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May 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today we released Episode 3 of #TheAftermath, which details the immediate congressional response to January 6. If I do say so myself, it's pretty freakin' great. It even has the voice of one of the last living Framers of the US Constitution.
Check it out.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
Then check out Episode 2:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
And Episode 1: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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Apr 24
This program goes live tomorrow. I intend to sponsor as many Ukrainian refugees as I can afford to sponsor. I will be setting up a crowdfunding mechanism so that people who want to can help. A few observations:
dhs.gov/news/2022/04/2…
(1) 100,000 refugees sounds like a lot. It’s not. There are literally millions of displaced Ukrainians. Our policy should be much more ambitious in this space.
(2) There was no comparable program for Syrian refugees. That’s a scandal.

(3) The refugee settlement for Afghan refugees was a true mess and left a lot of people, including people who aided US forces, at the mercy of the Taliban. That is also a scandal.
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Apr 24
One other thought on this: it is worth asking what sort of intel coverage the US has that is providing this kind of tactical info to the Ukrainians. Here is my guess. In his book @War, @shaneharris describes how the US essentially accessed the entire Iraqi comms grid.
I suspect something similar is going on here: that NSA has real-time access to some enormous percentage of Russian military comms. In addition, we have seen that the Russians have used open internet for comms in Ukraine. That’s a real no-no. Add to that that the satellite intel…
…can be very useful for targeting. And that the Russian forces, unlike Taliban and ISIS are big and lumbering. So my guess—and this is only a guess—is that the combination of large footprint forces, seriously compromised communications, Russian use of the Ukrainian grid….
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Apr 22
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Apr 19
Right now, several of my favorite Kyiv-based accounts are tweeting about going into interior corridors and sitting down. Be safe, folks. Love to you all.
For example:
For example:
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Apr 16
Thanks to everyone who turned out today for Special Military Operation, Part II: Operation Sunflower Planting. Thanks in particular to the person in the neighborhood who suggested the idea to me, to those who brought supplies, and to the many people who showed up to help!
We planted several hundred sunflowers 🌻: as they are seeds and seedlings, there is not much to show—yet. But I will post pics over the coming weeks as they grow.
I hope the sunflowers will cause discomfort to the occupants of @rusembusa when the flowers bloom over the summer, and maybe make some of them reflect on the Ukrainian statehood they are endeavoring to extinguish. If any of them can’t bear it, maybe they will defect.
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Apr 15
Hey @ABlinken, I have invited @dietellewoods, a law student from Kharkiv currently in Stockholm, to join us in Washington tomorrow to plant sunflowers in front of the Russian embassy. She informs me that she doesn’t have a visa. I will pay for her flight. Can you get her a visa?
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