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May 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I could not be more excited to announce that we now have permission from the good folks at @GoldwynFilms to do an outdoor screening of #MrJones on the wall of a Russian diplomatic property of our choosing and to livestream the event.
A special military operation is now under way to make this happen in a fashion available to the general public in the Washington DC metro area. Date, time, location and details will be forthcoming.
If the Russians try to stop it, it will be just another example of the attempted erasure of Russia's genocidal history in Ukraine--of which the current war is just the latest chapter.
Here is the interview I did with @AndreaChalupa, who wrote the film, about it on the @lawfareblog podcast: lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcas…
Andrea will be joining me on a Zoom panel on the wall after the screening.

Stay tuned.

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I am not Ukrainian, and I am not a lawyer, so I cannot sign this. But I can share it. So can you. eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2…
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A lot of people have questions about Part III of our Special Military Operation against the Russian diplomatic presence in Washington DC, in which we projected a slide show of Russian war crimes and @ZelenskyyUa’s speech on the walls of the official… twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKd…
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There is a great deal to be said for an illumination at the consulate in Manhattan. It's a close-range shot on a very nice surface, and I think it's not easily defensible with spotlights, because there is no compound surrounding it. I will work with @ShulimLeifer to do this. The Russian Consulate in Ma...
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Here is the slideshow we projected tonight on the Russian ambassador's residence. Thanks to all who helped, those present and those unseen.
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May 7
Exactly. To everyone ragging on the Secret Service for following up this lead: they had to. That’s their job. They check out every reported threat to a protected person or facility. They were extremely professional and the visit gave me an opportunity to coordinate with them…
…before tomorrow and to learn the important red lines. For example, we’ll instruct all participants not to touch the gates or fences and not to block driveway access. And similarly, the visit gives me confidence that law enforcement has no concerns about our planned activities.
I was genuinely grateful for the opportunity to talk to them and have no complaints about their conduct.

It is clear, however, someone—either domestically or in the embassy—was trying to harass me by having law enforcement show up at my door based on a meritless complaint…
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May 7
I just had a visit at my home from four officers of the United States Secret Service, apparently in response to bad faith reports about my social media supposedly threatening the embassy residence. @klonick was present as we had a friendly chat about exactly what we are planning.
I informed the officers of everything we intend to do. I shared with them our notification to DC authorities about our plans. And we discussed our prior illumination efforts at the embassy and how we can ensure that we don’t put US law enforcement in a difficult situation.
To the men and women of US law enforcement, thank you for your attention to this matter.

To the people who filed this report, be they Russian or American, nice try. иди на хуй.
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