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Historical irony alert: NRA accuses Oliver North of perpetrating a "failed coup attempt" rife with financial improprieties, in a New York lawsuit. North played a central role in the Iran-Contra scandal.

Story ahead @CourthouseNews.

Complaint here: documentcloud.org/documents/6162…
This isn't the first time the NRA's chief executive Wayne LaPierre made that allegation about North, but it's an escalation of their battle since North's resignation in April.
The NRA claims that Oliver North did to Wayne LaPierre what he did to Latin American governments.

My latest, @CourthouseNews. courthousenews.com/nra-marches-ex…
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Amnesty's @MilenaBuyum reports that Turkish activist Yiğit Aksakoğlu is being released from pre-trial detention, but philanthropist Osman Kavala is being kept in prison.

Both are among 16 being tried in connection with the peaceful 2013 Gezi protests.
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Context: Erdogan's vilified Mr. Kavala as "Turkey's Soros." The case against him and 15 others highlight the criminalization of protest and dissent there, and the dangers of the demonization of civil society leaders internationally.
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Mark Twain chronicled the Diamond Jubilee at the end of an international lecture tour, calling the procession an “allegorical suggestion of the Last Day.”
The New York Public Library has one of the few copies of that report in a private collection. I read it years ago while writing a play on Twain’s life.

It’d been a rough time for Twain. His daughter died the last year, but he kept his dark humor, seeing armageddon in the parade.
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He became a staunch anti-imperialist soon after.
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The Examiner’s update shows the Times request for comment was wholly appropriate and unremarkable, but the continuing existence of this story suggests perhaps it wasn’t.

That false premise will continue to arm opponents of the press, including Trump, long after this correction.
The story’s problem wasn’t that it lacked context.

It was that it damaged journalism in the United States by depicting the most mundane and routine practices in journalism as a national scandal and allowed the country’s most anti-press president to weaponize that fallacy.
Put that in the correction, @dcexaminer.
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