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A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like "in Minecraft") and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of a destroyed American AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia, of which there is a very limited supply and each of which is enormously expensive both monetarily and in terms of components. Iran hit this with a precision drone strike that likely cost ~$20,000.


I don't have much to add from the last megathread description. This isn't to say that nothing has happened or has changed since then - decades are still happening in weeks - but the general flow of the war is remaining the same. Trump sometimes threatens to open the Strait with troops and flatten Iran to rubble, and other times threatens that he's gonna back off and let other countries handle it if they really want little trifles like "fuel" and "energy" so much. Iran continues to strike across the Middle East. The West continues to bomb civilian infrastructure due to their relative inability to affect the missile cities. In all: things are generally getting worse for America and the Zionists.

April is the month where the last ships that left Hormuz before it was closed will arrive around the world, so the last month of economic turmoil has been a mere prelude to what's going to occur in the near-future. The silver lining is that Iran appears to be formalizing the new state of affairs in Hormuz, creating a rial-based toll to allow passage between a pair of Iranian-controlled islands where they can be monitored, meaning that, as long as the US doesn't do something exceptionally stupid, the global energy crisis may "only" last a couple years instead of simply being the new reality from now on. Some countries have already agreed to this arrangement, and others will inevitably follow despite their consternation as their economies increasingly suffer.


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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 the Zionists' 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.


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[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A US judge ordered a pause on the White House east wing ballroom project until it gets congressional approval, from the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/judge-blocks-trump-white-house-ballroom-plan)

US district judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a request for a preliminary injunction by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a non-profit organization that brought a lawsuit alleging that Trump had exceeded his authority by razing the East Wing and beginning construction without approval from Congress.

The decision by Leon, an appointee of George W Bush, leaves the 90,000-sq-ft ballroom project on hold unless it receives approval from Congress.

There was a substack post going around arguing they are building an underground reinforced data center. Describing the contractors on the project, all of them involved in either data center construction or secure military facilities, and the cost estimate is nearly the same amount (300 million) that was the cost for Oracle's secure data center in Jerusalem in 2021 (319 million). Other details such as the sudden plans for improving water and power infrastructure in the area. (https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom)

The Guardian article also mentions this list of donors: "...private donors and large corporations including Meta, Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Palantir, Google and Comcast." Why would these companies be interested in investing in a ballroom?

It's been said here plenty I'm sure but it seems obvious that it isn't just a fancy ballroom being built, I haven't seen any mainstream media even hint at this idea. They just talk about the waste and cost of it, implying as they always do that Trump/MAGA is just a silly self-centered guy and not helping build the infrastructure to cement the power of technofeudalism/fascism in the US.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago

Why would these companies be interested in investing in a ballroom?

Why would those companies have invested in sponsoring Trump's Inauguration? Because sucking the very corrupt President's dick is good business.

[-] facow@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I don't really find tech companies bribing Trump to be evidence of a secret scheme because there's already the established history of him taking bribes for all kinds of shit. Like that Qatari plane. And if it was a secret data center why would they be paying for it rather than being paid to build it?

Also plopping it underneath the White House seems like the worst way to keep it a secret and the justification that putting it there is necessary to maintain executive control seems very naive. If it was built on a military base or some random federal land out west and run by the NSA it would be way more secretive and we're kidding ourselves if we think either org would put up any resistance to doing whatever the president wants. And by that logic it would be resigning to handing it over to the Democrats at some point in the future? If it's a complete secret in the middle of nowhere maybe the deep state hides it for you lol

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Good points, those companies have supported him in other ways, it is a good way to funnel money. They already have data centers all over the west and probably plenty of unknown government ones, but just because it would be naive doesn't mean they wouldn't plan it, they've done a lot we would ridicule here. I could see them wanting a physical secure location near the white house bunker that is deep enough to be missile protected like those in Israel. In the event of a widespread attack or nuclear war they would need to be nearby for control of the operation center.

[-] facow@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I guess I disagree less about the idea that they're building a data center under the White House and more that it's significant if they are

[-] DasRav@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

See, the Democrats are doing something!

Oh it was the courts?! Well the Dems probably named that judge so there you go, politics works after all!

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

a ballroom with heated floors! now that's fancy

[-] Jabril@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

This is what they are building in there

[-] mx_oceanwater_they_them@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If its shown to be a military bunker installation capable of surviving a nuclear blast they (Congress) will allow to build it for national security reasons.

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