Brynn Tannehill

Jun 19, 2024 | losangelesblade.com | Brynn Tannehill

FAIRFAX, Va. – Perhaps nothing else in media gets the nature of modern fascism better than Season 4 of the Boys. For those who haven’t seen it, this Amazon Prime show is a gory, dark drama/comedy series about a world where superheroes are real, managed (fairly poorly) by a mega-corporation, and who are–for the most part–entirely awful human beings whose absolute power has corrupted them absolutely. When the first season aired in 2019, its best moments were linked to events in the real world.

Apr 26, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Brynn Tannehill

This week, the Supreme Court managed to fail to meet thealready extremely low expectations most sane people already had for it. First,during the Idaho EMTALA case on whether hospitals receivingfederal funding can refuse to provide abortions to women who are actively dyingas a result of a pregnancy, we heard debate on which, and how many, organs a woman had to lose before an abortion becomes legallyacceptable.

Apr 15, 2024 | losangelesblade.com | Brynn Tannehill

By Brynn Tannehill | FAIRFAX, Va. – This past week, the Cass literature review for the UK’s National Health Service for transgender youth was completed after four years in development. Although touted as independent, it was anything but. Dr. Hillary Cass consulted with far-right religious anti-trans activists like Patrick Hunter, and took cues on how to ban trans health care from Florida’s rigged process.

Apr 9, 2024 | damemagazine.com | Brynn Tannehill

Straight from the authoritarian playbook, Trump has turned the RNC into a hereditary dictatorship in his quest to swap out the entire GOP—and reality itself—with a murderous Christofascist fantasy. This article was made possible because of the generous support of DAME members. We urgently need your help to keep publishing. Will you contribute just $5 a month to support our journalism?

Apr 9, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Brynn Tannehill

There’s something strange happening in the United States politically right now, something that I mentally refer to as “the great disconnect.” Ohio is the poster child for it. In 2020, the Buckeye State overwhelmingly voted for Donald J. Trump, handing him an eight-point victory. In 2022, Ohioans handed a U.S. Senate seat to newly minted Trumpist J.D. Vance by six percentage points. As of today, 270toWin.com has Trump leading Biden there by 10.5 percent.