Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it's just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a "domestic terrorist" and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration's policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
Situation in MN is a powder keg where ICE is shoving more and more powder in and everyone is sitting around with lit matches. I'm genuinely surprised it hasn't blown yet. Check the state subreddit if you want they are one of the better sources for this. r/Minnesota
ICE and other Border Control departments such as BORTAC, are now openly doing warrantless raids in minority neighborhoods and going to retail businesses such as target and Walmart to kidnap people. School is out in areas where ICE is active as a response to them busting into schools, walkouts in solidarity in other parts of the state.
They are also kidnapping kids and parents with young children on the street. One of the videos posted is of ICE grabbing a 17 year old target employee and beating him and dumping him at a Walmart.
The state has taken a hands off approach to the situation and seems to be content to sit by and observe, including simply observing protests, ICE seems to be the ones crushing protests. The only response from the state seems to be the AG filing a lawsuit (lol), this is not lost on the average person, they are noticing the inaction.
Bovino ( the guy in charge of these ICE raids) is just openly strutting about completely unafraid to show his face everywhere he goes. And why not? The administration has shown they will back ICE no matter what, and Dems have shown themselves to be toothless. Him doing this is also a message to the rank and file brownshirts that they have nothing to fear.
The average person I see at these protests is fucking pissed. We have random vote blue no matter who types giving interviews where they are openly talking about needing guns to square off with ICE, and former "apolitical" cop bootlicker types are saying they would support someone taking an ICE squad out.
ICE is so outnumbered in some of these cases that they might just get stampeded by an angry mob. One of the videos I've seen , if ICE hadn't retreated when they did they would have faced mob justice. I don't see any situation where something doesn't give in the next day or two, max by the weekend.
The cynic in me says that the reason libs have begun realizing the true extent of the threat is because a white lady was killed
The admin standing behind the blatant execution of a white woman isn't just a threat to white liberals, marginalized communities are looking at this and seeing that if they will execute a white woman like this, they sure as shit will do it to them and there isnt even the usual thin veil of justifications to stop them anymore.
Yeah, I've noticed among white queers for example that this has caused a lot of rapid radicalization/fear and despair.
It was obvious to me that I'd be directly in danger eventually, but this shit hit me particularly hard because it meant that I am now, personally, am actively in mortal danger on like 1.5 different fronts right now, and I've seen that effect a lot amongst my peers.
It probably helps further in this case that this seems to have a major queerbashing element - I am convinced that a large part of why Renee Good was murdered was because she was visibly lesbian in front of the ICE goons.
It's no longer just horrible but not something that directly endangers a lot of people personally - this is now an imminent threat for a LOT of people in a way it wasn't, or at least didn't feel like, before.
I don't think it's all that cynical, although things already weren't great before.
We can wish that everyone was just on the same page from the beginning, but if that sort of incident is what brings people to the streets, we need to continue to welcome and encourage it. There are better reasons to be out, but in itself its not like it's a bad reason.
John Brown was right. White blood has to be shed.
That's part of it, but of course that's not all there is to it. The US state has been killing white people - at random and as political targets - since the very beginning.
I have seen some heated libs the last couple years, but it's this week I've seen for the first time multiple posts with thousands of likes on Bluesky saying something like "make sure your gun is clean and you have ammunition, get ready for the worst, no one is coming to save us."
yeah even
is reading like a Black Panther newsletter in Minnesota/Twin Cities subs
it's weird to see
Shouldn't be. We know that repression breeds resistance and that Americans have historically been soft because they have rarely felt the boot of the state in the way the rest of the world has. The boomerang is landing hard. The resistance is as inevitable as the fascism.
mostly weird because I didn't know there were that many real people left on reddit
lmao fair, but they congregate there when real shit is happening
Saw a Ken Klippenstein post that for the people they're sending atp are volunteers since a lot of the recruits are pissing themselves in fear.
Thing is that means it's bastards that want to jump into this powder keg going.
Sooner or later the ice agents are going to get popped. Make sure everyone you know is as ready as to they can be for the response.
I'm not in MN, but outside of a massive community response to show up and back people up I don't see what the average person can do, you can't even hide in your home without them just busting the door down with long rifles.
You basically need a 24/7 community surveillance and response team and they need to be armed enough and have the guts to stand toe to toe with ICE at a moments notice.
And you gotta do this knowing the federal government is gonna come down on you hard and the state government at best is gonna leave you about to dry, that is if you don't get shot by ICE.
The alternative to this is to resist by going on the offensive and hitting ICE where they organize and sleep etc. Either option is frankly terrifying for the average person
Ice is going to knock on the wrong door eventually. And they're not trained. And there's no real good way to enter a building and not get fucked if the people inside don't want you coming in.
My bet is the elite units are the ones hitting houses
I saw one where they were frantically calling for backup while getting pelted with snowballs, that was fun. hope there were rocks in them
Whats the mood in rural minnesota? I guess more pro-ICE?
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