Here is September 30th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is October 1st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Next week's thread is here!

New and Improved!

I have decided to permanently ditch NYT, Washington Post, WSJ, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, and Politico. I am replacing their analysis with better analysis. Thus, the Dipshittery section is being retired. I've spent the last seven months either laughing or raising my blood pressure at the truly ghoulish shit that comes out of these places and I no longer have the patience for them.

There are a few news sites that I am mentally referring to the "thin fucking ice" sites, such as the BBC, CNN, SCMP, and Euronews. They will stay. For now. But I don't like them.

Additionally, there are some mainstream sites that I think ultimately provide more good than harm to the updates: such as Reuters, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and some of the foreign-but-not-explicitly-left news sites from abroad. These will be kept.

Today's update includes only news and analysis from the non-MSM side of my feed. That's simply because this is what they've put out in the last week or so and I don't have time today to also do the MSM side. Tomorrow, once I'm back to only taking stuff from the last 24 hours, the updates will be in their true form.

I've also made some changes to the format of the updates themselves, to accommodate this new paradigm. Hopefully it works out. I may play around with the sizes of headers, and properly reintroduce spoiler tags so it's more of a "series of headlines" feel rather than a wall of text - the attraction of the updates and summaries, at least in my mind, is that you DON'T have to read an entire newspaper or equivalent. You can just skim through for ten minutes before you start work or your 14-hour long Hearts of Iron session - the two things that Hexbear users seem to do - and still probably be better informed about the world than your friends and family.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

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.

Last week's discussion post.

  • iwantyooooooooooooou [none/use name]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Critical support for Russia against imperialism and all but Putin’s speech really pissed me off, I feel like if I could get an hour alone with him in a room I could change his stance on transgender issues.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      No you wouldn't. Transphobia and homophobia has sadly become an effective tool for Russian leaders to strengthen anti-western and nationalist sentiment.

      Putin will not abandon transphobia as long as it is useful to him.

      • iwantyooooooooooooou [none/use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Putin was a kgb agent, he is certainly familiar with the Marxist way of thinking, he just hasn’t heard the dialogue on why lgbt rights are so intertwined with communism and why even a post soviet Russia needs to take a pro lgbt stance to withstand against western forces. If Castro could see reason, then so could have Mao, so could have Stalin, anyone who is even remotely leftist has a chance to adopt a pro lgbt mindset, Putin is between liberal and communist, he can be swayed.

        • HarryLime [any]
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          2 years ago

          I think you think too highly of him. His whole political project has been to erase Communism from Russia. He acts as an anti-imperialist out of necessity for Russia, but it's clear he'd rather be an imperialist.