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Talia Lavin

@chick_in_kiev

19 May

an EPA lawyer just called me to ask me to call off a FOIA request i made in 2017 (!) that was never honored. it was about a smear campaign the EPA conducted about an AP reporter during Hurricane Harvey. they may be "drowning" in the backlog but im not calling it off

they may be inundated by a reckless administration's stonewalling but the solution is not to cajole people into dropping their FOIA requests

i wanted all internal correspondence about this scandal. and i still do!! the trump era doesn't just get to be memory holed google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

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Talia Lavin

@chick_in_kiev

18 May

i will stop tweeting about this eventually but i think every journalist should read svetlana alexievich every single one. im reading War's Unwomanly Face now, her interviews with Soviet female veterans of WWII and it is just? extraordinary... so is Voices of Chernobyl...

(i am interspersing my reading the translation with a bit of the original russian but i read very slowly in russian)

anyway it will change the way you look at the work of journalism and the way you see the world. it will. at least it did for me

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Talia Lavin

@chick_in_kiev

16 May

watching hbo's chernobyl and damn this shit is..... Intense....... horrifying....... and made me immediately buy the book its based on, chernobyl prayer by svetlana alexievich

while i was living in kyiv i could have taken a day tour to pripyat but it somehow didnt feel right, macabre somehow? now i wish i had

i liked masha gessen's article on the flaws of the show, mainly the 5th episode, which was so pat it couldve been butter google.com/amp/s/www.newy…

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Talia Lavin

@chick_in_kiev

14 May

im dying

en route to run: this is silly. i am very fat ugly and stupid and this is gonna feel like shit
1st 3m: i feel like shit
5m later: ok this is not *all* horrible
5m later: groovin........
last 3m: nope im dying. im dead
my compression socks: absurd throughout