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Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.


The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.

Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.

I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.


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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:

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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.


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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 84 points 3 months ago (6 children)
[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago

https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201/

De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ Share

Published:
June 22, 2021
NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference Tuesday. “Hey, you all gave it your best shot, but it looks like it’s a little harder than you thought to run a candidate who won’t be a national fucking disgrace, doesn’t it?” said De Blasio, smirking as he suggested that the voting public had perhaps gotten a little too big for their britches at the prospect of electing someone who would amount to more than a constant source of embarrassment for the city at large. “But, no, really, I hope you have a goddamn blast with Eric Adams or whatever asshole you end up going with, and I’m sure you’ll knock everybody’s socks off with some really incredible candidates during the next election cycle. Just goes to show that it’s not so easy to find someone who isn’t a total dickhead hated by everybody.” At press time, De Blasio had issued a joint statement along with Mike Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani that consisted of them loudly laughing for 10 straight minutes.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Really. Making Rudy Giuliani look downright professional.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Turning demurrers into jurors at the stand of success.

[–] FungiDebord@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

Really good but the meter is off; would replace "at the stand of" with "in the courtroom of".

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

Get fucked, asshole.

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Chaos candidate, fulfilling his mandate.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Explain Eric Adams to me pls.

  • Is there a special focus on him that wasn't on all previous shitstains, or did he actually do a corruption speedrun that shadows previous dickheads?

  • How did he came to power?

  • Is the corruption really that bad or was simply too in the open/forgot to bribe the FBI?

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

His powerbase is in Brooklyn, where he was Borough President. Brooklyn is ~30% of NYC's population. He campaigned as being more moderate and "tough on crime" during the period where "defund the police" was on the downswing. He's also tied in with a lot of the citiy's black elites, who pushed very heavily for their community members to vote for him.

[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oops, sorry. This outlet is worker owned so I wouldn’t want to bypass that.

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Fair enough. Thanks for the info.