06.12.2024 20:56 — 👍 49472    🔁 7742    💬 1000    📌 281

The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success in Aleppo - War on the Rocks “God willing,” the militant told his lieutenants, they would “be able to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Aleppo and Damascus soon.” That militant was Abu

Check out my new article at @WarOnTheRocks: “The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success In Aleppo” warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...

03.12.2024 12:12 — 👍 52    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 7

Two essential & urgent essays by 2 Aleppo writers on their city & its Christian minority in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Aleppo’s Christians Weigh an Uncertain Future, by Fadi Hallisso newlinesmag.com/spotlight/al...

Rasha Moubayed on the challenges facing her community newlinesmag.com/first-person...

04.12.2024 13:50 — 👍 31    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

It's pretty insane how Twitter has been bullying a woman for three days because she had the audacity to get a PhD in an unconventional topic.

02.12.2024 20:16 — 👍 50    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 2

The Conversation About Which Voters Are to 'Blame' Makes Me Want to Stick My Finger Through My Eyeball This is not a morality play, there is no demographic Electoral College, and exit poll data is garbage.

I keep seeing people cite the early exit poll data on voter demographics.

STOP! Do not do this. This data is *garbage* and will remain so until it gets corrected by comparing it to real 2024 results in the next few months. Then we can draw useful lessons from it. www.joshbarro.com/p/the-conver...

12.11.2024 03:51 — 👍 623    🔁 149    💬 14    📌 7

Why is it literally impossible to plug a usb in the right way first time, despite the odds being 50/50? Defies all logic

11.11.2024 12:31 — 👍 1525    🔁 80    💬 158    📌 16

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