Figures like Greenwald are so contrarian/anti-establishment that even a Portland ukulele hippie group gets dragged into their bizarro pro-Kremlin talking points. How exhausting it must be to turn everything innocent into yet another pro-NATO psyop.

Gift 🎁 article 🔗 Israel at War With Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

As Trump continues to implement Project 2025 never forget that the alt-left helped whitewash his image. The anti-establishment alt-left who cast Kamala as no different than Trump deserve the same amount of ridicule as the right-wing sycophants who normalized trumps most fascistic fantasies.

Election Day in Syria. I spoke a bit with 4 Syrian election observers who got a training in Damascus and will be observing the process in Homs. They were relatively optimistic. From 9.00 am - 12.00 pm. (It's almost 8.00 am now.)

Lane is an obscure pro-Putin conspiracist whose content consists of conspiracies around Kirk’s death & fawning over Putin Carlson appearing on such a podcast is a prime example of how Kremlin sympathizers platform fringe nobodies to advance Putin’s propaganda under the guise of “independent voices”

The irony of such a post is that Pool himself was (and possibly still is) being funded by the Russians to promote pro-Kremlin disinformation within the U.S. in an effort to push his MAGA base more towards pro-Putin alignments. Every accusation by MAGA is simply a confession.

Germany is often marketed as the gold standard of liberal democracy. Yet the so-called guardian of liberalism abandons those values when it comes to Palestine. This is the same country that has deported activists, shut down events & criminalized slogans tied to Palestine solidarity. Hypocrisy!

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Why was Galloway in Moscow? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Top headline on X today, despite there being no concrete evidence of the shooter being a leftist, aside from far-right radicals, including Musk himself, trying to whitewash the fact that the shooter came from a pro-Trump household and openly admired white nationalists like Nick Fuentes.

The right-wing grievance machine always needs a boogeyman. Post 9/11 it was Arabs & Muslims. By the 2010s it was Mexicans on the southern border. And now, they’ve fixated on trans people to keep their cultural war grievances front & center. The demographics may change, but their playbook doesn’t

The shooter only attended a semester of uni before enrolling in a trade school & was politically radicalized by far-right groups & forums online. Perhaps if he had stayed in university longer, he would have been able to sharpen his critical thinking skills instead of succumbing to far-right violence

Alex Jones level conspiracism from a man who owns one of the largest platforms in the world. If the far-right wants to understand how the Kirk assassination happened, all they need to do is look inward at the culture of paranoia, hatred, and radicalization they’ve spent years stoking.

MAGA hypocrisy at its finest. The same people who spent years mocking police brutality against African Americans, excusing the slaughter of Palestinians, and dehumanizing Muslims (with some even building entire brands and careers off such hatred ) are now pretending to take the moral high ground.

It’s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. They’re scraping data from social media sites—including Bsky—to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and they’re sharing it with the federal government.

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

The first actually insightful thing I’ve read about Kirk:

Fieldwork on the Syrian-Turkish border area, interviewing key former FSA military personnel on Russian disinformation impact on the previous conflict.

"They supported the PKK against Turkey, the Houthis against Saudi Arabia, Haftar's forces against the government in Tripoli and the Polisario Front against Morocco." My latest for @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social dawnmena.org/the-polisari...

Russian State TV Slips in Ominous US Threat: 'Our Alaska' www.newsweek.com/russian-stat...

Nothing says “America First” like rolling out the red carpet for a hostile foreign power in a state it has openly fantasized about reclaiming. It was this time last year when Russian propagandist Olga Skabeyeva referred to Alaska as, “Our Alaska.”

Russian officials continue to stoke the far-right myth that brown immigrants are trying to replace white Americans while their own officials are boasting about Russia’s religious and colonial fingerprints all over Alaska. Projection at its finest.

The pro-Israeli crowd continues to smear those raising their voice against genocide as performative activism while they have pro-Israeli activists crowdfunding with an emblem openly displaying her ignorance, all while preaching about integrity & fact. The hypocrisy is staggering.

With comments like this western leftists continue to prove how unserious they are when it comes to actual coalition building aimed at dismantling multiple forms of imperialism, not just western. Moral consistency means calling out Russian imperialism as equally as US imperialism.

Under Putin, anti-Black racism reached its pinnacle which included Putin’s normalization of white nationalist rhetoric, promoting Russian identity as being purely white & ignoring the abuse of Africans in Russia. Claiming to be pro-Black & pro-Russia is just intentional ignorance at this point:

How quickly we forget that Nazi officers were notorious for posing next to piles of corpses, often keeping the photos in personal albums. The western world loves to shout “never again” until it comes to the erasure of a people that are deemed too politically inconvenient to save.

Can America free one of their own from the clutches of the Israel? #RiseUp #Genocide #freepalestine #palestine #gaza #Israel #boycottisrael #bds #Children #SaveTheChildren #SaveOurChildren

Perpetuating racist stereotypes about brown men’s sexuality while supporting Trump, a sexual abuser currently embroiled in allegations tied to international pedophilia, perfectly sums up the modern day Republican Party, weaponizing fear of brown/black people to distract from their own depravity.

NEW: In an open letter to Joe Rogan, I explain how he got played by FBI director Kash Patel, when Patel was recently on his show. I hope Rogan gets a chance to read it and do his own research. Please pass this on—especially to Rogan fans you know. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The MAGA base continues to perform patriotism while openly embracing authoritarianism in broad daylight. Data has consistently shown that a large segment of the GOP prefers authoritarianism over democracy. This was never about freedom, it’s always been about control and forced submission.

Could it be that Aleppo’s collapse was a direct result of Assad’s extermination campaign, which leveled the city & killed over 31,000? Disturbing to see that even after the fall of the regime there are those still willing to erase the truth in order to push their own agenda.

If MAGA is this openly ignorant about regional differences, believing Afghanistan is Arab, they should not be the loudest voices on Iran. This is the discourse you get when Republicans continue to prioritize MAGA feelings over fact & loyalty to Trump over expertise knowledge.

Cruz sits on the Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, & Counterterrorism. It’s not asking much for our elected officials to understand the basic facts of regions they’re shaping U.S. foreign policy for. This kind of gaffe isn’t harmless it’s bad governance.

Reminder for anyone trying to defend Ted Cruz, he literally sits on the Senate Subcommittee on the Near East, South Asia, Central Asia & Counterterrorism.

"The situation in former regime areas is disastrous," a Syrian business leader tells @renanetjes.bsky.social and @sophiefullerton.bsky.social. Their new Democracy in Exile piece explores the challenges and opportunities of Syria's transition to a liberal economy, amid much-needed sanctions relief.

"Lifting sanctions would significantly boost foreign trade," say @renanetjes.bsky.social and @sophiefullerton.bsky.social in their analysis of Syria’s economic future. Read about how sanctions relief could transform Syria’s economy in their latest opinion piece in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

Sanctions: US conditions include removing all foreign fighters. Some have been integrated into high-ranking military roles. This group includes radicals potentially implicated in the massacre of Alawites in March. @sophiefullerton.bsky.social @renanetjes.bsky.social dawnmena.org/lifting-sanc...

My latest with @renanetjes.bsky.social for DAWN MENA Lifting sanctions can supercharge Syria's liberal economic opening. dawnmena.org/lifting-sanc...

Lifting sanctions can supercharge Syria's liberal economic opening. By @sophiefullerton.bsky.social and myself for @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social. dawnmena.org/lifting-sanc...

Assad’s removal from power does not give organizations the green light to platform (or in Amnesty’s case) award those who have whitewashed his crimes. This includes Patrick Cockburn, who advocated for British cooperation with Assad even after Assad used chemical weapons.

One of the greatest achievements of Putin has been his ability to convince American conservatives of his legitimacy. Nevermind that Putin broke his own ceasefire almost immediately, killing three civilians. The American right will continue to ignore fact to conform to Putin’s reality.

The Putinization of America www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Assadists never supported him for his so-called fight against ISIS. If they did they would’ve shunned his regime for releasing ISIS fighters & targeting civilians while ignoring ISIS strongholds. Their support was to cheer on authoritarian violence disguised as anti-imperialism.

Examples of how pacifism becomes fascism, or at least bends the knee to the authoritarian expansionist regime of Putin. Such actions normalize oppression under the guise of peace. Appealing to peace while ignoring the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine is not peace, it’s PR for Putin.

Putin continues to posture as a good-faith Christian yet just last week a Russian strike killed 31 & injured 80 on Palm Sunday Meanwhile actual anti-war Christians in Russia, including clergy, continue to face horrendous repercussions for opposing Putin’s expanist bloodbath in Ukraine.

Another example of how Hinkle’s pro-Palestine views are performative/self-serving. His politics are fundamentally pro-authoritarian. He admires Trump for his despotic rhetoric the same way he admired Assad for similar rhetoric used to justify the bombing of the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp.

“Meanwhile, Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyers filed a new request with a federal judge in Vermont considering whether to take jurisdiction of her detention case. The lawyers asked the judge to order her to be brought to the state by Friday and hold a hearing next week.”