Fly in the Ointment 🌻

Historian on a journey.
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Trophy husband, freestyle dad.

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The Rolling Stones in Paris, 1976. Photo by Claude Gassian.

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@TGTM_Official @DrewPavlou Two words: Mao's Mangoes
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@wartranslated And judging from the emojis, people are not happy with that.

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@drmistercody @HanaMichels No doubt. I was in the process of booking a place for early next month, and I decided not to, simply because the cleaning fees and service fee exceeded the price of the rental. Two nights @ $203 turns into $864 before taxes? No thanks.

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@Aviation_Intel Seems too pat. Prigozhin and Wagner forces are headed to Belarus. Isn't it conceivable that Putin has given his blessing for Prigozhin and his mercenaries to launch their own coup against Lukashenko in order to bring Belarus into the fold? And to open a new front in the NW?

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Hahaha omg fantastic https://t.co/xJ6aGafBD3

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@MrSeanHaines Ron DeSantis and the Chinese Communist Party are apparently cut from the same cloth.

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@propublica Ten chances to connect the dots, and he didn't? Rigggght . . .

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@IAmPoliticsGirl Just read the Wikipedia page on Paul Singer. He sounds surprisingly progressive in his support of gay rights, which Alito needs to hear more about. So maybe that's a silver lining.
https://t.co/bY3GLkdkIw

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turkey is approving sweden's nato membership

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@CREWcrew He's so unbelievably stupid.

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@kdnerak33 We once bought our kids' home room teachers gift cards at the end of the school year as a way of saying thanks. They were $100 each. The teachers had to return them to us because they weren't allowed to accept gifts valued over $50. Why is 3rd grade more important than SCOTUS?

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@crockpics Surprising number of empty seats.

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@washingtonpost It's hilarious that out of thousands of Florida lawyers who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, not a single one of is stupid enough to represent him in court.

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@ClydeHaberman @ConStelz Put differently, nearly 4 in 10 Republican primary voters see the case as a national security risk. That's actually quite a lot (more than I would have guessed) and provides an opening for other GOP candidates.

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@larirobling @PreetBharara And Trump and his staff used a private phone his presidency, despite being told the Chinese and Russians were listening in. That's far worse than anything HC did.
https://t.co/hBnO8Y7vUn

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@TimothyDSnyder Indeed. Mao was never tried in court for his crimes. Stalin was never tried in court for his crimes. To not charge the leader of a country is to go the way of Mao and Stalin.

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🧵 Everybody, please calm down. We’re talking about a former President being indicted here. There are many dangers about this that need to be considered. I’ve listed a few here - Please read and share. 1/7

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@maggieNYT @nytimes @alanfeuer I'm guessing Trump lied to them, and when they got the full details of the indictment, they bailed.

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@CREWcrew The worst part of all these revelations is that these are only the ones we know about. Trump undoubtedly showed these documents to scores of other people who didn't record their conversations. God only knows what the true exposure was.