Image is of Venezuela’s Maduro and Colombia’s Petro walking together at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas in 2022, sourced from this article.
Ordinarily, I avoid straying into the American domestic situation, but the government shutdown appears to be continuing into increasingly harmful territory. If the situation is not resolved, soon tens of millions of Americans will lose food assistance, and already millions of federal employees are furloughed or are working without pay. To those not in the know, this situation has essentially stemmed from the Democrats refusing to sign off on the Republicans’ plan to substantially shrink Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which would eventually result in tens of millions losing healthcare coverage and tens if not hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.
To be clear, though, the Democrats have not exactly been paragons of healthcare: they not only oppose plans to make affordable healthcare a right (in defiance of wide popular opinion), but also do their part to maximize suffering. Biden’s policies during the pandemic ensured at least one million people died, and millions of children lost public healthcare coverage. We may never know the true toll, as the US decided that simply ceasing to report on a problem means that the problem no longer exists.
In other news, over the last couple weeks, the US has expanded their hostility against Venezuela by also including Colombia in their ire, and particularly the left-leaning leader, Petro. Both countries are now experiencing major economic and covert pressure by the US to try and cause regime change. The US has deployed an aircraft carrier to the waters near Venezuela and is conducting a military training operation with Trinidad and Tobago, which Venezuela has warned may be the prelude to the long-awaited attack.
Additionally, the US is attempting to combat Chinese geopolitical interest in central America and the Caribbean by carrying out digital attacks and launching pressure campaigns against Chinese and pro-Chinese countries and organizations. Given China’s enormous economic weight, if central America were to break all ties with China, it would be a catastrophe for them; such decisions would only be made by outright compradors, and the resulting economic problems would make their reigns unpopular and, hopefully, brief.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
Greens second in latest polling
Polling conducted on 29/10/2025, by findoutnow
Photo: Zack Polanski of the Greens.
Polling results:
Similar result echoed by other more reputable pollsters, such as YouGov putting the Greens at 16%, one point behind Labour.
Labour is capable of as much self-reflection as an Elimidate contestant who just lost out in the last round and goes on video and blames everything except her awful personality.
Seriously, I know their election victory was a bit of a mirage but still, to fall this hard this quickly and not ask “why”. Of course, I know the answer is they know their austerity, privacy, and Israel policies are utterly despised by the people but Starmer would genuinely rather hold to those policies and lose than backtrack on any of them.
It’s time for Labour to stand down across the country to avoid splitting the anti-Reform vote.
We cannot afford for them to put ideological purity over beating the far-right.
Surely now that the shoe is on the other foot, the labour party will recognize that and will act with moral consistency
Are are the nazis getting a third of the brits omg
Average roast beef moment, lol.
I love it when somebody spit anti immigration bs and i call them nazi and they say “well millions of people are nazis then” and I’m like “yes they are”
it’ll be interesting how ‘your party’ shakes this up after the convention next month
your_party_name_wip_v0.7_final have managed to fuck themselves over by showing their entire prospective membership that they are a complete factional clown show
which of course is expected for a “big tent”
The big tent being one of those pop up thingies you buy for a festival and it gets utterly obliterated by the mud. You blame the mud on trans people.
I’m starting to think at this point Your Party should pack it in. Election is a long ways away so maybe I’m wrong but it feels like they kinda missed their moment. The Greens seem to have all the motion right now. Corbyn and Sultana’s instincts kinda suck while Polanski comes off like Mamdani.
I’m observing this all from across the pond, but it seems to me like Your Party had one chance and they fumbled it badly. Will be very hard to come back from that.
greens will run out of motion at some point, but i agree that the pr has been horrible for your party the past year
It’ll be interesting if they manage to stay together until next month.
The enormous anti-trans, pro-landlord, anti-austerity bloc is still up for grabs.
Does reform run on anything other than promising to kill immigrants?
Kill trans people. Kill homeless people.
It’s mostly about killing, prisons and forced deportations ofc it’s all nazis can think about
Wrong photo
Do you have the one of Nancy Pelosi while she was flying over Taiwan where she says “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it, I have been hit by a surface to air missile and if I don’t receive 25 donations in the next 5 minutes this plane will spiral into the Pacific Ocean.” or something to that effect?
i love that meme so much