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Release Your Client List, Cuomo

Holy fucking shit, he actually did it

I wanted Zohran to talk about Cuomo's connections to Jeffery Epstein for months now and just an hour ago he actually put this video out on his campaign youtube page

I'm still reserving my judgment until we see what he does in office but this isn't the kind of campaign any normal democrat or even DSA candidate would ever run

Over 20,000 arrested in Iran on suspicion of espionage during war with Israel [sic] | The Cradle

it looks like Iran is making an effort at dealing with its infiltration problem. cue pearl-clutching from western media about rights while Palestinian children starve to death if they avoid the US bombs

Watching reddit Ukraine libs cry will never not be funny.

Them acting like Trump hosting Putin was some kind of humiliation and betrayal means that they still don't get it. Project Ukraine was never about freedumb, it was to use Ukraine as a disposable pawn to weaken both Russia and the EU. Ukraine was never anything more than a useful asset that was to be discarded in the end. If Project Ukraine meets its objectives then good, if not, then the American empire will simply find another useful idiot that will sacrifice their own country for them. This goes to show that America is truly the worst "ally" on the planet and will happily sacrifice anyone for their own interests.

Now that project Ukraine has met its objectives (weaken Russia and the EU), America will dump the issue on its hapless EU bootlickers and continue to focus on squeezing China.

I gotta admit, seeing the liberals spamming pictures of Trump being gay with Putin on Twitter is really fuckin tiresome. Like, you're aware that Trump has been sending military hardware to Ukraine for months now, right? Did you consider that for a fucking second or will you be stuck in 2016 for the rest of your life?

Damascus requests Russian patrols in south Syria to ‘limit’ Israeli incursions: Report

The Syrian government has requested that the Russian military resume patrols in Syria’s southern governorates, according to a source cited by Kommersant.

The Russian outlet said Damascus believes these patrols could help reduce Israeli incursions.

According to the source, who attended a meeting between Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and members of the Syrian diaspora in Moscow, during the minister’s official visit to Russia, told the Russian newspaper that Damascus has asked Moscow to resume military police patrols in the border areas with Israel, as it did before the fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government.

“Russia's return to its previous positions could prevent Israel's interference in Syrian affairs,” the source said.

It would be really funny if somehow Russia gains back Syria as an ally after the fall of Assad

Germany's leading newspaper calls murdered Al Jazeera reporter 'terrorist posing as journalist' | The Cradle

The documents claim Sharif was recruited into Hamas at the age of 17, despite membership in the group officially requiring a minimum age of 18 years.

Another inconsistency is that joining the Qassam Brigades takes years of training.

the zionists always lie and yet they are still taken seriously by genocidal western media

UK government report on Palestine Action leaked. They have zero hard evidence of PA using violence in any capacity. The closest is police testimony for one of the 500+ incidents PA was involved in.

If it wasn't already clear, every politician calling PA a violent group was lying, and the UK had no basis for declaring them a terrorist organization.

There’s this dumb idea that people aren’t eating out as much or shopping as much because they’re not forced to go to the office as often. And it’s like bro we’re just broke. Give us more money and I promise you we’ll eat out more. Like I love getting slop shoved down my gullet, I’m not doing it less because I don’t see my manager as often, I swear.

Trump's new labor statistics chief Antoni is supposedly suggesting to do away with the monthly jobs report.

Comrade @musicenjoyer@hexbear.net already posted seperatedly but they seem to ave gotten lost in the Putin news.

Three factions of the resistance in Gaza released videos of operations yesterday. Kataib al Quds , Kataib al Nasser Salah al Din , and a supercut from Kataib al Qassam.

spoiler

Denazification by sniper

Tank treads blown off after a seperate operation.

Gaza lives and resists!!!

Glory to the martyrs, healing to the wounded, freedom to the prisoners and victory to the resistance. Allahu Akbar.

Groks woke

~~Because of sanctions~~ Russian journalists in Alaska for the summit cannot get hotels nor can they get phone service. They are being housed in a indoor sport stadium on red cross cots. Bizarre for such an supposedly important summit.

https://xcancel.com/RT_com/status/1956348781848416748

Reading the replies, yankee twitter users are very similar to israelis. All cut from the same cloth.

Nothing Ever Happens

Israel's [sic] army formed special intel unit to 'justify killing' of hundreds of Gaza journalists | The Cradle

The unit, called the ‘Legitimization Cell,’ was established by the military intelligence directorate, which includes Unit 8200

[...]

Abraham confirmed that the goal was to “whitewash the killing of all other journalists” by creating doubt, adding that “entire days were invested in this matter, and they found nothing.”

“I think Israel [sic] killed Anas al-Sharif simply because he was a journalist. And for the same reason, international media is prevented from entering Gaza: So that the crimes are seen less,” he went on to say.

article uses sources from within the zionist entity

EDIT: fixed link, thanks to @culpritus@hexbear.net

Fellow hexagonal bears, something important is happening in the main theatre of WW3. Russia seems to have achieved the biggest breakthrough in this war since Ukraine's Kharkov offensive in Sep 2022.

We have a sudden 15km breakthrough in between Konstantinivka and Pokrovsk-Myrnograd, which is by far the most impressive advance of this war in almost three years. Russian units are now operating far behind Ukrainian defence lines in that region and most importantly, they seem to have bypassed Ukrainian drone teams into a completely hollow part of the front. This has some devastating consequences for the Ukrainian defence in what remains of Donetsk under UKR control. Pokrovsk-Myrnograd is now almost completely choked, that area has been in a deep bulge for weeks now with Russian DRG units already operating near the city center, this further accelerates the collapse. Konstantinivka and soon by extension Druzkhivka are falling into a deep bulge with diminished supply. We also have reports that Russian DRG units have reached Dobropillia, which is the last large-ish settlement in Eastern Donetsk with good supply lines until now, so now with Dobropillia under threat, Ukrainians can't supply from Dnipro Oblast into Donetsk.

If you want a shorter summary: this part of the front wasn't supposed to be opened now because Ukrainians weren't prepared, now they're kinda cooked with dying manpower and barely any drone coverage and Russians pushing through in all directions.

Israel is in talks to possibly ~~resettle~~ Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians from Gaza ~~in~~ to South Sudan

"[Russia and China] are basically natural enemies [...] China needs Russia land (sic) [...] but because of pure stupidity they were driven together," laments Trump in an interview about the "natural friction" that even a "minor student of history" would have recognized and exploited.

Given that this was on Trump's mind following the summit, I'd be pretty sure all that talk during the conference about "Arctic cooperation" was likely about US propositions of shutting out non-Arctic Sea states like China (and potentially others) from the region, since China potentially developing the Arctic corridor through the Siberian coast would completely bypass the whole Canada-Greenland-Panama annexations scheme to control global shipping lanes from the "roaming Chinese and Russian ships" that Trump had been publicly obsessed over back in January.

Russia says its demands are unchanged: full Ukrainian withdrawal from regions that Moscow claims - Reuters

As well as Ushakov, Russia’s team comprises Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Kirill Dmitriev, a senior negotiator and head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-putin-alaska-summit-news-08-14-25#cmeb5wyom002u3b6n100bdybi

Russia is sending basically their entire top government leadership to the meeting at a military base in Alaska. The amount of trust being placed in the US, of all countries...

Directly from the Kremlin:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77637

https://t.me/RussiaDirect/374

Russia’s terms for a lasting peace with Ukraine were announced on June 14, 2024, and have not changed.

What were those conditions?

A recap of Russia’s unchanged peace terms, as outlined by President Putin on June 14, 2024:

— Full withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions.

— Ukraine’s renunciation of plans to join NATO and commitment to a neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear status.

— Demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine in accordance with the parameters agreed upon during the 2022 Istanbul talks.

— Guaranteed protection of the rights, freedoms, and interests of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population.

— Recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions.

— Lifting of all Western sanctions against Russia.

Trump Plans "Military Reaction Force" For Use Against Civilians Across the Country

President Trump and the Pentagon are considering creating a full-time “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” that could be called on to quash civil unrest and protest at a moment’s notice, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

The force would be made up of about 600 National Guards troops, half of which would be based on military bases in Alabama and Arizona, ready at all times to fly into any given city or state to lay down Trump’s law. They’d have military-style weapons and riot gear, would dispatch from their bases in waves of 100 soldiers, and would cycle out after 90 days to “limit burnout.”

I'm really curious to see how things like this are or are not able to scale up. 600 dudes for the whole country is basically nothing, and since major periods of unrest tend to break out in dozens of cities at the same time it would obviously not be up to the task. That's not even raising the question of just how capable these guys are of doing the task of repression when they're in the right position. These are not hardened psychopaths experienced with killing and death like the dehumanized veterans of WWI that formed the necessary basis of fascist repression. They're just lazy dudes who wanted an easy military gig where they'd never have to do anything. Not that they can't form the core of an eventually effective repressive system, but honestly, these sorts of move from Trump lately make the government look weak and fragile.

Some steel mill just blew up in the US

Link: Workers trapped after explosion at US Steel plant in Pennsylvania

There is an increasing amount of dismissal about the potential of BRICS (especially one that contains India), and that dismissal is certainly rather justified, but I am still deeply curious about what developments may occur as the global south braces to face the remaining ~85% of Trump's presidency.

The best shot for the Global South is to abandon neoliberalism and forge a new economic model forward - and that has to be socialism. What’s so worrying about Trump is that his global tariffs are going to kill the export economies and render them vulnerable to be taken over by foreign capital (think Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and the ensuing IMF bailouts).

As you mentioned, it is justified to question BRICS because it has had three years since the Ukraine war to forge an alternative framework, and they haven’t even come up with a coherent plan yet. The answer to this question is simple: all the BRICS countries want to run trade surpluses with one another. This literally cannot happen and their surplus goods will have to be sold to someone else - and that someone else willing to run a deficit to import from these countries will have control over the economy of the trade surplus running countries.

I’ve been repeating this, but you can see where the problem lies. These countries want to run trade surplus because they have bought into the IMF “balance the budget” playbook. In order to spend and invest domestically (which goes to the liability side of the central bank balance sheet), you first need to balance it out on the asset side of the balance sheet, and that means either holding foreign currencies (through exports aka “export-led growth”) or collateralize part of your economy. This keeps your budget deficit down to 3% per IMF recommendation. It is an artificial self-imposed constraint. And until any of the BRICS countries is willing to break that rule, the best possible scenario we’re going to see is “multipolar neoliberalism” - nothing fundamentally changes. (And this is a big “if” because by playing the neoliberal rules, you have effectively tied one if not both hands to your back and this greatly limits your available countermeasures against Western financial imperialism).

And this is where most internet anti-imperialists don’t understand: the US is allowed to run permanent trade deficit NOT because of its global reserve currency status. It is the exact opposite: the US willing to run permanent trade deficit is what makes the US dollar so ubiquitously liquid, stable and deeply penetrating throughout the global financial markets. This is what makes the dollar the global reserve currency, and where the power of dollar hegemony lies.

Until there is a country with a strong economy (looking at China) willing to challenge US hegemony by running large trade deficits to absorb the global surplus goods, we will continue to be trapped inside a neoliberal economic order, where finance capitalism will continue to reign supreme.

The journalists on the flight to Alaska were fed Kievs lmfao

#beanwatch nothing ever happens update:

coffee is still mildly expensive at 320, but that's still near lows for a year, unless someone (cough vietnam cough) harvest implodes, unlikely to change (this side of china doing shenanigans with brazil), cocoa still at 8600, god bless those farmers, hope they are milking it while they can. soybeans stay stable, nobody believes in shenanigans anymore

Reports that Trump will extend the China tariff pause by another 90 days.

So, no peace deal? Not even a ceasefire? Did Trump just want to chat with Putin personally?

19 years ago yesterday the Islamic Resistance Movement Hezbollah valiantly defeated a massive attack by the zionist child-killing army in what is now known as "the tank massacre of Wadi al-Hujair".

Six 4th generation Merkava were torched and 14 other armored vehicles. Overall, 34 zionist officers were sent to hell.

This article is in memory of the mujahid who led the defense. This is but one instance of many during the July war of 2006 where a small handful of resistance fighters held off a zionist force many times their size.

Ali Saleh: The “Destroyer of the Merkava Legend”

An excerpt:

Politico reports that Ukraine has issued a set of their demands for the Trump-Putin meeting (that they haven't been invited to, at least not yet);

• unconditional ceasefire before any negotiations begin

• Ukraine does not give up any of the territory it claims

• $1 trillion in "reparations" from Russia

• NATO membership for Ukraine

• unconditional release of all Ukrainian POWs

Trump may make Zelensky a scapegoat if American efforts to mediate a peaceful settlement in Ukraine fail, writes The Times. According to its assessment, this is indicated by Trump's words that further progress in reaching an agreement on Ukraine now depends on Zelensky.

The publication notes that Trump has already agreed to abandon the prospect of Ukraine's NATO membership, and may now also accept other Russian demands, "such as removing Zelensky from office or excluding EU membership."

Trump has already called Zelensky after the talks with Putin. The US president had a lengthy conversation with the president of Ukraine during the flight to Washington, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt said.

Right now, Trump is communicating with NATO colleagues. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino said that Zelensky is also participating in this conversation. Trump summoned Zelensky to Washington this Monday.

After a difficult phone conversation between Trump, Zelensky, and NATO country leaders, Zelensky announced that he will arrive in Washington for a meeting with President Trump on Monday.

Meanwhile, Europe is concerned that Trump will now pressure Zelensky to make territorial concessions. Trump also stated that Vladimir Putin prefers a comprehensive agreement to end the conflict rather than a temporary ceasefire.

Trump informed Zelensky and NATO leaders that Putin does not want a ceasefire and prefers a comprehensive peace agreement to end the war, reports Axios journalist Barak Ravid citing a source.

Moreover, according to the source who participated in the phone call, Trump generally agrees with Putin's position. "I believe that quickly reaching a peace agreement is better than a ceasefire," the source quotes Trump as saying. He also reports that the phone conversation between Trump, Zelensky, and NATO country leaders "was not easy."

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Kim Davis is directly asking the Supreme Court to overturn Obegerfell and Gay Marriage as a whole in a formal motion to the court.

How the fuck does a woman on her fourth marriage care so much about the sanctity of that shitty instutution? Can anyone explain that to me?

"Till minor inconvenience do us part" type of person jfc.

Sergey Lavrov’s Alaska outfit hints at Soviet nostalgia Politico

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appeared to be wearing a sweater with the letters “CCCP” — Russian for USSR — upon his arrival in Alaska.

Lavrov will be part of the Kremlin’s delegation when Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump meet later on Friday in a hotly anticipated summit to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Lavrov’s white sweatshirt was carefully hidden under a black gilet with only the middle letters “CC” clearly showing in a video posted on X.

The current Russian regime has repeatedly exploited USSR nostalgia to pursue its political and imperial goals, according to experts, with Putin calling the break-up of the Soviet Union the “greatest political catastrophe” of the 20th century during an address in 2005.

Moscow’s longing for the past has also been frequently linked to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the ensuing war, which Trump hopes to bring to an end in Alaska on Friday.

lmao what a farce. Russia really needs to shut up about the USSR.

Trump is just looking for new ppl to hang out with bc his old pal Joe isn't coming out of the home anymore. I think this was a success for him. He got to show off his jets and his beautiful military men to Putin, and the nasty press didn't manage to ruin the vibes. Even floated the idea of hanging out in Moscow soon, I bet Putin would show him some cool tanks and gorgeous Russian military men.

He's just fucking around lol

prefers Leningrad over St. Petersburg

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/ an older man, who had had a stroke and was likely in the early stages of dementia, died when he tried to visit an AI in new york. he repeatedly had asked the bot if it was real and it always said it was. the story also talks about how these facebook chatbots are basically grooming machines. somebody should really do something about zuck and meta

DC police are now under federal control, Trump deploying National Guard - ABC News

To think this all started because of Big Balls and his getting beat up by 2 15 year olds.

The control expires in 30 days, unless the Senate and House back an extension.

DC becoming a state? That would have been a great idea to pass that WHILE you had a majority in congress as well as the executive branch, but the party was busy doing other things.

Things like funding the police to the hilt and hoping that appeases them. And arresting protestors. The DC police union approves of this move to bring the police force under the presidents control. So that worked.

And the main retort we hear from Hakeem Jeffries and Chris Murphy is "crime is at an all time low." Yeah bud, it's at an all time low after a big push to repress dissent. What that tells the Trump administration is that the repression is working and that we should spread military police into cities to override "woke anti police" policy decisions. Trump was also standing next to a bar chart with DC crime being the highest level in comparison to I think other cities which is BS lol they aren't listening to facts.

Time for the yearly Ukrainian collapse in Donbas. The Russians have made weeks of progress in 3 days.

Seems like the Russians were building up forces to encircle Pokrovsk to the west, but then decided to change their plans and instead thunder-run north towards the new second belt of defenses that the Ukrainians have been building for over a year. Turns out, the Ukrainians built this formidable new defensive line to prepare for the future, but then didn't have enough soldiers to man it. The Russians are now moving into this free real estate and spreading out along it, turning a 10km encirclement into a 30km fortified encirclement.

Ukrainian commentator cope is currently "the Russians aren't getting better, our own high command is getting more incompetent."

Now this is not news, but:

If anyone wants to spend their weekend reading about Soviet/Russian and US air defence systems (extreme nerd activity I know), Here's a great source of English translations from a Hungarian book about them. Hundreds of pages of information. Read quite a lot of it already over the past few months.

To try tangentially link this to current events/news, Russia has constructed a new ring of Short Range Air Defense systems around Moscow on the 50km ring road, mainly consisting of Pantsir S1 systems in elevated towers, about 45 of them and some radars, to adress the Ukrainian drone threat.

Source

This is pretty much a direct copy of what the USSR did with the first S-300 systems, deploying 56 batteries around Moscow to defend against the nuclear cruise missile threat at the time. AGM-86 ALCM: a nuclear armed, 2400km range cruise missile launched from B-52 Stratofortress bombers, and BGM-109G Gryphon GLCM: a nuclear armed ground launched Tomahawk cruise missile. Which you can read about in the booklet on S-300 systems.

Big Bird search radar from the S-300 system on an elevated platform around Moscow.

Ukraine is denying that the front has been breached open.