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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · Mar 10

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1h

oo too bad! that's a good one

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

This went up last Friday around The Appointed Time, albeit not at Defector. I really liked the movie, and appreciated the opportunity to write some descriptive language about 1970s Gene Hackman movies.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a super thoughtful take on "One Battle After Another" from @davidjroth.bsky.social ... he puts it in the context of 1970s thrillers whose style informed the film. Then he identifies what makes it different. And maybe more hopeful. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 6h

Flaming Hydra writers own their own rights absolutely! This is a real important part of what we are trying to do at @flaminghydra.com, is build a place that HELPS everyone do the work they want and get paid for it

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 7h

Or maybe we're finally dealing with the truth of it, like should have happened starting in 1974 and every single year since

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned.

But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 7h

wow I didn't realize this was IRL

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

Lol sorry it was both while running AND yelling but yes

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11h

he's just good in like every possible way.

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MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social · 11h

Literally just finished this book earlier today. Only flaw is that it's too short. Absolutely loved it and wanted more and more.

Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 6d

Just ordered the new book from Brian Morton. What a great person he is. A teacher and friend to all who read his work.

(I gave a couple of talks at Sarah Lawrence where he teaches and it turned out I was the student.)

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Writing as a Way of Life: A Book about Art, Craft, and Devotion

A Book about Art, Craft, and Devotion

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 14h

this is only "leverage" if Democrats, watching the administration continue to play this hand badly, choose to rescue them

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 12h

Wants people to pay $200 to listen to, but not tell anyone else about, his views on the Antichrist, ok guy

Tickets for the series went for $200, selling out within hours. Attendees were told that the lectures were strictly off the record and that they were forbidden from taking photos, videos or audio recordings. At least one person who took notes and published them had his ticket revoked by a post on X.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 13h

He's on the record with quite a bit of this stuff, at the @nytimes.com no less with Ross Douthat no less

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 13h

weak lol sure they would

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 13h

U.S. Congress, get on with the impeaching, this is getting ridiculous now

Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: The White House says it is making good on threats to fire thousands of federal workers amid a government shutdown: buff.ly/wgQdZk1

Announcement comes hours before a judge's deadline for DOJ to submit info on the status of layoffs, previously: buff.ly/kDrhgP6

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 14h

Don't miss the part where Woody Allen told Bari Weiss that he is voting for Cuomo because for sure, such guys are crazy about each other

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 14h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 14h

well the Norwegians but ya

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 1d

TODAY: @littlewow.online on MAGA gossip blogger Houseinhabit. “In the new tradition of other disgraced figures … who swerved to the right, she’s found open arms (and wallets) when no one else would have her.” flaminghydra.com/clout-chasin...

Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All

The New Yorker’s Clare Malone recently published a long profile of Jessica Reed Kraus, the QAnon-adjacent mommy blogger who played an instrumental role in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s successful bid to be...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 15h

pls read @davidjroth.bsky.social's review it is SO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."