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Image is of Colombian President Gustavo Petro giving a speech at the UN in 2022.
Trump has arrived in office with the force of an avalanche; ~~ending~~ slowing a genocide on the one hand, while simultaneously promising a total nightmare for minorities and the poor throughout and outside the United States on the other hand. [edited for clarity; I do not actually think Trump has ended the Palestinian genocide obviously, I was making a joke - but the ceasefire is a genuine improvement in conditions for millions of people right now who are on the edge of death, so it cannot be dismissed]
It's still far too early to truly compare and contrast his imperial strategy with Biden's, but initial signs show that there does appear to be somewhat of a reorientation. Biden was famous for being two-faced; ostensibly offering aid and stability, while also blowing up your pipeline to ensure you did not actually have an alternative to his idea. Trump, meanwhile, seems only really capable of aggression, threatening several "allied" nations with what may as well be sanctions because of the economic harm they'd do. I suspect we'll be debating for a long time how much of this can be attributed to the specific characteristics of Trump, or whether he merely embodies the zeitgeist of imperial decline - a wounded empire lashing out with extreme violence to try and convince everybody, including themselves, that they can still be the world imperialist hegemon.
I'll admit it: I did not believe that Trump would actually try and go ahead with putting tariffs on basically anybody who annoys him. And while the threat could still be empty in regards to countries like China and Canada, Colombia is the first indication of the potential of his strategy. Despite some fiery words from President Petro, after Trump's administration revealed the punishment if Colombia did not agree, it appears that Colombia will in fact be accepting deported migrants after all. It's funny how that works.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
A lot of blah blah blah in this, predictable differences between gender and these are the only parts I think that matter
Controversial influencers Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson were among those to command similar trust by 42 per cent of men.
I really don't like this line.
More than half of GenZ wants the uk to become a dictatorsship"
"More than half agree the UK would be a better place with a strong leader in charge" 
"They think that the entire way our society is organized must be radically changed through revolution"
"They want a leader who doesn't have to deal with parliament and elections"
That's not the same.
"Dealing with elections" in the average persons mind means "dealing with politics" which means "posting dumb shit on twitter and caring about meaningless stuff instead of fixing the country". I'm sure some want anti-dei Stalin or climate Stalin or boomer Stalin, but I really doubt that's more than a few cranks. If you'd asked "do you want a dictator?" then the responses would be much different. And the parliament? The British Parliament seems absolutely cursed, not to mention its not a democratic institution what with the house of lords (and also the absolute fucked way they do FPTP voting). Tying them together gives "working towards a specific response".
Edit: Incidentally why is a "strong leader" inherently a bad thing? Wouldn't you want your political representative to be able to wield the apparatus of the state efficiently? Seems like we've just linked "strong leader" with "authoritarian" but it doesn't have to be, right? Authoritarian isn't "when you make laws" it's more complex than that. Authoritarianism as a concept has done so much harm to political discourse.
Kier Starter declares martial law and publicly flays garage 🤞🤞🤞
I was like what garage is one of the only good things to come out of the UKKK then I realised you meant Farage
Yeah I approve of Climate Stalin
Climate Stalin doesn't go far enough, we need Climate Mecha Stalin.
@SoyViking@hexbear.net The news coming out of the US these last few days - News of mass raids, tariffs, cutbacks and funding freezes, as well as the announcement the UAW is possibly organising a national strike for 2028, has made me think about unions and worker action. Especially I've been thinking about the Nordic Model.
I've been wanting to hear some thoughts on the Nordic model, but most Danes/scandis in my life are libs or about as informed as I am, so not really great wells of insight. You, being a resident newsposter and our "man on the inside" in the reclusive monarchy "Denmark" (field of the Danes in their own tongue) leads me to believe you could give valuable insights. It might not be fitting for the newsmega, but what's your take on the Nordic Model? Is it a viable method of unions getting stuff done or is it just a pacifier that slowly traps them in a state-controlled "no fun allowed" box?
Tl;dr me recently learn of Nordic model for unions. Me want hear from smart person what smart person think of model. Me would appreciate much.
Well, most of the Danish unions now seem to function as appendages of the Social Democratic party. Even when the party fucking hates them, they don't seem to noteworthily break rank. Even when an MP from the SocDems went up to the podium in parliament and did a whole ass speech about how "un-democratic values exist even within those who have degrees and government jobs" and also "parallel societies now exist outside of the towerblocks in the ghetto and can now look like a lunch table in a ministry". Just pure Fifth Column shit, which the prime minister and the socdems immediately rallied to defend when the rest of the country was like "that seems a little nazi-like".
Sorry for the tangent, it just really bothers me that the SocDems have made no effort to denazify.
No need to apologise, i feel the same. Honestly its like they've RE-nazified. They suck. What makes me maddest is all the people still voting for them because they're still like "oh but their base is still red!" and the like. And all the "strategic voting" people talk of.
So the labor unions went the 20s spd path?
Our labour unions are really odd. They like going on TV and complaining about various government initiatives, and then when push comes to shove, they always call things off for a 3% raise. I genuinely have no idea how most of the union-leadership isn't constantly getting couped by the rank and file, given that they have produced nothing of value for the workers they are supposed to represent. When the government declared that they were going to get rid of a public holiday to afford the increased military budget (thanks Biden), the unions went bleeping to the media about a general strike, and then when the government actually got rid of the holiday, nothing fucking happened and instead the union leadership walked away with a triumphant smile, because the government had agreed to let them be racist to polish people.
It was a Bombardier CRJ-700.
Not even Boeing
It collided with a helicopter, it didn't spontaneously combust
Feels like a 90s Russia moment
#brag
Plane and helicopter collide in the air in Washington D.C. The aircraft exploded and crashed into the Potomac River, which runs through the US capital.
The American Airlines aircraft was bound for Kansas. The helicopter, according to sources, was a Black Hawk. Reagan Airport is closed and flights have been suspended.
9/11 currently happening for nova people rn
Botched operation to assassinate Eric Swalwell lol
Aw, man 
Has musk tweeted about this yet or is there still hope he was onboard?
His last shitpost was about the time you posted this. AI art blue hair nose ring owning the libs and retweeting fascists stoking culture war bullshit, boosting fascists and screaming about commies.
Damn
Between this, that F35 crashing, and LA being on fire, January 2025 has the US taking so many Ls.
Don’t forget deepseek
Apparently it was a military helicopter that's flight started tracking from CIA headquarters, mid air collision with a civilian aircraft that had over 60 people onboard. Latest news as of now is that no survivors have been found from the wreckage. This is subject to change as it's a developing story.
Trump's America. This sort of thing just didn't happen under Hillary.
I am just now being told that the pilot was woke and was doing a Marxism.
Multiple helicopters, including those from the US park police and the DC metropolitan police department and US military, were flying over the scene of the incident in the Potomac River, Associated Press reports:
DC Fire and EMS said on X that fireboats were on the scene.
Washington, DC, police said on the social platform X that multiple agencies are conducting a search and rescue effort in the Potomac River after an aircraft crash.
Video from an observation camera at the nearby Kennedy Center shows two sets of lights consistent with aircraft appearing to join in a fireball.
The airport said emergency personnel were responding to “an aircraft incident on the airfield.”
Earlier White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump “has been made aware of this situation and tragically it appears that a military helicopter collided with a regional jet at DCA airport.”
“The thoughts and the prayers of the entire Trump administration are with all those that are involved” she added in an interview on Fox News and asked the public to follow direction form law enforcement “as they attempt to save lives”.
Lol thoughts and prayers
Jfc
They're comically incompetent on top of being evil, folks. The cop(s) involved better be fucking dead, at least.
poppin bottles tonight
Whatever happened to that rat? Is he lying low or is he just gone?
Scoop: Pete Buttigieg taking "serious look" at Michigan Senate race in 2026 1 day ago Axios
Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it."
https://xcancel.com/cspan/status/1884690347474727404
Jesus christ
So Trump can build a new extrajudicial concentration camp and send 30,000 people there with the stroke of a pen, but Obama/Biden "couldn't" close down the torture camp with a fraction of that population. Very cool.
The Biden admin was going the same way, but there was actually no real influx of immigrants, so they abandoned the idea. Now Trump is doing it anwyway.
Biden administration discussing using Guantanamo Bay to process possible influx of Haitian migrants
Surprised they didn't do something similar to
The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru.
Here comes the death camps.
On another note, what do the muh Taipei libs think of the American control of Guantanamo? (Or Puerto Rico or Hawaii, for that matter) What is that reddit quote again, "learning to become comfortable with cognitive dissonance" or smth
On another note, what do the muh Taipei libs think of the American control of Guantanamo?
Here let me summarize their position for you
Yeah they don’t fucking care. They’ve never thought critically once about Guantanamo, Samoa, or Puerto Rico, much less compared it to their geopolitical enemies
mega sickos probably would also find this interesting:
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/tariffs-nonsolution-trump-social-crisis
also related hudsonslop:
