Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it’s just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a “domestic terrorist” and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration’s policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
Jolani has taken oil fields back from the
USKurds.If Assad would have done this 10 years ago he could have saved Syria’s economy. He probably would have been nuked for it though, so I guess it doesn’t matter. Still, it stings to see how easy it was, which means the US must be complete done with their proxies.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-forces-seize-major-oil-gas-fields-eastern-syria-security-sources-say-2026-01-18/
Yes, which is why there was always stationed a few thousand well-armed US soldiers with armored vehicles and heavy weapons and enough air force nearby to level Damascus many times over over.
Thank you SDF for giving political legitimacy to US occupation
Turkish source claiming this is now the deal that’s on the table, given that everything is collapsing on all fronts.
1- SDF members to join the Syrian army as individuals, not as units or brigades.
2- Hand over border crossings with Iraq.
3- Hand over border crossings with Türkiye.
4- Withdraw from the Arab-majority provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa.
5- Transfer control of all oil and gas facilities.
6- Transfer control of dams and water infrastructure.
7- Establish joint administration of Hasakah province.
8- Appoint Mazloum Abdi as governor of Hasakah.
9- Grant SDF figures government posts (e.g. deputy ministers of defense or interior).
10- Allow participation in the Syrian parliament.
11- Affirm recognition of Kurdish rights under a recent decree by President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
12- Implement all points according to a fixed timeline.
There are reports Abdi and Tom Barrack were in Damascus 3 to 4 hours ago negotiating something, this could be it. Edit: SDF news sources are now claiming that Abdi hasn’t gone to Damascus yet, what happened was a phone call between Sharaa and Abdi. Potential visit in the future. Results of phone call still to be revealed.
Edit2: Both STG and SDF claiming a deal has been reached, news in the coming hours.
Assad did try with Russia and Wagner. The US bombed them to bits until Wagner withdrew. Prigozhin was very upset because Russia promised to protect the Wagner offensive from the American bombings with Su-35s and S-300 systems. At the end of the day, the S-300 radars were turned off, and the Su-35s turned around.
Isn’t the whole point of Wagner plausible deniability anyways? Sure everyone knows it’s just Russia but you kind of throw the pretense out the window if VVS get involved.
US is still there so ‘HTS’ administration of oil wells is going to be as nominal as 'SDF’s
The old proxy switcheroo