I oscillate between responding to this headline with "not possible" and "no sh*t" cnn.com/2021/06/03/pol…
CNN:
PROOF (augmenting the reporting at CNN):
CNN: "The former president is going to have a speech for the first time in a long time [on 6/5]...there's a lot of agitation and concern about how far he's going to go into these [election] conspiracies [during his speech] because, yes, he has these statements he puts out {cont.}
CNN {cont.}: "...but he doesn't have social media anymore."

That's the point I make at PROOF—Trump is replacing social media and his blog with WinRed texts to his voters that falsely position him as the legitimate President of the United States. That and his rallies are a *lot*.

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4 Jun
Here's a wild (🤪) idea: how about politicians never compare the situation they're being asked about to some past situation involving their political opponents. How about politicians address questions on current circumstances earnestly, openly and comprehensively—with no dodging.
I wish as Americans we had the sort of radar that caused us to tune out politicians the second their answer to a question is to raise a prior situation involving a political opponent. If you can't articulate what's right or wrong in the current situation, don't go into politics.
Today Jim Jordan dodged a question about Don McGahn by accusing the White House of being disinterested in Dr. Fauci's emails. This allowed Jordan to avoid the question of when politicians should—in *all circumstances*, regardless of the party of those involved—let an issue drop.
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4 Jun
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: It took me a few extra days because of everything going on, but here's Volume 4 of the "Goodnight Playlist" series from the Music section of PROOF! It's my chance to archive/curate songs from this feed that folks asked me to catalogue. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-goodnigh…
(PS) Song #3 always makes me feel happy, which doesn't make sense because the lyrics are super... not happy. I wonder if anyone else has the same reaction to this song.
(PS2) Song #6 is one of the most divisive songs I've ever posted on this feed in the six years I've been posting music here. Some people *really* hated it. Others hated it because they couldn't get it out of their heads once they heard it—an unwelcome earworm. So, caveat auditor!
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3 Jun
(🆚) NEW: As promised, here's a special edition of the "Lost Classics of the 1960s" series—from the Music section of PROOF—for subscribers. If you like the Beatles, you'll want to check this out; there are bands here you've almost certainly never heard of. sethabramson.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
(PS) For what it's worth, in doing research for this article I came across two bands even I'd never encountered before—despite being a DJ specializing in sixties music back in the 1990s. And one song in this article is a new favorite sixties song of mine. (That takes some doing!)
(PS2) Whenever I do a "Lost Classics of the 1960s" article, I struggle to calibrate how obscure to get, as collectors, enthusiasts, and casual listeners have different senses of how obscure is *too* obscure. Two songs in this article are, I think, at the second-to-deepest level.
Read 4 tweets
3 Jun
(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: New Trump Fundraising Push May Violate Federal Law By Strongly Implying Trump Is the Nation's Real President

This is *serious*. These texts and this survey are part of Trump's insurrection. DOJ must send a cease-and-desist letter ASAP. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
1/ One thing I found in writing three bestselling nonfiction books about Donald Trump is that he has a series of methods for violating state and federal laws without getting caught—none of which are *actually* prophylactics against prosecution, they've just functioned that way.
2/ For instance, Trump has his accountants and lawyers commit crimes for him. He shares lawyers with criminals he wants to do business with. He has his lawyers represent and enter defense agreements with anyone who could hurt him. He dangles incentives to witnesses to stay quiet.
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2 Jun
Has one of the two dogs you're taking care of for your sister ever farted so comprehensively that you decided to stop drinking the glass of water you were drinking as a cautionary measure
Yesterday this happened and my wife had to stop chewing the gum she was chewing because she said the taste had changed
Okay now the other dog we're taking care of, a rescue pit bull, is trying to catch a fly in a dark room by repeatedly standing still and then missing it by eight feet
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1 Jun
(UPDATE) QAnon adherent Heidi Huebel Hitt—who posted the seditious video discussed in my pinned tweet—has now hidden the video. Screenshots of it can be found below (🆚) and I'm now working on getting the video from some PROOF readers who wisely ripped it. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-video-se…
(PS) I have a ton of screenshots, so I'm uploading them now. Keep checking back at the link above if you're a PROOF subscriber. Some of the screenshots have been posted publicly here on Twitter (see my pinned thread). And you can see the worst one atop the link in my prior tweet.
(UPDATE) I've added a new link to the video. Click the link on my pinned tweet (🆚) to see it. We'll see how long it stays up.
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