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13 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
(THANKSGIVING SALE) RETRO is having its first-ever sale! To celebrate Thanksgiving, you can now get an annual subscription to RETRO for 30% off—that's just $35 for a full year of access to articles on music, books, films, gaming, digital culture, and more! retrostack.substack.com/p/the-first-ev…
1/ Here’s the most recent entry in the “Lost Classics” series at RETRO: “Lost Classics of the 1960s: Future Megastars in Obscure Bands, Vol. 1” retrostack.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
2/Here’s the beginning of what will be a multi-part series on journalism at RETRO: “Time and Media: How the Internet Changed Time and Thereby Changed Journalism” retrostack.substack.com/p/time-and-med…
3/ As a longtime professional culture critic and a professor of digital culture, I’ve been really excited about using RETRO to curate some the best cultural artifacts of this century. Here’s the latest entry in the ongoing “RETRO Recommends” series (🔐): retrostack.substack.com/p/retro-recomm…
4/ I'm also very proud of RETRO's "Definitive Top 100" series—which curates assessments by scores of experts and industry outlets to conclusively answer longstanding questions in digital culture. A personal favorite: "What's the best gaming console ever?" retrostack.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
5/ So far the RETRO feature folks seem most excited about—to my surprise!—is "no-politics Q&As", where people can ask me any question [not about politics] and I will answer it live on-camera. The first such session was really fun, and many more are coming! retrostack.substack.com/p/no-politics-…
6/ Meanwhile, the most *lucrative* RETRO feature—for readers—is the market analyses RETRO does of the world's fastest-growing alternative asset class. The data at this link can and has saved video game collectors not just hundreds but thousands of dollars. retrostack.substack.com/p/november-202…
7/ (If you're wondering how this works, it's simple: right now the sealed-and-graded video game market is the Wild West, lawless and dangerous. Some folks get rich while while others get suckered with lies about which games are rare. RETRO is combatting the lawlessness and lies.)

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14 Nov
More and more I see videos in which far-right lunatics are shouting or preaching and though I can’t even understand what they’re angry about the one thing that’s clear is that they’re trying to push the country toward civil war. The Tim Pool video going around is from this genre.
What people must understand is that this anger is all manufactured. It’s just the planned continuation of an artificial metanarrative the right has developed to try to keep hold of its base.

Elmo could be POTUS and Grover could be running the FBI and they’d be crying oppression.
So when you see people on the right calling the left “Nazis” and claiming that their freedoms have been abridged and insisting that somehow Joe Biden is both senile and the second coming of Hitler, understand that it’s both nonsense and a drumbeat intended to foment new violence.
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13 Nov
(🔒) NEW at PROOF: "Americans Must Understand Just How Badly Steve Bannon Wants to Go to Jail"

So far the insurrectionist Steve Bannon is getting exactly what he wants. It's up to the FBI, DOJ, and federal judges to change that—and they better start soon. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-american…
1/ A true story, and one any fellow former public defender (or current public defender) will be able to confirm: when you're a public defender doing the job because you believe in it zealously, you *pray* that one day a judge will hold you in contempt of court for doing your job.
2/ I can honestly say that at one or two moments in my legal career when I knew I was doing the right thing and knew it was riling up a judge to the point at which they might hold me in direct contempt, the better part of my psyche relished the prospect of being put in handcuffs.
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12 Nov
Given that the first time Steve Bannon was indicted, during the Trump presidency, he was found on the yacht of a Chinese fugitive from justice—and given that we know Bannon helped plan an armed insurrection against the United States—he's a flight risk and must be held in custody.
(PS) I would not allow *any* person who helped plan an armed insurrection against the United States—and who has contacts all over the world, including in countries without extradition treaties with the United States—to self-surrender.

Cuffs must be applied *as soon as possible*.
(PS2) I wonder how many Americans know that the primary point of deliberation for a state or federal judge in setting bail is the likelihood the defendant will return to court as required. And Steve Bannon is charged with... failure to appear for a hearing as required by law. 🧐
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12 Nov
Ronny, can you imagine what would happen if the president’s doctor repeatedly lied to an entire nation about the president’s health, then stepped down from his post to beg the president for an endorsement so he could get into Congress?

Oh, that’s right—you don’t have to imagine.
(PS) Also, Ronny—pro tip—one way to on occasion get a minor mulligan in misspeaking is to spend *decades* fighting for racial justice.

And one way to *never* get any leeway whatsoever on racial issues is to spend a whole lifetime being a virulent racist like your God-Emperor is.
(PS2) I guess this is also a good time to remind @RonnyJacksonTX that Trump referred to our soldiers as “losers and suckers” and is known to routinely use disparaging terms for Black people in private. Also he spent years and years refusing to rent to Black people. Shall I go on?
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12 Nov
Meadows is lawless. Trump is lawless. I'm astounded, as an attorney, that there are attorneys willing to so flagrantly ignore the law as these lawyers are. When I represented men charged with very serious crimes, it did *not* mean that I was suddenly freed of professional ethics.
(PS) I'm serious about this. A lawyer can advise Meadows that, until SCOTUS hears the issue, he can refuse to answer questions covered (arguendo) by privilege *if* Trump is explicitly raising privilege. But can an attorney advise Meadows to refuse to answer *other* questions? No.
(PS2) The idea that a House committee chairman must write to a lawyer that he has *ignored an element of a subpoena received by his client* is just further evidence of how lawless America has become. I'd like to see Meadows' current attorney referred for bar discipline, honestly.
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11 Nov
(BREAKING) Pressure From RETRO, the Jobst Report, Major Media, and Two Video Game Grading Houses Pays Off: WATA to Issue Pop Reports

We won! Investigative journalism won. Not in politics—alas—but the world's fastest-growing alternative asset-class market. retrostack.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
(PS) I know this is inside baseball to 99% of you. But 1% of you may recall WATA CEO Deniz Kahn promising—3 years ago!—that population reports would be coming in a month. They never did, only the discovery that WATA insiders were *buying up games and getting them graded by WATA*.
(PS2) The fear was that this was a form of (not yet illegal) insider trading, in which men with potential access to non-public intel were making hundreds of thousands of dollars off proprietary data that was supposed to be given to all consumers years ago. So today is a big deal.
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