Former Russian minster Roman Starovoyt found dead in his car. Gunshot wound just hours after sacking http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/7/8/russia-probes-ex-ministers-death-after-body-found-hours-after-sacking
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"Death to idf" is honestly the centrist position at this point.
Who remembers when the US communist party invited "Israeli Communist Party Members" to promote the idea of "Israeli and Palestinian Workers"? I do.
CPUSA have been disgusting revisionists for a long, long time
So, apparently during the 2024 campaign, Kamala Harris did an interview with the liberal podcast @SubwayTakes that was SO bad that they decided not to even release it because the host didn’t want to get blamed for her losing…
"nope, not going to publish this"
her take was bacon as a spice, which says something about how she feels about Americans
That was one thing that the host specifically mentioned, but if it was just that one thing, they would just cut it out. But they pulled the entire interview.
That is why Kamala didn't go on Rogan. What would she say in an one hour open format interview? How she likes Joe Biden? And the DNC couldn't kill that interview, Rogan would just publish it.
At least 50,000 dollars was spent on focus groups in the DC area with the most off putting cretins on the planet to generate the opinion "bacon is a spice" which amounts to a tepid pop culture joke from 2011.
DNC is so behind on meme culture they are just now catching up to the narwhal bacons at midnight and epic meal time
BACON STRIPS x32
Of course that Iraqi Kurdistan goes straight into civil war mode the moment I start looking for plane tickets. I'm still seething over my canceled trip to Iraq because of that fucker Netanyahu btw. In slightly related news, my son turned 1 yesterday, and he celebrated that by somehow pushing over a drawer and destroying it in the process. Fucking Mossad agent.
In other unrelated news, I should probably address the current instability in Lebanon here, as the government is openly colluding with Israel in an attempt to disarm Hezbollah. At the same time, I'm genuinely tired hexbears, the barrage of bad news just isn't stopping these days. This is probably counter-revolutionary or defeatist or whatever, but I still haven't recovered from the martyrdom of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. I have struggled to engage with any Hezbollah news or content in the past few months, I just can't get over that he isn't with us anymore. The death of my own grandparents didn't affect me even 10% of Nasrallah's martyrdom. I desperately want to go to Beirut soon, but it's still risky security-wise and I'm just dreading the thought of actually seeing his grave, I just can't do it.
On Russian long range air attacks on Ukraine, since another is taking place.
Russia has fully committed to Geran 2/Shahed 136 one way attack drones for the bulk of their long range strike capacity, as the optimal way to deliver the payload of a 80-100kg warhead. The jet powered Shahed 238/Geran 3 has seen limited use still, with no signs of that changing. It's not long before we start to see 500 Gerans, and 1000 one way attack (OWA) drones total (including decoys) being launched per attack. Current highest numbers are around 300 Gerans and 600 OWA platforms per attack. Even at a very optimistic 90% interception rate, 300 Gerans is 30 impacts, 500 is 50. Sure it's not a half ton warhead from a ballistic or cruise missile impacting at high speed, but dozens upon of impacts per attack is not sustainable for Ukraine.
Some of the Gerans have been upgraded with a electro optical sensor (infrared camera), an onboard Nvidia Jetson mini SoC for image and video processing, and a potential datalink capability. This should allow for Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA) and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) at minimum, with Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) navigation being possible. In short, these Gerans should be able to navigate, recognise and accquire targets independently without the use of satellite navigation (GPS/GNSS/GLONASS), like the Tomahawk Block II cruise missiles used in the Gulf war. This would make jamming efforts futile. Russia should look into putting similar systems on their glide bomb kits.
If the datalink capability works as intended and is not jammed, in flight updates to the mission and target set, the ability to hit moving targets, and human-in-the-loop guidance can also be used. Again, Russia should seriously look into putting such technology on their glide bomb kits.
There has also been a serious ramp up in the production of decoys, called Gerbera. These are made of polystyrene/styrofoam, shaped like a hybrid of the Iranian Arash 2 and Shahed 136, and often have no warhead at all. Given the above, they are very cheap and easy to make, similar to many hobbyist projects. Up to half of the OWA drones launched per attack are Gerbera, to act as decoys and overwhelm air defence systems.
With the losses incurred to the Russian strategic bomber fleet, Russia has massively increased the use of the Iskander-K system to launch cruise missiles to supplement cruise missile attacks, to make up for the less frequent and lower number of attacks by Russian strategic bombers. Iskander-K is a ground launch platform for Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from TELs similar to the Iskander-M ballistic missile TELs. While the Kalibr cruise missiles are not as advanced or stealthy as the Kh-101s launched by Russian strategic bombers, they are filling in for now.
On the ballistic front, Russia has switched from using longer range Iskander-1000 or Kn-23B ballistic missiles, back to the Kinzhal air launched ballistic missiles, for striking targets at longer ranges (greater than 500km). The Iskander-M and regular Kn-23 have still seen plenty of use.
Geran sounds a bit like gyeran which is Korean for egg, so I read the whole thing thinking about massive launches of ATA/ATR capable attack eggs
Pam Bondi says missing minute from Epstein security camera footage was routine procedure
We are lying to you in a routine way, why are you getting upset?
Also, didn't they previously say that video was destroyed/lost? Now they are just publishing it? And some people are saying there is more than one way to the cells anyway. I'm sure there are also other ways to fake/mislead with this.
As Matt Christman said "they are dabbing on us."
yeah i guess it's pretty routine for the US to protect paedophiles.
After the U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused Hamas of attacking two American employees at its distribution center, eyewitnesses and local journalists say the GHF fired grenades on the crowd first before aid-seekers threw them back at them.
Further supporting the witness accounts:
Although the sites where GHF distributes aid are monitored by cameras from all angles, it did not publish any video or photo evidence to support its claim that Hamas members threw hand grenades at its staff, a local journalist told Mondoweiss. Had the story been true, the journalist said, such footage would have been widely broadcast.
It looks like Elon/xAI finally managed to get their "AI" Grok to not be woke, after saying that it needs to be 'retrained'. Now it is talking about 'leftist Jews' and praising Adolf Hitler (directly by name!). The funny thing is that it is also using the vocabulary of the soy right, like 'facts don't care about your feelings'.
But don't worry, this is all OK because Elon supports Israel.
[edit] From the RollingStone Magazine;
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Russian forces liberated the Zaporozhye oblast town of Kamenskoye today.
Some combat footage from during the town's liberation: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/kamenskoe.mp4?_=1
🇮🇶⚡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
My short commentary on this:
A collapse of the Barzani-led Kurdistan Regional Government with the return of the Federal Government to Iraqi Kurdistan would be a net-positive for the region. The KRG colludes with Israel and the US, oppresses all revolutionary activity, and is a neoliberal hellhole with no redeeming qualities unlike Rojava. They are only good at building nice apartment buildings and trafficking women, they can't even pay salaries to their teachers and sanitary workers. Anything that breaks this separatist project is good.