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10 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A great loss for music. 😢
(PS) Michael wrote the song below, among much else. RIP.
(PS2) He also helped found MTV by creating the show PopClips for Nickelodeon (which morphed into MTV after its sale), was in a band that outsold the Beatles in the U.S. for years, had his own television show... in short, he led an absolutely extraordinary, innovation-filled life.
(PS3) Nesmith was also a country-rock pioneer, along with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and a few others based in California. He wrote this Billboard No. 21 song in late 1969, I believe; it was released in mid-1970 on his debut post-Monkees album.
(PS4) Michael Nesmith also wrote the splendid baroque ballad "Different Drum," which in 1967 helped launch the career of the wonderful Linda Ronstadt—whose voice was a constant presence in my house growing up (one of the few eight-tracks my parents had).

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11 Dec
(🔒) NEW at PROOF: "Previously Unreported Insurrection Eve Video Confirms Stop the Steal Plot to Occupy the Capitol Long-Term Beginning on January 6"

There's no longer any serious doubt about what Team Trump's January 6 plan was. This video helps seal it. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-previous…
1/ Across four extensive reports, PROOF has now established—beyond doubt—that the January 6 insurrectionists planned to storm *and occupy* the Capitol so that the joint session would be postponed long enough for Trump to send new slates of electors to Washington.

And Trump knew.
2/ And I'm not just referring to the paramilitaries at the Capitol on January 6: the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, the 1st Amendment Praetorians, and so on. The "Occupy the Capitol" plan depended on what Ali Alexander termed *civilian* "boots on the ground."
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10 Dec
A nonwhite woman can become California AG, a US Senator, then Vice President of the US and there’ll always be someone on hand to say she has no idea what she’s doing. Harris isn’t above critique, but let’s have a substantive, incisive, policy-oriented one. wsj.com/articles/kamal…
Trump was POTUS and didn’t read *anything* and his subordinates regularly committed crimes. Harris is VPOTUS—though she only has been for ~10 months—and now we hear she isn’t reading *enough* briefing materials and her subordinates are disgruntled. On some level, give me a break.
It’s columns like these that explain, in not-so-minor part, why Harris has a lower approval rating than a career criminal and serial sexual assailant with a quarter of her intelligence and competence. Columns like these and the attitudes of those who read them and nod their head.
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8 Dec
Just a quick note: we should prepare for the revelation that *many* GOP members of Congress anticipated the Capitol would be breached and the joint session of Congress interrupted on January 6—and that it was largely Democrats and Pence caught off guard and under threat that day.
Some will say we already know this, but in fact we don't—that evidence hasn't emerged. But the indie journalism I am seeing on coup memos sent to GOP members of Congress pre-January 6 suggests the party aided and abetted the coup by not revealing what it thought likely to happen.
The question will be whether failing to inform the Pentagon, USCP, and MPD of an anticipated attack on the Capitol makes GOP members of Congress—possibly numbering in the dozens—co-conspirators in an armed insurrection.

Ethically? Of course. But the question will be a legal one.
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Trump biographers understand what motivates him to make a statement like this, which might be incriminating from another’s mouth: he’s simply trying to change history on what is considered the worst and most irresponsible decision of his presidency. He’s not “admitting” anything.
I understand the temptation to turn this into a “gotcha” moment—but the way Trump operates is that he’s keenly aware of media criticism and even criticism from certain historians, and he is trying to rewrite his failed presidency in real time to make his worst decisions his best.
Trump is accusing Comey of being part of a *political* conspiracy to derail and end his presidency. He is not saying that there was a criminal investigation of him personally at that point, as in fact there was not—the investigation of him that began was *because* he fired Comey.
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6 Dec
Holy sh*t.

“Matthews’ memo calls...[Mike Flynn’s brother] Charles Flynn, who served as deputy chief of staff for [Pentagon] ops on January 6...[an] ‘absolute and unmitigated liar’ for [his] characterization of the events of that day [before Congress].” politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
(PS) Remember that Charles Flynn—who wasn’t in the chain of command on January 6—was *inexplicably* involved in the decision not to send troops to the Capitol. He’s now being accused of the federal crime of perjury. Given that his brother is an insurrectionist, this is startling.
(PS2) Remember too that the “theory of the case” regarding the insurrection is no longer—and for some of us never was—that Team Trump wanted to take over the government that day, but that it simply needed the Pentagon and others to ensure the Capitol would be *briefly* occupied.
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3 Dec
Please understand this: if Roe v. Wade is overturned, rich white Republican women and their daughters will continue to get abortions as before. Their focus is on controlling the bodies of non-white and poor women—as it’s always been. When Roe is lost, it’ll only be lost for some.
The percent of the GOP base so devoutly “pro-life” that—in keeping with certain religious dogma—it opposes both the death penalty and all abortions is vanishingly small.

For most Republicans, the goal on abortion is divide-and-conquer rhetoric and cultural “command and control.”
Republicans believe that women who, post-Roe, bring unwanted pregnancies to term—and they’re certain that such women will largely be Democrats—are more likely to stay in poverty and not vote.

Abortion is a liberty, equality, and economic freedom question, and the GOP *knows* it.
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