By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

5) explain how you will change tactics and keep working to achieve (1) and how voters can help

THIS IS INSANE. (both headlines are at the NYT site right now)

most recent email i have received is a guy who told me i should be lynched. looked him up and he is a 68/69-year-old retiree in phoenix who doesn't appear to be married or have children. his facebook page is nothing but reposted memes and AI slop and he used to post a lot on gun forums

Today at @flaminghydra.com the mighty @lauriewoolever.bsky.social talks with two leftists in Mexico City who were pretty surprised to receive a Michelin Star Super absorbing great talk flaminghydra.com/issue-497/#f...

Bracing, excellent reflections from @supremenothing.myatproto.social on how we know how to do more than we imagine I love it flaminghydra.com/issue-497/

Y'all I am so fuckin sad about this, for reals.

What on earth. No. wat Are these the words that I am reading. In order. "In an interview with David Remnick, Ben Shapiro."

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds." This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

"Natalia Bonanno’s family owns 200 apartment units"

Me, to husband: You found the cocoa, all by yourself, in the pantry?! Husband: I ran it to earth. Mercilessly.

How much they "save" by firing 300-odd reporters, I wonder

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau. @lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not. We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

U.S. Congress, hello! it's time for you to begin impeaching and removing every single person involved in this horrorshow. You will be universally beloved (with the exception of a few authoritarian gargoyles) when you get rid of them.

This Republican senator totally faceplanted in the 2024 SOTU response, and her misleading remarks were exposed by @katz.theracket.news flaminghydra.com/there-should... Now she is the subject of 3500+ fawning words in the New York Times

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Even if you don't know sports at all @parkermolloy.com has valuable perspectives to help you rise above these chaotic times, plus reflections on the Chicago Bears flaminghydra.com/issue-496/

Trump's fundraiser's firm became the top lobbying shop in D.C. and set a new revenue record, raking in millions from foreign clients. We took a close look at who they are (including some previously unreported details) and their wins from Trump's administration.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

I think this headline from 2019 holds up pretty well. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-presiden...

This is a good collection of Washington Post reactions, but a lot of people are missing the larger context. Smothering the Post IS a business decision, but the business in question is NOT the Post. The Post is being sacrificed to protect Bezos' other businesses: Blue Origin, Cloud Services, etc.

It IS

I've been really loving the Flaming Hydra subscription for this reason.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

"It’s worth noting that a rejection by CBS’s audience can and will be spun as proof that American discourse remains inhospitable to truth-telling mavericks like Weiss. That she has never been one hasn’t mattered yet. Maybe it never will." flaminghydra.com/cbs-breaking...

Even if you don't know sports at all @parkermolloy.com has valuable perspectives to help you rise above these chaotic times, plus reflections on the Chicago Bears flaminghydra.com/issue-496/

Leave it like this! Fall of empire! Wabi sabi! Don't fix a damn thing.

There may not be newspapers, but there are journalists, and so there can be journalism. It's the people paying attention who count

Never forget @katz.theracket.news by calling Britt out in her disastrous 2024 State of the Union. The newspapers have been failing for a long time flaminghydra.com/there-should...

compact, correct analysis of the situation at WaPo

what

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

Dreaming of the day I don't have to be so mad all the time.

We have daughters, you fucking monsters. Get out of public life.

The clarity of @attackerman.bsky.social on @wyden.senate.gov's cryptic public letter to Ratcliffe is something more journalists should be doing. Explaining stuff is important; explaining stuff you don't know but understanding the mechanics is just as important. www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Speaking of sportswriting, I wrote about Jose Mourinho’s aura dimming but how he still puts on a better show than almost anyone else flaminghydra.com/issue-495/?a...

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Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]

This is legit insane, it has never been 'not that abnormal' for an adult man to expose himself to a 14-year-old girl!!!!!! wtaf Polanski was *reviled* once the details of his gross misconduct were published

Corporate media is shoveling the nihilist message at you 24/7 but then (e.g.) the Kendrick Lamar halftime show, Sinners gets most Oscar noms, the Grammys, and the tidal wave of courage in Minneapolis and you realize wait! they're LYING, they've always been lying

oh boy. get a load of the participants, here heavens to murgatroyd.

LONDON — 🇬🇧 people put Elon’s email to Epstein up at a bus stop 👀 This is who we’re letting poison Memphis and drill a hole in Nashville? 🤔

He never learned to write so nobody else should either, I guess, so that they too will grow up to be a brain genius

the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.

Why isn’t everyone Republican legislator demanding Homeland Security explain why ICE is using force against US citizens? www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

I'm old enough to remember when privacy zealots were content to have Gawker killed off, not realizing--or perhaps not caring--that it was the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge. (This op-ed warning about that was prescient)

Well... my rageometer was already redlining in 2015 www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...