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
What about the ICE BUCKET, Chuck
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
What about the ICE BUCKET, Chuck
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Fame, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to shape history, to see the truth and to tell the truth: the dimensions of ambition are vast and contradictory
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
Fortunate man / Despairing diversion
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
flaminghydra.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Fame, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to shape history, to see the truth and to tell the truth: the dimensions of ambition are vast and contradictory
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
Yes I'm aware but as you say, "it amounts to the same": NO SINGING
They are so gross!! People should not be watched by a camera all day!! this is entirely inhumane!!!
wow I hate them so much.
They are so gross!! People should not be watched by a camera all day!! this is entirely inhumane!!!
wow I hate them so much.
my brother is an amazon driver atm and NOT TO DEFEND AMAZON LOL but it's because the cameras are monitoring for talking on the phone, not singing. it amounts to the same but it's not a specific policy or rule against singing, it's more like because AI sucks and can't tell the difference haha
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 19, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Yes I'm aware but as you say, "it amounts to the same": NO SINGING
They are so gross!! People should not be watched by a camera all day!! this is entirely inhumane!!!
wow I hate them so much.
They are so gross!! People should not be watched by a camera all day!! this is entirely inhumane!!!
wow I hate them so much.
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Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni.
Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.
January 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
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National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
I love it SO MUCH I have one (1) micro-spoiler for you:
it's perfect all the way through
didn't even know there'd been a retread
it's perfect all the way through
didn't even know there'd been a retread
Watching the original, UK version of “Life on Mars” and it’s fantastic. I actually liked the US adaptation of it but it doesn’t hold a candle to this. And I’m just four eps in so don’t spoiler anything even if the show is 20 years old lol
January 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I love it SO MUCH I have one (1) micro-spoiler for you:
it's perfect all the way through
didn't even know there'd been a retread
it's perfect all the way through
didn't even know there'd been a retread
there weren't any legs
At what point does losing 77 billion dollars impact a business? The global box office for all movies, put together, in total, all movies everywhere in 2025 was 33.5 billion dollars. He lost more than double that on “legs”
The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
January 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
there weren't any legs
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I am in the uncomfortable position of now wanting to hear from Mogg again, specifically about this gem.
January 18, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I am in the uncomfortable position of now wanting to hear from Mogg again, specifically about this gem.
This is appalling. Who is "some"??? People who like fascists?!
January 18, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is appalling. Who is "some"??? People who like fascists?!
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Nothing says strength like having to tell people how super strong you are.
Bessent on Greenland: "Peace through strength. Make it part of the US and there will not be a conflict because the US right now, we're the hottest country in the world, we're the strongest country in the world. Europeans project weakness. The US projects strength."
January 18, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Nothing says strength like having to tell people how super strong you are.
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NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.
January 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.
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If only US Democratic Party leaders had this strong impression of the failure of 1930s appeasement
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
January 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
If only US Democratic Party leaders had this strong impression of the failure of 1930s appeasement
If the true goal is to destroy Western power, culture, politics, and alliances, these moves make all the sense in the world
Viewed through this prism, Trump's every move has been 100% consistent since July 2016
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Viewed through this prism, Trump's every move has been 100% consistent since July 2016
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
January 18, 2026 at 1:44 PM
If the true goal is to destroy Western power, culture, politics, and alliances, these moves make all the sense in the world
Viewed through this prism, Trump's every move has been 100% consistent since July 2016
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Viewed through this prism, Trump's every move has been 100% consistent since July 2016
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
More nonsensical than Edward Lear's descriptions of the hills of the Chankly Bore
When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.
January 18, 2026 at 11:50 AM
More nonsensical than Edward Lear's descriptions of the hills of the Chankly Bore
Watching Stephen Miller's all-consuming desire for respect and authority shrivel into a tiny raisin of failure every time he appears in public is a nice feeling
Borders expert here! This ia a steaming pile of horseshit.
January 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Watching Stephen Miller's all-consuming desire for respect and authority shrivel into a tiny raisin of failure every time he appears in public is a nice feeling
"Possibly" means they're testing the water, call your congresspeople
They are going to do it.
It's all to set up martial law.
War against Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It's all to set up martial law.
War against Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say
Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:45 AM
"Possibly" means they're testing the water, call your congresspeople
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This Tuesday, Jan. 20, we encourage people across the country to walk out and lobby their congressional offices in their districts.
Demand that Congress advance articles of impeachment against Trump and senior Trump officials for multiple abuses of power.
citizensimpeachment.com/january-20th...
Demand that Congress advance articles of impeachment against Trump and senior Trump officials for multiple abuses of power.
citizensimpeachment.com/january-20th...
January 17, 2026 at 3:55 PM
This Tuesday, Jan. 20, we encourage people across the country to walk out and lobby their congressional offices in their districts.
Demand that Congress advance articles of impeachment against Trump and senior Trump officials for multiple abuses of power.
citizensimpeachment.com/january-20th...
Demand that Congress advance articles of impeachment against Trump and senior Trump officials for multiple abuses of power.
citizensimpeachment.com/january-20th...
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“Sherburne County sent her back to Fort Snelling, and Fort Snelling released her yesterday after we talked to her attorney, (a federal public defender). I said, ‘(They’ve) been holding onto a U.S. citizen for over 48 hours. What’s the deal?’ He said, 'Everyone I know has resigned.'”
HOME FREE: Nasra Ahmed, 23, a St. Paul woman and U.S. citizen who was born in Minnesota, was released to her family without charges on Friday night after being detained by federal immigration enforcement agents and spending more than two days in detention. www.twincities.com/2026/01/17/s...
January 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“Sherburne County sent her back to Fort Snelling, and Fort Snelling released her yesterday after we talked to her attorney, (a federal public defender). I said, ‘(They’ve) been holding onto a U.S. citizen for over 48 hours. What’s the deal?’ He said, 'Everyone I know has resigned.'”
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European governments are also using #Palantir products. Will they be using ELITE as well? Maybe this would be a good moment for all European governments to come clean about their ties with palantir. And cut them.
“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,”
Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
www.eff.org
January 17, 2026 at 10:03 PM
European governments are also using #Palantir products. Will they be using ELITE as well? Maybe this would be a good moment for all European governments to come clean about their ties with palantir. And cut them.
Do they go in a teensy submarine with Raquel Welch
join a dedicated team of psychonauts as they venture deep into the mind of David Brooks.
Oh hell yes
January 17, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Do they go in a teensy submarine with Raquel Welch
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a hot take: there is real overlap between spanberger’s first set of executive orders and mamdani’s www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
Money, Education, Immigration: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed 10 executive orders
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed 10 executive orders on her first day, targeting cost of living, healthcare, housing and education issues.
www.wtvr.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
a hot take: there is real overlap between spanberger’s first set of executive orders and mamdani’s www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
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See no evil
Some advice from Ian Williams
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January 17, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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I'm not sure the author of this piece ever worked a service job before, because getting the authority to say "get the fuck out right now" to a visitor that's annoying the shit out of people is one of the rare joys of a service job
The general theme of this commentary is "stop asking MN companies to ban ICE from their properties." The argument is that enforcing the ban would fall to individual low-paid employees, who would be placed in danger.
tcbmag.com/should-busin...
tcbmag.com/should-busin...
January 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I'm not sure the author of this piece ever worked a service job before, because getting the authority to say "get the fuck out right now" to a visitor that's annoying the shit out of people is one of the rare joys of a service job