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  • So this guy was interviewed in 2020, where he says he came to Russia looking for his birth mother, found her via a TV show, liked it in Russia, decided to stay there. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, that was already known when he went there and decided to stay. Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022, over a year at least since he'd been there, and he didn't leave: not at that moment, and not at any moment as Russia kept on with its war. We don't know exactly when he was arrested, but it seems that the US State Dept found out about it about a month ago.

    I'm not saying the charges are fair, and I'm not saying that Russia isn't just trying to use this guy as a bargaining chip. But this situation really seems like one that could have been avoided before it got to this point. Pretty sure the State Dept would have helped him leave before it came to this, if that's what he wanted. That really doesn't make him a super valuable chip.

  • To take one example that I was very closely following, Blagojevich:

    Reporting at the time was not overly critical; all that was needed was to report the facts of the matter, because the general public was in agreement on the nature reality, something which is horribly lacking today.

  • There's another bit of information that this particular plane was restricted from flying to Hawaii because it had had frequent alarms in previous flights that would indicate a cabin pressure problem. This was not a "sudden" thing.

  • The point here is that Trump cannot claim, in this instance, that he wanted the insurrectionists to "stay peaceful" - because Scavino wrote and posted that on Trump's Twitter account, and it took a half hour of pleading to get Trump to "allow" it to be posted. And you know that that was not the first text suggested; they wanted to tell everyone to disperse, and Trump prevented that.

  • "Contrary to recent claims, the city did not evict anyone from these properties but has communicated with the property owners regarding the unsafe conditions of the buildings and need to immediately rectify the dangerous living conditions,” local leaders said, according to WLS-TV.

    Rectifying dangerous living conditions by boarding up actual living people inside apartments. Makes sense.

  • From the title, I was expecting it to be "she said it was a specific person, and that was all," but no - there's evidence that the police first failed to collect, then failed to acknowledge after some was handed to them, and generally failed to do anything at all.