Andy Brining
@andybrining.bsky.social
Afficionado of cats, comics, and most any art made by conventional means.
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction at a restaurant and was taken to the hospital but is doing ok
Apparently she ordered the Habeas Corpus and didn’t realize it contained due process
which didn’t agree with her
Apparently she ordered the Habeas Corpus and didn’t realize it contained due process
which didn’t agree with her
June 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction at a restaurant and was taken to the hospital but is doing ok
Apparently she ordered the Habeas Corpus and didn’t realize it contained due process
which didn’t agree with her
Apparently she ordered the Habeas Corpus and didn’t realize it contained due process
which didn’t agree with her
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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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Cancel culture isn't new; we've always had it. We literally write essays about it in high school for the Scarlet fucking Letter. What changed recently is who we cancel - we no longer cancel you for for being queer, using drugs, divorcing & remarrying, but for being abusive, hateful, or a sex pest.
June 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Cancel culture isn't new; we've always had it. We literally write essays about it in high school for the Scarlet fucking Letter. What changed recently is who we cancel - we no longer cancel you for for being queer, using drugs, divorcing & remarrying, but for being abusive, hateful, or a sex pest.
I can hear this cover in my head. The moment when an entire arena is brought nearly silent only for a few precious seconds before the cacophony rises again to meet the action.
Art by Daniel Warren Johnson, a cover for his Do A Powerbomb! serialized OGN.
Art by Daniel Warren Johnson, a cover for his Do A Powerbomb! serialized OGN.
June 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I can hear this cover in my head. The moment when an entire arena is brought nearly silent only for a few precious seconds before the cacophony rises again to meet the action.
Art by Daniel Warren Johnson, a cover for his Do A Powerbomb! serialized OGN.
Art by Daniel Warren Johnson, a cover for his Do A Powerbomb! serialized OGN.
I can't wait to read the headlines about the DoJ arresting a Trump appointed judge in Texas for being too liberal.
May 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I can't wait to read the headlines about the DoJ arresting a Trump appointed judge in Texas for being too liberal.
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Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
April 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
Trump saved the economy (from himself)!
April 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump saved the economy (from himself)!
The pretext is that these tariffs are the result of a complex international commerce dispute, but the actual text is just a Chat GPT spouted formula that's never been applied to tariffs - ever, but the subtext is that it's really just a worldwide extortion scheme.
April 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The pretext is that these tariffs are the result of a complex international commerce dispute, but the actual text is just a Chat GPT spouted formula that's never been applied to tariffs - ever, but the subtext is that it's really just a worldwide extortion scheme.
This has big "zero new cases by the end of the month" energy.
Lutnick on CBS: "You're going to see employment leaping starting today."
April 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This has big "zero new cases by the end of the month" energy.
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From talking with people I still don't get any sense that the public truly understands the rolling, concussive systemic failures coming due to the dismantling of all corporate oversight, regulatory autonomy, labor rights, consumer protection, and the social safety net
this summer will be...hot
this summer will be...hot
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
From talking with people I still don't get any sense that the public truly understands the rolling, concussive systemic failures coming due to the dismantling of all corporate oversight, regulatory autonomy, labor rights, consumer protection, and the social safety net
this summer will be...hot
this summer will be...hot
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I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
March 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
Congrats to Chuck Schumer on figuring out how to get the entire Dem base absolutely livid at someone other than Trump or Musk.
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Congrats to Chuck Schumer on figuring out how to get the entire Dem base absolutely livid at someone other than Trump or Musk.
Fucking Democrats. I should have known Schumer didn't have the stomach for a fight.
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Fucking Democrats. I should have known Schumer didn't have the stomach for a fight.
Mahmoud Khalil is a weather balloon. If they can get away with trampling his civil rights in the name of whatever boogeyman du jour they choose today, expect a much wider application later.
March 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mahmoud Khalil is a weather balloon. If they can get away with trampling his civil rights in the name of whatever boogeyman du jour they choose today, expect a much wider application later.
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Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
March 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
Using taxpayer dollars to prop up memecoins sounds on-brand for MAGA. Just look how well the Trump and Melania coins are doing six weeks after launch.
March 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Using taxpayer dollars to prop up memecoins sounds on-brand for MAGA. Just look how well the Trump and Melania coins are doing six weeks after launch.
Well this is fucking horrifying: www.scribd.com/document/832...
Evidence Brief for Journalists - The Neoreactionar 250206 110351 | PDF | Computer Security | Security
a document explaining the threat to democracy posed by Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin and the Neoreactionaries, made initially for distribution among think tank employees and DNC workers
www.scribd.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Well this is fucking horrifying: www.scribd.com/document/832...
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This was always about rich people not wanting to pay taxes
February 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This was always about rich people not wanting to pay taxes
There is a very distinct theme at work here in the legisative actions of conservatives: blind ideology running headfirst into the brick wall of reality. Over and over. This, "DOGE", every other policy and legislative priority of the right: intentional and completely unnecessary harm to the public.
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There is a very distinct theme at work here in the legisative actions of conservatives: blind ideology running headfirst into the brick wall of reality. Over and over. This, "DOGE", every other policy and legislative priority of the right: intentional and completely unnecessary harm to the public.
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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
Out of an abundance of caution I froze my credit with the three unofficial bureau's of credit. I'm not planning on any major purchases and I'm sure not opening any new lines of credit with the CFPB defanged for the time being.
February 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Out of an abundance of caution I froze my credit with the three unofficial bureau's of credit. I'm not planning on any major purchases and I'm sure not opening any new lines of credit with the CFPB defanged for the time being.
Trump 2.0 is just the dumbest Ocean's film in the series.
Trump on DOGE: We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is still there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox. You know about that? We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox. But we’re going to go to Fort Knox and make sure the gold is still there.
February 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Trump 2.0 is just the dumbest Ocean's film in the series.