Not shocked that the media is now trying to push the narrative that Hamas is abandoning Gazans because they are no longer providing government services and are now focusing on insurgency. Where exactly would the political wing of Hamas provide services? Schools? Bombed out. Hospitals? Bombed out. Government buildings? Bombed out. They said that Hamas is willing to keep up the insurgency at any cost. Well yeah no shit, Israel is fucking carrying out a genocide against its people and shows no signs of slowing down.

Death to America. Death to Israel.

Der Spiegel's got a banger cover for Germany's 75th anniversary: "Nothing Learned?"

Chaser: apparently this is because they aren't supporting Israel enough

The stuff coming out of the Trump trial is hilarious

Western dipshits give money to the Ukrainian government to finance the war effort -> The Ukrainian government decides to build fortifications similar to the Surovikin line -> They give money and contracts to random private companies that are supposed to build those fortifications -> Capitalism + Ukrainian corruption in action:

These concrete blocks were supposed to form lines of dragon teeth fortifications to stop Russian tanks. But some shitty corrupt company took the money, picked up these blocks, and just dropped them next to the street.

China intensifies push to delete America

Comrade Trump at it again

Multiple outlets reporting (I’m reading the Al-Jazeera live feed) and a spokesperson for the UN secretary-general has confirmed that Israel attacked a UN-marked vehicle on the way to the European Hospital in Gaza as a part of their duties. One UN staffer was killed and another injured.

I am 1,000% sure this is was intentional and retaliation for the UN vote last week. Death to “israel”.

came to check hexbear after seeing the news about the iranian president and...

The Hague is hiring Hebrew translators

Another bank capitulates to the demands of Palestine Action:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1791244062332240064

BREAKING: After sustained global action, Scotiabank slashes it's former $500million investment in Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons firm. Actions will continue until Elbit is bankrupt

🇸🇰 Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was put into an artificial coma. His condition is critical, the country's interior minister said.

What pushing against the status quo in Nazi Europe does to a mf

Biden appears to be dealing with his poll numbers by simply not believing them

Source

We're back hexbear

It's darkly funny that Biden has decided to frame Chinese government support of its industries as "cheating." I guess the logic here is that because venal and arrogant American politicians decided to pursue stupid and short-sighted economic policies, it's against the rules for Chinese politicians to make good decisions for their country.

The US removed Cuba the list of countries not fully cooperating against terrorism, also known as the Not Fully Cooperating Countries (NFCC) list, State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel confirmed on Wednesday. Patel said that the circumstances leading to Cuba’s designation as an NFCC have changed since 2022.

The NFCC list is part of the State Department’s annual assessment of international cooperation in counterterrorism efforts, and countries on this list may face restrictions on certain types of aid and exports of defense-related goods and services.

Cuba was initially placed on the NFCC list in 2020 due to its refusal to collaborate with Colombia on extradition requests related to members of the National Liberation Army (Spanish: Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN), a designated terrorist organization. The Cuban government did not formally respond to the extradition requests for ELN leaders filed by Colombia after the group claimed responsibility for the 2019 bombing of a Bogotá police academy that killed 22 people and injured 87 others.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/05/us-r

I just wanna take this moment to reiterate how fucking stupid the way the DSA delegation behaved towards Cuba was given that they're still helping leftist groups like this. Incredibly unserious people.

Every time we destroy an American plane, I feel sad for the American citizen
Because I know that America will spend the money that was supposed to provide healthcare to build another plane

https://twitter.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1791230963998933286

President Lula of Brazil said, in a recent public event, that he is becoming more modern and that he will kiss everyone regardless of gender.

Blinken performing Rocking to the Free World in Kiev
This is gonna be banging in Blowback season 10

Please be real

Even fuckin' Bill Burr dunks on by telling him (in the context of Maher shitting out nothing but Hasbara and State Dept nonsense):

[politics] isn't your thing. It's isn't. You're like that guy that has a fantasy football team and thinks he's a fucking GM. That's exactly what it is. Like, why am I fucking listening to you like you've done something? What have you done in Washington? Nothing.

YouTube link (commentary on it with a clip, not original video) if anyone cares.

Another bank capitulates to Palestine Action:
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1791533890026303845

JP Morgan Chase has cut its investments in Israel's largest arms company, Elbit Systems, by 70%.

KEEP PROTESTING / RESISTING THROUGH THE SUMMER.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/40208?single

a result of an ongoing, sustained campaign of action targeting investors of Elbit Systems, investors have slashed their holdings in the zionist entity's largest weapon's company.

Scotiabank has cut its investment in Elbit from $402 million to $237 million, which previously represented 4.2% of Elbit's outstanding shares. Meanwhile, JP Morgan Chase has cut its investment in Elbit Systems by 70%, from $54 million to $16 million.

Since January, Elbit's stock has fallen by about 6%, while activists in Canada, Britain, and the US relentlessly targeted Scotiabank and JP Morgan Chase due to their investment in Elbit, affirming that their action will not stop until they #ShutElbitDown.

I'm genuinely surprised by how there is no public outrage over the cops breaking into university campuses and beating students over protests, let alone when the National Guard participates. It's just so weird to me.

Why am I saying this? Because normally, universities have some sort of immunity against certain actions of the state. For example, in Argentina it is outright illegal for cops to be inside university grounds and university authorities cannot call on the cops to enter their building unless it's for some extreme situation like someone taking hostages, bomb threat, etc. There's a funny story that happened once where I study, a cop (off duty, but still in uniform) entered our university to take her girlfriend out as she left classes (I hope she found someone better, cops don't deserve love), immediately as he walked in students began to yell at the guy, telling him to fuck off and leave. He was forced out, students reacted like when your body reacts to a disease or something. Years ago, several schools and universities rebelled against the government's attempt to "centralize education" (cover up for some privatization) by taking their own universities and self-managing them. Despite the clear conflict, the cops were not able to set foot in the campuses, and when they did there was quite the outrage over it.

Back in Medieval times, when universities first appeared in E*rope, there was a big debate among the state and the scholars (members of the church all of them, basically) wether the university could be intervened or not. In Paris, the authorities tried to intervene on their university but the students and their teachers carried out what is known as literally the first student strike, they simply left the city and went to study and debate elsewhere, leaving Paris without it's prestigious institution for about 4 years. When they returned, the state pledged to respect the university's integrity, it's programs and whatever happens inside it's a matter of the students and the teachers. They gained an immunity, so important in medieval times.

Yet in the US it appears this traditional immunity doesn't exist, cuz the pigs can force their way into the campuses, destroy encampments and arrest everyone, and the public is absolutely content with this. The US is literally worse than medieval Paris ffs.

With this said, keep in mind that universities are definitely intervened by the state. Then, we can conclude that these education bodies are forced to become a grotesque servant of the state. It must be freed.

France has deployed army personnel at ports and the airport in New Caledonia, after banning TikTok and declaring a state of emergency, amid widespread riots.

Who are these entitled students to stomp all over the dream that school administrators of every level have been fighting toward for decades? Hold strong administration, your vision of a campus with no students, no teachers, only administrators. The perfect educational institution is just over the horizon!

Very interesting that Hamas has re-activated the fighting in northern Gaza after Israel committed to Rafah. Obviously it makes Israeli propaganda about "dismantling Hamas" very silly in retrospect but that's not the main reason to do it, I imagine. I suppose it's about forcing Israel to re-commit troops to the north and spread them thinner? Definitely shows that Hamas has retained its organizational and fighting capacity even as we're over eight months since October 7th, which is encouraging.

AT LEAST TWO FRENCH PIGGES SMOKED, ACCORDING TO BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-69009025

THE INMATE WAS 'MOHAMED AMRA', PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE ANTI-ARAB RACISM BECAUSE IT'S COMING

Reported acts of resistance by the communist Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in Gaza today:

1- The engineering unit of the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades was able to detonate an explosive device with a military vehicle of the occupation forces in a precise ambush on “Abu Al-Aish” Street in Jabalia Camp.

2- The sniper in the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades was able to snipe and neutralize a Zionist soldier in the vicinity of “Abu Zaytoun” in Jabalia Camp in response to the occupation’s crimes against our people..

3- Our missile unit bombed the occupation forces at the Kerem Shalom site

Tensions mount amid Berkeley middle schoolers’ pro-Palestinian walkout

The Friday walkout included more than 100 students, ages 11 to 14, from the district’s three middle schools, with marches to UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to join Gaza protesters at their pro-Palestinian encampment. The walkout was not sanctioned by the schools or district, but students had support from parents and activists who accompanied them. While walkouts and protests have been common at high schools and colleges, they’ve been rarer at middle schools.

On their way to the university, some of the students encountered a resident on Rose Street who “held up her middle fingers at the kids,” Berkeley police said. An “unknown suspect” struck the woman with a cardboard sign and someone else threw water on her.

The incident was first reported by the Berkeley Scanner and the Jewish News of Northern California, which highlighted a video reportedly documenting the incident, showing the woman as she tells the students, “You don’t know history.”

I do kind of appreciate that Ryan Grim, when asking questions of the White House/State Dept. ghouls, has been using the phrase "Israeli Occupations Forces". And even while the replies are using their usual "But muh We'LL LooK iNTo iT" and "But muh IsRaEL aSSuReS uS" they seem to be neglecting to correct that and thus implicitly accepting the use of the phrase. That's some pretty good trolling, even if it's in the context of pretty weak "challenges" to the imperial propaganda machine from pretty liberal sources.

5 Israeli soldiers killed by tank shell. Friendly fire deaths estimated at 10%

Got ready for the shock of your lives, folks....

Antony Blinken Dines at Nazi Restaurant in Ukraine

Comrades I need to talk Ukraine War with you otherwise I'm going to explode from the pure energy. My pregnant wife doesn't understand what's going on, my Dad thought that Russia already won and I even called my communist uncle to talk about Kharkov but his favorite news channel on Youtube hasn't talked about Ukraine since the fall of Avdeevka so he didn't have a clue about the situation.

So what's our analysis of this Kharkov offensive by Russia? Am I right when I say that this is the biggest overall development of the war since the Russian withdrawal from Kherson in November 2022? For people who have checked out of Russia-Ukraine news, here's a little breakdown:

Russia has crossed the Russia-Ukraine border north of Kharkov again after withdrawing from this region in September 2022. It has been successful so far, with numerous villages captured and some serious progress close to Volchansk and Lyptsi. Those two towns are pretty much the only places where Ukraine has built any serious fortifications, so if those towns fall soon, Russia can pretty much drive down to the outskirts of Kharkov, and more importantly, to Velykyi Burluk and Chuhuiv, which could collapse the entire Oskil river region for Ukraine. Ukraine has also panicked now and started sending units from other parts of the frontline, which has already caused small collapses east of Chasiv Yar, in the southern parts of Krasnogorovka and in central Klishchiivka.

Honestly this has been so exciting to follow, we're finally learning names of new places and the line moving is actually visible on a zoomed out map. The good part is that this move could make other stagnant parts of the line finally move. Will Russia move into Sumy? Or will they cross the border north of Kupiansk? Or do a daring cross-Dnieper assault on Kherson again? Or could they finally move in Zaporozhye? Thank you mr Putin for making things move again

Strike against the University of California is on! 79% voted yes, with 19,780 voting!

This is structured as a "Stand Up Strike", in the vein as what was done with the recent auto strikes. Basically that means segments of the worker base are going to be called up to strike, with not everyone starting at once. In practical terms, that means one campuses are like, strike-ready, in terms of mobilizng people, they're getting activated. Likely UCLA and UCSD are going to be first, and rather fast to start. They experienced the big violence, and have the most momentum in strike organizing at the moment. But others are pretty ready too! Just doing some planning on the more like mundane part of planning, like local day to day stuff. Hopefully I'll get a chance to strike very soon.

There's around 50k workers in total, so a decent chunk didn't vote. To a degree that's expected though, as this was a fast turnaround event, and you're going to miss people either by not getting a chance to reach them, or them lacking interest. This was actually a very high turnout union election. And the bright side, the 'No' votes are probably all the dedicated Zionists and anti-labor types with enough energy to actually participate, with the larger population more like, open to being reached as things progress and it becomes more obvious that something is happening.

Blinken visited a pizzeria in Kiev and met with Kuleba there.

There's a framed photo of the Odessa Trade Union Hall Fire as well as Azov, Right Sector, Tornado Battalion (!), 14th Waffen SS Galacia, etc. symbols and badges on the walls.

In a powerful scene, a Jabalia resident bakes bread amidst clashes between the Resistance and the occupation forces, defying death and siege near tanks.

"Inshallah I will remain steadfast until I serve and feed all the people"

https://nitter.poast.org/BIG__Brother7/status/1791241486127829055

fuck I'm going to cry

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/despite-polls-biden-aides-insist-gaza-campus-protests-will-not-hurt-reelection-2024-05-18/

Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the U.S. president's policy on the war.

DESPITE POLLS

HAHAHAHA

DO IT YOU OLD FUCK! DOUBLE DOWN AND LOSE THE ELECTION! LET THE DEMENTED OLD MAN DIE IN IRRELEVANCE!

Western Ukraine supporters when you don't think that every Ukrainian aged 14 - 75 should be sent to die

"The peace activists are war activists," Palantir's CEO told a room of government officials, military contractors, and tech bros. "We are the peace activists."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

https://archive.is/Nydgu

https://nitter.poast.org/mideastXmidwest/status/1791506327413420412#m

Israel's response at the ICJ was an interesting watch. The body language was like a kid who comes home after a fight at school, knowing the school is going to call your parents, jumping everytime the phone rings.