Image is from the Wikipedia article on the Sudanese Civil War.
Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur (a little east of that deep red zone in the west of the megathread map), is the last major holdout of the Sudanese government in that state, and is currently under siege by the RSF. Losing it would be a significant blow to the SAF, though given how the conflict lines are shaping up, it seems increasingly plausible that there will be a de facto - if not de jure - partition of Sudan, unless the military situation substantially changes. This is because the RSF have been pushed out of central Sudan, while the SAF are being pushed out of Western Sudan - although, the situation is pretty complex and has been known to change rapidly before.
As has been a constant feature of the Sudan Civil War - perhaps the single worst humanitarian crisis on the planet right now when measured by numbers - the civilian situation pales in comparison to the military situation, with hundreds of thousands of children dead from famine, and tens of millions of people experiencing extreme food insecurity.
Al-Fashir has been the destination of many thousands of refugees fleeing genocide, and food and aid supplies into the town are being explicitly blocked by the RSF, resulting in scenes similar to what is happening in Gaza right now. The big difference is that fleeing from major battle zones is at least somewhat of an option, though people are often caught and robbed or enslaved or trafficked while moving to neighbouring towns and cities - and these cities are often experiencing similar conditions to places that refugees are leaving.
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Israel'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.
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.
Ukraninan totalitarism video, from a Ukrainian in Kharkov translated by a Ukrainian in Mariupol, about how Ukrainian society devolved into decentralized totalitarianism. Minor brain worms detected, but my radar is not the best.
I don't know if it's old news or contradicted by analysis, but it presented to me a new perspective about how it's completely fucked. Instead of becoming a nazi regime that was "stabbed in the back", the complete lack of state authority appears to me will make it divided by militias fighting each other. And since western occupation to maintain stability threatens Russia, if it was affordable and possible in such a vast country, and since Russia couldn't possibly occupy it either, shit will be very bad.
This is a fascinating video and I have an interesting thought about this:
If decentralised totalitarianism thrives when a state is weak then neoliberalism undertaking the policy of weakening every state in the world and implementing "small government" opens the door to this kind of fascism and is the principle reason that fascism is rising across the entire west. Literally everywhere, it's ALL decentralised totalitarianism slowly permeating throughout our societies, growing in strength everywhere.
This will worsen as states weaken further due to climate change, immigration and the tightening of contradictions.
They will occupy everything east of the Dnieper and the south. They arent going to bother with deradicalizing west ukraine. Thats an issue that will plague poland and romania.
I don't know how they can accomplish their goal of keeping Ukraine out of NATO at this point without occupying or installing a friendly government in west Ukraine.
They wont. That goal is something for negation tables not actual reality if Ukraine implodes.
The rump state will always claim the annexed territory, so that's the excuse NATO will use to exclude them. There's no benefit to NATO to accept them
What are the brain worms you're referring to? (Besides I guess the idea of totalitarianism but he seems to deride it's common use from the vibe I got).
The foreign influence being named after Soros, I couldn't get whether that was a common term or not.
Despite chuds here in
using him as an antisemitic dog whistle, George Soros does do a lot of fucked up things around the world with his money just like any other billionaire and that includes a lot in 
Yeah soros founded a lot of the colour revolutions that overthrew the former socialist governments. Orbán for example.
It's a common term in Ukraine, they call the liberal Western sympathetic people sorosites
Pretty wild how Soros pays me to be anti-West, but pays Ukrainians to be pro-West.
What a dialectical guy.
Sorosite in Ukrainian and Russian also sounds just like piglet, which is why the term sticks outside of the far-right.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: