@cvnelkin. This is based on the Lavender Scare that inspired my story "The Lavender Room" a ways back that you said remibded://mobitwitter.com/WPSU/status/744884776016850945 esco!
Ms. Ling, I would be honored to share this story with you.
It captures the heartache and abiding fear of would-be lovers in Dupont Circle DC in the days of the Lavendef Scare. I wrote it long before discovering the opera!
I doubt 1 in 10 Americans know about Litvinenko, and fact Steele was his handler. Even fewer that Litvinenko was an anticorruption investigator in Russia who (like Steele) called out Putin as a crook. That is WHY he fled to UK.
Yes. On first few days after Jan 6, there was rolling fire of accusations of incompetence against DC Mayor Bowser, ALSO Nancy Pelosi to misdirect attention from DoD actions.
2. And as noted above, Julia Ainsley was on Morning Joe, and what she reported was debunked by Mayor Bowser at noon on phone in appearance on Andrea Mitchell
I think the attackers quickly backed off Mayor Bowser when she came bearing RECEIPTS!
Note Helene Cooper is with the New York Times, and some of her Biden-critical stuff on social media was recently retweeted by Maggie Haberman.