One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain’t worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
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.
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.
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.
Following up on my college football post from last week, its time for another important piece of college football news:
The time is currently 9:47 PM CST, and the University of Oklahoma still sucks!
This Saturday at 2:30 PM CST, the #1 University of Texas Longhorns will take on the #18 University of Oklahoma Sooners in the 120th Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl at the Texas State Fair in Dallas, TX. Originally called the Red River Shootout before a bunch of incel school shooters caused gatdang PC liberals to cancel that much cooler name, what many consider to be the best rivalry game in college sports will take place in a neutral stadium located almost completely equidistant between the two universities (its 9 miles closer to OU). Fans will show up Saturday morning, many still drunk from the night before, to continue drinking and eating corny dogs in front of a 55 foot tall animatronic Texan, hoping to cheer on their team to victory in a stadium split evenly down the middle between the two teams. Hopefully, the team named after the beautiful and majestic Texas Longhorn will defeat the team named after a bunch of filthy settlers who stole land from the Native Americans! The winner will get to take home the rivalry’s trophy, the Golden Hat, a gold-plated 10-gallon cowboy hat, and the loser will get to throw up on the rides on the Midway after getting too drunk and filling their stomachs with some of this year’s award winning foods (CW Meat) : the Dominican Fritura Dog, the Cotton Candy Bacon on a Stick, and the Texas Sugar Rush Pickles!
Is the sports comm dead or what? Hype posting for a future match between a corn oil based team vs an oiled corn based team doesn’t seem very newsworthy
The college football comm has a bunch of .world users and hexbear is defederated. It’s not all that active anyway so it’s extra dead from hexbear.
It’s cultural news. A Dominican corn dog made out of cheese and salami that won the Texas State Fair is an important cultural event. It also gives non-Americans an insight into the mainstream glorification of settler colonialism and how it seeps into things like sports until it seems innocuous.
very very little activity, most of this site really does not like sports. It’s something I don’t quite understand, this is a phenomenon I’ve noticed in real life too most of the socialists I’ve met really do not like sports, neither playing nor watching. One time when we were planning a social get together with another org I suggested we kick a soccerball around or throw a frisbee and got looked at like I had grown a 3rd head. like it’s not even just because we’re nerds, people fucking hate esports on here too for the most part
The Red River Rivalry is such a historical part of the SEC. Can’t wait to watch a game between these to historic members of the South Eastern Conference
It just means more!