Image is sourced from this Guardian article.
The Pope’s fucking dead.
He gave JD Vance three chocolate easter eggs, exchanged pleasantries for 17 minutes, and then keeled over and died.
What a way to go.
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The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
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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.
New Report: Denmark Faces Billions in Flooding Damages If Climate Inaction Continues
Denmark is hurtling toward climate disaster, warns a new report from the Danish Technical University (DTU) and the national association of municipalities. Without urgent intervention, over 175,000 Danes will live in flood-prone homes within a century, and storm surge damages could exceed DKK 282 billion (RMB 313 billion)—one of the costliest preventable disasters in the country’s history.
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Experts say delaying action makes no economic sense. Researchers found that preventative measures like dikes, flood walls, and sluices are cost-effective in every scenario. “It’s actually really simple math, that if the damage of flooding is greater than the costs of avoiding it then it is really stupid not to avoid it” said climate economy professor Kirsten Halsnæs.
Yet while risks to cities like Copenhagen and Aalborg mount, municipalities lack the resources to act. Many vulnerable areas are already struggling due to austerity-driven economic mismanagement, leaving local governments unable to launch the large-scale projects needed to shield communities.
The central government, meanwhile, refuses to step up. Proposals for a climate adaptation fund have been ignored, and debates over who should pay—homeowners, municipalities, the state, or private actors—remain unresolved. This policy vacuum leaves critical infrastructure, cultural heritage and citizens exposed.
Recently a group of prominent Danish climate scientists warned that sea level rise is accelerating faster than previously projected, due to polar ice melt and thermal expansion. The threat is growing—but political urgency is not.
Instead, Denmark’s leadership has prioritized an aggressive and costly military buildup, funneling billions into defense to confront imagined Russian and Chinese bogeymen while starving climate adaptation efforts of funding.
This reflects the regime’s ideological fixation on austerity and militarization at the expense of their own population’s needs. As the regime clings to outdated economic dogmas, vulnerable communities are left to face the coming storm alone.
— Source: Se kortene: Fremtidens stormfloder vil ramme over 175.000 danskere og koste milliarder i skader, DR (state media), April 24th 2025