Flaming Hydra

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A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.

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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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Who's your crawdaddy / Games overflaminghydra.com Today: A.J. Daulerio, editor, journalist and the proprietor of The Small Bow; and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism, and The Racket newsletter. Issue No. 111 Consider the Mexican ...

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this hits home

ALSO TODAY: @katzonearth.bsky.social on the ways that life and time have crowded out the place where his obsessive love of sports used to be flaminghydra.com/when-the-che...

When the Cheering Stopsflaminghydra.com by Jonathan M. Katz I miss sports. No, that doesn’t really cover it. I have a gaping sports-sized hole in my life. In my psyche. My calendar used to rotate around the annual cycle of seasons and ...

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Made me laugh out loud so many times, @julisneider.bsky.social kept asking what was happening. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com!

TODAY: A.J. Daulerio on sharing his family’s home with an increasingly bloodthirsty “mini lobster” flaminghydra.com/r/b278cbcc?m...

Who's your crawdaddy / Games overflaminghydra.com Today: A.J. Daulerio, editor, journalist and the proprietor of The Small Bow; and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism, and The Racket newsletter. Issue No. 111 Consider the Mexican ...

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TODAY: A.J. Daulerio on sharing his family’s home with an increasingly bloodthirsty “mini lobster” flaminghydra.com/r/b278cbcc?m...

Who's your crawdaddy / Games overflaminghydra.com Today: A.J. Daulerio, editor, journalist and the proprietor of The Small Bow; and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism, and The Racket newsletter. Issue No. 111 Consider the Mexican ...

TODAY: A.J. Daulerio on sharing his family’s home with an increasingly bloodthirsty “mini lobster” flaminghydra.com/r/b278cbcc?m...

Who's your crawdaddy / Games overflaminghydra.com Today: A.J. Daulerio, editor, journalist and the proprietor of The Small Bow; and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism, and The Racket newsletter. Issue No. 111 Consider the Mexican ...

TODAY: A.J. Daulerio on sharing his family’s home with an increasingly bloodthirsty “mini lobster” flaminghydra.com/r/b278cbcc?m...

Who's your crawdaddy / Games overflaminghydra.com Today: A.J. Daulerio, editor, journalist and the proprietor of The Small Bow; and Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism, and The Racket newsletter. Issue No. 111 Consider the Mexican ...

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FLAMING HYDRA: WE WHIP ASS

I haven't mentioned that @flaminghydra.com whips ass recently, I apologize to everyone but mostly to Flaming Hydra for this error. Yesterday and today's editions were real fuckin' bangers too.

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Flaming Hydra is a great collective and just $3 flaminghydra.com

I'm interested in this too. Any recommendations? Are there any journalist owned cooperatives or something like that people would recommend? @sesmith.bsky.social @brooklynmarie.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com @katzonearth.bsky.social @radleybalko.bsky.social I like these journos and trust y'all's recs!

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Alright motherfuckers who's next on the list of journalist-run, journalist-owned media organs that I should support? Because fuck the New York Times.

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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.

S.O.S. (Support Our Serpent) is what I am saying. Send a lot, please, the more you send over the better and stronger we can make this journalism cooperative: Bring more writers in, hold live events, launch a print publication... protect press freedom. flaminghydra.com/donate

CONTRIBUTEflaminghydra.com One-time direct donations to keep the FLAMING HYDRA collective alive and multiplying

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Caitlin Clark is the modality in which class gets lived in the WNBA flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

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Check to make sure you're not around any open gas lines when you click this link, because @tcraggs22.bsky.social drops some fire about the WNBA, Caitlin Clark, and class in this @flaminghydra.com piece: flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

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worth the price of admission just for the receipts on 90s basketball media ("the young Black son of an NBA player was toddling onto the cover of Sports Illustrated beneath the question, 'WHERE’S DADDY?,'”) flaminghydra.com/who-made-cai...

Who Made Caitlin Clark a Good White Girl?flaminghydra.com by Tommy Craggs It was something like five years before she was born that the moral panic over Caitlin Clark began. This was 1997, the year the WNBA debuted. The NBA was bleeding from the teeth to lo...

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S.O.S. (Support Our Serpent) is what I am saying. Send a lot, please, the more you send over the better and stronger we can make this journalism cooperative: Bring more writers in, hold live events, launch a print publication... protect press freedom. flaminghydra.com/donate

Now is the time to support corporate-free, ad-free, journalist-owned media flaminghydra.com

CONTRIBUTEflaminghydra.com One-time direct donations to keep the FLAMING HYDRA collective alive and multiplying

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Do not miss @ositanwanevu.bsky.social on the deep and abiding societal value of the dumbest internet slang PLUS dare to play the terrifying game of preserving luscious fruits, with @littlewow.bsky.social another brilliant adventure from @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-109/

Changing lingo / Preserving fruitflaminghydra.com Today: Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist at The Guardian; and Jennie Rose Halperin, digital strategist and librarian at NYU's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law an...

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A banger from @tcraggs22.bsky.social today, "Who Made Caitlin Clark a Good White Girl?" plus a sweet treat from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

FLAMING HYDRA: WE WHIP ASS

I haven't mentioned that @flaminghydra.com whips ass recently, I apologize to everyone but mostly to Flaming Hydra for this error. Yesterday and today's editions were real fuckin' bangers too.

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I haven't mentioned that @flaminghydra.com whips ass recently, I apologize to everyone but mostly to Flaming Hydra for this error. Yesterday and today's editions were real fuckin' bangers too.

What a beautiful steamy day to stay indoors and subscribe to flaminghydra.com ! 3 a month. All killer no filler.

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TODAY: @tcraggs22.bsky.social with a scorcher on the WNBA, Caitlin Clark, and a racialized moral panic about the "classy" kind of basketball player that began long before she was even born. flaminghydra.com/r/b3760a99?m...

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

What a beautiful steamy day to stay indoors and subscribe to flaminghydra.com ! 3 a month. All killer no filler.

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i feel very seen especially the last line - if a recipe says 4 hours, plan for 7. the good shit from @flaminghydra.com as always

ALSO TODAY: @littlewow.bsky.social with home canning tips, but not in an insane tradwife way or a trapped in your house Covid way flaminghydra.com/issue-109/#j...

Changing lingo / Preserving fruitflaminghydra.com Today: Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist at The Guardian; and Jennie Rose Halperin, digital strategist and librarian at NYU's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law an...

TODAY: @ositanwanevu.bsky.social with the tea on what the kids are getting up to online, and the extreme anxiety the adults are experiencing about their slang terms flaminghydra.com/issue-109/#g...

Changing lingo / Preserving fruitflaminghydra.com Today: Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist at The Guardian; and Jennie Rose Halperin, digital strategist and librarian at NYU's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law an...

TODAY: I promise we didn't forget

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Read FLAMING HYDRA it is so freakin good. Also support real (not corporate controlled teachers' pet) media!! For $3/month WOTTA STEAL flaminghydra.com/subscribe

Happy Saturday, hopefully you are spending it at the beach or under a cool damp rock. Here is a THREAD of all the great stories we published this week:

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Palestinian writer Moh Telbani at @flaminghydra.com wrote about life in Egypt after fleeing Gaza with his wife and kids My piece (in the same issue) is a Cruise Ship Essay. These are free to read. Please support independent journalism and subscribe to Flaming Hydra flaminghydra.com/issue-105/

Floating dissatisfaction / Exile in Egyptflaminghydra.com Today: Editor and journalist Maria Bustillos; and Moh Telbani, a writer living in Egypt. Issue No. 105 My Boat Essay Maria Bustillos Life Outside (and Inside) Gaza Moh Telbani My Boat Essay by ...

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After a busy long weekend with aunt's wedding and lots of time with extended family it is finally time for this week's @flaminghydra.com ‼️‼️‼️ And I know it's gonna be be good because it always is!!! $3 a month! Get on it!

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This was a great read for LA locals and journalism nerds alike!

And finally! k.e. harloe on journalists getting fucking P-A-I-D, in conversation with Matt Tinoco, journalist and co-founder of a new indie news sight for Los Angeles flaminghydra.com/pay-the-jour...

Pay the Journalists For the Journalismflaminghydra.com A Q&A with Matt Tinoco of LA Public Press

Happy Saturday, hopefully you are spending it at the beach or under a cool damp rock. Here is a THREAD of all the great stories we published this week: