Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.

iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god

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The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net's son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli 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 Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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.

  • mkultrawide [any]
    ·
    23 days ago

    Rep. Omar: it’s been unconscionable “to witness my colleagues in this administration refusing to recognize the genocidal war that is taking place in Gaza … working tirelessly for a ceasefire is really not a thing and they should be ashamed of themselves”

    https://x.com/akela_lacy/status/1826302251113349500

    The second part in bold is a sub at AOC, who praised Kamala and the Biden admin for "working tirelessly" towards a ceasefire.

    EDIT: Before anyone wants to stan Ilhan too hard:

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    • miz [any, any]
      ·
      23 days ago

      Ilhan Omar sings "Party in the USA"

      I hopped off the plane at ORD
      With a dream and my cardigan
      Welcome to the land of white excess (woah)
      Am I gonna fit in?
      Jumped in the cab, here I am for the first time
      Look to my right, and I see the DNC sign
      This is all so crazy
      Everybody seems so famous

      My tummy's turnin' and I'm feelin' kinda homesick
      Too much pressure and I'm nervous
      That's when the taxi man turned on the radio
      And a genocide was on
      And a genocide was on
      And a genocide was on

      So I put my hands up
      They're playin' my song, the butterflies fly away
      I'm noddin' my head like, yeah
      Movin' my hips like, yeah
      I got my hands up, they're playin' my song
      They know I'm gonna be okay
      Yeah, it's a party in the U.S.A.
      Yeah, it's a party in the U.S.A.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
      ·
      23 days ago

      i think there is a very big difference between wearing some sunglasses vs praising Kamala on stage on Gaza.

      • mkultrawide [any]
        ·
        23 days ago

        She's standing in the middle of the delegation from the home state of Joe Biden, while they hold "We ♥️ Joe" signs and wearing the aviators they are handing out as tribute to him.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
        ·
        23 days ago

        Yeah the difference is they didn't offer her the choice to be on stage (she would have accepted based on her presence there to begin with)

    • miz [any, any]
      ·
      23 days ago

      did Omar delete the tweet? because I wanted to save that picture full resolution but I can't find the tweet on her feed

      EDIT: okay I found the eyuplovely tweet and full resolution pic but I think Omar did delete her tweet that it's from

      EDIT2: eyuplovely's screenshot of the deleted tweet is here