Neil Brandvold

Documentary filmmaker. New York Times, New Yorker, HBO, Netflix, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, Frontline, VICE, BBC and more.

[Neil Brandvold @NeilBrandvold]

TRANSITION is now available on @AppleTV

https://t.co/yO9dL1DXG9

[Cecibel Romero @cecibelr]

De este hilo 🧵se pueden destacar varios párrafos.
“And I felt all but forced to self-censor, because every time one speaks anything remotely negative about their experience with El Salvador or how they view the administration's policies, the masses of X bring out the torches.”

[Neil Brandvold @NeilBrandvold]

@CopyOfOne @DGisSERIOUS We have several colleagues who have worked in Sudan recently. https://t.co/VoQSrtWt5p

[Carlos Martínez @chelefaro]

Una dictadura no es sólo una palabra. Poco a poco los salvadoreños la van sintiendo en carne propia.

[Dr. Ricardo J. Valencia 🇺🇸🇸🇻 on @bluesky @ricardovalp]

Why is Bukele’s intel chief Peter Dumas lashing out over
@ElFaro ’s video interviews with gang leaders confirming Bukele bribed his way to the mayor’s office in 2014? He is not always this hostile. Two reasons explain the shift.🧵

[Columbia Journalism Review @CJR]

On The Kicker, @NeilBrandvold, a reporter who covered the gang crackdown in El Salvador, on why budding authoritarians like what they see. With host @JoshuaHersh. https://t.co/Q1BOQVnNzx

[Jason Stearns @jasonkstearns]

My take on the fighting in Goma right now––a town of 1.5 million with tens of thousands of displaced people huddled in fear at the moment. https://t.co/gL74tVw03S

[Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin]

M23 troops further advancing towards downtown #Goma tonight, including airport. Many FARDC fleeing and/or in surrender talks, but heavy fighting (involving wazalendo?) in some areas, no sight of European contractors.

[Mélanie Gouby @Melaniegouby]

Several sources confirm hearing gunshots in the city and what sounds and looks like infiltrations. "No later than tomorrow morning 8am, the city will have fallen" a friend tells me. Thinking of everyone in town, reliving the nightmare again, again, again... #GOMA

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

Congo has banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that has seized territory in the country’s east in recent days.
https://t.co/8ST9CV9SmC

[Nelson Rauda Zablah @raudaz_]

“Bukele 2029” dice la gorra del asesor presidencial.

¿Eso es ilegal vea? ¿O sea ahora sí es el periodo inmediato anterior?

(Su reelección ya fue inconstitucional pero como ya lo normalizaron)

[CSPAN @cspan]

Debra Tice: "We have from a significant source that has been already been vetted all over our government: Austin Tice is alive. Austin Tice is treated well, and there is no doubt about that.”

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

People warned about this a year ago but Democrats decided they’d rather let Israel commit genocide

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Israel killed the following Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza

Samer Abu Daqqa
Hamza Al-Dahdouh
Mustafa Thuraya
Ismail Al Ghoul
Rami Al Rifi

And some 160 other journalists.

This is unfathomable and if western journalists valued their lives they would make noise until it stopped.

[Carlos Martínez @chelefaro]

Muy recomendado:

[POPULAR FRONT @PopularFront_]

🇨🇩 #Congo: More than 80 civilians were killed this week in a series of attacks by Islamist insurgents in the eastern Congo. The attacks took place inside of Beni territory in North Kivu province, with the IS-affiliated ADF suspected to be responsible.

(via Reuters)

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

When you celebrate the violent rescue of the four captives which could have happened in a peaceful exchange, you are celebrating this

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

We don’t even know half the horrors the Israeli military committed today

[Carlos Martínez @chelefaro]

Dice que la MS-13 es una pandilla de corte satánico y que la derrotaron rezando (se requiere temple para decir esas tonterías sin reírse)… en ninguna parte menciona los pactos de su gobierno con esa pandilla, ni la liberación ilegal de Crook, uno de sus más altos líderes.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Oof, this email from @frontlinepbs. To call the burning of people alive and the beheading of a child simply “Israel’s actions” and to equate that with rockets that were intercepted by the iron dome is an extraordinary devaluing of Palestinian life.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza overnight, the scenes are beyond shocking, some of the worst images I’ve ever seen in 15 years of documenting war crimes.

Those responsible for this must be prosecuted in international courts & an immediate arms embargo should be declared.