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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 7h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 9h

Please, tell me again how I'm wrong when I say that the GOP isn't just racist, they're genuinely fascist when they think no one is in the room with them.

I'm not paranoid: I just understand the GOP better than the people who tell me I'm wrong. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, you're right. Both are Maiar. But, between Galadriel and Morgoth, you're dealing with the two biggest players in all of Valinor / Middle Earth history. Gandalf didn't show up to Middle Earth until the late Second Age (by some sources) at the earliest.

Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 12h

Republicans have latched onto the talking point that "No Kings" and other protesters all "hate America". (Scalise said the exact same thing this morning at a presser).

It's telling though that in their world, anyone who disagrees with Trump and the GOP "hates America": disagreement is treason.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 22h

Sitting with Merry and Pippin was my second choice. If it's a trans Pacific flight to New Zealand, we're going to get LIT.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 22h

I'm taking seat 7: the only two beings on the flight who could describe the light of the two trees of Valinor, having witnessed them personally (one as a young elf, and the other as a Maiar lieutenant to the Valar Melkor aka Morgoth).

Yes, I read the Silmarillion.

Twice.

I am that sicko.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkably level headed, objective article. Well done. It mirrors a lot of my thinking.

Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 1d

Except, for trans people, it may be even worse than the US (for now, they haven't started rounding people up and putting them in "mental institutions" with barbed wire like Rep Mace and Jackson have been pushing for)

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 1d

Why not both? Weiss is likely to going to fail spectacularly by being wildly unqualified, unlikable, and pushing opinions that revolt CBS News core viewing audience, while turning it into a shill for baseless conservative talking points.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 2d

Meh. Why would they need to resort to shennanigans worse than re-districting when the courts have already allowed Trump to bypass Congress anyway? They're successfully consolidated all the power with the executive branch and a captured supreme court.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who thinks the US will have free and fair elections in 2028 is deluding themselves. apnews.com/article/domi...

Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

apnews.com

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 3d

Minty cigarettes are a flavored tobacco. Why are you being pedantic?

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 3d

Any time I see a referendum that claims to be about protecting business it immediately tells me that it's sketchy.

In this case, they're trying to get rid of the ban on flavored tobacco products.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 4d

Mom! Can we have Lancet?

No dear, we already have Lancet at home.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 5d

Ask the same question, but without the 1 to 1 currency conversion. Bet the Gez number hoes way down.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 5d

You're both right. Kind of glad I probably won't be around to see it.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful! Today on Gabriola island:

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman." www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-2...

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," acco...

www.rawstory.com

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6d

More a Germany or Soviet Union. Freedom of speech exists on paper and in theory, but not in practice.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6d

The list goes on and on. (I need to write a full article about it). The GOP is governing like a party that never expects to face a competitive election again, and when you look at all the options they have on the table, yeah, that's a reasonable assumption on their parts.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6d

Have you thought about all the ways the GOP can ensure that a Democrat will never be sworn in as President ever again?

Local and state election boards nullifying elections and throwing it to the house, Refusing to certify the election in the House and Senate, Vance refuses to do a Pence, etc...

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6d

Uh-huh. And you think voting will work? Sorry, but we passed the event horizon on January 20th, and about all I can do is convince people of that fact. Maybe the US will disintegrate, and some people will still get to live in a democracy with rights, instead of none of us.

That's the BEST case.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6d

Eventually, the system breaks as people, and the pro-bono legal agencies out there, don't have the money or lawyers left to defend everyone. We've seen people obeying in advance all the time, and taking the much easier route is just human nature.

You think Trump won't intimidate defense law firms?

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 6d

Justices failing to uphold Trump's interpretation of inciting a riot? That's inciting a riot.

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