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Strategic communications professional. Read my pieces on @Salon: https://t.co/Ha0V50aymT
Aug 9 9 tweets 2 min read
🧵Everyone should listen to every word of Trump's press conference yesterday. Here's a still photo from it, as he had a mental breakdown on live TV. Donald Trump having a mental breakdown on live TV during his Mar-a-Lago press conference on August 8, 2024 Reminds me of Peter Finch in his Oscar winning turn playing the demented populist prophet Howard Beale ("I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it any more!") in "Network" (1976). Peter Finch as Howard Beale glaring at the camera in an angry populist rant in "Network" (1976)
May 3, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
🧵#SudanUpdate: Sudanese Mineral Resources Co. chief Mubarek Ardol, flanked by bodyguards, flew in a white UN plane from Kadugli, capital of Sudan's South Kordofan State to Wau, South Sudan at approximately 1:00pm on May 2, at the invitation of Juba and with the agreement of SAF. Sudanese mining company hea... Ardol, an ex-spokesman for Malik Agar's faction of SPLM-N rebels who became head of SMRC in April 2020, had flown to Kadugli on April 14 -- the night before Sudan erupted in conflict between two warlords, Gen. Burhan of SAF and his deputy Hemedti of the RSF.
Apr 29, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The Security & Military Intelligence Service is contradicting Sudanese values & violating the laws of war by evicting internally displaced people who are not Sudanese from shelters & dormitories, according to eyewitnesses in Wad Medani in Al Jazira State. #KeepEyesOnSudan Security & Military Intelligence officers in Wad Medani are denying essential services to internally displaced people who are not Sudanese. The services, paid for by the city's generous residents, include food, medicine & emergency relief supplies for children & the elderly.
Apr 27, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
🧵Please RT this #PublicHealth thread for internally displaced people & refugees in Sudan on how to disinfect drinking water.💦 You can kill pathogens in Sudanese surface water by boiling it for one minute.🔥 But another safe method uses the sun.☀️ #KeepEyesOnSudan #SudanUpdates The @WHO recommends solar disinfection (SODIS) to disinfect drinking water when you cannot boil water. All you need is clear, plastic bottles, such as 1-liter or 2-liter bottles that previously held soda or juice. Place the bottles on a roof or in full sunlight for 6 hours.☀️ ImageImage
Apr 24, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
🧵#SudanStressTips: Reducing the chronic stress of daily life as much as possible is important for overall health.
1. Make time for movement.🏃🏾 Wait for the crossfire to end & avoid checkpoints and roaming militias. Better yet, don't move; meditate while sheltering in place.🧘🏾 Image 2. Set boundaries between your work & your personal life.🧱 Reinforce them with sand bags. Consider getting a guard dog.🐕‍🦺
3. Connect with people you care about. These may be people who own a generator or people with fuel to run a generator. Barter with food.🍞
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Apr 23, 2023 9 tweets 11 min read
🚨OMG @TwitterSafety claims Nazi profile @0Norseman0 which follows Summerville, SC police department & uses the N-word & advocates "kill the Jews" is NOT in violation of @Twitter safety policy. @elon, White supremacist much?👀👇 ImageImageImage @ADL, care to comment on @TwitterSafety's claim that a White supremacist profile urging "kill the Jews" is NOT against @Twitter safety policy under @elon? ImageImage
Apr 22, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read
🧵The evacuation of embassies across Khartoum signals the international community's failure in #Sudan. While we pray for their safe departure, we also pray that when they return, they will dialogue humbly with Sudan's civil society leaders, not just warlords. #KeepEyesOnSudan The U.S. & international community, including European nations, showed a failure of imagination by negotiating exclusively with SAF warlord Gen. Burhan🤏 and RSF warlord Hemedti🐍 instead of with Sudanese Resistance Committees, trade unions, intellectuals, young people & women.
Apr 21, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
😞 @IOMSudan staff member dies when crossfire hits his family's vehicle south of El Obeid, Sudan.
"The senseless deaths of civilians including humanitarians, which claimed the lives of three @WFP_Sudan employees in North Darfur on Saturday, must end and peace be restored." "I am deeply saddened by the death of our humanitarian colleague, and join his wife and newborn child, and our team in Sudan in mourning." -- @IOMchief António Vitorino