Image is sourced from here.
I think a good place for left-wing coverage on the protests is hasanabi, either on his Twitter or Twitch (and wherever else he is found), as he’s been physically in the streets with the protestors and lives in the area.
Over the last few days, ICE raids have taken place throughout Los Angeles, as well as throughout America more generally. An increasing number of these raids are targeting migrants with no criminal record whatsoever (about 25% right now, but increasing constantly), which is a quantifiable escalation from both Trump’s first term and Biden’s term, where the figures were more in the realm of 5-10%.
Los Angeles has a large percentage of people who are Hispanic; as such, these raids were massively provocative, and protests began to oppose them. In response to these largely peaceful protests, the police have been exceedingly violent, with protestors and clearly marked journalists being shot at by police with “non-lethal” rounds. Trump has recently sent in the National Guard. The rhetoric of the Republicans has been, as expected, abhorrent and cruel.
While obviously coalescing around different issues, there are some parallels to be drawn with the Black Lives Matter protests five years ago; which, while drawing out enormous numbers of protestors, was eventually co-opted and gradually dismantled and failed to achieve lasting social or political goals. The two questions for this protest are: 1) What lessons have been learned by organisers and people on the ground from previous protests? and 2) Is there a general plan, or an idea of a plan, to affect political change (either top-down or bottom-up) that results in either fewer ICE raids or limiting their effectiveness?
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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.
If anyone wants to check my mutual aid post. I’m going to a hospital and cannot pay rent this month.
Abbas pushes to disarm Palestinians in Lebanon - Electronic Intifada Hexbear Post
On 30 April, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Sky News Arabia that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas had raised the issue of disarming Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps at the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo in early March.
It was a remarkable revelation. The emergency summit’s goal was the reconstruction of Gaza. But Abbas had other priorities. Both before and in the weeks since the Arab summit, Abbas has criticized the armed resistance by Palestinian factions on several occasions, especially by Hamas, notably demanding that what he called the “sons of dogs” release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.
On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams - Hexbear Post
- The Banggai archipelago is a remote landscape of around 97% limestone karst east of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island.
- Extractive concessions on 39 locations on Peleng island, the largest island in the Banggai Islands district, may soon cut into the karst bedrock to mine the ancient limestone for cement, glass and other industrial applications.
- Indigenous villagers on Peleng Island say they worry the development could catalyze unprecedented local environmental damage, impairing the cultivation of unique yam varieties grown only here.
Abbas, you fucking collaborator.
On another thing. What’s with it, with the mainstream native compradors and Indigenous clashing?
Palestine is a normal comprador vs resistance conflict, for indonesia it more has to do with the central goverment (mostly made up by javanese who are 40% of the population) trying to exploit all resources posible for their capitalist class
I’ve heard Indonesia referred to as the Javanese Empire and that sounds about right
yea they hold a lot of influence in the central goverment so they tend to push policies that mostly help them, also the second biggest are the sundanese with 15% of the population so its hard for the non-javanese to put a check on them
The yam shit is such a dumb angle. The island is about 1000 sq mi, having 39 quarries in an area that size will inevitably have significant ecological consequences, especially given that there’s probably very few people to enforce mining regulations out there.
CBS: Trump deported over 1500 people in a single weekend!
“I did 2700 average per day”Removed by mod
what do you mean “hearing reports,” who said this and where?
I guess I should have clarified by what I meant by reports. I mean 3 different people who I know to be somewhat self described anarchists have claimed my local chapter of PSL has made “agreements” with the police. Or they have backed off when police told them it was an “unapproved protest”.
What this reads to me is non-white people in PSL are rightfully scared of being disappeared by the gestapo.
My anger isn’t necessarily directed at PSL, (unless they in fact did some sketchy shit with cops) but more at other leftists who thinks anarchy is really anything other than a fun little thought experiment. There are 100% some communist cosplay groups in town, but PSL is the closest to legit we have, and anarchists OF COURSE have to talk down on people that have more organizational skill than “let’s speedrun getting executed by the pigs”.
Lmao American anarchists being completely useless and kneecapping orgs actually putting in work when it comes to doing more against the police than smashing windows. Name a better duo.
my local chapter of PSL has made “agreements” with the police. Or they have backed off when police told them it was an "unapproved protest
Why don’t you ask the PSL comrades cause that sounds like made up garbage
I eventually did, and they had literally no idea what I was talking about lol. Instagram anarchists really do just lie, it’s crazy. I don’t understand why any form or organization makes them so red blooded angry. It’s like they just want marginalized groups to be killed so they can share it on their stories for clout or something.
Disengaging when there is no benefit to escalating is not collaboration.
I mean 3 different people who I know to be somewhat self described anarchists have claimed my local chapter of PSL has made “agreements” with the police.
I too can make up sectarian hear-say, but my hear-say relating to anarchists and cops has more substantial evidence supporting it than like a few people saying they saw something.
Post the reports at least, anarchists get up in arms about PSL every protest cycle, calling them a cult and whatnot. This is not the first time they’ve been shittalked
Apparently the reports are anarchists getting up all in arms over a NATOpedia article https://xcancel.com/BreeFinale/status/1932081760789016817
lmao that rules
I replied to another comment in thus thread about the “reports”. Essentially unproven shit talking from anarchists upset at any form of organization.
@jack@hexbear.net Any word on this?
This is something that gets thrown out all the time with no elaboration or evidence. It’s absolutely contrary to everything we are instructed in the party when it comes to organizing. Smells like bullshit.
@grok is this true?
about to get a season’s worth of material from th DC parade.What happened?
I’m going to start saying “I’m in favor of repealing all immigration laws because I’m a centrist. There will be no more illegal immigrants, and no more need for ICE.” I am FORCING the overton window left.
Antifasciam is the left wing of fascism
carrying id is a mark of a beast actually, and we should remove documents
Okay centrist, seems reasonable. I want to ban immigration of anyone affiliated with fascist orgs and cults, but I accept your position as the fair and balanced middle ground
How about forced immigration of these people into the middle of the ground?
You’d be leaving behind a large number of us immigrants by banning fascists lol
Good. It seems like the immigrant enjoyers and reserve-labor enjoyers can agree on this bipartisan deal.
Think of all the money the government would save.
Just reading some Middle East Monitor and it looks like the nuclear secrets leak may have fucked Israel over hard. Iran has the target bank Israel had collected on them, and hard evidence of EU-Israeli nuclear weapons collaboration. It even made a claim of Israeli nuclear weapons by countering the latest refinement offer by the US with a demand that Israel dismantles existing nuclear weapons.
Of course, we all know Israel possesses nuclear weapons. A full triad, in fact. However, no hard evidence of its existence has ever been made public, allowing Israel to maintain deniability and skirt international treaties on nuclear proliferation. If Iran has any solid evidence, Israel has suffered a historic intelligence defeat.
On top of the data leaked, Iran has stated that any Israeli attack would be met with an immediate retaliatory strike. True Promise III in scale but with a target bank that would scare the ever living shit out of Israeli statescraftsmen.
The IAEA was also informed directly that any attack on its nuclear sites would lead to immediate withdrawal from the NPT and development of nuclear weapons. We know Iran has been preparing for this due to the IAEA’s claims that Iran tested implosion devices necessary for nuclear missile warheads. The former Iranian atomic energy head also suggested that the fatwa given against development of WMDs does not necessarily forbid nuclear weapons as they can be reduced in yield for tactical (but not “mass destruction”) levels of power, suggesting one way these rules may be interpreted depending on geopolitical tensions.
Finally, Netanyahu took a 40 minute call with Trump following the Iranian counter proposal, and suggested that Israel would be willing to accept 3.67% Uranium domestic enrichment (Israel wanted 0% and offshoring of Iranian enrichment) without striking Iran. This is a massive capitulation if it holds true, and would open the route to de-escalation as the Israeli state reels from the fact it has absolutely beyond fucked it with their nuclear secrets.
Mashallah, we’ve had such little good news recently…
Wholesome news
there’s a bunch of legal implications for US foreign aid as well, but the US has been breaking a bunch of its own laws to enable genocide so I doubt that will matter
Israel possessing nuclear weapons is possibly the most open secret out there that still gets you looks for being crazy if you mention it. It’s in this weird limbo where you know they could use them, but you can’t ask them to follow any of the rules and processes and treaties that other nations have to participate in
musing about tech stuff, but hasn’t blackwell nv72 already been deployed for like 4-6 months ? where new giga models, tech perverts? (or did nvidia shit the bed again after thermal fiasco and hasn’t shipped them?) *seems like they started shipping en masse only in spring (1000 units in q1 vs projected 4000 in q2), too early to laugh at tech bros :(
as a news addendum: all is quiet on the #beanwatch front, only cocoa returned above 10k (after being at 8k), coffee/soy still static
Just a little more compute, bro. A few more zettabytes of VRAM and we’ll have AGI
apple dunking on reasoning fools was funny tbh, great bit, tim cook should do more of this
Marines being mobilized for LA protests as California vows to sue administration
This not a defense of Marines but ironically I feel like it is less likely they will shoot someone compared the goddamned LAPD. Still pretty damn concerning to see military units coming out, but no surprise.
Trump also threatened to arrest Gov Newsom for obstruction (
let him cook?)Trump also threatened to arrest Gov Newsom for obstruction
They’re really getting a lot of mileage out of this playbook.
ironically I feel like it is less likely they will shoot someone compared the goddamned LAPD
straight up this is why they don’t give riot cops live ammo. No fucking discipline
the crayon eaters are probably only a marginal improvement on that front though
please please please pretty please i wanna see some marines fighting cops and cops fighting marines
easy way for Newsom to juice his 2028 campaign
Governor Newsom, thank you for advocating nonviolence. Welcome to El Salvador
Yeah gonna need more proof than random tweets
The guy posting it is a local reporter on the scene, I haven’t followed him much but he doesn’t seem to tweet like that unless he saw it directly.
I call B.S until some sort of image, if not video is shown.
700 marines heading to Los Angeles.
Good luck idiots you’re going to need it.
LA county is 9+ million people and San Diego is not very far. You want to be part of 3000 people trying to occupy that? Fucking have fun.
To take a town, send a legionary. To take a city, send a squad. To take a world, send a company. To take LA, send a chapter.
All you need is $500 worth of crayola crayons and a few dozen rat traps and that should sort itself out.
throwing out banana peels as you retreat and watching all the marines immediately eat shit
You joke but riot gear being very top heavy or military equipment being very heavy and susceptible to falling / not being able to become righted easily is a VERY serious problem, especially in tight urban areas where through-paths can be easily blocked off from supporting equipment, and we SHOULD NOT joke or make allusions to personnel/equipment being easy to topple because it is very SERIOUS AND POSSIBLE TO DO.
Hopefully no one found that clear joke helpful because it would be dangerous if they did it, which again cloud be very effective in impeding riot control efforts.
and we SHOULD NOT joke or make allusions to personnel/equipment being easy to topple because it is very SERIOUS AND POSSIBLE TO DO.
Spray around a lot of vegetable oil when retreating, understood.
You’re right, I should not have made such a thoughtless joke. The last thing I would want is to suggest people toss out marbles, or ball bearings, banana peels, grapes, something else something else, uh, something else, uh, dowel rods?
Hasan is love, woke stream is live get in there!
hassy actually wearing some PPE and a press tag today
I know the cat is out of the bag on this generally but it feels weird to go to this sort of thing and livestream still to me. no opportunity to blur faces if you witness something cool
We need the cool stuff to start happening in an organized manner! Part of the organization is giving out a role of “dealing with cameras (by asking politely or whatever else may be needed) while the rest of the team does something cool”
Some guy was getting beat up on idk what exactly the deal is probably a dumbass instigator who then ran to the cops
Edit it’s the guy in the brown adidas sweatshirt, talking to a hunch of cameras rn, someone link the video if you see it posted.
It’s possible that Israel may launch another countervalue strike on Yemeni seaports soon.
Houthis tested a missile today, not seen anything specific beyond that. wonder if related
The first of many:
https://xcancel.com/MyGlendale/status/1931915078212952336After careful consideration, the City of Glendale has decided to end its agreement with U.S. Homeland Security/ICE to house federal immigration detainees.
This local decision reflects our core values: public safety, transparency, and community trust.
wow throwing concrete at cops does work
The only two cities that did anything whatsoever to reform their police in 2020 were Portland and Minneapolis, where the riots were the most severe.
Everywhere else that only had peaceful solidarity marches got cop funding increases
I still hear anecdotal reports from both places about cops refusing to do their jobs, potentially as retaliation. Taking hours to show up to an urgent scene, not following up on reports, etc. A few weeks ago, a teenager carjacked someone and zoomed right past the cops in Minneapolis, who didn’t move a muscle. Their reasoning was that a car chase was more dangerous than just showing up to the kids house, which might be fair (except that they often stop to rob 5 or 6 people at gunpoint before they’re done), but the perception is that they generally don’t do anything in 99% of other youth car jacking cases that go on in the area.
yeah. I think demoralization, staffing levels, and shit like you describe, has done more to improve the police situation in portland/mpls than intentional reforms tbh
it also produces some negative outcomes in terms of just lawlessness, but I’m not convinced its not a net positive to just have lazy cops who won’t get off their asses since less police interaction=less harm
comrade cops have stopped doing their jobs everywhere in america since 2020
I live in a shitty town north of houston, on the outskirts of the furthest right wing county in the state of texas
cops are fucking SCARCE, they have entirely quit enforcing traffic laws except for quick stack-ups at the beginning and end of the month
people are blowing red lights in cars with no plates and nobody’s stopping them
if it’s not the first or last of the month and you see a cop they’re probably parked and watching porn in their cruiser drinking a coors
Oh for sure, I live nowhere near those cities and I have people street racing outside my house every couple nights with souped up cars that have lights under 'em like it’s Need for Speed. So far they haven’t hit anybody, but it’s only a matter of time. There’s no way I’m the only one who knows or cares, but nobody ever stops them.
Yep Portland cops have been pissy about the “disrespect” and extra training courses for diversity awareness or whatever the libs foisted on them. They don’t respond to any calls for hours, never follow up on stolen or vandalized cars and generally just have withdrawn
We’re getting closer;
Auto companies ‘in full panic’ over rare-earths bottleneck
Some told Eckard their factories could be idled by mid-July without backup magnet supplies.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/auto-companies-full-panic-over-050835806.html
China has clamped down before, including in a 2010 dispute with Japan, during which it curbed rare-earths exports. Japan had to find alternative suppliers, and by 2018, China accounted for only 58% of its rare earth imports.
So japan had a real problem and over 8 years, reduced their reliance on Chinese rare earth by approximately a third (assuming they were 90ish% dependent on China in 2010). Japan has a government that actually seems like it can accomplish things at times, so I wonder how long a similar feat would take in the US. 20 years?
Japanese dependence on Chinese rare earths dropped from 90% at the time of the incident to 60% today. The consumption of rare earths in Japan is now half the level of what it was then.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/10/japan-rare-earth-minerals/
A 15 percent reduction in consumption of rare earths imported from China and an implied crash of direct manufacturing reliant on rare earths
