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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 7h

Here, I'll model it for you:

Vice President @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, why do you like to follow Nazis and other gutter racists on social media and defend people who praise Hitler? Is it because you also like Hitler?

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 7h

I posted this before I learned about the Nazi group chat leak btw. Might be a good pretext for legacy media to stop being garbo and maybe ask JD Vance some hard questions. Pretend he's a Democrat if you have to.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 10h

JD Vance follows several open Nazis on Twitter and as far as I know still has never gotten much scrutiny over it. Perks to having an R next to your name in America, I guess!

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 8h

Let's go @rebeccaforwi.bsky.social baby

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 8h

My representative is currently threatening to withhold federal funding for Mayo Clinic - a major healthcare provider in my city + his district. Our city had a major hospital closure last year, and this is what he's doing. Just over a year till we fire Derrick Van Orden and elect Rebecca Cooke.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

Prestige journalism really deserves the agonizing decades long death it's suffering through, it just sucks we have to live in the rubble of their hubris and maliciousness

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

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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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile journalists who actually do good, honest, and necessary work are forced to scrape by on Patreon subs. Not great.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 8h

One thing that the return of Trump and the complete failure of legacy media to cover his fascistic 2024 campaign accurately has made me realize: a LOT of people who work in high level media are like Nuzzi; she's just more open about how she will sell herself for power.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

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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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 8h

My representative is currently threatening to withhold federal funding for Mayo Clinic - a major healthcare provider in my city + his district. Our city had a major hospital closure last year, and this is what he's doing. Just over a year till we fire Derrick Van Orden and elect Rebecca Cooke.

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 10h

JD Vance follows several open Nazis on Twitter and as far as I know still has never gotten much scrutiny over it. Perks to having an R next to your name in America, I guess!

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 10h

The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, issued a stay on the order by a judge in Chicago that ICE "could not beat old ladies selling tamales." When told in an interview that the ruling could cause the public to view the Court negatively, John Roberts said he found the assertion "outrageous."

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 11h

If you do not spend time around kids this post may be inscrutable to you

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 11h

Casually said "in 6 or 7 minutes" (very much intentionally) to the kids I work with today and they went NUTS

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

(For those who don't know, mannequins these days are often a lot more high tech - a lot of them you can give them pulses, breathing sounds, make them scream bloody murder, etc)

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

It's always a jarring experience when and your squad mates are practicing on a lifeless test mannequin and then it starts screaming in pain

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

One thing being in EMS teaches you is that there are a lot of different words for lung sounds. Stridor, rales, rhonci... are we making some sort of Italian French soup or what

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

“dressing up as animals is insulting, this is war” is kind of a particularly bad complaint for Portland because they’ve been doing black bloc streetfighting shit for like, years at this point and the feds clearly aren’t scared to come back. might as well give “embarrass them” a shot.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

1982! And it was our only appearance in one.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Wo...

1982 World Series - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

Will these baseball boys go all the way? When was the last we were in a world series anyway??? 1990 or something?

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

I am reading stuff about the Brewers right now and it is my understanding that they are baseballing quite well rn

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

I am reading stuff about the Brewers right now and it is my understanding that they are baseballing quite well rn

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

I think the WisGOP people who aren't totally poisoned by the Trump Kool-AId - a dwindling number, I grant you - knew that Crawford was gonna win, but they thought Schimel with the power of Musk's blood money would make it meaningfully closer than previous Supreme Court races. And it wasn't.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

Dude, I was dying reading about how the WisGOP set Schimel's benchmarks at 60% of Trump's turnout and then they stood in shock as Crawford blew him away everywhere. And here I thought their data people were at least not totally stupid.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

Dude, I was dying reading about how the WisGOP set Schimel's benchmarks at 60% of Trump's turnout and then they stood in shock as Crawford blew him away everywhere. And here I thought their data people were at least not totally stupid.

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

How hard did Susan Crawford cook Brad Schimel earlier this year?

Susan Crawford got more raw voters than both Republicans Scott Walker in 2018 and Tim Michels in 2022 in their governor's races. It was a thumping; Schimel got roasted.

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Huckabee - a Christian Zionist who has called for the West Bank to be annexed to Israel and who's said Palestinians don't exist - is our ambassador to Israel right now, guys. Do I want to see this ceasefire succeed? Desperately. Do I trust the admin to see this through? No. Hope I'm wrong.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

Also the fact that the few weapons limitations Biden imposed - far from enough, I grant - were immediately lifted by Trump lol

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

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