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We need to kill the Mega Posting Wars meme. It wasn't very funny to start with and now I get the feeling some people are taking it way too seriously. Clogging up the news thread with bullshit just to try to out post the trans mega is just dumb and annoying.

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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.

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    3 months ago

    Today's failed Bolsonaro protes:

    Bolsonaro Protest (This is mostly Bolsonaro crying because he doesn't want to go to jail while he pretends he cares about the 2023 failed coup)

    Bolsonaro gathers 45,000 in Paulista (Main Road of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city), a quarter of what he gathered in February.

    The Bolsonaro rally on Paulista Avenue on September 7 brought together 45,400 people at 4:05 p.m., its peak time, according to a count by the University of São Paulo's Monitor of Political Debate in the Digital Environment.

    For comparison's sake, a similar act on February 25, also organized by Protestant pastor Silas Malafaia, brought together 185,000 people, according to a survey by the same group. The head count was based on high-resolution aerial photos that covered the length of the avenue, taken at 2.25pm, 3.25pm and 4.05pm, and processed with the help of special software for this purpose. In the audience count, the margin of error is around 12% more or less.

    As a result, this Saturday's demonstration, whose agendas were to defend the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is responsible for the investigations into the coup attempt, and amnesty for those arrested for the coup acts of January 8, 2023, in Brasilia, was more than four times smaller than the previous one, which supported Bolsonaro and criticized Moraes.

    Even though it was organized after the minister suspended X/Twitter in Brazil and the series of reports in Folha de S.Paulo that showed how he produced evidence in the Superior Electoral Court and sent it to himself in the STF.

    Btw, Bolsonaro also said that he should get his passport and political rights back, because he didn't totally abuse his powers. And he didn't break the law by having a meltdown in front of all the diplomats in 2022. And that, unlike Lula da Silva, he only meets with powerful and honest people, unlike Lula, who meets with drug dealers and lowlifes (during the 2022 election, Lula visited Rio's favelas, where he took photos with people and talked to local musicians, artists and community leaders, whom Bolsonaro calls drug dealers).

    Civic-Military Annual Independence Day March

    Meanwhile, Lula da Silva organized the annual civic-military march with the army, police, students, social groups and a special appearance by the Olympic team. There was also a tribute to those who lost their lives during the 2023 floods in southern Brazil and a tribute to the G20 countries with the presentation of their flags. Towards the end, Brazil's Public Health and Vaccination mascot, Zé Gotinha, appeared to promote vaccination for children.

    'Our sovereignty is not for sale', says Lula in September 7th speech and indirectly to Musk. Without mentioning the X billionaire by name, the president said that, regardless of the size of their fortune, everyone has to respect Brazilian laws.

    “No country is truly independent when it tolerates threats to its sovereignty. We will always be intolerant of anyone, no matter how big their fortune, who defies Brazilian law. Our sovereignty is not for sale,” Lula said on national radio and TV. Lula also emphasized the importance of democracy in guaranteeing a country's sovereignty and peaceful coexistence between opposing forces.

    “Tomorrow is the day to celebrate Brazil's independence. And it's also a good time to celebrate democracy. No country is truly independent without the full exercise of democracy,” said the president. Lula stressed that democracy goes beyond the simple act of voting. It is, according to the president, the continuous struggle for fundamental rights, such as food, decent housing, quality jobs and security for families.