I don't know how many of you beloved news mega Hexbears even know my name, but I wanted to tell you that this chad n cuck ranker is going to become a father in a few months. This is the main reason that I've been absent recently, my wife is having quite a difficult pregnancy and it's really hard for us both to prepare to raise a child far away from our homelands with barely any bigger family structure. It's a boy, but my wife isn't liking my name suggestions. How can she not love suggestions like Nasrallah, Qassam and Shahid-136.

To keep it news related, I've been getting into the Ukrainian war again and it's finally exciting to follow the line moving. Learning new names like Krasnogorovka, Netailove, Ocheretyne has been great, and now I'm excited to see what insane Soviet industrial achievement is in Chasiv Yar after the salt mines of Soledar, the coke plant of Avdiivka and the Azot mining complex in Severodonetsk. It has been also fantastic to finally see some of the most annoying battles end, like what was the point of Ivanivske, Marinka and Pervomaiske after all this time. Inshallah one day I can stop hearing about Synkivka, Ugledar and Robotyne, the line freezing there for so long deeply annoys me.

BREAKING: An actionist broke in to Kongsberg Gruppens weapons factory in Norway and destroyed multiple engine parts for Israel's F-35 fighter jets:
https://nitter.poast.org/Pal_action/status/1781719987729604922

Local news: Rise in anti-semetic incidents.

Pictured: Free Palestine graffiti

Biden admin is quietly pressuring countries to vote against Palestinian statehood at the UN, according to diplomatic cables leaked to me

this guy is so evil

AOC continues to stake out a very interesting position on the Dem ideological spectrum

Votes against Israel aid, but joins statement — unlike any other Squad member — affirming Israel’s right to self-defense and signaling support for strengthening Iron Dome

https://x.com/WakeUp2Politics/status/1781757416625103208

/r/chapotraphouse AOC-haters are forever vindicated. she is Nancy Pelosi.

It still blows my mind that the Nordstream pipeline sabotage was the single largest release of methane ever at 478,000 tonnes. Methane has a Global Warming Potential over 20 years that is 81.2 times worse than CO2. But don't worry, it's not like the rest of global production and transport of methane is riddled with holes.

My favourite lecturer was in a severe car accident. His wife might not make it, they're both very old. He's an old Yugo tank commander turned engineer. Very sad

Edit: wrong mega, pour one out

what do you even say to this

On the same day Israeli forces airstrike a husband, his pregnant wife, and their 3-year-old child — and another 17 kids and two women — the White House releases a statement condemning hundreds of interfaith American students protesting the airstrikes in question

I hate this place so much

US makes failed bid for Iran to allow 'symbolic strike' by Israel - The Cradle - 16 April 2024

Washington used diplomatic backchannels to ask Tehran not to retaliate to an Israeli strike, which would allow Tel Aviv to 'save face' following the massive retaliatory attack launched by Iran

“Iran has received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face and asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle.

He added that Tehran “outright rejected” the proposal, delivered by mediators, and reiterated warnings that any Israeli attack on Iranian soil would be met with a decisive and immediate response.

“Iran successfully embarrassed all of the integrated radar network and anti-missile systems of the US and the [Israeli] regime. The US even activated its parked satellites over the region to do maximum protection and failed miserably,” the Iranian military official added.

Does it get any more embarrassing for the US? They are constantly begging Iran and its allies to stop, and keep getting told no.

the day after Biden signed a bill that's been called "the largest expansion of surveillance on U.S. soil since the Patriot Act"

CW: guy gets blown up

armed settler sees a Palestinian flag and tries to kick it down, gets blown up instead

I can’t find an article that explicits says so, but it looks like by my math every House democrat voted in favor of sending tens of billions of $ to Ukraine and Taiwan. So that includes AOC but also Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.

It could be as simple as these “progressives” don’t want to upset the apple cart with DNC leadership; or have to explain why they broke from the party. Possible - but unlikely - that these social fascists recognize how important US and NATO hegemony is the preserve imperial spoils.

Honestly though, I feel like the answer is as simple as:

USA good

Russia bad

China bad

I was watching the super lib “Handmaids Tale” last night (not really by choice). Gilead - the former USA turned into an evil religious conservative state - shoots down some planes from the old, “good” US government. One of the Gilead leaders says “we’ve already been congratulated by the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans for sticking it to the Americans”. The episode finished with a schmaltzy scene of Americans reciting the pledge of allegiance. And made me think… libs really just see Russia and China as “bad”, and are utterly incapable of seeing the USA as anything other the good guys who occasionally get it wrong but it’s nobody’s fault, really. Russia and China bad because “authoritarianism” and any reason they have for hating us isn’t based on material reality but because they hate the goodness we represent.

I have met a few House reps in my life, and know people who know some of them even better. I can tell you with a high level of confidence that these people as group don’t have a level of geopolitical understanding that’s any higher than your typical college-educated American. This news megathread alone operates on a level these people will never think at. They cannot (and refuse to) see American imperialism. The US is good and these “authoritarian” countries are bad. NATO keeps the world safe. Taiwan should be free. These cliches are the terms in which libs - including those who make policy decisions - think at and it never goes beyond that.

From the people who brought you "Russia has enough missiles left for 1 or 2 strikes"

Reuters: Iran says it gave warning before attacking Israel. US says that's not true

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage.

???

(Barnard) University gestapo issues DIY wanted posters for thought criminal students

Israeli quadcopter drones are emitting sounds of crying children and women to lure people for targeting in Al-Nusairat camp

Going to start to refer to missiles as suicide missiles, bombs as suicide bombs

Antisemitism on Campus: people peacefully protesting against genocide

my god NYT is a vile, vile zionist rag

Iran causing almost zero civilian injuries or deaths in their retaliatory strike is actually incredibly impressive and probably was part of the Iranian strategy. It gives Israel much less of a reason to retaliate, much less to use for propaganda, and at the same time probably indicates to Israel that Iran did not intend to harm civilians in the first place and thus succeeded, meaning the potential precision of an Iranian strike is very high.

Of note: Given the fact that it has been observed that Israel is continuing to jam GPS signal and internet near certain military installations, we can pretty safely assume a fair amount of Iranian weapons hit their mark. Also, Iran did not show off any new technology or techniques. This is a huge Iranian flex because the drone/missile barrage was carried out with technology Israel and the U.S. are fully aware of and prepared for, had an entire week to be on high alert and ready defenses, and Iran still saw success in their retaliatory strike. Iran got Israel to light up the sky with their defense installations, giving away functionality and positions, at the cost of nearly nothing to Iran.

What it feels like to stay in the news mega after a decade dies down

Spain, Ireland, Norway, Malta and Slovenia to recognise Palestine statehood this month.

Norway has been surprisingly decent. I've heard the Norwegian Refugee Council does a lot of work in Gaza, I guess that has a big influence on the government.

Palestinian president rejected U.S. requests to hold off on UN membership vote

Bluesky summary

Secretary Blinken personally asked Abu Mazen on the phone to not pursue full-status membership for the State of Palestine at the United Nations. In exchange, Abbas would have been invited to the White House to meet President Biden as a consolation prize of sorts. Abu Mazen rejected the offer.

https://bsky.app/profile/emissaryofnight.bsky.social/post/3kqecjqt4uz22

The Berlin museum now has a NAFO exhibit

The dude is just some random redditor

JUST IN: Elon Musk confirms X will start charging all new users a 'small fee' before they can post, like, or bookmark.

TSLA stock is down 6% today too

pretty cool that some Google workers in both NY and CA are doing an indefinite sit-in to protest Palestinian genocide. They have about 600 viewers and some commenters trying to get Hassan's attention to pump up viewers.

Link to twitch live stream: twitch.tv/notech4apartheid

it's rlly disturbing how we're now in a place where we have a militarist, genocidal government in Germany taking part in a war against the Russians in Ukraine and mass-arresting dissidents, especially Jews as part of a genocide. the AfD coming to power at this point would be little more than a ceremonial coronation for Nazism in modern Germany.

we need to nuke this great atlantic garbage patch, and then nuke the great satan. How are these countries so evil?

The Copenhagen Exchange building is on fire. It's iconic spire of coiled dragon tails which was part of the city's skyline for 400 years has collapsed.

Firefighters assisted by soldiers from the royal guards are scrambling to control the fire but the task is difficult as the old building has many hidden cavities and it's copper roof is trapping the heat inside. The task is further complicated by scaffolding put up as part of an ongoing restoration.

The landmark building is situated right next to the seat of parliament and was constructed in Dutch renaissance style in 1623 as a trading hall. It was Denmark's first listed building and has housed business organisations for most of it's history and has become a symbol of "respectable" capitalism. In 1918 unemployed syndicalists stormed the building, beating up the brokers with wooden clubs and hung a sign saying "The unemployed have closed the gambling den".

The building housed many historic artifacts, a large library and important works of art. First responders as well as random bystanders are working to save as much as possible from the flames but it is unlikely that everything can be saved.

Large parts of the neighbouring Christiansborg Palace that houses parliament has been evacuated because of the fire although parliament continues it's session.

It is too early to say anything about the cause of the fire. There are no reports of injuries to persons.

The fire is being compared to the Notre Dame fire in Paris and calls are being made for the mostly-destroyed building to be reconstructed. A reconstruction will be a difficult task as it requires heavily specialised niche skills that are almost extinct today and it is unclear how reconstruction of the privately owned building will be funded.

Apperently there is a media bann around the Mount Hermon base and all the other bases so we can assume that irans attack was very succesfull ...

The director of Al Shifa Hospital has been released after 4 months of being kidnapped by the "Israeli" army. They tortured him, broke his limbs, and forced him to lie that the hospital was a Hamas base, where they masacred ~400 people & completely destroyed it, in it's sadistic war on hospitals.

Source

Israeli occupation forces have released Dr Mohammad abu Selmiyeh, director of Al Shifa Hospital, after long days of torture!

Abu Selmiyeh was kidnapped on 23 November from Al Shifa Hospital.

Abu Selmiyeh was harshly interrogated, and pressured to approve Israeli claims that Al Shifa hosts command and control rooms for the Palestinian resistance.

Abu Selmiyeh had his legs and hands broken by Israeli interrogators. Abu Selmiyeh refused the Israeli claims.

Abu Selmiyeh was pushed to crawl on the ground, was insulted and pressured to bark like dogs by Israeli interrogators.

Abu Selmiyeh is currently in an urgent need for treatment after his release from Israeli jails — slaughterhouses!

In the past hour an Israeli drone fired a missile into a group of children in a playground. 11 children have been killed with more injured.

"The government in Israel and the regime in Iran are both in difficult positions domestically and they both have a really strong need to show to a domestic audience that they are responding to this," she said.

government/regime lmao

Scranton Army Munitions Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania is Burning

Produces the 155mm shells..

People need to understand class interest beyond "worker good, Capitalist bad, workers come together and sing kumbaya really hard until Communism happens."

If it were that simple, we would be living in Communism right. It's not that simple. A couple of examples: steel worker union wants the price of steel to be as high as possible so union members are compensated well. Union of... idk, pipe builders want steel to be as cheap as possible for obvious reasons. Despite both groups consisting exclusively of proles, they have contradictory interests.

Another example that's been highlighted by recent DSA actions: class reproduction. Academic "Marxists" generally lose all radicalism because they've secured a position where they can write for a living instead of doing one of the million jobs that no one wants to do. This applies perhaps even more strongly to paid positions within "Socialist" organizations. Why did Maria of the DSA behave with such profound chauvinism on the Cuba trip? Because she sees a path out of working for a living. Everything she did established credibility in the eyes of the people who hire Democratic Party staffers.

And the single most important example in the world today: Americans. A nation ostensibly composed of the working class like any other, yet all but the most vulnerable of its population are so profoundly bribed with the superprofits of the actual global working class that their interests have been thoroughly aligned with the status quo. They constitute a parasitic class on the world stage. Why do the most useless counter-revolutionary tendencies (LeftCommunism, Council Communism, Trotskyism, Neokautskyism) come exclusively from the West? Because the population does not, for the most part, experience revolutionary conditions. They don't need to do a revolution because they will be fine no matter what.

And this isn't some wild, new, 21st century theory. No less than Marx, Engels, and Lenin all described the parasitic nature of British "workers" and their attempt to secure well-being on the backs of the global proletariat: “...The English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is of course to a certain extent justifiable.”

Iranians make fun of "israeli" failed drone attack

An MSNBC anchor just said "Israel's low key military strike".

This monstrousness happened ~7 hours ago. And the American media seems to have ignored it. I guess they were busying covering something like Trump farting in the courtroom.

At least 11 people, mostly children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp, Wafa reported. The attack hit a children’s playground near a crowded market.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/16/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-vows-response-to-iran?update=2841415

Israel fired dummy missiles from Iraqi airspace that did not even enter Iran, and they launched a few quadcopters that were shot down above Esfahan. Israel's Minister of National Security has called Israel's response against Iran 'weak' and 'embarassing'

IN OTHER NEWS: i'm a girl now :3

now i post on a fun trans girl account and not @Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net

Biden signs bill extension permitting gov. spying on world citizens

The #WhiteHouse applauded the Senate's move, describing the bill as "one of the United States’ most vital intelligence collection tools."

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1781801116801396933

really disastrous day

Iran’s deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri:

Israel needs to know that in case of another mistake they will not have 12 days, the response will be given in a matter of seconds not in days or hours

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.

Me in 2023: America deserved 9/11

Me in 2024: Bin Laden was a lib, America deserves way worse than 9/11.

Four Israelis were kicked out of a hotel in Tanzania for complaining about the free Palestine badge on the manager's car. The Canary Nungwi Hotel in Zanzibar kicked out four Israelis who interrogated a receptionist about a vehicle parked outside the premise with stickers that read "Free Palestine." The Israelis were told the vehicle belonged to the manager of the hotel, and they were eventually kicked out after complaining that the vehicle was causing them "concern."

lmao

Biden claims twice in a day that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bidens-uncle-cannibals.html

“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,” Biden told reporters.

Lest anyone doubt that Biden was saying his “Uncle Bosie” was consumed by fellow humans, he repeated the story later in the afternoon while addressing United Steelworkers union members in Pittsburg.

“He got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals — for real — in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said.