Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@IAmJustInTime2 You made your first mistake before even tweeting. You think I’m a calculating person. I’m a fairly emotional and sensitive person who is good at calculating a small percentage of the time. When you read my feed you are getting the good *and* the bad. This is not a performance. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@mrbwa1 @apoco__lips I agree. I do come off badly sometimes. I was just saying to my wife that I can rub people the wrong way and a lot of that is my fault because of my tone. What is simply my natural intensity on the subjects I write about—my own earnest urgency—*often* sounds like something else. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mrbwa1 @apoco__lips I hope you guys will do me a favor and look at the bottom of the image I posted atop of the thread you’re opining about. Do you think I came to be interested in this subject without reading local journalists from Idaho? That’s *primarily* who I have read. And will continue to. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Lindavotebluen1 I’m stupider than most, in my own view. But I can spot bad faith a long way away, from hard experience. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RyanKFerguson Ryan, I’m always going to thread. And folks of bad faith like Kelcie will always try to win arguments by pretending they didn’t read threads they actually did and then screenshotting a single tweet out of context rather than quote-tweeting the thread. Nothing I can do about that. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS2) BTW @KelcieMMorris, what sort of terrible bad faith is it for a journalist to distort the meaning of a thread, then deliberately ensure readers can’t catch you out in what you’ve done by screenshotting one tweet rather than quote-tweeting the thread? What horrific bad form. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RyanKFerguson If you take one tweet out of context you can make it mean anything. The thread *said* which “Idaho journalists” I was discussing. Did you read the thread? Why in the world would you assume I was speaking of *hundreds and hundreds of people* rather than two? Occam’s Razor, Jesus! — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) The thread you’re now attacking even identified the two journalists I was specifically responding to. You’re the one—incredibly, in defense of journalism—irresponsibly distorting both what I said and what I meant, which seems to underscore the whole point of my thread today. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve no idea what you’re talking about, @KelcieMMorris. I never did and never would call all Idahoan journalists whiners, and never said—or would—that AR only matters because I tweeted about it. “Ordinary” is a political term-of-art; I’m an ordinary Granite Stater—i.e. not a pol. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NCoelius My take has always been that Hillary Clinton’s actions were problematic; that was my view in 2016, and it’s still my view six years later. But what’s on the table at the moment is whether her conduct as SoS was in the *universe* of Trump’s conduct as a private citizen. It’s not. — PolitiTweet.org

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RETWEET the hell out of the tweet below. Hillary deserves it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HillaryClinton: I can’t believe we’re still talking about this, but my emails… As Trump’s problems continue to mount, the right is try… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: People may not realize what this breaking news in Georgia means. At a time she believed—understandably, as he *said* so—t… — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) If you’re interested in reading more in this subject, I actually just published a whole book on Trump’s effort to seize voting machines post-election—a book in which Sidney Powell is one of the major figures. You can find the book at PROOF, below. https://t.co/AaPGLygJ0n — PolitiTweet.org

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Is that a winning defense? Likely not—given that the attack on the Georgia voting machine was clandestine. But it isn’t a wholly implausible defense, and it would absolutely require Donald Trump testifying under oath about words he said in front of witnesses on December 18, 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn’t a defense of Powell. But I’ll tell you this: if indicted for conspiracy to commit election fraud in Georgia (or some more esoteric statute about tampering with voting machines) her defense will be that she was made an agent of Trump—*before witnesses*—for that purpose. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pat Cipollone’s testimonial evasions notwithstanding, Trump by his own words *did* make Powell a “special counsel” on 12/18/20—and did so *specifically* in response to her pitch: if you appoint me, I can seize voting machines. 20 days later, she had men working on that very task. — PolitiTweet.org

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People may not realize what this breaking news in Georgia means. At a time she believed—understandably, as he *said* so—that Trump had granted her special authority to seize voting machines, Powell oversaw two men breaking into a Georgia voting machine on 1/7/21. @January6thCmte — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING NEWS: Fox News Producer Made Desperate Efforts to Get Trump Adviser Jeanine Pirro Off-Air Post-Election, Citing Her Dangerousness https://t.co/AcmI9LLP3N — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZcohenCNN: News: A GOP county official in Georgia, who served as a fake elector, escorted 2 operatives working wi/ Trump lawyer Sidney… — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) It’s the first time this has happened in a century. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) Big news. And hopefully the beginning of a trend. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@BeARealDemocrat @audreydutton I don’t judge people by their audience or employer. I’m not looking to “win.” I respect the hell out of journalists of every beat/jurisdiction who do their jobs well—and I’ve no reason to think Audrey is anything but good at what she does. I’ve no interest in being anyone’s king. — PolitiTweet.org

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@atzuniga It is so good — PolitiTweet.org

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@calispell1 https://t.co/fkLEKd6us7 — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(I don’t want to call out particular non-humanities majors, but having taught in higher ed for 15 years I can say most students and their parents have only a dim sense of how majors correlate—to the extent they do—with post-college work. The issue really *isn’t* the humanities.) — PolitiTweet.org

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The full(er) story is that the majors some humanities majors wish they had enrolled in instead are considerably more problematic than the courses of study that they actually completed. The simple truth—a bigger story—is that undergrads have no real idea how/why to choose a major. — PolitiTweet.org

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My wife and I just signed up for our Omicron BA-variant boosters. You should too! I hope you’ll spread the word and get boosted ASAP! — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: I had no idea I needed a hilarious 3-hour takedown of Jordan Peterson, but it turns out I did. Yes, you heard me—3 hours… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

NOTE/ There’s one mistake I made in my brief GAR thread—not article or report—on Twitter yesterday. I should’ve done far more to *laud* the brave Idahoans fighting daily to defend their home state. I didn’t intend to disrespect them in any way. They have my admiration and thanks. — PolitiTweet.org