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Image is from this Reuters article.


This week marks the one year anniversary of Honduras ceasing to recognize Taiwan and instead only recognizing China. Over that time period, China and Honduras have gone through several rounds of negotiating a free trade agreement, with trade expanding. Additionally, they have just signed a $275 million cooperation agreement, providing education infrastructure for Honduras.

The other major news piece relevant to Honduras is the battle against Prospera, a US-based crypto libertarian firm that sought to buy a private island in order to create an ancap paradise, in which Bitcoin would be legal tender. In 2022, Honduras killed the island's special status that made the deal possible, and so Prospera is seeking $11 billion in compensation.


The COTW (Country of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific country every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied nations. If you've wanted to talk about the country or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any country.

The Country of the Week is Honduras! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

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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 daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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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[-] atturaya@lemmygrad.ml 105 points 8 months ago

imagine being Buttigieg right now.

> get told by Obama to drop out in 2020 in exchange for a cushy cabinet appointment where you do nothing

> be told you can be in the spotlight and run next time

> deaths by car at an all time high

> East Palestine train derailment happens and poisons an entire town

> Boeing planes start unraveling in mid-air

> a major bridge gets rammed into and collapses

> all US infrastructure starts collapsing and annihilates any chance you have at being president

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[-] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 94 points 8 months ago

Use this one weird trick to get liberals to think and care about material conditions.

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 94 points 8 months ago

In an interview with Israel today, Donald Trump calls for an end to the war in Gaza: "You have to end your war. You have to do it. We have to reach peace. We cannot allow this to continue. Israel has to be very careful, because you lose a lot of the world. You are losing a lot of support.'

mystery-emote

Meanwhile, Fetterman:

hypersus

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 74 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

One of Trump's biggest political strengths is knowing which way the wind is blowing.

EDIT: Found this from Twitter:

“I think Israel made a very big mistake,” he said. “I wanted to call [Israel] and say don’t do it. These photos and shots. I mean, moving shots of bombs being dropped into buildings in Gaza. And I said, ‘Oh, that’s a terrible portrait.’”

“It’s a very bad picture for the world,” he continued. “The world is seeing this … every night, I would watch buildings pour down on people. It would say it was given by the Defense Ministry, and said whoever’s providing that, that’s a bad image.”

Trump reiterated his support for Israel, but he said images of the heavy-handed military response have sparked anti-Israeli and antisemitic sentiment.

“Go and do what you have to do. But you don’t do that,” he said, referring to mass bombings. “And I think that’s one of the reasons that there has been a lot of kickback. If people didn’t see that, every single night I’ve watched every single one of those. And I think Israel wanted to show that it’s tough, but sometimes you shouldn’t be doing that.”

He later urged the country’s leadership to change its public image in the conflict.

“Israel has to get better with the promotional and with the public relations, because right now they’re in ruin,” Trump said. “They’re being hurt very badly, I think in a public relations sense.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4554652-trump-israel-gaza-hamas-war

About as "sympathetic" to Palestine as you can probably expect from him.

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[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago

HOW IS TRUMP BETTER ON THIS THAN FETTERMAN

mostly trump just knows how to play the fiddle for the establishment. He knows when its done and its time to bail.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 91 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Very cool protesters have locked themselves to the side of the USNS Harvey Milk to prevent its departure to Gaza.

https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1773806950561816812

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 89 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For the next four months I'll be studying a subject called "Economy of Historians" in my University. Turns out the professor is a Marxist gigachad and his classes are four hours long, the first two hours we see general economic theory, from Smith to Keynes, Marx and all economic systems. The last two hours it's just him reading through Das Kapital chapter by chapter, line by line.

This is the evil political indoctrination milei was talking about. HELL YEAH. lets-fucking-go

By the end of this period I'll be the biggest Marxist around here, so you better buckle up, liberals.

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 89 points 8 months ago
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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 87 points 7 months ago

It’s extremely frustrating to hear politicians demonizing Nicaragua for “eroding human rights” and then praise fucking Bukele for being tough on crime.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 87 points 7 months ago
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[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 87 points 8 months ago

Charges dropped against Ontario pigs that killed toddler

They were pursuing a father that kidnapped his kid, they knew the kid was in the vehicle, and the opened fire anyway and killed both of them. Of course the charges were dropped. KKKlanada cops are just as bad as anywhere else

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 86 points 8 months ago

George Santos, former US congressman, has announced that he will run again, only this time as an independent. He justifies it by saying that he can't remain in the Republican Party, because of "what has been demonstrated in the House of Representatives".

Please let him win again, it will be so fucking funny.

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[-] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 86 points 8 months ago
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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 85 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Have you seen that when Genocide Joe is giving a speech and a group of protestors yell things like "Genocide Joe! How many dead kids is enough for you?" to interrupt the rally... the pro-Genocide Joe crowd begins to chant "Four more years!"?

Are they asking for four more years of genocide?


Regardless of this, I know History will be the final judge here. And History will not be kind to them.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 83 points 7 months ago

Some Zionist with a "NUKE GAZA NOW" sign getting owned in the marketplace of ideas:
https://twitter.com/gfunkposting/status/1773724461553885373

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 82 points 8 months ago
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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 77 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

guy who thinks that it's ridiculous that madman communist dictator Putin could possibly accuse Ukraine, the nation which has previously and continues to this very day to proudly state that they commit terrorist attacks against Russia, of doing a terrorist attack against Russia

but also thinks that Medvedev himself or something personally drove the boat into the bridge

you couldn't pay me to look at news subreddits or lib twitter so I'm assuming that most of the people there are exactly that guy right now

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 77 points 8 months ago
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[-] iheartmold@hexbear.net 76 points 7 months ago
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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 76 points 8 months ago

Western leftists: Do you condemn Hamas?
Palestinian communists: Do you commend Hamas?
PFLP poster: https://twitter.com/LiuBeised/status/1772311666773913955

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 76 points 8 months ago

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a post that if the UN resolution ordering a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is not followed, Colombia will break off diplomatic relations with Israel.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 75 points 8 months ago

archive.today • Gazans Drown Trying to Retrieve Aid From Sea, Authorities Say - The New York Times

The authorities in Gaza said on Tuesday that around a dozen people had drowned while trying to retrieve airdropped aid that had fallen into the Mediterranean. Officials called for an end to airdrops over the territory and an increase in deliveries by land.

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[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 74 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Putin - at a meeting with pilots in Torzhok:

This is complete nonsense - the possibility of an attack on some other countries, on Poland, the Baltic states, scares the Czechs. Just nonsense! Another way to deceive your population and extract additional costs from people, force them to bear this burden on their shoulders, that’s all.

Putin on military spending by Russia and the enemy:

Let’s take 2022, military spending, because the results for 2023 are being summed up and calculated, 2024 is too early to say. According to our data, we spent 3.5% of the country's GDP on defense spending. Let’s take data that is not ours, let’s take data from the Stockholm Peace Institute, international data, they have the following calculation: The United States spent 3.5% of GDP on defense, Russia - 4%. Let's say Israel is 4.5%. Ukraine spent 33.5% in 2022. But in absolute terms, what a difference it makes. In 2022, the United States spent, God willing, 811 billion dollars, and the Russian Federation - 72 billion. 72 and 811 - the difference is noticeable, more than ten times.

The United States spends, its defense spending is approximately 40% of global defense spending, 39% of global spending is the United States. And Russia – 3.5%. And, keeping this ratio in mind, are we going to fight with NATO or something? This is just nonsense!

Putin - about attacks on NATO airfields:

If they deliver F-16s, they talk about it, like they are training pilots, I think you understand this like no one else, better than others, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy their planes just as we destroy their tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment today, including multiple launch rocket systems. Of course, if they are used from airfields of third countries, they become a legitimate target for us, no matter where they are located. And the F-16s are also carriers of nuclear weapons, and we will also have to take this into account when organizing combat work.

Putin - on jingoism:

When I listen to our - there are such people everywhere, in any society - jingoistic patriots, including those who say that Russia is only for Russians, then a feeling of anxiety arises in me. Because we have 190 ethnic groups living on the territory of the country and some nationalities are represented by millions of peoples, as soon as we begin to implement these destructive thoughts about the fact that everyone else is strangers here, we will ruin the country. And the main victims will be the Russian people. Therefore, you need to treat this component very adultly, seriously, not wave your arms and wag your tongue, but think when you pronounce every word, every phrase. To think that we have one big united Motherland.

Anyone gets the feeling that the US is going to press for a hot war and prevent truce in Ukraine no matter what?

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[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago

Apparently the Boeing whistleblower made a statement to the effect that if he were to die, it would not be a suicide.

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago

UNSC passed ceasefire resolution, US abstained. Can't wait for Israel to immediately invade Rafah

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago
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[-] ghosts@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Cross-post about the Baltimore Bridgen't:

The Baltimore Bridge has collapsed after collision with a cargo ship. The bridge had about 30k daily crossings and it appears to be part of an outerbelt system, so while it will detour lots of traffic (including regional distribution hubs, i.e. Amazon), I think the bigger effect will be on shipping because Baltimore is the 18th largest port by tonnage and the only way in is full of bridge.

Update: The port is indefinitely closed until the channel can be cleared to a depth of 50 feet. My initial guess is 2-4 weeks for port reopening and 6 months-?? for bridge replacement. I have no idea.

The Baltimore Port ranked first in the nation in handling automobiles, light trucks, farm and construction machinery, as well as imported sugar and gypsum. The Port ranked second in the country for exporting coal... Moreover, in 2023, the Port of Baltimore handled a record 52.3 million tons of international cargo, valued at $80.8 billion.

Notably, this may negatively affect rumored union action that was already prompting companies to reroute cargo to the West coast.

Something to consider, I guess.

Source

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago

The parasites that ruined Florida have been migrating north towards the Appalachians

https://archive.is/OQvMP

Boomers fed up with Florida are moving to southern Appalachia, fueling a population spike in longtime rural communities

I give my deep sympathy to any Appalachian folks here for the encroaching loss of their distinct landscape and historical culture as the scum of the earth destroy it with their golf courses and HOA nazis

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Israel's Supreme Court just issued a ruling that the Haredi must register/participate in the draft and is freezing state funding to yeshivas. They can freeze state funding because the funding was part of a law found unconstitutional in 2017 that established the funding and excluded the Haredi from the draft. Since there has been no new law, they are cancelling the funding and saying the Haredi will have to participate in the draft by August. Only some of the yeshivas are getting their funds cut immediately. Most will get funds until August.

So yes, civil war is still on the table.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Matt Christman hacked the cargo ship with his Neuralink chip. GUYNET is active.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago

AIPAC lobbyist runs to the restroom after confronted by CODEPINK.

Bad actress had to refresh her crocodile tears after called out on money to bomb children instinctively brought out her evil smirk. twisted

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago
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[-] Babs@hexbear.net 71 points 8 months ago

Reddit banned RussianWarFootage, UkraineRussiaReport gone private. Pro-ukraine opinions only on Reddit.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago

Russia pushes for an end to the sanctions control system against North Korea at the UN.

On Thursday (28) at the UN, Russia blocked the renewal of the mandate of the experts who oversee the application of sanctions against North Korea, a veto denounced by the majority of Security Council members concerned about the development of Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Since 2006, North Korea has been the target of Security Council sanctions, mainly related to its nuclear program, which were reinforced several times in 2016 and 2017. Since 2019, Russia and China have been trying in vain to convince the Council to ease these measures, which have no expiration date.

In this context, Moscow today vetoed a resolution aimed at extending by one year the operation of the committee of experts in charge of monitoring sanctions, whose reports are a benchmark in the field.

"The commission continues to focus its work on irrelevant issues that are not commensurate with the problems facing the [Korean] peninsula," commented Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.

"This veto is not a sign of concern for the North Korean people or for the effectiveness of the sanctions. It is about Russia getting the freedom to violate sanctions in search of weapons to use against Ukraine," denounced British ambassador Barbara Woodward.

In addition to the United Kingdom, the United States also denounced the veto as an attempt by Moscow to hide its growing military cooperation with Pyongyang.

"Russia's actions today have cynically undermined international peace and security, all to promote the corrupt agreement Moscow has signed with the DPRK [North Korea's official name]," said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller

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[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 71 points 8 months ago

Danish state media is currently running a great headline about how Danish shipping parasite Maersk claims to have been attacked by Ansarallah in the Red Sea, while also further down the main page running a story about how Maersk either rented or loaned the ship that did bridge-9/11 in Baltimore. Just all around a great day to be Maersk kel-bliss

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[-] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 70 points 8 months ago

Communists referring to people they want to kill: "Deeply Unserious"

Libs responding to people they want to kill: "Hope this helps"

who else?

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[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 69 points 8 months ago

cw suicide, Canada, maidCanada continues their aktion t4 program with the "assisted suicide" of a neurodivergant person with no clear terminal medical conditions. Someone with autism and ADHD struggles to exist in modern capitalist society and of course the solution in killing them. I love being afraid of bringing up mental health and the possibility of being neurodivergant to medical practitioners because their answer might be "have you considered suicide?"

kkkanada

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 69 points 8 months ago

that will be a fun Insurance claim..

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 69 points 7 months ago

colbert be like: there is nothing more catholic than support genocide in the holy land

[-] companero@hexbear.net 68 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My theory on the Crocus attack:

  • Extremist elements in the Ukrainian military or intelligence, possibly at a high level, were plotting with ISIS for the attack.
  • Someone with knowledge of that rightfully thought "this is fucked" and reported to Zelensky's government.
  • Zelensky, having very little power over his subordinates, forwarded the information to the US government.
  • US publicly and vaguely warns about the attack just before it is scheduled, hiding their source and drawing scrutiny away from Ukraine should the attack happen.
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[-] atturaya@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 8 months ago
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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 68 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

CW: keeping it vague but potential courtesy SA warning

In celebrity news, Australian actress Rebel Wilson has publicly accused Sacha Baron Cohen of sexually assaulting her, presumably on the set of Grimsby. It seems that karma may finally be swinging back around for this racist piece of shit.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 68 points 7 months ago

Al Mayadeen clip of Al-Qassam snipers owning IOF goons:
https://twitter.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1773129889639551297

Accurate in hitting the mark and no bullet leaves their rifles except to settle in the head of an "israeli" soldier

Damn, they sure have a way with words lmao

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://twitter.com/hahauenstein/status/1773267480506495000

“Yeah the Prime Minister quoted the part of the Bible where God tells them to commit genocide, but do you have a signed and notarized Declaration of Genocidal Intent form? I thought not.”

very-intelligent

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Francis Scott Key Bridge destroyed.

In Baltimore, a container ship rammed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the entire arched structure and spans to collapse. There are dead and wounded; it is not yet known how many cars were on the bridge at the time of the collapse.

The bridge has stood since 1977. (reports about that ship has sunk are unconfirmed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

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