On the day Bashar al-Assad's regime fell, Abu Ibrahim and his family went to sleep wondering what sort of future awaited them in the morning. They woke in a panic, to the sound of gunfire and tanks. The bullets announced the arrival of the Israeli military into the remote southern Syrian province of Quneitra on 9 December 2024. In the place of Assad militias who used to patrol the roads,
It'd be nice to dive into the fifth and final season of Stranger Things like it was just another TV show, free of expectations. But that's not what Netflix wants, hence the company spreading out the release across all three major American holidays at the end of the year, the rest of the episodes premiering on Christmas and New Year's Eve. This is a goddamn TV event, if only by sheer force of will on the part of the massive streaming service. Thanksgiving, it's implied, ranks second.
He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a time when his administration has launched occupations of American cities, deployed tens of thousands of troops across the United States, created a framework for targeting domestic enemies, cast his political rivals as subhuman, and asserted his right to wage secret war and summarily execute those he deems terrorists.
