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Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social Profile picture
Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social
@annia
War, politics, climate change & food, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Editing investigations @ThePublicSource. Writing (tor)mentor. RTs=interested in everything
Jan 13, 2023 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Di'Rico is right. Some of the worst people on here are just emotionally immature sad sacks using anonymity to act out.

Some are wild-eyed ideologues—toxic true believers who think the ends always justify the means.

But many of our friends On Here are something more sinister: Trolls, sock puppets & fake accounts.

A lot of the "people" you're interacting with On Here are fake.

Their single-celled purpose is to distort your sense of reality for political reasons. To f**k with your perceptions.

Don't let them.

A brief guide to people who don't exist. Image
Nov 9, 2022 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Friends, I'm begging you, please be careful which #Mastodon server you join.

I was looking for a server. What I found was a lesson in groupthink, disinformation, & the importance of digital vigilance.

This is the weirdest, most unsettling saga I've found online in a long time. I'm not going anywhere. But like many of you, I was looking to set up on Mastodon as a backup.

I tried joining a couple of servers. But never got the confirmation email.

Then I saw a tweet by one of my favorite people, the great @RBReich. Follow him if you're not already! Image
Jul 24, 2022 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Another banger from @petersgoodman.

He can't say it, so I will:

This is the price we're all paying for Pfizer & Moderna's billions.

By refusing to vaccinate the world, they doomed us all to endless variants & global recession.

Davos Man wins. We lose.

nytimes.com/2022/07/16/bus… In his book, Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World, Goodman lays out how billionaires are getting exponentially richer—by systematically robbing us all.

Take this global recession. We could have avoided it—if not for Davos Man.

Here's how:

bookshop.org/books/davos-ma…
Jul 3, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
In case you've never seen it before: these are minesweepers. They're sweeping for mines in the wheat fields. This is, lest we forget, what Israel did in southern Lebanon in 2006: nytimes.com/2006/10/05/wor…

"What we did was insane and monstrous; we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," said the head of one a military rocket unit, quoted in Haaretz.
Mar 26, 2022 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
Hey, heard about that new onslaught of Russian propaganda?

Anyhoo here's a totally legitimate account that is 💯 a real Palestinian person.

She really likes Jack Posobiec, who is loved by Palestinians everywhere.

Oh & she also happens to post some anti-Ukrainian tweets too If you don't retweet Haya, then you obviously hate Palestinians!
Mar 17, 2022 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
In 1999, I was a cub reporter, interning at the once-great newspaper Newsday (since destroyed, like almost all newspapers, for short-term profit). I was green, but pretty good, so they gave me a classic rookie assignment: cover the Muslim Day Parade.

theguardian.com/world/2022/mar… "Real" reporters hate assignments like this. Real reporters want prestigious stories, like covering wars in foreign lands. Nobody gets a Pulitzer for covering a hokey little local parade.

But I still think it was the best assignment I ever had. And I still remember the Chechens.
Jan 10, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
The fire was caused by a space heater. Meaning the fire was caused by a landlord.

People using space heaters means a. broken windows, or b. landlord illegally withholding heat.

This building has 174 violations. Including for heat.

Is @NYCMayor going to do something about this? The complaint history for this building. Note the frequent complaints of NO HEAT:
Oct 26, 2021 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
The Facebook Papers consortium does not contain a single non-Western news outlet. Not one. I'm trying to imagine the giant disinformation fatbergs lurking on Facebook in Brazil, Saudia Arabia, the Philippines, Mexico, Russia, & whew I could go on & on.

Rappler & Novaya Gazeta just won a Nobel for this kind of reporting. At least include /them/? If not all of us?
Aug 14, 2020 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Last week, a big American newspaper asked if I wanted to weigh in on the Beirut Explosion.

I lived in Beirut for the better part of 15 years. I wrote a book about my time there. As you might imagine, I have a lot to say.

Ten years ago—hell, five years ago—I might've said yes. Don't get me wrong: I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth.

But what happened in Beirut last week is profoundly not my story.

I didn't grow up there. I'm not from there. Unlike a lot of my friends from there—
Jun 4, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
True story: One of my oldest friends joined the NYPD. I've known him since I was a baby. We went to daycare together. He taught me my first bad word, asshole, a formative moment. He was like a big brother.

His anti-bike hysteria is a big part of why we're not friends any more. The last time I called him, maybe two years ago, he launched into an unhinged, Giuliani-style rant against bicycles. Not for the first time. It was like one of those uncomfortable scenes in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle is losing it & everyone else is kind of edging away.
Mar 10, 2020 • 32 tweets • 8 min read
Friends, let's talk about fear.

Some fear is productive. It keeps us alive.

Some fear is destructive. It keeps us terrified, paralyzed, &, most of all, obedient.

Which is which? How can we tell the difference?

A tale of two threads about the #coronavirus. Yesterday—the day before six primary elections here in the US of A, don't for a minute forget—two threads went viral.

This is the first one:

and this is the second:

You've probably already seen them both. Or something like them.