With the resumption of US intelligence sharing to Ukraine, Ukrainian F-16s have resumed frontline operations. One was spotted in the Sumy region.

Video of F-16 in Sumy

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For more information on their mission, why US intelligence sharing is vital to carrying it out, loadout, etc, I made a comment on that here.

There are also rumours circulating on Russian telegram channels that a Ukrainian F-16 was shot down over Sumy, using an innovative method. I'll comment further if there is any confirmation of this.

Trump Seeks Russian Support For War On Iran | Moon of Alabama

this post verified free of brainworms by real hexbear fedayeen ✅

Curse you Vincent Bevins, I can’t look at a mass protest without thinking about horizontal organization and the lack of a communist party!

Re: Turkey (what’s hexbear opinion on the use of the word Türkiye?)

https://t.me/enemywatch/32410

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the fifth night in a row. First airstrikes reported at 16:47 UTC. Seperate, multiple strikes have taken place in Sadaa city, the capital city Sana'a, Al Bayda' Governorate, Sana'a Governorate and Al Jawf Governorate.

Given that the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier is only 700-800km from Yemen today, I suspect an intense aerial bombardment is incoming, similar to the first night...

Renewed airstrikes reported in Hodeidah and Sadaa Governorates.

More strikes in Saada.

Reports that another MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot down over Yemen, and reports of a Yemeni ballistic missile being launched at Israel. The missile was likely intercepted, given there is no reports of an impact. No statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces on either incident yet.

Yemeni Armed Forces will provide a statement at 3:10 UTC.

Al Masirah TV twitter

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Is there a term for laws that don't actually get enforced?

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/19/trump-eliminate-education-department-order/82235735007/ Exclusive: Trump to sign order Thursday aimed at eliminating Education Department

Where did that take you? Back to me :IMPERIALIST-MONETARY-FUND:

Argentina’s Lower House grants blind approval to Milei IMF deal

The government has not given any information about the amount or conditions of the new loan

Argentina’s Lower House has approved President Javier Milei’s executive order allowing the administration to seal a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the 23rd the country has made to date. The decree was approved with 129 votes in favor, 108 against, and six abstentions, after a heated debate Wednesday afternoon.

The decree Milei sent last week does not contain any details of the new deal, meaning deputies voted without knowing how much money the lender will disburse or whether the nation will be required to change its monetary policy as a condition of the loan. Opposition deputy Aldo Leiva stopped during the vote to ask Lower House President Martín Menem how much the deal would be for.

“The time is up,” Menem replied.

Deputies from the ruling La Libertad Avanza coalition and the PRO, Unión Cívica Radical, Coalición Cívica, and Innovación Federal parties voted in favor of the decree, while the Peronist Unión por la Patria opposition and smaller left-wing parties opposed it. The Encuentro Federal bloc was divided.

After the vote, several Peronist deputies remained in their seats, blasting Menem over the lack of transparency regarding the deal’s contents.

Finance Secretary Pablo Quirno said on Tuesday that the deal would be a 10-year Extended Fund Facility with an interest rate of 5.63%. The IMF defines an Extended Fund Facility as providing “financial assistance to countries facing serious medium-term balance of payments problems because of structural weaknesses that require time to address.”

It adds: “To help countries implement medium-term structural reforms, the EFF offers longer program engagement and a longer repayment period.”

Quirno said the loan would be used to pay Treasury’s debt to the Central Bank.

All other details, including the loan’s value and disbursement schedule, have yet to be decided, he added.

A ‘serious violation’ of the constitution

Presidential decrees can only be overturned if the upper and lower houses both vote against them, meaning the senate cannot overturn today’s result. However, the decree is likely to face legal challenges, since critics argue that approving an IMF deal this way violates Argentina’s laws and constitution.

A 2021 law requires all new debt with the IMF to go through Congress. Conversely, emergency decrees such as the one Milei issued are law the moment the government issues them and can be only repealed if both houses vote against them.

Constitutional lawyer Daniel Sabsay told the Herald it was a “serious violation” of the constitution, article 75 of which gives the legislative branch the power to negotiate foreign debt. “Issuing [the decree] as a closed book makes deliberation impossible, which is the fundamental activity Congress carries out when it discusses bills,” Sabsay said.

Milei and other officials have repeatedly said that the new agreement does not need to go through Congress because it is not “new debt,” since the funds will be used to pay back the Central Bank. Former economy minister Martín Guzmán, the author of the 2021 law, contested that claim, saying the Fund “is not a charity,” and that the new debt will be used for capital flight and financial speculation.

Guzmán also said that one of the rules of the IMF’s exceptional credits is “broad political support.” “What the government itself recognizes is that they do not have it and that is why they are not going to Congress. Therefore, the legitimacy of this debt will be questioned,” Guzmán told Revista Crisis.

Peronist senators Juliana Di Tullio, José Mayans, and Anabel Sagasti wrote a letter to the IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and other senior officials on Tuesday, expressing their opposition to the deal. Like Sabsay, they argued that passing the deal by decree would violate the Constitution and the 2021 law. They said the contents of the agreement would be “covered by a mantle of secrecy that is incomprehensible unless [the conditions] are of such seriousness that they imply the handover of strategic assets of the Argentine Nation or establish austerity measures even more brutal than those the Milei government is implementing today.”

Pensioners protest

The decree was passed while a large protest took place outside Congress. Every Wednesday, retirees protest against austerity measures. Pensions account for 30% of the Milei administration’s cuts, according to a report by the Center of Argentina Political Economy (CEPA) think tank.

The minimum monthly state pension in Argentina is currently AR$349,122 (US$321 at the official rate, US$284 at the MEP rate), a figure which includes an AR$70,000 monthly “bonus.” It falls far short of the basic basket for older adults, which is currently AR$1.2 million, according to the country’s ombuds office. Protests the previous Wednesday reached breaking point after football fans joined in. A police crackdown left 672 people injured, making it the most violent protest since the country’s catastrophic 2001 economic crisis, according to the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria human rights nonprofit.

Photojournalist Pablo Grillo was shot in the head with a tear gas canister, and remains in hospital in critical condition. Oscar, 71, a retired dentist at the march, told the Herald: “I have always participated in demonstrations since I was very young. In 50-odd years, I have never seen such indiscriminate shooting of rubber bullets and gas.”

After the vote, the President’s Office celebrated in a post on X.

“This agreement will guarantee a public credit operation for the National Treasury to pay existing debt with the Central Bank and implies a reduction of the total public debt,” the post said.

“The government will not rest for a minute until the disinflation process is definitive and the liberation of exchange restrictions is a reality, because that is what we have been elected to do.”

We are fucked, so fucking fucked. We might be the most fucked nation of all the fucked up nations that were fucked up by the fucking IMF my fucking god end this fucking nightmare

Fortunately the protest went on without serious incidents. A bunch of undercover cops tried to start shit up but they were ratted out by protesters and thrown away. A bunch of wannabe cops belonging to the libertarians (dressed as cops) also walked among the prosters to intimidate, but were all kicked out. The good thing here is that protesters are getting used to having undercover pigs among them and finding out who is who.

Nora Barrows-Friedman just said on the latest Tankie Therapy that zionist quadcopter drones swarmed a mosque on Ramadan and started killing people inside a few days ago. does anyone know more about this I have not been firehosing twitter horrors

I'm usually yapping about Lebanese government formations and Iraqi shia cults here, but this time I want other nerds to yap here. What's going on in Zambia or Zimbabwe or Mozambique or Angola or Botswana or Malawi or any African nation that isn't under French financial strangulation like the ones in West Africa? How are their economies doing? Native corruption or European shenanigans? Are the Chinese cooking anything there? Are they producing anything interesting? Any cultural output that is interesting? How does an average day look in Maputo or Lusaka or Luanda or anywhere? I only hear about these nations whenever their football team is playing in the AFCON, but I literally haven't read anything interesting about these countries in a long time.

U.S. Sent Venezuelan Asylum-Seeker To El Salvador Based On Real Madrid Tattoo: Lawyer

also apparently and have issued travel warnings to the US

Nixon’s vice president asked Saudis for money to fight US ‘Zionists’. Spiro Agnew, in letter to crown prince, said ‘Zionists orchestrated organized attack on me’ as ‘I’d never agree to continuance of unfair and disastrous favoring of Israel’ The late US Vice President Spiro Agnew requested money in 1980 from Saudi Arabia to “continue to fight” against American Zionists.

Agnew, who served for three years under Richard Nixon before resigning in 1973 in a corruption scandal from his time as the governor of Maryland in the 1960s, wrote to Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, then crown prince of Saudi Arabia, saying “I need desperately your financial support,” MSNBC reported Thursday.

“You highness is already familiar with the unrelenting Zionist efforts to destroy me,” Agnew wrote, adding that Elliot Richardson, who was attorney general when Agnew was vice president, “attacked” him because Agnew “could not be trusted to act properly in the Middle East.”

The reason, he also wrote, “was that the Zionists in the United States knew that I would never agree to the continuance of the unfair and disastrous favoring of Israel and they had to get me out of office there so that I would not succeed Nixon.” Since 1974, “The Zionists have orchestrated a well-organized attack on me” through lawsuits, Agnew said, “to bleed me of my resources to continue my effort to inform the American people of their control of the media and other influential sectors of American society.”

Agnew, who died in 1996, resigned amid revelations that he had engaged in corruption while governor and did not contest his conviction. But in his letter to the prince, he said the Zionists “framed” him. He spoke out frequently about what he called the “Zionist influences in the US.”

He stated that he would use the funds to "continue my effort to inform the American people of their (i.e., Zionists') control of the media and other influential sectors of American society." He also congratulated the crown prince on his call for jihad against Israel, whose declaration of Jerusalem as its capital he characterized as "the final provocation". A month later he thanked the crown prince for giving him "the resources to continue the battle against the Zionist community here in the U.S.". Agnew's anti-Zionist views seemed to have developed after leaving office—as vice president, he expressed admiration for Israel and was friendly with his Jewish staff members.

Georgetown scholar detained over American wife’s Palestinian ties, lawyer says

::: spoiler Article ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Georgetown University researcher who is married to a Palestinian American was detained by immigration agents who told him his visa had been revoked, prompting another high-profile legal fight over deportation proceedings against foreign-born visa holders authorized to live in the U.S.

Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University and citizen of India, was arrested Monday night outside of his Virginia home by officers who identified themselves as Department of Homeland Security agents, according to a legal filing by Suri’s lawyer.

Hassan Ahmad, Suri’s Virginia-based attorney, wrote in a court filing that Suri was targeted because of his wife’s “identity as a Palestinian and her constitutionally protected speech.”

Suri was later taken to a detention facility in Louisiana, according to a government website. His lawyers are seeking his immediate release and to halt deportation proceedings through their habeas motion filed Tuesday against the Trump administration.

“The Trump Administration has openly expressed its intention to weaponize immigration law to punish noncitizens whose views are deemed critical of U.S. policy as it relates to Israel,” Suri’s attorney wrote.

Suri’s detention more than 1,000 miles (about 1,600 kilometers) away from his family and attorney is “plainly intended as retaliation and punishment for Mr. Suri’s protected speech,” his attorney added.

The deportation effort comes amid legal fights over cases involving a Columbia University international affairs graduate student and a doctor from Lebanon.

Suri was accused of “spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media” and determined to be deportable by the Secretary of State’s office, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said late Wednesday on X, formerly known as Twitter. Suri’s case was first reported by Politico.

The filing by Suri’s lawyer said that federal authorities have provided no evidence that he’s committed any crimes and that his detention violates his free speech and due process rights. Suri, who has no criminal record, holds a visa authorizing him to be in the U.S. as a visiting scholar, and his wife is a U.S. citizen, according to the motion.

His lawyer didn’t immediately respond to an messages seeking further comment Thursday.

Suri’s lawyers say he’s currently teaching a course at Georgetown and hopes to become a university professor. A Georgetown webpage identifies Suri as a postdoctoral fellow at Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the university. The university said his areas of interest include religion, violence and peace processes in the Middle East and South Asia. The bio said that he earned a doctorate in India while studying efforts to introduce democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq, and he has traveled extensively in conflict zones in several countries.

The university said in a statement Thursday that Suri is an Indian national who was “duly granted a visa to enter the United States to continue his doctoral research on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

“We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention,” the school said. “We support our community members’ rights to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate, even if the underlying ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. We expect the legal system to adjudicate this case fairly.”

The U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement detainee locator website lists Suri as being in the custody of immigration officials at the Alexandria Staging Facility in Louisiana.

Separately, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident with no criminal record, was detained earlier this month over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and is fighting deportation efforts in federal court. And Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist who previously worked and lived in Rhode Island, was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa

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Love how our big wet boi is just minting Onion-quality dimes day in and day out.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-education-department/

Washington — President Trump announced the signing of an executive order that would begin the process of dismantling the Department of Education "once and for all."

[Mr. Trump] added, "We're not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven't for a long time."

No, Mr. President, no we are not.

Amtrak CEO abruptly resigns from the nation’s passenger railroad

I've seen libs stop comparing things to Harry Potter and start comparing real things to Warhammer 40k, so, uh... that's where we are now.