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Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 12th to January 18th, 2026 - Abolish ICE - "C"OTW: USA
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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.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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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
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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.
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I am skeptical that the earth will necessarily experience a food supply shortages, I think the issues will continue to be the profit motive holding up an inflexible system. I think a lot of the issues with agriculture are essentially engineering challenges and social challenges that will break slowly or shift arable land, but we understand so much more now and can even genetically modify food to adapt. The worst problems will likely be when financialized agriculture makes a calculated decision to simply raise prices rather than adapting to keep people alive- or worse yet, engineer things to make them intentionally worse in order to increase prices and then blaming climate change itself
idk, bit doomerish here, but with the way biodiversity loss is going, I feel like there might be some catastrophic breaking point where 'nature' just sort of stops working for the most part and all sorts of base processes we take for granted start to break down.
Am I being unreasonable there?
No you're not. A blue ocean event is coming soon and without that ice to absorb heat things will get worse fast.
Honestly I feel like they should rename it to something that shows the urgency of how bad this is other than just "blue ocean" event. Something like big fucking extinction die death event.
You’re not being unreasonable. It won’t happen all at once, but we’ll see things progressively get worse in different areas of the world for several decades. It’s already begun, to be honest. But this means we have to urgently focus on dismantling capitalism to try and mitigate the worst effects.
There are definitely major breaking points which really make things hard to predict what comes after, we won't revert to a priomordial ooze any time soon but they will make life on Earth dramatically different and worse by most mammals' standards for everyone still alive on it.
Over ~32 degrees C yields drop on all C4 pathway plants because they stop absorbing CO2. Wheat, sugar, and corn are C4 pathway plants, iirc ~8% of all plants on Earth use it. 32+ summers are expected already in most of the wheat belts around the world, this isn't even factoring in that many of those wheat belts are fed water (and therefore cooled as well as hydrated) by disappearing mountain glaciers like the Rockies and the Himalayas.
Desalination of the oceans will also dramatically alter the movement of the ocean which will alter the weather worldwide as well as killing many of the things living in it.
We can't predict the knock-on effects of even one species being wiped out, and a lot of species are going to be wiped out.
This isn't my field so take this with a grain of salt, but I feel from what I've read the threats to pollinators from climate change could lead to food crises, at least for a time as artificial pollination methods are expensive and not widespread atm so would take significant time to be spun up to replace the lost production, also the need for certain crops to be pollinated during certain times of the year could exacerbate this potential global famine even if artificial pollination could be installed quickly
probably not, but I don’t know if assuming that that is inevitable is helpful either