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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.
In another possible terrorist attack in the USA, a Tesla Cybertruck filled with fireworks and explosives was blown up at the entrance to Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, apparently injuring 7 people.
Video of the explosion on twitter
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still luv the truck tho
That was a few hours ago. All statements now are pointing to it being explosives and fireworks that caused the explosion. The video appears to show fireworks exploding.
Cybertruck blown up at Trump Hotel is a clear message to Musk and Trump by whoever did this.
I have a hard time believing the initial blast was fireworks. I guess if they somehow daisy chained a bunch of m80s than maybe. That initial blast looks more like lithium or a stronger explosive.
2025 off to quite a start:
Off topic, but I wonder how the Ulysses T user would react to seeing this image. Imagine taking him from a few months ago when he was doing his daily anti Musk and Trump posts, and showing him this image. I hope he's doing well, it's probably better for him to be offline and not as tuned into this.
Probably post about how star citizen took 8 trillion dollars in funding but doesn't have elevators.
What would he feel?
My personal view is this is most likely an accidental detonation of fireworks. If this is was in fact a deliberate "bombing" than it is one of the goofiest and most incompetent jobs I've ever seen.
Watching the video it is clear that the explosion comes mainly from the storage area (meaning it probably was initiated by something stored in the storage bed). Initially there is a slow moving fire ball/explosion, followed by a fire and numerous pyrotechnics going off. There is little evidence of a significant shock wave, and in fact it seems that the hotel lobby windows feet away are undamaged. The massive fireball accompanied by little damage from shock waves seems more consistent with pyrotechnics than with destructive explosives. Therefore my guess would be accidental detonation of pyrotechnics (likely with other combustible materials in the bed as well). This is also consistent with the driver still being in the vehicle when it went off. I cannot rule out two other possibilities
Edit 1: another video of the aftermath does show combustible materials (camping fuel canisters, has cans) in the bed, but no evidence of actual explosives. In my view that eliminates the first of the deliberate scenarios I listed and adds more evidence to the second.
Or the "bomb" was knowingly constructed to do no actual damage by whoever was pulling the "bomber's" strings because now this is being used as a fucking cybertruck ad. The actual authorities are all "oh we're so lucky this was a cybertruck because this would have been devastating in a less amazing and strong and perfect vehicle" when really it was not even remotely a car bomb, just a haphazard pile of flammable substances.
Also possible.
Edit 2: the fact that the driver was an ex green beret seems like strong evidence it was an accidental detonation rather than an attempted bombing, a green beret should know the difference between pyrotechnics and explosives
The stupidity of accidentally setting off a shit load of fireworks matches the stupidity of owning a cybertruck. QED.