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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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.
Calling all Newsheads, I'm going to put together a 2025 News Mega Bingo Card, reply to this post with any suggestion you have and I'll put it together sometime later in the week to give time for submissions!
Edit: if there are more than 25 submissions I'll go with the highest voted comments
democrats work across the aisle on a sweeping tax cut for the wealthy
Free space
With a side of transphobic legislation to sweeten the deal
Elon Musk is kicked out of Trump’s cabinet but pretends he quit
Musk tries buying Fortnite because he wants his dumbass "jump up in the air and make an X" move to be the new default dance
France gets kicked out of another country.
Putin holds another big important 90 minute speech that has no real-world consequences.
Trump continues US support for the Ukraine war.
Genocide Joe shuffles off this mortal coil and joins the choir infernal.
Danish elections in the spring. A far-right government is formed. In response the succdems decide they need to be more racist.
Several western countries makes pro-palestinian speech illegal.
Attempted coup in Ukraine
Attempted colour revolution in Cuba
There's gonna be record breaking natural disasters and new fed admin will refuse to provide aid.
That's basically the free space
Mines "nukes actually get used in some way, shape, or form, but doesn't lead to the end of the world"
Calling it now: Israel nukes Yemen.
And the "international community" will just shrug.
Personally I'm betting Trump nukes a natural disaster, like trying to end the snow storms and the polar vortex with a nuclear airbrush, or trying to dispell a hurricane with a nuke right down its blowhole.
Nothing happens (free space).
AI generated legislation gets upheld in court
war in ukraine will NOT end
I think the war ending would be a better bingo slot. It has just the right balance of seeming like it should happen but having a decent chance of not happening.
Or just have competing slots. Put them on the same line/diagonal for extra fun. If it becomes frozen we can mark off both.
The LPR and DPR try becoming independent states, Russia holds onto them anyway and occupy them after their special military operation formally ends
This is a free space.
Frozen conflict is the most likely outcome
I still say the war will end in winter
Which winter I will not say, could be this one or it could be any winter in the future
the nuclear winter
Definitely one of the more likely winters
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Israel gets into BRICs
China asking both parties to seek diplomatic solution after its concerns regarding Israel flattening an Iranian nuclear facility
Border war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (with Russia doing absolutely nothing to fulfill their defense pact)
Khameinei dies
European head of state dies in a mysterious plane crash and it's obviously CIA/Mossad but no one in Europe dares to say it
Predictions for a stock market crash in the US keep getting made but the line keeps going up.
Greenland becomes independent from Denmark
And then another slot for Greenland getting annexed/invaded by Trump.
Danes immediately starts to associate Spanish-speakers with severe alcoholism and lacking work ethics (they only do the latter one at this point)
Trump tries trading, idk, the Virgin Islands for Greenland and Denmark just laughs at him and he threatens them with an invasion
Belarus colour revolution and/or Ukrainian inavasion.
Operation True Promise III
Israel or US attacks Iranian nuclear sites.
Iran gets a nuclear weapon
Imran Khan released from prison and re-arrested and reimprisoned
US stock market crash of 20% or more measured by SPY, may or may not rebound during 2025
not one, but two new pandemics
BRICS falls apart from infighting
China or Russia directly participate in a new armed conflict.
I doubt it. China doesn't want war and Russia has basically abandoned its allies to focus on Ukraine (see: Armenia/Artsakh and Assad's Syria). Unless there's a peace deal in Ukraine they'd probably stay out of anything else going on.
I agree, but this is a bingo and I think its good to have some spots that aren't guaranteed.
Israel invades Egypt beyond the rafah crossing and immediate area
Nancy Pelosi retires from politics
Trump dies (somehow)
US starts new war (free space)
climate tipping points pop off (please don't)
Macron uses article 16 of the Constitution to obtain emergency powers
some ancient politician dies, like just straight up fucking dies okay, but gets to keep their seat