Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's 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.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
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.
Danish Public Schools in Crisis: Nearly 12% of Students Now Failing Basic Exams
Denmark’s public education system is crumbling. A new report from the Economic Council of the Labour Movement paints a bleak picture of educational decline, rising inequality, and mounting despair among the country’s working-class youth.
In the school year 2023/24, nearly 12 percent of Danish ninth-grade students failed both Danish and mathematics in their final exams, marking the highest failure rate since 2012. The trend is not isolated but growing, with failure rates increasing across all regions and social groups. The consequences are severe: without these basic qualifications, further education becomes nearly inaccessible, placing tens of thousands of children on a trajectory toward economic and social marginalization.
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Particularly alarming is the projection that in 18 of Denmark’s municipalities, mainly rural and underdeveloped areas, one in four young men will have no formal education by 2031. In contrast, elite enclaves north of Copenhagen, such as Gentofte and Lyngby-Taarbæk, report minimal failure rates and project near-universal education completion. The country's richest continue to thrive while its poorest are left behind, reflecting a growing educational segregation in the Nordic hermit kingdom.
The deterioration of public education is attributed to years of neoliberal austerity and economic mismanagement. While the regime recently touted an investment in public schools, the supposed increase in funding fails to match inflation. Adjusted for rising costs, public schools are operating with less funding than in the previous year. Teachers report growing burnout, a concerning trend started by the 2013/14 school reform which stripped educators of professional autonomy, as a key reason for leaving the profession.
The result is a vicious cycle: public schools are understaffed, under-resourced, and increasingly serve only those who have no alternative. Meanwhile, more affluent families are opting for subsidized private schools, accelerating the drain of both resources and high-performing students from the public sector. Currently, about 20 percent of Danish students attend private schools, with the rate soaring to over a third among elite families.
This exodus has deepened segregation and further concentrated disadvantage within the public system. Schools in underfunded municipalities are now tasked with educating students with a higher concentration of special needs using fewer resources, often without the trained staff to support them.
Despite mounting evidence of systemic failure, the troubled nation's Social Democrat-led right-wing regime has continued to prioritize gradiose plans for aggressive military buildup over domestic social investment. Billions are being funneled into military expansion, while public schools, long considered the bedrock of Danish social mobility, are left to languish.
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This is incredibly funny juxtaposed to the Danish “pee and poop drawing gap” article just above.
I see things are going great as usual in the Nordic hermit kingdom.