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On fire and hard to kill. A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday.
- Weekend read: a Q&A with Flaming Hydra contributor Jonathan Katz about Senator Katie Britt's lies and misrepresentations during her State of the Union response. Katz made a TikTok fact-checking her claims, which quickly went viral:
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- Hell fucking yeah Chris HayesI have been loving my subscription to Flaming Hydra, a collective of writers publishing quirky, smart, moving, provocative writing every day. This essay is a great example of one of my favorite genres and so hard to pull off. Pop philosophy. flaminghydra.com/how-is-it-so-b…
- Replying to @itsflaminghydra and @gabrielsnyderALSO TODAY: @annamerlan on finally climbing into the media layoffs barrel and being fired directly into the sun
- TODAY: @RaxKingIsDead on reluctant and apparently lifelong Guy Ritchie fandom. “It’s as if Guy Ritchie is our son and we have no choice but to attend all his recitals, no matter how dreadful.” flaminghydra.com/issue-82/?attr… flaminghydra.com/r/b5d83b1c?m=1…
- TODAY: @arwam on living a "productive" life during a genocide. "Everything feels indecent. Writing emails, walking the dog, watching spring flowers bloom, buying groceries, living a normal life."
- TODAY: @modernistwitch on reunion shows, screamo and the nostalgia cycle flaminghydra.com/r/44740672?m=1…
- TODAY: A story on the heartbreaking loss of a piece of blues history from @shujaxhaider and a gorgeous piece from cultural critic, editor and curator Dessane Lopez Cassell on the rituals and ecstatic beauty of nightlife, music, the dancefloor and The Club:
- Replying to @itsflaminghydra
- TODAY: Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu on the long, slow, strangled death of the necktie, and who gets to dress like total shit and get away with it
- That's us. We're the idiosyncraticfor @studyhallxyz, I profiled Flaming Hydra, a new idiosyncratic writing community. studyhall.xyz/free-newslette…
- TODAY, from @CAAF : why did a high-profile journalist scrap his book on the O.J. trial after sitting through the whole thing? “There is no book,” he wrote. “At least not one I can write.”
- TODAY: our fearless founder @mariabustillos on the future of media, which is, fun fact, journalist-run outlets like ours:
