The surge of sectarian disinformation around events in #Syria is on over-drive today -- it's way too much to simply be coincidence. Account content is coordinated, eloquent & quick to go viral. Some aligned with pro-#Iran, some with pro-#Israel.

Absolutely horrific footage coming in from #Gaza City, where an #Israel strike hit a restaurant. Multiple young children (including a ~5yr old girl wearing a pink backpack) killed, plus women & at least one journalist. Appalling.

Elon Musk doesn't seem to understand that by retweeting this clip he's actually making the point that Musk was indeed helping Trump so he'd get favors and when he didn't get any in the "big, beautiful bill" he jumped off the Trump Train

The WaPo notes that as of yesterday's US jobs report, "More than a million foreign-born workers have exited the workforce since March." And...wait for it...thru April (latest available data), US real weekly wages rose 0.92%. Thru first 4 months of last year, they fell 0.22%.

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions. LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close

I'm (virtually) covering the LA ICE crackdown in "the other place" bsky.app/profile/jamesm…

Hey OSINT folks, I'm watching the LA ICE riot police. What insignia is this?

The CNBC "live feed" is now old footage. Anybody got a good live feed from Paramount?

Idiotic. Little more to say on this. US military vehicle operating in NE #Syria with the word "kafir" (infidel) inscribed, alongside the Christian cross.

Sounds like they want to keep the regime in place, just hobbled and angry, so they can have a pretext to keep bombing Iran. A free democratic Iran is not what they want, because it would mean ultimately a powerful country with its own agency in the middle east that can’t be

My God. I think I'm going to have a heart attack. It took 35 years but I finally heard it. Germany at NATO

Hive mind! I'm looking for the best books on the Clinton administration's foreign policy. If you could tell me why you recommend the book that would be excellent! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you as always

Everyone’s talking about Zohran Mamdani possibly becoming NYC mayor, but the real headline is that a Syrian will be the First Lady of New York.

Trump sends 20 fewer interceptors than were originally committed. Germany offers to buy new batteries from the U.S. A whole lot of bartering as nightly missile attacks on Ukraine grow worse.

I'm writing a book! My big ask is that if you played a role in the early Iran election twitter stuff you drop me a DM or send me an email: [email protected]

I had no idea at the time, but this Tweet was the beginning of my career in foreign policy. Nothing has been the same since. My wedding day, the days my parents died, the birth of my boys, and June 16, 2009 -- the most momentous days in my life #iranelection

Question for my non-American friends: how prevalent is the story of American slavery? Do people talk about slavery that happened elsewhere? Are images like "plantations" part of your lexicon? I'm reading a book about Syria and am surprised by the many American slavery references

What’s amazing about Candace Owens is that her brand has the production values of a successful Instagram lifestyle influencer - which she uses to promote the deranged conspiracism of an 18th century Jesuit priest who has been forced into exile after fleeing the French Revolution.

While the Syrian government sends in 11 more trucks of humanitarian aid into Sweida today, individuals in Sweida and Shahba hold a demonstration calling for independence from Syria, describing the government as IS, the governor as a spy, while holding the Israeli flag.