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23 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
“MOSCOW—Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko scrambled a jet fighter to force a Ryanair commercial aircraft to land in Minsk, where a Belarusian journalist and opposition activist was detained.”
wsj.com/articles/belar…
Why doesn’t Ryanair’s statement mention the detention?
US demands Pratasevich’s release
Ryanair changed its tune overnight.
... but the airline still doesn’t directly acknowledge that one of their passengers was abducted, which is so strange to me.

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21 May
In a misbegotten effort to defend Trump from the charge of inciting the 1/6 siege, Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez revealed that, around 9 a.m. on January 6th, he "saw people in my hotel room that were saying they were going to do something at 2 o’clock." nycsouthpaw.com/p/what-is-that…
Taken in context, the admission appears to put the former Mayor of Miami and sitting Republican Congressman in the room with people plotting violence against the Congress at the moment it would hold in its hands the transfer of power between administrations.
It's also an example of two other phenomena:
1. the impoverished logic, or if you prefer naive, bad faith misdirection, that Republicans use to defend the former president
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17 May
The questions presented in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org petition that the Supreme Court just agreed to hear. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1…
The grant is limited to question #1. Should’ve cropped it.
Here’s the relevant part of the order list.
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14 May
Build back better
This story, truly, has everything. 🇺🇸
Up-armor your dogs. wsj.com/articles/bald-…
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9 May
New from me -- A little history, on John Brown's birthday, of W.E.B. Du Bois's difficulty trying to install a plaque in his honor at Harper's Ferry. nycsouthpaw.com/p/his-truth-go…
This is mostly my humble effort to try to plant more firmly in the public record the speech Du Bois gave defending his view of Brown’s martyrdom back in 1932–which I think is a treasure of language. These are the first four pages:
and here are the last two pages:
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30 Apr
The first subscriber-only edition of pawprints--a quick item putting a spotlight on a bitcoin laundering prosecution that I think passed under the radar and hijinks of the undercover IRS agents who tracked down the key man: nycsouthpaw.com/p/pacer-friday
You can subscribe to pawprints whenever you want, if ever you want, but this intro offer ends today.
4-ish hours to go.
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24 Apr
Biden: “Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide” whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
This is the first time the United States government has officially recognized the Armenian genocide.
Correx: This is the first time since the early 1980s that the US has done this. Pres. Reagan once made a reference to the Armenian genocide in a proclamation about the Holocaust. And in 1951, the State Dept cited the massacres of Armenian as genocide in a submission to the ICJ.
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