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Well, Iran and their allies' response may happen sometime this week and apparently they aren't talking to the US in order to negotiate how and where they will hit Israel (and Shoigu arrived in Tehran rather auspiciously), the Bangladeshi government just fell, F16s have been given to Ukraine, there are fascist riots in the UK, and Japan just had its worst stock fall since 1987 and seems to be taking several other countries/corporations with it. I don't really know where to look right now.


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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.


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[–] [email protected] 135 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (35 children)

I am declaring unlimited vendetta on anyone who starts boosting Walz. I will fight you. I will bite. I have 20 years of rage built up from living with those racist passive aggressive backstabbing jackasses, I lived under a year of police terror under the Walz regime, I am not letting anyone lesser evil that fuck. Tim Walz sent the US FUCKING ARMY to crush an anti-cop PoC uprising. That's who he is, that's what he did. He's not a nice old man, he's not a "progressive", he's not going to save Palestine, he's not going to fix anything. He's the competent fascist we believed was going to follow Trump and that's why he's being picked. They didn't pick him for his progressive ideals, they picked him because he proved he'd be willing to send armed soldiers in to America's streets to ruthlessly crush dissent Because he actually did that.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Twitter? Blocked.

Whatsapp? Blocked.

Facebook? Blocked.

Hexbear dot net is not blocked in Venezuela. maduro-salute

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

i have not ONCE seen kamala look or act remotely with genuine anger until pro-palestine protestors interrupted her. she almost always seems a bit upbeat even when assertive, but there she looked full of pure contempt.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Kamala's response to pro-palestine protestors interrupting her speech

"You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise I’M SPEAKING"

https://streamable.com/hfp3m6

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Not exactly news but someone in Lebanon asked how to stop their fishtank from breaking due to Israeli sonic booms and the /r/aquarium mods removed it. The sub is now revolting

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Algerian Imane Khelif wins gold medal in Paris

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

To round out the day and give all sides of the electoralism debate some food today:

Cc: anyone here who thinks Kamala will be better for Gaza than Trump.

This was in Detroit, by the way.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 4 months ago (16 children)

The US is writing up a law to hold foreign states liable for not using western payment systems

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The Trump/Bolsonaro-style "stop the steal" tactic has failed in Mexico. "3 parties submitted over 230 challenges to the electoral data, arguing that there were irregularities in the process. After the information was analyzed, the Electoral Court rejected them."

Holy shit, now every fucking time a leftist wins an election, the conservatives and far-right will accuse them of fraud. This shit is getting boring. It's always the same arguments.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago (3 children)

the contra-Cramer index still holding true.

he's since deleted this tweet

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (14 children)

The amount of people wanting to cozy up to the Dems now is too damn high.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Jeremy Corbyn in talks to form new independent commons group

Jeremy Corbyn is in talks with four other independent MPs to form a new Commons group, potentially unlocking hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funding and access. The potential grouping of five independents – who all campaigned on a pro-Palestinian platform - would equal the number of Reform UK MPs and outnumber the Greens.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Sure, electorialism is a fuck. But it's also funny as hell sometimes.

Let's recap: Trump was going to win so hard against Biden, he had it locked. The Democrats were scrambling all over the place trying to convice stubborn joe to drop out, but he wouldn't, the Democrats were showing a lot of weakness. Then the assassination attempt happened, and it was super joever, 99% guaranteed he was going to win. But then genocide joe dropped out, KKKamala replaced him just because she's next on the line (if the Democrats had an actual primary she would have lost 100%). Meanwhile Trump selects JD Vance, a man with the charisma of a dirty diaper, as his VP, then Kamala begins to grow in the polls, appoints the generic wholesome old white man as VP, then stares down at people calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (no no no, not for the actual disappearance of the genocidal state, FOR A SIMPLE CEASEFIRE) and now Trump is completely lost and doesn't know what to do. He doesn't have an effective strategy against Kamala nor Walz (his attacks are very erratic like trying to call Walz "more radical than crazy Bernie" and trying to put Biden back in the discussion) and his VP is a fucking problem.

This happened in like 3 weeks lol.

Either way, neither Trump nor Copmala can save the United States of America from it's downfall. It's coming.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Palestine Action breaks into a factory in Bristol and smashes more drones:
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1820702389206139339

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 months ago (4 children)

During the commemoration ceremony at Hiroshima, the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture delivered a speech condemning the present international order for its injustices, the domination of small nations by superpowers claiming to represent the forces of justice, and so on. The cameraman for the NHK spent the entire section of the speech zoomed in on the Israeli ambassador attending the ceremony.

Rare Japan W

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 months ago (37 children)

Tim Walz is a surprising pick. Doubt he’ll be Henry Wallace or LBJ 2.0 but still not bad.

The amount of NATO leftists saying, “I know I’m a communist but I just donated ☺️” makes me realize that the majority of them are probably children or adults under 30. No way in hell would a 50 year old Communist say something like that after getting burned for that long.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (23 children)

americans are literally deeply evil, so many mfs who claimed to give a shit about the genocide in Palestine but since Harris got the nomination it's become abundantly clear they were just irritated over the lack of a "competent" leader for the empire. i feel really awful for comrades over there who are having to deal with living in the midst of that, it must be soul-crushing. the only difference between zionist supremacism and amerikkkan supremacism is that the zionists are closer to the collapse of their system and thus more obviously, outwardly bloodthirsty, less wholly complacent.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (4 children)

(cw: sa, torture)

Craziest thing about Harris picking Walz as her VP running mate is that practically none of the established news media in the west covered the recent release of CCTV footage from the Israeli Sde Teiman concentration camp which clearly shows Israeli camp guards raping a prisoner

https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1821025793763373225

Not gonna share the video, but just want to point out that the footage was released by the Israeli Channel 12, and throughout the segment, they still have the fucking gall to call the prisoner being raped and tortured a "terrorist".

The dehumanization knows no bounds.

https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1821038771669696931

Jason Hickel (NOT Jackson Hinkle):

We now have video footage alongside systematic evidence that Israeli soldiers gang rape Palestinian captives and there is zero outrage from Western media. I am loosing my mind.

https://xcancel.com/jasonhickel/status/1821138853576511668

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago (16 children)

This guy is fucking cooked, he's doing the DNC's job for them lmao

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (22 children)

Just to hammer it home one more time for anyone here who unironically thinks that Kkkamala Harris intends to change course on Gaza:

Phil Gordon is her personal National Security Advisor.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (62 children)

Iraq COTW? Let's GO!

Free Iraq AMA for the news mega today. My wife is Iraqi and I've spent more time there than in Syria and Lebanon in the last 5 years. I pretty much know about the situation there more than Syria, I had to impress her dad.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Western "socialists" be like: "Maduro cheated, he rigged the elections to keep the CIA-funded reactionaries from winning!"

Me: shrug-outta-hecks

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (10 children)

"Everyone loves The Shooting Turk, a Turkish athlete who shoots guns."

3 days later

"We regret to inform you that The Shooting Turk committed war crimes in Kurdistan."

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (4 children)

David Lynch has revealed he can no longer leave his house since being diagnosed with emphysema.

The director of films including Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive, who created and starred in Twin Peaks, shared the revelation in a new interview about his career.

Speaking to Sight & Sound magazine, Lynch, 78, said he was diagnosed with emphysema due to smoking throughout his life and said that, if he directs again, it will have to be remotely as he cannot “go out” due to fears he will get Covid.

“I’ve gotten emphysema from smoking for so long and so I’m homebound whether I like it or not. It would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold,” he said, revealing that he “can only walk a short distance before” he’s “out of oxygen”.

It’s because of this that Lynch says it is unlikely he will direct again, but if he does, he will be unable to do so in person. However, while saying “I would do it remotely if it comes to it”, he said: “I wouldn’t like that so much.”

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thesis: Iran does something and causes the Zionist entity to collapse.

Antithesis: Iran does nothing because nothing ever happens.

Synthesis: The Zionist entity collapses on its own while Iran does absolutely nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (7 children)

This press conference made Trump look like he’s running a government in exile out of his Florida country club.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

An extremely interesting post from a few months ago (apr 27) translating Ansarallah politburo member Abdulmalik Alejri where he discusses Marx and capitalist crisis.

"The death of Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Zindani brings to mind the era of global jihad led by Salafi Jihadism and the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s against what was then termed the communist threat. The result was that they handed America and the capitalist West a victory without war, as then-US President Reagan borrowed a phrase from his predecessor Nixon. In the context of the Cold War, Afghanistan, that distant corner of Central Asia, transformed into a hub of Islam, and Kabul became a destination for Arab mujahideen, while Palestine, with Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Prophet's Ascension, was within arm's reach, yet failed to attract Arab mujahideen to jihad or to the allure of the virgins. Ironically, when America occupied Afghanistan, Kabul ceased to be a hub of Islam and a destination for jihad.

At that time, Western capitalist intelligence agencies and their Arab allies succeeded in portraying Marx and socialism as a threat to religions, whereas the truth was that they posed a threat to exploitative capitalism, and Marx's battle was fundamentally against capitalist exploitation. Marx's legacy fundamentally did not prioritize religions, and all he wrote about them was few and scattered texts. His most important work, "Capital," in which his genius shines, explained the structure of capitalism, analyzed its internal mechanisms and contradictions, its capacity for expansion, crisis generation, and self-renewal. Even according to his adversaries, Marx's legacy remained the primary reference for analyzing capitalist crises, with his ideas resurfacing with each historical cycle of capitalist crises.

Marx believed that the Enlightenment had overthrown the exploitation of the church and that the real looming danger was capitalist exploitation, even suggesting that religion could play a positive role in mobilizing against capitalist exploitation. I don't understand how some perceive Marxism and communism as a threat to religion while finding no risks in liberal capitalism, even though the Enlightenment movement with its liberal tendencies was the one that battled the church, and the French Revolution raised the slogan "Hang the last king with the intestines of the last priest," while the slogans of the Bolshevik revolution called for overthrowing the bourgeois government. Naturally, this is just a question of amazement, as the issue as a whole is not as simple, and civilization cannot be reduced or approached solely from the angle of combating religion.

The real danger to religion is such exploitation of religion to serve the battles and projects of America and the imperial West in the region, and those involved should take heed from the dramatic end of the Afghan jihad."

https://xcancel.com/aldanmarki/status/1784319180822417791?s=46

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Imane Khelif from Algeria will advance to the women's 66kg boxing final after winning her semi final match. Went through with a very convincing performance against Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nicolás Maduro corners the United States, threatening to sell oil and gas only to BRICS countries, and Washington backs down from declaring candidate Edmundo Gonzalez the winner of the July 28 elections.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

an olympic runner (noah lyles) basically collapses from covid after a race and everyone is like "yea cool ok no big deal" doomer my coworkers are like "yeah it's endemic at this point" YEAH PURPOSEFULLY IT'S NOT NATIVE MOTHERFUCKER IT'S 4 YEARS OLD

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Can Free Rent Revive Downtown San Francisco?

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The city, which is among those most devastated in the country after the pandemic, is trying to lure businesses back with a free-rent period.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It is well and truly Joever. Sometime in the last 24 hours my neighbor finally took down their enormous BIDEN 2024 banner. Their blue-and-yellow "Stop the War!" handpainted sign is still there, unaccompanied by any Palestinian colors or messages.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So there is lot of talk from the McDonalds "Left" about the Venezuelan elections being fraudulent or whatever. I don't have first hand experience but a journalist that I respect has and she went as an election observer in Venezuela. (Breakthrough news has also done some great coverage from what I have seen)

She reported that:

  • The election system that they have is probably one of the best (if not the best) in the world and is very hard to cheat. They have a triple verification system where you vote in an electronic machine using your fingerprint (instead of just an ID), you then get a receipt of what you voted (without any identification on the paper), and also the machine leaves a physical vote in a separate box so afterwards they can verify the differences between the receipts and what's in the ballot box.

  • Things were very calm in every election center she went. There was violence in certain places elsewhere. The world on the street was that certain people(...) where giving 150 dollars to anyone willing to participate to anti government riots. She said there is tremendous misinformation. At some point they were saying that an airport was taken over by anti-government forces. The problem was she was at that airport at that time and nothing was happening!

  • Internet is completely censor free. (Maybe you should rethink of it Nicolas...)

  • Maduro made a request to the Venezuelan supreme court so that the opposition parties submit any evidence that they have in regard to the elections so they can be cross examined. (BTW, the supreme court is elected by the parliament that included the opposition parties of course...)

  • Maduro had 5 assassination attempts against him in March alone. He wears bulletproof vest in his public appearances.

  • In the last 15 years the government has built 5 million houses and has made the country food independent.

  • Maduro when he gathered people around to express his thanks after the election he had 3 ambassadors beside him, those of China, Turkey and Iran

  • Many of the cars in Venezuela streets are Chinese (a phenomenon that I see not only about cars but in everything across Latin America)

  • Burgerland companies like Edison Research (that takes contracts from CIA, Voice of America etc.) where trying to create a climate, months before the elections, that basically the opposition was far ahead (they were polling the opposition as high as 70%!) so that when the real election results came they could say "Aha you see, our polling (that was 100% real of course) didn't match the election results so that means the government cheated!". So the western muppets ("left" and right) take what burgerland polling companies claim as better evidence than the election results themselves!

  • NYT about a month ago reported that the base of the opposition was inside the embassy of Argentina! They did that because the government can't check what's getting in and what is getting out of an embassy. That's why we show supporters of the government trying to get inside the embassy after the elections.

Loser "Left" is very concerned about elections in Venezuela, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet in China, arming Naz...excuse me freedom fighters in Ukraine, women rights in Iran at convenient times, LGBT rights in Palestine at convenient times and voting for the lesser of two evils in the imperial core in order to protect their proper...democracy. All of this just happens to be a stance that is very convenient for the US state department...nothing to see here.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nicolas Maduro announces that he has ordered, through the Telecommunications Commission, the blocking of Twitter (X) in the country, for a period of 10 days. The reason would be violations of Venezuelan laws.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

This might be the first time that being an open Zionist had negative political consequences for an American politician.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Damn, Trump hitting on the democrats by saying Barack HUSSEIN Obama. This is so 2010.

Dude's so fucking cooked lmao. He will lose to fucking kamala harris. KAMALA THE SAME ONE WHO GOT THIRD PLACE IN HER OWN HOME STATE.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boeing Not Happy With NASA Plan to Return Stranded Astronauts on SpaceX Craft

Lmao boeing not happy. Maybe they shouldn't have royally fucked up

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-furious-nasa-plan-return-astronauts-spacex

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