Rudy Martinez is a writer based in Paris who has never fully belonged to one world — American and Mexican, journalist and poet. He runs a sourced, verify-everything news operation and writes unguarded essays about identity, family, and grief, sometimes in the same week. He gets angry about the state of things without losing his sense of humor about it — usually by putting the argument on a t-shirt when a paragraph isn't loud enough.
Unguarded essays about identity, family, and grief. Sometimes in the same week.
I have been writing these letters to you in my head almost from the moment you died. There is no real theme, or end-goal with them; they are just my way of saying the things I would say were you still here. You are the best friend I have ever had so, of course I […]
Read more →A twenty-year-old barbarian warlord stands at the gates of Paris. His name is Clovis. He's just defeated the last Roman holdout in Gaul. And he's about to change everything. This is the story of how Paris became a capital for the first time. How a pagan warrior king met an elderly saint named Geneviève who […]
Read more →I'm angry. I know that isn't surprising considering the state of the U.S. these days, but I need to get it off my chest all the same. We have a racist Administration running what, in my opinion, amounts to a state sponsored domestic terrorist organization in ICE. They've killed scores of people already, locked up […]
Read more →American news is shrinking into a handful of boardrooms. I sit outside that—scouring global sources to bring you the stories those rooms ignore. No spin, no agenda. Just the world, unfiltered, for readers who want the full picture.
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Essays take time. A t-shirt takes three seconds. I design the kind of arguments you can't ignore—because they're walking down the street on someone's chest.
The Mexica stories were never lost—just never handed to me. So I'm writing them the way I needed to hear them: so my niece grows up knowing her ancestors had gods with her nose and her laugh.
Your life shouldn't come with a subscription fee. I build tools that run on your hardware—websites, AI, data—so no landlord can evict you, no corporation can triple the rent, and no one can pull the plug but you.