Con Flambers
@themagicconch19.bsky.social
Wisconsin politics and other things. Opinions are mine and mine alone. He/him
Blog doing deep dives on politics and history here - https://delving-deeper.ghost.io.
Blog doing deep dives on politics and history here - https://delving-deeper.ghost.io.
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Con Flambers
@themagicconch19.bsky.social
· Jun 22
I saw a raccoon and a deer chowing down on some foliage on the side of the road while driving home tonight... this is what solidarity looks like...
Phone banking with the WisDems on a Zoom call with my bud, both of us muted, while we'd recount our best or craziest stories/interactions in the Zoom chat
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Phone banking with the WisDems on a Zoom call with my bud, both of us muted, while we'd recount our best or craziest stories/interactions in the Zoom chat
Relative to its importance, I feel like few organs get shouted out as little as the spleen does... shout out to the spleen, you a real one 🙏
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Relative to its importance, I feel like few organs get shouted out as little as the spleen does... shout out to the spleen, you a real one 🙏
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It's not Very Cool or Hip to care about things like character or integrity anymore given who so many Americans have willingly elevated to power, but I actually do think they matter!
I can't wait to fire Derrick Van Orden and replace him with someone who actually has a shred of decency in her body
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It's not Very Cool or Hip to care about things like character or integrity anymore given who so many Americans have willingly elevated to power, but I actually do think they matter!
I can't wait to fire Derrick Van Orden and replace him with someone who actually has a shred of decency in her body
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I can't wait to fire Derrick Van Orden and replace him with someone who actually has a shred of decency in her body
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Trump creates impunity by behaving criminally. But the more criminal he becomes, the worse the consequences if his criminality ever exceeds his impunity. It's a dynamic with an inherent risk of spectacular collapse - he has climbed very high and can therefore fall very, very hard.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Trump creates impunity by behaving criminally. But the more criminal he becomes, the worse the consequences if his criminality ever exceeds his impunity. It's a dynamic with an inherent risk of spectacular collapse - he has climbed very high and can therefore fall very, very hard.
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NYT: "Why are liberal children cutting off their MAGA parents?"
MAGA parents:
MAGA parents:
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
NYT: "Why are liberal children cutting off their MAGA parents?"
MAGA parents:
MAGA parents:
TBH I've slightly surprised myself at how high of a threshold I have to trigger my "ick" factor (granted, I'm still in student world) but yeah... this one was rough.
If you wanna Feel Some Kind of Way look up degloving injuries (WARNING: it's gross, consider yourself warned)
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
TBH I've slightly surprised myself at how high of a threshold I have to trigger my "ick" factor (granted, I'm still in student world) but yeah... this one was rough.
If you wanna Feel Some Kind of Way look up degloving injuries (WARNING: it's gross, consider yourself warned)
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you wanna Feel Some Kind of Way look up degloving injuries (WARNING: it's gross, consider yourself warned)
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"No war for oil" is a satisfying slogan in a way that "No war for Marco Rubio's right-wing south Florida exile grifter friends" really isn't
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"No war for oil" is a satisfying slogan in a way that "No war for Marco Rubio's right-wing south Florida exile grifter friends" really isn't
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where is the turkey going
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
where is the turkey going
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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
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Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Found in the Kyiv region after the attack, he spent 10 hours under the rubble
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"that's correct, i intended to do the war crimes"
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"that's correct, i intended to do the war crimes"
True story: My GF, who teaches English, asked a student what she meant by the phrase "the commodification of relationships" in their clearly AI-generated paper about The Great Gatsby. Her response, "I don't remember, I wrote it last night."
"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!"
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
True story: My GF, who teaches English, asked a student what she meant by the phrase "the commodification of relationships" in their clearly AI-generated paper about The Great Gatsby. Her response, "I don't remember, I wrote it last night."
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the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night
One thing a lot of Republicans seem to fear more than the wrath of their god king is ghastly internal polling
BREAKING: Republican Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX) announces he will NOT seek re-election
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
One thing a lot of Republicans seem to fear more than the wrath of their god king is ghastly internal polling
Donald Trump, 2024: I am going to do a LOT of fascism. So much fascism, your head will spin. Folks, it's gonna be great. Great fascism. I may also occasionally talk about making stuff cheaper
Median voter: sounds good 2 me
(not even 1 year later)
Median voter: omg, why is this happening??? 😩
Median voter: sounds good 2 me
(not even 1 year later)
Median voter: omg, why is this happening??? 😩
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Donald Trump, 2024: I am going to do a LOT of fascism. So much fascism, your head will spin. Folks, it's gonna be great. Great fascism. I may also occasionally talk about making stuff cheaper
Median voter: sounds good 2 me
(not even 1 year later)
Median voter: omg, why is this happening??? 😩
Median voter: sounds good 2 me
(not even 1 year later)
Median voter: omg, why is this happening??? 😩
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Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
The media is saving the "it's a crisis" takes for when a Dem president takes over and starts arresting the people responsible.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
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The 2025 VA Gubernatorial Election, a contest between former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earl-Sears resulted in Spanberger thrashing Earl-Sears by a 15.4% landslide — the Largest Democratic win in VA since it became a two party Democracy.
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The 2025 VA Gubernatorial Election, a contest between former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earl-Sears resulted in Spanberger thrashing Earl-Sears by a 15.4% landslide — the Largest Democratic win in VA since it became a two party Democracy.
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In countries with laws they call this a bribe
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In countries with laws they call this a bribe
Maybe we should have Alvin Bragg be the next attorney general, since he actually understood what his job was (uphold the law, regardless of whether you are prosecuting a low level flunkie or a former president).
Like Biden's DOJ actually DID prosecute a lot of low-level J6 criminals; it's why Trump pardoned 1500 of his lil fascist buddies. But it's clear Garland was very afraid to go after the bigger fish in the conspiracy, including the biggest one of all. We really cannot afford that to happen again.
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Maybe we should have Alvin Bragg be the next attorney general, since he actually understood what his job was (uphold the law, regardless of whether you are prosecuting a low level flunkie or a former president).
I think it's easy to be prescriptive about what Democrats "should" do, but I really do think that the shared Obama-Biden approach of mostly trying to move past the previous Republican admin has been thoroughly shown to have been a failure.
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I think it's easy to be prescriptive about what Democrats "should" do, but I really do think that the shared Obama-Biden approach of mostly trying to move past the previous Republican admin has been thoroughly shown to have been a failure.
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in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
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I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video