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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.

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    7 months ago

    Brazil vs. Elon Musk

    Twitter's defense in Brazil tells the Brazilian Supreme Court that the network will continue to comply with court orders

    The protest comes days after billionaire Elon Musk, owner of the social network, attacked Moraes and said he would not comply with orders to block accounts issued by the magistrate.

    In the document, X's Brazilian subsidiary also informs the Brazilian Supreme Court that X Corp, from the USA, was subpoenaed by the US House Judiciary Committee to provide information on the Brazilian Supreme Court's orders regarding content moderation, and undertook to keep Moraes informed of any information it received on the subject "in compliance with its duty of transparency and procedural loyalty".

    The latest statement from Twitter do Brasil's defense differs from the position initially adopted by the platform in the case.

    The defense of the X platform (formerly Twitter) in Brazil has informed Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that the social network will continue to fully comply with any orders issued by the court and also by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

    The statement from the platform's lawyers in Brazil comes days after the owner of the social network, billionaire Elon Musk, attacked Moraes and said he would not comply with orders to block accounts issued by the magistrate.

    "Finally, as already communicated to the Federal Police, X Brasil informs that all orders issued by this egregious Federal Supreme Court and egregious Superior Electoral Court remain and will continue to be fully complied with by X Corp," X's defense in Brazil told the Supreme Court on Monday (15).

    On Friday (12), the Brazilian government suspended new advertising contracts with X, a network where it invested BRL:5.4 million in advertising, according to data from the Transparency Portal. Between 2023 and 2024, they amounted to BRL: 654,152.85 (USD: 124,455.94). In recent days, without mentioning Musk, Lula has made some statements that have been interpreted as indirect towards the owner of X.

    Michael Shellenberger, the American who lived in Brazil and claimed to have been harassed by the Brazilian Supreme Court, fled to the US. All because he was called to Congress to testify and, as he couldn't lie, because that would mean he would be arrested, he fled.

    The funny thing is that it was an extreme right-wing politician who called him to testify there. Probably to use him to promote and push the far-right agenda and the talking points that Brazil is a socialist dictatorship. Shellenberger was investigated by the state court, not the Brazilian Supreme Court. They investigated him because he had/has links to an infamous Brazilian drug cartel.

    Before leaving Brazil, Shellenberger said, only in Portuguese, that he lied about everything and that he was very sorry. He said nothing to his English-speaking audience. Elon Musk did all this shit because Lula da Silva signed a big deal with China to import electric cars and granted lithium mining rights to China.

    Musk was probably angry because he bribed Bolsonaro to get the mining rights and got nothing out of it. Since it's a municipal election year in Brazil, Elon decided to pull this shit as some kind of stupid revenge. But it actually had the effect of pushing for regulation of the Brazilian Internet.