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Seth Abramson

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6 Jan

(🔐) NEW at PROOF: The Coming Collapse of Donald Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 2: Roger Stone

This exposé on the dirtiest man in U.S. politics reveals more signs that the January 6 conspiracy is collapsing. I hope you will subscribe, read, and share. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…

1/ We can all be forgiven for not following the life and times of Roger Stone closely. It's a bizarre, exhausting, thoroughly despicable spectacle that makes one feel dirty just in being exposed to it. But we can't ignore what Stone's been up to over the last 90 days. It matters.

2/ This ongoing PROOF series is looking at the signs—largely unreported in national media—that Trump's top allies are abandoning him because they believe the House January 6 Committee or DOJ or both will get to them before the GOP takes over Congress in early 2023 (if they do).

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

6 Jan

I love Jon Stewart; I love the Harry Potter films; I don't think Rowling is anti-Semitic, or that the Harry Potter movies are anti-Semitic; and I know—as Stewart and every Jew in America knows—that the appearance of these goblin bankers is *1000%* drawn from an anti-Semitic trope

(PS) Believe me, when we Jews get together in our secret enclaves (/s) there is no fuzz on this question whatsoever

https://twitter.com/jaredpretender/status/1478888553287401478

(PS2) Yes, *exactly* like the Ferengi, which is also something every Jew knows even as many of us like Star Trek and don't believe it to be anti-Semitic

https://twitter.com/jaredpretender/status/1478888553287401478

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

5 Jan

(THREAD) AG Merrick Garland said all correct things today—as we knew he would. The question was whether he'd go beyond being correct and be *illuminating*. As an attorney and former criminal investigator, here's my assessment of how he did on that score. I hope you'll read/share.

1/ First, it's important to understand that—separate from criticisms DOJ has received from lay members of the public—the criticism Garland has received from attorneys and legal analysts like me *isn't* that he hasn't charged any high-level coup plotters yet. That's not the issue.

2/ Attorneys, legal analysts, and criminal investigators know that the federal criminal justice system moves much slower than state criminal justice systems—and the more complex and historic the case, the *slower* it moves. This was always a given in the January 6 investigation.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

5 Jan

Now that everyone is talking about Peter Navarro, how about we discuss the fact that he was in the war room at *Trump International* on January 5—as confirmed by multiple men who were there—and thereafter lied to the AP about it

Why did he lie

What happened in that room at THI

Did I mention that the room (in fact a town house) Peter Navarro was in on Insurrection Eve is Donald Trump’s personal residence in DC, and that that’s where the war room at THI was held? Did I mention that PROOF published a list of *everyone in that war room* almost a year ago?

Navarro is willing to talk about the “Green Bay Sweep” on MSNBC because he’s confident that nothing in the document describing that coup attempt was technically illegal

By comparison, he lied about even *being in the war room* at THI

As a former investigator that tells me a lot

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

5 Jan

https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1468693927360352259

This is the first time I've seen my Con Law professor since the early 2000s—whoa!

We did not see eye to eye, especially on the rights of people with disabilities, but he was a good prof overall. (A "B" from him and "A+" from Dershowitz—which I'm still processing 20 years later.)

https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1468693927360352259

(PS) I've gotta say, it sounds like Prof. Fried has come around to my way of thinking rather than the other way around. Good for him—I'm learning as I get older that it gets harder and harder to change in certain ways, even as it gets easier and easier in others. Hard to explain.

(PS2) What the professor and I disagreed on most was whether you could exclude certain persons from a protected class because they have a "built-in" political constituency that is *not* they themselves. It seems that he sees now how dangerous that thinking can become over time.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

4 Jan

(🔓) RETRO UNLOCKED: Here it is—free to the public and open to comment from anyone. This research on the thriving NES homebrew scene (tag: #nesdev) took months, scores of hours, and (I'll add) much more money than I expected. I hope you'll share it widely! retrostack.substack.com/p/the-retro-to…

1/ As a cultural theorist as well as someone who teaches video games at the university level and has been a video game journalist for many years, I find the ever-evolving "homebrew" scene—which started in the 2000s but has blown up over the last few years—endlessly enthralling.

2/ Like many reading this, I grew up on games for the original NES.

After the Video Game Crash of 1983, it seemed as though Atari had sunk the concept of "video games" forever. Nintendo changed history with the NES; video games are now the world's largest entertainment industry.

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