brynne ridley
Writer with too many dogs. I always thought the future would have more flying cars and less fascism. She/her
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyOK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
- Reposted by brynne ridleyIt’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?
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- There's an AskReddit thread tonight about "saddest celebrity deaths." Scrolled down until I saw Phil Hartman and realized that his murder was the first celebrity death I learned about on the internet rather than offline. Honestly overwhelming to reflect on how much the world has changed since then
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- Reposted by brynne ridleySilicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
- Reposted by brynne ridleyCrucial context for these people's plan for the future: every single bit of it is impossible nonsense, except the part where we all die. We actually need massive course corrections to keep sustaining human life as we know it, and all the "innovators" who could be working on that are against it.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyhow every dem elected official isn’t losing their damn mind right now is beyond me. they want to arrest all of you!!!!
- Reposted by brynne ridley"It’s reached the point where I spend more time engaging with undesirable, messy, uncreative, and soul-draining texts from Democratic strangers running for office than I do texts from friends and colleagues whom I actually know and like." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...
- Once again... WHO IS PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT? Because it isn't the guy people voted for.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyProtests right now against ICE in NYC
- Reposted by brynne ridleyMessage to ICE. Guess what? You’re the bad guys. You’ve become the American Gestapo. You’re all going to hell.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyone thought i have reading this (great) thread is that the administration has been proceeding as if there is no chance they will ever face a crisis or a sudden challenge, and has destroy its capacity to respond to one should it arise
- Reposted by brynne ridleyMajor airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyThe first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyNewark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey pix11.com/news/local-n...
- Reposted by brynne ridleyOn Feb. 18, 1943, Sophie and Hans Scholl to a suitcase full of leaflets to Munich University and quickly left stacks in hallways. Sophie flung a few remaining leaflets from the top floor down into the atrium. A maintenance man witnessed this spontaneous act and called the Gestapo. /4
- Reposted by brynne ridleythe thing that angers me the most is that i know my heart and my soul have been so hardened and damaged by the last decade that they’ll never fully recover. certain levels of peace and happiness just aren’t really available to me anymore and probably never will be again.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyHow are people seriously asking what Dems should do? Go there and demand the mayors release. The people who claim to understand MLK so well seem to be unclear on what he did. You go to the site of injustice and you demand justice.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyPer NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!
- Reposted by brynne ridleyUPDATE: Judge Sessions just entered a written order reaffirming his earlier order that Ozturk be immediately released without travel restrictions. Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.
- Reposted by brynne ridley[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen *refreshes feed* [The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
- Reposted by brynne ridleyI don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant
- Reposted by brynne ridleyThere’s no coming back from this.
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyWhatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyJust remembering how Erick Erickson called Justice Souter a “goat fucking child molester.” Just a reminder that Trumpists were freaks decades before Trump came down the escalator.
- "Everyone I Don't Like Is a Secret Trans" is the absolute weirdest and worst conspiracy theory I've ever encountered. These people's brains are 100% broken.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyOh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
- Reposted by brynne ridleyIt's just funny. Every cradle catholic I know is making pope jokes (I can't wait to see my mom this weekend), relieved the church didn't pick a nazi and shocked they picked an american. Meanwhile these dudes are losing their shit b/c his track record suggests he thinks immigrants are people
- Reposted by brynne ridleyWe got here because of Fox News and Bush II and Nixon and Reagan and Goldwater and Limbaugh.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyCybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyAmerican conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyme: I'm done with the pope posts conservatives: we are having the worst day of our lives, woke marxist pope will give your kids gun control & health care in their sleep me: I would like a few more pope posts
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyA Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyconsider, they picked whichever Pope would piss off Vance the most
- Reposted by brynne ridleyThe new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyLooks like the new Holy Father isn't a fan of JD Vance.
- I keep seeing people say CHICAGO POPE and hearing this in my head
- habemus papam
- new pope who dis
- Of all the things that have made me feel old, nothing has made me feel older than Jimmy Fallon, who incidentally is two years older than I am, gleefully introducing Shakira and Wyclef Jean for a "special 20th anniversary performance" of "Hips Don't Lie"
- Reposted by brynne ridleyWalz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future. And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.
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- Reposted by brynne ridleyPiers Morgan is a POS but man is this interview wild - based on the way her tone changes I don't think she realized the implications of what she said until after she said it. If you look closely you can see her realize she is absolutely cooked in real time.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyThis never ending performance of Thou Doth Protest Too Much is so tired. Just take a piss and shut the fuck up, Nancy. Ffs.
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- Reposted by brynne ridley“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
- Reposted by brynne ridleyMy Navy told me the Red Sea keeps swallowing its planes so I asked how many planes it has and it said it just goes to Lockheed Martin and gets a new plane afterwards so I said it sounds like it's just feeding planes to the Red Sea and the defense secretary started crying
