When I paste text into ReText sometimes it opens the save image dialog box instead of pasting the text. To resolve this I have to paste it first in another plain text editor (like Notepad++, gedit, ...) to paste it in ReText. This happens for me since several major ReText versions.
I still can't give you a totally reproducable scenario for this.
Data when I copy text from ReText:

Data when I copy (formatted) text from MS OneNote (this does only sometime occur using OneNote but also with different applications):

Text pasted in Notepad++ and then copied again:

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ReText: 7.1.0 (Git)
PyMarkups: 3.0.0
Qt: 5.10.1
Python: 3.7.0b5