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.
The sensitive personal information of ~4,500 ICE employees has allegedly been leaked by a DHS whistleblower according to The Daily Beast. Oops.
Actual site with the list appears to be getting DDOS’d right now.
God did they really try standing this thing up on MediaWiki? (I can’t tell, but after several minutes I got a 500 error with a message about PHP). This kind of shit needs to be a static HTML file with minimal attack surface. It needs to be something that can be trivially downloaded in full, archived, and shared. You are hosting the greatest threat to US domestic law enforcement on the internet on something with an attack surface the size of O’Hare International Airport, and your threat model is literally the final boss of threat models.
Anyway, it’s really cool and I hope the information finds its way to the people who need it.
Especially because each agent is their own page, so 1500+ pages needing to be archived…
Yea some people may be trying to scrape and copy, causing 1500+ GET requests each and “DDOS’ing” the site.
.html or .json zipped and put out in a torrent?
Id heard wikileaks has a copy.
i mean once we have access to the list we can just make a simple rtf with everything in it
No yeah in just thinking about how I might distribute important [legally obtained] data if I came into possession of it.
Someone else can make the website for it
Username jokes aside, I’m working on something along those lines, without any legal or financial ties to American companies.
I’ve had to shut down a previous attempt at such a site because it turned out that the allegedly-entirely-within-Canada hosting company, Canhost, turned out to be owned by vicious American transphobes at PJ Media.
DM me when you decide on a host, I would be curious what your end up with
Will do. It’s been a major challenge finding a hosting service with zero American ties. I need this project to be as immune to American legal threats as it can possibly be. That won’t be a perfect shield of course, but even just throwing some roadblocks in the way of takedown attempts is better than nothing. Even delaying a takedown by a few days can make the difference between info lost forever and being able to restore on a new host from a backup.
I could do it by Tor hidden services easily enough. I’m writing all the services to be pure server-side-rendered HTML/CSS in Go, no Javascript anywhere, and doing all the testing in a default-settings Tor browser. But I’d prefer them to be accessible to as many people on the open web as possible. All the services will be under the AGPLv3 of course. I’m writing them with a focus on ease of installation and on clarity of the code for easy auditing. There’s too damn many libre server projects with a hundred ridiculous dependencies and write-only code.
It’s good to think about how to host it yourself, sure, but probably more important would be to provide it in a distributable form so that other people can easily host it in many, many places. Decentralization will be our friend here. It’s a lot easier to attack one hosted service (through legal, technical, or social means) than it is to swat flies in thousands of places as they pop up, and keep doing so.
So I like the AGPL bit. It’ll also help to have really clear documentation for building and deploying it, that people with minimal technical knowledge and experience can follow.
… now cross reference this with the white supremacist “dating” site leak
They’ve only released the front facing profile information atm afaik
DDOS might just be that it is so popular that everyone’s trying to see it at once, and the service can’t keep up.
I made a pdf copy of names A-C (just the first page - just the names).
Let’s wait and see. I’ll close my tab, so that maybe they can recover a bit.
Archive.is managed to catch it. Not sure what all is archived but the list of names is there. ~1500 people from ICE and related orgs
oh my fucking god, it wasn’t just PR bullshit and he actually joined
The names A-G are archived but not all pages of the list of names. I am not sure what details are there when you click on one of the new agents from today’s dump. They have some previous agents pages archived but those are from prior to this particular leak.
Everyone with any type of access to databases (public or professional) should be cross-referencing this list with their database to add details
😔