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This thread is only a fraction of what I've seen & what people told me in Sagaing, Myanmar.
If any editors would be interested in any stories about Sagaing, the people, fighters, refugees, war crimes, drone units etc, or if anyone know of any editors who might, my DMs are open!
I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago.
I'll share some impressions below 🧵
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If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one.
The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.
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When you and the gang are out reporting on one of the biggest massacres in modern day Europe, but someone sees a cute cat.
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Dear Americans, while you were busy these past years living your lives people across the world were fighting against the same kind of state violence you're experiencing now and far worse.
Listen to their stories & their advice on how to deal with, survive, & overcome these times
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If you'd ask me to explain with a single video why there is so much bloodshed in Sudan I'd probably pick this one.
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#Syria: incredible scenes from the moment the prison cells were opened at the women's detention area of Sednaya prison.
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I've just come back from #Venezuela 🇻🇪 where I spent 2.5 weeks, witnessing the run-up to the presidential vote, and what was arguably the most outrageous election steal in the modern history of Latin America.
I'll share some thoughts below 🧵
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Spanish reporter was at the train station to record some quotes of travelers affected by the blackout.
Randomly runs into Aragorn wearing a Ukraine shirt while being fluent in Spanish.
🟠 #EnDirecte Viggo Mortensen arriba a Sants per agafar l'AVE amb l'ARA sota el braç: "La gent ha estat bastant pacient"
Segueix tota l'actualitat de l'apagada, minut a minut, al @diariara
ara.cat/economia/caiguda-gen…
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I'm sorry. How many people were killed????
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The Ukrainian flag has been raised at the embassy in #Syria as the national anthem is being played on the loudspeakers.
Major Russian geopolitical defeat.
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Seriously! What the hell is this?
Whatever you think of #Catalonia I think we can all agree that this kind of violence is completely unprovoked and unjustified
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President Macron: "The United States, our ally, has changed its position on this war, is supporting Ukraine less and is leaving doubts about what will happen next." liveuamap.com/en/2025/5-marc…
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Your story is not unique, in fact it has been played out countless times before in countries you probably wouldn't even be able to find on a map.
Learn from other movements in the world. Let their experiences educate you and help you put your own struggle in perspective
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the Ukrainian mufti Said Ismagilov has taken off his religious clothing and put on a uniform as he has joined the defense forces of Ukraine.
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"hey mate, what are you up to? Wanna ride the giant Assad sled later?"
#Syria
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First Poroshenko refuses to say anything critical about Zelensky, now Zaluzhnyi posts this picture with the president.
All of Zelensky's potential political rivals in a election are now gathering behind the president.
America's bullying is only making Ukraine more united.
This war is a test of our resilience and courage, revealing both our strength and the loyalty of our true allies.
In the coming days, London will be a stage for crucial discussions on Ukraine and the support we need. The road ahead won’t be easy, but together, we will overcome every challenge🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Rule of thumb when it comes to Burkina Faso 🇧🇫:
Whenever Traore makes an announcement like this it means he has lost another town to the jihadists and is saying these things to put up a smokescreen to hide his military incompetence.
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Absolutely shocking footage of a Russian warplanes firing missiles into a residential area in #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
A child screams in terror.
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After 60 hours, of which I slept like 6, I'm going to bed. These past days were absolutely incredible. The Free Syria flag now flies over every city of the country as Syrians have reclaimed their homeland. Mabrouk, mabrouk, mabrouk.
Syria is just the beginning.
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The World Press Photo of the year is this photo by Ronaldo Schemidt of a Venezuelan protestors who caught fire after the fuel tank of a police motorcycle blew up.
In a way it's a metaphor for the whole situation in #Venezuela 🇻🇪
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One of the biggest PR achievements of the Houthis is that they fooled the international left in believing that a religious faction of feudalist warlords is actually part of the global struggle for progressive values.
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This is EXACTLY what a double-tap airstrike looks like: bomb a location like hospital, school or apartment block, wait 10-15 minutes for first-responders, medics, press and surrounding residents to get to the site, and strike again, maximizing the number of people killed.
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"We are teetering on dictatorship"
@donlemon on CNN following Trump's speech.
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Iranian regime in a nutshell:
-economy sucks but a necessary sacrifice to prepare for war.
-brutal repression is essential to maintain unity in case of war.
-international isolation a minor price to pay in order not to be hindered in preparation for war
war starts:
-sucks at war
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In a shallow attempt to whitewash their own image following the bloodshed they committed RSF genocidaires are filming themselves handing out candy to terrified residents in El-Fasher
The expression on that childs face tells you all you need to know about how people feel
Sudan🇸🇩
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Guy was suppose to observe what turned out to be the most fraudulent elections in Georgia's recent history. Saw ballot stuffing which he described as "things I didn't like" but goes ahead by saying the elections "went smoothly" and turns the rest of the video into a travel vlog.
I Observed The Elections in Georgia
Community note
The video posted by the author clearly shows multiple instances of election fraud.
Both international and domestic election monitors have described the process as unfair, indicating that the elections did not go "smoothly":
isfed.ge/eng/gantskhade…
www-osce-org.translate.goog/odihr/election…
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Turkish nationalists tweeting about 2 things this week:
1. "Syrian refugees in Turkey are leeches who don't integrate & should go back the way they came."
2. "How dare Germany tell our people living there our nationalist symbols are not allowed in a championship. We are Turks!"
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protests are growing tonight in #StPetersburg (🇷🇺).
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Jolani was like: Yes, yes, toppling statues is fun and all, but please remember that someone will have to clean it up, and that overtime will have to be paid out of the state budget
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Events in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩 were made possible because the military decided not th repress the protests, but to stand with the people.
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Unbelievable story of two Colombian volunteers who fought with the International Legion in #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
One their way home they had a layover in #Venezuela 🇻🇪, where they were arrested at the airport and subsequently deported to #Russia 🇷🇺 where they're now facing trial.
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He did it, he actually did it.
This man is having the craziest six months of his life any person ever had.
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Keep the Georgian people in your thoughts tonight as they continue to fight for their democratic and European future.
🇬🇪🇪🇺
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WTF... This is what people in #Guatemala 🇬🇹 saw after the Fuego volcano erupted less than an hour ago.
Deaths have already been reported.
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Jackson Hinkle's tweet about Drew Pavlou's family was the absolute lowest I have seen in my 11 years on this site.
If he doesn't get banned for this there is really no hope for Twitter.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: miraculously the driver appeared to he unharmed. Bystanders are doing their best to free him.
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The situation in Morocco 🇲🇦 is spiralling out of control.
The FIFA riots have spread to almost every major city tonight. Reports of dozens of injured, lots of destruction and even a couple cases of live ammo having been used.
This video is from Salé, near the capital Rabat.
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After 2000 years the Armenian society of Nagorno-Karabakh is coming to an end.
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At 0:10 in the video you can see the woman in red drop to the ground as she was trying to take cover from the water cannon.
She is reportedly in critical condition with a bullet in the head. #Myanmar
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Syria has a new coat of arms.
The old Baathist emblem has been replaced by a new eagle, one with 14 feathers, representing the 14 governorates of Syria and the 14 years of Revolution against the Assad regime.
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Marxist influencers in the West: 'Out-of-control consumerism is at the core of our hyper-capitalist system which impoverishes millions of people and destroys the environment while further enriching the elite.'
Marxist influencers in China: 'Oooh look at shiny object! We need to submit our rights to the state so we can have these too'
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: small-scale protests have erupted in #Russia 🇷🇺.
In #Yekaterinburg several dozen people chant "no to war"
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Never forget the #TiananmenSquareMassacre of 31 years ago. It was a day on which the Chinese military was send in to "restore order" following massive pro-democracy protests.
Bodies and bikes lay crushed in the streets around the square, run over by armoured vehicles
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I met Mazen eight years ago at a Syrian solidarity rally in Amsterdam. He was a such a gentle soul, something you could notice in even the slightest thing, like he way he'd shook your hand.
Rest in peace Mazen, Syria is free 💔
Today, the body of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada was found. He was tortured in 2012 before his release and departure from Syria. Mazen disappeared in 2020 after being coerced by the Syrian regime’s embassy in Berlin to return to Syria.
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#Belarus: #Lukashenko has just lost control of the town of Lida (pop. 100.000). The town's entire police force appears to have joined the protests
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Been doing and following OSINT research for 12 years. Never before have I read about there being so much blood it could be spotted by satellite.
But that's now the reality in El Fasher (Sudan 🇸🇩)
🚨HUMAN SECURITY EMERGENCY🚨
El-Fasher has fallen to RSF. HRL finds evidence of mass killings including door-to-door clearance operations and objects consistent with reported bodies on berm entrapping El-Fasher.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
🛰️@AirbusSpace @Maxar
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshn…
ALT Daraja Oula, El-Fasher 27 October 2025 Copyright: Satellite Imagery 27 October 2025 ©️Airbus DS 2025. Analysis conducted by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab Clusters of objects and ground discoloration 13.6329010, 25.3271401 Imagery collected over the Daraja Oula neighborhood in El-Fasher on 27 October 2025 shows the presence of clusters of objects, ground discoloration, and light technical vehicles. The objects within these clusters measure between 1.5 meters – 2 meters in length. A group of light technical vehicles appear to be blocking the road near where what appears to be red discoloration on the ground. One cluster of objects is flanked by 3 light technical vehicles.
ALT Daraja Oula, El-Fasher 27 October 2025 Cluster of objects consistent with the size of human bodies and reddish ground discoloration Copyright: Satellite Imagery 27 October 2025 ©️Airbus DS 2025. Analysis conducted by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab 13.6325556, 25.3259461 In imagery collected over Darja Oula on 27 October 2025, the presence of clusters of light and dark colored objects consistent with the size of human bodies, reddish ground discoloration, and vehicles are visible. These observations are not seen in prior satellite imagery.
ALT Daraja Oula, El-Fasher 27 October 2025 Reddish ground discoloration and vehicle presence Copyright: Satellite Imagery 27 October 2025 ©️Airbus DS 2025. Analysis conducted by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab 13.6324204, 25.3282774 In imagery collected over Daraja Oula on 27 October 2025, two reddish ground discolorations are visible that are not seen in prior satellite imagery. Multiple vehicles are present in the same area, which appears consistent with door-to-door clearance operations.
ALT 157th Artillery Brigade, El-Fasher 27 October 2025 Clusters of objects and ground discoloration Copyright: Satellite Imagery 27 October 2025 ©️Airbus DS 2025. Analysis conducted by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab 13.6365946, 25.3109425 In imagery collected over the 157th Artillery Brigade in El-Fasher on 27 October 2025 shows the presence of clusters of objects along the defensive berm. These objects are not visible in imagery collected on 26 October 2025 and the appearance of these objects coincides with reports that civilians were shot attempting to flee El-Fasher over the berm.
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While Assad spent the past five years getting rich of captagon drugs and hid in his palace when Israel bombed his Iranian allies, Jolani build a state, a professional army, armed it to its teeth and prepared them for a day like this.
You can see the results.
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In January 2014, I posted my first Syria map, I was just a skinny high schooler at the time.
Today, 11 years later, sleep deprived by ecstatic, I hope to have posted my last one. I've aged in those eleven years, we all have. But this experience I'll carry with me forever.
Hopefully 08/12/2024 marks the beginning of an age of peace in Syria, so I can now finally say:
Task completed ✅
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Jesus! An armoured vehicle of the #HongKong police tries to break into the Poly University gets literally bombarded with molotov cocktails
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BREAKING: #Armenia 🇦🇲 and #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 have agreed to sign a formal peace deal which includes an official delimitation of the border by the end of the year.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: anti-war protest breaking out in #StPetersburg tonight.
Small rallies are taking place in several cities across #Russia 🇷🇺.
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: airbase of #Melitopol now reported to be under fire by the Russian invasion force.
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Is it possible to love a foreign country likes it's your own? Even tho you were not born there, have never lived in it and don't share any relatives from that place?
Yes, for me that country is Syria ❤️
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I honestly can't wrap my head around this news. I spoke to Muhammed just two weeks ago. He was so kind, and so sure everything would be alright in the end. He had so much faith El Fasher would survive.
Muhammad Khamis Duwda the spokesperson for the displaced population of Zamzam camp was today murdered by RSF militiamen at his home in Al Fashir.
انالله واناالیه راجعون
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#Syria MAP UPDATE: as of 08/12/2024 Syria is free!
No more 'rebels', 'loyalists', or 'federalists', in this update there are just 'Syrian Forces'.
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It seems likely that Damascus will be liberated today. But those expecting Assad to appear at the end of the day and meet his end like Gaddafi will be disappointed.
I expect Bashar is already long gone.
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The importance of events in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩 should not be understated.
The 8th largest country in the world in terms of population, has just rid itself of an autocratic ruler, without any international support.
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Little, innocent Bhutan when finding out it has been put on the red list.
Trump Admin mulls restricting visitors from 41 states.
Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen in Red list - a category which means all travel by nationals of these states will not be allowed into the United States.
Eritrea in Orange list (visa sharply restricted).
The @nytimes has published the tentative list of affected states.
Screenshot of list here 🔽
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The only thing that is probably more despicable than bombing a clininc full of pregnant women is kidnapping a woman together with her newborn at gunpoint, and making her appear in your hostage video.
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Once upon a time a young Syrian man, decided to leave home and join al-Qaeda in Iraq.
20 years later the American president shakes his hand and says he's amazing and hot.
NEW: Trump calls Syria’s Al-Sharaa “a real leader” saying he led a charge and “he’s pretty amazing”.
Trump said meeting with Syrian president went “great,” saying he is a “young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Fighter.”
— White House Pool
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Probably one of the most interesting pictures of the Russian "elections" comes from the Central African Republic, where Wagner mercenaries line up outside the 🇷🇺 embassy in Bangui, faces covered and everything, to vote.
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109%. According to the official results 109% of votes were cast, spread over 5 candidates...
109 PERCENT.
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Just a reminder that the Chinese Communic Party virtually played no roll in fighting the Japanese during WW2. Mao and his henchmen just sat on their ass in the mountains while the Chinese nationalists were left to fend off the invasion themselves.
VIDEO: A massive military parade begins in Beijing, attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin, with the two guests of honour flanking Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Soldiers march in ranks with tanks and missile systems on display for the showpiece extravaganza marking 80 years since the end of World War II
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#Ukraine 🇺🇦: hundreds of people also marching against war in #NizhnyNovgorod (western #Russia 🇷🇺) tonight.
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In other BREAKING news: the Georgian revolt has started.
#Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇺
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When a devastating earthquake struck Syria in 2023, Ukraine was one of the only countries to send aid to the people of Idlib disregarding the Assad regime's demands that all aid should flow through Damascus
Syria-Ukraine solidarity has always been more then just internet culture
Today, following reports from our government officials, we agreed on actions regarding Syria—primarily humanitarian and security efforts aimed at stabilization. For Ukraine, this is important: the calmer the situation in such regions, the more actively the world can help us achieve peace.
It is precisely for this reason that Moscow tries so hard to ignite more conflicts and wars in various parts of the world, fueling instability and adding to global challenges.
We are ready to assist Syria in preventing a food crisis, particularly through the humanitarian program “Grain from Ukraine.” I have instructed the government to establish food supply mechanisms in cooperation with international organizations and partners who can help.
We call on everyone worldwide to join stabilization efforts to ensure that the war—ignited over a decade ago in Syria with the involvement of Iran and Russia—can finally come to an end.
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