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Growth Of Ukraine's Azov Units Follow Path Of The Waffen-SS | Moon of Alabama

(no brainworms detected)

the zionist regime's latest ceasefire offer is peace when all groups in Gaza disarm (obviously this was rejected)

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/g-s1-60361/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-talks

Seems like they found the deported guy Kilmar

https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1913034619710034094

It is over

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/8716/

"But we are capable of so much more.

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity."

Pack it up. We are done for

Wall Street Journal did an investigation into Elon Musk paying women to have his children. It speculates that Elon has many more children than the 14 which are publicly known

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c

https://archive.is/xwvfU

Prediction: Abrego Garcia will return home at some point. And then Trump and his ilk will spin it as "See? We'll correct our mistakes when someone isn't a criminal!" And then the Democrats will treat that as the big victory, so they don't need to do anything about this anymore whilst the same shit still keeps happening, like Derek Chauvin's conviction.

JD Vance killed the pope

Republican Governor Candidate Proposes Female Undocumented Immigrants Can Stay If They Marry “Incels” Government mandated girlfriends, jfc

‘Won’t stay silent’, China responds to White House’s 245% retaliatory tariffs

China responds: ‘We don’t want conflict, but won’t stay silent’

Reacting to the tariff hike, China’s foreign ministry reiterated that it seeks no confrontation but will not remain silent in the face of US pressure. “If the US truly wants to resolve issues through dialogue, it must stop exerting maximum pressure,” a spokesperson stated, adding that the ball was now in Washington’s court.

Spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang condemned the US for what he called its “wanton” use of force, warning that such tactics won’t restore American greatness.

Apart from the fact that islands are populated, I'd love to see these libertarians do more of this. Find land that is completely unpopulated. Create a "libertarian"/liberal/conservative utopia. Get owned by bears. Repeat.

The ICJ has just granted piSSrael an extra 6 months to issue their defense of Final Solution policy against South Africa's suit. The court date has been postponed to 12 January 2026 instead of 28 July. Palestine Chronicle

@grandepequeno@hexbear.net Centrists and right-wingers have, with american and european support, not recognized elections so much lately that the pandora's box is now open for leftists to do it too

The thing is, Leftist have been doing this in Latin America for quite sometime now. But unlike the Far-Right and Liberals/Conservatives who claim fraud and weird Russian/Chinese/Iranian plots against their elections. The Left claims of electoral fraud actually make sense, and of course the USA/OAS/EU ignore them.

In some good news, it appears that the Easter temporary ceasefire in the Russia - Ukraine war is largely holding on both sides, at least for now, 10 hours into the 30 hour ceasefire, according to accounts of activities from Russian and Ukrainian sources. So despite reports that Ukraine did not accept Russia's unilateral ceasefire, the activity on the battlefield says otherwise. There has been a large reduction in frontline activity, a bit of fighting still went on, but on the whole the temporary ceasefire is holding. AMK Mapping, someone who has been following the conflict for years and produces reliable reporting and maps, and also translates Ukrainian and Russian sources into English, has noted a drastic decrease in reported frontline activity compared to the usual.

AMK Mapping twitter report on frontline activity over the past 10 hours

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain in El Salvador, says Bukele

Not surprising, ghouls doing ghoul shit. Wish someone would do something funny while Bukele is still stateside

fascinating developments in germany, i don't think bwa is that powerful, but fascinating

(on the cynical note, it may be some qatari lng shenanigans/suez blockade hurting them or maybe eu realizing they can detach from usa on foreign policy, on experimental basis)

How long until libs say Bukele is evil because he is of Palestinian descent? Biden had all the chance in the world to remove Bukele from power, but nah, he was too busy attacking Nicaragua for no reason.

ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations'

Over half of the population approves President Gustavo Petro's popular referendum to revitalize the Labor Reform.

The labor reform - which has already been approved by the Colombian Chamber of Deputies - envisages limiting daytime working hours, with overtime pay for hours worked at night, on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

https://xcancel.com/zei_squirrel/status/1911961520595927059

squirrel continues (correctly) dumping on bernie, but at least chanting is something

Some goings on

New greek political party "Course of Freedom" surging to 2nd place in a poll.

Guy who skimmed wikipedia said that they are:

• pro-Palestine
• pro-re-nationalisation of public services and public assets
• pro-LGBT marriage
• pro-refugee
• anti-EU
• anti-compulsary vaccination
• anti-Macedonia (dunno what this quite means I think it's something to do with the name)
• say "we look neither left nor right. we look forward"
• haven't joined any european parliamentary grouping (kke also hasn't)
• logo is a boat
• slogan is "We will change the world with Love"

And syriza polled below the old center-left and the communists. The rulling party also fell by a lot but greece has something where whoever ends up in 1st place gets a bunch of extra MPs so idk if that matters.

This is going to be controversial but imho about the "neither left nor right" position, in a party that is pretty clearly on the left, it's a smart move. It's one thing when you're an organization that has a history (and I don't advocate such organizations, like mine, to do this) but if you're starting a completely new political project there's really no reason to assume an identity on a left-right or a communism-capitalism that most people either don't care about or actively disdain. Not that many people think of themselves as "leftists" or "right-wingers", if anything most people probably consider themselves "centrists" even when they have a bunch of radical positions, so ditching the label and actively rejecting it in favor of more concrete political positions is a good way to past the skepticism of the masses about modern politics. And at the end of the day, any party or any smart politician will take positions considered to be left or right at different occasions, the point is whether they are the right position/policy.

However, the strategy creates its own tensions and down the line (like we've seen with italy's M5S) you DO have to affirm where you stand on the left-right axis or people will affirm it for you.

Of course anyone seasoned enough can tell whether your "neither left nor right" party is actually left or right, and this one seems to be left which is why it doesn't bother me. I'm also not greek so 0 stakes

Alessandro Di Battista on Pope Francis death:

In the coming days, we will witness the usual and hypocritical posthumous glorification by politicians and journalists. There will be broadcasts, television marathons, and miles of editorials written to commemorate “the innovative Pope,” “the reformist Pope,” “the pontiff from the end of the world.” World leaders will come to Rome to pay their respects at his funeral.

But remember this: many of those who will now praise him (politicians and journalists alike) are the same people who completely ignored him, treated him as irrelevant, when Francis dared to speak out against the arms industry, when he broke the veil of hypocrisy by discussing the origins of the war in Ukraine and NATO's responsibilities, and above all when he cried out in absolute indignation over the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

“It is necessary to investigate whether a genocide is taking place in Gaza,” Francis said on November 17, 2024. Virtually no political leader (except for the Israelis who attacked him) commented on his words. Those who now glorify him ignored him when he denounced the horror (even last night, Israeli terrorists bombed displaced civilians) taking place just a few hundred kilometers from Rome. Hypocrites, merchants of the temple! Francis was a man of peace, and in times as dark as these, that seems to me an extraordinary merit.

Honestly.... The TPP probably might have been more effective at boxing out China than these tariffs. And trump got rid of that. Now hes trying to do the same thing with worse leverage

https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1911873227510690111

France’s foreign minister announced that #Algeria has ordered 12 French officials to leave the country within 48 hours on Monday, a decision reportedly connected to the recent detention of three Algerian nationals in France.

"I am asking Algerian authorities to abandon these expulsion measures... if the decision to send back our officials is maintained, we will have no other choice but to respond immediately," Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said.

The 12 include some members of the French Interior Ministry, a diplomatic source told Agence France Press (AFP).

US lapdog submits to its master:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/south-korea--will-not-fight-back--against-trump-tariffs--act

Following Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from office this month by the country's constitutional court, Han Duck-soo, a technocrat serving as acting president, highlighted that "the role of the US was huge in making Korea what it is now."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-lawmakers-say-ll-travel-el-salvador-push-kilmar-abrego-garc-rcna201279

This has been making the rounds on Lib Reddit. They’re all thinking he’s going to get murdered lmao. El Salvador isn’t Israel. Bukele knows he won’t get away with something like that and the shitstorm that would affect the entire region if he were to do it. What’s more likely is that they’ll deny him access with some bullshit excuse.

Interesting article about China trying to grow domestic consumption in the face of tariffs:

Aboard the 'silver trains', China's retirees do their bit to offset Trump's tariffs

Now that’s a face I haven’t seen in a long time

Edit: it's back https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/funding-for-the-critical-cve-security-detection-system-renewed-just-hours-before-deadline

~~US pulled funding for {the CVE program|Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures}~~

It gave cybersecurity folks across the globe common language and identifiers for problems that needed fixing; it's gonna be a shit show for a little while until the EU steps in and takes that mantle.

I don't have a good emoji for setting soft power on fire at the expense of a functioning internet.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson regarding the ongoing talks with the US:

Really cool documentary about how the Zapatistas in Chiapas have been doing lately https://hexbear.net/post/4627900

Watch it or i will call you a lib

Navajo president endorses Trump's coal order, but community activists cite climate, health risks the mineral extrantion could cause Hexbear Post

• Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren was in Washington earlier in April to watch President Donald Trump sign an order aimed at revitalizing the coal industry.

• Coal mines and coal-fired power plants were once steady income sources for the Navajo Nation, but the money dried up with the closure of a key plant and the mines that supplied it.

• Some Navajo organizers say Nygren's support for coal ignores the effects of fossil fuels on the climate and on human health. One expert said Nygren exaggerated the importance of coal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgq7l32r98o Florida shooter is son of a (school resource) police officer

COVID.gov now redirects to a teaser explaining that Trump did the lab leak

NOAA scientists are cleaning bathrooms in Seattle

They're also dealing with hazardous waste disposal as contracts are not being renewed.

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 31st night in a row, with multiple rounds of airstrikes targeting Kamaran Island, and 15 airstrikes reported in Ma'rib Governorate.

More airstrikes on Ma'rib and Al-Jawf Governorates.

Warning for potential graphic imagery of casualties during ongoing airstrikes:

Al Masirah TV twitter

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With the arrival of the USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier to the operational area, positioned off of the coast of Oman, comes a host of new capabilities. The most obvious are the F-35C 5th generation stealth fighter aircraft, but one that's less talked about (and in my opinion more significant) is the EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare (EW) squadron. The EA-18Gs on the Carl Vinson are not equipped with the usual AN/ALQ-99 electronic warfare system (capable of jamming frequencies from 64 MHz to 20 GHz in ten seperate bands), the EA-18Gs on the Carl Vinson are instead equipped with the AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer (NGJ), which is speculated to use up to six AESA (Actively Electronically Scanned Arrays) to carry out it's EW tasks. I think the positioning and equipment (EA-18Gs with the NGJ and F-35Cs) is more of a message to Iran than anything else.

EA-18G Growler equipped with the NGJ mid band pod, on the USS Carl Vinson during it's current deployment:

Is anyone here who is good at economic bullshit? Lots of companies ran by private equity have gone bankrupt recently and I'm sure more will go bankrupt now because of the tariffs (and because bankrupting companies is their entire business model). So when does that start effecting the underlying securities, like CLOs - securities that contain these toxic loans and were mostly bought up by ETFs and big pension funds everywhere? When the real estate market started weakening in 2007, it took over a year for the banks to start revaluing the underlying securities.

An update from Ansarallah (also known as the Houthis) on the situation in Yemen, within the context of escalating US military aggression and airstrikes, including the bombing of Ras Isa Fuel Port in Hodeidah, which killed 74 people and injured 171 (some of whom were immolated by the resulting fires), as well as severely damaging or destroying all the fuel infrastructure at the port, including tanker tracks, storage tanks, and piping, leading to large fires and oil slicks that burnt and destroyed everything.

The National Defense Council, chaired by His Excellency Field Marshal Mahdi Al-Mashat, President of the Supreme Political Council and Chairman of the National Defense Council, addresses the political and military situation, developments in the US aggression against our country, and options for responding and confronting the aggression.

Twitter source, retweeted by official Yemeni Armed Forces officials such as Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e

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~~Are the Saudis about to get bombed again? Saudi Arabian Formula 1 Grand Prix starts in less than two hours.~~

In the end, it was just the announcement of Yemeni sanctions against US companies, and an overview of military actions. Biggest military news is that it's heavily implied that Ansarallah are primarily using an electro optical monitoring system for air defence, instead of a system in the electromagnetic spectrum like radar, with comments about bypassing "electromagnetic jamming". No big announcements otherwise.

"The number of localities in Việt Nam will be reduced by nearly half, down from 63 provinces and cities to 34 (28 provinces and 6 centrally-run cities)".

Vietnamese lady I follow on twitter called this the "Most consequential political reform since reunification in 1976" and since the Doi Moi reforms and a part of an informal Doi Moi 2.0 which has been happening recently.

Also, President Xi received in Vietnam a kind of "airport reception" not seen since 1991

Blurb from a paper I'm not gonna read:

"While territorial disputes remain, party-state ties have overall never been as deep and penetrating as these days (army, associations, media, education, tourism, sci-tech, security, more), and Vietnam is nonetheless navigating through it."

"Beside the +40 deals to be signed this time, the $8.4bln-worth China (Yunnan)-northern Vietnam railway link is the highlight, with construction beginning in late 2025. In my view, the visit is also originally due to the strained relationship (2023-25) between Vietnam & Cambodia."

President Maduro Denounces Ecuador’s Election as “Shameful Fraud” Linked to US Imperialism - Telesur English