Image is of vehicles set aflame by protestors near a government building.
Since July 1st, students have protested the unpopular proposal in which 30% of government jobs would be reserved for veterans of the 1971 War of Independence and their relatives. In a country with a youth unemployment rate of around 20% and a population of 170 million, a large number of otherwise eligible and competent people would have been forced out due to favouritism for veterans. As with basically every country on the planet over the last couple years, Bangladesh is suffering from inflation and an increasing cost-of-living, further exacerbating tensions.
The student protests have been met with significant violence by the government - local newspapers report that over a hundred protestors have been killed, and thousands have been injured. Guns and tear gas have been used. Additionally, the government has completely cut internet access throughout Bangladesh to prevent organizing, which has had some success in dividing protestors, but has also only further angered various parts of the country due to the massive impact to Bangladesh's online industries and various startups. And a national curfew has been in place to limit movement, with the population told to remain home if they want to be safe.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh relented, stating that now, only 5% of government jobs would be reserved for veterans and their families. 2% would be allocated to members of minorities, with the remaining 93% distributed on merit. A period of tentative calm has arrived, but Hasnat Abdullah, a coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, has stated that unless the government restores the internet, removes the curfew, releases detainees, and forces certain ministers to resign within a few days, then the protests will resume.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Hope to see kopmala eat so much shit
It’s 2020 all over again, every “leftist” org is pledging to support her (within minutes of each other mind you hmmmmm)
Death to America
how hard is it for these "leftists" to realize that the mildest step up from the most bloodthirsty zionist in DC is still
and not worthy of being rewarded with support
These left-liberal orgs aren’t even making any demands. Like, insist she doesn’t pick a rabid Zionist like Shapiro for VP or something, anything.
it all depends: will she campaign in swing states or not? this one easy trick could determine the whole election
I'm looking forward to the whole thing coming down to exactly one vote in the last state
She just held an event in fucking Texas
She's doing the Hillary thing already where she's campaigning in the absolute wrong places
Kamala this is Texas there is no electors for Democrats here go campaign in the swing states trump is winning in you doofus
She's in Houston, which has enough blue votes to actually win the state or at least make it close, if you can manage to get out the vote here. But she was already in Wisconsin the other day. Also they were supposed to already be here anyways. Biden was coming with Kamala to assess the damage from Beryl and I think do the same campaign event.
I think her time would be better spent shoring up swing states rather than doing the purple Texas pipe dream. If the swing states were locked in it would be different, of course.
They were already going to be in Texas to survey damage from the hurricane and she was speaking at the 2024 national convention for the American Federation of Teachers, which just happens to be in Houston this year. Cancelling that to go eat at some shitty diner in Michigan would not be a better decision.
Might be helpful for reps down ballot. From what I understand, the Senate will be R, the Dems need to win the house to stop a potential R sweep
Ehhhh it's a union event. The reason they all coalesced so quickly is because she is backed by America's biggest unions to a even greater extent than Biden.
oh god, are they really doing the Beto 'we can turn texas blue' thing again. please stop, this will never happen
One day Texas will be blue, or so I’ve been hearing for a long time
technically, the coastline will become blue as the ocean covers it
TECHNICALLY technically, the ocean is clear, and appears blue only because it reflects the sky
it's the gulf anyway, it'll be brown water not blue
we will find one true leftist who voted psl in that state and make them a mod
"Leftists" all over Reddit are proclaiming "better a cop than a fascist" with absolutely zero self-awareness. Fascism requires and is all about policing, you fucking idiots.
Also, it is very convenient to forget that she's second-in-command of the genocide. Third-in-command, of course, being Netan-got-you.