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Jul 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
.@Battlemoose01 just had a terrific idea: Let’s take the sunflower planting worldwide. This Sunday, we are going to surround the russian embassy in DC with sunflowers—in response to, ahem!, *someone* having destroyed the sunflowers we planted there in April.
There are russian embassies and consulates in countless cities all over the world. Let’s plant sunflowers in front of all of them.

*All of them.*

I will post a list of all russian embassies and consulates. The rest is up to you guys.

Sunday.

Get it done.

Tweet pics.
#plantbackbetter
Here is a list of every single Russian diplomatic mission worldwide:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_d…

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Jul 27
Interesting development. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
I called #BabyCannon and asked about it. He took the call poolside in Cancun.

“Boom!” he said cheerfully.
Ok, what can we say about this story? Let’s read it carefully together.
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Jul 25
For everyone asking, Operation Encirclement will commence at the russian embassy on Sunday at 10:00 am. It will continue until sunflowers fully encircle the embassy compound, roughly the way russian propaganda imagines the West encircling it.
Please bring sunflower seeds of all types, gardening tools, soil, water, and snacks.

Please also bring cameras.

We have a large area to cover.

Most of all, bring friends.
If you are organizing a Sunday planting in another city, please @ me in your announcement tweet. I will append announcements to this thread.
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Jul 25
Let’s make the Russian embassy in Ottawa spend some money on lights and gobos and projectors. 😂😜🤪😜🤪😜🤪😜

Says the BAP: Look at that wall! It’s like a canvas waiting to painted on!

We are coming for you, Ottawa.
Or maybe, as per @paulinebrock suggestion, it’ll be the consulate in Montreal! Better get ready guys. You’ll need to have “Z” spotlights when the BAP comes for you.
Or will the next Special Military Operation be at this monstrosity in the Bronx? riverdalepress.com/stories/quiet-…
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Jul 24
I will leave it to @anneapplebaum and other deep thinkers about the nature of authoritarianism to figure out what it means. I will just observe that it happened and that no one is surprised that it happened.
We planted sunflowers outside the Russian embassy to protest a genocidal war back in April.
The Russians left them alone, rather to my surprise.
They grew, they flourished.
On July 6, @OMarkarova tweeted the following:
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Jul 24
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Plant Back Better, Part II: Replanting @OMarkarova’s Sunflower Across from the Embassy
Plant Back Better, Part III: Accountability
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Jul 23
Also a message for the russians:
We are going to take no steps—and I mean none—to prevent your stupid countermeasures. If you want to show up with “Z” or “V” spotlights and try to blot us out, have at it. Nothing is stopping you—except one thing:
I chose this facility for the screening of @MrJones_Film because for two reasons: first, because it’s your press office and the film is about russian manipulation and abuse of the press to whitewash russian mass murder of Ukrainians and obliteration of Ukrainian nationhood.
Second, I chose it because it is not a gated compound. If you want to defend it from the photons of this film, you will have to show up and do it in person—not from behind walls. You’ll have to stand in front of us, in public, and prevent the showing of a film that is itself…
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