Trump found guilty on all 34 counts lmao

A few days late but Yemens national salvation army shot down an MQ9 reaper drone. The proximity detonation left the drone remarkably intact.

This is the 6th MQ9 downed by Yemen in as many months and the 10th one since the start of the US-Saudi led war on Yemen.

Well I'd like to see ol Donny trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam! ◀️ you are now here

(trump easily wriggles his way out of the jam)

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Sudan commits to building Russian Navy base in Red Sea

Give Yemen some submarines crewed by Russian "volunteers".

BLM black square son

or

AI-generated "All Eyes on Rafah" story post daughter?

Ayatollah Khamenei gives props to the global student movement, welcomes them to the Resistance, and advises them to read the Quran http://english.khamenei.ir/news/10823/As-the-page-of-history-is-turning-you-are-standing-on-the-right

Simultaneously, the Palestinian Student Movement in Gaza has called for an escalation https://samidoun.net/2024/05/a-call-from-the-palestinian-student-movement-in-gaza-time-for-revolutionary-escalation-of-the-global-intifada/

US will be taking it's broken pier back for repairs.

It was totally still working after a big chunk of it floated off, that's just classic pier-teething problems, dummy. But we have to take the pier back now because it's slightly damaged and the starving Palestinians can probably wait longer it's fine.

EDIT: also AP: "after damage from rough seas" - pretty sure it just regular waves bud.

Huge climate news that I go into detail about in this post

Climate scientists in China have demonstrated a method of removing CO2 from the atmosphere (long term!) with the side effect of improving soil quality and increasing crop yields.

BREAKING: In an emergency address to the nation, President Biden has announced that Donald Trump will be executed by firing squad. Trump’s last meal was reportedly one covefe, one well done steak, one Diet Coke, and an unsliced block of American cheese.

In an act against Israel, Lula da Silva withdraws ambassador permanently.

Vamos carajo (my poor attempt at Spanish):
https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1795650134182691056

🇲🇽⚔️🇮🇱 Chaos in front of the Israeli Embassy in Mexico: hooded individuals throw Molotov cocktails and attempt to remove barriers.

❗️ The images captured at the scene show dozens of protesters hurling incendiary objects, stones, and smoke bombs at the police guarding the Legation and shouting slogans against Israel and its war with Hamas.

Violent clashes have also been reported between the protesters and officers, who were attempting to disperse them with tear gas. Several police officers are reported to have been injured.

Edit: https://twitter.com/lifepeptides/status/1795677186319651122

Boeing decided not to fix the helium leak from the Starliner spacecraft before sending the first crew to the ISS

Although the oxygen valve on the Atlas V rocket was replaced, Boeing and NASA decided to launch the Starliner with two astronauts to the ISS without replacing a small seal on the helium supply system in the service compartment. The leak affects only one of the 28 engines used to control the spacecraft's altitude, and is small enough to be dangerous, and taking the ship to the workshop and completely rebuilding it is time-consuming and ineffective. Instead, engineers will monitor the leak before the launch on June 1, and if it does not increase, the launch will go ahead.

Literally the world’s richest country and the world’s leading aviation and aeronautics institutions. Surely nothing will go wrong.

Can you imagine Russia doing this with their Soyuz manned missions? Even Roskosmos didn’t stoop down to the level of playing Russian roulette (no pun intended) with human lives, in spite of the common stereotype perpetuated against Russians/Soviets.

If you still think the US industries have not been completely financialized to the point where their only goals are the pursuit of profit for shareholders at the expense of everything else, then I don’t know what to say. Soulless capitalist machines keep grinding on in the meantime.

the Eisenhower's captain posted a video from March 2024 as "proof" that the ship was not hit by the Houthis in the last couple days, and the ship is hightailing it to Jeddah. I now officially believe that Ansarallah did in fact hit the aircraft carrier, though obviously not enough to sink it or anything

edit: now there's a new video showing half the ship, but with an extremely conveniently well-placed dude directly in the way of the camera who is standing still throughout the entire video such that he blocks the view of the other half of the ship. this really is gonna be a whole saga, isn't it

It's Balkinization time:
https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1795038233534869592

IMPORTANT: Margaliot settlement has decided to CUT CONTACT with the Israeli regime & kicked out all soldiers from Margaliot.

The settlement is COMPLETELY closing. Nobody, including the military, will be allowed to enter or leave the settlement.

Eitan Davidi, Chairman of Margaliot says the settlement doesn’t need protection from Hezbollah but from the Israeli regime, which is crushing the settlement with its decisions. Margaliot is directly harmed by their regime and the Ministry of Agriculture's decisions, causing more damage than Hezbollah's anti-tank missiles.

Simplicius’ weird and chud media criticism / right wing media conspiracy blog started with a quote of Zizek

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Zizek

Two thoughts:

1. That’s a really good quote. Fucking Zizek is a fraud but his wordplay slaps
2. The transition of Zizek from a leftist Jordan Peterson to a regular Jordan Peterson continues as the conspiracist anti-globalist right continue to embrace him, although oddly at the moment when Zizek is taking firmly “globalist agenda” pro-imperialist stances.

Just when I thought my day couldn't get any shittier, an HISTORIC fighter leaves us:

Mother of Plaza de Mayo Norita Cortiñas dies at 94

The beloved human rights activist was recovering from a hernia operation and a pulmonary infection

Nora Cortiñas, a historic human rights activist who co-founded the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (founding branch), died on Thursday. She was in intensive care after undergoing a hernia operation two weeks ago. She was 94 years old.

Nora Morales de Cortiñas, better known as “Norita,” co-founded Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in 1977. At the time, she was desperately searching for her eldest son, Carlos Gustavo, who was forcefully disappeared by the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983. Gustavo was a political activist, a member of the Peronist party Partido Justicialista and armed organization Montoneros. He was kidnapped on April 15, 1977, and never seen again.

Cortiñas carried on the fight to bring justice to him and the 30,000 people disappeared by the dictatorship. She expanded her activism to other areas regarding human rights, such as the right to safe and free legal abortion and the fight against police and gender-based violence.

Born on March 22, 1930, Cortiñas was a social psychologist and taught at the University of Buenos Aires’ Economic Sciences faculty as head of the “Economic Power and Human Rights” course.

“I was a traditional woman, a stay-at-home mom. I got married to Carlos Cortiñas when I was very young, and we had two sons: Carlos Gustavo and Marcelo Horacio. My husband was a patriarchal man, he wanted me to devote myself to family life,” she said in an interview. “At that time I was a teacher of haute couture and I worked without leaving my home, teaching many young women to sew.”

After Gustavo was disappeared, she said, she started a whole new life. “We are no longer mothers of one child, we are mothers of all the disappeared. Our biological child became 30,000 children,” she said. “And for them, we gave birth to a completely political life in the streets.”

Cortiñas was last seen in public on March 24 at the National Day of Memory, Truth, and Justice march. Despite her age and mobility issues, she was present at Plaza de Mayo in her wheelchair, appearing with her usual white handkerchief over her head and a picture of Gustavo hanging from her neck.

“Deeply concerned in these times about the serious situation our country is going through and always ready to be present wherever there was an injustice, Norita fought until the last moment for the construction of a more just society,” said the communiqué published by her family. The Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the grandmothers of the dictatorship’s desaparecidos, said goodbye to their “sister” in a communiqué, calling her an “undisputed leader of the human rights movement in Argentina.”

“In solidarity with all the struggles of the country and the world, she knew how to connect with the younger generations, who recognize her as an example of coherence and activism,” they wrote. On Thursday, in the weekly march the Mothers do in the Plaza de Mayo since 1977, the demonstrators sent strength and love to her, before shouting: ¡Venceremos!, “We will triumph.”

She was an absolute champion, during the worst days of the dictatorship she went into a clandestine detention and torture center (Mansión Seré) BY HERSELF to look for her missing son. Extremely courageous woman who fought with all her being during our darkest days and continued to do for Memory, Truth and Justice until the very end. Please, do read about Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, extremely important non violent social movements that to this very day are still finding children and grandchildren of Desaparecidos during the last military junta.

Rest in Power, Norita.

Eide [Norway's Foreign Minister] believes Israel is hiding behind anti-Semitism (NRK, machine translated):

Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says in "Politisk kvarter" that it has previously been effective for Israel to respond to criticism with accusations of anti-Semitism.

But now something is starting to happen, he believes.

– Israel is about to lose its power in that, because the vast majority of people understand that distancing themselves from children being burned to charred corpses in Gaza is not an expression of anti-Semitism.

not that this is really news to anyone, but it feels significant that our foreign minister is willing to publicly say it now

The Houthis, who control Yemen's capital and most populous areas, have attacked international shipping in the Red Sea region since November in solidarity with the Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas, drawing retaliatory U.S. and British strikes since February.

i was curious how the western press is framing the retaliatory strikes by yemeni forces against the genocidal imperial navy. the allies of god in yemen "control the capital and most populous areas" in much the same way that, for instance, the u.s. federal government controls the capital and most populous areas. i will be using this description for the regime in washington from now on.

A U.S. defense official told Reuters they were not aware of any attack on the Eisenhower.

straight up denial? or just a vague way to undercut yemen's narrative. "technically i spoke to someone who is technically a defense official and technically that person was not yet aware of the attack that had just happened. this person is not even necessarily related to the navy, mind you, so there's no reason to expect some nameless defense official to know any details or even be aware of it. but it's certainly my job as an objective reuters journalist to include this uninformative line that gestures in the direction of yemeni claims being false so that my readers draw the correct conclusions."

The following is Imam Khamenei's letter addressed to American university students following their courageous defense of the Palestinian people.

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I am writing this letter to the young people whose awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.

Dear university students in the United States of America, this message is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.

You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government's ruthless pressure—a government which openly supports the usurper and brutal Zionist regime.

The greater Resistance Front which shares the same understandings and feelings that you have today, has been engaged in the same struggle for many years in a place far from you. The goal of this struggle is to put an end to the blatant oppression that the brutal Zionist terrorist network has inflicted on the Palestinian nation for many years. After seizing their country, the Zionist regime has subjected them to the harshest of pressures and tortures.

The apartheid Zionist regime's genocide today is the continuation of extreme oppressive behavior which has been going on for decades. Palestine is an independent land with a long history. It is a nation comprised of Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

After the World War, the capitalist Zionist network gradually imported several thousand terrorists into this land with the help of the British government. These terrorists attacked cities and villages, murdered tens of thousands of people and pushed out multitudes into neighboring countries. They seized their homes, businesses and farmlands, formed a government in the usurped land of Palestine and called it Israel.

After England's initial help, the United States became the greatest supporter of this usurper regime, ceaselessly providing it with political, economic and military support. In an act of unforgivable recklessness, the United States even opened the way and provided assistance for the regime's production of nuclear weapons.

The Zionist regime used an iron-fist policy against the defenseless people of Palestine from the very beginning and has, day by day, intensified its brutality, terror and repression in complete disregard of all moral, human and religious values.

The United States government and its allies refused to even frown upon this state terrorism and ongoing oppression. And today, some remarks by the US government regarding the horrific crimes taking place in Gaza are more hypocritical than real.

The Resistance Front emerged from this dark environment of despair, and the establishment of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded and fortified it.

The global Zionist elite – who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery – has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as "terrorism".

Can one call a people a terrorist nation for defending themselves on their own land against the crimes of the occupying Zionists? And is helping such a nation and strengthening it, an act of terrorism?

The oppressive leaders of global hegemony mercilessly distort even the most basic human concepts. They portray the ruthless, terrorist Israeli regime as acting in self-defense – yet they portray the Palestinian Resistance which defends its freedom, security and the right to self-determination, as terrorists!

I would like to assure you that today the circumstances are changing. A different fate awaits the important region of West Asia. The people's conscience has awakened on a global scale, and the truth is coming to light.

Moreover, the Resistance Front has grown in strength and will become even stronger.

And history is turning a page.

Besides you students from dozens of American universities, there have also been uprisings in other countries among academics and the general public.

The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development. This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government's police brutality and the pressures it is exerting on you. I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance.

The Quran's lesson for us Muslims and all of humanity, is to stand up for that which is right: "So be steadfast as you have been commanded" (11:112).

The Quran's lesson for human relations is: "Do not oppress and do not be oppressed" (2:279).

The Resistance Front advances by a comprehensive understanding and the practice of these and hundreds of other such commands – and will attain victory with the permission of God.

My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.

Sayyid Ali Khamenei ; May 25, 2024

Please, if you're ever going to do propaganda for our Revolution don't do it on AI. Like, please, just.... don't. These men have three arms and for some reason there are big rifles with bayonets behind, like old ass muskets or something. And no, I don't know what the flag is supposed to say. At least the AI got the hammer and sickle right. Also lmao at the AI trying to figure out if the soldiers should have hats or helmets, it's very confused.

It was done by one of those Hinkle/Haz "communists", so yeah.

Thankfully we have not only a much better understanding of what Communism is, we also produce better propaganda.

Yemeni Armed Forces have reportedly struck the USS Eisenhower after firing a number of ballistic and cruise missiles at the aircraft carrier.

https://twitter.com/eyesonsouth1/status/1796492078098325995?s=46

Well it looks like all the rumblings of a BJP collapse were wrong. Exit polls are finally allowed to be reported in India and it's now widely expected Modi and the BJP will do much better than expected. Many are stating they might get a two thirds majority, allowing for constitutional changes. Not good folks. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-votes-final-phase-elections-both-modi-rahul-gandhi-eye-victory-2024-06-01/

Yemen has announced the targetting of 6 ships. 3 in the Red Sea, 2 in the Arabian Sea, and 1 in the Mediterranean sea - the oil tanker Minerva Antonia. Of the 6 targetted, the Yemeni government has said only 1 (in the Red Sea) was hit and damaged.

Additionally, The Cradle has reported that Yemen has obtained Iranian expertise in missile construction, according to Iranian media.

“Iran’s technical know-how to produce such anti-ship missiles is now at the disposal of the Yemeni military forces,” Tasnim said. Tehran’s first locally manufactured anti-ship ballistic missile, the Qadr missile, was developed over ten years ago by late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani-Moqaddam. According to Tasnim, Yemen’s Muhit missile – revealed in a military parade in the capital, Sanaa, in September last year – is directly modeled after the Iranian Qadr missile. The Muhit has a range of around 400 kilometers.

The Armed Forces of Yemen’s Sanaa government – which is militarily aligned with the Ansarallah resistance movement – has possessed surface-to-air missiles for several years. Following the start of the Saudi-led coalition’s war on the country in 2015, the Yemeni Armed Forces revealed its Qaher missiles, which were converted from surface-to-air missiles to surface-to-surface missiles.

Washington and other western nations accuse Iran of smuggling weapons to Ansarallah in Yemen. However, Yemen has been under a tight Saudi-led blockade for nearly ten years, making bringing arms into the country extremely difficult. Sanaa’s Armed Forces are also still in possession of weapons stockpiles from the Soviet era and have been known to locally produce weapons.

Additionally, inside Gaza, it seems Hamas is indeed making the capture of Israel troops a trend - so Israel is doing the classic doctrine and killing their own troops before they can be captured.

Russian Servicemen who finished their deployment in the SMO denazifying NATO contras in Ukraine are sharing their experience by training members of the Syrian Arab Army how to use Russian equipment to denazify NATO contras in Syria.

God bless them all

Napoleon abdicates- 1815 33 years later - 1848

USSR dissolves-1991 33 years later- 👀

We got a whole lot more of the long 21st century it seems

Isn't Trump just gonna appeal and the whole process of appeal will take until after the election is over anyway?

Al Qassam opened an official xitter account and Arabs are already posting out of pocket shit like I'm pretty I saw someone comment "Hire me so I can clean Yahia Sinwar's toes 🥺", would probably last a few hours before bans it

This is the greasiest election season in world history isn’t it

China's lander has successfully landed on the far side of the moon.
If it succeeds, it will bring back the first ever samples from the far side. They're still on track for a manned mission by 2030.

Why did the pilot crashed the F-35? Is he stupid?

South African elections are on Wednesday this week. As I am going to be ING this week, I, like a complete nerd, decided to look up political party manifestos. It's not looking good folks. Really, it's looking quite bad. Political parties divided along racial, social, and/or ethnic divisions, and not in a good way. The ANC had the opportunity to be the political party that unites us all, but they've blown it with their corruption and austerity. These manifestos suck.

A tool with a summary of all the major manifestos, as well as the actual manifestos

The amount of times "clean coal" and "privatisation" are mentioned by these parties is going to drive me mad. The fact that the "GOOD party" (yes that's it's actual name) led by Patricia De Lille is the most socially progressive party with the best electricity/energy policy is embarrassing. The fact that the white supremacist FF+ has a better electricity policy than half of the major parties is honestly tragic. It's like going to a restaurant where they have 50 dishes on the menu, and they're all terrible.

Michael Hudson: Agricultural Imperialism in the EU

TL;DR: Ukraine is an inter-imperialist conflict between the US and the EU

A new monthly column for German newspaper Berliner Wochenende.

Ever since World War II, U.S. trade strategists have based their international policy on control of two key commodities: oil and grain. Economically, they have been the mainstay of the U.S. balance of payments, the leading categories of export surplus (along with weapons), especially as the U.S. economy has deindustrialized. And politically, these are basic needs of every economy. U.S. diplomacy has sought to make other countries dependent on American grain. In the 1950s, most notably, U.S. opposition to Mao’s Communist revolution in China sought to impose a grain embargo on that country. But Canada broke the sanctions – creating good will for decades.

U.S. trade strategists have sought to promote grain dependency on U.S. farmers by opposing foreign attempts to achieve grain self-sufficiency. Most notoriously, the World Bank from the outset refused to make any agricultural loans to Global South/Third World countries for the production of food grains. Lending has been limited to promoting tropical crops that do not compete with U.S. farm production. The result is that countries like Chile, with the world’s largest supply of natural guano fertilizer, have squandered their export earnings from copper on buying U.S. grain that they could easily have produced themselves.

As soon as the seven-member Common Market/EEC was created in 1958, its Common Agricultural Policy became the main area of diplomatic conflict between the EEC and the United States. That was one reason why U.S. diplomats promoted the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) as a rival. They had grandfathered America’s heavy agricultural protectionism into trade agreements. President Roosevelt’s Agricultural Adjustment Act, price supports (“parity pricing”), agricultural extension services and other government support made sustained farm productivity gains exceed those of any other country.

So it was no wonder that Europe’s CAP sought to achieve similar gains for its farm sector, and consequent contributions to the trade balance of France, Germany and other member countries. For the EEC, the CAP was the major and most successful economic achievement of the 1960s and 1970s. Europe became a major grain exporter. There was nothing that U.S. diplomacy could do to preserve its former market dominance in this area.

This success made agriculture a key element of French and German diplomacy with the EEC expanded into today’s European Community. Obviously, these two leading farm producers have sought to maintain their own dominant position.

It is only natural that new EU member countries would like subsidies for their own agriculture to achieve similar farm productivity gains and similar supports. This has been an ongoing political fight within the EU. And it has come to a head with the war in Ukraine, seeking access to the European market. Its soils are famously the richest and most productive in the world, making it a natural global exporter of grain, sunflower seeds and other farm products.

But once again, U.S. diplomatic interests are antithetical to those of the EU. American companies have bought up broad swaths of Ukrainian farmland, and seek access to European markets, starting with Poland. Its president Andrej Duda explained the problem in an interview with Lithuanian National Radio and Television:

“I would like to draw particular attention to industrial agriculture, which is not really run by Ukrainians, it is run by big companies from Western Europe, from the USA. If we look today at the owners of most of the land, they are not Ukrainian companies. This is a paradoxical situation, and no wonder that farmers are defending themselves, because they have invested in their farms in Poland […] and cheap agricultural produce coming from Ukraine is dramatically destructive to them.”

The threat to Poland and other European farm producers of low-priced Ukrainian grain has been intensified by two major developments. Ukrainian access to the Black Sea being blocked, leaving rail transport westward as its major alternative to sell its grain. And the U.S. company BlackRock has worked with Ukrainian President Zelensky to organize U.S. and European investment in Ukrainian industrial-scale agriculture to help provide foreign exchange for the country in its NATO-backed war against Russia.

National Ukrainian lobbying interests have joined U.S. diplomatic pressure for tariff-free access to the EU grain market. Polish farmers recently have sought to block Ukrainian grain imports from lowering the prices at which they can sell their own grain. Without price supports for this and other EU farmers, the threat of U.S.-backed Ukrainian farm competition is a major deterrent to Ukrainian membership in the EU.

As such, it revives the U.S.-European conflict of agricultural interests that has been waged for over half a century. Extension of the EU economic supports for Ukrainian farm competition would be, in the sphere of agricultural trade, the equivalent of destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in impairing European prosperity.

U.S. agricultural interests in opposing the EEC’s CAP after 1958 now pit U.S. investment interests against today’s EU farm producers.

With the EU parliamentary elections coming up next week (and usually having low turnout compared to the regular elections) some Polish NGO decided to put out a propaganda video showing people getting abducted by what looks to be Russian soldiers and then they are about to be shot by them in a prisoner camp but then the captured people remember to and put up their pens and then everything is good after that. POOTIN crisis averted because .

Anyone notice twitter Israeli propagandists post pictures of a market with lots of food and call it present day Gaza?

Does anyone believe that.

they will never send a second submersible