Bulletins and News Discussion from April 14th to April 20th, 2025

Looks like Trump is pushing forward the Biden export license rule for high-end "AI" accelerators. Similar to what China implemented for rare earth minerals. NVidia is expecting a ~$5bn hit from this. Poor China, they will now have a harder time wasting energy on AI.
[edit] as is tradition, someone was buying big puts on NVDA the entire day before the announcement. Insider traders are making insane amounts of $$$.
- I guess that's why Nvidia announced their new "Made in America" thing today.

Zionazi controlled University of Amsterdam, Neanderthalands 🇳🇱 sent plain clothed pig thugs to beat the shit out of peaceful protesters cw violence by pigs, reddit link
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I have a feeling El Salvador will be an easy target for Dems to get revenge on if they win to score easy political points. I’m expecting sanctions. Lots of them.
This will only create more migrants and more Bukele-like figures in their neighboring countries. Castro in Honduras has also had a rather harsh crackdown on crime. So has everyone else in the region. But American liberals keep saying, “you’ve made a very powerful enemy” because justbliek when they use idpol, concern for others only matters when it’s Americans suffering or the bad guy of the year is doing it. Otherwise you can slowly choke on sanctions.
- I feel like that’s an appeal to the left, and I don’t think Dems are going to do that, with their new target political subjects concerned about immigration. I think they’ll sweep it under the rug and position themselves as “stepping in to do it the right way; not to look backward but from here on” type thing

President Maduro Denounces Ecuador’s Election as “Shameful Fraud” Linked to US Imperialism - Telesur English

From the NYTimes live thread on the hearing of Kilmar Abrego Garcia:
Forcing the administration to reveal what it has done behind the scenes is an interim step on the way toward Judge Xinis figuring out if officials are in contempt of court. The judge also notes that this could be an uncomfortable process as the administration is compelled to answer specific questions and officials are possibly made to sit for depositions. She says she envisions the discovery process taking about two weeks. Suggesting how expeditiously she intends to move, Judge Xinis tells Drew Ensign, the Justice Department lawyer, that he should clear his calendar in order to arrange the discovery information she intends to request. “Cancel vacation,” she says. “Cancel other appointments. I’m usually pretty good about this in my courtroom, but not this time.”
Look at that, only two short weeks until they've legally figured out if the government didn't "facilitate" Garcia's return.
- deeply unserious, why wait? just give them contempt now and get Garcia back home. others judges have given people contempt for less.
  
  Due process of law/no due process of law cheatsheet.
- This dude will be dead before the procedure is followed
  
  But at least the rights of the perpetrators will have been respected.

What’s the deal with 9/11?
- KRAMER (busting in) You guys hear about Building 7?
  GEORGE Yes, Kramer! It’s the metaphorical tower of revisionism collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions!
  
  Thank you Karl
- The one day that something happened

Peru court sentences ex-president Humala to 15 years for graft - France24

I guess Verónika Mendoza is literally the only leftist left as a potential candidate for the 2026 presidential elections, since Vladimir Cerrón is having legal problems because he is the leader of Pedro Castillo's party, the APRAistas are very weak and corrupt, and the Ethnocacerists (far-left Inca nationalists) have been banned by the Supreme Court from running, even though they were getting 15% to 18% of the vote in the opinion polls, against the Fujimoristas' 18% to 21%. Humala is directly linked with the Ethnocacerists since Isaac Humala (His father) is the creator of the ideology, and his two brothers (also military guys) are the leaders.

CW: possible gore
possible satellite images of CECOT are floating around, searching by name on google maps is censored but if you put in the coordinates you get some results (at least you did yesterday, unsure about today). its as horrific as you imagine.
(note that info for this was sourced from twitter threads, please take with a massive grain of salt)
- Oh yeah. This. Before someone says, “THIS IS LITERALLY AUSCHWITZ” stop and refrain from using that reference with every detention center, concentration camp, prison, etc. that you come across.
  It’s widely known that police brutality from the guards is a thing in CECOT. This is pretty common for the Northern Triangle. Guatemalan prisons have had similar incidents. It’s just that now international attention is on El Salvador that wasn’t there before.
  Would not be surprised if they’re dead bodies and definitely not a good sign, but don’t run around thinking this is the same kind of industrial death camp you had in 1930’s Germany. At best it’s what the Americans had in the 1930s with worse living conditions. So maybe more like the detention center in Nauru that Australia had.
  
  I don’t think anyone here believes it’s an actual extermination camp, just a concentration camp like every other
- New Bastille dropped
- Have a source with more info?
- I get this:
- Didn't buy it at first but there's no way that isn't a pile of bodies:
  
  Look at the bottom, there's no way that's anything but a body, blurry as it is

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 32nd night in a row, with multiple rounds of airstrikes targeting Kamaran Island (15 total there), along with various areas in the Amran, Saada (13 total), and Al Bayda' Governorates. It's possible that over 40 seperate airstrikes have taken place over the past few hours.
Renewed round of airstrikes in Dhamar Governorate.
Warning for potential graphic imagery of casualties during ongoing airstrikes:
Al Masirah TV twitter
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General Counsel of US DHS Joseph N. Mazzara says, if Kilmar Abrego Garcia showed up at a US port of entry, they would let him into the country per the court's orders, then deport him to El Salvador:
DHS has established processes for taking steps to remove domestic obstacles that would otherwise prevent an alien from lawfully entering the United States. I have been authorized to represent that DHS is prepared to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s presence in the United States in accordance with those processes if he presents at a port of entry.
I have been authorized to represent that if Abrego Garcia does present at a port of entry, he would become subject to detention by DHS. In that case, DHS would take him into custody in the United States and either remove him to a third country or terminate his withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and remove him to El Salvador.
- Steven Miller outlined this very clearly yesterday. I would link the press conference if you really want it, but it's an infuriating and rage inducing watch.
  Steven Miller press conference, warning for pure rage inducing smugness
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  Underrated downside of the 2nd Trump presidency: I have to see this dead-eyed freak again. I hoped he'd crawled off into a ditch and died of some painful and inoperable tumor in the intervening years, but alas. More evidence that the two parties are the same. They find the absolutely worst ghouls to smugly describe their terror with vicious glee. Hard to say who I hate more, Miller or the smarmy little goblin my brain is already trying repress the memory of who denied Israel's war crimes with a smile on his face for months.
- There's another hearing starting now, the blue sky law nerds are covering it live (note: nothing will happen)
  
  Sounds like the judge is calling for two weeks of back-and-forth paper pushing:
  Xinis: I'll remind everyone here that there are no business hours. It'll be two weeks of "intense" discovery. Once we have record, take it from there.
  Deeply unserious legal system

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33z6kn7xvyo Peru's ex-President Ollanta Humala guilty of money laundering

"Youngest political prisoner in Russia", exchanged to the West last year, publicly confesses that he was not a "political prisoner", but an actual spy and enemy combatant.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1912169328369418634
- "War is politics by other means" so actually all POWs are political prisoners.

FT: Trade, tech and Treasuries: China holds cards in US tariff stand-off
https://archive.is/ZKce1
This is the important chart, idk why archive.is doesn't load it:
- Autocracy is when the government swiftly responds to the peoples needs
  Democracy is when you get to pick the blue or red servants of capital every 4 years
- When "public opinion" = the opinion of the capitalists.
  Because nothing sways the ruling class when the public giving the opinion is Palestine protesters or any other prole movement.

Ghana created a new state body to take over all gold sales in the country, banning foreign and other domestic interests from playing that role. This is notable as Ghana is one of the most western friendly countries of West Africa.
- Ghana, Togo and Côte-d'Ivoire are the terminal for gold smuggling, one of the interview from Radio WarNerd, there is a gold smuggling operation that extracts gold from the Sahel Region and the gold is shipped to the 3 countries mentioned. IIRC the gold is within the grey market region where there are active involvement from the government to get revenue. My cynical opinions is probably that Ghana is clamming down on the illegal trades to funnel all the revenue to the government.
  Of course a lot of these gold smuggling operation is financed by the Gulf states and the Saudis. Perhaps they are the real winners in the modern scramble for Africa.
- oh is that why amnesty international is suddenly raising the alarm about people accused of witchcraft needing protection?

Ecuador's Pachakutik recognizes the reelection of corrupt narco millionaire US-puppet president Daniel Noboa.
Kawsachuan News
CIA backed "leftist" party strikes once again.
According to American-Venezuelan lawyer Eva Golinger, during the 2010 Ecuador coup d'état attempt, Pachakutik stated that President Rafael Correa was authoritarian and issued a press release opposing him and supporting police and army rebels. Golinger accused Pachakutik of having accepted funding from USAID and NED, and playing a role as part of a United States plan to destabilise Latin American democracies in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).
Pachakutik denied "having any relationship at all with the organism known as USAID, previously NED, not today nor ever". Golinger responded by referring to a National Democratic Institute (NDI, one of the four institutes funded by NED) report from 2007 describing Pachakutik being trained by the NDI in "Triangle of Party Best Practices and strategic planning methodologies" as part of NDI's Latin American/Caribbean Political Party Network of over 1400 individual members, funded under NED Core Grants 2000-031, 2001-048, 2003-028, and 2004-036.
- Imagine letting yourself get got by US style idpol.
- NED Core Grants
  Pity they lost their funding

he’s running
- he’s running
  Why not run Carter?
- He's the only person to beat Trump in an election so yeah he should
- It would be really funny if trump attended his funeral in a couple years
  
  Looks like Sleepy Joe won’t be waking up anymore folks
- he's just doing this because he craves that upper drug cocktail they put him on for speeches
  
  i live only for those brief moments of lucidity before the inevitable oblivion
- He has risen

i'll just repost this in case mega heads don't go to the best mega:
malcolm harris (of palo alto fame) has published a new book
and has some book tour dates so maybe american comrades will be interested

https://linktr.ee/WhatsLeftTour
- Thank you, can't wait to see one of y'all there. I'll be the dumbest-looking guy in the crowd if you want to meet up

"More reaping and less sowing, please" says the Pentagon
China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs
- Oh no not the US military programs

Some goings on
- The economy is economing.
  
  What spell is this
- That mortgage interest one is so fucked. Imagine having to pay an extra year’s salary because you bought your house on the wrong day.
  
  this is the most efficient possible economic system you god damned commie
- why does the first look like it was done in msPaint?
  
  The number of poorly designed graphs, charts, and data visualizations I've seen from economists and/or their mouthpieces...
  Literally MS Paint is a new one though.
  
  new york ~~times~~ crimes not using emf like god intended

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/china-tells-airlines-stop-taking-boeing-jets-as-trump-tariffs-expand-trade-war
- Tariffs related or simply a sensible approach to aviation safety?
  
  China was already gearing to turn their massive economy towards consuming homegrown jets. So, in a way its just not letting a good embargo go to waste.
- and to halt purchases of American-made aviation parts.
  This is a big one as well. I guess China now has sufficient domestic production to replace all the Boeing jets? Because there is no way that Airbus can just allow Chinese companies to skip the line, they have to wait like everyone else.
  
  i suspect it's flexing, i don't think they make whole engines (or their own plane would exist already)
- Boeing

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NGO's Takes Danish Pro-Genocide Arms Exports To Supreme Court
Four independent NGO's—Amnesty International, Oxfam Denmark, ActionAid Denmark, and the Palestinian group Al-Haq—are appealing to Denmark’s Supreme Court after a lower court rejected their case against the Nordic hermit kingdom's arms exports to the illegal zionist entity.
The groups argue that Danish-made components used in U.S.-produced F-35 fighter jets are contributing to war crimes in Gaza, where indiscriminate zionist bombings have murdered large numbers of civilians. They claim this violates international law, including EU and UN arms export regulations.
Denmark’s Eastern High Court dismissed the case, stating the organizations lack legal standing. In response, the NGO's criticized the ruling as a dangerous precedent that shields the regime from accountability. They argued that civil society groups with direct connections to victims of zionist atrocities must be allowed to challenge arms trade decisions. Al-Haq questioned who, if not humanitarian organizations, can represent the victims of atrocities in court. Similar lawsuits are underway in the UK and the Netherlands.
Source: Organisationer tager retssag om våbeneksport til Højesteret, Arbejderen, April 11th 2025

Awful thought I just had: Will Luigi Mangione be sent to CECOT?
- Probably,
  mentioned something about wanting to throw 'homebrew criminals' there like he's exporting a bunch of grifter sodas or someshit rather than people.
  At work someone mentioned that on Google maps there's a river of blood coming from that place. Any source that isn't randos on insta? It wouldn't surprise me, in fact I expect it.
  
  It’s most likely the red clay soil the place is surrounded with. You generally don’t leave rivers of blood and mountains of corpses around, it smells repugnant
  
  Look it up on google maps and look at the north side, two small buildings arranged in an L around a yard. There's a bunch of red staining that looks like aftermath of violence.
- Oh god

https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1911873227510690111
France’s foreign minister announced that #Algeria has ordered 12 French officials to leave the country within 48 hours on Monday, a decision reportedly connected to the recent detention of three Algerian nationals in France.
"I am asking Algerian authorities to abandon these expulsion measures... if the decision to send back our officials is maintained, we will have no other choice but to respond immediately," Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said.
The 12 include some members of the French Interior Ministry, a diplomatic source told Agence France Press (AFP).
- This is what I like to see, the Maghreb needs a serious dose of anti-french sentiment in general, straight up a North African version of the Chinese style anti-Japan social ideology that scrubs out all traces of the colonial legacy
- It's important to know that it's a response after france detained an algerian official after accusing him of trying to kidnap a tiktoker that is against the algerian government. Algeria has been calling for his immediate release before expelling the french officials

Honestly.... The TPP probably might have been more effective at boxing out China than these tariffs. And trump got rid of that. Now hes trying to do the same thing with worse leverage
- I think the notion that liberals are just better stewards of empire than the reactionaries always pans out. You can say that Obama and Biden's ideological constraints meant that they never went far enough. Like with the CHIPS act becoming a money sinkhole instead of a proper industrial policy, mostly because the government was unwilling to make the long term investments in education or, worse, was even less willing tell companies not to blow all the subsidies into stock buybacks. But that was still a better plan than embargoing the whole world and collapsing your own state's ability to finance itself. The TPP could have encircled China with markets where the US is the top rentier. Instead we have the East Asian trifect talking to each other about countering US policy.

China says Latin American countries ‘are nobody's backyard’. After the US Secretary of State said that the US wants to reclaim its ‘backyard’, the Chinese Foreign Minister said that Latin America does not want ‘doctrines of domination’. In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Hegseth accused China of dominating Latin America and said that Donald Trump's administration wants to regain US influence over countries in the region.
"The Obama administration took its eye off the ball and let China take over all of South and Central America, with its economic and cultural influence, making deals with local governments for bad infrastructure, surveillance and debt. President Trump said ‘no more’! Let's take back our backyard."
In response, Wang Yi declared that Latin American countries are seeking independence, not “doctrines of domination”. Chancellor Wang Yi: "What the Latin American peoples want is to build their own home, not to be anyone's backyard. What they are looking for is independence, not doctrines of domination."
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- I LOVE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI

fascinating developments in germany, i don't think bwa is that powerful, but fascinating
(on the cynical note, it may be some qatari lng shenanigans/suez blockade hurting them or maybe eu realizing they can detach from usa on foreign policy, on experimental basis)
- Already outflanked Die Linke to the left with that statement.
- The question is "why now and not two years ago when they started bombing?" It looks like BWA got something as part of a deal in Turkey.

https://xcancel.com/zei_squirrel/status/1911961520595927059
squirrel continues (correctly) dumping on bernie, but at least chanting is something

JD Vance breaks a trophy

did
came out as pettis head on latest true anon, or was she doing method acting of trump?
in any case, if trump believes pettis, good luck to american comrades and all, but
he is the customer of the last resort guy, i listened to some podcast with him like 3 years ago, just breathtaking arrogant fuck who believes that usa provides service to the world by buying their stuff and allowing industries to develop (shade aside, it would be only kinda true if not for structural adjustments programs freezing any further development). he recently been advocating capital controls to couple with tariffs, which i'm sorry, but without ww3, the world will just excise usa as a tumor than accept worldwide currency rebalancing under auspices of usa. bankor is more workable than that shit
- Pettis is a disciple of Gordon Chang basically
- this guy teaches at Peking University?! jesus christ
- https://asiatimes.com/2025/04/michael-pettis-misleading-the-american-zeitgeist-on-china/
  Great and quite funny Pettis-Trump Admin related article that droped yesterday. Author is a chinese National that apparently has had a pretty long and important career in US economic deep state instruments and funds. Now he mostly writes (correct) china glaze articles and shits on Pettis and Co. on twitter comments.
  Singapore’s ex-foreign minister Kishore Mahbubani publicly stated that Fukuyama’s book gave America collective brain damage.
  lmao
  
  The two most dangerous ideas promulgated by Pettis are 1) China’s economy is wasteful, inefficient and on the cusp of stagnation, and 2) consumption creates value.
  as delusional as End of History was
  
  Author is a chinese National
  article contradicts this though? maybe Chinese ethnicity but author claims to be American
  For those who don’t know, Han Feizi is American – but destined to occupy a tiny niche in the American zeitgeist.

There are factories in China going on tiktok and telling people how to buy stuff directly from them and ways to evade tariffs
Its all extremely funny
- It's not about avoiding tariffs, it's about cutting the cost of the import to the price of the manufacturer instead of the price of the importer middleman. Tariffs are a % of the price.
- It's actually been going on since before the tarrifs lol. For example:
  "Tony from LC Sign here! Join our WhatsApp to get the latest high quality LED signage straight from factory. Shipped by DHL or FedEx".
  That guy's videos were constantly getting recommended to me, despite finding them distasteful at times.

It’s not Joever till I say it’s Joever
- ooooooh earth rider
- On Tuesday, the former president will deliver a speech to disability advocates in Chicago focused on protecting Social Security and Republicans’ attempts to attack it
  Is he mad that Republicans are stealing his material?
- Dems working overtime to keep Biden's spirit tethered to the material realm because no one knows what punishment awaits him in Tartarus.
- He’s running. Welcome back, Brandon.
  
  :Punished-brandon:
- I know the original context of the statement was an indictment of radical politics, but it applies so well to the Democrats:
  They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly "critique" power.

Finnish national news is running a hero story on two guys who have gone to Ukraine to fight. The story is fully uncritical of this and the two dudes are platformed giving advice to Finnish defense forces and people on how we are fully unprepared for when Russia attacks (because in these minds this is what will happen).
I would like to know what sorts of organizations does a kid like this need to be connected to to end up in command positions in the Donbass? But of course the article never asks this, just states how these young lads packed their bags and went to war, just like that.
Interesting visual emphasis on the lion tattoo too, almost like they are trying to make a vague point of what isn't there. But we don't see the whole arm, nor is the lion all that non-fashy in history either.
The other dude cites a message where their thinking goes: "It's time for peaceful nations to stand up..." This is some sort of manifesto for them. As this is how they do peaceful, it's totally f'd up.
The comment section is all men being great war and Russia understanders who seem to all think Finland is somehow a part of this war. It's very smug and typical in a country with a draft where all dudes think they are the greatest war tacticians to ever live because they have been in the army.
- Do Finnish media do the same thing Danish media does where it is just assumed as a given that Russia wants to attack all of Europe and nobody ever bothers to tell why Russia would want to do this?
  
  Yup. This is the narrative.
  I was thinking about how the entire justification of the draft here is and has always been built around this and how fragile that actually is. I am sure that deep down the ghouls know this so this is vigorously upheld and reaffirmed every chance they get. Before the 90s the people here were far more ambivalent to nationalism and the type of rabid nationalism we have now just didn't exist.
  But pretty much the entire nation state that is now Finland is still based on this mamufactured divide and homogenization of a supposed country when in fact the area that is now Finland has at least three different peoples in it and none of it is natural or "one people". If the big bad Russia / smol bean Finland story wasn't there, all this would just crumble as the nonsense it actually is.
  The nation state project was started by the people living in the West of the country, the feudal lords and early bougies that were not from here at all, but from Sweden, Germany etc. The Karelian peoples were colonized, so were the Sami peoples. If there ever should be a natural border towards Russia it should be far further west in the area where Karelia ends, not in the middle of it.
  I suppose the same story kind of repeats in the Balkan states, Ukraine and generally along the Russian border. In Finland the so called intelligentsia always felt such embarassement belonging to the uncivilized Asiatic Hordes. Therefore the entire brainpan of the fin has been molded around this feeling of shame about where we are actually from and the need to "belong to Europe" that has been ingrained in everyone by the ruling class.
  Everyone just worries about the country brand and if someone mentions the country in the international press, everyone feels better as that means we aren't as "backwards" and "uncivil". It's all a mess, I wish people here would take pride in who they are in non-toxic ways, but I don't think I'll live to see the day.
- We have a new story that is more of the same today. Today the national news reports that a 20 year old has died on the Ukraine front. Much sadness, such hero./s
  Still no conversation on whether these people are mercenaries or otherwise connected to iffy stuff.
  In other Finland news the pigs are on strike here starting from today.
- Very fitting media apparatus for a people who can’t stop bragging about a war they lost 80 years ago
- The Finns copped one "W" in the Second World War by not having the country be annexed and they're never letting it go
  
  Finns lost the winter war, and they lost the continuation war. They took no Ws whatsoever. They became nazis and got owned, twice in a row

Why Trump (probably) won’t defy the Supreme Court Today at 11:45Aam BST
Donald Trump Is Defying The Supreme Court Today at 06:29pm BST
lol
- 😔
- Establishment liberals, as usual, completely ignored that the supreme court order had some weasel wording (on facilitate vs effectuate) that would allow for this very possibility to occur. Did they really think that the Trump administration would not try to exploit this?
  The weasel words:
  The rest of the District Court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.
  Nobodies on twitter/x were pointing this very possibility out days ago. You know it's bad when nobodies on twitter are doing better journalism than the Washington Post.
  Also the Huffington Post article is really bad
  These are two entirely different things. There is no world where the administration’s definition of “facilitate” aligns with obeying either court’s orders.
  There is, it's the one we're living in right now. Hence Garcia still being locked up in El Salvador and not repatriated back to the United States, and Trump remaining president, with no constitutional crisis. That is how it's playing out. Saying that it ain't so doesn't actually change anything.
  The reason the administration can even make the claim for its mangled definition of “facilitate” gets at how the Supreme Court royally screwed this case up.
  In its unanimous decision, the court did order the administration to get Abrego Garcia out of CECOT and to the U.S., but it also stated that the district court that first ordered Abrego Garcia’s return “should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”
  Why is the Huffington Post viewing this as a screw up, and not a deliberate action by the justices on the court, to give the Trump administration an out here? The court is a partisan institution, the majority of the judges are Republican nominees. Compromises obviously had to be made to get this verdict, yet alone a unanimous one at that. They are going to give their party and their guy (in Trump) a way out. Does the Huffington Post not understand the basic dynamics of political power?
- Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

Bukele is one of many Salvadoran fascists. Every generation of my leftist family have dealt with them through orgs and sometimes militant acts. He’s proving to be more like Maximiliano Martínez. A self-admitted facist who’s responsible for heavily kneecapping the Communist movement in El Salvador and nearly wiping out their indigenous population. My great-grandfather was jailed during his reign and I don’t think he ever came back.
Even worse is that he did all this before the CIA even existed. Much like Bukele, Martínez was an opportunist who was more than happy to suck the imperialists teats if he got something out of it.
I have to say that it’s a little amusing how nobody gave a shit about Central America and now all these foreigners keep talking about us. The takes here are much better than other sites that regularly frustrate me.
- His popularity in polls seems wild to me, is something like 90% the reality or is there some kind of dissent?
  
  Not directly related to his popularity but here's a decent
  thread on /r/trueanon on the topic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jxngl8207o I am in no way condoning anything either brother did, but does anyone else think this article seems to be written in a way that intentionally conflates/confuses the brother who carried our the bombing with the brother who has recently carried our the attacks on prison officers?
again not giving an opinion on the any of the events, just wondering if anyone else picked up on the writing style?
- Abedi is suspected of fashioning the blades from a baking tray
  cancel the great br*tish bake off
- it is pretty odd yeah
  a paragraph or so in i found myself thinking "wait, wasn't it a suicide bombing?"

@plinky@hexbear.net what's the latest #beanwatch with the ongoing tariffs
- i've checked last week, both been stable, no exciting #beanwatch updates, cocoa still at 8k (slight decrease), coffee at 360 (very high but stable). soybeans stable as well and cheap
  (soybeans are sus cause they will be directly touched by tradewar, but nothing for now. i would suspect they should get dumpstered inside usa tbh, if china reduces buying and usaid floor falls under them)
  *i rather suspect until summer everything would stay as is, harvest season in southern hemisphere is priced in (tm), the fuckery would start again due to unexpected weather events from now till july and/or tradewar
  
  got it, invest in soy futures (idk how to do this but it sounds like a good idea)

How long until libs say Bukele is evil because he is of Palestinian descent? Biden had all the chance in the world to remove Bukele from power, but nah, he was too busy attacking Nicaragua for no reason.
- I’d rather foreigners stay away from Central America and let us deal with them. Their presence never leads to anything good and it will only lead to Bukele being replaced by someone worse because El Salvador has done a lot worse than him.
  
  hands off nato
  hands off central america
- but nah, he was too busy attacking Nicaragua for no reason.
  You don't stop yer hounds when they attack the deer you want. :shrug-outta-hecks:
- Get libs to support the Right of Return for Bukele.
- What's the story between Biden & Bukele?
  
  iirc, Democrats and Republicans disliked him because he has open ties with the PRC and was pushing aside the former Pro-US ARENA party (The Military Dictatorship Corrupt Party). Biden refused to meet with him, and a lot of democrats continue to say he was becoming a dictator but didn't do anything against his goverment (probably because Biden thought he could control him and use him as an ally against Venezuela, Cuba, Honduras and Nicaragua).
  Republicans were calling him Right-Wing Maduro, and iirc, Trump openly said Bukele was sending criminals to the USA before Trump was elected president. Republicans also hated him because he broke relations with Taiwan and established relations with the PRC. Marco Rubio, yes that Marco Rubio, said the US should have cut all aid to El Salvador (they did cut military aid to El Salvador).
  However, following the Salvadoran government's controversial decision to cut ties with Taiwan in favor of the People's Republic of China in August 2019, some Republican senators like Marco Rubio had demanded that economical aid to the country be cut and their expulsion from Alianza Para Prosperidad (a U.S.-supported program to help El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala with education and healthcare to reduce illegal immigration to the United States).
  Upon the re-election of President Donald Trump and now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, relations improved significantly. Bukele offered to begin taking migrants of any nationality from the United States, even going as far as to offer to house American criminals with a violent record.
  Donald Trump accused El Salvador President Nayib Bukele of solving his country’s crime problem by sending criminals to the US during his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday.
  Bukele’s crackdown on gang activity, which involved the imprisonment of about 75,000 alleged gang members in 2022, has been credited with transforming the continent’s murder capital into one of the safest countries in Latin America, and he’s become an icon for the American Right in the process. Yet Trump argued yesterday that Bukele’s popularity in the US is unmerited, and suggested he was to blame for migrant-related crime.
  El Salvador’s President is “sending all of his criminals, his drug dealers, his people that are in jails, he’s sending them all to the United States,” Trump said. “He’s trying to convince everybody what a wonderful job he does in running the country. Well, he doesn’t do a wonderful job.”

US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 31st night in a row, with multiple rounds of airstrikes targeting Kamaran Island, and 15 airstrikes reported in Ma'rib Governorate.
More airstrikes on Ma'rib and Al-Jawf Governorates.
Warning for potential graphic imagery of casualties during ongoing airstrikes:
Al Masirah TV twitter
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With the arrival of the USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier to the operational area, positioned off of the coast of Oman, comes a host of new capabilities. The most obvious are the F-35C 5th generation stealth fighter aircraft, but one that's less talked about (and in my opinion more significant) is the EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare (EW) squadron. The EA-18Gs on the Carl Vinson are not equipped with the usual AN/ALQ-99 electronic warfare system (capable of jamming frequencies from 64 MHz to 20 GHz in ten seperate bands), the EA-18Gs on the Carl Vinson are instead equipped with the AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer (NGJ), which is speculated to use up to six AESA (Actively Electronically Scanned Arrays) to carry out it's EW tasks. I think the positioning and equipment (EA-18Gs with the NGJ and F-35Cs) is more of a message to Iran than anything else.
EA-18G Growler equipped with the NGJ mid band pod, on the USS Carl Vinson during it's current deployment:

This is the moment just minutes ago when Mohsen Madawi a Columbia University student was apprehended by HSI agents in the middle of his appointment to become a U.S. citizen. He is a Palestinian-born green card holder. Video was taken by his friend ⁦
https://x.com/lilialuciano/status/1911821866408522045
- The way the pigs are all covered up and hooded & masked is pretty telling on how legit all this is. They also seem to be avoiding the camera as much as they can. Who can even tell if these are actually cops, the one guy in grey/green had no pig letters on his clothes as far as I could tell.
  
  It's also a terror tactic. If you don't know who is kidnapping you then you don't know whether to call city, state, or federal. You don't know if you're resisting local cops or the feds. And if they gun you down there's not much chance of them being idd. A big part of state terror is often the anonymity of the perpetrators.
  
  Only in America can we have hundreds of millions of guns and sit totally placid as masked unidentified men in unmarked vehicles are abducting people in broad daylight. What was the point of the guns if not for this exact situation?

hmmmmm

"The number of localities in Việt Nam will be reduced by nearly half, down from 63 provinces and cities to 34 (28 provinces and 6 centrally-run cities)".
Vietnamese lady I follow on twitter called this the "Most consequential political reform since reunification in 1976" and since the Doi Moi reforms and a part of an informal Doi Moi 2.0 which has been happening recently.
Also, President Xi received in Vietnam a kind of "airport reception" not seen since 1991
Blurb from a paper I'm not gonna read:
"While territorial disputes remain, party-state ties have overall never been as deep and penetrating as these days (army, associations, media, education, tourism, sci-tech, security, more), and Vietnam is nonetheless navigating through it."
"Beside the +40 deals to be signed this time, the $8.4bln-worth China (Yunnan)-northern Vietnam railway link is the highlight, with construction beginning in late 2025. In my view, the visit is also originally due to the strained relationship (2023-25) between Vietnam & Cambodia."
- Glad to see the China/Vietnam relationship seems to be improving?
  
  It’s recently been pretty good. Their opposition is greatly exaggerated in the west
- "The number of localities in Việt Nam will be reduced by nearly half, down from 63 provinces and cities to 34 (28 provinces and 6 centrally-run cities)".
  I understand that this is a big change to administrative structure, but what does this indicate politically and economically?
  
  I think the shift from a three tier to two tier administrative sub-national structure would be mirrored in Vietnamese party/political structures - e.g. the district party office is merged with the relevant functions of the provincial and communal offices
  
  parts of rural japan have been consolidating for a while, maybe everybody is moving to the big cities in viet nam too?
  
  Good question, I don't know
- Rails gang stat winning

Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain in El Salvador, says Bukele

Not surprising, ghouls doing ghoul shit. Wish someone would do something funny while Bukele is still stateside
- while Bukele is still stateside
  
  telling on himself
- So they're just holding them indefinitely? So deportation is a life in prison sentence?
  
  More like a death sentence than a life sentence.
  
  Yeah, once you are taken to CECOT you aren't getting out
  
  Yep
- After a plane carrying Abrego Garcia and other detainees secretly left the U.S. in mid-March, a federal judge in a separate case temporarily blocked the deportation, ruling that the plane must turn around.
  "Oopsie... Too late," Bukele wrote with a crying laughing emoji on X the next day alongside a screenshot of a news report on the judge's decision.
  Hell would be too good for them.
  
  How long until we get an ICC case for trump and bukele? The Hague is far to nice of a prison for their likes unfortunately...id rather he spend the next 40 years in pure darkness with wormy bread and sewage to drink
- Is this officially the first Supreme Court order Trump is ignoring
  Edit: also occurring to me there’s a small chance this guy is already dead / very fucked up and that’s why there’s all this “I’m powerless” theater. Much more likely Trump just doesn’t want to comply, but it’s a possibility
  
  also occurring to me there’s a small chance this guy is already dead / very fucked up and that’s why there’s all this “I’m powerless” theater.
  Even if it is not too late for this guy, this is the exact reason they are staking out this position. They are reserving the option to do this to anybody without any due process or transparency.
  
  The admin argues that they are doing whatever they can to "facilitate", but his return is ultimately up to El Salvador.
  But yeah, they also probably don't want his stories of the horrors to be out in the public. Because of how politically important this poor mans case has become, its likely he dies sooner rather than later.
  
  The President has complete immunity according to SCOTUS. He doesn't have to follow any of their rulings.
- So the Trump admin says it doesn't have power to bring him back, and Bukele says he doesn't have power to send him back.

Trump is rumored to be drafting an executive order that will enable the US to seize rare earth metals from the ocean floor. Actual pulling-the-copper-out-of-the-walls policy if it happens.
- Far more expensive than mining it on land, orders of magnitude, and at 2% the concentration.
  There is a reason this hasn’t been done already and it isn’t because US corporations don’t want to wreck the marine environment. It’s massively expensive. There are non-Chinese land sources that will get tapped before the seabed.
  And the supply of these minerals is also a refinement problem. China owns this market because they have the refinement capacity, not just because they have the raw materials.
  
  Yeah, just sitting here hoping the power of stupidity and unlimited resources isn't going to overcome all the hurdles.
- Do you want to anger Godzilla? Because this is how you anger Godzilla.
  
  At this point I think Godzilla could only improve conditions.

NOAA scientists are cleaning bathrooms in Seattle
They're also dealing with hazardous waste disposal as contracts are not being renewed.
- Late stage capitalism meets fascism is wild

Paraguay and Argentina denounce lack of consensus on Celac summit declaration - AP News (Spanish Only)
- Paraguay requested the inclusion of “on the basis of good repute” in the final wording. Argentina did not agree with the passage about a woman never having been in charge of the UN General Secretariat. In point 7, Paraguay asked for “gender equality” to be replaced by “equality between women and men”. The section says that one of the priorities of Colombia, the next president of the group, will be gender equality.

UN News, 2025-04-14: "Sudan war: ‘Darkest chapters’ ahead as Darfur massacre claims over 100 lives"
As Sudan’s devastating war enters its third year, UN rights investigators are warning that its “darkest chapters” may still lie ahead, following the massacre of more than 100 people at displacement camps in Darfur over the weekend.

Relevant news from MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders), 2025-04-14, via ReliefWeb. And OCHA and UN RC/HC Sudan, 2025-04-12, via ReliefWeb

Surprised it took this long for Russia to pick up Israel’s rhetoric
“ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russia's Ministry of Defense reported that a precision strike was carried out yesterday in Sumy using two Iskander-M missiles, targeting a meeting of senior Ukrainian military leadership.
The strike reportedly hit its intended target, resulting in the elimination of over 60 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, including members of the command staff”
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/144794
- Russia has been carrying out this new phase of ballistic missile strikes against high value targets in Ukraine for months now, they've just got lucky that there weren't many civilian casualties until now. Restaurants, hotels, and even nightclubs have been hit before. This strike that resulted in dozens of civilian casualties was aimed at a Ukrainian Army awards ceremony in Sumy that was publicly advertised on social media (OPSEC fail from the Ukraine).
- I do think this was a botched strike, which was possibly too risky to begin with, but no warring country is ever going to admit wrongdoing in a situation like this.
- what do you mean by pick up israel's rhetoric
  
  Bombing a crowded area with civilians for the purposes of getting at a commander

Javier Milei's party comes in third in Argentina's first electoral test of the year (Spanish Only)

lol

There's an unverified DPRK AMA going on over on Lemmy and .world
Edit: pretty nuanced and not a caricature of Yeonmi Park, so either a well-educated troll or real.
Edit 2: .world took theirs down, lol
Edit 3: it's back. Decent but not verified info, interesting but take it with a large heaping of salt.
- They should go an AMA here or on grad. Everyone is just asking them how poor they are and blaming NK for killing Ukrainians or not wanting to unite with the South. If they're real, of course.
  
  Yep, I suggested it, so we'll see. Still, large grain of salt.

Glory to the martyrs, modern day Achilles and Patroclus
“This video features a rare glimpse of the intense clashes that took place in Odaisseh, southern Lebanon, on October 2nd, 2025 by Hezbollah. These clashes lasted throughout the entire night. On that day, the IOF's Egoz unit was ambushed there, resulting in 7 killed soldiers and 30 wounded.
The video features the martyrs Mohammed Ahmad Tabaja "Amir" and Mohammed Suli "Ali Atwi," who ascended hours after filming this video.”
https://streamable.com/75zbpj
https://t.me/PalestineResist/76205
- October 2nd, 2025
  Wallahi, have we time traveled :limmy-awake:
  
  I didn’t notice the notation, just translated it to February 10th, but it was obviously 2024 pre ceasefire per the video
  https://t.me/PalestineResist/60262
  https://t.me/PalestineResist/60281
- “Egoz” is Hebrew for walnut. IOF literally got stomped in the nuts.

- Trump, Squinting quizzically, “Are you sure you’re Mexican, you look kinda Muslim to me”
  
  Please dont fall into doing ironic bigotry comrade
- Lol at anyone who thought Bukele would go pro-China. He’s always been an opportunist.
- ElZelinsky
  Please keep showing how much a foriegn nation leeches tax dollars in a constiutional crisis.
  
  I fucking hate the game of “oops I’m not responsible for the guy we deported/imprisoned” from both of these Nazis

Stocks up by abt 1 percent for now, nothing ever happens etc
- Check again.
  
  oh so THATS what that button under my desk does

@grandepequeno@hexbear.net Centrists and right-wingers have, with american and european support, not recognized elections so much lately that the pandora's box is now open for leftists to do it too
The thing is, Leftist have been doing this in Latin America for quite sometime now. But unlike the Far-Right and Liberals/Conservatives who claim fraud and weird Russian/Chinese/Iranian plots against their elections. The Left claims of electoral fraud actually make sense, and of course the USA/OAS/EU ignore them.
- You're right, me calling it "opening a pandora's box" isn't quite right
  
  how about 'accidentally dropped a red carpet from orbit onto an otherwise ignored alleyway'?

Between March 18 and April 9, Israeli forces have struck housing and tents for internally displaced people (IDPs) on 224 occasions during 36 separate strikes, according to the UN rights office, OHCHR
Earlier on Friday [2025-04-11], Israeli authorities issued two new displacement orders "covering vast areas in northern and southern Gaza," UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said at the regular noon briefing in New York.
"Together, these areas span more than 24 square kilometres – roughly the size of everything south of Central Park here in Manhattan."
UN News, 2025-04-11: "Gaza: UN rights office condemns Israeli buffer zone plan"