Star Bustamonte

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News correspondent for The Wild Hunt, co-host of The 4:15, and co-owner of House of Black Cat Magic.

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Someone in San Antonio, TX reached out to me today because she has a sweet, magical boy with FIV who desperately needs a home ASAP. In fact, he's so sweet that his name is Sweet Boy. Look at that face - he obviously just wants love! 💔 (continued with more info)

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Best bang for your buck:

If you want to donate to candidates who 1) will spend like 0.1% of a presidential candidate and 2) are doing their best to win, these 6 state legislative campaigns need donations the most right now app.oath.vote/donate?p=tsp...

OATHapp.oath.vote Your one-stop-shop for political giving

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This is galling: Media accounts are noting that both Trump and Dems are attacking the other as a grave threat to democracy. But Dems base this on what Trump and his allies *say in their own words.* Trump makes shit up. Media isn't making this clear. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivotnewrepublic.com Donald Trump’s idea of unity: Everybody just needs to unify around putting him above the law. The media must resist getting played by his scam.

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A bit of sanity in the midst of all the crazy. If you’re not signed up for the good professor’s Substack, you need to fix that.

Some thoughts on the frenetic firehose that is the 2024 presidential race at CAMPAIGN TRAILS. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Conventional Wisdomopen.substack.com I’m on the road this week, taking my daughter to visit some colleges, but given this week’s insane flurry of activity in the presidential campaign, I’ll try to post when I can. First and foremost, let...

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"There is only one major political party using and condoning and enabling violent rhetoric. Just one. It’s the Republican Party." READ: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/control-gu...

Control Guns, Not Girlscharlotteclymer.substack.com It's that simple.

This is really awful. We've used them for our business and we will not be continuing to do so. If anyone has suggests for who to use at a comparable cost, please post in the comments.

*sigh* Time to find a new sticker manufacturer.

If you are wondering how we got here, and think nothing like the threats to democracy we are currently seeing have ever happened before, you might want to examine the events in the U.S. during the 1930s and the lead up to the U.S. entering into WWII.

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The rapid response cartoon that ate my Sunday. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Cartoon: Our top storywww.dailykos.com As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...

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New essay - what to make of the theft of a "legendary medieval sword disappearing after 1300 years in solid rock!" that made international news headlines. Answer: None of it is true. And that's the interesting bit about myth and the Middle Ages. buttondown.email/ModernMediev...

Roland's Sword: Nostalgia, Tourism, Epic Poetrybuttondown.email A disappearing sword and some tall tales

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The Perseids meteor shower begins tonight and will last until September 1st, with the peak of the cosmic display on August 12th. This year’s peak will be especially worth making time to see, as we will have a moon-less sky during the pre-dawn hours. wildhunt.org/2024/07/2024... #science #astronomy

2024’s meteor season promises to be spectacularwildhunt.org The Perseids meteor shower begins tonight and will last until September 1st, with the peak of the cosmic display on August 12th. This year's peak will be especially worth making time to see, as we wil...

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They're making my fucking head hurt.

They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.

Book about book bans banned by Florida school boardwww.theguardian.com Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

www.houseofblackcatmagic.com/blog-2 Recent mews-ings from House of Black Cat Magic

Blog — House of Black Cat Magicwww.houseofblackcatmagic.com

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The Party of Limited Government

Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution

Golly, do you think all of those visits might have something to do with the pending Parkinson's Act that he has since signed into law? You know, that Biden might want to speak with an expert before signing it? Shocking.

I suspect the NYT just scraped it from Jonathan Levine at the NY Post—and who knows where in the fever swamps he dug it up. nypost.com/2024/07/06/u...

President Biden's physician met with Parkinson's disease specialist...nypost.com "It’s highly likely they were talking about Biden," said former White House Doctor Ronny Jackson.

Excellent editorial from The Wild Hunt. wildhunt.org/2024/07/edit...

Editorial: Project 2025 dismantles the Great Society and establishes Christian Hegemonywildhunt.org Concern about Project 2025 is widespread; the hype is that it is a playbook for undermining our freedoms and suppressing dissent. For the folks looking ahead to a long editorial and looking for the TL...

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Please help these very tall long skinny cats.

I just got an email from my local greyhound rescue that Caliente, the dog track at Tijuana, is closing. If you're in southern California and thought about a retired racer this might be a great time to reach out to an adoption group. Retired track dogs make awesome pets.

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

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Life at House of Black Cat Magic delivers hilarity on a regular basis. Here’s the first segment of “What even was that?” www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREfQBjY/

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forgot his birthday on June 25th but I think it’s important to stop and acknowledge it. man, I miss him.

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Today's newsletter is about the packaging and repackaging of information www.readtpa.com/p/packaged-a...

Packaged and Repackagedwww.readtpa.com With fewer journalists, where is our information coming from?

So this happened to my friend on Saturday. People are becoming increasingly unhinged. www.tiktok.com/@theoriginal...

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The beginning of June, the 2nd season of Rachel Maddow's podcast "Ultra" dropped. After listening to the first few episodes available, I decided to go back and listen to the 1st season again which was released in 2022. 🧵

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Anyway, I'd like to thank Snopes for their supremacist-exonerative bullshit, which so brilliantly illustrates my premise, right on cue. VERY FINE PEOPLE is out today, available wherever books are sold. It's about the exonerative lies we tell ourselves. We? Me. www.the-reframe.com/vfp-e-book-n...

Very Fine People - Print and eBook Preorders Now Availablewww.the-reframe.com eBook format of VERY FINE PEOPLE is now available for presale in all the eBook format places. Also a few more paragraphs on what it means for a book to "perform."

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"If a protest doesn’t yield greater support for its corresponding cause, it is not successful, and we are doing ourselves no favors when our protests for righteous causes center ego over outreach, clicks and views over results, and self over service." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/these-clim...

These Climate Protests Really Suckcharlotteclymer.substack.com They're pretty terrible.

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verrrrryyyyy negative 😡 https://bsky.app/profile/bloomberg.com/post/3kvhn6iizjm2s

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systemswww.bloomberg.com New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

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If you have an interest in history & politics, Maddow has produced a second season of her podcast, "Ultra." If you are not familiar with it, you should give it a listen. It may be history, but is very relevant. link.chtbl.com/rmpust_scl

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultralink.chtbl.com As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’...