Ok, I think it's time for a Twitter break. While I'm gone I aim to send out a newsletter more frequently than never: http://dispatches.substack.com
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He turned up a lot during Maidan. I think they were planting him to get images of "Ukrainian neo-Nazis." Not saying they don't exist, but he's not one of them.
Ok, I think it's time for a Twitter break. While I'm gone I aim to send out a newsletter more frequently than never: http://dispatches.substack.com
Later
it's weird to me that when it comes to foreign policy, Americans seem to lose the ability to think systematically. No one who cared about justice believed that George Floyd's murder was just about Derek Chauvin. And yet now to focus on anything but Putin is "whataboutismism".
I condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine as I condemn US interventions, and Israel's occupation of Palestine. People say "focus on Russia" but now is the time to look at all imperalisms and their connections if you want to get at deeper principle than "Russia bad," "US good".
re: "whataboutism"- imo it's important to highlight US hypocrisy in condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine when we did much the same thing in Iraq, etc bc it shows how one nation can't + shouldn't dictate what is right or wrong for the rest of the world, as the US tries to do.
I've been reading a lot of contemporary novels for the first time in a while and it seems like most of them have long flagging sections in the second half where you're like, um, ok, sure, but... why? I get very excited now when a novel doesn't do this (i.e. "Intimacies").
This Russian video game I play had its economy briefly wrecked because it pegs the in-game ruble to the actual exchange rate. So, that also is a thing.
I was especially curious bc the latest of his translated into English, "S.N.U.F.F.", is a dystopian epic about a Russian war on Ukraine started under false pretenses... it's not his best but connects domestic corruption and foreign aggression in a way that seems v relevant.
I was looking to see if Victor Pelevin, one of my favorite authors, had weighed in on the invasion. Turns out he was just tracked down in Thailand after disappearing from public life for ~20 years. So that's a thing.
Let's get #FoodNotRent trending and make sure the 365,000 tenants in LA now at risk of eviction get the support they need to cancel rent. http://bit.ly/FNRFund
LA locked down for months to save lives. But then we hastily reopened -- and now our outbreak is exploding.
We're seeing record hospitalizations. The most since April.
But unlike back then, businesses are open. And workers are in danger. (thread) https://latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/los-angeles-county/…
yes yes yes! i have a piece coming out pretty soon arguing that community radio(!?) is actually a really good model for thinking about the problems we have w platforms