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Andrew Stroehlein

@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
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Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": www.internationalaffairsfornormalpe… Other links: linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Convincing. A must-read. However, as someone who worked for a long time trying to convince governments to do things they didn't want to do, I'm not sure humanity's leaders will address the issue before it's too late.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day last year, I wrote this for Human Rights Watch. Seems even more relevant today. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...
Last week, at the US presidential inauguration, Elon Musk gave a Nazi-style salute. Twice. Neo-Nazi groups and other white supremacists in the US and elsewhere celebrated it as a clear sign of support for white
supremacist ideology. Particularly in the context of his repeated public backing of far-right parties, it's hard to see the gesture as anything else.
Afterwards, Musk - the richest man in the world and now head of the new US Department of Government Efficiency, established by Trump, himself known for pushing white supremacist ideology
- tried to say that what everyone saw wasn't what everyone saw.
A quote from George Orwell's 1984
seems appropriate here:
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
From @channeldraw.bsky.social
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Do you have to be currently committing mass atrocity crimes to be on Trump’s "Board of Peace"? Or do you just get a reduced rate on the entry price?
Putin and Netanyahu in headlines
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#NoKings anti-Trump torch protest above Davos last night www.watson.ch/schweiz/wef/...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New US national anthem just dropped.
O say can you see, the Epstein Files?
No, you can't. That's because, A vile man keeps them hidden.
And he's breaking the law, To protect pedophiles, Including himself,
Well, why else hide the truth?
And Minnesota must pay.
A murder a day.
To distract from the files, Next Greenland, they say.
O must we lose our lives for this turd to save,
In what was once called, the home of the brave?
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Apart from the nutjob-in-chief and maybe a few of his extractive industry friends - and Putin, of course - no one wants the US to invade or steal Greenland. It's madness.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I wrote a complaint to Apple about the Apple App Store hosting X, the non-consensual porn and child-abuse image generator and distribution app. This was the reply I received:
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Bizarre, yet fully in line with the absurd distraction and other-blaming the Trump regime is well-known for. The idea that undocumented immigrants - people who can't even vote - are responsible for the fact that the US has the worst healthcare system in the industrialized world... Who buys this?
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Every article about Musk in every media outlet should be accompanied by this photo. He did this twice at the biggest political event of 2025. It's not a secret. He never apologized. Why is this not the standard file photo?
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"What Elon Musk has said about the EU over the past week has been a non-stop string of lies." davekeating.substack.com/p/musk-is-pr...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Desperate people forced to risk their lives to escape war and persecution - let's rob them of all they've got left! This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
Headline: BLING STING Small boat migrants to have jewellery & assets seized to pay for accommodation as part of Home Sec's arrivals crackdown
The curbs would also target thousands of asylum seekers in hotels who first came to Britain legally and own assets such as cars
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I responded as an alum, in this email to them.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#LetJoeGo
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Dumb. Dangerous. Dystopian. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I'm old enough to remember Republicans cheering when Ronald Reagan said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." Anyway, great fact-check from AFP on another lie-filled video from the Whitehouse: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
See also... "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hmmm.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Oh.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Some personal news...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
#EUinfluencer 2025 event begins. Theme: "Europe on the Edge"
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
From 1939: www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
To understand how ignorant the anti-foreigner folks are, consider this photo from the hate march in London today. That's the flag of Georgia they're waving. Georgia. A foreign country.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Putin is a legitimate target.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Excellent overview of the region that’s likely the next target of Putin’s murderous imperialism - and of nations that offer some inspiration and hope for confronting it. Well written and widely sourced, it’s sympathetic to the cause but presents the nuances and doubts fairly. #books
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Amazing histories of early Indigenous American encounters with and in Europe. Details and perspectives I never got in school in the US. #books
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
An activist’s view of the disease that’s probably killed one in seven people who ever lived and still kills more people every year than malaria, typhoid, and war combined. #books
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This week's editions of Human Rights Watch's Daily Brief covered: the US; Pakistan; Sudan; and Israel/Palestine. Read more, and let us know what you think: www.hrw.org/daily-brief-...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Exactly. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
What I'm trying to do with this Daily Brief is write about human rights in ways that we can all understand. It's not intended for experts and activists (although, many of them have told me they like it, too). Have a look at recent editions and tell me what you think: www.hrw.org/daily-brief-...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Since the talk is about tagging this morning, I thought I'd share this from Brussels some years ago. (No, I wasn't living in a particularly tough neighborhood.)
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Recent top stories in my Daily Brief: an undead migration plan; poisoning the US; Uganda's ugly anti-LGBT law; Russian war crimes in Ukraine; authoritarian Hungary; Russia attacks Amnesty International; Israel's escalation of extermination in Gaza; and more... Read here: www.hrw.org/daily-brief-...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Lying is pretty much the only skill he has - and he's not even very good at it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“When confronted by such horrors [today], silence is unacceptable. Silence is complicity. To remain silent is to suggest nothing has been learned from the past.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The dead of 1939-45 should never be forgotten. But we should also be mindful to count the dead of 2025. To know that in years to come, we will remember, record and honour victims of today's recurring atrocities.
Each day brings news of more appalling acts by governments and armed groups in wars and conflict zones around the world.
One difference now is, unlike the Nazi atrocities, many of these crimes are very public knowledge even as they occur.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The top story? Seriously, who cares?
The Guardian
Headlines
Prince Harry says king
'won't speak to him' and he would 'love' to be reconciled
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Solid placement of health advice...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Why did Instagram decide to hide this comment from viewer treweeke.st.oner on my most recent video about Trump's assault on free speech?
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They really aren't capable of even imagining an economy without people getting exploited, are they? And always people who can't vote... Funny that. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Gross incompetence seems almost comforting in these days of sheer malice.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sooooo... the problem is not that Europe lets thousands of people drown at sea, allows border forces to beat and rob asylum seekers, and sends people to countries where they'll be tortured... No, the problem is Europe has been too nice... 🙄
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I honestly cannot imagine anyone being this ignorant - and calling for a huge war crime - so maybe it's deliberately hateful? Anyway, the answer to his vile question in the second image. And other population transfers in the 20th century were also horrific. They are exactly what NOT to do.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#superbOwl
Photo of an owl I took in Florida
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Spot the change...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“Rallies were also held in 20 other cities, with news website Denník N estimating that at least 100,000 people joined protests across the central European country.” ❤️ #Slovakia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This seems odd: Google has cut out Biden?
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Good news: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024, and wind now tops gas. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
graph of power generation by type in Europe over time
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
An image of Musk’s Hitler salute has been beamed onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-co...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Exactly. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📘 546 pages. 🌍 More than 100 countries covered. 📢 Human Rights Watch’s 35th annual World Report. 🚨 Now live: www.hrw.org/world-report... #Rights2025
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