acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin

Managing editor, @DFRLab. NPR and Reportedly alum. Author of the book Distant Witness. Woodturner. Calling BS is my calling.

[Lina Sergie Attar @AmalHanano]

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.

[Mansour Omari @MansourOmari]

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

[Majd Arar @MajdArar]

Syria will be free when Saydnaya Prision is free. Thousands of souls went to heaven from here.

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

Oh, for those of you wondering why I'm not live-tweeting Syria here, it's because I'm doing it over on Bluesky.

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

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!

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

@FamiliesSyria @ThreadReaderApp unroll

[Armin Rosen @ArminRosen]

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...

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Well placed sources say #Assad remains in #Moscow, while much of his family & close allies are also abroad — in #Russia & the #UAE.

That adds a stunning extra angle to the collapse of northern #Syria.

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

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.

[غالية الرحال @galyarahal]

تحررت كفرنبل للمرة الثانية
بأيادي الأبطال
سنرجع قريباً ….

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

@jean_leroux Thanks Jean! Hope you're doing well!

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

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

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

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.

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

Why yes, I am on Bluesky. If anything can capture the magic of early Twitter, this is it. https://t.co/wwKP2XuSwB

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

hahahahahaha https://t.co/hUTlIymWDK

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

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

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

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.

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

Grok knows.

https://t.co/g7ihWVV507

[acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin @acarvin]

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."

[Nixintel @nixintel]

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.

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