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December 6, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Check out my new article at @WarOnTheRocks: “The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success In Aleppo” warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...
The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success in Aleppo - War on the Rocks
“God willing,” the militant told his lieutenants, they would “be able to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Aleppo and Damascus soon.” That militant was Abu
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December 3, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Two essential & urgent essays by 2 Aleppo writers on their city & its Christian minority in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Aleppo’s Christians Weigh an Uncertain Future, by Fadi Hallisso newlinesmag.com/spotlight/al...

Rasha Moubayed on the challenges facing her community newlinesmag.com/first-person...
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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It's pretty insane how Twitter has been bullying a woman for three days because she had the audacity to get a PhD in an unconventional topic.
December 2, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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I keep seeing people cite the early exit poll data on voter demographics.

STOP! Do not do this. This data is *garbage* and will remain so until it gets corrected by comparing it to real 2024 results in the next few months. Then we can draw useful lessons from it. www.joshbarro.com/p/the-conver...
The Conversation About Which Voters Are to 'Blame' Makes Me Want to Stick My Finger Through My Eyeball
This is not a morality play, there is no demographic Electoral College, and exit poll data is garbage.
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November 12, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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Why is it literally impossible to plug a usb in the right way first time, despite the odds being 50/50? Defies all logic
November 11, 2024 at 12:31 PM