in other things that happened while the site was down: Ansarallah announced using a hypersonic missile to hit a ship

Had a glance at the debate thread on r/politics ...

It's wall to wall denial and imagined new Trump-Russia hysteria:

• The top 29 comment chains are all about Trump with no mention of Biden's performance at all.
• More than a third of those comments are trying to spin a theory that Trump and Putin planned going into Ukraine together in secret.
• The 30th most popular comment chain is thr first negative comment about Biden and it's scathing criticism is that "someone should have gotten Biden some water or something in the ad breaks".

Everyone talking about the elections in the U.S. and Iran. Algeria will have elections in September 7th

Uh oh. Evo Morales himself has accused Luis Arce of orchestrating the coup:
https://twitter.com/evoespueblo/status/1807496134119571492?mx=1

El presidente Luis Arce engañó y mintió al pueblo boliviano y al mundo. Es lamentable que se use un tema tan sensible como la denuncia de un golpe.

Frente a esa realidad, debo pedir disculpas a la comunidad internacional por la alarma generada y agradecer por su solidaridad con nuestro país. Es importante que una investigación completa e independiente demuestre la verdad de este hecho.

Per Google Translate:

President Luis Arce deceived and lied to the Bolivian people and the world. It is unfortunate that a topic as sensitive as reporting a coup is used.

Faced with this reality, I must apologize to the international community for the alarm generated and thank you for your solidarity with our country. It is important that a complete and independent investigation demonstrates the truth of this fact.

Remember when Obama appointed Eric Holder to "supposedly" prosecute Wall Street for their role for causing the global economic crash that accelerated the slide towards overt fascism in the west? And the dude was just a Wall Street plant?

In July 2015, Holder rejoined Covington & Burling, the law firm at which he worked before becoming attorney general. The law firm's clients have included many of the large banks Holder declined to prosecute for their alleged role in the financial crisis.

It's relatively small shit compared to actual war crimes but there are thousands of examples like this only form the last 10 years... but liberals forget about them by the next week. I just remembered it randomly.

I’m split between deciding whether Pissrael is on the brink of initiating its complete self-destruction or if it’s just more of the same rabid genocidal screeching about how they’re going to conquer the whole Arab world they’ve always done.

Any newsheads care to weigh in?

I’m going to bed. Wake me up if Israel fucking dies though

Extincion Rebellion in Finland has withdrawn from a demostration due to police violence. The libs are calling this a smart move as it draws more attention to their cause. Mainstream media however rarely reports the demos or if it does, it typically frames these as the disrubtion of traffic. Today the liberal bourge paper Helsingin Sanomat has called out for the protesters right to protest safely.

Their next demo will start as planned tomorrow with a press release about the police violence. In the Finnish text based press release they report the police hitting people in the head, dragging them on the asfalt and other acts of physical violence. The police started forcefully removing protesters as soon as the demo started with no prewarning or commands to leave.

When do you think it's going to set in for the gardeners that Israel attacking Lebanon will cause another huge wave of migrants?

Biden was bad but Trump was there just blaming immigrants for everything lol.

CNN: According to an advisor: Not only does @POTUS not plan to drop out, Biden remains committed to a second debate in September

Rapidan Dam in Minnesota fails. Prompts flash flood warnings.

Exceptional Infrastructure

All the drugs Biden took yesterday have kicked in today.

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1806772752579231931?s=46

Shutting down Hexbear and the news megathread for a week so that a global Socialist revolution happens

Lmao the Tories are currently polling at 0 seats

In Canada news, the Liberals got rinsed here in what was a safe seat. Trudeau reacting with bodies and spaces language is classic.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/06/25/i-hear-your-concerns-trudeau-reflects-on-devastating-byelection-loss/

BREAKING: Actionists occupied Grid Defence Systems, military hardware suppliers for several arms companies including Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1806213404140388558?mx=1

And you can hide behind your courtrooms. And you can hide behind your money. But we will find you.

And while Palestine Action in England was fucking up a military supplier, Palestine Action in Scotland was fucking up JP Morgan offices:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1805971142022181283?mx=1

NYT

Israel’s Defense Minister Holds Talks in Washington on War’s Next Phase

Yoav Gallant said his meetings with top U.S. officials this week would involve the Gaza war’s “transition” to a new stage.

INDEC reports 5.1% Q1 slump in GDP, unemployment on rise

Argentina's economy contracted by 5.1% in first quarter, says INDEC; Unemployment hit 7.7% as Milei government’s austerity measures began to kick in.

Argentina's austerity-wracked economy contracted by 5.1 percent in the first quarter, the INDEC national statistics bureau said Monday, driven by a slowdown in the construction and manufacturing industries. Unemployment also surged in the first three months of 2024, with joblessness now at 7.7 percent.

President Javier Milei, who took office in December, stopped all new public works projects as part of his drive to slash spending. The construction sector was down 19 percent year-on-year, data showed. The manufacturing industry contracted by 13.7 percent and the only sector growing was exports – up 26.1 percent year-on-year and 11 percent higher than in the preceding quarter.

Milei, a self-declared "anarcho-capitalist," vowed to take a chainsaw to decades of overspending and rein in runaway inflation. Consumer prices have slowed, reaching 4.2 percent in May, the lowest monthly rate in two-and-a-half years, but hikes in the first five months of the year totalled 71.9 percent. Annual inflation is running at almost 280 percent year-on-year.

Analysts warned that the gains were a result of a massive economic slump as shoppers tighten purse strings and the poor and working classes struggle to make ends meet.

INDEC said that GDP overall fell 2.6 percent in the first full quarter from the last quarter of 2023. Most categories showed losses, though agriculture, livestock, hunting and forestry recorded year-on-year growth of 10.2 percent as they bounced back from the impact of last year’s drought.

Financial intermediation services declined by 13 percent year-on-year in the first quarter. Wholesale, retail and repairs slumped 8.7 percent.

When he took office, Milei cut Cabinet ministries in half, stopped funding to provincial governments, slashed tens of thousands of public jobs, ripped away fuel and transport subsidies, and sharply devalued the peso. Workers have suffered huge wage drops in real terms. Milei, who is visiting the Czech Republic, on Monday hailed "the largest fiscal adjustment not only in Argentine history but also in humanity."

He said the situation facing his government had been “titanic” and claimed his administration is returning “15 points of GDP to the private sector.”

Unemployment surge

INDEC revealed that 7.7 percent of the working population was unemployed, up 0.8 percentage points compared to the same period last year and a rise of two points from the last quarter of 2023. According to the institute's report, there are 400,000 fewer workers employed in the 31 urban areas it surveys.

Extrapolating from the 31 urban centre measurement, an estimated 1.7 million people are currently unemployed, which would mean some 525,000 new jobless in three months. Experts estimate that 40 percent of workers in Argentina are informally employed.

According to the bureau, the total number of employed persons represented 44.3 percent of the economically active population (14.2 million people) – i.e. 13.1 million citizens are employed, while the unemployment rate of 7.7 percent is equivalent to 1.1 million people who are unemployed but actively looking for work.

Within the employed population (that 44.3 percent), 74 percent are salary workers, while 21.9 percent are self-employed. Looking at specific sectors for the population aged 14 and over, considered to be of working age, the unemployment rate was 8.4 percent for women and seven percent for men.

Notably, 7.6 percent of all employed persons work from home.

The International Monetary Fund expects Argentina's economy to contract by 2.8 percent this year, after a 1.6-percent decline in 2023. In its latest report, the World Bank projected that Argentina’s economy would contract 3.5 percent this year.

More than half the population lives in poverty, according to data from an observatory at the Universidad Católica de Argentina (UCA).

SHOOT THE ANCAPS.

Gun nerds are ecstatic about Chevron being overturned. The reason being the ATF was making arbitrary rules regarding guns and accessories, much of the time their own agents giving conflicting declarations of the same policy because it’s ever only announced with some letter no one reads.

On one hand, fuck the ATF, but I don’t think it’s worth taking a step further in ancap hell just to own an SBR without a tax stamp.

God to be a worm in the tequila bottle in Zelenskyy’s office tonight after that debate showing from Biden

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT REPLACING BIDEN?

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IT'S. HER. TURN.

NYT reportedly wrote the article calling for Biden to drop out several days before the debate

With bozos like these, no wonder the coup didn't make it past Hexbear downtime:
https://twitter.com/OllieVargas79/status/1806271124365365744?mx=1

Should Ukraine Keep Attacking Russian Oil Refineries?

[...] the data shows that the attacks have had a limited effect on Russia’s fuel production and export volumes and that their impacts did not last long.

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And because the Russian government pays domestic companies a subsidy of $10 per barrel on all the refined oil products they export, the state may even be benefiting financially from a shift toward crude oil exports, which reduces the subsidies it must pay.

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Of the 12 major refineries Ukraine has damaged between January and May, half were returned to full operation within three weeks and the rest within three months.

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[...] they have had little effect on the global economy precisely because they have had little effect on Russia.

It would be so hilarious if shit popped off in northern Israel during the 8 hour downtime in a few hours. I don't see why it would, but maybe Nasrallah is a Hexbear lurker.

I have no mouth but I must celebrate Zionist death

Bolivian Coup fail and all. The next question is which western pigs organized this one? I hope they find out and name and shame.

Sorry for not posting news today, I was busy taking my neighbor's mother to the hospital bc she had a heart attack

72% of Voters Say Biden Should Not Run After a Bad Break in the Debate

Russia has reportedly shot down a NATO intelligence drone over the Black Sea in response to the recent attack on Crimea. Note that this has not yet been confirmed by either nato or the Russian MoD