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May 4 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Welp. Third time (getting covid)’s the charm!
Pro-tip, courtesy of @NatalieGExum, test the back of the throat, not just the nose. The test on the right is just the nose. The one on the left is the throat. Taken half an hour apart.
And yes, I’m yet another #WHCA weekend casualty. I knew I was taking a risk and, well, here we are!

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Apr 28
I played by the rules and the rules gave me shit for financial aid, despite being the child of refugees who had no money. Still, my parents and I played by the rules paid off the loans we all took out to pay for my college education. I—and they—fully support loan forgiveness.
Because we saw that the rules are shit. Just because we got screwed, doesn't mean everyone else should be, too.
I truly don't understand the attitude of: I suffered and I want to make sure others suffer, too.
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Mar 27
Two of my very close friends are Chechens who survived both Chechen wars. I've heard their stories, I've seen the tiny, dank cellar where one of them slept for months to avoid the artillery strikes, and have seen how they have struggled watching the war in Ukraine unfold. 1/
This week, they both published extraordinarily moving pieces about the experience. The first is by the incredible @GroznyMazay, about what it feels like to villainized as a Russian when your whole childhood was marked by being the enemy of the Russians.
nytimes.com/2022/03/21/opi…
The second is by the other-worldly Mark Preston, the name he took when he got asylum in the U.S. In describing the trauma of surviving the wars in Chechnya, he correctly and poignantly calls out the double standards in both Russia and the West.
vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/i…
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Mar 27
People in the West keep hoping for the mothers of Russian soldiers to speak up against the war—and some have. But some mothers, even those whose sons have died in the war, are vehemently pro war—and vocally against even Ukrainian civilians.
dw.com/ru/mat-soldata…
"I hate them all," the mother of a dead Russian soldier says of Ukrainians. "I have no pity even for the civilians." The war was necessary—"we had no choice"—because "if we didn't bomb them, they would've bombed us." "My son fought for us, for Russia...he didn't die in vain."
Not everyone sees the world as we do, not everyone is immune to a powerful propaganda machine that's grown ever more powerful over two decades, not everyone reacts to death and loss in the ways we would expect. Let's be careful not to confuse our wishes for reality.
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Mar 15
A former employee of Russian state media asked a former colleague what they thought of Marina Ovsyannikova's protest. "Everyone was stunned while also being in awe of her courage. Their comments were mostly positive. They said, 'How brave! Atta girl!'"

republic.ru/posts/103353
"Tonight, they put all these security guards at the newsroom entrance. They must be scared that someone else can burst in with a poster. I don't see the point...Any editor can pop into the broadcast. Everyone knows that. You can make a poster at the last minute."
"Almost everyone here is unhappy with this so-called military operation. When the *** [war] started, three editors quit and another went on maternity leave early...people say, why did we need this? Why did they go into Ukraine"

And yet, they all continue churning out propaganda.
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Mar 12
My first boss, David Remnick, interviews Stephen Kotkin, the king of Soviet history and the reason I went into this whole Russia business, and the result does not disappoint. Holy shit.

newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/s… Image
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Mar 10
Perhaps because Putin's justifications for invading Ukraine don't make sense, Kremlin news and the Ministry of Defense now claim that they've magically discovered the Zelensky government's plan to invade the Donbas.
“The only question that remains,” says the MOD spox, “is how deeply their allies in the US and NATO were involved in this.”

Of course, they don’t show the “document.”
Okay, wow, just got to the part where the special correspondent from @rianru calls in to say that Mariupol is besieged, encircled, and being shelled...by the Ukrainian army.
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