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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · Mar 10

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 4h

Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All, new (and harrowing) from @littlewow.online at @flaminghydra.com

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Opportunistic infection

Jennie Rose Halperin on the career twists and turns of Instagram influencer Jessica Reed Kraus

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 7h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 6h

Pausing in a tunnel underneath Rockefeller Center to yell “THANKS SO MUCH FOR SUBSCRIBING TO FLAMING HYDRA” in the direction of Chris Hayes, like some sort of indie media bog witch

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 9h

Good but maddening one by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/purity-tests/

Purity Tests

Among the cornucopia of horrors pouring out in our daily news, you may have missed this one. It’s an amicus brief, though it’s not at all friendly, arguing that trans girls shouldn’t play sports on gi...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 10h

I got to visit @ndbooks.bsky.social many moons ago and wrote about it at @newyorker.com. A wonderful story of independent publishing.

Congratulations to you and to László Krasznahorkai

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How Staying Small Helps New Directions Publish Great Books

New Directions evolved as it did because its founder was as far-seeing in business as he was in matters of taste.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 10h

CONGRATULATIONS Barbara Epler and @ndbooks.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is so neato.

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 2d

waiter: would you like some capers with your pasta

batman: what

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 1d

You need to read "Purity Tests" by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social for @flaminghydra.com. Brilliant writing and analysis, and quite entertaining on a sensitive (trans kids) subject:
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Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 19h

dear england,

If you're wondering what happens if reform does actually get elected to the HoC in big numbers, Finland says "Hei!". they did just that a few years ago. This is what happened 👇

Is mise,
GnaM

GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · Jun 23

As english politics leans even further to the right, with LAB now questioning the EHCR, alongside "Island of Strangers" & pro brexit rhetoric, here's a quick thread on how the Far Right utterly collapsed in Finland.

TL;DR: "r/w voters: I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face".

🧵

screen grab of the PERUS-S party leader - Finlands Reform party - alongside a polls graph depicting a catastrophic drop in support.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW, not all female bosses on the Hill have bad reputations. Plenty of them inspire loyalty because they treat their staff well. Every Warren campaign staffer I know loves her. Patty Murray has a deep alumni team that admires her. AOC treats her staff well. Same with Tina Smith

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 1d

I have hope and faith in the American people but not in the sadistic six. The way they now operate is--if they CAN destroy democracy and freedom they WILL destroy democracy and freedom. They are the main cause of our national tragedy.

Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 1d

The Roberts Court could use this case to rig Congress in Republicans' favor for at least a generation: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

I'm sorry, pbump.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

ya it really was and then just a few months later he was gone...

Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

Anthony Bourdain read and liked my piece about Lester Bangs in the New Yorker and tweeted about it and eventually we met and spent hours and hours drinking together and he gave me his last long interview

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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willYum @urpalwilly.bsky.social · 1d

even though I had read this in WTHW some time ago, I took this pic from We Had It Coming and I keep coming back to it cuz it’s so simple but says so much. “how it actually is” “in case you need reminding” “look at what we allow” all cut to the heart of it. thx @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

I told you before that I know it can be uncomfortable to encounter an unhoused person in distress but that is because it is an up close and personal look at How It Actually Is. A peek under the hood of this country.
The churning gears and foul combustion. It's no wonder then that so many of us want these humans simply disappeared. And they are humans in case you need reminding.
They aren't a threat so much as they are an
indictment.
Look at what we allow.
It's the hideous beating of the tell-tale heart.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 5d

It has essentially nothing to do with the article, which is great, as always, but the description of Ezra Klein as "catastrophically sophisticated" is just so damn good

Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 6d

TODAY: @davidjroth.bsky.social on addressing existential malaise by watching a string of ‘70s movies. “The blocks around Times Square were caked in a damp neon film, but I could still identify what has since become a Shake Shack.” 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 · 1d

Would you like to read about something else? heck yes

Here is @tomscocca.bsky.social on learning the names of things

and more adventures on the road with Jack Pendarvis and his friend Ace

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What’s the poop? / Where’s the dough?

Tom Scocca learns new words; Ace and Jack on the gambling type atmosphere of Hollywood

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

a great entry!!

I love this game so much. congratulations, Auburn!

Auburn Scallon @wsauburn.bsky.social · 1d

I love a good word game, including @flaminghydra.com’s Hydranym.

Editors share a weekly theme & combo of letters. Subscribers create a phrase & vote for their faves. This is my first time with a winning idea!

Cheers to worker-owned journalism and creativity 🥂

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Screenshot of contest results from the Hydranym:

THEME: MILITARY

W A H S H B

“We appreciate
hypermasculinity-Sign here, boys!”
Auburn, 12 votes

“Walk around hometowns shooting harmless bystanders”

max entropy, 12 votes

Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

Caring what you're looking at is what makes someone part of art, which is the communication of meaning between human beings

tho

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

THIS

Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 1d

U.S. Congress, hello! Don't forget, every Republican who joins Democrats to rid the world of the Trump administration will be loved forever, truly, people will carry you around on their shoulders cheering, and throw parades, you will never pay for another drink ever

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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