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Con Flambers

@themagicconch19.bsky.social
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Tempered optimist. Wisconsin politics and other things. Certified EMT. Opinions are mine and mine alone. He/him Blog doing deep dives on politics and history here - delving-deeper.ghost.io.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 20h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 9h
Every GOP lawmaker believes this, by the way. It's just that most aren't dumb enough to say it where it could get leaked in an election year.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19h
I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h
Packers are down horrendous, Giannis's departure from the Bucks... the eyes of Wisconsin are upon the Brewers...
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h
We need a Brewers world series so badly. We haven't been to the world series since Stephen King was coked out of his mind writing books
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 19h
Wish I knew Portuguese because if there's one non-US election I wanna be reading a lot about right now, it's Brazil's presidential race and the fact that the momentum seems to be on the side of fascism. Hoping Lula pulls it out somehow, but it seems reasonable to conclude that would be an upset now.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 20h
The thing about this admin is that a lot of these guys are rapists and I think that's worth keeping at front of mind
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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 23h
Ernst Thälmann famously called for German socialists to resist aligning with liberal democrats to thwart the Nazis in the late 1920s/early-30s, because the liberals were “social fascists” who were just as bad, if not worse, than the NSDAP. Bringing that up for no particular reason.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 21h
Get 'em, Tony.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 21h
"The Republicans have triaged North Carolina and Georgia" is an insane sentence to think about lol
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I try not to hector people about paying attention to polls because, I mean, I look at polls too. That said, if you're doing weird crosstabs analysis to prove why a poll is wrong... get your ass over to a phone bank or a canvassing shift.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Laughing maniacally rn
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TBH one of my biggest pieces of advice to greenhorn canvassers these days: check the Packers schedule before you schedule a shift on a Sunday (this is also applicable to football in other states, tho you especially don't wanna canvass on a Packers v. Bears Sunday)
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No, but I'd say that Van Orden's internals are probably hovering somewhere between "quite bad" and "apocalyptic."
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Poor Brad, totally left for dead by the national Dems and still almost won...
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The simple Wisconsin's Third ball knower test: do you think that Rebecca Cooke was the nominee for this seat in 2022
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nah this is just an evergreen thing (tho there is a new poll from a few days ago showing Berman leading Steil in WI-01 by a whopping 1 point)
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Contemplating a 3 canvass weekend... am I a bad enough dude to pull it off? We'll see
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Me when people are lamenting that a poll of Wisconsin shows a close race:
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First Time Meme: Man with Noose
Alt: James Franco's character from the Ballad of Buster Scruggs with a noose around his neck, saying to another man being tied with a noose, "First time?"
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not clear to me that things have changed much here over the last 9 months or so
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am not saying we have to like... cheer this guy or whitewash what he enabled. But in a society so hellbent on distracting us from our interior lives, and one of our main political parties so hostile to the idea of free thought... I just won't demonize someone trying to make some sort of amends.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am sharply critical of many of the people who support Trump. One exception I make is for people who are willing to change their mind and admit that they enabled terrible things. I believe we need to have some space for people like this if we are interested in recovering from Trumpist fascism.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Like when you listen to this guy talk about Pierre Damas Bel, the young Haitian man who killed himself by running in front of his truck, you can tell he is really actually trying to reckon with the very human consequences of his vote for Trump. And yeah, we need more, not less of that.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That article about the truck driver who regrets his support for Trump was good, imo, even if it had some factual inaccuracies The main reason why I think that is because if we want out of this mess, we're gonna need some people who used to like this evil man to do some deep introspecting.
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If liberals/progressives/leftists cannot address significant social disorder humanely and with respect to individual rights, the public will elect fascists who will address it through brutality
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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We can still create wonders
Amc theaters Instagram post showing the whalefall popcorn bucket which is a whale and a diver. You eat the pop corn out the back of the whale.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nonzero chance that if Democrats take a Senate majority in the midterms, Alito announces his immediate retirement and the GOP replaces him before the new Congress comes into session
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/10/2026
Wisconsin’s Driftless Area has shifted to the GOP in recent presidential elections. A local candidate for sheriff is hoping to buck that trend and end his county’s agreement with ICE.
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In Wisconsin, Two Sheriff Races Test the Future of Local ICE Cooperation - Bolts
Wisconsin’s Sauk and Winnebago counties joined an ICE program to boost immigration enforcement. Candidates running for sheriff have vowed to quit it if elected next month.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
David Crowley redirecting money from Milwaukee County's Flock cameras to a fund to help prevent evictions... David Crowley: He's Good
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing I am certain about is we will never address the problem of fascism without addressing the psychological aspects of what drives people to it - you aren't going to solve this by just thinking about bank accounts and wages.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Lula loses, which seems to be reasonably likely at this point, is he going to be retconned to be an unexciting centrist, or are we finally gonna admit the truth that fascism can be quite tough to beat regardless of ideological orientation?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There will be no funding for Flock cameras in our community. Instead, I’m directing those dollars to support an eviction prevention initiative. Wisconsin communities need investment, not surveillance.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Literally this meme
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think one of the legacies of Bernie's 2016 defeat that I find deeply annoying as a prog myself is this sort of conspiratorial, learned helplessness so many people on my side have. "The Big Bad Establishment beat us once, so there's no point in trying again." It's so juiceless and so demoralizing.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Judging from the posting habits of certain political people on social media there's clearly still a market for this
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fall is our reward for enduring the cruelties of summer
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Like I've been saying: WI-01 is gonna be the House race to watch in Wisconsin.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So I haven't seen "Digger" but I do think they were hard trying to sell this movie as, "LOOK! Tom Cruise is playing against type. Not only is he a VILLAIN, he's also UGLY!!!" And like... I dunno, I feel like people watch Tom Cruise movies to see him be a hot hero?
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
texting Tom Cotton "why does your neck look like that?," "dude what's up with that neck?," "eaten any good tree leaves on the savannah lately?," and so forth every few minutes
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The oligarchs have made their preferences clear in Wisconsin. One of many reasons we gotta elect David Crowley.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something I've long found amusing about the Republicans is that for all their party is built on fabrications & bullshit, the minute it comes to THEIR political skins... suddenly, they're certified reality enjoyers. They become total believers in it when they see these terrifying poll numbers.
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's 2024's presidential results in the red state Senate races that Republicans are sweating: Alaska: Trump+13.1 Iowa: Trump+13.2 Kansas: Trump+16.0 Ohio: Trump+11.1 Texas: Trump+13.6 Fellas, is it good to have to sweat states you won overwhelmingly just 2 years ago?
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The sleepless nights and intense anxiety of people working in Republican politics right now is not anywhere near commensurate to the harm and evil these people have caused over the past 2 years, but it's at least a small recompense. Again: enjoy it, guys!
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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Donald Trump doing everything in his earthly power to send his approval ratings into the crapper just weeks out from the midterms is exactly what the Republicans have earned. Enjoy it, guys!
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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