A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of Iranians celebrating the beginning of the ceasefire under the framework of Iran’s 10 Points.

Mere hours before Trump’s 8pm Tuesday deadline yesterday, Pakistan’s government contacted Iran with a US-written proposal for a two-week ceasefire, explicitly stated to also include Lebanon, during which they would negotiate a permanent end to the war on the basis of Iran’s 10 Points. Among other things, these points include 1) maintaining strict control (joint with Oman) over Hormuz, complete with a toll; 2) the end of sanctions on Iran; 3) keeping their enriched uranium; 4) a withdrawal of US forces from the Middle East [stated by the Supreme Leadership Council but not in the 10 Points, so who knows], and 5) some plausible guarantee that Iran would never be attacked again. I’ve heard rumors that China may have prodded Iran to accept these terms.

In theory, these are relatively confident and maximalist demands. In practice, Iran has already achieved military and economic control over Hormuz and the withdrawal of many US troops and bases from the region, so at least a few of Iran’s demands are, to a greater or lesser extent, already achieved, and with little hope for an increasingly exhausted US to undo these achievements short of nukes.

A couple hours after the ceasefire, the Zionist entity began a wave of airstrikes in Lebanon, killing hundreds of civilians, as well as flying drones into Iranian airspace. This was a strange move to make even if you assume - very sensibly - that the US is completely agreement non-capable: why not agree to the ceasefire and simply pretend to negotiate for two weeks while regrouping/repairing what assets you can and then start hitting Iran again?

One theory is that the Zionists are testing to what degree Iran is actually willing to have solidarity with Lebanon and Hezbollah. While the Resistance has been relatively united since October 7th, the formation of separate peaces instead of negotiating terms as a united front has been a major exploitable weakness. Alternatively, it’s been proposed that the US didn’t even consider using the ceasefire to regroup and deceive Iran, and that Trump merely wanted a way to chicken out of his threat on Iran’s electrical grid - the fact that US officials have since stated that Iran’s 10 Points were not the same ones they agreed to is a point supporting this, I suppose. If the conflict resumes and Trump does not deliver another 48 hour deadline (and/or makes it something silly like a month from now) then this could be the explanation.

From Iran, I am getting the sense that a lot is happening behind the scenes. Statements from top officials like Araghchi have stated quite plainly that there will be no ceasefire and no negotiations unless the Zionists stop attacking Lebanon, but as of ~24 hours after the ceasefire began, there has been no significant military response from Iran yet. There have apparently been phone calls between Araghchi and numerous regional officials, but it is unknown to what end. All the while, the global economic situation continues to deteriorate. Over the next week or two, the last tankers that left Hormuz before it closed will arrive at their destinations. If the missile exchanges begin once more, then the West, much like most of the rest of the world, will be experiencing all sorts of fuel, energy, food, and product shortages while trying to justify why they broke the ceasefire to kill more Lebanese civilians.

Last week’s thread is here.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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 the Zionists’ 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

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.

  • 🔻ietnoomer@lemdro.idEnglish
    59·
    11 days ago

    Hell News 👹

    [2026-04-11] @FurkanGozukara: BOMBSHELL: A California Sheriff goes on live TV and openly confesses to an extrajudicial killing. He admits police intentionally used an armored vehicle to run over and crush a suspect, bluntly stating “he got what he deserved.”

    (video)

    [2026-04-11] @solzhenidiot: Liberals want a society where the thug who, on behalf of the worst form of parasite known to man–the real estate speculator–goes to make someone homeless by force of arms, thinks he has a right to live. This politics is called “Landlord Theory.”

    Expand book screenshots

    @katee_K1: A Tulare County detective was ambushed and killed Thursday morning while serving an eviction notice in Porterville, CA.

    Detective Randy Hoppert was shot by a 60-year-old suspect armed with a high-powered rifle. He died at a local hospital, leaving his four-months-pregnant wife behind.

    The suspect barricaded himself, then later emerged in tactical gear and opened fire on SWAT. Officers ran him over with a BearCat, killing him instantly.

    No prior record. Motive unknown.

    (insipid news video)

    Expand thread

    [2] Are you an American leftist? If so you probably disdain “theory” and extoll action, any action at all. But since you either believe that it is fine to harm a landlord or that it is terrible to do so, you are definitely a political theorist. You’re probably a landlord theorist.

    [3] Where did you learn this theory? Basically every place in America of any kind that distributes ideas is a place of landlord pedagogy, such as your school, your university, your church/mosque/synagogue, your TV shows, your movies, your DSA speed-dating bingo night, your podcast. [4] Why don’t you know you are a theorist? Because the most important theory the landlords serve is liberalism, and part of what makes it so effective is it hides itself from its host. Your disdain for theory is itself a theory in disguise, so you won’t know what you’re doing. [5] Btw don’t go out randomly harming landlords. The idea that it is good to do so is another landlord theory called “anarchism.” It sacrifices a few landlords (they dgaf) but ultimately only serves to fortify and preserve the landlord system. They want you to do that.

    For legal reasons I agree with the last part 😶

    • mkultrawide [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      11 days ago

      Are you an American leftist? If so you probably disdain “theory” and extoll action, any action at all.

      NGL, I’m pretty sure anarchism in the US, at least among anticapitalists, is about as unpopular as its been in quite a long time. Everything between OWS and somewhere between the first Bernie Sanders campaign and Trump’s first terms seems to have largely strangled the mainstream anarchist/libsoc movement. ML seems way more ascendant in the American left at the moment, but maybe I’m just in a bubble or I’m using to narrow of a definition of leftist.

      • FloridaBoi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        26·
        11 days ago

        I would agree, generally. there also seems to be age divisions where middle-aged (45-60) folks have an affinity toward anarchism probably from “soviet bureaucracy” propaganda tinged with internet idealism. Older and younger cohorts appear to lean more ML

        • Boise_Idaho [null/void, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          13·
          11 days ago

          adventurism most popular among middle-age people who are too old to do serious adventurism and less popular among young people who are strong and young enough to do serious adventurism

          The feds just playing the US left like a fucking fiddle.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        24·
        11 days ago

        Whenever I talk to people about anarchism vs. ML or other tendencies I always make sure to point out that on a small enough scale, any action is anarchist. You don’t need a party with extensive doctrine to do mutual aid. At the same time, revolutionary action at macro scale requires more structure than anarchism provides. A purely anarchist movement will never topple a modern capitalist government. This is why Chomsky was made the voice of The Left™ in the US: he and his views posed no threat to capitalist hegemony. Elevating “intellectuals” like Chomsky put up very effective guardrails for anyone in the US who wandered into leftist theory. Anarchism gave them a ton of theory and small tasks to keep them busy for the rest of their lives while allowing (demanding, really) them to continue hating communism as much as any red-blooded American patriot, if not more.

        Also, China has far more local power than any liberal democracy. People can walk into their local party office to make suggestions, ask for help with tasks around the house, etc. Literally indistinguishable from what anarchists seem to want, just replace “local party office” with “super secure mutual aid Signal chat”.

        The Chinese model of “whole-process people’s democracy” thus integrates two major democratic models: electoral democracy and consultative democracy. It begins at the township level (乡镇级), where Township People’s Congresses are directly elected by communities. At this level, participation is also guaranteed by self-governing village committees with direct elections and local consultation meetings and forums. Elections at the grassroots level represent the most extensive and dynamic form of democracy in China, which includes the election of village committees, urban residents committees, and employee congresses in enterprises and public institutions. This is significant because China remains heavily decentralized. Local governments — including the provincial, prefectural, county, township, and village levels — make up 50 percent of government revenue and account for nearly 85 percent of expenditures. China’s central government is responsible for only 15 percent of total government expenditure — the global average is 66 percent.

        (source, which is a great look at how Chinese democracy works in the modern era)

    • 🔻ietnoomer@lemdro.idEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      @PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml: is a little too close to being a vulgar economist in that he refuses to moderate his language when he’s told he’s using terms that are too close to actual slurs like “westoid”

      No Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument. Fucking crackers. Surely you don’t think that is really what “vulgarist” refers to?