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Bulletins and News Discussion from January 27th to February 2nd, 2025 - Tariffs in Trump's Imperium - COTW: Colombia
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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.
Has musk tweeted about this yet or is there still hope he was onboard?
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Between this, that F35 crashing, and LA being on fire, January 2025 has the US taking so many Ls.
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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
Not news per se,but new drone attack dropped on the Ukraine border
https://tankie.tube/w/8siihQKVs9YmnbtP8ZCKri Ukrainian AA, sound in background is NATO jets flying over the city in case a drone wanders in
Think your video is set to private, error 403 on my side.
Looks like airbust AA ammunition, or high explosive.
Aah,I thought it would work if I shared the link,ooops
I'll get to fixing that now
Edit:Try again now
Aah,I thought it would work if I shared the link,ooops
If you want it work like that, there's the "unlisted" option.
Btw anyone know how to post a video( in a comment)? I recorded some of the Ukrainian AA in action
I recorded some of the Ukrainian AA in action
You might not want to post that, the SBU might kidnap you or something if it escapes containment on hexbear and goes viral. They went after the guy who posted a video of the Patriot system in Kyiv pretty quickly.
Also stay as safe as you can please.
But basically on hexbear you can create an account and upload your video to a site called TankieTube, which is run by a hexbear user, and then share the link here in a comment for videos.
Possible,but frankly images have been posted from this place since last year and they haven't done anything to people I know
I'm also on the NATO side,so it's somewhat less likely
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.
Ah, of course
Obama got the number down to 41 detainees and just gave up on his campaign promise I guess? Congress told him there was simply no money left to move those 41 dangerous terrorists that no country would accept. The whole time he could have ordered a drone strike on the 41 and declared it closed anyway.
Or just let them go.
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
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mega sickos probably would also find this interesting:
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/tariffs-nonsolution-trump-social-crisis
also related hudsonslop:
Is trump still serious about TSMC tariffs or has he backed down?
wait about a day or two, he seems to just be announcing big things but it takes a bit whether its happening or not to be released
This is pure speculation but I'm 90% sure that the NVidia drop had nothing to do with Deepseek R1 and was actually insider trading on the "news" that Trump was considering a tariff on Taiwanese chips.
First, R1 was released on the 20th, 5 days before the stock dropped. It wasn't at all a secret, basically it was the talk of the town that whole week and their capabilities claims were shown to be solid very early on by many many people running independent benchmarks. But the market didn't react.
Second, the big AI companies want all the compute they can get, they aren't satisfied with training 10 or 100 or 1000 times more quickly, this is why they're talking about trillion dollar data centers with nuclear reactors. Also of note, R1 was trained on Nvidia TPUs with the same amount of vram as the H100s. You couldn't cheaply train such a model on any other brand of hardware, demand for Nvidia products isn't going anywhere.
Third, if anything it's the AI software companies that would take a big drop, they're the ones who are supposedly spooked and scrambling to replicate R1 internally. The major software only players took only a small hit but recovered quickly, that would be Microsoft and Meta. Google is also a hardware company, they're trying to move some of their chip fabs to TMSC but their TPUs are made by Samsung. They took a small hit and have not yet recovered. AMD is a hardware company, they have fabs all over including sourcing from TMSC, same story. Intel, a similar company, no change whatsoever, they don't use TMSC at all. Nvidia took the big one, and they get ALL of their chips from... TMSC. All the action happened about simultaneously in after hours weekend trading.
Fourth, when the tariff news dropped the market seemed to be unaffected almost as if it had already been priced in over weekend trading.
Also Didn't Nancy Pelosi dump a bunch of NVIDIA shortly before the crash?
That was back in december I believe. It just takes a while for the disclosures to happen, and the timing made a lot of people's alarm bells go off.
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NBC Jan 27: ICE makes close to 1,200 arrests in one day https://archive.is/UPHrs
This seems to be the highest so far for Trump. If you are wondering how to know an exact count of ICE arrests per day, you don't have to look any further than the terror of ICEs twitter: https://xcancel.com/ICEgov
This is the day mentioned in the article:
"Detainers lodged" seems to refer to people who were arrested for other things, but ICE believes to be undocumented.
Unclear how many of these turn into deportations rn. I assume a lot. Trump is moving fast, and ICE is bragging on twitter. Not good.
Weird language, made it sound like they're hiring the homeless to round up migrants.
That's good news, I don't want my family members losing their jobs
Probably a good thing tbh, as much as we enjoy the collapse of 
, tens of millions of people losing Medicaid is pretty awful
Milei has announced that he will build a fence on the Argentina-Bolivia border and that he may plan similar decisions with Paraguay and Brazil.
For Brazil, Argentina plans to intensify its “border control” with Santa Catarina, more specifically between the cities of Bernardo de Irigoyen (AR) and Dionísio Cerqueira (BR). Although no fence has been announced, the Argentine government is not ruling out the possibility. For Paraguay, the measure is planned for the borders of the Argentine provinces of Chaco and Salta. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said that “within our border we do what we want. We are putting a fence around our house, our homeland”.
Lula please send your Super Tucanos and bomb Buenos Aires, the people yearns to be free from this Ancap demon
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