New video up! In this episode, I speak with Nahla Sarraj, a psychiatry resident and humanitarian who works with SEMA and UOSSM about her return to Syria after 17 years. We unpack what’s changed, what hasn’t, and the emotional toll of coming home. (Link below)

May Gazans be fed and may Palestine be free.

Did an emergency episode with @astroramiemad.bsky.social who spoke about what his family has gone through in the last week and expressed his trauma. Take a deep breath and listen. Syrians must reckon with where our current government is falling short, not brush it aside. youtu.be/J9JwpybVSb0

If there is one frustration that people everywhere tell me, it is that the moderate voices among the Kurds, among the Muwahidin Druze and among the Alawites are not being heard (in the West).

There are extremists among all sects in Syria, but most, despite demands, tell me that they are Syrians first and do not want separation from the rest of Syria in the northeast, the coastal areas/Homs and Swayda/Jaramana/A. Sahnaya. And much more:

🚨 New episode out now: @renanetjes.bsky.social joins us to unpack the future of the SDF, U.S. sanctions on Syria, her time in Palestine, and the story behind her arrest in Egypt. youtu.be/vs7ciZYrrpg?...

The Bibas boys, like many innocent Palestinian children as well, paid for sins they did not commit or have any control over. Anyone with a conscious should be holding space in their heart for these angels, just as they should for the thousands of innocent Palestinian babies brutally murdered.

"All those who lament Bashar al-Assad’s fall and gloat over the Israeli bombardment of Syria should do well to reflect on why Israel is attacking now. Clearly a cohesive, democratic Syria would be a much stronger proponent of Palestinian liberation than the Assadist tyranny ever was."

Got some good news for tankies 👍🏻

Officially deactivated. Fuck X

When it comes to news on Syria, it's wise to treat initial claims as rumors and wait for verification. Check @EekadFacts and @VeSyria to see if they have reported on it. The longer you wait the more accurate the report likely will be. The worst thing is to jump to conclusions.

Leader Ahmed al-Sharaa meeting the delegation of #Christian community in #Damascus #Syria

I recommend listening to those free Syrians commenting on Ukraine. This is how the ingredients of an organically grown alliance look like. Russian aggression has truly unified those two peoples.

OCCRP Names Ousted Syrian Leader Bashar al-Assad as ”Person of the Year” in Organized Crime and Corruption www.occrp.org/en/announcem...

It's not too soon to criticize Jolani (Ahmad Sharaa) or how the transition is being handled. We need to remain disciplined, but we also need a free and safe space for protest and criticism. A (healthy) opposition keeps democracy in check. Even the bad-faith actors should be protected.

This person either did a great job of being so stupid I can't believe they're serious or being so serious I can't believe they're kidding.

Assadists in the region/West are losing their minds as the world sees Syria defy their 14year doomsday predictions about Assad’s fall. Desperate, they fixate on the checks and balances pro-revolution Syrians use to hold HTS accountable, spamming timelines with the nonsense Patrick spouts below 1/3

Do your thing Bluesky, if you do anything www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cBJ...

Made a new video with Palestinian content creator, Beace. Check it out!

Why does the Israeli govt sound like tankies

What's "jarring" is to see defenders of Palestinian first responders slaughtered with U.S.-supplied bombs turn around and smear Syrian first responders as terrorists—using the same bad-faith tactics they denounce when aimed at Palestine.

Aziz Al Asmar, a famous revolutionary graffiti artist from north-western Syria visits the revolutionary city of Sweida

Even if red & white Santa was intentionally dropped this year, it's not unprecedented. After the fall of the Nazis, there was a temporary shift in the use of red, black, & white during Christmas in Germany. Christmas celebrations in Syria, following the fall of the Assad regime:

"The global left exists in a state of profound cognitive dissonance, clinging to a fundamentally flawed logic that loudly proclaims our struggles are intersectional while simultaneously denying Syrians the justice they are seeking and deserve." www.hurriya.net/post/you-can...

Syrians overthrowing Assad and uncovering prisoners from Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan in his dungeons shows how our freedom is truly intertwined. Nobody is free until Palestinians are free from Zionism, and until every tyranny falls. Rest in internal peace Mazen & all martyrs you deserved better.

Update: I was wrong. Jolani is maintaining the same ceasefire deal as Hafez. A blow to Israeli-Occupied Syrians in Golan whose hopes were to be united under the new Free Syrian government. I pray we can find a path to liberating Syria from all foreign occupation and oppression including sanctions.

Yassin al-Haj Saleh: After Assad, Syria Must Free Itself from Sectarianism www.resetdoc.org/story/yassin...

The UAE is asking the US to not recognise the new Syrian government. These gangsters are discomforted by the prospect of Arabs achieving democracy. That's why they supported Assad, and why they support Israel and the RSF in Sudan. They much prefer genocide to freedom.

Israel watched as Assad slaughtered Syrians. The moment his weapons could threaten them, they're destroyed. Now they're lying that Druze support Israeli annexation of S. Syria and are raising their colonial flag over more Syrian land. Shameless land grab taking advantage of our condition.

Update: Netanyahu unilaterally declared the agreement void and has invaded Syria.

Up until this point, I had really enjoyed @hayanomi.bsky.social for content on Syrian politics and civil war! Watch/follow!

In general if Israel was surrounded by solid democratic arab states this would turn into a huge problem for Israel. They couldn't act with impunity against their neighbors anymore . It would make them look even worse.

People ask us "but where are the democrats?". They were in the prisons, they were driven from their land. And today they are returning home.

Assad is gone. Sednaya is liberated. The Syrian people have once again given an incredible lesson to the world.

With Assad’s regime already collapsed, Israel is likely moving to expand its territory in the Golan. This isn’t due to a conspiracy with the rebels but because Assad’s regime had upheld the longest Arab ceasefire with Israel...

Pour one out for the tankies folks. #SpecialOperation

Time to update the 🇸🇾 emoji @unicode.org like now please

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Left: Syrian government greets civilians of Eastern Ghouta after its capture by forcing them to profess loyalty to Bashar Al Assad for water rations. Right: Syrian rebels greet civilians of liberated Aleppo by handing out bread.

“While the operation was initially spearheaded by hardline Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the offensive has been characterized by a high degree of cooperation between secular opposition factions and HTS… under the singular banner of the Syrian revolution,” ETANA reports. etanasyria.org/north-west-o...

HTS walks a tightrope spun from the threads of contradiction, their ascent an unseemly mosaic of shattered dreams and silenced voices, with the blood of martyrs like Raed Fares staining their banner. They have risen from the ashes of Syria’s fractured rebellion... (1/4)

I've written a summary/ initial analysis of what's happening in Syria. qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/h...

What's happening in Syria? 🧵 A 2019 🇹🇷-🇷🇺 ceasefire deal was repeatedly violated by Russia, Assad, and Iran, with escalated bombings throughout recent months prompting plans for a rebel military response. (1/4)

“Deterrence of Aggression”: Implications of new Aleppo offensive Gregory Waters on the state of play after the first day. open.substack.com/pub/syriarev...

Joe Rogan is what happens when your underachieving overachiever friend becomes the most influential voice in the most influential country on Earth. Wild times.

Books are inherently ableist: they demand vision, ignore dyslexia, and expect you to sit still like some able-bodied statue—an oppressive relic of print supremacy, which is why I refuse to read them.

"Finding Nemo" is fascist propaganda: Marlin enforces authoritarian parenting, Dory erases history with her amnesia, and the dentist’s aquarium is a gulag for fish dissenters.

This website isn’t even accessible to visually impaired or blind ppl bruh