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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 9th to June 15th, 2025 - Iran-Israel War Begins
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Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.
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Minnesota, U.S.:
A man described as impersonating a police officer has apparently shot state senator John Hoffman (D) and state representative Melissa Hortman (D) at their homes overnight. Their spouses were also shot. ~~Condition unknown for all victims.~~ See update.
Suspect impersonating police officer is still at large - notably before planned protests today. On the off chance someone here lives in northern Minneapolis, avoid cops with extra fervor today.
More Info:
spoiler
The first shooting occurred at the Hoffman residence around 2 A.M.. Cops exchanged gunfire with the suspect as he left the Hortman residence around 3:30 A.M. and found that his vehicle allegedly contains a long list of names and addresses. The manhunt supposedly involves "hundreds and hundreds" of police officers.Source
Updated 1PM CDT:
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Melissa Hortman and spouse have been killed. John Hoffman and spouse are post-surgery and prognosis is "optimistic".Police are urging people to avoid political protests today, LMAO
Suspect identified as Vance Luther Boelter. "It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz. He appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Council in 2016 by then-Gov. Mark Dayton."
Source
Sidenotes:
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Minneapolis police may be stretched thin today between this and the protests. Reportedly, all 201 state lawmakers are in protective custody and are described as having a police car outside their homes since the shootings. Additionally, "hundreds and hundreds" of cops are participating in the manhunt. Planned protests start at 11 A.M. CDT.Am I missing the evidence that it's someone impersonating a cop rather than actually being a cop?
Anything is possible lol
All we have is that suspect is described as wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants. He is being described as "possibly impersonating" a cop.
Update: Suspect allegedly has a police badge, taser, and vehicle that looks like a police car.
Canada's worst mass shooting in history was carried out by a guy with a replica cop car
Exactly where my mind went, it sounds like an extremely effective way of confusing any law enforcement response, especially if you also have access to a police scanner/radio
How would the guy differ from an ICE “agent?”
ACAB includes this guy
Doesn't that man know that impersonating a police officer is illegal??
America is slow rolling the stupidest civil war
Why?
Years of Lead Paint
lol this is very witty good job
Nice
American (conservative) psychosis
They were against deportation?
Almost certainly not, but they're Democrats and the right wing in America can look directly at Democrats doing all the right wing shit they do and call them communists because they're completely ignorant
Sorry in advance, I'm ADHDing on this comment lol
We can't know for sure until the suspect is caught. To me, it seems like a far-right politically motivated assassination because both victims were democrats. But it seems a bit random.
Melissa Hortman, is the leader of her party in the split 67-67 state house and is an advocate for pro-choice, commuter rail, and solar energy initiatives. She seemingly holds a good amount of political power as far as state politics go.
John Hoffman is a previous minority whip in the state senate and chairs the Human Services Committee. Shooting him seems strange from the information I can gather. Hoffman doesn't seem particularly notable in the senate. Also, the suspect would've had to drive maybe 10 miles between shootings.
The suspect might have planned to go house to house among state democrats? Nothing major in recent state legislative news seems to have prompted this. I'm guessing the suspect is just some MAGA psycho.
Update: Police allegedly exchanged gunfire outside the Hortman residence and found a long list of names of state legislators in the suspect's vehicle.
Hortman did not survive, Hoffman is in stable condition
So they have the vehicle, where did you read about the list?
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/live-updates-targeted-shootings-in-champlin-brooklyn-park-suspect-dressed-like-law-enforcement
"Inside the suspect's vehicle was a manifesto that identified "many lawmakers and other officials," including Hortman and Hoffman."
The distance between both sides is like centimeters wide.
Huh…