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19 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: The popular "Lost Classics" series returns to PROOF! Anyone up for some music? 🎵🎶 sethabramson.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
(PS) I'll admit to not being much of a Who fan, and having listened to none of Roger Daltrey's solo work before preparing for this article. I think "Giving It All Away" is a really interesting find—along with the "enhanced" version of one of Olivia Newton-John's very first songs.
(PS2) Okay, I have an excuse for that typo! (Now fixed.) Kaleidoscope (UK) is one of my favorite sixties bands, and it's led by Peter Daltrey. So I may be one of the few music fans who hears "Daltrey" and immediately thinks "Peter," not "Roger."
(PS3) I just added a "bonus" song to the end of the article that I think a lot of you will enjoy. 😁

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20 Sep
I guess what I would say to the Senate Democrats is that much of America wonders why they even speak to Mitch McConnell anymore. When a negotiating partner has an unbroken record of bad faith dating back not just years but decades, at some point wisdom dictates a disengagement.
The only proper course of engagement with Mr. McConnell is to defeat him utterly at the polls alongside every member of his caucus, then to do the same thing 2 years after that, and the same thing 2 years after that, and the same thing 2 years after that. And so on in perpetuity.
I don't think a Democrat should so much as even look at McConnell ever again, let alone speak to him. I think even the candidate running against him shouldn't look at him in a debate. I think he should be a permanent pariah.

And I think Democrats are cowards for not seeing that.
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20 Sep
(Q&A) I'll be popping in and out of this day-long Q&A all day today (Monday, September 20). Anyone can read the Q&A; PROOF subscribers can ask questions. See the note at the link for more details.

Questions on any topic whatsoever welcome—no holds barred. sethabramson.substack.com/p/ask-me-anyth…
(PS) Just to clarify: please ask any questions in the comments over at PROOF. I'll answer them there.
(UPDATE) Still answering questions over at PROOF. Any topic. See the link atop this thread. Open to the public for viewing, to PROOF subscribers for question-asking.
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19 Sep
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: America’s Video Game Scandal Continues: More Evidence of Deception By Grading Company WATA

I thought I was done reporting on this—but apparently it wasn’t done with me. I found a video from a few days ago that required I write this. sethabramson.substack.com/p/americas-vid…
1/ In the video—which I was watching because it was an interview with an independent journalist who’s done some great video game journalism, @karljobstgaming—the interviewer admits, during prep before the interview starts, to being friends with the head of WATA. And it matters.
2/ The problem was that I recognized this guy from an episode of Pawn Stars in which he appeared alongside the WATA head, Deniz Kahn. The two men showed no indication of knowing one another. I’d seen WATA a pull a stunt like this before, so I decided to investigate a little bit.
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18 Sep
What a bizarre misreading this is. I wrote a NYT bestseller establishing that an Alfa Bank advisory board member helped write Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy in April 2016—a richly supported, still-unrefuted allegation. I wrote almost nothing on "pings." news.yahoo.com/remembering-jo…
(PS) The other remarkable thing about far-right takes on Alfa Bank: does everyone understand that (a) the pings did happen, (b) no one *ever* said they knew what they were, and (c) the FBI investigation was inconclusive? This is simply an unsettled issue that'll never be settled.
(PS2) There's nothing sadder, in all of US media, that a far-right Trump-Russia victory lap. *None* of these laps are ever based in any substantive refutation of either federal investigations or actual past journalism—it's all tilting at windmills that the right built themselves.
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17 Sep
(1 of 3) I hate when journalists make up rules about how journalism works and claim—from a position of supposed authority—that everyone agrees with them. Here's what Brent Cunningham, former deputy editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, says about how "off the record" works:
(2 of 3) "The generally accepted rule is that off the record must be invoked in advance. So if, for example, George W. Bush says to you, 'Let’s go off the record here—I really did make up all that stuff about WMD in Iraq,' you can’t quote him on that."

Maggie Haberman disagrees.
(3 of 3) Maggie Haberman says that every journalist knows—except, apparently, the former deputy editor of journalism's top watchdog publication—that a reporter must *verbally agree* to former President George W. Bush speaking OTR before he is *allowed* to do so.

That is wrong.
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16 Sep
(🔐) BREAKING NEWS: A Secretive Meeting That Trump Attended in December of 2020 May Explain Both Trump's Role in the January 6 Insurrection and Why General Milley and China Feared Trump Would Start a War

I hope you'll subscribe, read, and share this news. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
1/ Donald Trump's domestic insurgency has changed *profoundly* in the last 48 hours. The reason that "Treason" keeps trending on Twitter is because the Trumpists now believe that they have proof of a "deep state" anti-Trump conspiracy *and* collusion with China by Trump critics.
2/ There's no limit to what the Trumpists think this new information will allow them to do. They plan to use General Mark Milley as a scapegoat for almost everything that happened following the November 2020 presidential election. His testimony on September 28 will be a sh*tshow.
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