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NonilexOne fmr staffer recalled that the first meeting was listed as “somewhere around 3 hours. I remember thinking, ‘That’s insane.’ What do you talk about for 3 hours in a supposed unplanned meeting?”…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TulsiGabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a>’s nomination caps a remarkable transformation over the past decade from liberal Democrat to favorite of the Republican right, even as she sometimes alarmed colleagues from both parties by defending <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> & his longtime ally, Russian president Vladimir <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

NonilexThe report <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TulsiGabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a> eventually submitted to Congress said the meeting w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> lasted 90 mins, & the meeting w/his wife began at 2PM. The actual duration is unclear.The exchanges were part of a days-long scramble by Gabbard’s team to account for her time in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> & limit the political fallout of the trip, which has drawn renewed scrutiny in the weeks since <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> picked her to be the next director of national <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a>, overseeing all US spy agencies.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

NonilexThe timeline,…not been previously reported, said <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TulsiGabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BasharAlAssad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BasharAlAssad</a> met at 12:15PM on Jan 16, 2017, & her next appointment was w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>’s wife at 3PM. Gabbard’s dpy chief of staff replied the Assad meeting seemed “rather long”& asked if any “formalities” could be broken out to “cut down on the time that it appears you 2 sat & talked.” Her press sec asked if the Assad mtg could be grouped w/encounters w/dignitaries so it would “appear more like” one in a series of “protocol meetings”

NonilexIt was Feb 5, 2017, & the Hawaii Democrat [now <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a>] — fresh from a trip to the pariah state that left Washington stunned — had circulated a timeline of her activities to help her staff prepare a report for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#House</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethics</a> Cmte, acc/to a trove of documents from her office reviewed by WaPo. The cmte requires detailed post-trip accounts of official travel, & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TulsiGabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a>’s was due the next day.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>

NonilexFiles detail bid to contain fallout from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s nomination to be director of national <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> meetings with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>Staffers for Rep <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TulsiGabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a> were wrestling with a question: Had she really met with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> leader of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> for almost 3 hours?  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/01/21/tulsi-gabbard-syria-assad-nomination/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/01/21/tulsi-gabbard-syria-assad-nomination/</a>

HelianthusLOL<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russkiyMir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russkiyMir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NAFO</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈The Butcher al-Assad, lost his country, lost his wife and now lost all his assets......Krampus has excelled themselves this time! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xmas</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦<a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@ty04" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ty04</a> apparently the mass murder and vicious bloody repression is not the problem, the loss of income and prestige isalso she wants to move to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a>I say don't let herthis whole "brutal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyrant</a>'s kin live life of luxury in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#West</a>" needs to endlet her "enjoy" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moscow</a>fuck Bashar and his family<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/divorce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#divorce</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a>

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@benroyce</a> <a href="https://c.im/@nanoelquant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nanoelquant</a> <a href="https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@tanavit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tanavit</a> <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/profile/claralistensprechen3rd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@claralistensprechen3rd</a> >> from a distance, a few deaths compared to many deaths is meaningful.Yes, that's the quantitative part.Also, Viktor <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yanukovych" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yanukovych</a> fled <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> to seek shelter in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a>, just like Bashar <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> fled <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a>, but Volodymyr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zelenskyy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zelenskyy</a> is still fighting for his country. That's the qualitative difference between the two phases, and a significant one.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦And no one, least of all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a>, escapes realizing the ramifications of one of their most important, longest, and vital <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clientstates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clientstates</a>: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a>, slipping away, as a distracted Russia could do nothing as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rebels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rebels</a> backed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a> swept the country and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> crumbled. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cruel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regime</a> is over, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syrian</a> people now with the potential for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hope</a> in their long devastated land.

LeoUn'interessante intervista a Yassin al-Haj Saleh, uno dei principali intellettuali siriani, ateo, dissidente di lunga data contro il regime di Assad e prigioniero politico per sedici anni. Molto utile per contestualizzare ciò che sta avvenendo ed evitare le semplificazioni:<a href="https://www.resetdoc.org/story/yassin-al-haj-saleh-assad-syria-must-free-sectarianism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.resetdoc.org/story/yassin-al-haj-saleh-assad-syria-must-free-sectarianism/</a>È in inglese, ma è breve, e deepl.com è vostro amico.<a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/Siria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Siria</a> <a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦This is Ragheed Ahmed Al-TatariHe was arrested at age 27 in the 1980s by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> regimeHe is now free from prison in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a>, here he is reuniting with his familyAfter 43 yearsHis "crime" according to that vile dead govt?He was a pilot who refused to bomb his own people, fellow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syrians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syrians</a> in Hama

Radio Onda D'UrtoSIRIA DEL NORD E DELL’EST: MOBILITAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE DI RISE UP 4 ROJAVA. A BRESCIA INIZIATIVE SABATO 14 E GIOVEDì 19 DICEMBRE <a href="https://www.radiondadurto.org/2024/12/14/siria-del-nord-e-dellest-mobilitazione-internazionale-di-rise-up-4-rojava-a-brescia-iniziative-sabato-14-e-giovedi-19-dicembre/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.radiondadurto.org/2024/12/14/siria-del-nord-e-dellest-mobilitazione-internazionale-di-rise-up-4-rojava-a-brescia-iniziative-sabato-14-e-giovedi-19-dicembre/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/INTERNAZIONALI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#INTERNAZIONALI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/INEVIDENZA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#INEVIDENZA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/brescia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brescia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/LOCALI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LOCALI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Ocalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ocalan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/rojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rojava</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/curdi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curdi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Siria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Siria</a>

Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺Sales of the synthetic drug <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Captagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Captagon</a> were used as a source of funding for the brutal regime, making Syria its largest producer. Among the secrets uncovered by rebel fighters since Assad fled the country, large-scale illegal drug factories housed in villas on the outskirts of Damascus. FRANCE 24's Emily Boyle reports. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drugs</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TUmNCV6N4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TUmNCV6N4</a>

Elia Ayoub (he/him)Walid Barakat, a Palestinian from Jerusalem spent over 4 decades in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>’s prisons. It’s first time he sees a cellphone.He was 25 years old when arrested and he is now 67. <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> Via: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDcCOBuMCfb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDcCOBuMCfb</a>

Elia Ayoub (he/him)The man who smuggled the infamous Caesar photos of people murdered by the regime to the wider world. He says even his children didn’t know it was him, but now that <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> has fallen he can speak freely. <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a> Full: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDfTN8cJ4Ex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDfTN8cJ4Ex</a>

Kriszta SatoriAnother BBC documentary worth watching - this on the direct links between the multi-billion dollar <a href="https://journa.host/tags/captagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#captagon</a> trade and leading members of the <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Syrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syrian</a> Armed Forces and Bashar al-<a href="https://journa.host/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>'s family <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g39jwk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g39jwk</a>

Scott Lucas<a href="https://journa.host/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> official: "Even before <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a> escape, it was clear that the situation was critical.It's a major inconvenience. Our diplomats and intelligence services were ordered to adapt quickly, try to engage in dialogue, and start building relations w the new authorities"<a href="https://journa.host/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syria</a>

Der böse Hexe Njähähä 🧙‍♀️🪄⚡️2️⃣/1️⃣: Mehr zu Anwar al-Bunni und seinen Kampf gegen das Regime und für dessen Opfer. Dass der Anwalt religiös unverblendet ist, wird nur am Rande deutlich, auch seine daraus erwachsende Kraft. Die Unter-Überschrift ist etwas unglücklich, da ihr Fokus diesem Menschen nicht gerecht wird, denn die Mitwirkung an dem Gefängnisbau war durch die Umstände schwerlich vermeidbar: Seine vier Geschwister waren politische Gefangene des <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>-Regimes. <a href="https://norden.social/tags/syrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#syrien</a> <a href="https://taz.de/Syrischer-Menschenrechtsanwalt-al-Bunni/!5403803/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://taz.de/Syrischer-Menschenrechtsanwalt-al-Bunni/!5403803/</a>

Der böse Hexe Njähähä 🧙‍♀️🪄⚡️<a href="https://norden.social/tags/Blasphemie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blasphemie</a>: Stempel zum Abwürgen von <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Religionskritik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Religionskritik</a>.Sie ist aber nötig, um Fesseln zu sprengen und Kräfte freizusetzen.In den Worten eines bemerkenswerten Menschens:》<a href="https://norden.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jesus</a> sagt, der <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Glaube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Glaube</a> an Gott könne Berge versetzen. Ich glaube nicht an Gott. Ich glaube, dass ich Gott bin, so wie jeder Mensch <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Gott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gott</a> ist. Und wenn wir wollen, können wir Berge versetzen.《(<a href="https://norden.social/tags/AnwarAlBunni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnwarAlBunni</a>, Anwalt, <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assad</a>-Regimegegner)<a href="https://norden.social/tags/blasphemischerAdventskalender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blasphemischerAdventskalender</a>

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