No one should ever be shot in the neck while hosting an event titled “Prove Me Wrong” and lecturing people about how guns are good and all gun deaths are worth it. It would be like taking a Gadsden flag to a rally and being trampled to death. That is also not funny.
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Bulletins and News Discussion from September 8th to September 14th, 2025 - Reconciliation, Resets, and Really Cool Parades
(hexbear.net)
Analysis and images of the parades is all over the internet and in the last megathread; for the China-India stuff I recommend this article, as well as the Tricontinental in general.
Image is from @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net's comment in the last megathread.
Last week was the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and on such an occasion, China put on quite an impressive military parade, especially in comparison to the rather drab and corporate parade that the USA recently had. In attendance were many world leaders, including Putin, Kim Jong Un, and a very happy-looking Lukashenko.
This took place shortly after the SCO summit in Tianjin, in which Modi was notably in attendance. That one of the world's most powerful fascists was in attendance in China near the anniversary of the World Antifascist War is obviously pretty ironic. Regardless, the mood was still relatively positive; for example, Xi announced the acceleration of the creation of the SCO development bank, and Indian-Chinese relations are once again in the thaw cycle of their long-term cyclical pattern, with direct flights resumed and links expanded. The fact that there is this much projected optimism from China about a Global South which is being increasingly tariffed, infiltrated, starved, looted, bombed, invaded, and massacred in the hundreds of thousands by rabid imperialist dogs is perhaps a little tone-deaf, but buoying up the SCO is better than doing nothing at all, I suppose.
Any astute Geopolitics Understander can tell you that this is certainly not India joining the side of the Global South, but instead a move somewhat forced upon them as they seek to balance both sides for their own gain. As Trump amps up pressure on India via tariffs, it is natural that India would seek leverage, and there is much that India gains: industrial development, increased intra-regional trade, and scientific knowledge from a China which has, in numerous fields, now pulled ahead of the USA. India is also facing numerous internal crises, ranging from run-of-the-mill capitalist incompetence and corruption, to worsening conditions for farmers, to the ravaging impacts of climate change, and increasing their links with China is a way to vent off a little of that pressure and protect Modi's regime.
Last week's thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
Please check out the RedAtlas!
The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
Israel'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.
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.
And no one is talking about 
's terrorist attack on Hamas in Qatar anymore or that birthday card to Epstein. How convenient.
POV: your cake day is 9/11
American dog yaps out unwanted eulogy of man with small face:
https://twitter.com/bikhim/status/1965947660801888590
Hope the assassin did some insider trading.
It would be really funny if they caught the shooter because they put a huge bet in yesterday.
So you’re saying there’s a chance
if you start to feel bad that Kirk's children had to see him die, remember that it's what their father wanted
I was trying to be diplomatic at work and I described Kirk as being "extremely unsympathetic", but I had no idea how hard it is too even pretend some sort of neutrality.
idk i can still feel bad for the kids, they dont deserve to have seen something like that, im hoping they werent actually looking at the stage and they didnt actually see anything (if they were even actually there, wouldnt be surprising in the slightest for that to have been a lie trying to stir up sympathy.)
yeah I'm with you just kinda overflowing with spite and needed a way to intro the quote
The reaction of some people to the video (Hasan Piker especially) actually has me wondering a few things, as far as "worst things to see on the internet" it ranks a solid 5/10 in terms of bloodiness, even those ghoulish "Killing in self-defense/heroes shoot robbers" snuff films they allow on Youtube are more visceral and distressing than Kirk getting domed
I can't come to any other conclusion than the realization that the vast majority of people have no fuckin clue what has taken place in Gaza, and by that I mean they can't actually visualize what's happening to Gaza, I think we here on Hexbear because of our access to direct and Arabic news sources have seen things the vast majority of the western left has not
I always wondered why so many "leftist" commentators, podcasters, streamers still have this unspoken hesitation and almost unconscious need to abstract the Gaza genocide, while spaces like TikTok inexplicably have the same serious attitude we here on Hexbear have despite TikTok being filled with right-wingers, and it hit me, people on Hexbear and TikTok HAVE SEEN the videos; the burning people, the kids without faces, the babies hanging dead off rebar. The worst that many of the politics Andies have seen are smoke clouds in the distance, people covered in dust, or the New York Times x-rays
The fuckin commentariat haven't seen shit, they either avoid those videos on purpose or most likely they rely on dry articles, journalistic reports and stats to form an opinion, no wonder when I watch their vids they sound sociopathic to me, I saw a kid missing their face and they're just reading an article, the disconnect is enormous
This whole time I thought most of the left was on the same page concerning the visual knowledge of the atrocities, but if people are fainting over a video of a single gunshot wound, then wtf do people really know about what's happening in Gaza?
I have a theory. It is well established that Luigi did not kill that healthcare guy — he is the patsy. Bless the kid, he seems like a good guy caught up in something he didn’t do.
So, that means this leftist, highly skilled WACKJOB that killed the beloved CEO is still out there.
The guy (or gal or g[them]) that capped Charles Kirk was most likely the real killer of Beloved Healthcare CEO.
ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE SICKEN ME! World peace now please.
as of now on CNN the chyron is saying no one in custody for Kirk's shooting
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of course the Kirk shooter had to go for a neck shot. his face was too small of a target
I had to look up the dead fascist because, being non USian, I didn't know much about him. For anyone else who's out of the loop, here is some important context: apparently, today the world lost
- an influential propagandist who pushed all kinds of hate and fascist ideology: incited millions of his followers on many platforms to commit racist, anti-LGBTQI+ and genderbased violence and to support such policy, spread deadly misinformation around vaccinations, covid and climate change
- the leader of a large and multipronged reactionary propaganda organization focusing on students with even an arm in the UK, spreading the same fascist ideology
- a powerful politician and ally to Trump who tried to prepare a coup and might have become a contender in the next elections
Did I miss anything important?
His head was extremely big and his face was extremely small. Don't trust any photos with a normal looking face, those are photoshopped.
He never went to college at all, but started his shitty org attacking universities for being liberal
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He was also in favour of public executions and thought that children should be forced to watch them.
Oh and the icing on the cake is that he once said that gun violence deaths were an unfortunate necessity to ensure the 2nd amendment 
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Social media networks of Brazilian right-wing groups are buzzing with posts referring to the protests in Nepal and expressing the desire for a similar uprising to take place in Brazil against the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which this week concludes the trial of Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) and seven other defendants in the attempted coup case.
Minister Flávio Dino filed a complaint with the Federal Police (PF) on Wednesday (September 10) requesting investigations into social media posts encouraging lethal attacks on ministers and their families, as well as the destruction of the STF headquarters. “Among the striking features is a constant allusion to events that took place in ‘Nepal,’ which seems to suggest a concerted action of an inciting nature,” Dino states in the complaint sent to the PF.
"In right-wing groups, in particular, we found many videos and images making comparisons. Saying: ‘In Nepal, it's a communist government; in Brazil, it's a communist government.’ 'In Nepal, they tried to silence the population; here in Brazil, they try to silence the population.‘ 'In Nepal, a dictator took away the people's freedom of expression. In Brazil, we have a dictator supreme court justice,’" are some of the things posted by the far-right online.
- Telegram
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What were his last words? Spewing hate against trans people?
Shithead had it coming. 
wont leave his house for 30 years.
Using racism to make a transphobic argument
"Do you know how many people died in Mass shootings in America ? "
"including or excluding gang violence ?"
death
His last word was literally "violence"
At approximately 12:10 p.m. local time (MDT), Kirk, while speaking at an event, was shot in the neck from approximately 200 yards away. Kirk was answering a question on low numbers of mass shootings committed by transgender people prior to the shooting.
He was specifically asked "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?". Kirk responded, "Counting or not counting gang violence?", and was then shot.
I take a break from the news mega for 5 days and this happens lol
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CHARLIE KIRK DISS TRACK:
https://nitter.net/sugefrmjerz/status/1965901959556374783
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Political violence is inexcusable. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to vote for concentration camps at the border and more funding for the police, nazis, and zionists.
With the events since the Trump assassination attempts and now this last few days (Charlie Kirk assasination and the Ukrainian refugee in the United States being murdered in cold blood on the train, honestly the Ukrainian woman getting murdered on the train was one of the worst videos I've ever seen), I think that the overton window is going to shift so far to the right that Trump will be considered a moderate. There's no going back.
Two people tried to kill trump in the past year and it didn't move the needle at all
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400,000 dead in Gaza in industrialized genocide: Americans sleep
2 people dead (one of which deserved it): REAL SHIT
You don’t live in the US right? 2 murders ain’t gonna move shit. Americans don’t get up for less than 3,000
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