📊Data analyst by trade, political scientist by mistake. Fluent in democracy, sarcasm, and spotting dictators from a mile away
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PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
I document just some of the horrors of Srebrenica in a fictional but fact-based CIA cable exchange in my novel "Anja's Tears - A Thriller of Love and Espionage."
Never forget.
youtube.com/watch?v=at4B0CPE…
The facts of the Srebrenica genocide have been established by international courts and documented extensively. For journalism, the difficulty today lies less in finding them than in communicating them to audiences who have no personal memory of the events.
That requires attention to format, language and trust, and it benefits from exchange between generations of reporters. Srebrenica Media Meetings, 14-15 December, is designed as a forum for that exchange.
Apply now: bit.ly/srebrenicamedia
#SrebrenicaMediaMeetings #Srebrenica #Journalism #Memory
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
„Get over it“ is the US government’s response to the question of how the US is going to safeguard minority & Kurdish rights.
.@USAMBTurkiye in response to question about how the US will protect Kurdish and minority rights: “It’s an Iraqi issue. It’s not a US issue…Get over it. Full stop.”
“We’re not going to intervene, we can encourage…my sound professional advice is: Get over it.”
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Instead of honoring our veterans, House Republicans want to spend Veterans Day trying to pass the largest cuts to veterans' benefits in history. I'm voting NO on the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act and voting YES on the Major Richard Star Act instead.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Trump used his Veterans Day email to supporters to solicit money from them. I guess it’s their patriotic duty to honor the troops by sending Trump cash.
Trump Turns Veterans Day Into Political “Fundraising Blitz”
President uses federal holiday for MAGA post-midterm messaging.
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PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
We must pass the Major Richard Star Act. This would ensure our combat-injured veterans receive their FULL retirement pay, closing the “Wounded Warrior Tax” loophole that has adversely affected veterans and their families for far too long.
Our veterans who have taken care of us, deserve to be taken care of 'by' us - and I’m honored to vote for this bill on Veterans Day.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
It is time to support our Wounded Warriors and finally pass the Major Richard Star Act!
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
SecDef Hegseth and advisers reprimanded by guard at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/…
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Mr. Speaker, why are House Republicans so focused on cutting veterans' benefits on VETERANS DAY!?
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
.@RepMarkTakano (D-CA) on the Major Richard Star Act: "Today, we acknowledge that the higher cost is the cost of not passing the Major Richard Star Act. The higher cost is supporting a harmful bill like TCAVA which takes from veterans and creates a new lesser class of veterans."
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
NEWS: The Trump administration is officially planning to sell off public lands.
The Interior Department publicly laid out a strategy to reduce the amount of federal lands by selling property to states, tribes, and local governments.
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PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
NEWS: A senior member of Trump’s State Department was caught flying around the Mediterranean on a private jet paid for by Stripe billionaire Patrick Collison just one month after she was sworn in. God only knows what other favors billionaires are buying from this administration behind closed doors.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Why so many republicans say Nay? @HouseGOP @Republicans @realDonaldTrump @RobSchneider @atensnut @bennyjohnson @DC_Draino @DonaldJTrumpJr #MajorStarAct #stillserving #VeteransDay #VeteransDay2026
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
And Republicans are FINALLY getting on the record voting AGAINST Combat Wounded Veterans.
This is why you got stomped in the elections, tools.
The vote is still going as I post this. So far 7 Republicans have gone against their party to support Veterans.
I thank those Republicans for doing the right thing.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Along with the thanks of a grateful nation, American veterans and their families deserve to live lives of dignity and opportunity.
This Veterans Day, let's commit to un-DOGE and fully fund the VA so every veteran has access to health care, education, and housing.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Imma use up all my tokens until the media starts reporting this fuckery correctly.
The smallest diplomatic details can carry the biggest implications -- and the fact that Kushner and Witkoff are once again meeting with Putin first is meaningful. It's been the pattern: Putin first and Zelenskyy second, if at all. They've repeatedly and credulously allowed Putin to shape their thinking, and Ukraine has been left to fend off proposals that amount to Moscow's fever dream.
