Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.
On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.
And, as we’re on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.
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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.
Serbian students call for early parliamentary elections
Just gonna copy my comment from the other thread
This declaration was literally just preceded by some liberal moron professor calling a handful of leftist students the “Khmer Rouge” and them being associated with a marginal leftist party in Serbia, which itself he alleges is being financed by the CPC (even though he doesn’t provide any evidence for either of these claims whatsoever). He made these claims alongside accusations of this “minority” of students “sabotaging” the “majority” from voting to participate in the elections. Did I mention he considers it a bad thing that the students are anti-NATO? (like they didn’t literally bomb the country, how could they possibly dislike them?). Because this request for the elections is gonna be accompanied by a list comprised of professors chosen by their students, there’s a decent chance this fucking charlatan makes it on the list of those 250 professors. Makes me scared of the possibility these professors might be majority pro-EU, which doesn’t bode well for the geopolitics of the country, especially not at this fucking moment.
Footage of a Russian plain putting out the fire at Shahid Rajaei port
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The new United States bomber task force deployment that I was reporting on the possibility of a few days ago, is now happening. At least two B-52H Stratofortress bombers from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, are being forward deployed to Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean cean. There are currently six B-2A Spirit stealth bombers deployed to Diego Garcia (which have been bombing Yemen), so these B-52s will join them.
Twitter source, with audio recording thanks to open source signals intelligence (SIGINT)
There are now a total of at least 12 United States Air Force Strategic Bombers forward deployed:
Stationed at Diego Garcia:
- 6x B-2A Spirit stealth bombers.
- 2x B-52H Stratofortress bombers at minimum.
Stationed in Japan:
- 4x B-1B Lancer supersonic swing wing bombers.
If the US where to pull the trigger on Iran, when would you think they would consider they are ready?
The Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower will be at its peak for the next two days. It is visible worldwide, with better visibility in the southern hemisphere
@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net from the previous new mega
Swear I thought that SLS died years ago. How the hell was it still around?
You may be thinking of the Constellation program, which was a different iteration of the same basic bad idea (making shitty overpriced rockets out of leftover Shuttle parts) with a different regime’s name attached. (Constellation was the Bush II regime’s project, SLS was the Obama regime’s)
>US Treasury Secretary: “China has only offered what they’ve said publicly.”
America is so cooked lol
The prime minister of portugal, Luis Montenegro, doesn’t know how to play rock-paper-scissors, he doesn’t know what it is, ele não sabe.
In an interview with a podcaster he was asked to play RPS, and when the guy start saying “rock paper scissors” the PM asked whether he was supposed to tell him to stop. Then the guy tried explaining RPS to him and the PM waved his hand and yelled “Go Scissors”. Then an aide came from off camera to show the PM how to play RPS to which he replied that the game “was something his children did”.
He’s 52.
Here’s the clip (warning, the link leads you to
/portugal where these libs still have the slava ukraini banner on the sub)I do hate how there’s no universal consensus on whether you chose your option on “scissors” or the fourth beat after scissors
Standardize throwing on 4! The split seconds between scissors and shoot/whatever is used for 4th beat is where I do my best strategizing
I grew up being taught you do it on 3rd beat :-/
Right hand to God if you made me play RPS right now I’m sure I would screw it up because it does involve pretty quick thinking and fine motor function.
just throw rock every time, can’t lose.
I might not have gotten the point across, when watching the video it’s not that he doesn’t know HOW to play RPS or what the timing was, he actually didn’t even what it was
To quote Northernlion when asked about his problems with Civilization: “At 17, nothing much. But now? Brother, I’m not sure I believe in the concept”
Maybe RPS is bourgeois.
Israel is doing gender reveal war crimes.Already posted, but I gave a link so.
I think Israel should die. Just my opinion though.
I say this all the time.
🇮🇱🔥
I also have this opinion. That makes it a fact.
Many people are saying
Are the wildfires in Israel over already? That’d be a fucking shame.
Still praying for more disasters to strike Israel. Even funnier is if they’re all self-inflicted.
Seeing the foreign aid they’ll likely get to help deal with the fires vs the lack of aid gaza is getting is gonna be my villain arc atp
I’m imagining countries who won’t lift a finger to help Gaza or pressure Israel to stop their genocide will suddenly go all in and even strain their own economies on a coordinated effort to help Israel.
If that happens then everything is a joke and every fucking society deserves to burn and be replaced with something else.
Joint Israeli - US airstrikes currently taking place on Yemen, airstikes continue for the 52nd day and night in a row.
Daytime airstrikes by the US hit the following governorates:
Al Jawf:
- Eight airstrikes hit Al-Hazm District early in the morning.
- Seven airstrikes hit Al Hazm District in the evening.
Sana’a:
- Three airstrikes hit the Al-Sawad area.
Nighttime airstrikes by Israel hit the following governorates, Israeli media says 30 aircraft were involved and over 50 munitions were used:
Hodeidah:
- City of Hodeidah hit by multiple airstrikes.
- Six to Eight airstrikes hit the Port of Hodeidah.
- Four airstrikes hit a factory/production facility in Bajil District.
Nighttime airstrikes by the US Navy and Air Force hit the following governorates:
Sana’a:
- multiple airstrikes on the Al-Sawad area again.
Warning for potential graphic imagery during ongoing airstrikes:
The IOF/IDF has released images of the planes that participated in the operation. An Israeli F-15I is seen carrying 5 2000lb GBU-31 JDAM stand in GPS guided bombs, along with conformal and external fuel tanks. 10 of these planes = 50 bombs. The rest of the Israeli aircraft would have been support assets like mid air refueling aircraft, AWACS aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft/drones. The use of stand in weapons like JDAMs for this attack is notable, as previous Israeli strikes on Yemen, such as those in December last year, used stand off munitions, including the Rampage air launched guided artillery rocket. Like the British a few days ago, the Israelis have taken advantage of the corridors the US Navy has opened in Yemen to carry out stand in strikes.
The corridors get opened by the EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare and Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses aircraft (SEAD/DEAD). This is a picture of an EA-18G on the USS Harry Truman yesterday, May 4, in the standard heavy SEAD/DEAD loadout against for this conflict: 4 AGM-88E AARGM anti radiation missiles, 2 AIM-120 AMRAAM air to air missiles for taking out drones and air to air loitering munitions, and 3 480 Gal fuel tanks for increased range and loiter time over the battle space:
The EA-18G is an extremely important capability. Anyone going into conventional military conflict with the United States will need to counter it and/or develop their own analogue to it.
America has reached the bargaining stage of grief
DeepSeek. Temu. TikTok. China Tech Is Starting to Pull Ahead.
This is just like those headlines where the US military claims that China is “pulling ahead” so it can ask for $1 trillion more from Congress
Unfortunately it is possible to spin propaganda on objective facts as well, even though the US often prefers entirely fabricated pretenses.
when deepseek first released, it seemed miles ahead of chatGPT, but now i feel like chatGPT usually works better :(
The big jump with Deepseek honestly is the cost. Deepseek isn’t like better than the cutting edge Western models, it’s basically on par. The key is it cost 20 times less to train. Deepseek cost around $5 million, whilst gpt-4 was around $100 million.
Author is Eric Schmidt - former Google CEO
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/ocalan-pkk-cease-fire-turkey
hot take: treatlerism flawless win
cold take: why adapt when you can just implode
for real though, while pkk tactics seem obviously not working, the rest seems just like half-hearted justification for morphing into some new left politics mold
Delegates of fifty nations met at San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945. Working on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various Governments, the Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the New International Court of Justice. The Charter was passed unanimously and signed by all the representatives. It came into force on October 24, 1945, when China, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom, and the United States and a majority of the other signatories had filed their instruments of ratification.
Members of the Russian delegation reading the news of the end of the war.
©UN Photo/Rosenberg, 1945-05-08
This news seems a little old…
what exactly abbas thinks he is doing? more to the point, how fatah thinks this will end for them
Abu Mahzen is basically the Ngo Dinh Diem (last president of “South Vietnam”) of Palestine.
History repeats itself with slight variation
US “PHOENIX” program as the blueprint for counterinsurgency in Palestine today.
I dont know if people read anymore but there’s a great (nightmarish) book about it by Douglas Valentine that students of revolutionary decolonial history should read. Similar with Jakarta Method.
