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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 13h

The world will never flatter him enough.

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 14h

There never has been and never will be an American President that is a bigger pathetic whiny little man bitch than Donald J Trump…

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 14h

Brainiacs say mathematics is the only universal language. But, of course, it's music.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 15h

Yes they do.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 15h

He's taking cues from Putin, certainly, but that does not fully establish his self-awareness. He is, essentially, a born fool.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 16h

Indeed. The infamous Haute Couture Protest.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 17h

The question now is whether temporary cessation of the war, Israel’s partial withdrawal from Gaza, and the continued minor activity of Hamas will bring about peace. Or will the status quo that led to the events of October 7th continue into the future?
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

Sorry, Donald Trump, but that’s not what I call a peace deal

No other world leader could have brought about this sequence of events to end the war in Gaza – but what happens when the US president’s boastful speeches stop, asks former Israeli prime minister Ehud...

www.independent.co.uk

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 18h

Show up this coming Saturday at your local "No Kings" protest and help MAGA lose its damn mind.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 19h

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY endorse this message!!!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 20h

Finally, SCOTUS gets it right.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

bit.ly

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 20h

Janet Mills is 77 years old. Susan Collins is 72 years old. A battle between septuagenarians looms because, y'know, we just refuse to pass the torch to the next generation.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23h

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

nyti.ms

Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 20h

Russia wants to hide ongoing abuses. If torture and brutal mistreatment are indeed a state-orchestrated policy, as much evidence indicates, then allowing international inspectors in would expose these crimes.
kyivindependent.com/russia-has-t...

Russia has tortured Ukrainian POWs for years. Now they're even more vulnerable

On Sept. 29, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, symbolically making Russia the first country in history to aban...

kyivindependent.com

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 20h

How Pete Hegseth's Pentagon wins.
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 20h

Joni was some poet. She captured the truth of Woodstock without ever being there.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 20h

A damn fool can be a useful idiot.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 21h

It's worse than that. There isn't a single song on this album that anyone will hum in 50 years times. It's formulaic drivel.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 21h

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
-- Bob Dylan

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 21h

FYI, my friend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUa-...

These people actually seem like sheep? Is anything even real?

YouTube video by CBC Arts

www.youtube.com

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 21h

Joe and Mika are also ecstatic cheerleaders for Trump the Peacemaker. Their wet forefingers constantly search for the direction of the wind.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 21h

Doggedly ruthless, those Antifa blokes. They'll chase you for up to 26.2 miles.

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Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 21h

French archaeologists unearthed what they believed to be the earliest evidence of a domesticated cat in a 9,500-year-old neolithic Cypriot village. They found the bones of a cat close to the skeletal remains of a human, suggesting that they were buried together.
apnews.com/article/cypr...