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Image is of Colombian President Gustavo Petro giving a speech at the UN in 2022.


Trump has arrived in office with the force of an avalanche; ~~ending~~ slowing a genocide on the one hand, while simultaneously promising a total nightmare for minorities and the poor throughout and outside the United States on the other hand. [edited for clarity; I do not actually think Trump has ended the Palestinian genocide obviously, I was making a joke - but the ceasefire is a genuine improvement in conditions for millions of people right now who are on the edge of death, so it cannot be dismissed]

It's still far too early to truly compare and contrast his imperial strategy with Biden's, but initial signs show that there does appear to be somewhat of a reorientation. Biden was famous for being two-faced; ostensibly offering aid and stability, while also blowing up your pipeline to ensure you did not actually have an alternative to his idea. Trump, meanwhile, seems only really capable of aggression, threatening several "allied" nations with what may as well be sanctions because of the economic harm they'd do. I suspect we'll be debating for a long time how much of this can be attributed to the specific characteristics of Trump, or whether he merely embodies the zeitgeist of imperial decline - a wounded empire lashing out with extreme violence to try and convince everybody, including themselves, that they can still be the world imperialist hegemon.

I'll admit it: I did not believe that Trump would actually try and go ahead with putting tariffs on basically anybody who annoys him. And while the threat could still be empty in regards to countries like China and Canada, Colombia is the first indication of the potential of his strategy. Despite some fiery words from President Petro, after Trump's administration revealed the punishment if Colombia did not agree, it appears that Colombia will in fact be accepting deported migrants after all. It's funny how that works.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.


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[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 17 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Rationalist (Silicon Valley tech worshiping) adjacent, possibly vegan, possibly trans, death cult kills landlord and (Washington State) border patrol officer. I wish I was editorializing here, but weird things are happening in the tech sphere.

True Anon (intro into rationalism and what is going on) - https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/zizian-murder-cult-1

Newsweek (summary of both murders) - https://www.newsweek.com/death-cult-linked-two-murders-zizians-2023563

AP (Youngblut's arrest) - https://apnews.com/article/vermont-border-patrol-shooting-youngblut-72c1b68aeb3d52cccb05b6b850d83450

Apollo Mojave (I cannot vouch for the integrity of this source) - https://web.archive.org/web/20250130033312/https://zizians.info/

Open Vallejo (Case overview) - https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

SF Gate (Another case overview) - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-zizian-murders-20064333.php

Key Figures:

  • Ziz LeSota (née Jack): Leader of the "Zizians"
  • Milo Yongblut (né Theresa Yongblut): Alleged killer of Mayland. In custody.
  • Ophelia Bauckhol (née Felix Bauckhol): Partner of Milo. Deceased.
  • Curtis Lind: Landlord. Deceased.
  • David Mayland: Border patrol officer. Deceased.
  • Maximillian Snyder: Alleged killer of Lind. In custody.

Note that deadnames of individuals have been included for ease of research. Very few news outlets are using the chosen names of Zizian-related individuals, so their commonly used names have been included.

It is getting late, and I'm going to stop researching this before hallucinations set in, because this is very strange.

Addendum with minimal structure because I am going down the rabbit hole: Bauckhol worked at Jane Street, one of the most prestigious quantitative trading firms. It looks like highly educated, elite killers are becoming more common. I find it fitting that now is the time when the contradictions of capital start to eat away at the labor aristocracy, although they will not develop class consciousness, only stochastic violence. The right will pick up on this story shortly due to the absurd nature and it being a diversion from the Trump-2 disasterclass. Andy Ngo is currently pushing this story quite a bit, although his relevance has faded a bit. It also looks like these weirdos were a known group for a while. Here are a series of unordered links from a few years ago about these wackos.

Furthermore, here is a timeline I found on reddit.

spoilerTimeline:

2019 – Police arrest four rationalists including LaSota, Leatham and Borhanian for protesting and obstructing the Center for Applied Rationality. LaSota is the “Ziz” of this group of “Zizians.”

Snyder is in college in Seattle. There's nothing to suggest whether he was or wasn't connected with the group at this point in time.

2022 – Curtis Lind’s tenants, including Leatham, attack and injure him over a rent dispute. He fires in response and kills one of his attackers, Emma Borhanian. According to the article, LaSota lived on the property at the time, but he was not present at the dispute.

2023 – Snyder wins an award in an AI alignment research contest.

November 5, 2024 – Snyder and Youngblut marry.

January 14th, 2025 – Feds start surveilling Baukholt and Youngblut after they're seen armed in public.

January 17th, 2025 – Snyder stabs Curtis Lind to death (allegedly). Motive unknown?

January 20th, 2025 – Baukholt (a German national) and Youngblut get into a shootout with Border Patrol. Baukholt and one agent both die.

Here is an article from rationalists co-ordinating response to this topic. CW rationalism: https://www.lesswrong/[dot]com/posts/PKDbddjdDaPikQT3b/thread-for-sense-making-on-recent-murders-and-how-to-sanely (link redacted due to grade A Silicon Valley Wackos)

Past this point, I am concerned for both my well being and yours, dear reader. For here, we venture into more websites.

https://voidgoddess.org/2023/04/03/from-darkness-lead-me-to-light/ - a personal account about Ziz

https://voidgoddess.org/ziz/ - an archive of Ziz's works

At this point, I need sleep, but I need to keep gumshoeing. This brings us to hell on the interwebs, x, the everything app. https://nitter.privacydev/[dot]net/Aella_Girl/status/1884481375690223684#m this is a relevant timeline of events and more information. CW almost everything.

Lastly, here is an interview with the writer of voidgoddes.org on the Zizians. It is 4 hours and I pray none of you watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-siR07uD3A&t=1s

Here are Slime Priestess' social media links for future gumshoeing: X the everything app - https://nitter.privacydev.net/Slimepriestess

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slimepriestess/

LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong/[dot]com/users/hivewired

The only solution to this to put lithium in the bay area water supply. That way I can stop obsessing over this nonsense.

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

You have a lot of really cool resources here comrade, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to browse them. Would it be possible for you to summarize some of the oddities of this case? Assume I'm not very familiar with "rationalism" (I guess I see people here talking about it, but it's not the kind of thread I usually browse)

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

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