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Day 495

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Jul 3, 2023
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Remember Keith, the Ukraine expert who wrote this bullshit nine years ago

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He’s still churning it out, this time for The New Yorker, about what Russia experts think

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. I didn’t read the latest reportage because I was distracted by Erin Burnett chatting up Mike Pence after his pow wow w/ Z.

Erin later visited Andriivka, a small town west of Kyiv.

This morning I learned that Victoria Amelina, and a dozen more people, died in the missile strike last week on the Ria Lounge pizzeria in Kramatorsk.

RIP Victoria Amelina

Victoria published her first novel, The November Syndrom, or Homo Compatiens, in 2014. She became a war crimes war crimes researcher this spring and joined the human rights organization Truth Hounds.

A friend of mine was at the pizzeria an hour before the missile hit. He went back and took pictures of the horror.

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Why not kill them all? (Keith Gessen, London Review of Books, September 2014)

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Could Putin Lose Power? Regime stability is a funny thing. One day it’s there; the next day, poof—it’s gone. (The New Yorker, July 1, 2023)

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