Robert Ford (@fordrs58) 's Twitter Profile
Robert Ford

@fordrs58

fellow at Middle East Institute, retired US diplomat. hopes and guesses aren't analysis. Mastadon: [email protected]

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calendar_today03-03-2014 19:51:58

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FIRE (@thefireorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Punishing students for their off-campus political associations violates Tulane’s commitments to student expression. FIRE is calling on the school to drop all charges against the students for exercising their rights to free speech and association. thefire.org/research-learn…

Laura Kuenssberg (@normalislandnws) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I executed 15 people, buried their vehicles with a bulldozer, and made up not one but two cover stories. I only came clean when I got caught, but I now recognise these were "professional failures". Please don't worry, lessons will be learned. I trust this is acceptable to you x

Karam Shaar كرم شعّار (@karam__shaar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Syria's needs are higher than ever. Foreign aid is at its lowest since the Brussels conference began. You wonder if the world wants Syria to succeed in this transition.

Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If tariffs are so great, why are so many companies begging for exemptions from them? If tariffs are so great, why did Trump beg Amazon not to show the impact of the tariffs to consumers? I don’t understand.

Jackie Ivers🇺🇸 🦅 (@jackieiversarch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

CeFaan Kim Heather @hkorb.bsky.social This admin treats civil servants like crap, mocks them, gleefully fires them, wants them in trauma(Russell Voight), Doge chain saws budgets. Yet when shit hits the fan, Sean Duffy thinks they should work past retirement and “serve their country” when he’s stuck at Newark.

Robert Ford (@fordrs58) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kelly in office 3 months. What's he done in 3 months? Taken any emergency measures? Huddled w airlines? Created any plan? Met w ATC reps? (recall, Reagan destroyed the union.) GOP in charge 3+ months, blaming previous admin is BS. GOP has all 3 branches - take responsibility.

Robert Reich (@rbreich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day. Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations. "Conflict of interest" is an

Emelia (@vikingwarior20) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Police arrested Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin for protesting against Israel's war on Gaza at the US Congress on Wednesday. The co-founder of the anti-war group said they were treated "like criminals," and footage shows her being thoroughly searched multiple times and placed

Thomas Massie (@repthomasmassie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are over $36 trillion in debt. We have a $2 trillion deficit. We are not at war with anyone. Why would we spend a record breaking $1 trillion on the military budget?

United Nations Geneva (@ungeneva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Expanding the offensive on #Gaza will almost certainly cause further mass displacement, more deaths and injuries of innocent civilians [...]. Any use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of war constitutes a war crime." - Volker Türk buff.ly/U9wsHmm

"Expanding the offensive on #Gaza will almost certainly cause further mass displacement, more deaths and injuries of innocent civilians [...]. 

Any use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of war constitutes a war crime." - <a href="/volker_turk/">Volker Türk</a>

buff.ly/U9wsHmm
Aaron Y. Zelin (@azelin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve heard the same folks that have tried to stop any American relations with Syria and sanctions relief within the Trump administration are trying to now push back against Trump’s announcement. I highly doubt they will succeed, but could slow the process down for implementation.

Bente Scheller @bentescheller.bsky.social (@bentescheller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dignity was a core demand of #Syria's revolution. Any small victory of #Assad, #Russia and #Iran was followed by them humiliating their subjects. #Assad, #Russia and #Iran are history in #Syria. Syrians won. Never underestimate the power of dignity.

Dignity was a core demand of #Syria's revolution. 
Any small victory of #Assad, #Russia and #Iran was followed by them  humiliating their subjects. #Assad, #Russia and #Iran are history in #Syria. Syrians won. Never underestimate the power of dignity.
Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pretty rich coming from someone who has harassed and even charged foreign nationals in this country for exercising their free speech rights.

Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What I'm hearing from medical professionals is that Trump's student visa pause is also hitting J-1s -- which means the kinds of doctors who staff up many rural and VA hospitals but also urban ones. We already face shortages which can be deadly. All this for Israel?

Robert Ford (@fordrs58) 's Twitter Profile Photo

83% of Republicans or those leaning Republican favored military action against Saddam Hussein in February 2003, according to Pew Research. Just sayin'