John Flanagan
@jpat-flan.bsky.social
Physician, social media voyeur
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
ktla.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶
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The next pope must move the church beyond the merciful and inclusive 2000-year-old teachings of Jesus Christ and instead emphasize the weird and cruel 50-year-old teachings of the far right.
April 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The next pope must move the church beyond the merciful and inclusive 2000-year-old teachings of Jesus Christ and instead emphasize the weird and cruel 50-year-old teachings of the far right.
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I suspect the administration is coming up with a story after the fact because they’re shocked and dazed about the resistance they’ve gotten from Harvard and now other universities banding together. They’re scared of consolidated resistance and they’re on their back foot. Time to pushback harder.
April 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I suspect the administration is coming up with a story after the fact because they’re shocked and dazed about the resistance they’ve gotten from Harvard and now other universities banding together. They’re scared of consolidated resistance and they’re on their back foot. Time to pushback harder.
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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
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Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
February 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.
He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
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Opinion | Francis isn’t dead yet but it’s not too early to start talking about how the next Pope needs to be a real Catholic.
by Ross Douthat and JD Vance
by Ross Douthat and JD Vance
February 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Opinion | Francis isn’t dead yet but it’s not too early to start talking about how the next Pope needs to be a real Catholic.
by Ross Douthat and JD Vance
by Ross Douthat and JD Vance
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Dipshittery.
February 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Welcome to the Golden Age of Dipshittery.
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For all those making excuses or lessening the deleterious impact of Musk and Trump
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For all those making excuses or lessening the deleterious impact of Musk and Trump
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MEGA: Make Elon Go Away
February 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
MEGA: Make Elon Go Away
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More of this please
January 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
More of this please
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“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.
January 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
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“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
Leavitt: "The water has been turned back on in California, and this comes just days after President Trump visited"
January 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“Forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
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I’m just glad that my faith in humanity isn’t alive to see any of this.
January 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m just glad that my faith in humanity isn’t alive to see any of this.
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Welcome to the United States of Kakistan
January 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Welcome to the United States of Kakistan
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
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The real lesson of Zuckerberg and Musk is that some people are just born with loser stink on them that no amount of wealth or power will ever scrub off
January 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The real lesson of Zuckerberg and Musk is that some people are just born with loser stink on them that no amount of wealth or power will ever scrub off
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The best example of Americans venerating mediocrity?
Trump and family. Total mediocrities, no real accomplishments or achievements, 100% vulgarity.
Vivek: “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”
Trump and family. Total mediocrities, no real accomplishments or achievements, 100% vulgarity.
Vivek: “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”
December 28, 2024 at 3:53 PM
The best example of Americans venerating mediocrity?
Trump and family. Total mediocrities, no real accomplishments or achievements, 100% vulgarity.
Vivek: “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”
Trump and family. Total mediocrities, no real accomplishments or achievements, 100% vulgarity.
Vivek: “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
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entire party built around oppositional defiant disorder
December 28, 2024 at 3:25 PM
entire party built around oppositional defiant disorder