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In 2018–20, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation generously funded my research on Syrian armed groups, looking at why some factions grew while others fell apart.
A year after Assad's ouster, we revisit the project to see what it might tell us about Syria's new rulers:
www.hfg.org/insights/ref...
A year after Assad's ouster, we revisit the project to see what it might tell us about Syria's new rulers:
www.hfg.org/insights/ref...
One Year Later: Reflections on How Syrian Opposition Groups United to Oust Assad - HFG
This month, Syrians at home and abroad had, for the first time in a long while, cause for national celebration. In the capital city of Damascus, and in immigrant enclaves around the world, jubilant Sy...
www.hfg.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In 2018–20, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation generously funded my research on Syrian armed groups, looking at why some factions grew while others fell apart.
A year after Assad's ouster, we revisit the project to see what it might tell us about Syria's new rulers:
www.hfg.org/insights/ref...
A year after Assad's ouster, we revisit the project to see what it might tell us about Syria's new rulers:
www.hfg.org/insights/ref...
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Syrian Kurdish artists defy ISIS mentality through music, dance www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Syria’s Kurdish artists defy ISIS mentality through music, dance
In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and navigate postwar challenges.
www.al-monitor.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Syrian Kurdish artists defy ISIS mentality through music, dance www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
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Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK
Exclusive: Labour says Nigel Farage’s party should swiftly condemn Chris Parry after further comments emerge
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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@inkstickmedia.com's @patrickobrienstrickland.com on the long history of conspiracism and incitement behind Trump's "invasion" immigration rhetoric: inkstickmedia.com/the-long-oft...
The Long, Lethal History of Trump's 'Invasion' Rhetoric
In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.
inkstickmedia.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
@inkstickmedia.com's @patrickobrienstrickland.com on the long history of conspiracism and incitement behind Trump's "invasion" immigration rhetoric: inkstickmedia.com/the-long-oft...
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@syriadirect.bsky.social @walid-alnofal.bsky.social on how material conditions have changed for Syrians, one year after Assad's fall: syriadirect.org/how-has-syri... Highlights effects of radical liberalization.
How has Syria’s economy changed in a year without Assad?
The first year of the “new Syria” brought relative economic stability and a marked improvement in the exchange rate of the pound, but economic burdens still weigh on Syrians. Has the cost of living cr...
syriadirect.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@syriadirect.bsky.social @walid-alnofal.bsky.social on how material conditions have changed for Syrians, one year after Assad's fall: syriadirect.org/how-has-syri... Highlights effects of radical liberalization.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
ABC, CBS, NBC won't carry Obama
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC, CBS and NBC decided against covering President Barack Obama's speech on immigration live on Thursday, although the Spanish-language Univision network is delaying its telecast of t...
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
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“Now, the only non-sanctioned oil leaving the country is shipped by Chevron, which has a narrow exemption from U.S. financial restrictions.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“Now, the only non-sanctioned oil leaving the country is shipped by Chevron, which has a narrow exemption from U.S. financial restrictions.”
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First it was "we have to blow up dozens of people on boats because of fetnanyl." But obviously it wasn't fentanyl being trafficked so then: narco terrorists are shipping cocaine! But then Wiles tells a reporter it's all about regime change and today it's bc US oil companies got kicked out in 2007?
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
First it was "we have to blow up dozens of people on boats because of fetnanyl." But obviously it wasn't fentanyl being trafficked so then: narco terrorists are shipping cocaine! But then Wiles tells a reporter it's all about regime change and today it's bc US oil companies got kicked out in 2007?
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According to +963, citing an anonymous government source, an agreement on the govt/SDF integration process has been reached and will be announced in a few days.
963media.com/16/12/2025/%...
963media.com/16/12/2025/%...
مصدر حكومي لـ"963+": "قسد'' ودمشق توصلتا لتوافق حول الاندماج
قال مصدر حكومي لـ"963+"، اليوم الثلاثاء، إن قوات سوريا الديموقراطية والحكومة السورية الانتقالية توصلتا إلى توافق حول عملية الاندماج.
963media.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
According to +963, citing an anonymous government source, an agreement on the govt/SDF integration process has been reached and will be announced in a few days.
963media.com/16/12/2025/%...
963media.com/16/12/2025/%...
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A look at the text of the March 10th agreement and the degree to which the eight points have been adhered to by the gov't and SDF, as well as the handful of small, positive developments that occurred prior talks largely breaking down in July
akmckeever.substack.com/p/the-march-...
akmckeever.substack.com/p/the-march-...
The March 10th agreement and its lack of progress (I)
Nine months into Government/SDF talks with little to see
akmckeever.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A look at the text of the March 10th agreement and the degree to which the eight points have been adhered to by the gov't and SDF, as well as the handful of small, positive developments that occurred prior talks largely breaking down in July
akmckeever.substack.com/p/the-march-...
akmckeever.substack.com/p/the-march-...
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IS claim yesterday's IED attack targeting a parked Ministry of Defense car in al-Bukamal, Deir ez-Zour. Still no mention of the Palmyra attack, increasingly unlikely they'll claim it whether or not they were behind it.
www.syria.tv/%D8%A7%D9%86...
www.syria.tv/%D8%A7%D9%86...
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
IS claim yesterday's IED attack targeting a parked Ministry of Defense car in al-Bukamal, Deir ez-Zour. Still no mention of the Palmyra attack, increasingly unlikely they'll claim it whether or not they were behind it.
www.syria.tv/%D8%A7%D9%86...
www.syria.tv/%D8%A7%D9%86...
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This is probably both fraud and perjury and I look forward to his defense being that he’s too stupid to form a sentence.
Body cam shows an immigration agent asking ChatGPT for help writing a report:
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is probably both fraud and perjury and I look forward to his defense being that he’s too stupid to form a sentence.
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Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
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[sitting at the center of a pentagram of candles, clutching my knees rocking back and forth, eyes rolled back in my head]: fat leonard crypto currency
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
[sitting at the center of a pentagram of candles, clutching my knees rocking back and forth, eyes rolled back in my head]: fat leonard crypto currency
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
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Here's the Navy itself describing "atrocities" against survivors of naval strikes in World War II including subs firing at lifeboats www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Here's the Navy itself describing "atrocities" against survivors of naval strikes in World War II including subs firing at lifeboats www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
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Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/
How President Trump Can Crush Socialism and Save a Freedom City in Honduras
In the impoverished nation of Honduras, there are geopolitical developments afoot that have major implications for U.S. policy and the future of freedom throughout the world.
www.stonecoldtruth.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/
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Me, an idiot: I don’t get it. These people relax, know how to eat, live long, good lives, have healthcare, and loving families, yet they don’t earn nearly as much money as America, can someone ELI5?
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Me, an idiot: I don’t get it. These people relax, know how to eat, live long, good lives, have healthcare, and loving families, yet they don’t earn nearly as much money as America, can someone ELI5?
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Stoppard’s plays stuck with you long after you left the theatre, to the extent that you ended up stacking your shelves with all the source material. He made A.E. Housman interesting. www.the-american-interest.com/2020/06/14/t...
The Poet of Social Distancing - The American Interest
Why the work of A.E. Housman resonates in a time of enforced isolation.
www.the-american-interest.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Stoppard’s plays stuck with you long after you left the theatre, to the extent that you ended up stacking your shelves with all the source material. He made A.E. Housman interesting. www.the-american-interest.com/2020/06/14/t...