So Israel promised to respond to Iran's attack within 24 hours. Where is it? Another "Rafah invasion in the next week" moment?

Workers at the Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, TN voted overwhelming yesterday to join the UAW. 73% in favor with 84% turnout.

General Hajizadeh, who led the strikes on Israel, says that we will 100% strike Israel again if it responds.

"100% we will, don't worry"

Here's a glimpse into the the genocidal mania of the settlers in Israel

Yedioth Ahronoth photographer Shaul Golan says he was attacked by a group of settlers after arriving at the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir to document the rampage unfolding there.

“I was walking around the village taking pictures when I saw a group of masked Jews emerge from a nearby olive grove, walking around… as if they owned the town. I filmed as they torched homes,” he tells the Ynet news site.

“Then they searched my pockets for a memory card to make sure I didn’t have any recording of what they were doing,” he says.

“I started telling them, ‘I’m not an Arab, I’m a Jew.’ They ran toward me, screaming in terror and grabbed me, shouting, ‘You’re a Jew, how are you not ashamed of yourself?'”

“Some were in IDF uniforms and holding guns. There were 20 or 30 of them who beat me as I shouted for help, hoping that soldiers would hear me. But they were the soldiers… I laid on the floor, as every one of them kicked me in the head and stomach,” Golan says.

“They left me stripped and threw my motorcycle keys into the fire, so I’d have no way to get home. They had hate in their eyes,” he says

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-photographer-beaten-by-settlers-while-trying-to-document-rampage-of-palestinian-town/

Biden suggests uncle eaten by ‘cannibals’ in New Guinea — but military says his WWII plane lost at sea

(sorry for New York Post link, I archived it but the video of him saying it doesn't play as an archive)

Indian Prime Minister ( Hindu Fascist) gives a hate inciting speech against Muslims with words akin to what Hitler said about the Jews. This is just the little step before the calls for genocide start.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedstatesofindia/comments/1c9ieqx/any_right_thinking_individual_would_be_ashamed_to/

Israeli sources are like Ace Attorney witnesses, they are constantly caught lying but we are expected to believe them the next time around.

The tories are pulling the power from GPs to determine whether a mental health patient is "fit for work" and giving it to "special professionals". IE they're outsourcing to a team of people with no medical qualifications with the goal of taking away the money (PIP) these people need to survive.

https://archive.ph/cB6zR

Just a blatant attack on the social safety net of the UK being made via the most vulnerable people in the country.

I love the liberal “we just don’t know” fence-sitting that somehow always sides with State Department narratives. Is there a unicorn hiding in my gaping asshole? There’s no evidence for it, but there’s also no evidence against it. You must respect my lived truth!

Chile's Chamber of Deputies has elected Karol Cariola, from the Communist Party, as its new president. She was elected with 76 votes, against 75 votes for the opposition candidate, Joana Perez Olea.

This is the first time that the Communists have controlled Chile's Chamber of Deputies. The vice-presidency went to the People's Party, with deputy Gaspar Rivas, who was also elected with 76 votes. Eric Aedo, from Christian Democracy, was elected 2nd Vice-President with 76 votes.

Dude set himself on fire outside the Trump trial. His page here:

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

https://archive.ph/ysP9U

Liberals mock the hypocrisy of conservatives; conservatives mock the hypocrisy of liberals, and our collective circumstances erode. The left shouts “All Cops Are Bastards,” which ensures they’ll be hated by the police and the public (and flies in the face of leftist theory). The public’s distrust of the government is at an all-time high, but so is the belief that we are helpless to do anything about it.

Dude seems brainwormed but he correctly labels "the left" as a separate thing to liberals.

Edit: Looks like libs are latching onto the whackiest part (where the Simpsons comes up) to completely dismiss all of it. This will make an impression on some people though.

EDIT2: Stupidpol and trueanon user. Local crank. Sad stuff.

Think I’ve stumbled onto a pretty big gotcha for the pro-genocide progressives, not that it actually matters. Even if we are to accept the idea that a second Biden term would result in any gains for marginalized groups: these people simultaneously go through the moral calculus of deciding that a genocide is an acceptable trade-off whilst also condemning others for “sacrificing” their rights. It’s clear that, to them, some peoples’ rights matter, and some peoples’ don’t. Their rights are inviolable but they’re perfectly willing to sacrifice an entire population. Consult this helpful chart:

They hide behind “lesser-evilism” and invented moral superiority when what they really mean is: I am willing to be complicit in anything and everything so long as it doesn’t affect me.

The sheer fucking gall to accuse others of political callousness when they are willing to engage in this kind of depraved Hitlerian moral calculus for the (smokescreen) sake of “practicality”.

BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports the Biden administration is considering sending an additional $1 billion in new weapons to Israel

ironclad!

NEW: The U.S. is expected to announce sanctions against the IDF 'Netzah Yehuda' battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, according to three U.S. sources – Axios

Wiki on them is rather light with not much to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzah_Yehuda_Battalion

My assumption here is that the liberals will try to spin IOF atrocities into "a few bad apples" and then scapegoat batallions like this one in order to deflect from it being an iof-wide problem. Essentially create an "Azov" of Israel to deflect through and propagandise around it being "only a thousand people".

Israel launches "worst retaliation strike ever", asked to leave UN

China’s economy grew 5.3% in the first quarter, beating expectations

Real estate continues deleveraging, and yet 5.3% GDP growth YoY.

Retail sales growth continues to be sluggish (3.1% vs. 4.6% predicted) and CPI is coming in cool (0.1% vs. 0.3% predicted). My theory for this is that China is actually seeing costs drop more quickly than CPI metrics can keep up. Traditional big-ticket household spending categories are housing, transportation, and education. Housing prices are obviously on the decline, but transportation costs are also decreasing due to the combination of cheaper EVs and an expanding HSR network. Education costs have been clamped down on after the crackdown on private tutoring, while average education outcomes have been raised by the crackdown on gaming. Meanwhile, traditional recurring costs like food and energy have been pushed downward by increasing trade with Russia as well as the rise of cheap solar.

It may be time to revisit the notion of ever-increasing consumption value as being important for economic growth. In this case, you can get the same quality of life with substantially less money. Why spend more to pad the top line retail sales number?

Article in German newspaper titled "More than just harsh words"... about how Annalena Baerbock got into an argument with Netanyahu

THAT'S STILL JUST HARSH WORDS YOU GENOCIDAL IMBECILES

US agreed to Israel’s plan for Rafah in return for not carrying out large Iran strike – report

didn’t one of you call this? so monstrous

Witness the resilience: A Palestinian, displaced by Israeli aggression, defiantly returns to Khan Younis in the southern #Gaza Strip in his vehicle, despite it being totally destroyed

Ukrainians faked being the IOF to scam Israelis out of $2M:
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/1780324133651312824

US troops in Niger have still not been removed by the Pentagon after Niger declared it illegal last month. The troops are unable to leave, in some cases extending deployment, and cannot receive supplies or even mail.

between the war bills, gutting of remaining data privacy, and tiktok ban passing yesterday, biden is soooo fucked with gen z voters (more like non-voters)

An Israeli man sustained injuries this morning while attempting to remove a booby-trapped Palestinian flag in the West Bank near the Israeli settlement of Kokhav HaShahar.

U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles - theintercept.com

BREAKING: Israel's National Security Minister Ben Gvir says imposing sanctions on an IDF battalion operating in the West Bank is a 'red line' and that he expects the defense minister 'not to submit to American dictates'.

apparently the US isn't even imposing sanctions, they're just applying the Leahy Law to this one particular battalion? sounds like bullshit to me, how can you not fund one battalion in particular?

I hope Iran wasn't bsing, because it's beyond time to start leveling Tel Aviv

The "nothing ever happens" and "everything always happens" beams got crossed and we created a singularity where whatever you think happened, happened.

in Sydney, an Assyrian priest (pretty popular on youtube and tiktok) was stabbed multiple times mid-service by an attacker - there's video of it on twitter that I won't post, horrifying. the police are holding the attacker in custody outside the church and and people are throwing rocks and stuff at the police trying to get to the attacker. the priest is apparently stable and didn't face any life-threatening injuries.

news article

CW: Last message we received from those displaced in the school in Beit Hanoun is that the school is under heavy bombardment by artillery shelling- all communication from Beit Hanoun has been cut off. Please share what’s happening in North Gaza.

There is still no new government in the Netherlands despite elections taking place in November.

Anti-politics mfers when they have to actually do politics :

Blinken to head to China April 24-26 to discuss 'serious concerns'

State Secretary Blinken will attempt to persuade #China to cut an alleged support for #Russia's defense industrial base amid the war in Ukraine.

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1781778001727828121

Reuters: Exclusive: Russia restoring oil refining capacity knocked out by drones

Russia has been able to swiftly repair some of key oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones, reducing capacity idled by the attacks to about 10% from almost 14% at the end of March, Reuters calculations showed.

Fun fact: Soviet-era refineries were specifically built to withstand damage from bombing.

Russia is repairing its refineries fast, despite difficulties in obtaining Western know-how.

Incredible! Despite their Asiatic brainpans!

Now that I've had time to reflect on it, Iran's self defence was extremely cool

Gaza Strip: Israel Releases 150 Detained Palestinians

In recent weeks, Palestinian authorities and non-governmental organizations have accused Israel of torturing those arrested in Gaza, many of whom are transferred to unknown locations.

On Tuesday, Israeli security forces released 150 Palestinians captured during their offensive against the Gaza Strip, amid reports of torture and ill-treatment of detainees.

The General Authority for Crossings and Borders reported in a brief statement that they were released at the Kerem Shalom crossing, near the triple demarcation line between Gaza, Egypt and Israel.

Israel has detained more than 8,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the current cycle of violence on 7 October, but the number in the Strip, under attack and under siege since then, is unknown.

In recent weeks, Palestinian authorities and non-governmental organizations have accused Israel of torturing those arrested in Gaza, many of whom are transferred to unknown locations.

Recently, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor denounced sexual violence and inhumane treatment of female prisoners by the army in the coastal enclave.

The group documented testimonies of mistreatment of women both on the ground and in the country's prisons.

The recently released detainees reported beatings, threats of rape if they did not comply with orders, and how they were forced to strip naked and subjected to strip searches, he said.

Several were tied up and blindfolded for long periods, detained in open cages in freezing conditions and without food or medicine.

The Monitor noted that they were constantly threatened with deprivation of seeing their children and had money and items taken from them at the time of their arrest.

According to Russian sources, Russian troops have entered the center of Ocheretyne.

If the town falls completely, the map will look pretty wild. The salient was already very deep.

Ukrainian source claims the defenders retreated and had to be replaced by an elite unit that was due to be rotated out.

Russian S-300 air defense systems and other systems are out in the streets of Tehran

https://streamable.com/d3mlk7