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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/10/2026

SOMEONE has vandalized our sunflower garden. Hmmm. Wonder who that could have been on this particular weekend. My friend Connor O’Brien, who has watered and cared for the sunflower garden across from the #gatesofhell, is running for ANC commissioner and made this video.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026

The TDS Center building in Keene, New Hampshire. We need more of these.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 28/08/2026

I have questions: (1) where is Richard Nixon? (2) was Andrew Johnson really “average “? (3) was James Buchanan merely below average? (4) was Ulysses S. Grant really a total failure? Just asking…

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 24/08/2026

My spies report in that the balloons have survived the night. Happy Ukrainian Independence Day everyone!

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 23/08/2026

Good question. Some serious gender affirming care going on here at a mass level. If only there were a test we could administer for “good person levels” and distribute injections to those measuring low.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 23/08/2026

@JuliaCurlee.bksy.social in a performance dedicated to “the president of the United States.” #madking #getit?

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 21/06/2026

I am currently in rural Kenya. I will be back in DC soon….

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 21/06/2026

I beat them to it. This is October 2022. Same surface. French police: very unfriendly. Do NOT recommend

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 31/05/2026

If you want to do something really fun this evening, join us! www.facebook.com/share/1CUouu...

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 20/05/2026

Tonight at the Justice Department—an op with the Great Americans at @justiceconnection.bsky.social. An honor and a pleasure to work with them.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 13/03/2026

In celebration of Ric Grenell’s tenure at the helm of the Kennedy Center….

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 25/02/2026

Remember: Four years of full-scale war Tonight at the Russian embassy, we reminded them.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 24/02/2026

I hear your cries, my people. I hear your cries.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/02/2026

While I was in Kyiv, @lapatina.bsky.social and I delivered a batter to a first grade class so they could install backup lighting. Yesterday the teacher sent us these pics:

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/02/2026

One family at a time. Kate's grandmother is one of 22 individuals, families or institutions @lapatina.bsky.social, @jimmyrushton.bsky.social and I have delivered batteries to. Here are the latest numbers:

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 07/02/2026

The headline says “Menu Without Light” —which is this Lviv restaurant’s way of saying this is the reduced menu for when the power is out.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 07/02/2026

In Ukraine, when a funeral procession with a fallen soldier goes by, everyone stops whatever they are doing to stand silently. Traffic stops. Public transportation stops. Conversation stops. In Lviv, people take this tradition a step further. Most people the procession passes take a knee.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 06/02/2026

Most recently, @lapatina.bsky.social has facilitated two weeks of meetings for me from Kyiv to Odesa to Kharkiv to Lviv (where we are having dinner as I write this thread)—meetings without which a long series of articles I am writing for @lawfaremedia.org would have been completely impossible.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 06/02/2026

@lapatina.bsky.social has written and podcasted extensively for us from Kyiv—facing many of the hardships of Russia’s war herself: www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors... And we have featured the voices of important Ukrainian scholars and analysts.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 06/02/2026

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau. @lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not. We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/02/2026

Having breakfast at 1654 this morning. I shot this image of the window in daylight so you can see it clearly:

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/02/2026

This in Fahrenheit. Imagine living here without electricity or without heat—or both—and with your notifications looking like this.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/02/2026

Here is an image of the building you can see through the window I shared a picture of above. As Kate said yesterday evening: it used to be a beautiful building.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/02/2026

Here is an image of the interior of the 1654 cafe. As I mention, it is lovely, modern; you could move it to Paris or New York or Tel Aviv or Tokyo and it would be elegant there too:

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/02/2026

This is the window I talk about in the video clip.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/02/2026

I want to share with you some visual images of what I describe in this video clip—which is to say the reason Kate suggested we meet at this particular cafe:

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 01/02/2026

Wanna help? I will match personally the next $5,000 I receive.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 01/02/2026

Power outage is more norm than exception. And a great many apartment buildings don’t have heat. I just took this picture of a random apartment building. The lighted windows are people who have batteries.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 01/02/2026

Really fucking cold. These temps are in Fahrenheit.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 22/01/2026

Texting with @lapatina.bsky.social about how many giant batteries we have managed to buy and distribute to families in Kyiv to keep people warm be like.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 14/01/2026

This AI-generated video is an absolutely accurate depiction of what working at @lawfaremedia.org is like:

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 18/12/2025

I’m really not sure why Riverside thought this was a good summary of the work @lawfaremedia.org had done this year but, well, okay

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 06/12/2025

Someone who is NOT ME is doing this in Columbia Road in Washington DC and I love it very much.

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