Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(MORE) In under a year, RETRO is already an archive of 100+ articles across a range of sections: 🔸 Books 🔸 Comics 🔸 Digital Culture 🔸 Marginalia 🔸 Music 🔸 Q&As 🔸 Toys 🔸 TV & Film 🔸 Video Games Importantly, almost all RETRO content is “evergreen”—its relevance persists. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) As RETRO approaches its first birthday—October 19—subscriptions are surging, with a 30% increase in the RETRO community this month alone. I hope you’ll consider subscribing to the #6 History substack for $5/mo. or $48/year. Tons of new content coming! https://t.co/Yh2Om0tzSR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (PS2) I actually taught HAWKEYE (the Fraction/Aja run) in my “Intro to Visual Literacy: Graphic Novels” courses at Univer… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (PS) That’s my way of saying how wild it is PLAYBOY wanted to speak to me—as no, I definitely *don’t* put myself in the s… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Here’s the PLAYBOY article, for those interested. Past monthly PLAYBOY interviewees include Miles Davis, Joan Baez, Fran… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) NEW at RETRO: Years before PLAYBOY reported that I dress like “a regional manager for a call center chain”—in context… — PolitiTweet.org

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A reveal I did not see coming — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SawyerHackett: Kyrsten Sinema is in Louisville today giving a lecture on bipartisanship with Mitch McConnell. She still hasn’t held a… — PolitiTweet.org

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Well said. I should have added that in my hypothetical the citizens of West Palm Beach are taking their vote under duress, while being threatened with murder by armed Kremlin terrorists. https://t.co/n7gCTG3FoM — PolitiTweet.org

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Ukraine is Ukraine. Russia is Russia. The idea that you can declare a portion of another country a part of yours on no basis whatsoever and then threaten to use nuclear weapons if the land you stole is contested is Hitlerian. — PolitiTweet.org

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This would be like the citizens of West Palm Beach voting to declare West Palm Beach a Russian city and then the Kremlin declaring that it’ll now defend West Palm Beach as though it were a Russian city. This attempted thievery of large swaths of Ukraine is *that* level of lunacy. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Telegraph: 🔴 US will take ‘catastrophic’ action if Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons Severe consequences loom if Russia follows thro… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Imagine Idi Amin saying of a journalist “Her writing feels just like home cooking!” and you have a sense of how horrifyin… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Imagine Idi Amin saying of a journalist “Her writing feels just like home cooking!” and you have a sense of how horrifyin… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Will0w2 No, she will not crash. She will make millions and continue to win national awards. Which is precisely why I am calling out her conduct. Apparently few if any of her peers in corporate media have any intention of doing so. — PolitiTweet.org

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@macarthur_david I somehow wrote three national bestsellers on Trump totaling 2,500 pages without interviewing him, so what do you think? Direct access to this interview subject is of no journalistic value whatsoever. He is one of the few figures in American life of whom that is obviously true. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS8) I’m going to read Haberman’s book because as a Trump biographer I have to. I don’t have a choice; amidst all the dross, there may be a fact or two in the book that’s verifiable and useful for future curations. But the average reader has *many* better options to choose from. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS7) The fact that you can get rich doing so doesn’t justify a journalist repeatedly using sources she knows are lying. My critique of Haberman has been this—almost exclusively—since I publicly called for US journalists to stop using Kellyanne Conway as a source in January 2017. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Will0w2 You’re missing the point being made here. There was no value in the interview. She got nothing from the interview. Her access journalism isn’t an ethical methodology with respect to this particular interview subject. And she’s been told this 1000 times or more. By so many people. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS6) But please don’t comfort yourself by thinking Haberman’s ghoulish access journalism isn’t profitable for her. Her book will be a NYT bestseller; she’ll appear on every cable news program; she’ll make $1,000,000 or more; she may even win an award. Her “journalism” *sells*. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS5) You don’t let a man whose actions willfully killed hundreds of thousands of Americans yadda yadda yadda through the worst pandemic in 100+ years by implying he only learned how bad it was after he left office. And you *sure* don’t do so by noting how “cordial” he is to you. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS4) In a recent Atlantic article, Haberman quotes Trump as saying in March 2021 that COVID-19 “turned out” to be “not good”, intel he had by January 3, 2020. Instead of noting his grotesque deception—which glosses over 1M+ dead—her next sentence is, “He greeted me cordially...” — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS3) The way to cover Trump—it was clear by 2015—was to limit quotations of him to accidental statements against interest and then contrast all his other statements against the mountain of evidence proving them false and indeed part and parcel of a coverup of serious misconduct. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS2) 2014 was the final year in which any responsible journalist felt that credulously quoting any Donald Trump claim—or credulously quoting any claim by anyone in his inner circle—qualified as even marginally ethical journalism. Haberman’s whole enterprise is morally bankrupt. — PolitiTweet.org

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@macarthur_david even simpler: anyone can get him to talk, the best journalists know that access to him is absolutely meaningless because nothing he says is honest or useful — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) Only other journalists who’ve dedicated themselves to covering Trump are fully aware of how much critical information Haberman leaves out of every sentence she writes about the ex-president. It only reads like solid journalism if you don’t know any of the background/context. — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine Idi Amin saying of a journalist “Her writing feels just like home cooking!” and you have a sense of how horrifying and profoundly discrediting it is that Donald Trump compares Maggie Haberman to a medical professional contractually responsible for rendering him urgent aid — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CREWcrew: Florida paid Vertol Systems Company $1.56 million for flying it usually doesn’t do. Turns out a key member of Gov. Ron DeSan… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonvandine @JMMalyon Not an inch of daylight between you and the Kremlin war machine — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonvandine @JMMalyon Stop tweeting like Putin’s war-simp majordomo if you want that high-horse saddle so bad — PolitiTweet.org