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Oct 13, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
FIGHT DISINFORMATION: Comprehensive ongoing list of the most prevalent viral imagery of Syria falsely attributed to the Israel-Gaza war.

This image is of child victims of the Assad regime's gas attack against Eastern Ghouta a decade ago, not Israeli or Gazan victims of war. Image
This is a video of children in the Assad-besieged Yarmouk, Syria from a Syrian documentary called "Little Palestine" from nearly a decade ago.

Though these children are mostly of Palestinian descent, this is Syria, not Gaza.
This viral image is from the ruins of the Omari Mosque in Daraa, Syria from a decade ago. The mosque was attacked by Assad regime forces.

This is not a mosque in Gaza. Image
This video (very distressing) is of a Syria Civil Defenseman saving a baby in the aftermath of this year's earthquake in northern Syria.

This is in Aleppo Governorate, not the result of missile strikes in Gaza.
This is a video of a Syrian child whose relatives died in the Assad regime's siege of Aleppo a decade ago.

This is not a video from Gaza and is nearly 10 years old.
This is a video from early this week of the Assad regime indiscriminately using Russian-provided heavy artillery on the town of Ariha in northern Syria.

This is not imagery from Gaza nor Israel.

This is a video from 2016 of Assad regime soldiers in Aleppo being targeted by Syrian resistance fighters.

This is not a recent video of Israeli soldiers being attacked by Hamas, and vice versa.

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Jan 14
Incredibly bizarre: Tulsi told Sen. Capito that her infamous 2017 trip to visit Assad in Damascus was actually scheduled for Lebanon, but she ended up in Syria by accident.

Sen. Kelly calls BS here and then politely eviscerates Tulsi for obviously lying.
To be clear, the idea that Tulsi's Syria Nazi Party-sponsored trip was supposed to go to Lebanon and not Syria is the most ridiculous and transparent lie she's spewed yet.

From my recent piece on her connections to the Assad regime: Image
Tulsi privately making this claim to senators is bold. Her bizarre relationship with Assad and his supporters is clear and well-documented.

If "I was supposed to go to Lebanon" is the best excuse she can conjure up, it spells trouble for her.
thehill.com/opinion/white-…
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Dec 31, 2024
Presenting the TWITTER FRINGE HIGHLIGHT REEL OF 2024!

Back by popular demand, I've thrown together a list of the top tweets from the extremes for every month of 2024. Reply with your favorite month below.

Starting off strong in January: Image
February:

Posted within the same hour. Image
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March:

When Ukrainians managed to get blamed for the Baltimore bridge collapse. Image
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Dec 25, 2024
Iran wants nothing more than a Syria embattled in rank sectarian violence — and they will do anything to achieve it.

"The Syrian youth have nothing to lose" except their newly-found freedom from Iran's reign of terror. Image
Importantly — Iran's attempts to destabilize Syria this evening in no way absolves any use of excessive force by new Syrian security forces.

Resorting to violence is exactly what Tehran wants. Syria needs reconciliation and order — not shows of might.
More and more evidence that unrest today was stoked by a combination of a foreign online disinformation wave + chaos actors on the ground.

Many people were motivated to go into the street off of a video of a shrine being attacked a month ago being misrepresented as the present.
Read 4 tweets
Dec 8, 2024
To the international leaders sincerely congratulating the Syrian people, thank you.

But it's not over: Syrians want to vote for their own leaders and live equally under the law.

Your role is to facilitate as needed and stop regional actors from abusing Syrians further.
Don't condemn the future of Syria before doing anything to safeguard the Syrian desire for a democratic transition.

Things are going to be messy after the fall of a half a century of tyranny.

Don't abandon Syrians now.
Speaking directly to the European leaders who previously sought to normalize with Assad:

If you do nothing or sabotage efforts to promote safety and stability in Syria now, you are barring refugees in your countries from making voluntary returns.
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Nov 30, 2024
JUST NOW: The Syrian opposition has reached Kafranbel, the Syrian town in Idlib famous for their protest banners. Image
"Putin! Get your soldiers back safe, otherwise we send them to you in coffins." Image
"Hit Assad down; let Syria shine." Image
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Nov 15, 2024
From Putin to Maduro to Assad, there's few enemies of the United States that Tulsi Gabbard doesn't have a bizarre affinity for.

Amid a sea of controversial cabinet picks, she is by far the most dangerous to our national security.

My words in The Hill.
thehill.com/opinion/white-…
Just weeks after Tulsi's visit to Damascus, Assad unleashed a deadly chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun.

Trump rightfully retaliated. His DNI nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, called the attack staged.
bellingcat.com/news/mena/2019…
In 2015, Tulsi directed a tweet at her now fellow cabinet nominee Marco Rubio, encouraging him to support Russia's intervention in Syria, amid a joint Assad-Russia hospital bombing campaign. Image
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