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Brandon Flanery

@flanbran.bsky.social
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✍️ Author of “Stumbling” 🏳️‍🌈 Ex-pastor turned homo 👨‍🎓 Future social worker | CSU 📍 Atlanta BrandonFlanery.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Time for this classic again.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Texas is real." Top Dem pollster John Anzalone just did a striking survey with Trump's pollster that finds Talarico +4. On the pod, he explains why he thinks Texas really is gettable this time for Dems. He says the likely path to majority is TX AK ME NC. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2156...
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Trump’s Pollster Drops Bomb on GOP as Midterm Panic Grows: “Bloodbath”
As GOP leaks about the elections grow more urgent, a top Democratic strategist explains what the numbers really say about the Trump-GOP collapse—and ponders what could still go wrong.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No other question has brought so much strife to @narwhal.bsky.social and I’s relationship.
A dialect quiz question that asks what do you call the road that runs parallel to a highway.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Welp. 🤷‍♂️
My dialect map showing I talk like someone from the surface of the sun.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s happening!!! 😭😭😭
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/08/2026
The role of ChatGPT went far beyond providing tactical tips in the final hours before the mass shooting. The shooter messaged with ChatGPT more than 6,600 times over 12 months—including dozens of conversations revealing he was desperate, focused on extremist violence, and suicidal.
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Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"China’s massive 'Great Green Wall' has achieved a historic first. For decades, China’s Three-North Shelter Forest Program has waged an ambitious war against desertification, planting billions of trees ... is actively altering local weather patterns." via Hashem Al-Ghaili
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fav niche animal: A platypus. It's a mammal that lays eggs and has poisonous spurs and a duck face and a beaver tale???? It's straight out of ATLA.
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Perry Perry The Platypus
ALT: Perry Perry The Platypus
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Living for this centrist getting DRAGGED in the comments. 🥰 It’s gonna be a good day.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Spent the weekend in one of my most favorite places.
Happy boy in the mountains
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it’s ya boi Nixo 🌈 @nixostorme.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Death Crane Game meme with death saying “IS TRUMP EVEN IN THIS- OH FUCK YEAH, IT'S LINDSEY GRAHAM!”
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Proposed to the boyfriend this weekend, and he’s so thrilled that he has me by the throat.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hi, gay! Happy pride month! Want to give money to a gay to feel like a good person? Do I have the deal for you! Order my gay book from your local bookstore—Stumbling: A Sassy Memoir About Coming Out of Evangelicalism. It’s gay! And scored 4.5 on Good Reads! www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/stumbl...
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Bloomfs, I need opinions and thoughts on this movie. Thank you for your service.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Some of y’all this weekend. 👀
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Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03) @votewelch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
When Congress says they can't afford to help you, they are lying. Budgets are moral documents. Improving life for people in the US is simply not a priority for our current government. I want to fix that. Election day is 2 weeks away. Please consider donating to my campaign: votewelch.com
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Every time is see a picture of Hemingway, I’m VISCERALLY reminded that I’m a raging homosexual. (And also a basic white guy.)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2026
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law. (Published Sept. 2025)
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What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Reporter @nickjudin.bsky.social reported this and the guest story guest with exclusive interview when released. Why didn’t you credit him and @mississippifreepress.org, @nytimes.com?
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Trash hauling trash
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
As we enter World War III for oil, China is ensuring power and peace for its citizens by doubling down on solar. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/04/2026
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear. With @mlk50.com
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Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes.
Businesses closed. Churches emptied. Parents afraid to take kids to school. Advocates say what was supposed to be a crime-fighting effort is keeping a community in fear.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you see this post, post a picture of you with glasses.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Gays haaaaaalp! I need haircut feedback. Which one?
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In celebration of fascism losing SOMEWHERE on this planet.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🇭🇺
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
FINALLY someone is doing something. Rep. John Larson files articles of impeachment against Trump ctmirror.org/2026/04/07/r...
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Rep. John Larson files articles of impeachment against Trump
Larson has also joined a chorus of Democratic lawmakers — like U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy — calling for Trump’s removal by the 25th Amendment.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
JOKES ON ME!!! Spoiler alert: I moved a crossed the planet, and it all fell apart. But wouldn’t have had it any other way. For those new here, hi! My name is Brandon, and I’m an ex-pastor-turned-homo, and this quote is from my sassy book about coming out of evangelicalism, Stumbling.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My fellow Atlanta folks 👀
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
If I told you 1,121,938 Americans were murdered in the course of 3.5 years? What would be your guess of when and where and how would you feel? Over a million U.S. Americans murdered, many raped and tortured. How does that feel in your body? Would you say I’m making that up?
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lerrrgan @lerrrgan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
she truly could do it all
Actress Catherine O’Hara on the show The Last Of Us saying “you can’t heal from something unless you’re brave enough to say something out loud”.
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Pete Davidson @petedavidsonny.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Finally! Some real paid protestors!
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Join us in Atlanta for a joint canvass with Kelsea Bond, supporting Ruwa's working-class campaign for Governor focused on housing affordability, healthcare access, fair wages, public transit, childcare, and the cost of living. Saturday, Jan 31 10am-1pm Let's build a Georgia we can afford.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
deadder.substack.com @deadder.bsky.social
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
But this was okay…
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Dear Pokémon gays, I have a very serious question: What’s the cutest Pokémon?
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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“International Solidarity of Labour” by Walter Crane (1915)
Antique socialist art illustration of workers dancing around the world
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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They voted to fund a para military force designed to assume enemy positions against American citizens. The treason is obscene. I expect it from the cannibalistic Republicans. They are anti Americans. Literally willing to destroy anyone who isn't a carbon copy of them, who is a copy of someone else.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
From Davos: Data Centers must integrate directly with national grids, or they will be regulated out of existence by energy-starved nations. We’re so fucking cooked.
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Sara Gregory @saraegregory.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Unbeknownst to the public, a small group of officials from the city of Atlanta, the Atlanta Beltline and MARTA voted to stop all work on the Eastside Beltline light rail project more than six months ago: www.ajc.com/news/2026/01...
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Eastside Beltline light rail work secretly halted last year
A group made up of officials with the city of Atlanta, the Beltline and MARTA made the decision in a closed-door meeting without ever informing the public.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thought this would be a great time to remind folks about the 14th amendment, and how ANY PERSON — not citizen — shall not be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. Where are all the angry constitutionalist with ICE abductions?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Dear cishet women, want to be a good ally? Don’t invade gay spaces. I don’t take up space in Black bars or lesbian clubs. Go make your own space and quit colonizing ours. I’m tired of holding your hair back as you puke to “good music.”
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
NEW: Huge anti-ICE protests across the US last night. Here are some of the sights and sounds as people took to the streets in cities all across the country. Have we reached a tipping point?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Via SCOTUSToday: “A new study ‘from economists at Yale and Columbia contends ... that a good way to guess the outcome of a [Supreme Court] case is to follow the money.’ Researchers concluded that the court rules in favor of wealthy parties more often today than it did in the past.”
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Nothing says “America” like, “Oil stocks are set to boom as we illegally invade Venezuela! Buy now!”
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Brandon Flanery @flanbran.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Get a pump of Hollander.
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