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.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
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.
Trump ends temporary protected status for Somali people living in the US. Claiming conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that they no longer qualify for the status. 3000+ people with this status or applying for this status will be forced to leave the US by March 17th.
I genuinely don’t think this was stopping ICE from assaulting these people before so this is just Trump signalling cruelty to his base.
I wonder if this current focus on Somali people in the US from the right is in any way connected to the increased focus on Somalia and Somaliland we’re seeing in the Middle East or if it is just a coincidence.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/somalis-in-us-9.7043344
I don’t think there is any one thing at play, but rather a few things (below is mostly speculation on my part):
Somalis combine three different groups that a number of Americans, and conservatives in particular, hate: blacks, immigrants, and Muslims. In the US, that is a fairly unique combination for which there aren’t a ton of comparable groups. It makes them an easy target for an initial test run of the Israeli-style demographic purges that arch zionist Stephen Miller is looking to enact across the country.
Trump places at least some of the blame for his 2020 loss on BLM, and thus Minneapolis. This is punishment. There is more than enough evidence to show he really is that petty, IMO.
This is punishment for Tim Walz running against him as part of Kamala’s ticket. Again, he is that petty. I don’t think this as strong of one of the “petty” motivations as the BLM thing.
Minnesota has been identified as a potential swing state in prior elections. Elections are getting tighter in Minnesota, and the only thing keeping the state government from being controlled by the GOP and preventing more GOP wins at the federal level is Minneapolis. Trump lost Minnesota by ~140k votes. The Somali community in Minnesotta, of which 60% are US born and many more are either citizens or green card holders who, under normal circumstances would be become citizens in probably the next decade or so, are estimated at 80k-100k, mostly living in Minneapolis. My conspiracy theory is that this is a test run to see if they can do enough of this bullshit to flip a state red, and specifically at the state legislature level, because they have made it pretty clear that they want a constitutional convention to significantly change this country.
This is probably not as high up on the list, but the fact that the uprising in 2020 was able to collect at least one scalp (Derek Chauvin behind bars) is seen by the right as a total defeat, despite the fact that the movement won no reforms and the militarization of the police continued completely unhindered.
It’s wild, there’s just about to be a major war over there, and they’re like “conditions have improved”.
Trump not tell lies for 2 seconds challenge (impossible).