ink as a gift Get 20% off forever Yesterday, we spoke with one of the most brilliant minds in politics in America, and one of the most brilliant in the world: Anat Shenker-Osorio. She\u2019s a messaging guru, who I met when I was reporting my book, The Persuaders \u2014 there's a whole chapter about her in it \u2014 and ever since at The Ink we have often turned to her whenever we need the best advice. or how to say it \u2014 or seem to have lost the use of their vocal cords and spines \u2014 she is someone we can ask to tell people what they should be saying Share For those who\u2019ve been looking for leadership from above This conversation is an incredibly practical guide to what you need to \u2014 and can \u2014 do and it\u2019s time to do it by stepping up so we\u2019re publishing text excerpts of the conversation below But we\u2019re also asking candidly that folks support the half dozen or so people who now write for and edit and otherwise support the work of The Ink by becoming a paying subscriber today Get 20% off forever Give a gift subscription you've seen someone give a floor speech \u2014 give me the hall of shame because I consider you one of the only people It is about creating an unjust \u2014 even more unjust \u2014 legal system in the name of genuflecting at the altar of immigrants are the problem \u201CWe\u2019ll just rap about the price of eggs.\u201D Hakeem Jeffries We don't have any power.\u201D Excuse making It's so interesting when you see a lot of the folks on TV and when you're under a Biden presidency or an Obama presidency maybe you don't notice the mediocrity as much because it doesn't like risk the republic \u2014 and now to see some of those same people they\u2019re not evil or awful the way that we're talking about on the right because \u2014 let's just widen the net of culpability a little bit here \u2014 has brought them to the pinnacle of journalism And so\u2026 If taking certain steps and engaging in certain ways and refusing to upset people has been successful or at least successful within a trajectory that you define for yourself I'm excited.\u201D It was whether or not people believed the agenda would come true What has actually happened \u2014 and what happened through the election \u2014 was what the people who got it were saying: \u201CNo And all of this will come to pass and come to fruition.\u201D And in fact, there's a Project 2025 tracker that shows that already within this first month of being in a hostile takeover which I would argue we are still in \u2014 it is a basic facet of human psychology This is not a uniquely U.S. phenomenon, but there's a U.S. layer on top of it that John Jost, the psychologist at NYU There's a fundamental explanation for the universe because to question that and to really truly be living within that \u2014 the badness or the recognition of the badness I should say \u2014 it requires a level of upset and a level of agitation and a level of awareness that is understandably very difficult for most people It\u2019s the frogs in boiling water problem \u201CYour grandma's social security check is in danger?\u201D Like protecting democracy \u2014 democracy never bought anyone dinner We say: \u201CThis is a government of the bullies for the billionaires.\u201D Trump and the billionaires who bought him you can name either of them \u2014 are coming for your life and your livelihood And he is conducting a hostile takeover of our government so he can take our money.\u201D \u201Ca hostile takeover of our government and an armed robbery of our money and our and our very deliberate there We should ask the Democrats if they would pretty please do something about this.\u201D No, that isn't what they did. They broke into the New York Stock Exchange, as you may know, and they hung a banner from where the bell gets rung saying, \u201CSell Burroughs Wellcome\u201D which is the pharmaceutical corporation that was making AZT at the time physically opposing this and speaking about it and writing songs about it and making parodies and making TikToks and painting \u201CFuck the Fascists\u201D on the side of their barn I think\u2026 and feel free to lob the charge of hypocrisy at me it is the fact that when our public discourse \u2014 this is where you're going to come at me Democrats refuse.\u201D Then that is the narrative And insofar as people continue to view the Democrats as the rightful centerpiece of the opposition \u2014 which is a reasonable conclusion they're purportedly the opposition party in a duopoly \u2014 it looks like the regime is unopposed And so because in life you cannot actually make other people do things \u2014 it is very but I'm saying what would actually cause a sea change among the calcified leadership \u2014 and yes as we said earlier \u2014 is when there is a mass movement Nobody drives \u2014 your wife doesn't drive you to the airport not telling \u2014 that they are against this Even though I\u2019ve spent so long engaging with your work Your idea about painting the barn really struck me because a lot of people \u2014 everyone who subscribes to The Ink And the other thing to recognize and to realize, and we have a running list that we just keep for ourselves for our team of the actions that are happening right now It couldn't possibly be comprehensive \u2014 stuff is popping up everywhere radical just means \u201Cto the root,\u201D right Let's just take, for instance, Aurora, Colorado. That is where they want to massively expand a detention facility \u201CWe are Aurora.\u201D They could do food trucks of every ethnicity polka \u2014 I'm not intentionally leaving out any kind of music fill in all the musics \u2014 dance party to show not tell that immigrants are awesome \u201CWhy are you going after these people It\u2019s thanks to AOC and Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and others the warning of oligarchy \u2014 is this as salient and helpful with the mass public as we seem to think it is But the notion that the reason why people have so much money is because you don't \u2014 that is increasingly salient where this gets hard \u2014 and this brings us back to the earlier conversation of you can't just articulate the problem for people although that is absolutely extraordinarily essential \u2014 they also have to feel that the articulation of the problem lends itself to something that they can do And so in the universe in which what people are \u201Csupposed to do\u201D is petition their government in some way or another their anger and their ire need to be directed into what I am calling the \u201CMangione without murder\u201D strategy Get yourself a \u201CFabulously Fighting Fascism\u201D t-shirt and say \u201CFabulously fighting fascism.\u201D but we have not \u2014 because we are still waking up in the morning and going to the store and answering our telephones and checking our social and getting our kids to school and all the things that And it is only in a fundamental rupture that we get a period \u2014 and obviously How about we decide that we are going to invent a new country from scratch?\u201D Obviously not really from scratch because of the destruction and usurpation and genocide of Native people \u2014 again but maybe we'll pass this one little policy,\u201D is not to recognize the fact that actually within U.S Leave a comment And if you\u2019re already a part of our community We hope you\u2019ll consider giving a subscription to The Ink as a gift Get 20% off forever Sign In Register TORONTO — Toronto FC will be without captain Jonathan Osorio for at least a couple of weeks during a busy May schedule that could have a lot to say on whether the struggling MLS club can sort out its season Osorio joined TFC's list of walking wounded Wednesday when he suffered a partially dislocated shoulder falling awkwardly in a tangle of players' early in the penalty shootout loss to CF Montreal in Telus Canadian Championship preliminary-round play I know how unbelievably painful that is," Toronto coach Robin Fraser said Friday But (it's) certainly not as bad as it could have been." who has played a franchise-record 380 games in all competitions for Toronto is a talismanic figure at the club — able to play a variety of midfield roles He is also one of the few links left to the club's glory days Toronto (1-5-4) hosts New England (4-4-1) on Saturday in its third game in a week Saturday's contest is the first of seven in May for Toronto with six at home where it has yet to win this season "I do think May is going to be critical for our season … To have that many (games) in a row at home it could be the start of a very good thing for us but we have to take advantage of it," said Fraser Osorio joins injured defenders Richie Laryea midfielder/forward Derick Etienne Jr and forward Deandre Kerr on the sideline who missed Wednesday's game after picking up a knock in last week's 1-0 loss to New York City FC Backup goalkeeper Luka Gavran left training early Fraser did not have an update on what happened There was some good news on the injury front with forwards Ola Brynhildsen and Charlie Sharp both available Fraser was so short on attackers for the midweek loss that 21-year-old TFC II forward Dekwon Barrow started up front New England goes into weekend play in 10th place in the Eastern Conference four places and six points ahead of Toronto which had gone unbeaten in four games (1-0-3) before the NYCFC loss Revolution coach Caleb Porter expects a "big challenge" in Toronto "Sometimes you play a team that's really desperate to win That's the toughest opponent to play," he said I told the guys today we've got to keep moving up If we're focused and hungry then we'll have a chance to win the game If we're not then we've got no chance to win this game." New England has won three straight by blanking Atlanta New York City FC and most recently Charlotte FC bring a 295-minute shutout streak to BMO Field Toronto has not scored in league play in 349 minutes dating back to Kerr's goal April 5 in a 2-1 loss to Chicago New England boasts the second-best defensive record in the league conceding just 0.78 goals per game on average (only Inter Miami at 0.70 is stingier) "There's not been a game (where) we haven't defended well," said Porter "So I think nothing's really changed there I think the difference is we've found that first goal I still think we need to find more goals … There's still a lot of areas we can improve in." Fraser says he sees a New England team with a "new-found belief." "Their defensive record has been nothing short of spectacular for the last several games … So we expect it to be a very difficult game," he said "They've become a very difficult team to break down and they have some very good attacking pieces." New England playmaker Carles Gil is flourishing with four goals and one assist in his last five appearances Still the Revs have scored just seven goals in league play with only three from open play (one was an own goal with three more coming via Gil from the penalty spot) Toronto's defence is improving under Fraser a former two-time MLS Defender of the Year After conceding 12 goals in its first five games TFC has only given up two in the last five The New England roster features former Toronto goalkeeper Alex Bono who made 157 appearances across eight seasons (2015-22) for the club who appeared n two games for TFC in 2013 in his first season in MLS before being traded to Portland This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 2 as a recipient of the FLAD Short-Term Research Fellowship Luiz Francisco Guizzo Gutierrez Osorio, a third-year graduate student studying history at Texas State University, reflects on his experience in Lisbon, Portugal, where he conducted research for his master’s thesis at the Torre do Tombo National Archive as a recipient of the FLAD Short-Term Research Fellowship The program is aimed at researching Portuguese history Osorio recalls his first day at the archive as the most impactful moment of his fellowship The sheer volume of archival collections and the complexity of sorting through historical documents made him realize the vast scope of his research it dawned on me that this was exactly the job—devising methods for working through those archives and synthesizing as much as possible within my own clearly defined limitations.” particularly due to the professionalism and accessibility of the archive’s staff “It was one of the most impressive archives I’ve ever visited but for its history and importance,” he said Osorio’s research focuses on the development of fascist educational projects within the Portuguese and Spanish dictatorships of the 1930s and ’40s His thesis examines how the Salazarist and Francoist regimes shaped visions of citizenship during their periods of greatest fascist influence His interest in fascism was shaped by his upbringing in Brazil where he witnessed the rise of neofascist political movements I had my own unfortunate experience with the rise of neofascist politicians,” Osorio said “I realized that this wave of far-right authoritarianism was actually a larger global phenomenon and that the only way to truly understand it was by looking into its historical roots.” By comparing Portuguese and Spanish fascist dictatorships—cases he believes are often overshadowed by Germany and Italy—Osorio aims to analyze the ideological transformation from fascist movements to governance His goal is to contribute to a broader understanding of how fascist structures evolve and how they can be identified in contemporary contexts Osorio began his academic career at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he earned undergraduate degrees in history and political science he began his master’s program in TXST’s history department where he serves as a graduate instructional assistant Osorio has received numerous academic honors Osorio first learned about the FLAD fellowship after attending a custom presentation for the Department of History led by Brian Smith While searching for scholarships that aligned with his research needs offered in partnership with the National Archive of Torre do Tombo The program supports projects related to archival sciences with the goal of strengthening Portuguese-American academic collaboration “I believe I was selected because of how well my research proposal fits into the donor organization’s purposes and goals,” he said “My project is tied to the historical memory of Portugal required access to national archive documentation and was to be elaborated and published in the United States.” Osorio recommends seeking funding opportunities tailored to their specific research locations “I’d advise them to look for opportunities around the archives or other depositories they intend to visit,” he said “The opportunities they find will be better tailored to their needs and to continue expanding his research on fascist regimes and their educational frameworks The materials he collected in Portugal will be instrumental in completing his master’s thesis and future scholarly work program in the near future to continue this work I believe that I will be working with much of it for a long time going forward,” he said As he reflects on his experience in Portugal Osorio remains grateful for the opportunity to conduct research in a place that linguistically and culturally reminded him of home Watch Osorio speak on his experience in Lisbon where he conducted research for his master’s thesis at the Torre do Tombo National Archive Jayme Blaschke Shilpa Bakre by JACKSON WALKER | The National News Desk WASHINGTON (TNND) — Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) administrator nominee Terrance Cole on Wednesday confirmed during a Senate confirmation hearing that tattoos on the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia indicate his membership in the criminal gang MS-13 President Donald Trump sparked debate this week after sharing a photo of Garcia’s knuckle tattoos showing a marijuana leaf He argued these images literally spelled out “MS-13,” rather than symbolically invoking it leading to pushback during an interview with ABC News “He had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles,” Trump said during the interview “He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way,” reporter Terry Moran replied “This is why people no longer believe the news because it’s fake news,” Trump said a former DEA agent with experience working in Mexico Cole said the tattoos clearly indicated Garcia’s allegiance to MS-13 “These tattoos are consistent with MS-13 associations?” the senator asked “Do you know of any other set of combinations that would suggest some other organization this represents?” the senator asked Follow Jackson Walker on X at @_jlwalker_ for the latest trending national news Print Edition After 20 years of service at Shippensburg University José Ricardo-Osorio is preparing for a new chapter.  he will serve as dean of the College of Public Service at the University of Houston–Downtown Whether it be from attending one of his classes or his iconic salsa dancing most of the Shippensburg community has heard his name.  Ricardo has had an eventful and professionally diverse time during his tenure at SU Ricardo was elected chair of the Department of Global Languages and Cultures He continued in this position for nine years Ricardo took on the role of interim associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences he returned to his role as department chair until 2019 Ricardo was then invited to join the College of Education and Human Services as interim associate dean He refers to the beginning of this position as a “christening by fire,” as the COVID-19 pandemic started shortly after he began Ricardo helped the college enact necessary changes to adjust to online classes as just one semester later he took on the role of acting dean of the College of Education and Human Services Ricardo maintained this position for two years and he is currently an associate professor Ricardo values his experience as both a professor and administrator He explained the difference between the two roles by comparing it to being a painter versus a viewer in a gallery and as someone visiting the gallery,” Ricardo said I was the person viewing the painting in the gallery I also realize that I should be a part of the painting.” Ricardo prides himself on his constant evolution in teaching methods He said he has become far more student-centered since he started teaching in 1987 He takes student feedback very seriously and ultimately sets up his classes to best prepare his students for success if you have a head attached to your body through a neck Sleepy Hollow may not be able to do this because there’s no head He has accomplished many things during his time at SU One of his highlights was changing the name of the Global Languages and Cultures program due to Shippensburg not having a Classic Languages program Another accomplishment was adding other languages such as Chinese and American Sign Language Getting the program accredited three times was another accomplishement Ricardo has seen Ship change and grow during his time here inclduing the construction of Rowland Hall the Milton and Doreen Morgan School of Engineering He also commented on the population size of the SU community.  “We have seen the campus grow in terms of facilities but we have seen the campus shrink in terms of people,” said Ricardo.  He will miss many things about the Shippensburg community: his colleagues his students and the unique charm of the Shippensburg township he is looking forward to the change of living in a large city which the University of Houston–Downtown will bring He is particularly looking forward to working in an area with a Colombian community The University of Houston–Downtown is also a Hispanic-Serving Institution I’m going to work with a population that looks like me It is a way to close the loop,” Ricardo said.  He plans on continuing to teach salsa dancing at the University of Houston-Downtown so he can connect with the student body.  Ricardo has big goals for the University of Houston–Downtown’s College of Public Service His primary goals are to increase enrollment and endowments He hopes to increase enrollment by 10 to 15 percent as well as raise the college’s endowment to $3 million within five years He also wants to “position the college within the context of the other colleges of the same nature from other universities.” Moreover Ricardo is considering using his connections at Shippensburg University to accomplish this.  Ricardo has been a beloved part of the Shippensburg community for many years it is clear that he is ready to share his talents and expertise with another very lucky university The Slate welcomes thoughtful discussion on all of our stories, but please keep comments civil and on-topic. Read our full guidelines here Powered by Solutions by The State News In this episode of Quantum Potential, Felipe Barrera-Osorio joins Provost C Cybele Raver to discuss his groundbreaking research—comparing the impact of need-based versus merit-based micro-scholarship programs in rural He explains how these programs were so successful that national governments around the world expanded investments in education Education and Economics at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development Barrera-Osorio is also a visiting researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT Listen and subscribe to the Quantum Potential podcast available now wherever you get your podcasts The Quantum Potential podcast is produced by Vanderbilt University director of content and editorial strategy and editor-in-chief of Vanderbilt Magazine director of academic affairs communications Patrick Sams is the senior social media specialist and Maisie Wilson is the senior creative project manager Mike Todd is the university visual media manager Vanderbilt University Distinguished Research Professor of Communication of Science and Technology and the executive producer of the Quantum Potential podcast and video series For more information about Quantum Potential, go to vanderbilt.edu/quantumpotential/podcast. Nashville, Tennessee 37240 615-322-7311 • Contact Us Vanderbilt University’s Online Privacy Notice The queen stayed queen on home soil: top Colombian player Camila Osorio successfully defended her Copa Colsanitas Zurich title in her nation's capital on Sunday. No. 2 seed Osorio defeated Polish qualifier Katarzyna Kawa 6-3, 6-3 in the final to retain her crown in Bogota. It is Osorio's third Bogota title, having won the event in 2021 as well as last year. Osorio becomes the second player to win three or more Bogota singles titles. She is one step closer to matching her countrywoman Fabiola Zuluaga's record four Bogota singles titles (1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Copa Colsanitas Zurich presentado por Visa (@copacolsanitaszurich) Rollercoaster path: Osorio was nearly ousted much earlier in the week. She was down match point in her second-round clash against American Emina Bektas, eventually regrouping to eke out that win in 2 hours and 31 minutes. Things picked up for the champion after that narrow escape. Osorio did not drop a set in her next two matches, besting another two-time champion, Tatjana Maria, in the quarterfinals, and Julia Riera in the semifinals. The final proved to be another straight-sets affair for Osorio. She closed out the first set with her first ace of the day and promptly led by a double-break at 3-0 in the second set. Kawa used superb net play to claw one break back, but she was unable to return to level footing. Some suspense did come on the third championship point, where a double fault by Kawa was overturned after inspection of the mark. Osorio, though, eventually converted her fourth championship point after 1 hour and 23 minutes of play. Osorio finished the final with 22 winners to Kawa's 14. The Colombian also converted five of her 10 break points en route to another Bogota triumph. View this post on Instagram A post shared by WTA (@wta) it was still a great week for 32-year-old Kawa who reached her second career WTA singles final nearly six years after her first Kawa almost fell out of the Top 300 last November but she is approaching a return to the Top 150 This week also featured a breakthrough run by American 16-year-old Julieta Pareja, who made her WTA main-draw debut and reached the semifinals before falling to Kawa. Pareja became the youngest WTA semifinalist since Coco Gauff at 2019 Linz (Gauff won that title as a lucky loser). View this post on Instagram A post shared by WTA (@wta) Spaniards grab doubles crown: The Copa Colsanitas Zurich doubles title was won by No. 1-seeded Spaniards Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo. They squeaked past Brazil's Laura Pigossi and Romania's Irina Bara 5-7, 6-2, [10-5] in Sunday's final. This is the second time Bucsa and Sorribes Tormo have teamed up to win a title, having previously captured the WTA 1000 Madrid crown on home soil last year. They also paired up to win the bronze medal at last year's Paris Olympics. Overall, this marks the sixth career WTA doubles title for both Bucsa and Sorribes Tormo. Readers of The Ink will know that I am obsessed with the topic of messaging and of course we regularly talk to our friend the most memeable messaging maestro in this macabre maelstrom (That was not a message she would approve.) Today we did something different: a live messaging game show supplied topics you wanted to hear her riff on I promise this will make you better at…life The folks on the call challenged Anat to come up with messaging on everything from how to discuss the illegal abductions of Venezuelan migrants to ways to get people to see themselves threatened by the Trump regime just as much as trans people are to how to get progressives to realize they don’t need to be dour all the time — and how to build a movement joyous and inviting enough that it can get everybody on your side Want to paint the brighter future, tell the better story, and throw the better party? Don’t miss Anat’s words of wisdom. Just click on the video player above. And if you want to dig deeper, visit ASO Communications’ messaging guides for more ideas Share Leave a comment Later we post the full videos for our supporting subscribers to rewatch and share Stand up for media that bows to no tyrant or billionaire Give a gift subscription Get 20% off a group subscription for a conversation with New York State Representative and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani the progressive who hopes to succeed Eric Adams To join and watch, download the Substack app (click on the button below) and turn on notifications — you’ll get an alert that we’re live and you can watch from your iOS or Android mobile device subscribe to The Ink to access full videos of past conversations and to join the chat during our live events Subscribe to The.Ink to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives I promise this will make you better at\u2026life to how to get progressives to realize they don\u2019t need to be dour all the time \u2014 and how to build a movement joyous and inviting enough that it can get everybody on your side Want to paint the brighter future, tell the better story, and throw the better party? Don\u2019t miss Anat\u2019s words of wisdom. Just click on the video player above. And if you want to dig deeper, visit ASO Communications\u2019 messaging guides for more ideas Share Leave a comment \u201CThe Ink Live!\u201D is open to all who join Subscribe now Give a gift subscription Get 20% off a group subscription To join and watch, download the Substack app (click on the button below) and turn on notifications \u2014 you\u2019ll get an alert that we\u2019re live and you can watch from your iOS or Android mobile device Subscribe to The.Ink to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. One of the biggest influences on our thinking here at The Ink has been the work of messaging guru Anat Shenker-Osorio. The campaign strategist, communications researcher, writer, contributor to this very newsletter, and all-around keen observer of political problems and solutions is an indispensable voice in this moment. She may not actually be able to \u2026 CHICAGO (March 15, 2025) – Chicago Fire FC today announced that the Club has signed Chicago Fire FC II midfielder Harold Osorio to a short-term agreement. Osorio will be available for today’s Chicago Fire FC Road match against Toronto FC at BMO Field in Toronto, Canada. Kickoff at BMO Field is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. CT and the match will be broadcast globally on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV and transmitted locally on wlsam.com (English) and Que Buena 105.1 via the Uforia app (Spanish). It is the fourth, and last, short-term agreement for Osorio, who made his MLS debut against D.C. United on March 1 in the Club’s home opener at Soldier Field. Osorio came on for captain Kellyn Acosta in the second minute of stoppage time. Per MLS rules, a Club may sign a player from its affiliate (MLS NEXT Pro or USL) to a maximum of four Short-Term Agreements (up to four-day contracts) each season (maximum of 16 days). An individual player may be included on up to four MLS regular season match rosters each season. However, that player may appear in no more than two MLS regular season matches. An individual player may appear in any number of non-league games during the terms of his four Short-Term Agreements. Transaction: Chicago Fire FC (MLS) signs midfielder Harold Osorio to a Short-Term Agreement from Chicago Fire FC II (MLS NEXT Pro). CHICAGO (March 14, 2025) – Chicago Fire FC II today announced midfielder Harold Osorio has been called up to the El Salvador National Team for upcoming friendly matches in March. It is the first call-up for Osorio under newly appointed head coach Darío Gómez, who will guide the Bicolor against the Houston Dynamo at 7 p.m. CT on March 19 at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, and against LigaMX club Pachuca on March 22 at the Estadio Nacional Jorge González in San Salvador. Kickoff against Pachuca has yet to be determined. El Salvador is preparing to kick off the second round of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in June, where they will take on Anguilla on June 7 and Suriname on June 10. The San Salvador native recently made his Major League Soccer debut on March 1 against D.C. United while on a Short-Term Agreement from Chicago Fire II. Osorio came on for captain Kellyn Acosta in the second minute of stoppage time of the Fire’s 2025 Home Opener at Soldier Field. the Maryland construction worker who became the face of U.S immigration policy after his erroneous deportation to El Salvador The body-camera footage shows a calm and friendly exchange between officers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Abrego Garcia He was pulled over for speeding in a vehicle with eight passengers and said they'd been working in Missouri Officers then discussed among themselves their suspicions of human trafficking because nine people were traveling without luggage One of the officers said: "He's hauling these people for money." Another said he had $1,400 in an envelope Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime while the officers allowed him to drive on with only a warning about an expired driver's license according to a report about the stop released last month by the U.S The report said he was traveling from Texas to Maryland to bring in people to perform construction work The Trump administration has been publicizing Abrego Garcia's interactions with police over the years despite a lack of corresponding criminal charges while it faces a federal court order and calls from some in Congress to return him to the U.S said in a statement Friday that he saw no evidence of a crime in the released footage "But the point is not the traffic stop — it's that Mr Bring him back to the United States," Sandoval-Moshenberg said When details of the Tennessee traffic stop were first publicized Abrego Garcia's wife said he sometimes transported groups of fellow construction workers between job sites Kilmar is currently imprisoned without contact with the outside world which means he cannot respond to the claims," Jennifer Vasquez Sura said in mid-April Abergo Garcia fled his native El Salvador to the U.S when he was 16 and lived in Maryland for roughly 14 years Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him in March to a Salvadoran prison over a 2019 accusation that he was in the MS-13 gang Police in Maryland had identified Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member based on his tattoos Chicago Bulls hoodie and the word of a criminal informant His lawyers say the informant claimed Abrego Garcia was in an MS-13 chapter in New York Abrego Garcia's expulsion to El Salvador also violated a U.S immigration judge's order in 2019 that shielded him from deportation to his native country The judge had determined that Abrego Garcia would likely face persecution there by local gangs that had terrorized him and his family After Abrego Garcia's family filed a lawsuit District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration to return Abrego Garcia on April 4 The Supreme Court ruled April 10 that the administration must work to bring him back Xinis then lambasted a government lawyer who couldn't explain what She ordered officials to provide sworn testimony and other information to document their efforts But a federal appeals court backed Xinis' order for information in a blistering ruling President Donald Trump acknowledged to ABC News on Tuesday that he could call El Salvador's president and have Abrego Garcia sent back But Trump doubled down on his claims that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang Attorney Sandoval-Moshenberg said Friday that Abrego Garcia should be able to answer the allegations himself before the U.S immigration judge who heard his case in 2019 "I have represented Kilmar Abrego Garcia for more than a month and this bodycam video is the first time I've heard his voice," Sandoval-Moshenberg said "He has been denied the most basic protections of due process — no phone call to his lawyer Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp  Download the TNIE app to stay with us and follow the latest Posted by | Feb 2, 2025 | Photo courtesy of University of Pittsburgh Press Nathan Xavier Osorio’s award-winning debut poetry collection looks at the lives of a family of immigrant origin in the San Fernando area of Los Angeles Chosen by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize this collection published in September by University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series explores the family’s place in the American landscape and transnational culture fill in spaces left by cracks in the terrain perceptive collection are divided into three sections and include a one-sentence first poem “English as a Second Language,” poems that are sequences of sonnets titled “The Last Town Before the Mojave,” poems in the form of cantos “Abandonarium,” the third section comprises poems with titles that start with the word “Ritual.” and the American lives of immigrant parents and their children “Querida” — the Spanish feminine word for “dear” and a term of endearment — not only serves as the title of the collection but also appears in epigraphs of the book’s second section and in “Querida América,” a poem in the second section made up of seven quatrains and one final stanza of five lines which addresses America directly and delves into the speaker’s and speaker’s mother’s attitudes toward the United States I remember your promise / and put my lips to the gas tank … Querida América The poem alludes to loneliness and unfulfilled dreams in a violent A variety of divisions in America’s landscape can be found throughout the collection “English as a Second Language,” the speaker is separated linguistically from others in an educational institution: “in my collegiate days when I nodded submissively to a professor / who assured me my failure was because English was my second language” (5) this poem and others feature the San Gabriel Mountains as a border and separation / a View-Master Reel,” which is made up of thirteen short-lined lyrical vignettes separated by one hyphen including “The Liberty Bell’s fissure”; divorced multicultural famous couple whose names are even separated in the poem’s lineation / Desi Arnaz”; and “The U.S.-Mexican border wall / puncturing the Pacific” (58) The breaks and barriers represent unrealized American ideals which consists of the “Abandonarium” and “Ritual” poems plays with the multiple meanings of the word “extraction” — the extracting process Some “Ritual” poems seamlessly traverse languages from English to Spanish “Ritual for Erasure,” repeats “This extraction site is an omission,” which calls attention to what is extracted and why; one response is: “This extraction site is an omission of that which could yet still cannot: / the bruised phantom limbs and the prayer passed from mother to / son” (83) such as the “phantom limbs” and mother’s prayer suggest spirituals that have not yet manifested and absences stemming from lineage Querida’s American landscape is one of contrasts: “Hot Cheeto bags” juxtapose with “hand-stitched servilletas” (13) and “the barrio’s first and last organic grocery store” (87) Osorio mends gaps from disconnectedness with family relations Osorio’s Querida is published by University of Pittsburgh Press Nathan Xavier Osorio is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Chapbook Fellowship and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in BOMB His writing and teaching have been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center LG Sebayan is a PhD English and Creative Writing student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where her work was selected by Nicky Beer for the Creative Writing Faculty Legacy Award for Poetry Her poems are published or forthcoming in CALYX Journal She is an Assistant Editor at Cream City Review Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress Earlier this year, researchers at Vanderbilt University and William & Mary published an experimental study that found that students admitted to quality public-private partnership schools in Bogotá scored higher in cognitive and social-emotional skills than students of similar socio-economic and demographic backgrounds who applied but were not admitted to these schools As Colombia seeks to leverage Schools in Administration to use public resources more efficiently to provide a better-quality education to students from low-income backgrounds it is critical to know whether they offer long-term positive outcomes $1.35M grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and a $150,000 grant from The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) the research team is expanding the study to understand whether the positive effects of these schools continue or fade out over time They also want to assess the quality of principals’ managerial skills and the decision processes of potential applicants to the schools The schools offer several key benefits that may contribute to their effectiveness including employing more full-time psychologists and providing more professional development training to teachers compared to traditional public schools To test the sustainability of the schools’ positive effects the research team will study three separate cohorts who began attending the school sometime between this year and four years ago and whose progress has been monitored over these timeframes the research team compared families who chose not to apply to Schools in Administration with families who did apply Now the researchers will also interview families before the application process opens to understand how families find information about the schools and decide whether to apply to a School in Administration Knowing this information could help inform targeted outreach to potential applicants in the future Naomi Osaka aced her first serve Wednesday evening on Stadium Court at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden but the rest of the match was a challenge for the four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka went down a break to Camila Osorio in the first set 6-4 first round loss at the BNP Paribas Open It was Osorio's first win in the main draw at Indian Wells who was shaking a bit while she spoke after the match "I really wanted to play on this court and was really excited and looking forward to playing a champion like Naomi who played Wednesday's match with a yellow star sticker on her left cheek will face Clara Tauson of Denmark in the second round she had not played a match since reaching the Round of 32 at the Australian Open in January Osaka was forced to retire from her third round match in Melbourne Osaka said that she's now healthy and that she felt good out on the Stadium Court because I do think I did well in Australia," the Japanese tennis star said "It feels like a little bit of a stopping/starting again I think it would have been really helpful to play more matches coming into this tournament Osorio previously lost in straight sets to Osaka at the 2022 Australian Open She has beaten a pair of top 10 players in her career topping Elina Svitolina (6) of Ukraine in 2021 and Caroline Garcia of France in 2023 Though Osaka entered the main draw ranked 56th and Osorio is ranked 53rd given what Osaka has accomplished in her career It may be the biggest win of Osorio's career with the victory making her the first player from Colombia to beat a former world No Osorio didn't play anything close to a perfect match but she kept Osaka uncomfortable enough to pull off the win angles and slices to keep Osaka on her toes and Osorio's serve was strong throughout the evening "There were certain things that felt extremely off because I could only start practice serving after a certain amount of time," Osaka said But I would have liked to win and continue playing the tournament." but it kept her in limbo and sometimes even off-balanced between the net and the baseline who played with poise and energy despite being on her toes most of the match Osaka immediately went down a break to start the second But she then won the second match with her return game before going down a break again The second set then became all about whether Osaka could problem solve her way to a win despite being outplayed by Osorio but squandered a 40-0 lead in the next game that could've evened the score Osorio stole the game and in doing so sealed the match Few players have a more interesting history on Stadium Court at Indian Wells as Osaka winning the first tournament of her pro career that launched her to stardom she was heckled in an incident that drew international attention In four appearances since winning the BNP Paribas Open and hopefully I'll have way more serve practice under my belt and things like that," Osaka said [This story has been updated to add more information.] Andrew John covers the BNP Paribas Open for The Desert Sun and the USA TODAY Network Naomi Osaka showed that she is on the road to recovery from the abdominal injury that forced her out of the Australian Open in January but getting sharp and match tough is going to take a little more time the four-time Grand Slam champion and former world No she later described the defeat as the “worst match I’ve ever played in my life.” and Osorio were dead even through the first eight games but Osaka committed a flurry of errors while serving at 4-4 It gave Osorio the chance to serve out the set The errors were especially prevalent when Osaka was under pressure focused on that dynamic for months and seemed to have made headway as Osaka got on a roll at the start of the year Osaka made the finals in Auckland and was rolling against Clara Tauson when she aggravated an abdominal injury and had to retire after the first set Osaka played some of her best tennis since her return from maternity leave at the beginning of 2024 through 2 1/2 matches at the Australian Open Osaka strained the muscle again and had to retire from her third-round match with Belinda Bencic after the first set But she had two hard weeks of training ahead of Indian Wells and Mouratoglou pronounced her ready to go Her win marked the first time a woman from Colombia has beaten a former world No the loss allows her to rest before she heads to the Miami Open one of the events closest to her heart and near where she grew up in South Florida “I don’t think I was too good on my end,” she said in her news conference She described a frustrating month after the Australian Open in which she was not allowed to play for a week then was allowed to slowly begin serving but only if she slowly increased her intensity week by week so as not to reinjure her abdominal muscle “It feels a little bit like stopping starting again.” Osaka said her start to the year feels far better than last year when she struggled to find any consistency Or maybe she’s getting used to the idea she will likely never have a smooth ride back to the top of the sport “It feels like a bump in the road,” she said but I still feel like I had so many chances to be in the match.” INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Camila Osorio defeated former champion Naomi Osaka 6-4 6-4 in the first round at Indian Wells on Wednesday night becoming the first Colombian woman to beat a former world No never looked comfortable against Osorio's dynamic shotmaking and piled up unforced errors on a cool evening in the California desert After a near flawless first set from Osorio Osaka fended off a match point at 5-3 in the second to stay alive Nerves appeared to get to Osorio as she attempted to serve out the match in the next game where she double faulted twice and fell behind 40-0 saving four break points in the game and crushing a forehand winner that caught the line to advance celebrating with a dance on the court under the lights I'm Camila Osorio," she said with a laugh in an on-court interview I really wanted to play on this court and was really excited and looking forward to playing a champion like Naomi Osorio, the world No. 53, takes on 22-seed Clara Tauson of Denmark in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open It was Osaka's first match since withdrawing from the Australian Open third round because of an abdominal strain Osaka, who beat Daria Kasatkina in the Indian Wells final in 2018 for her first career title appeared to struggle with the consistency of her ball tosses and accuracy off both wings Jorge Federico Osorio performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 with Carlos Miguel Prieto and the National Symphony Orchestra Thursday night at the Kennedy Center Carlos Miguel Prieto returned to the podium of the National Symphony Orchestra Thursday night, for the first time since his debut in 2018 who began his tenure as music director of the North Carolina Symphony last season led a pleasing program in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall featuring some old favorites introduced by something new Gabriela Ortiz premiered her orchestral work Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio in 2017 with Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic Ortiz grew up playing folk music with her parents She continued to show both elements of her background in this piece named for an indigenous language in Mexico with musical styles seeming to cross boundaries from one “territory” to another swept the NSO confidently through the work’s stylistic shifts The opening section evoked mechanical sounds followed by a soaring slow tune in the violas and cellos A burgeoning percussion section provided rhythm-heavy backing reminiscent of Mexican popular music in some parts and wah-wah trombone and trumpet licks added a hint of jazz The piece changed moods often enough to keep the ear diverted but in the end one felt left without much to remember engineered the high point of the evening with a judiciously considered delicately rendered turn as soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No Prieto set a pensive tempo in the first movement The pianist used a velvety touch at the keyboard to make urbane musical statements of the first movement’s themes The technical details were not always perfect did not detract from the overall elegance of the soloist’s musicianship sounded less flashy than carefully phrased particularly the gently paced secondary theme Only in the extended passages in sixteenth notes did Osorio tend to rush just slightly this thoughtful approach paid the greatest dividends in the tranquil slow movement sang in dialogue with the many woodwind solos in the orchestra behind him with particularly fine playing from assistant principal flutist Leah Arsenault Barrick Osorio truly accompanied his orchestral colleagues when they had the leading lines The NSO and Osorio settled on an active tempo for the closing Rondo with precisely calibrated runs throughout and an exciting final section the Mexican-born pianist offered a meditative encore the Sarabande from Bach’s Keyboard Partita No With just a hint of the sustaining pedal and a feather-light touch Osorio invited the listener to lean in and concentrate on each beautifully shaped phrase After intermission Prieto conducted the orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s orchestral suite Symphonic Dances The first movement crackled with energy in its faster opening section giving way to the slower music for interlaced woodwinds including a refined alto saxophone solo from Adam McCord one of the surprising moments in this often bustling score Pealing brass fanfares opened the second movement and then periodically electrified it It was at this point that the performance lost some of its energy not because of any technical fault in the playing but because the musical direction felt plain and unvaried The greater energy of the third movement mitigated this disappointment somewhat with the musical conflict between the Dies Irae chant and a life-centered theme from his own All-Night Vigil The program will be repeated 11:30 a.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday. kennedy-center.org XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value"  Subscribe via RSS large scale multimedia installations that merge conceptual art and community dynamics Osorio has worked with over twenty-five communities across the United States and internationally creating installations based on their real-life experiences at the Thomas Jefferson University medical campus in Philadelphia we recorded a conversation on the New Social Environment (Episode #1084) We discussed the artist’s early days in New York how his job as a caseworker at the Department of Human Services influences his artwork and why he thinks of his final installation as “the debris of the process.” The following text is a version of that conversation that has been edited for print En la barbería no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) One of the things I find fascinating about the moment when you came to our attention—and by “our” I’m speaking collectively us New Yorkers in the art world—it was a moment when performance and installation were very much the lingua franca of the art world And a lot of that work was coming from a base in conceptual art It had a quality to it that was more about emotion Can you take us back to the early years of your work and give a little bit of a description of the context that your work first came out of and led to I’m thinking of your unforgettable 1995 installation I had more friends in the performance field than in the visual arts I was working as a case worker at the Human Resources Administration in New York City working with families and with clients who suffered child abuse and neglect So my day was coming from the Bronx to work on Lafayette Street then go and hang out with Merián on West Broadway and Canal Street and I started to make a right on West Broadway and began to look at the galleries And what I saw made me wonder about the experience I had with my family and all that three-dimensionality that I was seeing reminded me of my mother’s cakes the ones that she baked for sweet-sixteens and weddings and all the important events in the neighborhood I wasn’t even thinking about becoming an artist until I was admitted to Columbia University in the eighties So that experience brought me to understand and to see the possibilities in the art outside of what had been established your first experience with contemporary art and installation and video and performance—all that links in your memory to these personal experiences that were already deeply meaningful and intimate for you At that time I was also looking at Walter De Maria’s The Broken Kilometer (1979) at Dia on West Broadway I understood there was a metaphor behind his installation that there was a possibility to connect with things that real life didn’t offer and we performed at PS1 in 1985 in the Spring Dance Series—that was the first big collaboration that Merián and I did and that performance as if it was a quinceañera and the more that I was getting into that process the more I realized that I was bringing with me the reality that I had as a caseworker in the Department of Human Services Rail: So it’s your experience as a caseworker with your clients that first led to that emotional connection you’ve got your own family and personal history rolled into your work too because one thing is triggering memories of other things It’s like a madeleine for Proust; you experience a certain texture and suddenly you’re at a different moment in your own life Osorio: I have never been able to distance myself from others Usually the more I think something is about the other it’s actually about me—because I’m seeing through the lens of other people Rail: Let’s put this in the context of your work En la barbería no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) from 1994 Osorio: The installation No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop came from an experience I had growing up as a boy of African descent and he wanted to send me to get the first haircut but he took me to a barber who did not know how to cut kinky hair I was absorbing all the imagery that was in the barbershop And then I brought it together in this installation and in the oval mirror there’s an image of him That connection to everything else made perfect sense but to a lot of other young men who grew up with this kind of super macho role model I embarrassed my father by just crying my eyeballs out during the haircut Installation view: Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart / Mi corazón latiente Rail: Another thing that’s amazing for a New Yorker—removing you as the author of the piece and just talking about my experience—I’ve lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1979 It’s an overwhelmingly Hispanic neighborhood The barbershop always had this special relationship to the block and it functioned as a social center for many neighbors and so what I felt when I first walked into No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop was that I’m re-entering a space that I already know It’s a place that’s part of my own neighborhood which I was in the process of trying to become part of and you didn’t have to worry about being in an actual barbershop where nobody would ever let you carry on like that Osorio: I also want to add that there is tension in the work because as contradictory as it might sound I wanted it to look more like a beauty parlor than a barber shop where women are the leaders of the households And so the minute that you walk into the living room I wanted to somehow make that a point in No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop and in Badge of Honor and especially to those women who have not had the opportunity to be acknowledged I spent time thinking about the exhibition in the context of a storefront I realized that a lot of people were coming in to see the work And I realized that the places where my work was shown were completely different from a museum Badge of Honor is the beginning of connecting to a world apart from museum culture It’s the first time I gave myself freedom not to replicate the museum or replicate the traditional exhibition space but to connect with the immediate environment and see what works So the hours of operations were twelve to seven Badge of Honor is the relationship of these two men I went with a slide carousel of my work to lots of prisons and I showed the earlier slides of my work to the guys because I was looking to make some sort of a connection with a father but Badge of Honor was in 1995 which was the time of the Million Man March And I really wanted to connect with the men who were in prison The barbershop piece stayed in my mind for I don’t know how many years and then Badge of Honor was probably in my brain for ten years I’ve always said that there’s stories around and I’m just waiting for them to land Rail: So how many prisoners did you visit until one proposed that you work together and I want to work with you.” And we began a conversation You have to convince your son to take part too but I knew I wanted to work with two people I went from the son’s house to the prison cell once a week and I asked the son to respond to one word like “freedom.” And he went on talking about freedom Then I said “absence,” and he talked about absence I went to the father and played what the son had to say Rail: I have never experienced a work that struck me at an emotional level as deeply as Badge of Honor You must hear countless accounts of people weeping as they begin to listen to this dialogue A lot of men have issues around their fathers having abandoned them or their fathers being taken away from them but it’s also suffering—it just goes back and forth and you can’t decide which is more unbearable There’s a connection between the father and son and the son and you—and those three connections create a triangle Rail: You’re also getting to experience what neither of them can experience because you’re experiencing their conversation in a way that was never possible for them I’m experiencing that now more than ever with my new piece I become so engaged with the people I’m collaborating with that we do everything in one take Rail: It’s an amazing level of trust that the father and son placed in you to be able to open themselves up as they do maybe more even than if the other person had been present in the room It’s very powerful in part because they do it via you as a conduit Let’s talk about what you’re doing in Philadelphia Installation view: Pepón Osorio: Convalescence Osorio: Convalescence is at the Thomas Jefferson University medical campus in Philadelphia I have this “quality,” I guess you could call it where people come to me and tell me their stories and people would just sit next to me and begin to tell me their stories because I was trying to deal with my own healing process “I have to do something about it.” I came up with the idea of convalescence you will forever be in a state of convalescence but mentally and spiritually you are in a state of convalescence So this idea that you will never be the same began to grow in my mind One of the key objects in the installation is a hamburger cart this guy gave me He talked about his illness and how he wanted to quit his job Rail: I’m struck by something that you kind of went past a bit quickly that these were all stories you didn’t want to hear And one day you woke up and everything was different Do you have any thoughts about that moment And it got to the point where everything began to line up and I started to think that it was possible to tell the story the right way by channeling people’s stories through my work Rail: And it was partly a result of your own treatment and I want to tell you a little bit about the ironic role that flowers and people play in healing and it captures the irony of Get Well cards the commercialization and overproduction of caring and wanting people to care Sometimes when we find out that someone is sick It really tells my own story about how I found out that there was something wrong with my body you look at the cabinet with a lot of self-prescribed medication all my PET scans—everything that I have in terms of documentation from my process were enlarged and hung on these giant walkers I came across some wonderful people who wanted to work with me They are in chronic pain and I just left the camera on and recorded them during the time of the day when they felt most affected by their pain then you walk in and you begin to see the stories as I had been told I spent about a year and a half with each subject and they told me the story of what happened to them One particular piece in Convalescence is about an African American woman Thirty percent of Black women are neglected or mistreated by the medical system during their pregnancy and their birth process is more difficult due to hospital neglect and it could have been prevented.” What I’m trying to do here is bring the family’s voices into the conversation and I translate their stories into the work The only connection is the giant pill bottles I placed the figure of the person—made with latex—inside of the pill bottle referencing the ongoing profits of pharmaceutical companies one of the women who I worked with is on the waiting list for a kidney transplant We talked about how impatient she was to find out where on the waiting list she was and that translates into people lined up on the sides of her bed they wake you up at a certain time and they put everyone to sleep at a certain time I wanted to translate that in the video as well Something that caught my attention is that when you are diagnosed with a very critical illness You just want to disappear in that fantasy and so everybody was talking about their dreams as if they were real The beauty of it is that all these people came to the opening because their families stepped in and arranged it and somehow I began to connect to this idea that they were visiting themselves in the hospital Osorio: They were meeting themselves when they stood in front of themselves because not only are they looking at their story but they are also looking at how I was able to tell the story telling someone else’s story from a place that I know well Rail: The installation took place in the lobby and the wall that faces the street is glass so you can see the installation from outside and inside so you get to see the people that come in with canes and you see an entire community of people outside feeling exactly the same thing that you’re feeling inside It's the first time that has ever happened Rail: Have you envisioned a way that this project can continue to exist after it leaves the hospital corridor This is a different kind of a public space that you’ve transformed it’s about opening up the spaces in the neighborhoods where I think the audience needs to see the work first but it’s a serious one with Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?) (1993) A big photograph of the Scene of the Crime came out in the Arts & Leisure section of the Times we made it to the New York Times!” And Luisa looked at me I realized I was creating this work in a vacuum for the people who are not museum-goers No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop was the very first one I created in a context outside of the museum I think after it has been in the appropriate neighborhood Rail: How long will it be visible in Philadelphia Osorio: The work is up until November first because it ran very quiet for the first week and a half And I’m just patiently waiting for that to happen Rail: Can you talk about the building-models in the exhibition the architectural model of the building and the architectural model for the botánica nearby There are a few botánicas in North Philadelphia you see the image of the guy who gave a lot of money and who the building is named after are the forgotten workers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital so that it wasn’t only leaning into the people who have a lot of money and access but opening up the possibility for other things to happen Rail: Would you devote a minute to a brief description of a botánica a botánica is the place where we seek spiritual healing and for remedies It is the place where our grandmothers went for knowledge for healing and prevention What I’m trying to say is that because of the monopolization of health and medication that hospitals have and given our lives over to the medical field Rail: The model was created for the exhibition but I’ve been carrying my body for sixty-nine years so you don’t know more than me about my body.” It becomes a completely different discussion from then on which is the premise and the essence of the installation but it’s constantly negated because we have given ownership of our bodies to the medical field Rail: Was this something you went into the project feeling once your own treatments were finished and you were convalescing something clicked in terms of inverse proportionality but it was also in relationship to what other people in the families told me Because at some point I just thought: am I giving everyone a hard time around here And then I realized that they were feeling the same way as me and I’m still stuck where I am” or “They tell you what you want to hear.” And so in a way they don’t tell you the truth Rail: Can you talk about the figure covered in band-aids Osorio: The story is about the band aids I used when I was a little kid that stood out more on me than they would on a light-skinned person Stories like that become signals about how the medical field considers people of color Rail: I suspect you must have provoked some interesting internal discussions on the part of hospital staff I haven’t had an opportunity yet to sit there and watch and have conversations to all the people who look at it and immediately connect and understand what I’m talking about because they’ve also gone through that experience The figure that represents me is pierced with many needles That’s because I decided to do acupuncture as a way of balancing the Western medical treatments I combined the medical intervention that I was getting at the hospital with something that I felt was important and that I trusted but the people that don’t have medical coverage self-prescribe and it turns into a completely different situation I’m really moved by how you articulate your politics and I know those politics come out of your being an empath in the sense that you embody others’ feelings and what comes out has so many different levels of meaning and somehow your underlying desire to articulate a need for justice always comes through and the holistic way that you approach your work but it’s still amazing to me how there’s no preaching going on in your work I think that the more that I don’t wish to take a stand the bigger the stand I will end up taking in the work So it just allows the work to be what it is I don’t like to tell people what they need to see I believe in the possibility of giving you the freedom to see as much as you want to see or as much as you’re willing to take Rail: I would also maintain that that degree of empathy is Many people share others' pain in deep and meaningful ways Osorio: I also think of the installation as the debris of the process they’re looking at the installation in the present But the process that allowed me to get to that place came from asking questions we live in a time where production and process are not as important as the final product and we rely on the final product—the artwork—as evidence I would say about one-hundred people were engaged in Convalescence and everyone sees it and they understand the process which speaks to what I think is the most important thing to see: the after-effect after the work is done and the complications that come along with it have been settled So you’re standing in front of something that is very complicated but that’s what politics for me are all about I demand a lot of compassion and empathy from myself as I demand of the viewer There is this space that opens a conversation that feels circular to me Home Your request has been blocked by our security system due to potential security concerns Please contact us for assistance We use cookies to personalize content and ads and to analyze our traffic and improve our service We met in 2014 as MFA students in Columbia University’s writing program we found ourselves miles away from home but united by our shared Latinx heritage and passion for poetry our writing formed a bridge that allowed us to center the vivid experiences of Latinxidad in our creative work A decade later, we are excited to reconnect and dive deeper into the themes that shape our debut poetry collections. In Martínez-Leyva's Cowboy Park (University of Wisconsin Press the border town of El Paso becomes both landscape and lens examining masculinity and queerness through tender the collection maps personal and political violence onto everyday moments of survival Osorio's Querida (University of Pittsburgh Press 2024) explores immigrant family life in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley through interwoven reflections that take the form of sonnets and ritual verse Drawing from collective memory and family wisdom the poems trace the impacts of migration and labor across generations shedding light on the complexities of our identities and the richness of our culture and community brother—even the speaker—sit for portraits Why was it important for these characters to be the center of lyrical portraits Eduardo Martínez-LeyvaWhen writing these poems while portraits of BIPOC figures were often objectified or erased I also thought about posterity and how I wanted to depict the people I grew up with as multi-dimensional My approach is to bring real life to figures often overlooked I learned that being the subject of a portrait conveys agency: the power lies in the image itself; portraits aren't just for the elite This allowed me to leave my concerns behind Depicting these imperfections makes figures more human and tangible these folks nurtured me and showed strength I wanted to convey that societal circumstances shape behaviors showing where the speaker came from and who they are now while constructing a future self Your use of rich textures invites readers to engage with all their senses You honor and remember those before us while acknowledging what came later you have a sequence of rituals where you're reconfiguring beliefs and traditions Did you find this sonic form liberating despite its traditional constraints so I wanted to see if it could bear my world I was inspired by the visual artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and attentive to the balance inherent in the form of the altar That balance between the constraint of a rigid form like the crown and the decadence of muscular sentences creates self-sustaining tension The crown became a guiding structure in my chapbook That experiment helped me imagine the crown as a central pillar from which everything else could grow I love thinking of it as an epicenter where everything else shoots out from You place the folks you're speaking about and the speakers themselves at the forefront Little Hunger” starts to merge these two polarities It's that present leading us to the future There’s a lot of momentum in your work and lines I could never do that in the limited space of the sonnet because there are moments in Querida where it gets the best of me I rely heavily on the “Terrible Not” that the great Lucie Brock-Broido taught us I address the unspeakable while protecting myself from traumas embedded in familial memory you invite readers to consider who gets to claim control over language and who gets to be witnessed How did writing Cowboy Park transform your relationship with language EMLThe border landscape contains several languages and multitudes of meanings so I learned to code-switch from a young age Learning English was ingrained as essential for better opportunities but it became a burden as I became a translator leading to precarious situations unsuitable for children the more isolated I felt from my community faced additional code-switching in both English and Spanish finding myself an outcast in the English-speaking world I navigated through different languages and experiences from my upbringing I felt compelled to adhere to proper language rules Then I realized I could merge English and Spanish because as Gloria Anzaldúa and Guillermo Gomez Peña suggest “You have one foot here and one foot there.”  NXOYour collection taught me to understand these portraits as an encounter with the consciousness of the poet-speaker behind them There is a bold wholeness to the experience to this complex person we sense through Cowboy Park EMLIn “Self Portrait as Papi,” your exploration of self-care and self-love stands out Your work challenges traditional norms of machismo and toxic masculinity offering tender moments that soften typically hardened figures You empower both the speaker and those depicted in your poems How does this poem encapsulate the journey from external cultural exploration to internal introspection or expectations that we inherit—especially as Latinx men—because of the linguistic or experiential gaps between generations on either side of migration That poem was an attempt at processing the anger I felt witnessing my father’s body slowly being destroyed by capitalism I kept returning to the tension of adoring my father as a patriarchal figure embedded in machismo who could also be ghostly always cycling through the grocery store aisles in my imagination where he’s worked since migrating to this country That poem helps me understand anger as a yearning and accept that The poem ends with the speaker undressing himself in front of a mirror to witness how his own body reveals that he is still of his father What happens if we peel away at the reverence or gold flake of the statue—what do we find underneath You write into your own memories and familial memories of surviving within El Paso a city shaped by xenophobic migration policies that have created the conditions for violence Yet your poems hold space for grief in a way that is brutal but also holy Can poetry act as an intervention to personal EMLI'm still writing towards the answer to this question which propels me to explore grief and its adjacent experiences Living around the border feels like living around a wound I invite readers into my personal experiences hoping they resonate because we've all experienced some form of grief It doesn't have to be losing someone; we all learn to grieve or experience loss in different ways Although the poems stem from personal and familial memories I aimed for the grief to resonate universally I wanted to highlight grief's shared nature Little Hunger.” The recurring absence of bridges and bodies of water contrasts with imagery of debris and destruction How does the speaker's reflection on hunger through images like the empty fridge and roiling water convey deeper meanings about desire What role does hunger play in shaping the speaker's identity and relationships NXOMy fixation on bridges began after working with the Gloria Anzaldúa Altares Collection Anzaldúa had an altar-building practice she imagined as a somatic practice for bridging and crossing into a state of consciousness defined by interconnectivity pointing towards the people and places lost to the colonial encounter The circuitous refrain of the bridge in “Come like the thumbing through of a rosary in hopes of achieving some kind of peace It brings to mind Cowboy Park’s epigraph by Guillermo Gómez-Peña where he describes border culture as a Sisyphean experience where “to arrive is just an illusion.” I've experienced my parents always running towards something that feels out of reach—and I’ve come to accept that I’ve inherited that grief transcends personal histories and teaches the reader that we have a stake here We become implicated and show that we can learn from the suffering merging traditions and shaping new rituals for our descendants but I felt hope—a forward-looking perspective The speaker connects artifacts and histories but also acknowledging the lineage because the speaker uses that lineage to construct this bridge building and rebuilding while honoring the past queer sexuality and the erotic are viscerally corporeal—dangerous—yet also ecstatic You strike a balance between the hurt of political violence and the tender hurt of sexuality How do you understand the relationship between these two experiences in your poetry EMLI'm intrigued by the fine line between pleasure and pain I learned about polarities early on; I learned where my body stood in certain spaces especially through language and societal expectations Society often criminalized and fetishized me simultaneously I explored accepting my identity in a machismo culture where femininity and erotic thoughts were taboo By acknowledging and expressing these hurts I find moments of ecstasy and tenderness amidst the pain Both forms of hurt are integral to my identity and experience This balance is not about erasing the hurt but about finding a way to exist with it Poems like “Dear Extraction Site Tourist” use unearthing objects as a metaphor for understanding history and identity How does this shape the speaker's self-understanding and how do you want Querida to be remembered NXO The last section of Querida is interested in troubling the logic of extractivism while pointing outwards towards an imagined future where worlds longed for in the collection can finally coexist I dialogue with the memory of my family's migration and their labor By centering this in my poetry—and excavating details that some might consider lowbrow or latchkey kids—I hope to reveal their importance to readers outside my community we can invite readers to consider how they’re inevitably interconnected with our histories Maybe it can linger in the cultural imagination—the way Cowboy Park lingers in my imagination—as a guide so that others can build their own beautiful things to tell their stories Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso and a teaching fellowship from Columbia University was selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming in November 2024 from The University of Wisconsin Press Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave selected by Oliver De la Paz as a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship He received his PhD in Literature from the University of California His writing has also appeared in Notre Dame Review He is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio FC announced on Friday it had signed midfielder Juan Sebastian Osorio ahead of the 2025 USL Championship season The transaction is pending league and federation approval and per team policy Osorio joins San Antonio having most recently competed for Leones FC of Colombia’s Categoría Primera B where the 21-year-old began his professional career in 2021 He made 58 appearances for the club across two stints Osorio spent time on loan with Colombian First Division side CD América de Cali adding to his experience as a young player “Juan Sebastian is a talented young midfielder who has had excellent formation in America de Cali and Leones FC of Colombia,” said SAFC Sporting Director Marco Ferruzzi possession play and range of passing will help our team control matches and phases of the game We are happy to welcome Juan to SAFC.” Osorio has also trained with Atlético Nacional in Colombia’s top division and Club Atlético Banfield in Argentina’s Primera League The Official Website for the Alabama A&M Bulldogs Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here « Back Your request appears similar to malicious requests sent by robots Please make sure JavaScript is enabled and then try loading this page again. If you continue to be blocked, please send an email to secruxurity@sizetedistrict.cVmwom with: Club Tijuana officially announced that the team and now former manager Juan Carlos Osorio parted ways The Colombian manager was only in his second season with the Xoloitzcuintles and enjoyed success in his first campaign Osorio managed to take the Border City Dogs to the playoffs after an almost six-year drought The former Mexico national team boss also made the Estadio Caliente a fortress with one of the best home records in the league #Xolos‘ manager Juan Carlos Osorio starts the post-game press conference by saying sorry to the fans and saying the 4-3 loss is inexcusable.@EVT_News pic.twitter.com/eghhpf7VAj — Francisco Velasco (@FranciscoEfV) March 10, 2025 No one had a secure starting role in Osorio’s lineup, and that remained consistent in the current season. However, after the recent 4-3 loss to Atlas the Colombian manager did say this was one of his faults Ososrio admitted that he may have put too much pressure on some of the younger players on the squad Club Tijuana was ahead 3-0 against Atlas and Osorio made some risky substitutions in this game which he himself said contributed to the negative result This was an incredibly upsetting defeat to all involved who booed and jeered loudly after the game This was ultimately the match that cost Juan Carlos Osorio his tenure at Club Tijuana but the season overall has been a disaster Xolos is dead last in the Liga MX with just seven points from 11 games played and has the worst defense in the league with 27 goals conceded The front office did sell former club captain Christian Rivera against Osorio’s wishes but also splashed quite a bit of money on signings The Colombian manager had mentioned that he asked for certain players from the front office Jackson Porozo and Shamar Nicholson were added to the squad and were players Osorio was happy with None of the three have really performed well in Liga MX and Porozo has specifically contributed directly to some of Tijuana’s defensive struggles this season Liga MX is constant transitions in short periods of time and like the new signings Osorio was not able to transition quickly into this season it is odd that the front office was tougher on Osorio than with Miguel Herrera who was unable to get Xolos to the playoffs in his second tenure Assistant manager Cirilo Saucedo is expected to finish out the 2025 Clausura campaign while the front office looks for a new boss did most of the series previews and recaps in the Padres’ 2016 season for EVT Now I focus more on the local soccer scene Copa América and European clubs like Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.