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Joe Flynn

@chinajoeflynn.bsky.social

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.

Defector @defector.com · Jun 20

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not let my daughter be: defector.com/robert-f-ken...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will Not Let My Daughter Be | Defector

When it comes to my daughter, I try to live in the moment. I stumbled into this paradigm in March of 2023, when Nora was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of 2. Nora is 4 now—a…

defector.com

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 1m

Brian Cashman:

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 43m

I've been cancelled* for my heterodox beliefs**!

*given a book deal
**having weird, disgusting cybersex with child murderer RFK Jr. in breach of my journalist ethics.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 47m

Those creeps can roll, man...

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 52m

The Dodgers are the first team to get 7 starts of 6+ innings in their first 8 games of a postseason since the 2013 Tigers (7)

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 2h

You're not most proud of that time you called that one random guy in the MSG crowd "Purpletie Broman"?

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 2h

I owe you an apology, David Allen Grier: I was not familiar with your game

A car radio screen showing the song now playing: "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" by David Allen Grier

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, David never really got over Trump blocking him on Twitter like 15 years ago. He's harbored a grudge against the big guy ever since.

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 5h

Reminds me of this classic:

A tweet from @randygdub: trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh [audience going berserk]

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 5h

I read the line "And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things" and I nodded. That's a quality Trump line, I must admit!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 7h

Rufio would never!

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 7h

Why you always sticking up for Big Mutant?

Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 7h

I'd just like to say that I am a fat white man, but I am objectively much less ugly than all of these dudes.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 7h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8h

OK the leak came from someone even worse, got it

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Giunta claimed the release of the chat is part of “a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination led by Gavin Wax and the New York City Young Republican Club” — an allusion to a once obscured internecine war that has now spilled into the open.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 8h

It's good TV

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 8h

Like, if my dad were some political legacy and someone came to his house asking him to run for Congress, I would chase that person away with a baseball bat. He's too fucking old! He needs to rest and watch MASH re-runs!

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 8h

Modern American politics has totally warped my view of what an old person is. I look at my dad sometimes and it makes me upset. I think "man, he's so old. it breaks my heart." My dad is four years younger than Janet Mills.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 8h

Perfectly normal-looking, not-weird-at-all guy!

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 9h

This may seem hard to believe but a major problem with media coverage of Trump is that no matter how racist it makes these guys out to be, it’s always understating it. *Nate Hochman* told somebody I know once that Trump is way more racist than he thought. It’s real bad!