A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.

On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it’s just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.

The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a “domestic terrorist” and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.

Protests and resistance to this administration’s policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.

Last week’s thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

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.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    50501

    Isn’t that a totally lib org? I blocked them on Bluesky because their posts were lib city.

    -–

    Edit 1

    I had no idea it started on Reddit. And “grassroots”? I don’t believe that and there’s no mention of who funds it. Smells very fishy.

    The idea for 50501 started as a Reddit post by user Evolved_Fungi in late January, quickly gaining traction on social media. 50501’s first protest occurred on February 5, 2025. 50501’s name was originally an abbreviation of “50 protests, 50 states, one day” symbolizing the goal for a single day of action.

    […]

    50501 (short for “50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement”) is an American progressive grassroots political organization founded to organize the 50501 protests against policies and actions of the second Donald Trump administration in the United States.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50501_movement

    Also - how involved is the democratic party in this “grassroots” thing? They must have their tentacles involved. I simply can’t believe otherwise.

    -–

    Edit 2

    I’ve been googling but the results are worse than shit.

        • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          54·
          2 days ago

          In my experience, a lot of the original (local) organizers were basically just angry libs online who have never organized a day in their life, but looked to the Democratic Party for leadership informally. They seemed to mostly chat in discord and started having regular meetings eventually. There was no official structure or centralized leadership, although in places like DC it seemed like a slightly different story. Interestingly, where I live this also meant that unions which were often deeply attached to the Democratic Party were in contact and open to being involved, but the Democratic Party itself seemed to offer no help or financial support.

          There is a big distinction (often missed by ultra-left tendencies) between the people showing up to these no kings events and the 50501 leadership regardless, and the PSL identified that this is opening a relatively progressive space for large numbers of dissatisfied working class people. -so by engaging with popular language, and even being helpful to their organizers (despite some significant political differences), there is massive potential to help shift the conversation toward revolutionary socialist consciousness to people who would have otherwise only looked to the Democratic Party.

          This worked quite well, and showed itself in particular when the PSL successfully helped shift a “no kings” event to “ice out” messaging, which was a clear departure from the Democratic Party’s stance on immigration and would not have been the focus were it not for PSL (at least as far as I can tell). I know at least locally, this was also when the lib organizers were bullied into allowing our Palestinian coalition partners into speaking at their demonstrations and it was met with an incredibly positive response from the crowd that shut up all of the negativity coming from the most reactionary lib organizers. (where I live, the things they told the Palestinians not to say (that everyone ignored) ended up getting the most positive responses from the masses)

          I agree with jack, this has proven to be the correct call and has potentially bridged the gap between the growing anti-imperialist movement in the US and the mass movement against Trump that otherwise would have inevitably ended with only a call to vote for the Democrats and something performative. Hundreds of thousands have been able to connect the dots between Trump and the system itself rather than just blaming Trump. And for instance, when Maduro was kidnapped, there was another break from the typical Democratic Party imperialist politics, where many many more people turned out than normal for anti-war demonstrations despite the democratic party bending over backwards to manufacture consent. Where I live, the local media even covered those actions, and mentioned the PSL, despite for years leaving out the Party’s name or attributing our actions to other socialist organizations if they covered an event at all. imo, it has also proven that the PSL can intervene in national politics in a way that a communist party has not been able to since the 30s. The US is still nowhere near broad revolutionary consciousness, but this is still a significant change

          • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            42·
            2 days ago

            Where I live, the local media even covered those actions, and mentioned the PSL, despite for years leaving out the Party’s name or attributing our actions to other socialist organizations if they covered an event at all.

            Yup,the difference in local media coverage lately has been wild to see.

            imo, it has also proven that the PSL can intervene in national politics in a way that a communist party has not been able to since the 30s.

            chavez-salute

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          33·
          2 days ago

          I’ve interacted with a ton of these people. It’s definitely grassroots and nobody funds it. None of them had any clue what they were doing when they started a year ago and they had no resources or training. Just people mad at Trump who wanted to protest that went viral.

            • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              28·
              2 days ago

              you are assuming that the Democrats are competent, but they have so much contempt for their own constituents that they won’t lift a finger. They assume that it will all work in their favor as the official “Opposition” ™ - and the saddest part is that is true everywhere the communists exclude themselves from those spaces

            • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              28·
              2 days ago

              Somebody funds it.

              What are you basing that on? What expenditure of funds have you seen?

              How involved is the democratic party?

              They want to have control of it and in some cities they do. In other cities they’ve been totally boxed out. Lots of places remain contested. The leadership is very ideologically divided, but swaying more and more left.

              • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                15·
                2 days ago

                Google is giving me shitty results. I searched for “50501 democratic party involvement”. The following is not a good source. But it’s the best I found so far.

                [Edit. The source was simply too shity so I deleted the link and quote. I wish google worked. Sigh.]

                • john_brown [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  22·
                  2 days ago

                  The 50501/no kings protests in my nearest city are certainly 100% in alignment with the democrats, with local democrat officials speaking at them and instructing everyone to vote blue and indicating that voting blue is the only possible route to stopping trump. I don’t know anything about the movement’s organizers but the protests here just present as DNC stump speech events.

          • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            How would interacting with the random libs who show up give you any indication in who is funding the events? Are you speaking to the organizers themselves? I really don’t see how you are reaching these conclusions, this is an obvious DNC front group

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          No it’s completely DNC controlled and Liberal.

          No it isnt

          Entryism to DNC orgs doesn’t work.

          This is not a DNC org and it’s not entryism

          They will work to peace police the protests to death

          What does that even mean

          • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            If you don’t know what peace policing a protest to death means you obviously weren’t around for the dwindling and suffocation of the George Floyd riots into peaceful meek DNC campaign events, and you aren’t really trustworthy to advise on tactics and strategy if you aren’t familiar with this American tendency to protests