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Maria Bustillos

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experiments in journalism, e.g.

Flaming Hydra flaminghydra.com

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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Guess what, social media is bad and also good it's providing a crucial way for sane people to connect and give courage to one another in terrible times

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Liza Mazel's avatar Liza Mazel @lizamazel.bsky.social
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in general if apps like this one are useful, one is in following individual reporters/writers, affiliated with major pub or otherwise. Understand that this is primarily a casualty of oligarchic hegemony , much more so than tech i’d say. Alts like Village Voice are bought out & eviscerated

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Flaming Hydra's avatar Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com
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TODAY: in honor of the second-most dubious of American holidays, please take a little survey and read some of our greatest stories from this past month! flaminghydra.com/r/7853e0a3?m...

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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O I think we can start counting from Bush v. Gore

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exactly this, it's like a mirror of the U.S. in so many ways

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chatham harrison is tending a new garden's avatar chatham harrison is tending a new garden @chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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I love this too but sadly you can't read too much into it, Rees-Mogg was on TV only a few hours later pontificating every bit as smugly as ever

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Judah Grunstein's avatar Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social
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2. Labour held steady in total votes, but combined with the fractured vote on the right, won a historic parliamentary majority. This is in line with trends elsewhere in Europe. The far right rises and wins when the center-left atomizes (Italy, France) and falls short when it holds (Spain, Portugal).

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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So over in the bad place, I just saw Snowden endorsing Kennedy as the Dem presidential candidate

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Just now getting word that Jacob Rees-Mogg has been sealed back inside the ceremonial grandfather clock and dropped in the sea

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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most all this weird-sounding stuff is delicious when you get the chance to try the real deal, I think

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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I once found the idea similarly baffling but am devoted to it now, it's got to be cold outside, the elements piping hot, the peas must have mint the fish crisp and crackling, plenty of fresh lemon squeezed on I'm just telling ya, when the stars align give it a try

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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right but he was POWERFULLY stupid right??? right??

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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I don’t know how to explain to our nation’s top editorial boards that the Democratic Party is an actual organization with a lot of rules and history to it, not just a store that distributes team jerseys, and it has already selected delegates to its nominating convention.

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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9.02 (calculating at the standard NYT rate of $25 every 4 weeks)

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Flaming Hydra's avatar Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com
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FLAMING HYDRA: WE WHIP ASS

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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Hey! @washingtonpost.com!! The incumbent is facing a fascist lunatic!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the Fourth of July, and the Supreme Court has hurled a wrecking ball through the Declaration of Independence!!!

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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I just inhaled my tea laughing at this (thank you, laughter at a premium this week) and also your position is 100% correct

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whet moser's avatar whet moser @whet.bsky.social
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this hits home

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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The headline! "posho fuckrat"! everything about this made meso happy

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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It's different from lying, in that it's for money

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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You are literally 'but her emails'-ing this candidate instead of going after the other guy who is a literal felon and pathological liar who stole secret documents from the White House and lied about it

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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O gosh!! I am sorry to have given this impression. You know what, you can shut off emails entirely and just come over when the mood strikes. Thank you again for valuable feedback!

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Six people did the thing that is supposed to require 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 3/4 of the states to do

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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Thank you!! Apologies, we know it is easy to lose your place now. We're redesigning now, to make it easier. ALSO your idea is great. What do you think about a Super Hydra that would be a weekly digest of all ten stories?? Designed more like a magazine?? Very grateful for feedback, tysm!

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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲's avatar Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com
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I subscribed to the Flaming Hydra recently because it's the kind of thing I want to see more of in the world -- independent journalist cooperative -- and the articles are great.

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Fight for the Future's avatar Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org
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Today, to thank the Internet Archive for standing up for the rights of all libraries and all readers to own censorship- and spyware- free digital books, ❤️Fight and the authors of Flaming Hydra are taking to the streets on both coasts.

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Maria Bustillos's avatar Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.bsky.social
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from April... was there a pool? what did he win

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Atrios's avatar Atrios @eschatonblog.com
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The worst ones are like political science profs who spend years lecturing The Left about how Republicans are Fine and Good Actually and people should be Civil and Not Shrill and Engage In The Marketplace of Ideas then one day wake up and demand everyone is outraged as they suddenly are

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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