I am now, for the first time in my life, inside Free Syria.

That’s a sentence I never thought I’d live long enough to say.

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

The Hill Times

Damascus has been seized.

Assad — if he’s even still alive — has fled Syria.

The Prime Minister is calling for free and fair elections.

Putin is jealous of a successful special military operation.

Shoutout to South Korea. Their guy tried to pull a Trump and he got shut down and impeached within 24 hours.

Gangsta democracy.

I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.

When we survive this dark chapter and there are sane people back in charge, can we agree that education and specifically civics education to ensure an informed, educated citizenry will be a high priority?

I feel seen