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Seth Abramson

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28 May

Maybe the most important thing for patriotic Americans who love democracy to understand right now is that the Big Lie didn't come to fruition on January 6, January 6 is merely its birthday. The Big Lie is *expanding* and becoming *more* pernicious and a greater threat to America.

A congressional January 6 probe will be far *more* effective if it's run by the House under rules set by Democrats. The only reason an effort was made for a bipartisan/bicameral Commission was to try to stop the spread of the Big Lie through Congress. That effort will fail today.

If there'd been a bipartisan/bicameral Commission, Kevin McCarthy would have had no political leg to stand on in waging the fight against his subpoena that he plans to wage, which could last for over a year—critically, beyond 2022. This way, he can fight a subpoena and be a hero.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

28 May

Just discovered that the email forwarding from my website's contact form stopped working January 21. I assumed—I don't know why—people had just stopped using the form. Nope. I just read scores of messages from the last 4+ months. Apologies; it's fixed now. sethabramson.net/contact

(PS) And yes, I'm embarrassed. Especially as I received some incredible messages: scoops, invitations, requests, messages from surprising people. I'm just not the sort of person who assumes people want to write to me, so when the messages stopped in January, I thought, "Oh well!"

(PS2) I always tell folks in AMAs that I'm very good at a small number of things and have little common sense otherwise. I guess this would be Exhibit #1. All emails from my website stop and I assume it's that people stopped using the website...which in retrospect makes no sense.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

27 May

When I wrote about FL yesterday, a few states hadn't reported their COVID-19 data for the day yet. As you can see, FL had the most cases and most deaths, but by a slightly smaller margin. Per capita—over the whole pandemic—Florida is average in deaths, and below-average in cases.

(PS) The current status of the death toll in FL is a plateau. The plateau is higher than the April-July 2020 plateau, and equivalent to the October-November 2020 "lull" between Florida's two peak COVID-19-death periods. There's literally *nothing* for DeSantis to brag about here.

(PS2) To clarify, as I realize the term "below-average" in my first post could be confusing, I mean that the government of Florida—run by Trump ally Ron DeSantis—has done a "below-average job" of preventing the spread of the virus in the state since the pandemic began in 2020.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

27 May

@Sen_JoeManchin

I hope @Sen_JoeManchin understands how preposterous it is to say that our government will be destroyed if we return to a time when the filibuster is almost never used or, failing that, when the party filibustering has to hold the floor.

This is such empty melodrama from Manchin.

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1397932721234710528

@Sen_JoeManchin

(PS) Where I know I deviate from many readers here is that I generally think @Sen_JoeManchin is a man of principle. I think his position on the filibuster is deeply misguided, naive, ill-considered, and destructive, but I do not buy into the idea that he loves attention or power.

(PS2) I think Joe believes he's taking the responsible route, and doesn't fully realize his "stand" has devolved into an exercise in folly and vanity—a sort of performative white-knighting where what he's trying to protect is a principle his enemies long ago burned to the ground.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

26 May

Hours media will spend today discussing a tragic shooting in San Jose that is identical—as a news story—to another such shooting we'll see tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that: 3

Hours media has EVER spent on the January 5 Trump International war council: 0

😡

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: As a journalism professor, I've lectured at the university level on how "newsworthiness" is determined. US workplace shootings—almost without exception—fail the 10-step test. A PROOF lecture on the topic is now available to the public: sethabramson.substack.com/p/lecture-seri…

(MORE) The U.S. is a country of 332 million that has one mass shooting per day. Media spends 3+ hours on scores of such shootings annually, *instead* of doing new investigative reporting. This shooting is tragic and is news in Santa Clara County, CA. It's not newsworthy in Maine.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

25 May

I hope everyone is aware that there's *literally no party in America* called the "Democrat Party"

Anyone using any phrase to identify the Democratic Party other than the one the Democratic Party uses—"Democratic Party"—is using a smear so stupid a four-year-old would blush at it

Imagine how unserious and impossible to engage with for any generative purpose the Democratic Party would be thought to be if every official in the party used a rank slur to describe Republicans every time they talked about them

America hasn't had a real 2-party system for years

Rush Limbaugh came up with this smear because he thought it'd make him extra coin on the radio, and the entire Republican Party was so replete with cowards afraid of Limbaugh's audience—this was before Donald Trump—that they *literally changed what they call the Democratic Party*

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