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Image is from this article, of a Chilean copper quarry.

Title is a reference to Trump's social media post about copper, which was, as usual, mostly deranged.


Trying to follow Trump's administration is pretty difficult, but as of right now, he is threatening 30% tariffs on Mexico and the EU starting on August 1st, as well as new tariff announcements on a bunch of other countries (including, bizarrely, a 50% tariff on Brazil), and also apparently a 50% tariff on copper, which the US imports half its supply of and is, of course, a very important metal in many applications.

I'm not sure what the plan is to bring back domestic copper production beyond hoping that it just sorta works out, but prominent copper producers, such as Chile and Canada, seem both concerned and confused. Reuters had a line that made me chuckle:

Boric said he was awaiting official communication from the U.S. government, including whether the tariffs would include copper cathodes, and questioned "whether this will actually be implemented or not."

Big mood, Boric.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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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[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

Trump has been diagnosed with Chronic venous insufficiency

Idk what that means though but I hope he suffers trump-anguish

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago

tfw you miss bond posting/collapse of dollar imminent time-window and now yields are lower than 5% again. mr trump, fire jpow pls

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago

Ignoring the failed US attacks, China grew by 5.2% in the second quarter, above the estimates of Reuters and the Wind consultancy. Industrial production rose 6.8% and retail sales rose 4.8%. The National Bureau of Statistics pointed out that the stimuli adopted since 2024 are having an effect.

The country should reach the 5% growth target by 2025, even with the tariffs imposed by US leader Trump. Exports grew by 5.8% in June, with a 17% rise to Southeast Asia and a 16.1% drop to the US. Domestic consumption now accounts for more than half of Chinese growth.

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[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Israeli Air Force F-16 seen popping flares while carrying out airstikes against HTS forces in Syria

Does HTS not have someone with some sort of man portable air defence system, like a stinger or igla missile, to aim at the very visible Israeli aircraft? Are they just going to let themselves be bombed by Israel? The Israelis are just straight up flying over them, well within visual range.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

They fully allowed "israel" to demilitarize them, during the bombing campaign they didn't even fire a single old ass S200 in anger, nothing, they just stood there and took it.. part of the deal I guess?

And to think HTS used to down SAAF assets during the war with MANPADS and other means, but they suddenly forgot how to fire when it's "israel" doing the bombing.

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

https://t.me/kalibrated/22964

Russia has crossed the Vovcha river in western Vovchansk. Leaving their comfortable defensive position along the river likely means that they intend to capture the remainder of the city very soon.

Coupled with the Oskil beachhead and the Milove incursion, I still think the larger plan is to capture the entire swath of territory east of the Seversky Donets river, and north of the dam.

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/federal-court-hands-down-decision-in-australian-climate-case/av8f97gqv

No duty of care: Torres Strait Islander Uncles lose their climate case against the Australian Government

Federal Court judge Michael Wigney has found that while Torres Strait Islanders are at the forefront of climate change, the plaintiffs did not prove their case of Commonwealth negligence.

aus-delenda-est

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[-] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

There have been clashes between HTS government forces and allied Bedouin militias, and Druze militias, in Suwayda and the surroundings, over the past day. Over 90 have been killed and the IOF claims to have struck HTS regime tanks.

https://apnews.com/article/syria-clashes-druze-bedouins-sweida-be7e45ae4adc631b758d2bebfb06e0a1

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

New York State will now offer universal free school meals to its pupils from September this year. The measure is part of the new state budget, signed into law by Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, and guarantees two meals. New York State will now offer universal free school meals to its students from September this year.

The measure is part of the new state budget, signed into law by Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, and guarantees two meals. As well as fighting hunger, the governor is betting on better school performance. “No student should go to school hungry,” said Hochul. New York now joins eight other states with universal free school meals, such as California and Massachusetts.

Before that the children and teenagers were given a magnetic card, like a prepaid debit card, which was filled by their families. If a student didn't have any money on the card, the card would go negative. At the end of the school year, the family was charged by the state.

These individual debts became known as meal debts. If the family doesn't pay the bill, the debt migrates to the school district, which has to “plug the hole” with resources from the general fund, money that could pay for teachers or teaching materials.

The State School Board estimates that, when all 700 districts in NY are added together, meal debts amount to 25 million dollars a year. All to avoid giving children free food.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lula's disapproval and approval ratings have tied for the first time since November 2024. According to Bloomberg, the rise in approval is directly linked to Lula's actions against Trump and the right-wing parties, two entities that have been blackmailing the federal government in recent weeks.

  • Disapprove: 50.3% (-1.5)
  • Approve: 49.7% (+2.4)

According to the polls, Lula's reaction to Bolsonaro's tariffs is adequate and the population trusts that the president will know how to negotiate with Trump:

How do you rate the government's reaction to the tariffs?

  • 44.8% Adequate
  • 27.5% Aggressive
  • 25.2% Weak
  • 2.5% Don't know

Will the government be able to negotiate with the US?

  • 47.9% Yes
  • 38.8% No
  • 13.3% Don't know

In addition to that, the polls shows that anti-American sentiment among the Brazilian population is growing:

What is your perception of the USA?

  • 50.5% Negative
  • 45.9% Positive

Brazil-US relations are:

  • 75.7% Weaker
  • 18.2% The same
  • 1.5% Stronger

Should Brazil retaliate against the US?

  • 51.2% Yes
  • 40.9% No

Was Trump's decision justified?

  • 62.2% No
  • 36.8% Yes
  • 1% Don't know

Is Trump's tax a threat to Brazil's Sovereignty?

  • 50.3% Yes
  • 47.8% No
  • 1.8% Don't know

What is your opinion of Trump?

  • 63.2% Negative
  • 31.9% Positive
  • 4.8% Don't know

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[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago
[-] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

Based on the "worst thing will always happen" theory of modern geopolitics, I anticipate that Syria will do nothing bc the Arab states are a useless bunch of compradors who are somehow continually surprised that a genocidal regime of maniacs does not act rationally and murders them at every opportunity. Happy to be proven wrong if the GCC/Turkey actually step in to challenge this aggression, but I expect nothing more than some lame statements of condemnation.

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[-] ColombianLenin@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago

So, as I understood, Turkey and the gulf states were OK with the Julani comprador state if it meant stability in the region and kicking Iran out.

I can't imagine they are too happy at the destabilization taking place in Syria. Will they spring into action?

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[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The situation in Syria is complex and deteriorating.

An agreement brokered by the United States last night is in place, which has led to Al Jolani/HTS official forces withdrawing from Suwayda and south of Damascus, and Israel ceasing airstrikes on HTS forces. However, this is not the end, as sectarian violence between the Bedouin and Druze is escalating, with reports of massacres on both sides, Druze factions "taking revenge" and sectarian violence against the Druze continuing, despite HTS withdrawal. Armed groups seperate from HTS, part of various tribes/clans or factions, could still go towards Suwayda, and the Druze would be vastly outnumbered. It's unknown what the Israeli response would be, or the response by other groups such as ISIS, who have carried out massacres in the region before.

Israel has begun airstrikes against Bedouin groups, according to Israeli sources

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[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the Ezra Klein episode on Epstein that just came out is so fucking painful. Why does it take 45 minutes for them to say "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself...probably."

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

CNN says that Trump intends to send howitzer shells and medium-range air-to-air missiles to Ukraine, in addition to Patriot missile defenses. The US president has given a deadline of 50 days for the war to stop or he will tax Russia 100% and all countries that buy Russian oil.

Russia intensifies bombing raids against Ukraine after Trump threatens to tax Russian products 100% if the war doesn't end. Trump also said he would send Patriot air defense systems to Ukrainian soil. The US president is meeting with the head of NATO today.

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[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

First it was 500%, now it's just 100%? By the 50 day deadline they're going to be subsidizing trade with Russia by 100%

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

China reiterates support to the people and government of Iran - Prensa Latina

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Beijing, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured today that China will maintain its support to Iran in safeguarding its national sovereignty and dignity, in resisting the politics of power and intimidation.

China will continue to support the people and government of Iran in defending their legitimate rights and interests through political negotiation, as well as adhering to the principle of good neighborliness and friendship to continuously improve and develop relations with its neighboring countries, the Chinese foreign minister said.

Wang made the remarks during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who is in China for the Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States.

As a comprehensive strategic partner, China is willing to work with Iran to deepen mutual trust, strengthen cooperation, expand exchanges and promote the long-term and stable development of bilateral relations, Wang said.

For his part, Araghchi thanked Beijing for its support, while expressing support for China's role as the rotating chairman of the SCO and its preparations for the upcoming summit of the regional bloc.

Iran is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges between the two countries, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continue to support each other firmly and reciprocally, the visitor said.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The political opinion poll on the Brazilian President, released on Wednesday, shows that the confrontation with President Donald Trump helped Lula's government regain popularity. "The tariff against Brazil managed to unite the left, the Lulaistas and the moderates (Liberals and Conservatives), but it divided the right and the Bolsonaritas. In other words, it pushed the ‘center’ into Lula's hands," says Nunes, owner of the Quest polling institute.

The survey showed that 80% of voters who say they have no political position believe Trump is wrong to impose tariffs on Brazil. Even among those who identify as right-wing (52%) and Bolsonaro supporters (48%). “Lula and the Workers' Party have won the battle of public opinion against Bolsonaro and his allies, at least when it comes to the issue of national sovereignty.” Nunes said.

The main right-wing candidate, Tarcisio de Freita, the current governor of São Paulo, is seen as the biggest loser in this conflict. First, by embarrassing himself by having to delete photos wearing the MAGA cap, then by trying to hold a meeting similar to the federal government's meeting with the representatives of the United States, where Tarcisio tried to negotiate something without the federal government, but his meeting was only attended by 15 businessmen and an American consul (who has no power or contact with Donald Trump), and because of this meeting, Tarcisio was insulted by Eduardo Bolsonaro, who called him a servant of the elites and a coward.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on Monday (14) that he has asked Pope Leo 14 for help in rescuing the 31 Venezuelan children who are in the United States. According to Caracas, these children have been separated from their deported parents in the anti-migrant policy pushed by the White House since Donald Trump took over the US presidency in January.

“We have delivered a letter to the office of the Catholic nuncio in the country, in which we ask Pope Leo 14, as the moral authority, for support for the Venezuelan children kidnapped in the United States,” the president said on his weekly television program Con Maduro+.

This is the second time the Venezuelan government has denounced what it calls the “kidnapping” of children. At the beginning of July, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, claimed that the United States had custody of 18 Venezuelan children. Last week, the complaint increased to 31 youngsters between the ages of 2 and 12

"The first thing we do every day is demand that our children be returned to us. They are not yours, they are your mothers', your fathers', your grandparents'; they are Venezuela's," said Jorge Rodríguez.

The announcement made last Friday (11) by the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, detailed that 203 Venezuelans deported from the United States arrived last week, including three mothers who had four children detained in US territory. The minister also spoke about the 252 Venezuelans arrested in El Salvador accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua group.

He criticized Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for holding the Venezuelans in a maximum security prison without evidence.

"Bukele is part of this group of kidnappers of Venezuelans and he is a great coward. You're a coward who doesn't even take responsibility for what you're doing, you motherfucker, traitor," he said.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago

▶️ Israeli PM Netanyahu announces plans to occupy southern Syria, from the Golan Heights to the Druze Mountain near Damascus.

@PressTV (Iran) telegram w/video of Bibi doing peace through strength BS.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

bolso-pain : “I don't know what's happening in Trump's head. I like him, I'm in love with him, the American people, American politics, the country that the United States is”

Tweet

trump-drenched : "President Bolsonaro is not a dishonest man. He loves the people of Brazil. He fought very hard for the people of Brazil. He negotiated trade deals against me for the people of Brazil and he was very tough, I believe it's a witch hunt and it shouldn't be happening. It's not that... look, he's not like a friend of mine, he's someone I know. And I know him as a representative of millions of people. Brazilians are great people and he [Bolsonaro] loves the country and fought hard for these people, and they want to put him in jail. I think it's a witch hunt and I think it's very regrettable. Nobody is happy with what Brazil is doing because Bolsonaro was a respected president."

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[-] cinnaa42@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

Who knows what the fuck is going on in Syria rn. Further escalation, I think, and israel has continued bombing, including a strike on Homs in the last hour. No idea where this leads. Seems like Arab clans are pouring into the south to attack the Druze militias who have been carrying out their own mass killings. Erdogan is a watermelon seller and the son of a dog.

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