Brendan Tynan
@akaichar.bsky.social
Brendanesque. Writer, customer service drone, nerd.
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Happy Monday, Everyone! Looking Forward To Another Week Of Infecting Every Aspect Of Your Daily Lives! https://theonion.com/happy-monday-everyone-looking-forward-to-another-week-1819769158/
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy Monday, Everyone! Looking Forward To Another Week Of Infecting Every Aspect Of Your Daily Lives! https://theonion.com/happy-monday-everyone-looking-forward-to-another-week-1819769158/
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I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically
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Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
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Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.
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I have now seen it and I have to say the hallmark of this era for me is that I expect the worse from him at all times, just the worst humanity has to offer, but I am never capable of anticipating the weird and inhuman way he will choose to be the worst.
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I have now seen it and I have to say the hallmark of this era for me is that I expect the worse from him at all times, just the worst humanity has to offer, but I am never capable of anticipating the weird and inhuman way he will choose to be the worst.
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Who could even argue. Good, fine work by the dictionary people
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Who could even argue. Good, fine work by the dictionary people
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instead of reposting that horrible screenshot of that horrible man's post, consider sharing the incredible stories about what sweet, thoughtful man Rob Reiner was and flooding the feed with them
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
instead of reposting that horrible screenshot of that horrible man's post, consider sharing the incredible stories about what sweet, thoughtful man Rob Reiner was and flooding the feed with them
Look, I don't know how to explain that this man is a fucking bad person without pointing out that if you don't see it you are also a bad person.
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Look, I don't know how to explain that this man is a fucking bad person without pointing out that if you don't see it you are also a bad person.
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
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The Erika Kirk v. Candace Owens feud isn't just juicy.
It's a sign that the MAGA movement is destabilizing, especially as Trump gets weaker.
It's also a story of how the GOP ceded leadership to greedy influencers, and now that's backfiring.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
It's a sign that the MAGA movement is destabilizing, especially as Trump gets weaker.
It's also a story of how the GOP ceded leadership to greedy influencers, and now that's backfiring.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
The Erika Kirk and Candace Owens feud is tearing MAGA apart
The widow vs. the podcaster drama reveals the right's biggest weakness
www.salon.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Erika Kirk v. Candace Owens feud isn't just juicy.
It's a sign that the MAGA movement is destabilizing, especially as Trump gets weaker.
It's also a story of how the GOP ceded leadership to greedy influencers, and now that's backfiring.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
It's a sign that the MAGA movement is destabilizing, especially as Trump gets weaker.
It's also a story of how the GOP ceded leadership to greedy influencers, and now that's backfiring.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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On the eve of the Sandy Hook anniversary, there has been another campus shooting. This time at Brown University.
To the people in power: this is your legacy.
Thirteen years. Thirteen years of dead children, traumatized students, shattered families — while you stall, deflect, and do nothing.
To the people in power: this is your legacy.
Thirteen years. Thirteen years of dead children, traumatized students, shattered families — while you stall, deflect, and do nothing.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
On the eve of the Sandy Hook anniversary, there has been another campus shooting. This time at Brown University.
To the people in power: this is your legacy.
Thirteen years. Thirteen years of dead children, traumatized students, shattered families — while you stall, deflect, and do nothing.
To the people in power: this is your legacy.
Thirteen years. Thirteen years of dead children, traumatized students, shattered families — while you stall, deflect, and do nothing.
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No worries, I asked again
December 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
No worries, I asked again
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"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
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If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
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That’s why it’s like dating a republican to me. Sure you might not personally be the one saying the slurs, but it sure as hell isn’t a dealbreaker for you when someone else does it.
over the past like five years, I’ve had to argue with people that there is no longer any plausible deniability when expressing how much you like harry potter shit. so much of her shit is in the public consciousness that continuing to support it just Sends a Message
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That’s why it’s like dating a republican to me. Sure you might not personally be the one saying the slurs, but it sure as hell isn’t a dealbreaker for you when someone else does it.
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1. I never want to hear about “we’re protecting the kids” again from people like Riley Gaines.
Nicki Minaj is marred to a registered sex offender who served time in prison for attempted rape of a teenage girl.
Nicki Minaj is marred to a registered sex offender who served time in prison for attempted rape of a teenage girl.
December 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
1. I never want to hear about “we’re protecting the kids” again from people like Riley Gaines.
Nicki Minaj is marred to a registered sex offender who served time in prison for attempted rape of a teenage girl.
Nicki Minaj is marred to a registered sex offender who served time in prison for attempted rape of a teenage girl.
After giving it a rematch, I honestly don't get the folks who disliked season 4 of the Bear.
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
After giving it a rematch, I honestly don't get the folks who disliked season 4 of the Bear.
Gotta love all the "Oh no Gainax is dead" slopposts as if Gainax the studio didn't stop existing like a decade ago and as if their creative staff hadn't moved to Khara and Trigger at the same time.
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Gotta love all the "Oh no Gainax is dead" slopposts as if Gainax the studio didn't stop existing like a decade ago and as if their creative staff hadn't moved to Khara and Trigger at the same time.
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Sorry to put this on the TL, but please do not transcribe this as “sycophant.” He audibly says “syncophant” because he does not really know the word or what it means. To pretend he said a word whose meaning he does not know is carrying water for him. “Syncophant [sic]” is how you transcribe this
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Sorry to put this on the TL, but please do not transcribe this as “sycophant.” He audibly says “syncophant” because he does not really know the word or what it means. To pretend he said a word whose meaning he does not know is carrying water for him. “Syncophant [sic]” is how you transcribe this