Zohran Mamdani was on The View this morning and they said that he’s has made “inflammatory” comments about Israel. He went on to say “What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.” which elicited a huge round of applause from the audience. The establishment is so out of touch with the views of the average person on Israel/Palestine that they’ve even lost the wine mom audience of The View lmao

“We are seeing more operations right now in Gaza City than we have seen at any point in the last year and a half, anywhere”

This was Jon Elmer earlier today, leading off his Resistance Report on Electronic Intifada’s live stream. I am once again begging you all, if you are feeling any doomerism at all about Palestine, please watch Jon’s report. Palestine will be freed and when they are, it won’t be from sanctions placed on Israel by western governments or things like that; it will come down the bravery and determination of those who are fighting in armed struggle against their colonizers.

Edit: to clarify, Jon is referring to operations by the Resistance, not the IOF.

Right on cue, Italian labour unions move to shut down the country in a general strike due to the flotilla being intercepted.

Italy paralyzed as hundreds of thousands protest in solidarity with Gaza | The Cradle

Italian labor unions led a general strike that shut down roads, ports, and airports as Israel [sic] seized the last boat of the Gaza aid flotilla

Second general strike in italy in 2 weeks, yesterday and today there were massive protests that started an hour or so after the flottilla was attacked.

Edit: incomplete list of cities in revolt, I hereby ask every hexberian to retract any slander against Italians

Edit 2: 200k people in Rome (almost 10% of the population) and 150k in Milan are protesting today, highways are being occupied rn

It looks like the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted to sell Minnesota's public electric company (Minnesota Power) to BlackRock. Another big win for Tim Walz and the Democrats!

A total victory for the neocons in the US, complete domination of both sides, the Dems are even using GW Bush era talking points in their internal discussions.

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League amid conservative backlash

FBI Director Kash Patel announces break with anti-Semitism watchdog amid outrage over description of Charlie Kirk.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2/fbi-cuts-ties-with-anti-defamation-league-amid-conservative-backlash

LMAO

While Patel did not mention Kirk in his statement, his announcement came just a day after the ADL removed more than 1,000 entries about alleged extremism from its website amid right-wing outrage over references to the late activist.

The ADL said it made the decision as many of the terms were outdated and a number of entries had been “intentionally misrepresented and misused”.

In a since-deleted entry on Kirk and his youth organisation Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the ADL said Kirk promoted “Christian nationalism” and “numerous conspiracy theories about election fraud and Covid-19 and has demonised the transgender community”.

Fascist freaks at the ADL continue to expose their true nature.

Short rant and some thoughts about the left and immigration:

I commented below in response to the post about Putin’s blaming “mass immigration” for destroying European culture, and thought maybe to expand a bit more from that comment.

It’s been a bit unsettling for me this week because of the overreaction spontaneously erupted on the Chinese internet regarding the K visa. As a country not known for its openness for immigration, for about an 48-hour window, this was perhaps the first time that many - based on an unsubstantiated rumor - have had to grapple with the anxiety of facing “mass immigration”.

Although I’ve seen widespread latent and casual racism and xenophobia over the years, especially against Indians, this is really the first time that such spontaneous eruption of anti-immigration discourse that occurred in a very organic fashion, when the “fear of mass immigration” is suddenly being perceived as real instead of something you’d never thought could happen in your country.

The short version is that China announced a new K visa for foreign STEM talents back in August that would be implemented on October 1st, without much attention paid to it. Then last month, Trump imposed a $100k free on H-1B, and Western media started reporting on how China is going to benefit from it, and pointed to China’s K visa policy.

Somehow, someone put the two together and just 2-3 days before the National Day when the K visa was due to be officially implemented, fearmongering rumors began to spread virally on Chinese social media, insinuating that how it opens up the floodgates for foreigners to enter China.

To be fair, the policy announcement appears half-baked without much detail about how exactly it is going to be implemented, so it leaves people more confused than ever. You can apply for the visa if you are:

• 18-45 years old
• Holds a STEM bachelors degree from a “renowned” school or work in a “renowned” institute
• No language requirement
• No employment requirement

The biggest problem here lies in what exactly is the purpose of the K visa?

I doubt any foreigner who don’t speak Mandarin Chinese semi-proficiently will ever get hired by Chinese companies because most of them are absolutely not equipped to communicate in another language. So, where are these people going to find work?

If we’re talking about foreign talents working in academia, then there is already an R visa “high-level foreign talents” for top people in the field, yet the simple requirement here is simply holding a bachelors degree.

Finally, if we’re talking about foreign multinational corporations that are indeed equipped to accommodate English speakers, then these companies have their own recruitment process, competitive application process and visa sponsorship, not to mention very limited spots usually only available for the top graduates.

As such, it is easy to see where there is plenty of room for imagination, and fearmongering conspiracies were abound, with plenty of comments like “I can finally understand what MAGA / rednecks (红脖子) are going through in their country”.

In general, the complaints took on a few flavors (cw: racism, obviously):

1. More competition in the labor market - “we already have plenty of Masters and PhD graduates with couldn’t find jobs, why are we trying to attract more foreigners with only Bachelor’s degree?” - this is the one I consider to be the most valid criticism.
2. Anxiety about immigrants flooding the country - “We don’t want low-quality (“inferior”, 劣质) foreigners to flood our country! Have you seen how Indians have built an entire industry of “fake qualifications” to game the Western immigration system?” - this obviously refer to Indians and Africans whom many only know of through the most uncharitable stereotypes propagated through online viral content and have never interacted with any of them in real life
3. Anxiety about “losers back home” Westerners - “Who do you think are the foreigners (洋人) that would want to come here? Obviously those who are losers who could no longer compete in their own countries!”
4. Latent sexual anxiety about foreigners coming in and marrying the local women - this really just follows an already intensifying gender discourse(TM) taking place since the past year, in a country where there is already gender imbalance, and an ongoing trend where marriage registration has been trending down and divorce rates have been trending up (apparently has a lot to do with economic downturn).
5. It’s actually a backdoor for rich overseas Chinese who have emigrated to come back - this is, funnily enough, the most likely explanation for the government’s policy that has remained so obscure, but what do we know?

Nonetheless, the actual reasons are not important. What is interesting, and scary, is the overreaction against the perceived “threat” of mass immigration, which was likely a culmination of a combination of factors, including the precariousness of the average people who are anxious about the unstable job market and economic uncertainty, being persistently fed with widespread viral content that propagate the most uncharitable stereotype about other countries, as well as the intensifying antagonism between the sexes as less and less people are interested in settling down to raise a family.

Typically, as leftists, we would associate this kind of anti-immigration anger to be intrinsic to capitalist countries, because the capitalists want the working class to hate each other. But how can you explain the situation in China?

A point to make here is that there is also increasing cognitive dissonance between perceiving one own’s country to have become a great superpower with the many advanced technologies, surpassing even the West, yet at the same time they are working harder and longer hours than ever, no stability in the job market, wages are barely rising, quality of life is not improving, the house prices remain far out of reach, and there is a general pessimistic outlook for future.

To give you an example, imagine you went through your primary school in the 2000s, chances are in a few years, your parents would soon purchase a new house, one that would be a huge upgrade over your childhood home in some provincial town. Things look to be getting better by the day, and you dream about doing the same one day.

Then, you went through middle/high school hoping to score in gaokao to get into university, obtain a degree and get a nice paying job post-college, settle down and raise a family. There was already some alarming trend about the property market, and the house prices are starting to look a bit out of reach, but nothing too much to worry yet.

By the time you are studying in university, the property price would have peaked and plunged. It would have been a good thing if it weren’t such a drag on the entire economy, and you are suddenly facing a worse prospect that you never thought would happen growing up: unemployment, or the poor prospect of getting employed.

This is how fast an economic trend can go in China - what takes several generations of wealth accumulation to happen in Western capitalist countries, it can happen in 10-15 years in China. You are literally experiencing the rise and fall in real time, and there is obviously a lot of cognitive dissonance to take in.

Yes, the country is now a superpower. We have the most advanced 6th gen fighter. We have the best EV industries in the world. The best robotics and automation in industries. But - is that making your life easier? Why are you only getting two off-days per month? Why are you still being asked to work overtime by your boss every damn week? Despite being more productive than ever, why are your wages not rising?

All of this anxiety is being coalesced into a latent rage. It is perhaps not surprising that people would lash out when they hear some fearmongering rumor about mass immigration.

And I think there’s some lesson for the left here when it comes to immigration:

1. You better make sure you can create a system with a robust social safety net, minimum wage, job guarantee, free housing and healthcare that are all sacred rights to the workers.
2. You must be able to convince the people that they are getting the fair distribution of wealth in the economy that are in proportion with their labor.
3. You must be able to convincingly demonstrate that you have the economic means to implement all these policies in a fair manner, and that foreigners seeking employment in your country is not here to take away the wealth and the fruits of their labor, nor are they here to drive down wages and cause competition in the labor market.

Argentine Trotkyist and Feminist militant, Cele Fierro, member of the Worker's Socialist Movement (Part of the broader Worker's Left Front), is among those in the Flotilla bound for Gaza and has been apparently detained by members of the genocidal state of "israel".

These people are a million times more valuable and more brave than every zionist that has ever existed. Godspeed to them!

And of course: DEATH TO "ISRAEL"

https://xcancel.com/MFG_SMB/status/1973011466090430932

turns out, small business tyrant boomers just might not be exactly the best guys at running manufacturing

Today I ran an experiment that exposed what I believe to be one of the biggest threats to America right now. I attempted to buy a small manufacturing company from a retiring owner.

Venezuela denounces and condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly act of piracy carried out by Israeli occupation forces against the Freedom Flotilla on October 1, 2025.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces and condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly act of piracy carried out by Israeli occupation forces against the Freedom Flotilla on October 1, 2025.

This military boarding in international waters exposes, once again, the criminal nature of the Zionist regime, which attacks a civilian and peaceful mission whose sole purpose was to bring 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people subjected to hunger and extermination.

The blockade of humanitarian aid is a deliberate tool of war, the continuation of genocide by other means, seeking to annihilate the population through starvation to complement their indiscriminate bombings.

It is miserable and grotesque that those who perpetrate televised ethnic cleansing dare to describe ships loaded with food and hope as a “threat to security.”

The only real threat to world peace is Zionism, a colonialist and apartheid ideology that systematically violates international law and human decency.

Our unwavering solidarity is with the heroic Palestinian people and with the brave men and women who, risking their own safety, keep the flame of humanity alive in the face of Nazi-fascist darkness.

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Israeli [sic] Knesset advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners | The Cradle

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said the law is necessary to remind Palestinians of the ‘price tag’ for 7 October

weird how none of the IOF attack helicopter pilots that incinerated hundreds of fleeing vehicles or IOF tank crews that shelled occupier homes have to pay the 'price tag'

So we got a fascist leader in Japan, a fascist leader in Italy, and a hindinberg motherfucker in Germany? Did we decide to jump forward a decade?

I'm so fucking angry about the international response to Trump's plan for Palestine. Best case, it becomes Temu Revachol. Worst case, Israel ignores Blair and keeps up the genocide. And every Liberal is rallying round it and calling it's praises 5 min after voting for Palestinian statehood.

I didn't think I could hate this much. Those craven neolibs who think justice is managing to stop the screaming from reaching their ears. How I hope that one day, we have the chance to show how merciful we can be when they deserve none of it.

Thought this was cool. Chinese military equipment just has a "habit" of ending up places. Very cool, anyone remember those Chinese cargo-planes landing in Iran about a month or so ago? All speculation, though.

Al Jazeera.

FIFA president says football association cannot solve geopolitical problems

Gianni Infantino has sought to sidestep criticism that the global football governing body has refused to suspend Israel over atrocities in Gaza, despite suspending Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

“At FIFA, we are committed to using the power of football to bring people together in a divided world,” Infantino told a FIFA Council meeting in Zurich, adding that the association cannot solve geopolitical issues.

“Our thoughts are with those who are suffering in the many conflicts that exist around the world today, and the most important message that football can convey right now is one of peace and unity.”

What about your ban on the Russians then, you piece of shit?

Flotilla update:

Update on the Flotilla: The Global Sumud Flotilla has declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY (interception or attack within the hour).

Link

Camera feed from the boat Estrella has been dark for a few minutes.

More updates from their channels here: https://hexbear.net/post/6286079

Imagine being a deployed general in the south china sea or middle east and they make you fly to the US for a speech about fat generals and woke ideology.

China’s wage growth is losing steam amid economic transition Lianhe Zaobao

A concise article about the stagnating wage growth situation in China right now by Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao.

You already know the reasons, house prices falling, poor economic outlook led to reduced consumer confidence bla bla, the economy is still in the midst of on transitioning from infrastructure building to emerging private sectors etc.

The 5% GDP growth is simply not translating into wage growth for the working people (and the property market bursting further affects middle class spending). This shouldn’t be surprising if most of the GDP growth came from more investment rather than fixing the wealth inequality issue.

Again reiterating my position that the government should simply run a deficit to ensure full employment with jobs guarantee program and directly raising the income of the working class instead of shifting the reliance to the private sector to achieve transformative breakthrough to save the economy.

The latter might be a good strategy for a small economy (like Taiwan, Denmark etc.) but you cannot possibly think breakthroughs in a few high-tech industries can save an economy of 1.4 billion people without dealing with the fundamental issues that are causing wealth disparity.

Hundreds of thousands of Pro-Palestinian protestors absolutely packing the streets of more than 80 Spanish cities on the 4th of October protests:

Image of Barcelona

These huge country-wide protests after the Vuelta Ciclista sabotage have been fed by the energy of the student strike of the 2nd of October called by the Students Union and a multitude of pro-Palestinian organizations such as "Acampada por Palestina", with the main goal of forcing the government to stop trade and diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity, and in defense of Palestinian resistance and freedom from occupation.

Protest in Madrid (taken by me)

The protests have by far been the biggest Madrid has seen since the massive 8th of March feminist protests of the past decade. The crowd was so packed and the streets were so full of people coming, that we (my org and I) couldn't physically move forward for well over an hour and a half from the amount of people that were crowding the streets. The biggest part of the protest lasted from 18:00 to beyond 22:00 because people simply didn't want to leave, and beyond 1AM there were still people occupying the biggest street of Madrid.

The third biggest union in Spain by membership, CGT, is already pushing for a General Strike on the 15th of October, and after this protest I don't think that the state-controlled UGT and CCOO unions will be able to keep pushing back the strike. Especially I think I need to talk about the role of the brave Sumud Flotilla and the Italian strikes as two catalysts of this antizionist activity. We could hear even more radical chants in the protests such as "no es terrorismo, es resistencia" (it's not terrorism, it's resistance), which is a huge step forward in recognizing the brave resistance of Gaza to occupation. Free Palestine, death to the genocidal Zionist entity, and push, push, push for general strikes!

https://hexbear.net/post/6314447

Please, everyone, if you can read this, you can leave a comment on the post linked above. Some words of kindness for a family resisting an ongoing genocide.

It can be simple, you can send solidarity and love, tell them the you support them, tell them you hope for their safety! I know you all feel empathy for them! I believe anyone who can upbear this can also express it in the linked post and help lift the spirits of Soliman and his family. If your financial situation allows, you can donate to help them survive.

If not, just leave a comment from the heart, and do what you can to support the cause in other ways. Volunteer, protest, organize by joining local solidarity groups. Solidarity is an act of love, an act of revolutionary defiance of the state of things and they are, and the true basis for progress towards a better world.

Free Palestine! From the river to the sea! End the genocide!

Cowardly ship fucks off back to Italy:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/italy-withdraws-from-gaza-aid-flotilla-as--israel--threat-lo

https://xcancel.com/RWApodcast/status/1971648247560393131

in a recent interview, Andrey Biletskiy, commander of the Azov Corps, complained that all McDonald's employees in Ukraine are exempt from military conscription, whereas many critical infrastructure workers are being drafted

Seven vessels seized in the past hour, per GSF telegram

Russia is in the process of launching one of the largest combined drone and missile strikes of the war. Every known Geran launch site has conducted multiple launches of one way attack drones with over 100 headed for western Ukraine, 3 vessels in the Black Sea have launched Kalibr cruise missiles (maximum salvo of 24), and at least 5 Tu-95 bombers have launched Kh-101 cruise missiles (maximum salvo of 40).

Lviv appears to be the main target of the current wave.

Ukrainian monitoring channel

British news media are working hard to make sure Israel don't look bad when they torpedo the plans by making every single headline and highlight they can things like "Palestine have no agreed to international governance" and "Hamas have not agreed to disarm".

The media here can't say it out loud but they're not happy. Especially Sky News (owned by comcast) seem to be particularly invested in not allowing Israel to look bad when this falls through because they don't want it.

EDIT: They're calling it the Hamas Peace Plan now lmao. Written on tickers and headlines all over the screen. "Why Trump accepted the Hamas Peace Plan response".

The US-led Ukrainian peace negotiations were indeed a last ditch attempt at Minsk 3: freezing the war only to thaw it out a few years down the line. Russia didn't bite. The US recognizes that Ukraine will not survive another year, so the next few months are all about boosting Ukrainian confidence and morale. They will be squeezed for all they're worth in terms of weakening Russia, before being thrown to the wolves (or, bears).

Long-range strikes and Tomahawk missiles are the new thing. Doesn't really matter whether they get them or not. It's all about keeping them fighting and looking to the future for as long as possible.

I think the US wants Russia to be forced to conquer the entire country. Not only the battles would be costly. So would the occupation.

Israeli incident reports are always like: "The vile terrorists attacked our innocent soldiers, destroying 27 of their tanks and 14 bulldozers. 2 dead and 6 injured."

https://xcancel.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1973901058800841011#m

Occasional reminder that Putin bad, despite fighting Great Satan.

He blames the current state of Europe on mass migration eroding their "identity"

Zionist social media is the pits

https://xcancel.com/27khv/status/1973003223989703157

Chart shows how Russia swapped the EU for China, India & Turkey as its top energy buyers. The twist? Much of the oil is refined in Mumbai or Izmir, then sold back to Western Europe with a fat mark-up. EU states pay more for the privilege of pretending their hands are clean.

Far-right ANO win elections beating out the slightly less right-wing SPOLU coalition by 14 points.

NAFO libs are already going crazy calling this the return of communist Russian occupation

Sudan recently eliminated a group of Colombian and Ukrainian mercenaries:

Sudanese troops have killed “a large number” of foreign fighters, including Ukrainian mercenaries, backing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the country’s protracted civil war, according to a statement by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) made on Thursday.

The killings occurred during clashes with the RSF in the besieged city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, the army said.

The SAF said mercenaries from Colombia and Ukraine, including some “who were engineers in the field of drones and electronic systems,” had “tried to infiltrate the outskirts of the city’s neighborhoods.”

https://www.rt.com/africa/625861-ukrainian-mercenaries-backing-rebels-in/

I've been on twitter recently again and I've been laughing so much at these "IT'S NOT ISRAEL YOU SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT, IT'S QATAR!!!" posts that unhinged Zionists make. Qatar definitely does some evil shit, but come the fuck on lmao, Qatar's worst crimes doesn't even touch 1% of a normal Israeli day. Why is attacking Qatar even the official line for them suddenly? Qatar is literally a top 5 non-NATO ally for the US. If Qataris and other gulfies had a brain, then their lobbies should've been more powerful than AIPAC, but they're dumbasses that fund the same evil shit that Israel funds. I can only laugh at the absurdity of something like "DON'T TALK ABOUT AIPAC WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT QATARI MONEY. I don't exactly see senators wearing an Arab agal and kissing the walls of Souq Waqif after getting a guided tour by the Qatari Army on the disputed territory of Hawar Islands lol

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may play an important role in a future transitional authority in Gaza, established under the US peace plan, several British media outlets reported on Friday.

A source close to the former prime minister confirmed that he is working on a project to end the conflict and clarified that the former leader would not support any proposal aimed at permanently displacing the inhabitants of Gaza. In addition, any transition of government should transfer power to the Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah, West Bank, according to the source.

According to The Economist, this body, called the “International Transitional Authority in Gaza,” will request a UN mandate to be recognized as “the supreme political and legal authority” for five years before transferring control to the Palestinians. Initially, it would be based in Egypt before moving to the Gaza Strip when security conditions allow, according to the BBC. Yosi Cohen, former head of Mossad, told BBC radio on Friday that he “loves” the idea, describing Tony Blair as a “formidable person.”

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Colombia expels Israeli diplomats over flotilla incident involving detained Colombian nationals

Al Jazeera

US voter support for Israel [sic] plummets to historic low: Poll | The Cradle

Most voters reject new aid to Israel [sic], with more siding with Palestinians than Israelis [sic] for the first time since 1998

I will not put beyond to kill the Colombian crew members of Sumud as retaliation for Petro.

Big deployment of US air refueling assets (likely with fighter aircraft in tow) and AWACS aircraft towards the European theatre, over a dozen aircraft. This comes off of the back of both French and US nuclear strike exercises in Europe.

Source

Article on US nuclear strike exercise, involving a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, E-6B Mercury command aircraft, and likely ballistic missile submarines

Trident II Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile test visible on September 21st. One of four tests

This also comes as Snapback sanctions are put in place against Iran as of yesterday.

Youth protests in Morocco seem to be heating up. Something to keep an eye on. Morocco is the most Zionist Arab state after the UAE, so hopefully this snowballs into something useful. Young men and women were out protesting about healthcare and unemployment, but in classic Arab fashion the government responded with extreme brutality and a young man died today because the cops ran over him. Interesting to see how it develops, either it dies down by the end of the week, or explodes by Friday and the weekend. A part of the people's grievances is that the Moroccan state is pissing away billions of dollars on football infrastructure for the AFCON in two months and the 2030 World Cup. The biggest protest hotspot seems to be Agadir, a city ravaged by white people tourism and government mismanagement, and the city is also set to be one of the host cities for both competitions. I've talked about Morocco here before, the Moroccan state is definitely in the top 5 of states that I personally hate the most.

folks, we're gonna be bringing back Western civilizational values! like the crypteia (the alleged Spartan practice of sending young noblemen to rove around and casually murder slaves) https://archive.ph/tgoHV

Trump suggests using US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military

President Donald Trump told a gathering of military leaders Tuesday they should use American cities as “training grounds” to fight against what he called a “war from within.”

The IDF run Israeli Army Radio is reporting that the offensive to take Gaza City has now been halted in light of the recent statements by US President Donald Trump.

Following Trump's announcement, the political echelon instructed the IDF to halt the operation to conquer Gaza

Following nightly assessments of the situation and talks with American officials, the political echelon instructed the IDF to reduce its activities in Gaza to a "minimum" and to carry out only defensive operations in the Strip.

The practical implication: the operation to conquer Gaza City has been halted and is on hold for the time being.

Official GLZ Radio twitter account, retweeted the above statement in Hebrew

https://www.ft.com/content/62e17b29-0061-4907-b7be-bce5b257dd8b

UK to curb ‘repeat protests’ in wake of pro-Palestine demonstrations

Home secretary to give police additional powers to act over ‘cumulative impact’ of previous protests

The new powers would allow police officers to consider the “cumulative impact” of previous protests and instruct organisers to hold events elsewhere. The Home Office said it was still working on the details.