Big talk from all these countries but none of them will stop being willing to accumulate Dollar financial assets unless they are forced to with exorbitant tariffs that can't be reasonably paid even with internal and external devaluation OR if the US sanctions them.

https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1943527247702286350

Israeli media reported on Thursday the discovery of a dead reserve soldier in the illegal Har Homa settlement in occupied al-Quds, amid a growing wave of suicides among Israeli occupation forces since the war on Gaza began in October 2023.

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, suicide rates within the Israeli military have reached unprecedented levels, with seven cases recorded between October 7 and the end of December 2023, followed by 21 in 2024, and at least 14 more reported in 2025 so far.

Over the weekend, another occupation soldier reportedly died by suicide after experiencing severe psychological distress linked to his deployment in Gaza and southern Lebanon. The mental health toll has become a mounting concern for the Israeli regime, particularly as reports point to a significant manpower shortage within its ranks.

Despite the rising numbers, the Israeli occupation forces have refused to release the official 2025 suicide statistics, stating they'll publish a comprehensive report only at year’s end, fueling criticism and raising questions about transparency within the military command.

Some more commentary on the passage of the Trump BBB bill;

Mechanically what Senate Rs did was refuse to meet with the parliamentarian because they knew she’d say no. That way, when they did this anyway, they could pretend they didn’t technically ignore her advice.

So instead they had the presiding officer invent a new rule in the spot.

What’s going nuclear? That’s when you have the presiding officer follow the rules of the Senate and then have the body of the Senate vote that the rule was misapplied, thus creating a new precedent to change the rules.

What if the presiding officer chooses to ignore the rules and just assert different rules? Well, then you have to follow what they say, unless you have sufficient votes to appeal that ruling.

tldr: The presiding officer of the Senate (usually the Vice President) can just do WHATEVER, the same goes for the Senate itself, as long as they have the majority of the votes.

Israel Has Destroyed 67 Percent of Gaza’s Cemeteries

The cemetery in al-Mawasi Gaza that was dug up by 'israel' yesterday.

The Guardian: Farm worker dies a day after chaotic immigration raid at California farm

On June 10th, during violent immigration raids at two farm sites in Carpinteria and Camarillo, California, several workers were critically injured and one, Jaime Alanis, has died as a result of injuries sustained. Elizabeth Strater, national vice-president of the United Farm Workers, said Alanis was injured after a 30ft fall from a building during the raid. I haven't yet seen the specific circumstances that led to his falling or the other injuries.

Community members and family of workers responded to the raid, federal vehicles were pelted with rocks and other objects, no reports of officers injured. Four US citizens were arrested for “assaulting or resisting officers”. Feds have offered a $50,000 reward for information of one person suspected of firing a gun at federal agents. In a statement regarding the incident yesterday, the United Farm Workers have said several US citizens remain unaccounted for.

The mother of an American worker said her son was held at the worksite for 11 hours and told her agents took workers’ cellphones to prevent them from calling family or filming and forced them to erase cellphone video of agents at the site.

The woman said her son told her agents marked the men’s hands with ink to distinguish their immigration status. She spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she feared reprisals from the government.

I saw it reported by someone on bluesky that a community member detained without charges was not allowed to be released until they deleted footage of the raid from their phone.

China's F-35 equivalent, the J-35, has officially entered service with the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). Here the J-35A model is seen in formation with the J-16D Electronic Warfare and Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD/DEAD) aircraft ( EA-18G Growler equivalent) and the J-20 5th generation stealth aircraft (F-22 Raptor equivalent). J-35A at the back, J-20 in the centre, and the J-16D leading the formation.

J-35A on it's own:

J-35C, carrier variant, on it's own;

China is building a modern air force, very much following the US model of airpower, SEAD/DEAD and stealth technologies. China is probably the only country in the world, outside of the US, with the resources and technological prowess to do such.

really don't understand why they even release that memo on Epstein, couldn't they have stayed quiet?

Seeing a bunch of reports / footage today about a large-scale federally-coordinated operation in/around MacArthur Park, LA (oof, come up with a better name). Lots of military vehicles moving around, mounted ICE units, and reckless endangerment of the public.

Naturally, somebody has sent some relevant documents to Ken Klippenstein. This "show of presence" appears to be part of what they are referring to as "Operation Excalibur." The documents indicate the involvement of nearly a dozen "law enforcement" agencies coordinated in a mission to stamp out alleged activities and lawlessness which read like the fever dreams of a Fox News comment section.

Regarding the Tucker "I helped contra death squads" Carlson interviewing President Pezeshkian of Iran, rather than listening to what english language social media influencers have to say on the matter, here is a response to the interview from a principlist newspaper. Sorry in advance, its "grok" machine translated from Farsi.

So umm, how are things with Iran? Is there still a ceasefire and is that sticking for now?

Trump put tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the European Union. And they all negotiate with him beforehand. Trump accused Canada of worsening the opioid addiction epidemic in the US and taxed the country +35%; Mexico too, Trump accused Mexico of collaborating with its drug cartels to target the US. +30% tariffs. Meanwhile, he taxed Europe +30% for not opening businesses in the US.

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Bibi formally nominates Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize

Video in link - telegram

A second ship has been sunk by Yemen for attempting bypass their blessed blockade of zionazi ports!

(Image is of the sinking of the first ship, Magic Seas. A full video can be viewed here. Its awesome.)

Xiaomi begins YU7 SUV deliveries as wait times reach up to 14 months CNEV

• Xiaomi has begun its first deliveries of the YU7 in 58 cities across China, with its founder personally handing over vehicles to some owners.
• The wait times for the YU7 has been extended across the board, while the SU7 series has seen wait times shortened.

Xiaomi (HKG: 1810, OTCMKTS: XIACY) has started delivering the YU7, but production constraints have extended the wait times for its first electric SUV (sport utility vehicle) to as long as 14 months.

Xiaomi EV, the smartphone giant's electric vehicle (EV) unit, announced today on Weibo that the first deliveries of the YU7 have begun, with Xiaomi founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun personally handing over vehicles to some owners.

Xiaomi EV did not disclose the number of YU7 vehicles delivered in the first batch but said that deliveries began today in 58 cities across China.

With deliveries underway, the wait time for the YU7 has further increased.

Customers purchasing the standard version of the YU7 now face a waiting period of 59-62 weeks for delivery, up from 58-61 weeks as of Friday, according to daily monitoring by CnEVPost.

Very very impressive with 800km range. This is going to give BYD a good run for their money.

From today’s Naked Capitalism links:

At the Rio Summit, signs of BRICS in retreat – just when we need serious anti-imperial muscle CADTM

On Sunday-Monday, July 6-7, leaders from the BRICS countries will meet in Rio de Janeiro for their annual summit. Because Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will also host the UN annual climate summit in November in Belem, the BRICS event was pushed relatively early. That means the bloc’s work schedule has been curtailed, even in a year for which much more robust preparation and greater consensus are needed to withstand U.S. imperialist aggression.

Vladimir Putin had hosted 2024’s summit in Kazan, Russia in late-October. In most other years, the dates have been in the busy September-November period, allowing many pre-meetings to set the stage for a more meaningful heads-of-state meeting.

BRICS is far more complicated now, with consensus difficult to reach in part due to the 2023 Johannesburg summit having expanded the bloc to ten member countries (assuming Saudi Arabia is counted, as does Lula, even though last December the Russians ‘froze‘ its participation), and to eleven with Indonesia early in 2025.

They carry an enormous burden in mid-2025: to stand up to Donald Trump’s juggernaut, at a time – as historians may deem this – of the peak moment of his power, winning corporate tax cuts and austerity at home, while bullying countries abroad to bend to his erratic will on trade, aid, climate, public health and especially military matters.

Worse, next year, the bloc will be hosted by India, whose leader Narendra Modi is considered among the most loyal of (several) BRICS elites to Trumpism, due not only to parallel neo-fascist ruling tendencies but also to strongly-overlapping economic, military, migration and regional geopolitical interests.

Hence, even in this crucial period, in which the cry ‘No Kings!’ resonates from the world’s grassroots against Trump, here are ten pessimistic features that can be expected to derail the 2025 BRICS summit:

Someone is doing "antifascist" agitprop in the government bathroom

PBS News:

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

🇮🇶⚡A short explanation of what is happening in Erbil, Iraq:

The Kurdish Peshmerga forces’ attempt to capture a leader of the Harki tribe, Khurshid Harki, has escalated into a large-scale armed conflict between the Peshmerga forces, the Harki tribe, and allied tribes, with both sides continuing to mobilize their forces in the Khabat area of ​​Erbil province in northern Iraq, where the fighting is currently concentrated.

Source: ResistanceTrench

would love to hear y'alls thoughts and any info to share

Another drone strike on Lebanon by the IDF. How much longer will Israel strike until Lebanon puts their foot down?

Eternity C being sunk as part of Ansarallah’s blockade in the genocidal entity

https://tankie.tube/w/4VHNPJ5jQVSp9RYFeTs6Qg

Bonus song

https://tankie.tube/w/1LkoEnGrgH9jBDmU4f5YLw

Roman Starovoyt, the Russian Minister of Transport, was dismissed yesterday and found dead in his car hours later.

He died from a gunshot wound and a pistol previously awarded to him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was found in the car. His death is being reported as a suicide.

Before becoming Minister of Transport in May 2024 Starovoyt was the governor of Kursk. His successor was arrested in April as part of an investigation into the embezzlement of funds to be used to fortify the Ukrainian border. It's being implied that his dismissal and subsequent suicide were related to his time as governor of Kursk.

sources: 1, 2

Can someone please let me know how and where to download the database of Hexbear emojis for personal use in texting?

Please keep in mind I am a backwards Luddite when it comes to github-esque sites compared to some of you.

I'm just very tired and regretting I went to read the news, but here we are.

So some smol bean nazi country news: Finland formally withdraws from Ottawa landmine treaty

No comments, just sigh.

Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia

I don't know enough about this to comment, it is of course framed in a very warmongery way.

Ukraine's reconstruction could lead to billions in Finnish exports, lobby says

Porky showing their true colors with regards to Ukraine I suppose. They have plenty of experience after having been part of such projects all over the Middle East.

remember when they said Putin fell down the stairs and shit himself back in 2022 lol

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters-chinas-solidarity-with-palestine-from-1950-to-2024/

This is a good long form article describing the relationship of the Chinese state to Israel/palestine since 1949. It describes the early optimism of maybe Israel not being a tool of the west until the mid 50s, the strident Maoist position of international revolution, the much softer and hands off dengist approach, and the contradiction between investment in Israel and china's foreign policy rhetoric in the xi years. Towards the end there is more discussion of Israeli PR in China since 2023.

Reuters reporting IOF missile strike kills children collecting water, blames malfunction.

Russian forces recently liberated the Donetsk People's Republic settlement of Karl Marx. Note, the Kiev regime, as part of its anti-communist propaganda campaign, renamed this settlement "Mirnoye" in 2016, but now it is once again Karl Marx. The DPR does not recognize the Kiev regime's name changes: https://tass.com/defense/1988953

A combat video showing the settlement's liberation: https://vkvideo.ru/video-213181913_456431968

Esptien/Mossad list gets buried.

BIBI gets another pass with his corruption trial.

UPDATE | The Jerusalem District Court has postponed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s criminal trial testimony for this week following a closed-door session attended by the heads of Mossad and Military Intelligence, who cited "national security concerns."

The delay comes after US President Trump called for the trial to be dropped, claiming it hinders Gaza ceasefire efforts and Iran diplomacy. The court has not yet canceled next week's hearings, but may do so if a solid request is submitted.

THE CRADLE telegram - quoting Pissreal channel

Zei squirrel stridently and exhaustively debunking the latest sexual violence projection by zionists and their genocidal sympathizers at the BBC/the guardian/the nyt. nothing new here, just more israeli lies, but good fodder if you are arguing about this with libs in your life. CW for descriptions of sexual violence in the line below.

url shortener link: https://tinyurl.com/2p2zv5uw

link that got owned by hexbear automod: https://zeisquirrel.substack.com/premoved-hoax-redux-debunking-the-latest

the above link goes to the article directory because of hexbear automod. click through to the july 8th post with headline '[blank] hoax redux'

New Al Qassam operation in Khan Younis.

Denazification 💥

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other than this megathread what sources yall use for news

Lula makes fun of Bolsonaro and says tariffs are based on “lies”. During an event in Espírito Santo about the Mariana dam, the PT leader made fun of what was supposed to be a conversation between Eduardo Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, with the former pleading for his father's freedom.

"So I want to say, with all due respect to President Trump, you are misinformed, very misinformed. The United States does not have a trade deficit with Brazil. It is Brazil that has a trade deficit with the United States. Just so you have an idea, in 15 years, between trade and services, we have a deficit of 410 billion dollars with the United States. It's up to us to tax him. Now, what is the reason he gives for taxing us? Firstly, he's fighting a lie that the United States doesn't have a deficit with Brazil. Secondly, what is his logic?

[Lula does a voice mimicking Trump]: "Oh, pwease don't presecute Bolsonaro, pwease stops this immediately. Stop this immediately!"

[Lula returns to his normal voice]: Because the 'thing' [Jair Bolsonaro] sent a son [Eduardo Bolsonaro] who was a congressman away from the Congress to go there and ask:

[Lula does a childish voice mimicking Eduardo]: “Hey, Trump, for God's sake, Trump, my free my daddy, don't let my daddy be arrested, bwaah bwaah”.

[Lula returns to his normal voice]: These people need to be ashamed of themselves. Be ashamed of yourself, be ashamed of yourself, because the smallest thing in a man, he has no character. You saw his son on the internet yesterday reading a letter:

[Lula does a childish voice mimicking Eduardo]: "'Oh, Trump, Trump' you know? 'Pwease say you won't tax Brazil, if my father isn't arrested.' What kind of man is this, folks? What kind of man is this who has no shame? Shouldn't he be facing his trial head on and proving that he was innocent [instead of doing this]?"

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the summer has come, and what time is this, it's #beanwatch time 🎉🎉🎉:

nothing ever happens with beans though: cocoa still around 8k (although rose by 3% just today), coffee dropped to 280 (rip dreams of 700 coffee, the line is looking down and no rumors of harvest disasters), soy still floats around 1000 bucks (so no drastic usaid/tariff effect for this summer i guess?).

thinking retiring beanwatch in autumn, if they continue nothing ever happens rp

The latest video posted by Ansarallah/Houthis on the sinking of the Eternity C gave us a look at their Close Range Ballistic Missiles (CRBM, sub 300km range) in the anti ship role, and an anti ship cruise missile. Three different types of missiles can be identified.

• Fateh Mobin, anti ship ballistic missile, 200-300km range. Inertial guidance in the midcourse, with electro optical terminal guidance, an infrared camera/sensor most likely.

• Faleq 1/Fajr-4CL, 333mm diameter guided artillery rocket, used in the anti ship ballistic missile role. Range of 200+km. Inertial guidance in the midcourse, electro optical terminal guidance.

• C-802/YJ-83/Noor/Al-Mandeb 2 anti ship cruise missile, originally a Chinese design, reverse engineered by Iran and now Yemen. Inertial guidance for most of the flight, active radar seeker for the final stage. Range of 120-170km.

Interesting to note that none of the missiles use satellite navigation at any stage of flight, all inertial navigation with various seperate terminal guidance seekers. So jamming would be ineffective as a means of defeat. Also all shorter range weapons sub 300km range, no need to use longer range weapons when the ships are off of the coast of Hodeidah.

There were at least three impacts, two from the CRBMs on the top, and one on the side, low down on the hull, likely from the cruise missile. Official statement said 6 missiles were fired.

The New York Times has revealed that US prosecutors have found evidence that Bukele made a deal with the MS-13 gang: in exchange for political support and less violence, the government would provide benefits in Salvadoran prisons. The pact came before Bukele proposed to Trump that El Salvador take in gang members imprisoned in the US. Trump accepted and sent more than $6 million as part of the deal, which is now the subject of an investigation. Authorities are investigating whether part of the money passed on by the White House was diverted to MS-13. The alleged deal may also have hindered US investigations into the gang, which is active even in the US.

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Hacker group claims full breach of anti-Iran TV channel ‘Iran International’

The London-based Persian-language television channel Iran International has been targeted by a hacker group known as Hanzala, which has gained full access to the channel’s internal systems and released confidential information about its staff.

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According to Polish president Duda, Zelensky did not know about Volhynia massacre before he told him about it, they blame this on Soviet education system

CW: Stormfront