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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 Colombian campaign rally in support of Iván Cepeda of the left-wing Historic Pact.


As always, my weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.

preambleThe unstable stare-down in the Middle East continues. Yet again, there's been little region-level change, but there have been some big escalations. Namely, the entity has decided to go further into Lebanon, with all the casualties and destruction that will bring them, while simultaneously abandoning bases elsewhere in the theater due to constant pressure by Hezbollah. Seeking to pressure Hezbollah away from their successful strategy of attrition on IOF forces that attempt to advance only to receive rapid onset symptoms of FPVdroneitis, they have also decided to resume airstrikes on Beirut, which is an obvious violation of the region-wide ceasefire that Iran may or may not militarily respond to, but they do seem very diplomatically displeased as of me writing this sentence. Meanwhile, Iran has responded to US drone incursions with strikes on Kuwait military bases. Trump has escalated his demands lately, so a return to war seems more likely than ever.

In Bolivia, Paz appears to be escalating in response to undiminished general strikes, with Congress allowing him to declare states of emergency at will, and therefore get the military more easily involved. In Colombia's runoff elections, far-right candidate Espriella won the first round of the runoff election with 43.7% of the vote ahead of left-winger Cepeda's 40.9%. Every poll had Cepeda beating Espriella by varying margins, so this appears to be a fairly standard case of the US putting their thumb on the scale; as the saying goes, they do not trust the population of Colombia to do democracy correctly and they couldn't risk them accidentally electing the wrong person.

Over in Sudan, the conflict appears like it is moving in a pro-SAF direction, with some significant military gains against the UAE-backed RSF, although the military situation is still fairly complicated. A potentially notable news item that I missed a couple weeks ago is that the US seems to have ended their strategic ambiguity over who they consider the true government in Sudan, as they now firmly recognize the SAF over the RSF. Why exactly this has occurred is a little beyond me. Could be because they see how the winds are blowing militarily; could be because they want to fuck over the UAE for some perceived slight (to be America's ally is fatal etc etc). The humanitarian situation appears no better though, with millions of people remaining in incredible hardship and near-starvation, and RSF-backed genocidal atrocities of the kind that Zionists would nod approvingly at.

Thankfully, China is looking at all these manifold crises and has dramatically escalated the speed at which they are writing strongly worded letters and are calling for a revitalized UN.


Last week's thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 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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[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 31 points 3 hours ago

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/3/fbi-agents-fatally-shoot-alleged-hostage-taker-in-california

Motive "unknown" but he was holding school employees hostage and a known pedophile. Probably mad at them "transing kids" or something.

[-] THEPH0NECOMPANY@hexbear.net 43 points 5 hours ago

Benjamin Satanyahu just openly stating he is writing plans to push through US Congress.

Source

We had Josh Paul on BP this morning to break down what this means. It would give Israel extraordinary leverage over the U.S. by embedding their technology in our supply chains and weapons systems.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 20 points 4 hours ago

But Russiagate is the real problem

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 42 points 5 hours ago

The NYPD plans to hire 580 additional uniformed officers by the end of the year, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday, revealing an unexpected staffing increase given Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to keep police headcount flat.

Tisch said during a City Council budget hearing that the additional hires would bring the NYPD to 35,555 uniformed officers by the end of the year.

That would be a slightly larger police force than under Mayor Eric Adams, when the number of officers hovered around 35,000 at its peak, according to city budget documents and NYPD press releases.

As a state assemblymember in 2022, Mamdani supported reducing police headcount by 1,300 through attrition. As a mayoral candidate, Mamdani spoke about reducing the police’s role in mental health crises and homelessness.

But now, Mamdani has largely deferred to his police commissioner on policing strategy. Enforcement of low-level offenses has intensified under Tisch.

Mamdani has endorsed Tisch’s plan to surge police officers into high-crime neighborhoods this summer, with a focus on the Bronx.

beast mode by socdems tbh: https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-set-to-hire-580-extra-cops-under-mayor-mamdanis-latest-budget

[-] miz@hexbear.net 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

fucking bourgeois media. should include BILLIONAIRE as a descriptor every time she is mentioned

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 28 points 3 hours ago

Dang I saw 100 new comments and thought Iran had hit tel aviv

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 21 points 3 hours ago

I thought tucking it in news mega (as ive decided to post us electoral fuckery once a week) will avoid struggle session, silly me gregor-samsa

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 21 points 5 hours ago

Shot across the bow by Tisch, he needs to fire her ass already; the buffer period is over

[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 25 points 4 hours ago

There was never a buffer period to keeping on a known Zionist fascist. He should never have hired her

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago

He should never have hired her

And trigger a mutiny by the NYPD in his first month? No, keeping her for the first 100 days was practical; keeping her after six months is just some bullshit and it signals a lack of confidence in confronting the NYPD

He said from the start he's playing the long game with the NYPD through funding attrition, but looks like the NYPD and its sponsors has other ideas

[-] Chana@hexbear.net 14 points 3 hours ago

And trigger a mutiny by the NYPD in his first month?

He couldn't do it then. He can't do it now. When can he?.

Your argument boils down to him having to pick a fight to not be complicit. Yeah, duh. That is what we do.

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[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Lmao yes cope more about how she’s ruining his perfect plan to neither fund nor defund the police. Who could have imagined she would get in the way of his agenda

Look he would have defunded the police, but he's playing 4d chess and has to wait for a buffer period. Oh the buffer period is over, but he has to increase police headcount or he will pick a war against the NYC capitalists. It's better to just go along to get along and not cause any problems. Look, he has to crack down on the anti-Israel protesters, they were being anti-semites.

[-] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Why is this guy the one getting banned when he is right? The mayor's wife was in isis. It was clear from the start he was a pice of shit.

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Both posters have a point but they were probably banned for the personal insults and general incivility, they just seem a bit more heated, hopefully it's a short temp ban.

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

The mayor's wife was in isis

I would like some clarification or elaboration on this please

[-] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Mayor's mother ex husband was in Israel intelligence. Mayor's wife did propaganda for isis. When he was elected mayor, mes did a series of posts on both issues. Unfortunately I did not save them.

It was only later when this site was defending this guy that I uploaded the following post. https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/88b78d4a-ae71-404f-b462-ae261e78ba69.jpeg?format=webp

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago

It's "coping" to point out she's a semi-independent agent with sponsors on Wall Street and New York real estate?

Oh I'm sorry, what's actually happening is Mamdani was inducted into the Knights Templar and now eats children with the elites. Is that more your lane?

[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

Nope. He was always this way, you’ve just been imagining someone different

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[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

He said from the start he's playing the long game with the NYPD through funding attrition, but looks like the NYPD and its sponsors has other ideas

Do you even read the thread you are in?

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday defended his plan to hire 580 additional officers and boost the overall NYPD headcount during his first appearance on WNYC’s “Ask The Mayor” on The Brian Lehrer Show.”

Mamdani said that once he came into office he was told that the Bronx needed two patrol boroughs because of its size and that rookie officers needed more on-the-job training.

Mamdani defended it and supports hiring more cops. He doesn't plan to reduce headcount. He lied to you, and you believed it like every soft succ lie.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

You see a moralistic narrative about betrayal; I see backroom negotiations that keep the NYPD off his back for the time being while his policies that build social and political capital among New Yorkers mature to the point where he would have the power to do cool things

Unless you want to offer a competing materialist analysis where Mamdani is godking of New York City and its political economy and he can just order around the NYPD "unions," Wall Street, and the real estate barons without friction or cost?

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

No i see a materialist narrative of him being a representative of the capitalist class, and thus will always be our class enemy. I see how the forces of capitalism are arrayed, while you see nothing and keep doing the same bernard entryist dead-endism over and over. It is you who has the idealist, simplified and useless worldview that has consistently been proved wrong.

I cannot be 'betrayed' by succs because I don't believe in them or support them. I can't be betrayed by my enemies. I'm using the 'betrayed' framing to hopefully move your idealist dumbass from repeatedly making the same mistakes and maybe opening your eyes and reading your namesake.

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[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 16 points 4 hours ago

You keep falling for it. She’s following Mamdani’s orders.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

Tisch follows the orders of her social circle and sponsors, and that doesn't include Mamdani, she was a compromise

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 13 points 4 hours ago

No, she quite literally is a subordinate to Mamdani and he can order her to do anything or fire her on a whim. Every single thing she does she does with his tacit approval.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago

She is the princess of the 43rd richest family in America and an agent of New York real estate and Wall Street moguls; pretending Mamdani has anything but nominal public-facing authority over her is just an out rejection of any materialist analysis of the situation

Firing her WILL trigger a reaction, and Mamdani obviously thinks it's too risky because the reaction will be laundered through the NYPD and its "unions"; I think he's wrong, I think he has the social and political capital to go through with it

[-] Chana@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

That's just liberal excuse-making. He can fire her today if he wanted to. Doing calculus to avoid doing so because she's bourgeois is the antithesis of having a socialist in power.

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[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Mamdanist social fascist. You have endless excuses for the leftwing of fascism and zionists. You have endless excuses for Nazi skulls on succs. You have endless patience for the electoralist liars who are 100% always scams. Don't struggle, the capitalists might fight back! Defeatism, reformist dead-endism.

This social fascist is expanding the fascist army used to crush anti-zionists, with a zionist at the helm. If he's too afraid to fight that then he's completely washed and useless to us. But the truth is he isn't afraid to fight, he has no intention to.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago

It's hilarious how a simple baseline materialist analysis of the most obvious prevailing conditions just sends you into one deranged crashout after another

Phrasemongering and insulting me is not an argument bro; try an analysis that maybe accounts for the existence of an extremely powerful and wealthy capitalist class in New York City that opposes his policies and then calibrate your expectations to something beyond 1917 Russia

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[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That user is in every Platner, Mamdani, AOC, Bernie thread making excuses for zionism, reformism, social fascism, reaction and imperialism. He's a social fascist and he is dragging the name Marx through the mud to make it worse. He needs to delete his fucking account or read Marx.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 14 points 4 hours ago

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday defended his plan to hire 580 additional officers and boost the overall NYPD headcount during his first appearance on WNYC’s “Ask The Mayor” on The Brian Lehrer Show.”

Mamdani said that once he came into office he was told that the Bronx needed two patrol boroughs because of its size and that rookie officers needed more on-the-job training.

https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-mamdani-defends-hiring-more-cops-on-wnycs-ask-the-mayor

the buffer ride never ends

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 31 points 5 hours ago

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Indiana), a steadfast Israel ally, is introducing a resolution to end the $3.8 billion in annual aid Israel receives from the United States, and instead have the nation fund its own purchases of American weapons.

https://nitter.net/washingtonpost/status/2062217816934154519

yay /s

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 35 points 5 hours ago
[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 43 points 6 hours ago

Today’s edition of “which economic crisis will reach a tipping point first?”

Yours truly is not alone in recognizing that the limited volatility in commodity prices relative to widely expected shortfalls is in a deceptively calm phase that is set to end, and not well.

Copper Tops $14,000 With Banks Calling for Even More Upside

Goldman now estimates the copper deficit outside the United States could exceed 640,000 tons this year, up from a prior forecast of just 60,000 tons.

Global copper “deficit” 1000% higher than expected.

Britain’s Borrowing Outlook Darkens as Energy Shock Deepens

The Bank of England has warned that a severe energy shock could push inflation above 6% and force tighter monetary policy.

They’re going to do austerity again, folks. And that’s a Labour government saying it.

Scott Bessent says US inflation jump will be ‘short-term blip’

“Except for inflation, which is, I believe, going to be a short-term blip, the economic data is very strong,” he said in response to questioning by the Senate finance committee. “The jobs data has been very strong.”

Money printer go burrrr folks. The US plan to deal with its debt crisis is inflation.

Central banks see gold as the reserve asset of choice - ECB report

the ECB noted that although central bank gold demand slowed last year, it was still enough to push gold past U.S. Treasuries as the largest share of global reserve assets.

Samples from Texas calves tested for possible screwworm, rattling markets

"At this point, it's unconfirmed that it's the New World Screwworm," McLaughlin said. "It ​looks like it, but it's unconfirmed."

The Texas Animal Health Commission told Reuters on Wednesday that there has been no confirmed case of New ‌World screwworm ⁠in Texas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is leading the screwworm prevention effort in the United States, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "NWS is not currently present in the United States," the agency's website said Wednesday.

Sellers are pulling homes off the market at the fastest pace since 2020

OECD predicts spate of recessions globally if Iran conflict drags into 2027

Market flags ARA bunker quality concerns

Marine fuel buyers have raised concerns over bunker fuel quality in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) hub. It comes after testing firm Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS) issued an alert on 10 May flagging elevated sediment levels in high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) deliveries in Rotterdam.

Several market participants in ARA said some producers may have been using lower-quality blending components in recent weeks. Some suggested shale oil may have been used in marine fuel production, which they said may have contributed to higher total sediment potential (TSP) in some finished product.

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 27 points 5 hours ago

I love reading the bulletin threads because I’m just sitting here going do-something at the american people. Trump can’t possibly last the year.

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 21 points 5 hours ago

Feeling a lot like the beginning of Threads lately

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yep.

It’s a great time to cancel any and all subscriptions you have, build up 3-6 months of expenses in the bank, join your union, pay off variable rate debt (if you have any) and exchange it for fixed rate debt, apply for a credit card (don’t use it, just in case), start meal planning, cut expenses to the bone.

~~If you’re Gen Z then take a personal loan as much as you can get, go backpacking in asia, declare bankruptcy as soon as you can because fuck it that shit clears from your record in 7 years and, speaking as a millennial, I wish I did that back in 2009 instead of working my ass off for pocket money. You can just change your phone number when they start calling.~~ Consider if you can escape the debt first, i have no idea how hard they’ll screw you. If you have income probably they’ll order your wages garnished so precaution.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 5 hours ago

“The jobs data has been very strong.”

didn't they just kinda... stop publishing those numbers some time last year?

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 23 points 5 hours ago

They’re still producing reports that contain numbers but last year Trump fired the head of the statistics office after BLS revision shows annual hiring was overstated by 911,000 jobs

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago

House passes Iran war powers resolution 215-208. Four Republicans voted with Democrats to pass it.

https://nitter.net/aidachavez/status/2062283483116904876

In other soviet-hmm news

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