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I do not mean that the DOJ referral should not happen. It should. And when I say it will be ignored, I mean because DOJ does not care about referrals—they ignored over 90% of Trump-era ones. But do I think Trump will be indicted? As I have said before here, yes—I actually do. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mayaonstage I think the full thread says more than just the first tweet about where I am at — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThaiisThei But I think I let the cat out of the bag already! lol — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ Pretty cool that Substack now emails you free media assets for every article! https://t.co/MUxhGVTXm3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThaiisThei But yes, I should probably have said 1% or 2%! — PolitiTweet.org

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@DonovanTim The whole article is earworms 😆 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThaiisThei Only if I have a *lot* of older UK readers, more than I think I do — PolitiTweet.org

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@StephJmom yes, and I think that was my problem: by the time I had such friends in art school we were... hanging out... and watching multimedia rather than looking at pictures — PolitiTweet.org

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So I would be doing readers a disservice if I broke down this document beyond saying that the full subpoena package—in its totality—outlines a number of crimes and virtually ensures a criminal referral on Trump. But again, what matters is *keeping this Committee from disbanding*. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s what matters: the evidence of Trump’s criminality the Committee didn’t—yet—disclose, and the fact that Congress must find a way to keep the January 6 investigation going because it’s nowhere *near* over. A sure-to-be-ignored subpoena dumped on a Friday doesn’t interest me. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m not writing about the Trump subpoena—as it’s meaningless. Trump won’t honor it or face consequences for not doing so. It matters only in that its accompanying materials underscore that the House January 6 Committee will issue a DOJ referral on him. Which will also be ignored. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StephJmom I'm embarrassed to say that I've never successfully seen the hidden picture even once! — PolitiTweet.org

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SAMPLE/ The first song on this professionally curated LP is far and away the best-known song here—and my guess is that fewer than 0.1% of the readers of this feed have heard it before. So here it is: Middle of the Road, “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” (1970). https://t.co/mcyyeog1co — PolitiTweet.org

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@JimCaligiuri There is! Click the link and then click on "Let Me Read It First" instead of entering an email address. Then find any article without a lock symbol on it. There aren’t many at RETRO, but there *are* some, including in the Music section of the site. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ And it goes without saying (if you know even a little about bubblegum music) that bubblegum bands and bubblegum songs had—including the ten amazing songs collected here—hands down the *silliest names* ever employed in pop music or that (I dare say) ever will be. *So* so weird. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ And to those who think bubblegum music is now irrelevant, consider that basically all of the indie pop of the 1990s and 2000s was influenced by it, and that some of the most timeless sixties tunes—yes, even some Beatles songs!—were actually just *thinly disguised* “bubblegum.” — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ And it goes without saying that I define what we mean by “bubblegum music” and consider some of the market considerations behind it. But the upshot is this—no matter how much you think you know 60s music, you’ve probably not heard these songs. Yet they’re all *catchy as hell*. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ The essay I’ve written here tackles these paradoxes and troubling trends head-on—including taking a look at some bubblegum lyrics that’d be deemed *genuinely creepy today*, even as I acknowledge that some of the biggest 1960s pop hits were bubblegum but simply not called that. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ Bubblegum music was ostensibly intended for kids, but filled with double-entendres involving drugs and sex. Even as it superficially pulled back on some of the heavy-hitter preoccupations of sixties music—e.g., war—it touted a strange aggressiveness in romantic relationships. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ I call the article above “weird” as it offers an essay—and an LP worth of obscure music—from a sub-genre of 1960s music that offered (a) the catchiest songs of the decade, but also (b) songs that are, in retrospect, pretty controversial. I find it all historically fascinating. — PolitiTweet.org

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(🎂) This week is the 1-year birthday of RETRO, one of the Top 10 History media outlets on Substack. To celebrate, annual subscriptions are 20% off—just $40—through my own birthday, Halloween. I hope you’ll subscribe and check out this weird new article! https://t.co/YwxKUGnA6B — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: And another.... Judge sentences Mark Mazza to FIVE YEARS in prison. Per plea agreement, Mazza had loaded gun on Jan 6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: Classified papers at Mar-a-Lago held U.S. secrets on Iran missile program, intelligence on China, people familiar with… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @January6thCmte: In a letter to Mr. Trump, Chair @BennieGThompson and Vice Chair @RepLizCheney underscored Trump’s central role in a del… — PolitiTweet.org

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JC @elonmusk https://t.co/Z7OfpW64vW — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JenniferJJacobs: Scoop: Biden admin officials are discussing whether US should subject some of @elonmusk’s ventures to national securit… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: PROOF: The Congressional January 6 Investigation Can Continue Into 2023 and Beyond—Even if Democrats Lose the House. Here… — PolitiTweet.org

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And just to clarify, I mean “moral troglodyte.” I fully grant Jim Jordan his personhood in a way he cannot and will not the half of America that he so despises. — PolitiTweet.org

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Give a troglodyte like Jordan 5 years and absolute power and he *would* come for you and yours. And the sad part is that many of those he’d ultimately come for would believe until the final moment that they’d be spared, because that’s the history of fascism in the Western world. — PolitiTweet.org

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These tweets are sinister and un-American. They come from a man who has no moral scruples and wants to legislate away the rights of anyone who he *personally* deems is not a “real” American. And spoiler, if you’re not a white Christian man like him, you’re not a “real” American. — PolitiTweet.org