Seth Abramson

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But corporate media makes less money if the Wisconsin Senate race is the pro-Barnes blowout it objectively should be. So instead we get reporting that appears to want to artificially tighten a race so more people consume local/US media related to Wisconsin politics. It’s *sick*. — PolitiTweet.org

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What you’d think is that the nation’s paper of record would’ve seen this trend enough since 1964 to know it for what it is and *report it*—“racist, false ads about the criminal justice system are flooding Wisconsin airwaves”—rather than establishing a BS Barnes-is-weak narrative. — PolitiTweet.org

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It may be that Barnes can respond even more forcefully to racist attacks on him, but of course he knows—as all Black politicians know—that to defend oneself in this way is to invite the disapprobation of independents. It’s the sick catch-22 voters and the media put Black pols in. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fortunately for racist Republicans, the New York Times has positioned its story on Republicans’ obscenely false dark-money ads—which play Republican voters, and indeed all Sconnies, for fools—as a sign that Barnes is weak in some way. It’s an *amazing* exercise in victim-blaming. — PolitiTweet.org

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So what we learn from the NYT today is that the GOP is running the same playbook in Wisconsin—a beautiful, well-educated, forward-looking state—Republicans have been running for half a century: find a Black man and lie about his views on crime (and how the justice system works). — PolitiTweet.org

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Fortunately for racist Republican puppetmasters, most Republican voters *don’t actually know anything* about the justice system—they just love *talking* about it, as they’ve been told to think incessantly about it by GOP strategists invested in making us fearful *but not safer*. — PolitiTweet.org

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Beyond minor fixes like equalizing cocaine-possession sentences to make sure all such possession is handled equally, anyone who knows anything about criminal justice knows that when we talk about reducing the overall prison population, we are speaking prospectively and long-term. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Barnes were white, Republicans wouldn’t have made such a preposterous argument. Not only is the idea that anyone wants violent criminals en masse to serve less than their sentences preposterous, there’s no mechanism for releasing any significant portion of a prison population. — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans lied to Wisconsin voters by saying Mandela Barnes wanted to swing open the prison doors for half of all people in prison *today*—immediately—and that he specifically wanted to put violent criminals back on the street. They told Sconnies Barnes was a pro-crime monster. — PolitiTweet.org

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So what did they do? They lied brutally to Wisconsin voters—just like *Ron Johnson* did when he said he’d be term-limited. Just like Ron Johnson did when he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and then spent years coddling our Kremlin enemies and helping to foment sedition. — PolitiTweet.org

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So when Mandela Barnes indicated he wanted to see a long-term reduction in the prison population—bringing us in line with the entire industrialized world—it was non-controversial. But racist Republicans in Wisconsin and around the country saw an opportunity to smear a Black man. — PolitiTweet.org

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Politicians on *both* sides agree that we are incarcerating people that we do not *need* to be incarcerating. Non-violent offenders whose long-term outlook is actually worse for them—and all of society—if they are warehoused at taxpayer expense for years instead of rehabilitated. — PolitiTweet.org

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Politicians on both sides want to reduce the prison population in a responsible way. Why? Because current policies are a waste of taxpayer money, actually encourage recidivism, make us look like a prison state on the world stage, and ravage the long-term prospects of communities. — PolitiTweet.org

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The surprising thing isn’t that the GOP went after Mandela Barnes on crime—that’s *always* what racist Republicans do when their own candidate is an empty-headed traitor to America who broke a term-limit pledge (and even when he’s not). But the ads are also breathtakingly false. — PolitiTweet.org

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I watch Badgers football weekly, so I’ve seen many Wisconsin ads (I lived there six years, but now live in New England). It’s been years since I’ve seen such racist, dishonest dark-money pro-GOP ads. Now the NYT says they’re working. Sconnies should be ashamed—and I bet many are. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @conorsen: I’m becoming increasingly convinced we went through an “inflation burp” rather than some structural 1970’s-type thing. It’s f… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TelegraphWorld: 🇺🇦 Ukraine could recapture Crimea as fleeing Russians continue to flounder Taking territory annexed by Vladimir Putin… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Punctilious_T See second tweet in thread — PolitiTweet.org

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(I love Australian Cattle Dogs, all! I was actually just looking for an excuse to put them in a tweet because I've been watching videos of them.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham has no principles, so the fact that the first 80% of this thread is basically correct is as rare an accident as an Australian Cattle Dog falling off an overpass, landing on the seat of an inexplicably riderless Harley, and successfully navigating it to the shoulder — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham has no principles, so the fact that the first 80% of this thread is basically correct is as rare an accident as a Australian Cattle Dog falling off an overpass, landing on the seat of an inexplicably riderless Harley, and successfully navigating it to the shoulder — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AhmedBaba_: Tucker Carlson now creating Dark Brandon promo art like a true fan — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Man it’s almost like the Saudis sent an emissary to Trump Tower in the first week of August 2016 to offer the Trumps and… — PolitiTweet.org

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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 https://t.co/WWPproHU8s — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Looking to meme @ElonMusk into oblivion for his grotesque pro-Kremlin/anti-democracy tweets and polls today? Use this fre… — PolitiTweet.org

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@LJMalcom Because this feed is not one that hides news that is potentially unhappy or inconvenient. What kind of Twitter reader only reads feeds that pass on partisan news? I am completely gobsmacked by your way of thinking. — PolitiTweet.org

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All of which is to say, SLAVA UKRAINI. https://t.co/VNPZNJhQDO — PolitiTweet.org

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So it is candidly *frustrating* when we have an intelligence community that has actively aided Trump and Russia for years by hiding everything it knows of the ties between the two, but now has no difficulty leaking an intelligence finding that could damage Russia’s enemy Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Unlike Trump, I *tend* to trust US intel assessments. But I'm not going to pretend I don’t think the USIC is filled with secretive morons who selectively leak their findings on the stupidest, most short-sighted bases. They continue to hide almost everything they know about Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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While it can hardly be said that common sense guides these scenarios, no one disputes the fact that Ukraine is currently winning the public relations war over Russia by a country mile. So how stupid would it be for Ukraine to fall back on wildly unpopular civilian assassinations? — PolitiTweet.org