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Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.


The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.


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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 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.
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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.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.


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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago

are pakistan and afghanistan still beefing?

Today’s news and combat footage from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.

Surrendered Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk oblast revealed that their Kiev regime commanders had cut off some of their fingers for refusing to shoot at Russian troops: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--%E2%AC%87%EF%B8%8FREAD-BELOW%E2%AC%87%EF%B8%8F--POW'S-with-severed-fingers!:6

President Putin awarded Andrey Grigoryev with the Hero of Russia title. He was the Russian soldier from Yakutia that recently eliminated a Kiev regime troop in a dramatic knife fight in the Donetsk People's Republic: https://www.rt.com/russia/610748-putin-decorated-knife-fight-soldier/

A Russian soldier destroyed a Kiev regime position with an anti-tank mine (video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Delivery-of-an-anti-tank-mine-to-the-position-of-AFU-observers:b

Russian drone operators destroyed another Kiev regime tank (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/11/970747.html

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago (5 children)

What is going to happen to Los Angeles?

[–] someone@hexbear.net 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The same thing that happened to New Orleans after Katrina.

jesus-christ That's the second largest city in America.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

rent will become even more unaffordable

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It gets walled off in an Escape From LA-style mega prison/concentration camp

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

The Bell riots may have been delayed, but they're still scheduled

[–] jack@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Fingers crossed a people's revolution

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If Katrina and Puerto Rico are any precedent they will use the disaster as an excuse for “shock therapy” and further neoliberalism and privatization

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Mark my words, they will use this as an excuse to privatise the LAFD (or at least parts of it)

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, they'll just dive further into conspiracies. I've lost my faith in people being anything other than potatoes in a sack under these conditions. I'm surprised the Republicans aren't scapegoating Mexicans for the fire yet.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago
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Nothing good I imagine.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago

To quote Napoleon Bonaparte

spoiler'This is starting to get serious'

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Boise_Idaho@hexbear.net 62 points 5 days ago (2 children)

On the Attempted Assassination of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of CPM Kenya:
https://xcancel.com/BookerBiro/status/1877916575568724010

This morning, at approximately 3:00 am, armed assailants equipped with night vision goggles and firearms violently stormed the residence of Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole.

A fierce exchange of gunfire ensued, during which Comrade Booker and his comrades managed to neutralise one attacker, while seven others fled the scene. The police arrived an hour later, long after the attackers had escaped.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 75 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I never knew Jimmy Carter actually met with Hamas representatives back in 2008.

Former President Jimmy Carter says the militant group would not undermine talks for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, as long as the Palestinian people approve the deal by referendum. Hamas also says it will offer Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from land seized in the 1967 war.

Former President Jimmy Carter says that the Palestinian militant group Hamas is prepared to accept Israel's right to live in peace. Carter met with Hamas leaders over the weekend, a meeting opposed by Israel and the Bush administration. They both shun Hamas and view it as a terrorist organization. A senior Hamas official praised former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday, a day after he met with the group, but said he failed to persuade the Islamic rulers of Gaza to accept international demands, including recognizing Israel.

Carter, a strong advocate of the Palestinians after his presidency, claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's. Though as president Carter brokered the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, the first between Israel and an Arab country, he is perceived by many Israelis as anti-Israel, siding with the Palestinians in their conflict.

He "antagonized" many Israelis with his 2007 book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," in which he argued that Israel must choose between ceding the West Bank to the Palestinians or maintaining a system of ethnic inequality similar to that of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Most Israelis strongly reject the comparison.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago

The "evil fundamentalist terrorist organisation" is so much more moderate, peaceful, reasonable and ready to seek a compromise everyone can live with than "the only democracy in the middle east"

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[–] Metabola@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago (5 children)
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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 78 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Interviews with locals in Nuuk has revealed that many of the Greenlanders who had lunch with Trump Jr. were not in fact supporters of the idea of an American annexation. Instead many of them were homeless and socially disadvantaged locals who had been bribed with the fancy dinner at the best restaurant in town, some of them without knowing exactly what the point of the event was.

Leading up to the First Son's bizarre visit, collaborators of his had approached locals on the parking lot in front of the Brugseni supermarket where socially disadvantaged people often meet.

The Trump organisation has not replied to questions about the story but the local collaborator who organised the event has claimed that everyone at the event were there "voluntarily" and that "people from all walks off life" were present.

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 61 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

The top headline on my google news tonight:

the top headline, from ABC News, reads "California fires live updates: 18 arrests so Eaton, Palisades fires"

So i guess we are just gonna turn the fires into crime panic huh. Dont pay attention to the profit-seeking corporations that causes this or the lack of funding for public services that could mitigate or prevent a tragedy. Please bro just pay attention to the looters pleaseeeee

So i gave in and actually read this trash. And whats worse is they are also arresting people for "possession of burglary tools" and ofc "possession of narcotics" fuck these pigs

spoiler

18 arrests so far in Eaton, Palisades fires The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said they have made 18 arrests so far regarding criminal activity in connection with the Eaton and Palisades fires.

Charges include looting, burglary, identity theft, possession of burglary tools and possession of narcotics, Assistant Sheriff Myron Johnson said during a briefing Friday.

One suspect was on active parole and was also charged with possession of a concealed firearm, Johnson said.

A curfew enacted in the Palisades and the Eaton fire areas will remain in effect until further notice and "is being taken to enhance public safety, protect property and prevent looting in areas where residents have been evacuated," he said.

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[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 53 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t quite understand the SC ruling on Tiktok ban.

The projected loss of revenues for vendors is about $1 billion, with another $300 million loss for content creators. Granted I’m not a fan of Tiktok/Douyin and never used it, but this is undeniably yet another class warfare waged by Biden and probably won’t even be the last before he leaves office.

Is Biden seriously doing this to take away Trump’s bargaining chip with China? Does he really want to stoke a war as his final act as the president?

I think Trump will still fight the court decision but the grounds for divestiture is thin.

[–] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 51 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The projected loss of revenues for vendors is about $1 billion, with another $300 million loss for content creators

yeah but meta and google probably stand to gain way more, sorry to go at you like this but you're getting too in to blue team vs red team here, it doesnt matter what trump wants meta and google are more important to the US than him

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago

TikTok has been eating American SoMe corporations' lunch for too long and any leader who rids them of their competitor will be in their good graces.

TikTok has also failed to be sufficiently cooperative with the US propaganda machine which is a direct threat to the dominance of yank ideology. The money lost is pocket change to that apparatus and the people loosing it are petty bourg content kulaks who have no political power and essentially matters almost as little to the ruling elite as the rest of us.

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