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Tom Flannery

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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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“The Cornell rape case is one of those things that causes both good people and shitty people to double down....”
The Cornell rape case is one of those things that causes both good people and shitty people to double down.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday's hearings, in which they confused the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, was such a clusterfuck of incompetence that the whole "Pig fuckers are now allowed in the FBI" story line has been forgotten. What a time to be alive.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Pig f***ers
The Director of the FBI will now allow pig-fuckers to become FBI agents.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Dealing with them lately feels like watching the final scene of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” when the glassy-eyed morphine addicted mother is dragging her old wedding gown across the stage, lost in yet another hallucination….”
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The Iranian Mullet and the shrug emoji
It was a beautiful Labor Day weekend, marred only slightly by our President having an online mental break, posting so much AI slop that I’m surprised we have any fucking water left.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Lake Kid Rock
Lake America.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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“Dolly belonged on both the biggest stages in the world, and the ricketiest front porches....”
“My feet are still on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She’s the closest this nation ever got to having a Queen. #DollyParton
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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"that’s not much of a defense...."
I remember driving with my Dad one day and Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” came on the radio and he seemed to be listening intently.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Karoline Leavitt resigned “to spend more time with her family” right after learning that Trump left her on the decoy plane to die.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I just saw a Reuters headline asking “What makes earthquakes so deadly?” and I feel like this is the journalistic equivalent of putting directions on shampoo bottles.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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"I don’t know how anybody affords anything anymore...."
I don’t know how anybody affords anything anymore.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I will never understand how to get engagement on this platform.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Glen Hansard
Woke to the news that Glen Hansard had passed away in the night.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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"There is a subtle difference between sticking your hand out, and laying your tongue on the ground..."
You have to find your own joy these days.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Honestly at this point anybody running for office should be strip searched and checked for Nazi tattoos because it would save all kinds of time.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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I was waiting for him to smear shit all over the World Cup, and the man did NOT disappoint....
I was waiting for him to smear shit all over the World Cup, and the man did not disappoint.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We’re at the point where this Supreme Court simply upholding the constitution has become surprising.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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"If in retrospect this is the first burp of Mount Vesuvius, it surely serves us right. ..."
This reflecting pool thing is WILD.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Rich people march on Washington every day" -- I.F. Stone
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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There is low-hanging fruit. And then there is this...
There is low-hanging fruit.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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"We drank to each other in 1976. Today, we drink alone...."
I was 10 years old during our nation’s bicentennial celebrations and I remember we had a block party and there were kegs of beer for the adults and kegs of birch beer for the kids and everybody had fl...
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Who did this?
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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"Once this plateau of buffoonery is reached, what exactly counts as 'News' anymore?..."
The White House currently looks like a dilapidated crack house…the sort of blighted, ass-crack property a local code enforcement officer might be forced to visit.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The birthday of Jefferson Davis being observed as a state holiday is like the birthday of Timothy McVeigh being observed as a state holiday. This nation is completely fucked up.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Who did this…
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Way too many of you overestimated Kentucky
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A recent CNN headline stated… “Penile implant specialist and election denier with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser” …and I’m not sure I want to live here anymore.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is what happens when you elect people who only look at the pictures.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Everybody who says “do your own research” believes in Bigfoot.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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"Doesn’t ANYBODY have any self respect in this town?...."
In a nation where Kid Rock addresses the Pentagon, it sometimes becomes difficult to focus.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am trying to come up with a synecdochic metaphor that explains how this nation has gotten to this point and the closest I can come is that my dog's pee pads come with instructions.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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My hometown is just getting started....
If the subject of my column is local, it’s never behind a paywall. That being said, the paid subscriptions are how I can keep doing this.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
You can watch the NHL playoffs and almost be convinced that everything in North America is just fine. Not much else can do that. It’s pretty special.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The staged "Doordash Grandma" bit at the White House was still extraordinary in that its message---that a grandmother has to deliver meals in her own car to pay for her husband's cancer treatments--is touted as something worthy of a Presidential photo-op, and not as a dystopian nightmare.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Maybe the Democratic Party leadership is stuck in a TSA line?
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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"It’s destined to be one of the greatest photographs of our time...."
It’s destined to be one of the greatest photographs of our time.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Future conversation with NYT reporters…. “Grandpa, what were you doing when the president was losing his mind?” “Well Billy, we were searching for Kamala Harris employment records from McDonald’s….”
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
We’re at the point now where whoever confiscates his phone would win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Everybody needs to calm down she was fired for not being horrible enough.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As if airline travel is not unpleasant enough, now I need to worry about Billy Joe Bob from high school shooting me in the head because my travel shampoo bottle is 3.5 ounces.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It really is a bad time to be sane.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Following thousands. Followed by thousands. Zero engagement on my posts. This is the weirdest social media platform I’ve ever seen.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Finally. The moment has met the man…
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Ok who did this?
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“When asked if Americans should worry about terrorist attacks at home, Trump answered “Probably”….”
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The Tangiers
It’s a bit surreal out there at the moment.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
To be fair, he IS running the country like he runs his businesses.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“Imagine finally overthrowing the current administration only to see fucking Don Jr take over? SAD!” Read the rest below….
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"...sounding like a little boy who just learned how to snap a bra...."
War is expensive.
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Tom Flannery @tomflannery.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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"That often happens in war…”
“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost,
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