acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin
@acarvin
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Managing editor, @DFRLab. NPR and Reportedly alum. Author of the book Distant Witness. Woodturner. Calling BS is my calling.
Washington, DC-ish
Joined February 2007
Btw, you can’t just become anti-Assad today. Too late. We’ll never forget those who called the protests fake, the barrel bombs fake, the chemical weapons fake. It’s been 13 years of collective gaslighting of the Syrian revolution.
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For god's sake reach to Saydnaya slaughterhouse prison & rescue the rest!! Upon release list their names, secure the prison for evidnce. Governments & int. organizations, must immediately offer support to released detainees & support efforts to reunite them with families
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Syria will be free when Saydnaya Prision is free. Thousands of souls went to heaven from here.
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Oh, for those of you wondering why I'm not live-tweeting Syria here, it's because I'm doing it over on Bluesky.
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What happens when Syrian opposition forces reach Damascus will be a test of their leadership and discipline. The desire for revenge among many will be intense, but they need to resist acting on that desire in order to maintain a united Syria when the shift to governance occurs.
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News of Daraya's liberation is not confirmed and highly unlikely, though as soon as it happens you can expect a few million Syrians to erupt in the most joy we've known in our lives. We love you and miss you Gayath!
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There is a case to be made—and I've made it here before—that the Syrian civil war is the most important event of the 21st century. Possible deadliest war, generated a host of other conflicts, produced ISIS and massive European refugee crisis, possibly gave us Brexit and Trump...
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Get it through your thick skulls. The whole world tried to stop us from removing Assad. No one will stop us from removing Nusra / HTS.
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Left: the size of my pituitary tumor last April. Right: the size of my tumor this week. MRI shows tumor volume shrunk 55% over 6 months. Plus, my latest bloodwork reaffirmed that it's ceased wreaking havoc on my endocrine system. Time to eat these blueberries. #prolactinoma
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And no, I am not deleting my account here, despite this platform become a toxic slag pit. There's too much history documented during those early years, warts and all, and people should be able to access it.
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Why yes, I am on Bluesky. If anything can capture the magic of early Twitter, this is it.
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Today is the Biden-imposed deadline for Israel to allow a "surge" of humanitarian aid into Gaza are face suspension of US military aid. But Israel has utterly "failed" to meet that demand. Instead, conditions "are worse than at any point" in the war, https://t.co/GrQnJNv3Ue
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The Biden administration says Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and therefore it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had...
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Trump's emerging "national security" team is shaping up to be a kettle of hawkish neocons. His reported pick for NSA, Mike Waltz, was Dick Cheney's counterterrorism advisor and worked for Donald Rumsfeld. Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik are B-list neocon warmongers.
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This has been the big concern within the research community. As @dfrlab recently noted, Doppelganger is "a lightning rod for the attention of researchers, media, and government authorities while the Kremlin likely attempts to operate more covert forms of information warfare."
Great work by @antibot4navalny. I'm increasingly convinced that the main goal of Ru info ops like Doppelganger, Matryoshka and Storm-1516 is not to influence voters but to tie up and distract anti-disinfo resources. Ru plays factcheckers like a fiddle. 1/
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Andre 3000, celebrating his Grammy nominations at the Kennedy Center tonight
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Norfolk island pine vase, inspired by a type of ancient Greek wine jug called a lagynos. Rough turned during the pandemic, finally completed it this afternoon. Polished with yorkshire grit then finished with a lacquer-linseed blend.
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