Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@TheOneActionPat Chases are loud, fast and hectic—and people don’t lean way outside windows to fire like in the movies—so I candidly wouldn’t think an officer in a position to readily know if they’d been fired on unless there’s physical proof of it. Otherwise the testimony will feel self-serving. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheOneActionPat I have worked cases that involved police chases. If police are going to claim they were shot at, they are going to need to show a bullet hole in one of their vehicles that was not there prior to the chase. If they have done so, link to an article here that says so. Thank you. — PolitiTweet.org

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The mental gymnastics white Americans do to justify the killings of unarmed Black Americans can’t be explained by the basic lack of empathy many humans suffer from. It’s a lack of empathy *explicitly* applied just to black people and other non-whites. *That* makes one a racist. — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s why I find myself thinking in terms of an “empathy gap” rather than lack of empathy. Many humans have far less empathy than they should, but in certain situations we can exclude all the variables and see a major empathy gap based on *race*. In America this gap is *gaping*. — PolitiTweet.org

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But it’s also the case that empathy in no way requires privilege. As a former public defender, I met many poor white men who felt they’d routinely been mistreated by police. It was an opening to empathize with Black Americans some of them took, but it should have been much more. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I will freely concede that *most* human beings have difficulty empathizing with others. But the fact is, white men have the most room—at least here in America—to allow empathy to accompany their baseline privilege. And yes, that makes it more of an insult when they do not do so. — PolitiTweet.org

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The reason so many white men don’t understand why women are angry about Dobbs or why Black Americans are angry about Jayland Walker is because they have the emotional maturity of six-year-olds. If it doesn’t affect them, they have *no interest in it*. And they will never change. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tens of millions of whites are on the brink of demanding civil war because a white billionaire career criminal says he had an election “stolen” from him without a single shred of evidence. The same people don’t give a sh*t about Jayland Walker but are definitely *not* racists. 🙄 — PolitiTweet.org

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So here’s what it *looks* like right now: an unarmed Black man running away from police and posing no threat was executed by firing squad; after he’d been shot 60 times and was dead, police cuffed him and made a show of rending “aid”; not one of the shooters has been interviewed. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: Washington Post op-Ed this weekend says “We can no longer avoid a criminal investigation into Donald Trump” https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: DC federal judge describing Jan 6: "A singular and chilling event in U.S. history, raising legitimate concern about th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: Rep Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tells CNN there are new witnesses who have come forward to Jan 6 Select Committee after the t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Acosta: ICYMI: I asked former Secret Service agent @JDWackrow if he thought it was appropriate for Tony Ornato to return to the Secret… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: Schiff says the committee is concerned that Trump WH witnesses are “sharing lawyers”… and “feel like they have big brot… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MacFarlaneNews: Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) says next Jan 6 Committee hearing will include a presentation about far right groups and those w… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: In the event you worried, as I have, that our democracy would end in January of 2025—if and when GOP legislators and elec… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: I think it’s important to say now—before Donald Trump announces a 2024 presidential run that can only be aimed at scammin… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Cassieper So yes, to be clear, Joe Biden could let Democrats know that he is going to fight for the integrity of the Supreme Court. He has not done that and will not do that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Cassieper There was a coup within the legislative branch of the United States government, and the Democratic Party did absolutely nothing about it. And the President of the United States will not use his bully pulpit to speak of it. And you say he can do nothing at all? Are you kidding me? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Cassieper Do you understand anything about how GOTV works? Anything about the policies a sitting president can slap down on the Resolute Desk in a way that underscore to voters that there’s a *reason* to show up at the polls? Has he spoken even once about this being a stolen Supreme Court? — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden doesn’t understand how many are waiting for him to prove there’s still a reason to believe in democracy. Still a reason to believe in America. Still a reason to believe things change via collective restorative action. Instead, he white knights a world that no longer exists. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden could fix the Supreme Court, but he won’t. And if Sleeping Beauty (Merrick Garland) refuses to wake up and become Attorney General, Biden could fix that too—but he won’t. Even though in both cases it would only *aid* his chances of reelection. But old men are gonna old men. — PolitiTweet.org

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To be clear, and this is what I think Michelle was driving at, America *has* the necessary institutions to allow good people to stay good and still win. But only if those institutions function as intended. Right now the DOJ appears to be broken—and the Supreme Court certainly is. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the catch-22 Michelle Obama once spoke about. When your opponents have no values whatsoever, they offer you a devil’s bargain: either you can maintain your dignity and keep losing, or stoop to their level and lose either way because even if you win you have lost yourself. — PolitiTweet.org

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The GOP is now a congregation of losers with loser policies. In the main, America finds distasteful what the GOP *actually* represents (as opposed to what it *says* it does). What it has going for it is a lack of scruples. It wins because it has no immutable values whatsoever. — PolitiTweet.org

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And incredibly, if Ginni Thomas bestie Kenneth Blackwell doesn’t systematically move voting machines out of poor Democratic neighborhoods in Ohio in 2004, the Democrats win *that* POTUS election, also. So of *course* they had to start working on a way to end democracy altogether. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty much what happened. I’d just emphasize that somewhere along the way America realized the Reagan Revolution was a failure and started voting against it—popular-vote victories for every Democratic candidate from 1992 on except 2004—so the GOP started attacking our elections. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile—in addition to making elections a farce—the same people seek control of women’s bodies, outlawed attempts to regulate guns the way the Constitution requires, and ended the separation of Church and State. How many years are we from Gilead, now? 15? Twenty at the outside? — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn’t complicated. All polling shows that when it comes to policy, America is a center-left country. So what is a jack-booted far-right fascist to do? You can’t actually win elections, so you steal the Supreme Court, gerrymander everything, and create a minoritarian country. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Democracy was ended under our noses. A militant far-right judicial branch insured that however we voted, the GOP would control state legislatures. Now it’ll tell us our votes don’t count at all—only what state legislatures want. State legislatures that bow at the altar of Trump. — PolitiTweet.org