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.
The Status Coup video from their live recording post-shooting tonight went private. Possibly because they were showing papers taken from an ICE vehicle with agents' names, phone numbers, e-mails, and operating instructions. I was actually in the middle of transcribing the info when the video just disappeared.
Here's what I got, up to the start of page 4 (I tried, but spoilers aren't working with code/pre-formatted text in them). (EDIT: Completed as best I could from archives linked in replies.)
An interesting thing is that this seems to show really close collaboration with the FBI and DOJ. They are primary contacts for ICE agents right on the ground, as they are kidnapping, beating, and killing people. Anyone who thinks other PIC agencies aren't intimately involved in this violent repression is a fool.
page 5 and 6 was a form for submitting dna samples for "national database registry". I think people need to really fucking ask why ICE is collecting DNA samples of detainees.
page 7 was a receipt for a hotel room.
It starts as surveillance and then moves to Eugenics
Just like the Final Solution was the last solution, it started with deportations too!
Hence why the FBI is handling the "investigation" into the ICE killings
So like yes there is close collaboration going on but what I've been told and seems accurate based on the videos is that these papers came out of an FBI vehicle which was abandoned at the scene, FBI was called out after the shooting. These aren't ICE agents' papers
it had very specific instructions on how to get into the Whipple building and where the detainees would be held, and paperwork for booking detainees. It's safe to say this is proof of full collaboration between ICE and FBI
Yeah I guess I just didn't feel like that was news. Maybe it is. I haven't been seeing FBI out on ridealongs just embedded with ICE day to day but they are for sure in full cooperation and show up for any significant incidents.
it's useful for libs who think the FBI is doing an "investigation"
Hmm. Maybe. But there's shit like the section "Transport of Immigrant Targets" which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for an FBI agent.
some mirrors of the video on chud twitter
https://xcancel.com/lancevideos/status/2011677353999761731#m
https://xcancel.com/Ben368311/status/2011670810927235339#m
someone posted screenshots on reddit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1qdc2po/paperwork_from_abandoned_vehicle_after_shooting/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/comments/1qdbcge/screenshots_of_paperwork_left_by_icefeds/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/comments/1qdb7oz/screenshots_of_paperwork/
Nice. Status Coup has now re-posted the video, but with the part showing the papers edited out. LOL. Fuck Status Coup.
I mean, I think they are required to do this by the platform. Not really their choice.
Then they should put it up on their web page and call that out.
I'm not sure why they focused in on the pages on their live stream if they knew they were going to have to edit it out anyway. They could've just taken pics with their phones or something.
knowing how these things work (voluntary, editor is in a different area but manages online content) I would give them a bit of a grace period to update the page, like 24 hours. They probably don't want to get DDoSed into the ground by hosting that info like IceWiki (speaking of which, commenting the details here might get this place DDoSed or lose hosting. We should probably host these via a bunch of mirrors and back-ups and just link to them)
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