This is no way to live, man

He is insane.

And this is an open declaration of intended genocide.

If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Is this a silver lining to the ongoing disaster.

Friedrich Merz sounds like Trump when it comes to immigration. Their deportation plan for Syrians is totally absurd.

How Syria’s performative coast massacre inquiry blocks justice Evidence gathered in preliminary probes fell below acceptable standards. Can state-led investigative commissions and televised trials redress injustice?

Damning report on the failures of the Syrian transitional government to ensure accountability and justice in wake of the coastal massacres last year
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It looks like the war on Iran is going about as poorly as the regime’s previous wars against Chicago, Minnesota and Los Angeles.

How were we supposed to know guys? It's not like every Middle East-focused researcher, analyst, and/or journalist worth their salt has been warning about how bad this could get since 7 October 2023

Yanar Mohammed writing for Chatham House

Devastated to learn that the great Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated today by 'unknown' gunmen in Baghdad.
Here in her own words:

Trump likes Sharaa because Sharaa will just give him whatever he wants. And Sharaa is a politician who only cares about consolidating power. That fact doesn’t delegitimize the Syrian revolution nor undermine Assad’s horrific and genocidal war crimes.

Unfortunately tankies are taking a victory lap on Syria because the transitional government has failed so miserably and they are completely responsible for the sectarian violence happening inside the country right now. I can’t stand it.

'Trump’s Gaza fantasy fuses necropolitics with venture capital. Flatten a place, declare it “free,” and auction it to the highest bidder. This is the Network State in its most ghoulish incarnation: a tech-fascist casino built atop genocide and displacement.'

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

If neoliberalism and fascism want to fight one another, fine. I hope they beat each other up.

Fuck this guy. Shibani knows he’s lying.

Most people bragging about moving to Europe or elsewhere while Trump is in office are using their neoliberal privilege. Those most vulnerable by the Trump administration are not moving to Europe, because that requires capital (and having a US passport) to do so.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

A Network of Interconnected Channels Fuels the Conflict in As-Suwayda %

A network of interconnected channels fuels the conflict in as-Suwayda

Report on competing disinformation campaigns by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression.
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Putting an Arab/Muslim woman in the IDF is not a DEI initiative.

Israeli “coexistence” is the worst form of identity politics.

Obviously “Make Syria Great Again” was a response to Trump lifting sanctions - taken from MAGA.

It’s just beyond me how some Syrians’ traumas have been completely disregarded. And why replicate a fascist slogan? Also beyond me.

Sweida is a city still grieving the horrific trauma from the massacre in July, and there has been no justice. And the transitional authorities are absolutely responsible for carrying out the massacre.
SAMS, an org I respected, thought it was a good idea to distribute “Make Syria Great Again” hats…