Hamas responds to the offer, requires permanent ceasefire

https://t.me/hamaswestbank1/8224

lmao wtf is going on, Russian civilians literally did more to prevent greater losses from the attack then the goddamn Russian military

Russian men climbed onto the drone trucks, trying to stop the drones from taking off.

Dudes in gym gear had better opsec than Russian intelligence

What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He's playing with fire!

Primero

Maduro ascribes electoral win to the Venezuelan people

“I congratulate you all for your remarkable effort! After blockades, criminal sanctions, fascism, and violence, the Bolivarian Revolution has shown that it is stronger and more alive than ever,” the president wrote on his Telegram account.

The National Electoral Council announced in the early hours of Monday morning the victory of the Simon Bolivar Great Patriotic Pole in the 32nd election in the last 26 years, in which 24 governorships, 285 seats in Parliament, and 260 chairs in the state legislative councils were up for grabs.

With 93.01 percent of the votes counted and a turnout of 42.63 percent, the head of the National Electoral Council Carlos Quintero reported that the Great Patriotic Pole Alliance reached more than four million 553 480 votes, – 82.68 percent.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-attack-peal-street-mall-boulder-colorado-police/story?id=122401509

"Terror" attack against zionists getting FBI attention. Buckle up friends.

Czechia

"Communism is just like Nazism. The House of Representatives approved a proposal to ban the promotion of communism"

https://www.forum24.cz/komunismus-stejne-jako-nacismus-snemovna-schvalila-navrh-na-zakaz-propagace-komunismu

Things aren't looking good in Cuba:
https://xcancel.com/bellybeastcuba/status/1929158797173371202

Cuba’s population has declined nearly 13% from 2020 through 2024, according to recently released data by the island’s National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI). In 2024, the population was 9.7 million, 1.4 million less than in 2020.

Cuba has been going through its largest emigration wave in history, as people flee a deepening economic crisis fueled by U.S. sanctions. The U.S. is by far the largest recipient of Cuban immigrants. Unofficial reports have put Cuba’s population loss at even higher numbers.

The long-term damage of the emigration crisis can be catastrophic for the island, since thousands of young people, and particularly young professionals, are part of the wave.

Cuba’s education, health and scientific sectors are facing personnel shortages. It is even more alarming considering Cuba’s aging patterns, to which low birth rates also contribute. Cuba’s around 71,358 births in 2024 are the country’s lowest in 65 years.

ONEI’s report points out that more than 25% of the population is over 60 years old, making Cuba one of the fastest-aging countries in Latin America.

Israel says it has killed Hamas leader. Who is Mohammed Sinwar? - The Hill

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to confirm Wednesday that his military forces killed Mohammed Sinwar, the understood leader of Hamas’s armed wing. Speaking before Parliament, Netanyahu listed the names of top Hamas leaders that Israeli forces killed since the start of the war. “We have killed tens of thousands of terrorists. We killed [Mohammed] Deif, [Ismail] Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Sinwar,” he said.

Here’s what to know about Mohammed Sinwar and his apparent death: No confirmation from Hamas. There has been no confirmation from the U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group, which is the governing body in Gaza, in response to Israeli claims of Mohammed Sinwar’s death.

May 13 airstrike: Israeli news outlets reported that Mohammed Sinwar was targeted in a strike earlier this month that hit what Israeli officials said was Hamas’s command center, located beneath a hospital in Khan Younis.

At the time, the Israeli military declined to comment on whether Mohammed was targeted or killed. At a press conference last week, however, Netanyahu commented on the reports. “We have eliminated tens of thousands of terrorists. We eliminated the arch-murderers — Deif, Yahya Sinwar and apparently Muhammad Sinwar as well,” Netanyahu said May 21 in a translated statement provided by his office.

Brother of infamous former Hamas leader

Mohammed Sinwar is the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the infamous former Hamas leader who is often credited as the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, which left nearly 1,200 Israelis dead and 251 people taken hostage in Gaza. The attack precipitated the broad retaliatory invasion of the Palestinian territory.

Israeli forces killed Yahya Sinwar in October 2024 and have killed much of Hamas’s leadership since the war started. Mohammed Sinwar is said the be among a small group of top Hamas commanders who knew in advance about the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, according to The Associated Press.

Long history with Hamas

Mohammed Sinwar joined Hamas with his older brother in the late 1980s when the group was initially founded as part of the Muslim Brotherhood. The younger Sinwar joined the military wing of the group, known as the Qassam Brigades. Mohammed Sinwar, born in 1975, was a teenager at the time. His family had been driven out of modern-day Israel during the 1948 war, and he was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp.

Mohammed Sinwar became a member of the so-called joint chiefs of staff, working closely with the longtime commander Deif, who was killed in a strike last year. And he participated in the First Intifada, as well as several other operations, including the 2006 attack that led to the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

A Collapsing Mountain has Buried the Village of Blatten. The River Lonza is currently making a new Lake to the north of the Landslide until he has found its Course , ruining the few houses that the Landslide didnt touch. No Injuries.

Edit: Update : one person is missing it seems. + Video of the village 5 months ago + Video of the landslide

Update 2 : The Next Mountain slide will come down soon and its will be even larger

'Syria and Israel share common enemies'

The self-appointed interim President of Syria Ahmed Al-Sharaa says

• The Cradle, May 31, 2025

Ahmed Al-Sharaa during an interview with the Jewish Journal stated that Israel and Syria share “common enemies” and said he is ready to engage with Tel Aviv if there is “a clear path to coexistence.”

“The era of endless tit-for-tat bombings must end. No nation prospers when its skies are filled with fear. The reality is, we have common enemies — and we can play a major role in regional security,” Sharaa, formerly known as Al-Qaeda leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani, told the Los Angeles-based publication.

“Peace must be earned through mutual respect, not fear. We will engage where there is honesty and a clear path to coexistence — and walk away from anything less," he added.

Sharaa also voiced support for reviving the principles of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement (Dofa Accord), calling it a possible framework for “mutual restraint and protection of civilians.”

The statements from the de facto president come amid reports in western media saying Israeli and Syrian officials have been engaged in face-to-face talks over recent weeks aimed at “preventing another flareup along their shared border.”

After extremist armed groups led by Sharaa took over Syria in December, Israel promptly destroyed the country's military capabilities and occupied large areas of Syrian territory in the Golan Heights, Quneitra, and Deraa.

“There are indirect talks with Israel through mediators to calm and attempt to absorb the situation so that it does not reach a level that both sides lose control over,” Sharaa said earlier this month, also describing Israel's continued airstrikes of Syrian land as “random interventions."

He also said Damascus was talking to states that communicate with Israel to “pressure them to stop intervening in Syrian affairs and bomb some of its infrastructure.”

Axios reports that Trump warned Netanyahu in a phone call that he doesn't want anything to 'impede' a diplomatic solution with Iran. The New York Times reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened Donald Trump with derailing ongoing talks with Iran by striking Iranian nuclear facilities. The Prime Minister's office has denied this report.

• Telegram

The 2025 Mexican judicial elections will be held on 1 June 2025, during which voters will elect nine Supreme Court justices, two magistrates of the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary, 15 magistrates of the Regional Chambers of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary, five members of the Judicial Disciplinary Tribunal, 464 circuit court magistrates, and 386 district court judges. It will be the first judicial election in Mexican history.

Following the 2024 Mexican general election, the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition—formed by the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Labor Party (PT), and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM)—secured a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies and came three seats short in the Senate. The alliance, along with its presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, campaigned on enacting a package of constitutional reforms known as "Plan C."

One of its key proposals was the popular election of the federal judiciary, which outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) claimed would eliminate corruption. On 1 September 2024, the bill was introduced in the LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress, triggering nationwide protests and strikes over concerns that it would undermine judicial independence. Despite opposition, it passed the Senate on 11 September and was promulgated by AMLO on 15 September.

Following their selection, several candidates requested to appear on the ballot with nicknames such as "AMLO's Judge," "Judge of the Fourth Transformation," or "The People's Minister," proposals that were ultimately rejected. Twenty candidates have been identified as having criminal records, ties to defending drug traffickers, or allegations of corruption.

On 15 May 2025, billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego urged his followers on X to boycott the election, claiming that Morena's supermajority in the LXVI Legislature had been fraudulently obtained and that participating in the vote would only legitimize what he likened to a "coup d'état." The next day, former president Vicente Fox called for a boycott, describing the election as a "farce" and urging citizens to abstain from voting.

lol

A Pew Research Center survey published a week before the election found that 66% of Mexicans approved the judicial reform, while 29% disapproved.

US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-blocks-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-2025-05-28/

Dollar index is up sharply

Please Trump do something.

A huge number of Russia's strategic bombers just got wiped out in a massive Ukrainian FPV drone attack, with the drones allegedly being launched from trucks inside Russia.

This is actually a severe blow and potentially an existential threat for Russia, so their response may be drastic.

Coverage here:

https://t.me/s/AMK_Mapping

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is reportedly notifying residents they may ‘lose the right to continue’ using their property amid zoning push

DJT crypto jumped 11% after a report the company plans to raise $2 billion in equity and $1 billion via convertible bonds to buy cryptocurrencies

That is such a nice closed circle of events

Israel has blocked a planned visit by a delegation of foreign ministers headed by Saudi Arabia, including representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Turkey, who were set to meet with Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Sunday.

• Telegram

Very good article/piece on the Pakistan-India conflict that took place earlier this month.

Highly recommend reading this if you're wondering what happened during the four to five days of war/conflict. It's a good overview of the timeline of events, lines up with most previous reporting and observations, well sourced and cited. I just finished reading the entire thing.

Lebanon using Israeli intel to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure: Report

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has been using Israeli intelligence to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 28 May. The Lebanese army’s efforts to implement UN Resolution 1701 and enforce the ceasefire agreement are being carried out “in part with the help of Israeli intelligence,” according to several sources cited by the WSJ. Arab officials told the outlet that the intelligence is being “passed along by the US” and has “helped the Lebanese army find and destroy Hezbollah’s remaining weapons stockpiles and military posts in the south.” The army reportedly destroys some of the weapons while keeping others and adding them to its limited stockpiles.

In an interview with the WSJ, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam claimed that the Lebanese army has achieved 80 percent of its disarmament goals in southern Lebanon – referring to the area south of the Litani River, where Hezbollah has cooperated with the state in handing over military positions.

Under heavy pressure from Washington, the Lebanese government has been escalating calls for a full “monopoly” on arms. This includes a plan to disarm Lebanon-based Palestinian resistance groups, which is reportedly set to begin in June.

Hezbollah has firmly rejected disarmament, and instead calls for the formation of a national defensive strategy that incorporates its weapons into the state for use in defending Lebanon against Israel.

It says it is willing to hold dialogue with the state on this issue once Israeli forces withdraw from south Lebanon and stop their violations of the ceasefire. In a speech on Sunday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said that the resistance is giving the state a chance to diplomatically secure an Israeli troop withdrawal and a complete halt to airstrikes, but stressed that “if it fails to perform its duties, other options exist.”

Israel was meant to withdraw its troops as part of the ceasefire, but has maintained an occupation of five locations along the border in violation of the deal. [...] The Israeli army unleashed a violent wave of airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon on the evening of 22 May, striking what it claimed were Hezbollah weapons sites.

I'm very confused by this article, there's like at least three contradictions in it.

• Hezbollah is simultaneously "cooperating with the state in handing over military positions" and weapons but seems to be only willing "to hold dialogue with the state on [incorporating its weapons into the state for use in defending Lebanon against Israel] once Israel withdraws from Lebanon (and they have not yet done so)"?
• Hezbollah is simultaneously 80% disarmed by the Lebanon army with the aid of Israeli intelligence, but Israel is also just striking (what they claim to be) Hezbollah weapon sites instead of allowing them to be disarmed?
• Hezbollah simultaneously expects the Lebanese army to engage in combat to defend Lebanon, but that very same army is fully cooperating with Israel to the extent of receiving intelligence reports on how to disarm them, and that government is refusing to insist that Israel must withdraw from its positions south of the Litani?

I'm welcome to other viewpoints, but this doesn't seem like a tenable position. My prediction of how the Lebanon conflict proceeds is something along the lines of:

1. This disarmament process proceeds and is completed (to an arbitrary extent; the tunnel networks probably won't or maybe can't be dismantled and perhaps Hezbollah retains fighting ability in certain regions)
2. Israel continues to refuse to retreat, and indeed insists on taking more territory ala Syria
3. The Lebanese army, both infiltrated and cooperative with Israel, is quickly crushed to the extent that it resists at all
4. Guerrilla tactics to repel Israel (with the support of the population) will resume, basically taking us back 30 years; perhaps Lebanese soldiers desert to join or rejoin Hezbollah
5. As this is unacceptable to a comprador Lebanese government, some sort of internal unrest up to and including a civil war takes place (I have no idea how this would go, but I cannot imagine that the population of Lebanon would rise up in support of a government that is explicitly saying that they must fight the people who are protecting them from Israel, the country that has both been extensively bombing them and has killed hundreds of thousands of people)
6. An increasingly powerful Iran (backed by China and feeling gradually less pressure by the US/Israel as those countries continue imperial decline and neoliberal internal rot) is able to exert more influence and get more weapons shipments through an increasing unstable Syria

It's been long enough that I can safely conclude that the plan by Israel post-Nasrallah appears to be to try and achieve what they have failed to do militarily by instead doing some good old-fashioned deals. For whatever ideological and material reasons, several people and groups, including Lebanon's government, Syria's government (though those guys are just outright compradors put in power by Israel), and perhaps Iraq (at least, I haven't heard much about the Iraqi resistance groups in a while) seem to be going along with those deals, not understanding that the US and Israel cannot be trusted and will break those deals whenever they want, if it benefits them to do so.

I don't think this work in the medium-to-long term, Israel's existence is now fundamentally on a timer because of the declining military and economic power of their backers in the imperial core and without them, the country just does not have the military strength, economic power, or just outright geographical area to exert its whims on the region for decades to come. It might work in the short-term though, perhaps long enough for them to complete their 2.4 million person genocide.

We shall see if Hezbollah, Syria, and Iraq can reassert themselves in time to save the remaining Gazans; but for now, Hamas and Yemen are the lone warriors left. Yemen is still striking Israel with missiles despite Israeli return strikes (I doubt Israel's strikes will be remotely effective if the US Navy couldn't do shit to them), and Hamas has recently posted new videos of ambushes on Israel forces, so we can conclude that despite the occasional death of Hamas leaders or commanders, their military structures remain intact and effective. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they're gaining more soldiers than they're losing; many people in there must be making the calculation that it's better to fight back and very possibly die, rather than just accept certain death by either bombing or starvation.

250 million bees escape after truck overturns in Washington State yesterday on May 30, 2025.

cw:

mr. china, seems like you'll have to make your engine faster reuters

https://masarbadil.org/en/2025/05/5860/

"Rodriguez’s operation not only revealed the limits of liberal discourse; it also restored the value of direct action as a mobilizing and agitational tool, placing everyone before their responsibilities. The broad popular response to this operation, particularly among youth and within Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities, reveals that popular sentiment remains aligned with armed struggle and a revolutionary position on Palestine. The battle being waged by the Palestinian people is not confined to the West Bank and Gaza, but extends and expands globally within the framework of revolutionary struggle against imperialism, Zionism, and reactionary and fascist regimes"

Bolsonaro's son under ethical and legal fire in Brazil - La Prensa (Spanish)

Brasilia, May 28 (Prensa Latina) The Workers' Party (PT) filed before the Ethics Council of the Chamber of Deputies a request for impeachment against the licensed legislator Eduardo Bolsonaro for acting today from the United States against Brazilian democratic institutions.

What a fucking loser

I have a question for the Military Knowers of the megathread.

Given that we know that Israel and the US have been generally unable to deal meaningful damage (as in damage that prevented reprisals; maybe some tunnels collapsed but clearly not critical damage) to the tunnel networks of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Yemen through their bombing campaigns, is there any reason to believe that if Israel delivered an attack to Iran's nuclear facilities as they are saying they might do if the US-Iran talks collapse, they could actually militarily destroy their underground nuclear sites and/or missile launching sites?

Like, beyond the threat of the semi-mythical "all-out war" breaking out (that could then turn to nuclear war), and just talking the logistics of it, I'm having a difficult time holding in my mind the fact of "The US navy, perhaps the most powerful navy on the planet, was forced to retreat from Yemen despite an extended bombing campaign because they failed to stop them from launching missiles, and Yemen has been under a blockade and a genocidal war for basically the last ten years" but also the threat of "Israel is saying they will be able to beat Iran in a war, or at a minimum, take out their nuclear sites and somehow prevent True Promise 3 (when True Promise 1 and 2 were able to pierce through - with relative ease - the most dense air defense on the planet)."

As in, it's one thing to be like "oh, this bunker buster has a depth of X meters and Israel can launch Y of them from their planes (and Iran probably won't be able to shoot down those planes), they're this massive threat to the Resistance, they're so dangerous, look at them obliterate this children's hospital" but we've seen their use in like three other theaters of war (Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen) and they don't appear to have really achieved much? Hamas is still very much active and is honestly probably undefeatable (regardless of what Gideon Chariot stuff Israel will try and pull off as Solution #2942 to defeating Palestine before they fail and move onto Solution #2943) as long as they can get supplies smuggled in (presumably from Egypt) because their tunnel systems are so elaborate and reinforced and the IDF is too cowardly to try and meaningfully infiltrate them, and Gaza is one of (if not the) most bombed and bunker-busted places on the planet. The only definite "achievement" I can assign to them is murdering Nasrallah, but I don't know what the depths of those tunnels were, and that wasn't, presumably, as large or as deep a target as what Iran has achieved.

Slow week for news huh

I guess I can use the calm

And now for some comic relief:

Fraudster made £550,000 selling fake 'Scottish-grown tea'

Prosecutors said he created the "CV of a fantasist" - claiming among other things that he was a multi-millionaire, a polymer scientist, a former bomb disposal expert and had invented the "bag for life".

He also claimed to have developed a "special biodegradable polymer" that would make the tea plants grow in half the usual time. The court was told it looked like a black bin liner.

https://www.ft.com/content/1803e03d-9996-46cd-beef-a6694edaf68e

What a stupid idea, trying to do capital controls on a freely convertible currency. That's what this is btw, capital control, western institutions whine about third world countries imposing such controls to prevent rich people from running out on domestic currency. US is trying to impose the similar controls on underpaid migrants.

Is it tax evasion to send your money to a US citizen friend who then sends it to your relative in India? I don't think anywhere in the bill it is mentioned to be the case. How can this even be enforced? Capital controls must apply universally to be effective, but any universal tax on outflows undermines the Dollar's international value itself.

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