Maria Bustillos
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I help run @flaminghydra.com and its writer-owned parent cooperative, the Brick House.
Digital ownership rights, archives, libraries, fun, and press freedom are things I love.
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Digital ownership rights, archives, libraries, fun, and press freedom are things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
more like cacogenic, but yeah
January 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM
more like cacogenic, but yeah
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This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
Seems like a good idea @governorwalz.mn.gov
I think Walz should take a lesson from Brad Lander
Put his body in the streets & call for the abolition of ICE
Stand up for his constituents and The Constitution
That is the energy needed for this moment
bsky.app/profile/brad...
Put his body in the streets & call for the abolition of ICE
Stand up for his constituents and The Constitution
That is the energy needed for this moment
bsky.app/profile/brad...
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 17, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Seems like a good idea @governorwalz.mn.gov
A lot of people seem to agree with you, but I read it as a cautious attempt at harm reduction. There are freaking dire potential consequences to whatever he says
January 17, 2026 at 5:28 AM
A lot of people seem to agree with you, but I read it as a cautious attempt at harm reduction. There are freaking dire potential consequences to whatever he says
idk there's all this criticism but what do all y'all think Walz should be saying? srs question
'the bait' means harming the goons... surely nobody should be harming any goons, if they can help it? that would be the pretext for military escalation
'the bait' means harming the goons... surely nobody should be harming any goons, if they can help it? that would be the pretext for military escalation
βdonβt take the bait!!!β THEYβRE PEOPLE BEING TERRORIZED BY ARMED FEDERAL AGENTS, NOT TROUT
January 17, 2026 at 5:16 AM
idk there's all this criticism but what do all y'all think Walz should be saying? srs question
'the bait' means harming the goons... surely nobody should be harming any goons, if they can help it? that would be the pretext for military escalation
'the bait' means harming the goons... surely nobody should be harming any goons, if they can help it? that would be the pretext for military escalation
it's like he was on his way to the Atlantic and took a wrong turn somewhere, just a bummer for all concerned
January 17, 2026 at 5:05 AM
it's like he was on his way to the Atlantic and took a wrong turn somewhere, just a bummer for all concerned
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For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.
www.wired.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
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Same with DOGE β itβs so weird when people are Iike βgosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiencyβ rather than βlooks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroadβ
Decent story but infuriating that this is still being cast as a good-faith institution that failed to achieve its lofty goals rather than a fundamentally cynical right-wing project.
Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Same with DOGE β itβs so weird when people are Iike βgosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiencyβ rather than βlooks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroadβ
He needs to be impeached for crimes against the English language alone
Apparently the State Department, led Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, released a strategic plan. Goal 1 is U.S. National Sovereignty. Goal 2 is "The Western Hemisphere and Establishment of the Donroe Doctrine."
There's more, but take that in.
www.state.gov/agency-strat...
There's more, but take that in.
www.state.gov/agency-strat...
Agency Strategic Plan - United States Department of State
The Agency Strategic Plan sets forth the vision and direction for how the Department will implement U.S. foreign policy and foreign assistance.
www.state.gov
January 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
He needs to be impeached for crimes against the English language alone
I'm so sorry, that's awful... hope he can mend soon
January 17, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I'm so sorry, that's awful... hope he can mend soon
Save journalism and libraries with my friends
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 17, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Save journalism and libraries with my friends
I feel certain this will happen!
January 17, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I feel certain this will happen!
It's because, if they have to face that their friends and leaders are straight-up evil, they'll crack, their sense of self will come unmoored
They're not dumb iow they're trapped (I have a lot of family like this)
They're not dumb iow they're trapped (I have a lot of family like this)
Whenever I spent time on normie platforms (your threads, your Facebook), I become more and more convinced that a large part of our problem as a nation is the literacy crisis. People have trouble with basic reasoning. They can't follow very simple logic or compound sentences. It's disturbing.
January 17, 2026 at 1:09 AM
It's because, if they have to face that their friends and leaders are straight-up evil, they'll crack, their sense of self will come unmoored
They're not dumb iow they're trapped (I have a lot of family like this)
They're not dumb iow they're trapped (I have a lot of family like this)
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Hell Yeah, @flaminghydra.com keeps lapping the competition, if you're not subscribed, you might wanna change that
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January 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Tom's Back!!
Hell Yeah, @flaminghydra.com keeps lapping the competition, if you're not subscribed, you might wanna change that
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TODAY: some witchy new poetry from Carrie Frye π§ββοΈ flaminghydra.com/r/ad77c423?m...
Spellbound solitude
Carrie Frye with a sorceressβs lament; vote in the final HYDRANYM
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January 17, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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I already blocked them, but if I see any of you repost them to dunk, I will unfollow you. You are not a journalist, you are not diseminating important information. Do not give them one ounce of your attention. Nothing good can possibly come from that.
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@icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 17, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I already blocked them, but if I see any of you repost them to dunk, I will unfollow you. You are not a journalist, you are not diseminating important information. Do not give them one ounce of your attention. Nothing good can possibly come from that.
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the weirdest thing to me about this line of argument is that the signifiers that might be read as a "ferocious cultural revolution" -- the big metoo wave, geting rid of racist corporate logos, tearing down confederate statues -- all happened during the first trump administration!
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*βexcept in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
January 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
the weirdest thing to me about this line of argument is that the signifiers that might be read as a "ferocious cultural revolution" -- the big metoo wave, geting rid of racist corporate logos, tearing down confederate statues -- all happened during the first trump administration!
just watchin' it over and over
January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
just watchin' it over and over
Can we bring this back??? #abolishICE #minnesota #uspolitics #fyp
TikTok video by Alexa Sciuto
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January 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I love this piece
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I love this piece
could we have like sancerre saturday with someone I like? instead
January 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
could we have like sancerre saturday with someone I like? instead
Just imagining a big bonfire, one day, of every copy of Project 2025 that can be found
January 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Just imagining a big bonfire, one day, of every copy of Project 2025 that can be found
Still can't see how these anti-LGBTQ+ creepos claim to be into classics and some even forbid teaching Plato presumably because too gay???? ugh I don't care my gosh they are so dumb
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Still can't see how these anti-LGBTQ+ creepos claim to be into classics and some even forbid teaching Plato presumably because too gay???? ugh I don't care my gosh they are so dumb
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π₯ JUST NOW β Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social lights up complicit Republicans: βThose of us who escaped places like that, the one place we thought we would never experience this is the united Goddamn statesβ¦ I am ashamed. And we must do all we can to bring back the πΊπΈ we all escaped into.
January 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
π₯ JUST NOW β Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social lights up complicit Republicans: βThose of us who escaped places like that, the one place we thought we would never experience this is the united Goddamn statesβ¦ I am ashamed. And we must do all we can to bring back the πΊπΈ we all escaped into.
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A huge misconception bad animation fans have is that everything needs to be fluid and animated at 24+ frames at all times when animation can be wonderful at any budget or frame rate if you got amazing and well timed execution of your limited animation. Always a great example of how less is more.
From: The Tell-Tale Heart (1953), dir. Ted Parmelee, UPA
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
A huge misconception bad animation fans have is that everything needs to be fluid and animated at 24+ frames at all times when animation can be wonderful at any budget or frame rate if you got amazing and well timed execution of your limited animation. Always a great example of how less is more.