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Analyzing Foucault's Pendulum from the safety of the countryside.
While I understand the reticence in opening up aid to #Syria, I have a feeling the international community will regret not opening up the floodgates to aid sooner than it (hopefully) will.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...
U.S. Eases Some Restrictions on Humanitarian Aid to Syria
The authorization comes after rebels toppled the Syrian government last month and is intended to allow humanitarian groups to operate more freely without running afoul of U.S. sanctions.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wonder how QTeam feels now that Peter Thiel has clearly been affected by their sabotaging of the adrenochrome supply.
Piers Morgan asked Antichrist Peter Thiel what he would say to people who celebrated Luigi Mangione — who was a fan of Peter Thiel & Elon Musk — for murdering an insurance CEO.

If someone can find a worse answer to any question, I’d love to see it. This is excruciating.
December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Walid Barakat, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, spent over 4 decades in Assad’s prisons. It’s first time he sees a cellphone.

He was 25 years old when arrested and he is now 67.

Full vid: www.instagram.com/reel/DDcCOBu...
December 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Can't wait for Dumb-Guy Rousseau to put his theories in policy.
This definitely happened in real life.
December 12, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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You’ll never guess whose behind surveilling and doxxing this professor 🙄
University of Pennsylvania professor apologizes for posts lauding Luigi Mangione
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania apologized for posts appearing to praise a UPenn grad charged in UnitedHealthcare's CEO killing.
www.usatoday.com
December 12, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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The moment I entered Free Damascus for the first time
December 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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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.
December 11, 2024 at 6:39 AM
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Sednaya Denialism is already happening, christ
Reducing all the Syrians pouring out of prisons right now to al qaeda affiliates is actually a racist thing to say just fyi! Hope that's clear!
December 8, 2024 at 3:01 AM
watching @livagar.bsky.social on Twitch, can't get approved, and appreciating Liv's straight-shooting.
December 8, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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The Battle for Damascus is over.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen.

Syria has been liberated.
December 8, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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Hezbollah has withdrawn from Qusayr
December 7, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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May we find Razan Zeitouneh, Samira Khalil, Wael Hamada, and Nazem Hammadi
Syria TV reporting that regime forces have withdrawn from Douma
December 7, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Adra is under rebel control.
December 7, 2024 at 7:06 PM
"If only we still had the gas" is also just so insanely menacing to say!
Wait, but you said they never used gas, that it was all CIA/MI6/Bellingcat lies. The duality of tankies never ceases to amaze
December 7, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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#New: Initial reports suggesting the garrison at the Sednaya prison has withdrawn
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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remember the First Lady Assad vogue thing?
December 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM
These maps are already out of date.

So if this is the reality of the situation on the ground, how does this not affect Lebanon?

That looks exactly like "strategic depth" that Pakistan wanted in Afghanistan in case of war with India.
December 6, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Nick Fuentes was just arrested for battery in Illinois for macing a woman who knocked on his door.
December 6, 2024 at 8:18 PM
One of the more bizarrely insidious ai creations
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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#Freedom is coming for all #Syria
December 5, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Now that Hama has fallen, the focus is all in for Homs.

Salamiyah fell without so much as a fight, which is not insignificant: 18th largest by population and another axis to drive on Homs.
December 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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A picture that might be just as painful to #Assad as those of the fall of #Hama:

Hundreds of defected regime soldiers, policemen and officials are signing up to work for the rebels' Internal Ministry in the city of #Aleppp.

#Syria.
December 5, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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The city of Hama is not easy; it’s heavily fortified. It is considered the gateway of the Syrian regime because it is located in the center of Syria, and controlling Hama means besieging almost two-thirds of the coastal area and getting very close to Homs.
December 3, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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This is from a few months ago but it’s simply an incredible pivot he’s making. He’s really doing it.
December 2, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Telegram channels are silent, news in Arabic and English has nothing new to report.

It has been so, so long since I waited for Syria news like this.
December 1, 2024 at 5:02 AM