Image is from this article, of a Chilean copper quarry.
Title is a reference to Trump's social media post about copper, which was, as usual, mostly deranged.
Trying to follow Trump's administration is pretty difficult, but as of right now, he is threatening 30% tariffs on Mexico and the EU starting on August 1st, as well as new tariff announcements on a bunch of other countries (including, bizarrely, a 50% tariff on Brazil), and also apparently a 50% tariff on copper, which the US imports half its supply of and is, of course, a very important metal in many applications.
I'm not sure what the plan is to bring back domestic copper production beyond hoping that it just sorta works out, but prominent copper producers, such as Chile and Canada, seem both concerned and confused. Reuters had a line that made me chuckle:
Boric said he was awaiting official communication from the U.S. government, including whether the tariffs would include copper cathodes, and questioned "whether this will actually be implemented or not."
Big mood, Boric.
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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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Reddit is introducing a photo ID requirement for anyone in the UK to see anything on the site marked as nsfw.
https://hexbear.net/post/5560292
This is quite bad for queer people, particularly access to some very important trans subs. /r/transdiy for example has the entire sub marked as nsfw.
Western governments seem more paranoid toward the public than they used to be. Is that just me?
so-called western liberal democracy is undergoing a qualitative change into something much worse
Maybe, anyone living in post 9-11 Patriot act would say the same, more like a tendency rather than a bump?
Have you seen the public lately?
They are building up lists of minorities to then persecute/scapegoat and say they are doing something instead of addressing declining material conditions.
We've been getting some unpatriotic ideas from the tiktok lately, can't have that
Hexbear should introduce a Hog id requirement for anyone signing up.
Delaying vaginoplasty just so I can post more
They abandoned the idea after realising my hog picture is over 2 terabytes
Damn, AFM produces a bigger file size than I thought
The australian government is going to start requiring all social media, and even web searches, to be linked to a state ID by december 2025, to 'protect kids'
I cant recall where off the top of my head, but the trans diy wiki has been archived i think
something something, great firewall, oppression
even france, italy, spain, greece and denmark are getting into it
apparently not wanting to show id just to access the internet is a hot take
Yeah, the possible introduction of ID verification to access porn in Spain was quite mocked, with people joking they would need to renew their "pajaporte" (something like wankssport as in wank + passport)
palmsport?
passspoof?
passporn?
They'll probably go with the third option in English media
don't tell them what a VPN is
i entered a nsfw sub as a test and it didnt ask anything (yet, apparently it'll go live 25 july, even though it said it started today. my most optimistic take is that it'll get delayed)
i love that they're still using the children's excuse. if the kids wanted to search up nsfw shit, they'll find every workaround, it's like a useless fence
The average person has no idea how a VPN works so the majority will probably go along.
Most VPN endpoints for major providers got their IPs blocked from people hosting the no telemetry reddit browsers. Probably won't be very consistent access.
you mean this? surely creating a throwaway with a fake email wouldn't be an issue
They might've changed it but I remember getting an error saying it was blocked on my IP. Seems likely they relaxed their restrictions though given relaxation on other requirements for the site I've noticed.
jesus they even gave it a fucking fedora
M'login
That's when you set up your VPN on a private VPS. I pay $5 a month +VAT for my AmneziaVPN server and I'm quite happy, and I don't know how to do Linux or anything, it's super noob friendly
Then you have the "cooperate with law enforcement" and fascists with their lists on TERF island... watch it come to conservative states like Tex@$$ next.