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14 days

I saw Oasis twice the first time around and I’m here to warn you that Liam hunched over in front of the mic, with his arms folded behind his back, looking like he’s straining to pass a kidney stone, isn’t necessarily the most compelling live show you’ll ever experience.

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Watching Bill Berry choke up on CBS This Morning made me choke up a little bit.

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@sashafrerejones Also poptimism ate itself as it traveled from, “You know what? Abba were actually brilliant” to “everything is brilliant.”

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@IanDunt being a gracious winner is just as hard as being a gracious loser: congratulations to both men for behaving like adults

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@consequence I hope the people around Brian Wilson are looking out for Brian Wilson for once.

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@harryhew although of course this is what original purchasers would have seen in the spring of 1966: Columbia wasn’t going to give up without a fight:

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@DJLouieXIV What this argument fails to acknowledge is that 40 years ago debuting on Billboard with 60,000 albums sold would have put you in the charts at #144 , not at #4 . You’re not exactly a “pop star” when you’re only moving 60K units.

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4 months

To everyone who has borne with me for the past year as I have talked about my biography of R.E.M., Maps and Legends, thank for your patience, and this will be the last time I post about it here, but I am happy to announce that Maps and Legends is now available as a Kindle e-book.

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10 months

Listening to the 25th anniversary vinyl reissue of Up today, and it strikes me once again that R.E.M. made their own Yankee Hotel Foxtrot three years before Wilco did, yet Up was largely dismissed and ignored, while YHF was hailed as reinventing rock.

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@stereogum You can’t keep raising the price of something forever without hitting a breaking point.

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@guardianopinion NATO can fight Putin in Ukraine now, or fight him in Poland or Germany later.

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@REMLyrics1 mumble mumble mumble up to buy and Katie tries mumble mumble mumble

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@SalvadorDafti Trying to figure out a song in a different tuning, when you don’t know it’s in a different tuning, or don’t yet grasp that there is even such a thing as alternate tunings, can drive you crazy.

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I spoke about R.E.M. with Adam Scott Glasspool of the @whatismusicpod podcast, and I couldn’t be happier with how our conversation went. Along with @LoisReitzes , Adam is the most perceptive and well-informed host I’ve talked to, and I’d like to thank him for having me on his show

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@whatismusicpod It’s R.E.M. at their best

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@gifs_baseball I hope Ozuna runs around the bases backwards the next time he homers in Philly

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@tomwatson When I get paid on Friday, I'll be sending what I can to Kamala

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@NormOrnstein Of all the powers a President can abuse, getting to appoint the corrupt judge who will preside over his own criminal trial has to top the list.

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2 months

While we're on the topic of good books about R.E.M., the following three anthologies of primary sources from the US and UK music press are essential: 1) The R.E.M. Conpanion 2) The Rolling Stone Files 3) Q R.E.M. Special Edition

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2 years

@kyliebytes Maybe he shouldn’t have fired all those engineers.

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@DeadsoundApp the wrong kid died

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6 months

The third printing of Maps & Legends: The Story of R.E.M. is now available, featuring: 1) 7 new pages of text; 2) new research on Bill Berry’s band the Wuoggerz and Michael Stipe’s band Gangster; 3) revised and expanded bibliography featuring new interviews & articles from 2023.

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@ThatEricAlper Oscar Wilde

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3 months

@realmfoster If you succeed in getting one kid in a thousand to think about what the color green represents in the Great Gatsby, you’ve done more for society than teaching the other 999 kids how to write a decent e-mail will ever accomplish

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2 years

@GanucheauAdam Rather than cross the “I hate the federal gubmint” crowd, Tate Reeves instead chooses to decline federal aid that would help countless people in Mississippi who need it.

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4 months

@pitchfork If being indie or alternative meant doing it your way, few lived up to that ideal more than Steve Albini.

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10 months

Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M. has been named one of the books of the year by the Spectator. Thank you to Robert Dean Lurie for his kind review.

The Spectator’s 2023 Books of the Year

This year saw two fascinating books about spies who became novelists. Nicholas Shakespeare’s magisterial Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

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To my followers in Illinois and Iowa, on Monday morning, July 29th, during the 9:00 a.m. hour Central Time, I will be talking about my biography of R.E.M., Maps & Legends, with Dave and Darren in the Morning on Planet 93.9 (KQJC-FM).

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16 days

@agraybee that Chicago in 2024 isn’t run by a feudal mob boss eager to have his private army crack hippie skulls, as it was run in 1968, might have played a part in that

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1 year

@davenewworld_2 In my experience, most Americans who believe that Europeans hate their “socialized medicine” or that health care in Europe is awful have never been to Europe or talked to a European.

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@CheriJacobus One begins to hope that, as just happened in the UK, where ordinary people finally grew sick of right-wing grifters such as Boris Johnson, we are headed for a massive repudiation of Trumpism here in America.

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@PhDhurtBrain “hegemony”

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@gregbeardsell @LBC Losing can set you free to be yourself more so than winning can do

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@dayglowj0e @DJLouieXIV when you’re cult/leftfield, you are, by definition, not a pop star

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2 months

To my UK followers: to get around high postage costs from the USA, I have imported into the UK a few copies of my biography of R.E.M., Maps and Legends. Tomorrow, Sat., Jun 29 at 3:00 p.m. London time, I will have 5 copies of the book to offer mailed inside the UK …

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@BBCBreaking I’m no fan of Rishi Sunak, but it’s refreshing to see a grown-up conservative leader deliver a gracious concession speech instead of complaining that the election was stolen from him. American right-wing politicians could learn something from watching this.

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3 months

@jetskitosway2 perhaps more accurate to say that jazz is centered around the idea that there are no mistakes

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18 days

At the dentist's office this morning and so far I've already heard What's the Frequency Kenneth and Natalie Merchant's Wonder on the oldies radio station, and, wow, when did '90s alternative become waiting room Muzak?

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@SportsTalkATL I loved Dansby and everything he did for the Braves, but giving him 7 years/$177 million when he was 29 was insane

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@carney @besttrousers and WandaVision got far less interesting towards the end when it reverted to flying people punching each other and shooting laser beams at each other

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2 years

@tatereeves I thought you hated the federal government and never want their help to solve any problem.

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1 year

“You wouldn’t believe what it was like when Chronic Town came out … If you walked home from school, you could hear it coming from ten different houses on one street. You could not walk anywhere in Athens without hearing that EP.”

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2 months

@MrPMHarrison Suede have beaten the odds twice: first by simply surviving the loss of Bernard Butler, and, later in their career, by taking such a long hiatus and then coming back as good as they ever were. Few bands ever pull off either of those tricks.

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2 months

@mattmfm @KamalaHarris only downside to this is the dozen spam texts a day I’ll be receiving from ActBlue for the rest of my life

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3 months

@thescreendoor Of all the ethical or admirable things they ever did, simply announcing their break-up out of the blue, without tying it to a two-year-long global farewell tour, strikes me as easily the most admirable.

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2 years

@davidfrum One would think conservatives would naturally yearn for a simpler time when you could walk from your house to the local pub or grocery store, or to your job. But nope: if the liberals are for it, it must be awful.

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@JHWeissmann The great irony here is that DeSantis went to Yale and Harvard, but, to pander to the GOP base, he now feels compelled to oppose the exact sort of “elite” educational opportunities he enjoyed.

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@stereogum "I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf."

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2 years

@kgoebel @imillhiser One might suggest that this midterm election was in fact yet another referendum on the former occupant of the White House.

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@GeoffDuncanGA @KamalaHarris Geoff, you are a profile in courage. I bet there would have been a lot of rewards waiting for you if you had just spouted the MAGA party line, but you put country over party. From a former Georgian, thank you.

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@JRubinBlogger @don212wallace @POTUS @Liz_Cheney add Geoff Duncan to that list

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8 months

@drakemotel You forgot to add how Margot Robbie will also win an Oscar for frumping herself up to play Hillary: “I’d like to thank everyone at CAA, my wonderful husband … I hear the music … it’s time to go … I know … and, oh, yes! Thank you to our wonderful pantsuit co-ordinator!”

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All of the Oasis discourse has got me revisiting their back catalog, and, despite the ever-so-tiresome “their first two albums were magic, and then they lost the plot” narrative that has always followed them, Dig Out Your Soul is an absolutely cracking album …

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@shortyvoorde Agree that we should stop running scared from “maybe some people won’t vote for a gay guy” - those people weren’t voting for our ticket anyway - and lean into to all the great qualities you mention that Mayor Pete brings to the table

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@Steven_Swinford one dreams of the Tories falling below 100 seats

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1 year

“I did it for the money. They paid me well. It was deeply embarrassing.” Before he co-founded R.E.M., Michael Stipe sang Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company songs for the Athens, GA cover band Gangster. Read more in the definitive biography, Maps and Legends:

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@JTCymru if there was a Green party that recognized the need for nuclear power alongside wind and solar, I'd likely support them

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@TylerMJones @joshtpm Nikki Haley will say whatever she thinks the person to whom she is talking wants to hear.

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@reece_us @PolitlcsUK @Survation Please let the Conservatives come third and get frozen out of being the opposition.

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1 month

I just dropped off a new batch of signed copies of Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M. with Oxford, Mississippi’s @SquareBooks . If you prefer to support an independent, locally-owned business over Amazon, signed copies are available from Square Books’ online store (link below)

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you know what rock song from the early 2000's has really stood the test of time: Bloc Party's Banquet, that's what

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@maxwelltani Looking forward to Best New Music being supplemented with Best Dressed Artist

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@Leahgreenb I didn’t think Biden could pass the torch to Kamala so seamlessly, but he did, and I’m very glad he did, and I was wrong to fear that he couldn’t do so.

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“You’ll never play in this town again,” stagehands at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre warned Michael Stipe on Dec. 6, 1980, when, at the end of R.E.M.’s set opening for the Police, Stipe invited fans in the front row to join him on stage. Read more in Maps & Legends

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@notcapnamerica If he does step on a debate stage with Kamala Harris, she is going to clean his clock. Which is precisely why he’ll never do it.

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4 months

To anyone who has bought the Apple Books e-book edition of my biography of R.E.M., Maps and Legends, the text of the Apple Book edition has been revised and expanded to match that of the third trade paperback printing, with 7 new pages, & an expanded bibliography covering 2022-24

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@imillhiser Counter-balancing the seat that was stolen from Merrick Garland would not be “packing” the Supreme Court. It would be righting a wrong. But Democrats aren’t good at messaging and will cower and equivocate and decline to right that wrong. It’s what they do.

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@Ronceraille '80s indie artists were entrepreneurs: they had to be. They had fewer tools to spread the word, but that doesn't mean they didn't use every tool at their disposal.

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@REMLyrics1 @remhq we're jamming out to Underneath the Bunker

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@MonicaCMiller @joshshepperd I’m constantly amazed by the number of twenty-somethings around me who view ’80s pop as a lost golden age they missed out on - rather like how I viewed the ’60s as a teen in the ’80s.

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2 years

@Braves_Rumors Maybe locking up Austin Riley, Michael Harris, and Spencer Strider *before* the off-season spending frenzy was a better set of moves than the Mets or anyone else made during the off-season spending frenzy.

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@soundstoryuk all of them

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1 year

To my friends in Jackson, Mississippi: one week from today, on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, I will be reading from my biography of R.E.M., Maps and Legends, at the End of All Music’s store in Jackson. I hope to see you there.

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@thehistoryguy Say whatever you want about Sunak, but tonight he did indeed accept his party’s loss with dignity, and we here in America could learn something from his example.

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2 years

@colereporter If not at Auburn in 2023, Cadillac Williams deserves to be a head coach somewhere.

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“When I was in kindergarten,” Michael Stipe has recalled, “I was always a little charmer. I could charm my way in and out of anything … They called me Mike Stipe the Shining Light.” Read more about his boyhood in the definitive biography of R.E.M.

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On May 1, 1979, the Wuoggerz, featuring Bill Berry on drums, opened for the Police at the Georgia Theatre in Athens. In several key ways, the Wuoggerz were the missing link between the B-52’s and R.E.M. Read more in the definitive biography of R.E.M.:

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@JFergusonAU Hard not to root for Cadillac.

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After Automatic for the People, Peter Buck dropped off the map. “I grew this huge beard and hitch-hiked around Mexico and ate meals in places where you could see them killing the chicken out back.” Read about Buck’s lost weekend in Maps and Legends:

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@edzitron I agree that the payoff of computers regurgitating a word salad of bits and pieces of writing stolen from human authors is not what the hype of the moment would have us believe.

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@reagandouglas26 Power, Corruption & Rye

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@ememess Johnny’s in the basement / Mixing up his Marx with Schumpeter and Keynes again

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@smokingsexxtion there was a fair chance he wouldn't have lived until 1968 if he hadn't gotten off the treadmill and settled down in Woodstock with Sara and the kids

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@_SarahUlmer_ @tatereeves Puzzled how the State of Mississippi can target $10 billion to create 1,000 new jobs in Madison County, yet can’t figure out to spend, and in fact refuses to spend, the Medicaid money that the federal government wants to give us to save jobs at rural Mississippi hospitals.

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Earlier today, I spoke to @davelevora of the Quad Cities’ Planet 93.9 (KQJC-FM) about my biography of R.E.M., Maps & Legends, and Dave has already posted our conversation online. (link in the reply below). Thank you, Dave, you asked great questions & I really enjoyed our chat.

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I’m at the @endofallmusic in Jackson, Mississippi spinning some rare R.E.M. vinyl before I read from my biography Maps and Legends at 5:30 p.m.

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@nils_gilman @nytimes The New York Times today is a lot like RFK Jr. - perceived to be a liberal icon because of its name and its lingering association with a glorious past, but, in reality, a perverted parody of what that name and glorious past used to stand for.

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@Magnetic_North_ @TheThunderbolt4 @m_millsey Not 100% sure about this, but some or all of Weatherman may have been reworked into Man-Sized Wreath. Fascinating has been officially released:

Listen to R.E.M.'s New Benefit Song, 'Fascinating'

R.E.M. released the song Fascinating in September 2019.

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This disparity in critical reaction might just come down to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot largely featuring catchier, more trad rock tunes underneath all of the sound effects and noise: in many ways, Up is actually the more experimental record.

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@MatanaRoberts One big problem with Albini’s critique of the major label rat race is all the well-documented stories of all the indie artists who got screwed or not paid by ostensibly righteous labels such as SST or 4AD, to name just two. There is no easy way out, as Pete Townshend once put it.

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@SalvadorDafti @massimoottavia8 @DanielStroupArt This is from the Journey Through the Past movie, isn’t it? For which Neil did have a camera crew following him around.

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@FromTheWoods79 @REMLyrics1 @remhq 1. Wendell Gee 2. Falls to Climb 3. Find the River 4. Oddfellows Local 151 5. Beachball 6. You 7. Blue 8. Superman 9. West of the Fields 10. Electrolite 11. Little America 12. Untitled 13. Around the Sun 14. Me in Honey 15. I’m Gonna DJ

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@nakedfoul I dunno, I admire Albini for the same reason I admire David Crosby: in each case, in their old age, both were able to look back on whatever they may have done in their youth that was wrong or arrogant and own it and apologize for it honestly, without hiding behind therapy-speak.

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@therecount Funny how @tatereeves will accept a handout from the bad old federal gubmint when a one-time disaster strikes Mississippi, but won’t accept Medicaid expansion to fix the slow-motion disaster in our state’s hospitals.

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@Kelvrkid81 Let’s pray that Scissors Girl from the High Flying Birds also makes the cut

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@MattZeitlin To this point, self-styled elites such as Rudy Giulani, Roger Stone, Sidney Powell etc. are also clearly shocked to be held to account for their efforts to tamper with the election, because people like them are never supposed to get in any trouble for anything they do.

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