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Her case has helped expose the mechanisms shielding immigration enforcement. Even before border agents and ICE drew national outrage for the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, their lethal power was tested, honed, and normalized in encounters with noncitizens like Marisol.

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At a moment when the public has begun to grasp the sweeping, largely unchecked authority of the U.S. Border Patrol, Marisol’s trial will likely serve as something of a referendum on the agency’s license to kill.

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Marisol survived the shooting. She returned to Mexico. But she suffers from memory loss and debilitating headaches and other complications from a bullet fragment in her brain. Marisol and her supporters want justice—or at the very least, compensatory damages.

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The exact details of what happened next are the subject of an upcoming lawsuit, but at 5 p.m., Border Patrol agent Jason Dattilo raised his government-issued handgun and fired one shot into the car. It struck Marisol in the forehead, just above her eye.

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It had been a difficult journey, one she’d been hesitant to take in the first place. Marisol thought she’d get arrested, spend a few hours locked up, and then be deported.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 14/08/2026

On June 16, 2021, Marisol García Alcántara and five other women successfully crossed the border into New Mexico. When the car they were riding in got pulled over by Border Patrol, her first reaction was relief. 🧵

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In the Lower Rio Grande Valley, SpaceX employees have overwhelmed a small community—and started rechristening its streets to appease their idiot founder. thebaffler.com/salvos/rocke...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 30/07/2026

In a recent issue, Noah McCormack wrote on our new age of orality—one where we apparently aren’t talking all that much. thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 27/07/2026

For our latest issue, Andrew Norman Wilson photographs the two-ton, eighteen-to-twenty-foot presidential busts of sculptor David Adickes. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 15/07/2026

In Baffler no. 77, @anathanwest.bsky.social wrote on the passport bro, whose financial, social, and sexual anxieties can only be eased by preying on women overseas. thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 10/07/2026

According to The Atlantic, the end of literacy is nigh, though you already know that if you read The Baffler—we devoted an entire issue to the subject last fall. thebaffler.com/issues/no-81

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 08/07/2026

Our “Global Texas” film series at BAM concludes TONIGHT (7/8). We’re screening “Lone Star” at 6:45 p.m., and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez” at 9:30 p.m. 🤠 Grab tickets now! www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 07/07/2026

Our “Global Texas” screening series at BAM ends tomorrow night (7/8) with “Lone Star” at 6:45 p.m., and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez” at 9:30 p.m. Get your tickets now! www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 04/07/2026

🇺🇸 Today only, get our latest issue for just $4. 🇺🇸 “Global Texas” describes how our appetite for red meat, crude oil, and conservative fantasy has shaped global politics. store.thebaffler.com/products/no-84

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/07/2026

Catch the final two films in our screening series, “Lone Star” (6:45 p.m.) and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez” (9:30 p.m.) at @BAMfilmBrooklyn next Wednesday (7/8). Get your tickets now: www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 29/06/2026

Our “Global Texas” screening series kicks off tomorrow night at BAM with “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” (6:45 p.m.) and “Hud” (9:30 p.m.) Get your tickets now: www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 22/06/2026

The Baffler and BAM are pleased to present our summer film series for our new issue “Global Texas” on 6/30 and 7/8. We’re screening “Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” “Hud,” “Lone Star,” and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.” www.bam.org/film/2026/th...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/06/2026

They say everything is bigger in Texas, but our new issue reveals just how far the state’s influence has expanded beyond its geographic limits, reflecting and shaping the politics of a world overrun with extractive industry, cattle fetishism, and border violence. thebaffler.com/issues/no-84

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/06/2026

To help pay her way through an obscenely expensive MFA program, May Syeda hustled as a professional cuddler, working with clients whose needs and expectations were not always obvious. This is her story: thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 13/05/2026

“I could either have a career as a writer or a career as a fire lookout. I couldn’t have both. After missing a season in the tower due to my infirmities, I finally and fully accepted the truth.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 11/05/2026

The Palos Verdes Peninsula hosts some of the most coveted real estate in California. But it’s hugely vulnerable to landslides. Protecting these properties is costly, onerous, and ineffective—and the public has been footing the bill. thebaffler.com/latest/slips...

The local governments of the peninsula could—and probably should—mandate retreat through eminent domain, but the option is politically anathema. No politician has seriously proposed it, in part because doing so would be an acknowledgment that the area is no longer habitable, a message that runs counter to the interests of real estate developers, property owners, and officials seeking reelection. It would also theoretically require even bigger buyout programs at market rates that remain artificially high because the risks associated with building in hazardous landscapes have long been subsidized through disaster relief, infrastructure spending, and legal guarantees of compensation, effectively socializing the costs of risky private development decisions.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 08/05/2026

What does it take to afford a writing career? For our latest issue, we asked seven writers about the side gigs or full-time jobs they’ve taken on—waiting tables, watching for forest fires, cuddling lonely strangers, and more. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The accounts here describe the financial compromises, the emotional costs, the physical exhaustion, the moral injury, and the drain on the imaginative reserves that are the costs of a side gig. They describe the way that writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it. They also detail the satisfactions of service work and manual toil, employment outside the cosmopolis, and mastering skill sets more material than putting words to paper. The forum, I hope, serves as a partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, books, and periodicals you read.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 07/05/2026

Last month, Baffler Deputy Editor Wes Enzinna spoke to a few of the writers featured on Montez Press Radio. Listen to the panel here: radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 04/05/2026

The Baffler is pleased to co-present the launch party for “God Forgives, Brothers Don't,” a new book on military masculinity by Jasper Craven. Join us on Memorial Day (5/25) from 7pm - 10pm. Get your tickets below! www.eventbrite.com/e/god-forgiv...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 24/04/2026

“The energy others put into securing career advancement I devoted to writing. I never sought a promotion that wasn’t handed to me or attempted to negotiate a salary after it became easy to pay my bills.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 23/04/2026

Tomorrow evening at 7pm, we’re going live on Montez Press Radio with a panel discussion on the day jobs and side gigs necessary to support a writing career. Join us in person, or stream online. radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 21/04/2026

We’ll be on Montez Press Radio this Friday, 4/24, for a panel on writers and their side gigs. Discussion moderated by Deputy Editor Wes Enzinna, in conversation with Bertrand Cooper, Bud Smith, and May Syeda. You can join us in person—or stream online. radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 20/04/2026

Join The Baffler at Montez Press Radio on Friday, 4/24, at 7pm for a panel discussion on what it takes to afford a literary career. With Bertrand Cooper, Bud Smith, May Syeda, and Baffler Deputy Editor Wes Enzinna. radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 17/04/2026

The Baffler will be on Montez Press Radio next Friday (4/24) at 7pm for “The Profession That Does Not Exist”—a live panel discussion on the side hustles that journalists, novelists, and poets take on to survive. Join us, or tune in online. radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 15/04/2026

We’re throwing a party to celebrate the successful release of our new issue, “Hirelings.” Join us TOMORROW (4/16) at TJ Byrnes in Manhattan.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 15/04/2026

We’re throwing a party to celebrate the successful release of our new issue, “Hirelings.” Join us TOMORROW (4/16) at TJ Byrnes in Manhattan.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 15/04/2026

“Professional cuddling for me was never simply about extracting money. I was a peer to these men. I, too, was desperate for intimacy in my own way.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 14/04/2026

“Every day I had a mandated fifteen-minute coffee break and a half-hour lunch. I’d written whole drafts of novels during these many accumulated breaks, which were the reason I’d sought this job to begin with.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 13/04/2026

We’re celebrating the success of our new issue THIS THURSDAY (4/16) at TJ Byrnes (77 Fulton St., Manhattan) from 7–10pm. Join us!

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 13/04/2026

Selling a novel won’t earn you enough to quit your day job, but perhaps that shouldn’t be the goal. @budsmith.bsky.social describes the balance he’s struck, writing and editing and revising on breaks from an improvised desk at a factory in New Jersey. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 13/04/2026

Professional cuddling pays better than retail—or many other jobs a full-time creative writing MFA student could get. But it’s also awkwardly intimate, emotionally exhausting—and sometimes abusive. May Syeda shares her story. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 11/04/2026

Help us toast the successful release of our new issue, “Hirelings.” Join us at TJ Byrnes (77 Fulton St. in Manhattan) on Thursday, April 16, from 7–10pm. We hope to see you there!

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 10/04/2026

“Why deny the erotic charge of a power differential? Every uniform suggests the prospect of removal.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 10/04/2026

In our new issue, Charlotte Shane and Molly Matalon reveal the inner lives of male dancers who dress as cops. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 09/04/2026

Join us at TJ Byrnes in Manhattan as we celebrate the launch of Baffler no. 83, “Hirelings.” Thursday, 4/16 7-10pm 77 Fulton St. NY, NY

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 08/04/2026

For Philip Connors, being a fire lookout was a side gig and subject matter. The job gave him the freedom to write—and the material for his first book. But then he was asked to choose between those two careers. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 08/04/2026

“Once upon a time I thought of myself as a writer with a side hustle. Now I think of myself as a fire lookout whose income subsidizes a dilettante’s interest in scribbling.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 07/04/2026

We’re throwing a party to celebrate the successful release of our new issue, “Hirelings.” Please join us on Thursday, 4/16, from 7-10pm at TJ Byrnes in Manhattan!

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 06/04/2026

A side-gig can be a lifeline, but it isn’t always enough. In our new issue, Bertrand Cooper describes the exhaustion of long commutes, unpaid bills, and the financial precarity that saps your will to write. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 04/04/2026

📣 The Baffler’s Spring Clearance Event returns. 📣 For as little as $1, get issues from the nineties, aughts, twenty-teens, and today. store.thebaffler.com/collections/...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/04/2026

Our Annual Spring Clearance Event returns. 📣 We’ve steeply marked down our back catalog—with some issues as low as $1. store.thebaffler.com/collections/...