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Syria, Russia, Ukraine. Contributor to Ahval, The Daily Beast, Reuters, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. On Sabbatical from @interpreter_mag .
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Our Divisions Are Killing Us.
Social media exaggerates political division, fostering cynicism and tribalism. To heal, we must seek data-driven solutions, and empathy.
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So all these US lawmakers who were in Moscow in July are making statements supporting Trump's stripping of Brennan's clearance. This doesn't look like collusion. This looks like a hostile takeover
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War is hell, and the US military is far from perfect, but I can guarantee you that if American soldiers castrated a POW and put the video all over social media they would be prosecuted to the fullest. Not in Russia. These war criminals are more likely to be given a medal
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I'm tired of listening to people who've underestimated Putin for 20+ years now say they think Putin is sick or has gone insane. Nope, this is the culmination of everything he's done his entire life and you just weren't paying attention because the truth was so inconvenient
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Mitch McConnell received donations from voting machine company lobbyists before blocking election security bills
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Ukrainians are fighting Russia so you don't have to. Every tank, aircraft, and ship they destroy makes the world a safer place. If Poland and Estonia and Finland are still free in 20 years thank a Ukrainian
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Bam! The Biden administration just massively outmaneuvered Vladimir Putin by buying 81 Soviet era jets from Kazakhstan for only $2.26 million, about $20,000 each, all of which could be used by Ukraine against Russia in short order.
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I just lost my 1st friend to
#covid19
, a strong giant of a man in his mid 30s who had treatable cancer. 24 hours before he died he was posting about how those with weakened immune systems are vulnerable to this disease. Please for the love of God take
#coronavirus
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Huge scoop. Massive security problem if true. Remember that by law the FSB has backdoor access to all data stored on Russian servers, and by law any Russian company has to have their servers based in Russia. The GOP is heavily compromised
Whoa. Is this the Mother Russia of all MotherLodes? Is this why
#MoscowMitch
got so under McConnell's skin?? Along with other prominent Republicans, Mitch has been using a subpoena-resistant (Yandex?) email server in Russia. Does this also mean Putin has major GOP kompromat??
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Michael Cohen is lying. Reince Priebus is either lying or uninformed. Mike Flynn lied. Pence either lied or is uninformed.
Cohen to NYT: I delivered the plan to Flynn
Cohen to WashPo: I didn't deliver it
Cohen to me: I don't know anything about it
Cohen to NBC:
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Jim Jordan is also lying. The aid to Ukraine was freed up because the State Department released it, not the White House, because they determined they had no legal cause to withhold the aid. Trump tried and failed, but the law won
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US Customs just seized a ship owned by JPMorgan after authorities found $1 billion worth of drugs on it -
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MOTIVE. MOTIVE. MOTIVE. Why did Sessions lie? Flynn? Why can Trump slam everyone but Putin? Why do all Trump's men have ties to Russia? Why?
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Rhode Island state legislature working on bill that will divest pension funds from companies that help build the wall
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#Anonymous
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http://bit.ly/lwZZwb
#opIran
#Iranelection
#p2
#tcot
#Arabspring
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Elon Musk thinks he is above the law and rules don't matter. The EU disagrees and it could shut
@Twitter
down if things keep going the way they're going. What's the fastest way to lose $44b? Stay tuned to find out
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This great parody channel succinctly summarized Putin's strategy years ago. Remember this when we see race riots in the UK, based on fake info initially spread through Gazprom-owned media, clashing with police who wear far-right punisher stickers. It's really very simple
How I will "win"
1 -Bomb civilians to create millions of refugees that Europe can't handle.
2 -Have far-right, anti-refugee parties I've spent 22 years funding demand an end to the refugees I am making.
3 -Get my "anti imperialist" useful idiots to manufacture consent
4 -Repeat
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Dictatorships are not inevitable. Citizens, institutions, media, voters, leaders have huge amounts of control. If they keep it is up to them
We're living in early stages of a tyrant's rule. At this stage he doesn't have total control. Like Egypt or Turkey, what happens NEXT is key
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Ukraine may take Luhansk & Donetsk first before pressing on to Crimea!
So many in the West have pushed Ukraine to trade its own territory for peace. It's always been folly: Putin does not do "peace" even when he does "pause." But now we see the complete shortsightedness of it
Me on
@KCBSRadio
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Trump's plan to cage kids indefinitely while denying them vaccines is ethnic cleansing in plain sight
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What this massive leak of RNC docs show is Trump & most of his senior officials were unfit for office, the RNC & Trump's team knew it & put these people in the highest positions of power anyway. They put the country in danger & knew they were doing it
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The thing about Trump's Iran tweet is that even when the dangers of sharing this info are explained to him he's either too stupid or too arrogant to care. This is the kind of behavior that gets everyone killed exhibited by one of the few with the power to get everyone killed
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Remember, the ONLY change in the 66-page GOP platform that Trump wanted was a pro-Russian policy toward Ukraine
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It's ok, Ukraine is going to fight this battle for all of us and they will win. The tragedy is that they shouldn't have to. We should have stopped this a long time ago
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If I wrote a novel where the main villain was in cahoots with a business called "Fraud Guarantee" and owned a club called "Mafia Rave," any lit critic who didn't pan it would immediately be fired by their editor
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Agreed wholeheartedly. Let's not mince words, Hawley and Cruz are guilty of succession and invoking a riot, and the entire GOP is guilty of giving material support to this terrorism
Hawley and Cruz must resign immediately. They should be arrested.
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Photos of alleged Trump rioters released by DC police. 6 Republican lawmakers among the crowd of insurrectionists
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Baghdadi killed a lot of people I know. Many friends. But he'd have to survive for another 40 years to kill as many of my friends as Assad has.
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The YUGE question we should be asking: Did Trump pick Sessions as AG because he knew that Sessions wouldn't investigate Russia allegations
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The merits and well-known dangers of fentanyl aside, the US President just ordered private companies to stop delivering a drug that is legal for prescription use. And he did so via tweet.
....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....
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The Kremlin never really liked Trump, they feared Clinton would stand up to them & hoped Trump would be as anti-American as Putin is
The Trump-Putin Honeymoon Is Over, But the Marriage Was a Sham my latest for
@AtlanticCouncil
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"tired of writing the same story over and over again" is why I've taken a break from journalism. We ignored the Russian threat. We're ignoring the White Supremacy threat. We're ignoring the gun violence threat. I'm not sure what I can write that we haven't already written
They all hang out on the same exact forum. It’s not complicated. And I’m tired of writing the same story over and over again.
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Scaramucci is a loyalist, the kind of guy you need in place when people start cutting deals with the FBI to stay out of prison
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"The vast majority of U.S. Ukraine-related funding does not go directly to Ukraine; it stays in the U.S. economy, subsidizing the production of weapons in at least 31 states and 71 cities.
"While Ukraine gets most of the aid in the form of old American weapons pulled from U.S.
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"Some Democrats tend to believe that almost every election confirms the need to lurch to the left, when in fact the 2020 election should be a reminder that Trump would have beaten anyone left of Biden." By
@RadioFreeTom
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This reminds me of stories a friend of mine tells. She is Russian, lived in Ukraine in 2014. Her friends and relatives in Russia were telling her that Euromaidan activists were killing Russians in the streets. She couldn't convince them otherwise
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But the Clinton Foundation... Oh that's right, did nothing wrong. DRAIN THE SWAMP
#BUTHEREMAILS
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With all the criticism I had of Obama's weak Russia policy, it's hard to believe that his successor is exponentially worse
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UN confirms chem attack was airstrike. It had to be Assad or Russia or you'd have heard about how foreign airplanes were is Syria airspace
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U.S. manufacturers blame Trump-era tariffs for inflation's rise
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So the game Pence will try to play is that he pressured Ukraine but didn't know why? Tell THAT to the jury.
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For the first time we can run the headline "France defeats the Nazis"
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Since this is getting a lot of attention, it doesn't matter if these can fly. Ukraine can use them for parts, decoys, or other inventive uses. But my guess is they could get many of these working, and some of these weapons systems are indeed still in service
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All the weapons going to Ukraine now should have been sent in 2014 and never should have stopped. This was all inevitable without that
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Two things to keep in mind right now:
1. We should all be paying attention to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
2. It's way too early to freak out and we have no idea what's going on at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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This is a key point: Trump's White House DID NOT release Ukraine's aid, they lost a battle to withhold it
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Putin assassinating people in downtown DC | “Lesin was beaten to death,” one of the FBI agents said. “I would implore you to say as much."
Latest w/
@buzzfeednews
investigative team: Putin’s Media Czar Was Murdered Just Before Meeting Feds, Officials Say
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This is the 1st evidence that the Russian GRU was directly involved in a Russian military intelligence operation to undermine the USA's civilian electoral system. The GRU exists to counter our military. Now its new mission is to destroy our way of life
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Jesus, the lawyer who met Trump Jr was actively spying on one of Putin's most important critics
Wow. Veselnitskaya said she shared info about Browder w/the Russian prosecutor general’s office. Including w/ Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika
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The USSR's collapse wasn't the triumph of capitalism over communism. That's 12 year old boy scout analysis. It was the triumph of a free system over a corrupt system. Our current system and this President are incredibly and increasingly corrupt. That's an existential threat
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In ANY other conflict in ANY other time the world would describe Aleppo's "ceasefire" as forcible relocation, also known as ethnic cleansing
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Lol, Trump's haunted by books today...
Why Did Trump Promote a Book by One of His Accusers?
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Russia has been completely outmaneuvered here. Instead of isolating Ukraine by cutting them off from the larger Church, Russia appears to have isolated itself by alienating Constantinople. A huge win for Ukraine an a harbinger for peace
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Hard to watch this...
Syrian Kurds under bombardment from Turkish jets urgently request air support from U.S. and “No fly zone” to protect civilians: SDF statement
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Final summary: Dossier unverified but it matches what we know. Trump's pro-Putin regardless of how dossier pans out. We need to find out why
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Turns out Russia is so busy massacring civilians in Aleppo & Idlib that it let ISIS get the better of it near Palmyra. Totally blindsided
BREAKING: Islamic State launches attack to recapture Palmyra from regime. "City in panic, families evacuating," source tells us today.
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Russian troops kill Ukrainian musician for refusing role in Kherson concert
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I want to know why this isn't a bigger news story
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Erdogan can't ignore 30-50 soldiers killed by a Russian airstrike. You want a catalyst for something big in the Middle East? This is it
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Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall. He has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip. They went to India to celebrate his birthday.
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Assad visits Iran on the same day Russia starts pulling troops from Syria. This is not a coincidence. Putin is losing Ukraine. He has never been more vulnerable
It was Assad's second visit to Iran since the start of the Syrian civil war 11 years ago. The Islamic republic, along with Russia, were major wartime allies of Syria and have supported the continuation of Assad's rule.
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I know everyone is preoccupied but this is a massive news story you need to be following
Explainer: How ending Hong Kong's 'special status' could affect U.S. companies
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Russia has made the US look like a Banana Republic. Now we have to decide if we actually are one
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So Tillerson will accept Crimea, Donbass, Russian carpet bombing Syria, and undermining elections across the West. Let's move forward
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A guy who ran the campaign during its most delicate time, and who oversaw the only change to the GOP platform. But... details
Paul Manafort is "a gentleman who was employed by someone for five months,” Spicer says, comparing him to a guy Trump sat next to on a plane
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Russia Deployed Its Trolls to Cover Up the Murder of 298 People on MH17 via
@thedailybeast
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In a sense it doesn't matter if this is true. No one will trust Trump/US ever again. You cannot unread "blackmail" or "golden showers"
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YIKES! So on the last few days we have new Manafort ties to Yanukovych, this assassination, and a lawyer/witness thrown off his Moscow roof!
BREAKING: Former Russian MP shot dead in Kiev city centre. Was testifying against ex-Pres. Yanukovych -
@MaxRTucker
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It also blows my mind that when we say or hear the word "Trump" we don't always immediately think of the words "spies" and "organized crime"
BREAKING: Trump’s taxes show he took $78 million in bribes from hostile foreign nations the year he tried to overthrow the government.
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Oh? I didn't realize random people could just wander into the CIA and sit in the front rows of a televised press conference. Strange
Spicer is parsing here. He's saying the traveling party to CIA was 10. Guests went on their own. They didn't go with POTUS
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They don't have it to give but they give what they have
Kyiv residents surging supplies to the children’s hospital hit by Russia this morning. An amazing Ukrainian solidarity we’ve seen so many times since this invasion began.
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Just the start, and every turn of every windmill sucks a little money out of the Kremlin's pocket
Yesterday, wind provided 18% of Europe's electricity! Germany 45%, Ireland 39%, Denmark 36%, Portugal 32%, Lithuania 29%, UK 24%, ...
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Tulsi is gone and it's music to my ears! Democrat Kai Kahele wins Hawaii primary to replace Tulsi Gabbard
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A guy nearly gunned down a pizza shop because of a fake news story that OUR NEW NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SHARED!
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What. The Actual. Fuck.
A section of people in the back of
#CPAC2017
waving Russian flags -- a staffer just came and demanded they all be handed over.
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This one was pretty obvious. Russia literally simultaneously pushing two mutually exclusive theories about the
#SyriaStrikes
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White powerful people get to pick how they get arrested, apparently
Manafort just walked into the FBI field office in D.C., using the front door (via CNN).
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A good question. It feels like a mafia state, and members of Congress are also either on the inside or outside of "the family." scary stuff
If Trump fired Comey after he refused to swear personal loyalty, have other administration officials made the pledge?
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The images of the pure destruction across parts of Ukraine are disgusting.
@France24_en
just played 5 minutes of raw footage with no commentary and it was the most powerful 5 minutes of television I've seen all week. We keep doing nothing as Putin does this again & again & again
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Fantastic analysis of the paper tiger that is the Russian air force
A dangerous combination of doctrine, training and equipment is partly to blame for the Russian air force's heavy losses in Ukraine.
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Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in the shadow of the Kremlin 5 years ago today. He was killed because he exposed the corrupt Sochi Olympics. He was killed because he had just released a damning exposé on the invasion of Ukraine. He was killed because he was Russia's next president
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WaPo contacted all 26 members of the 2016 Senate Armed Services Committee. 19 responded, said they never met Kislyak. So why did Sessions?
The Sessions mtgs seem odd. I've been a member of Armed Services, Foreign Affairs & Intelligence Cmtes yet never met the Russian Ambassador.
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It looks like it's happening, like members of the cabinet are talking about removing Trump as we speak. I wouldn't hold your breath but... wow
After violent pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol, a growing number of GOP leaders & Cabinet officials believe Trump should be removed from office before Jan 20. Four called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, and two said he should be impeached.
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Putin is willing to negotiate peace, like a thug who would like to negotiate consexual sex while he's in the middle of raping you
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Belarusian museum director who refused to sign false election protocol found dead
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Great article explaining that those who are worried about gov't "snooping" on Flynn are wrong.
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A. O. L.
White House official caught using AOL email to discuss sensitive sale of nuclear technology to the Saudis
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This is much more serious than my average nightly heart attack. These are huge headlines, particularly the last one
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Donetsk is Ukraine. Lugansk is Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine. Ukraine is not Russia.
#PutininvadedUkraine
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Daughter of Putin Propagandist Alexander Dugim Killed in Car Bomb Outside Moscow, Reports Say via
@thedailybeast
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We're living in early stages of a tyrant's rule. At this stage he doesn't have total control. Like Egypt or Turkey, what happens NEXT is key
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One Syrian Child No One Can Forget, Among Thousands No One Sees My latest w
@michaeldweiss
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury of the court of hypocrisy, I would like to enter exhibit A into the official record
President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your "powder" for another (and more important) day!
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A big mix of leftists, centrists, activists and regular citizens marching to protest the KKK/Neo-Nazi really in
#Bo
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China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists via
@businessinsider
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I'm an expert on the Iranian protest movement in 2009-2010. Followed every minute. I'm an expert on Arab Spring. This feels like that. This one is different. And for the 1st time in my life, I think the US government has more in common with the dictators than not.
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It looks like the Russian assault on Kharkiv has very little chance of success and it's still not clear whether they can resist Ukraine's offensive on Kherson. We are going to learn a lot about how weak Putin really is by watching these two cities
#Russian
forces have resumed localized ground attacks northwest and southwest of
#Izyum
and may be setting conditions for offensive operations further west into
#Kharkiv
Oblast or toward Kharkiv City. /1
Full report w/
@criticalthreats
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@RadioFreeTom
I was thinking of compiling every quote Trump has said about Putin. It would be amazingly compelling data journalism, and a total waste of time. The experts know the results. Half of America knows. Everyone else doesn't care
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From what I can tell the Ukrainian military is putting up a hell of a fight in the Donbas, where they've been dug in for nearly 8 years, and very little resistance every else. Elsewhere Russia carefully advancing slowly in areas UA isn't holding
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"Stop talking about that kind of stuff." Again, this is where 1984 comparisons come in: Branding TALK of dissenting info as the problem
Video:Mike Flynn defends Putin & asks
@MSNBC
to stop mentioning Putin murders journalists
#trumpleaks
#trumprussia
#resist
#dworkinreport
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