I have pondered for a week about how I'm going to cover world events and especially this war in the long term, without losing my mind (and a significant amount of time on my behalf) staring into the abyss that is modern-day journalism.
My solution, so far, is what you can see. The update itself and the summary have performed a fusion dance, becoming a single entity (who even reads thousands of words almost every day just for news?). Only the headlines will be posted, except when a short excerpt from the article is particularly good at summarizing the article's contents (or when the article has a clickbaity headline). To save character space, all links to media will be archived, except for a few special cases like blogs (e.g. Michael Roberts, Naked Capitalism), instead of just the more MSM-y sites.
To the loyal people with attention spans of steel who have been here since the beginning, back when the war looked like it would be over before the first leaves started falling off the trees - yes, I agree, it does look frighteningly similar to what I initially did before the bulletins site was a thing. Just with a different categorization system. Time is a flat circle, after all.
Anyway:
November 21st's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 22nd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 23rd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 25th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 26th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources. Beware of chuddery.
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 fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. Russian language.
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
Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).
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.
Last week's discussion post.
I got snail mail about jury duty. I dutifully went to the government site and filled everything out. In the first 255 character max input field - I said I believed in jury nullification. In another field - I said I was afraid of catching long covid by being a member of a jury.
Both of which are true. I figured that was that. I was wrong.
First, I got more snail mail that said due to a "computer error" - they lost my data and they wanted me to fill everything out again. Well, fuck that.
Second, on Friday I got an email that I had been selected. How? They said they lost my data!
I wondered how in god's green acre they chose me. Then I realized it's probably the timing. November and December are surely the worst months for them to get people due to holidays and holiday travel.
I assume they'll take pretty much anybody with a heart beat who doesn't say something crazy in those tiny input field like...
Maybe an unpopular opinion here but you should always do jury duty. I know it sucks, but better you than some chud sending somebody to jail over something harmless
lemme just go get paid my twelve dollars a day
I’d love to do jury duty and make someone’s day. Anything except those you know what crimes and I’m your golden ticket.
Agreed. Always do jury duty cos there's a chance you can make an actual concrete difference. Ive done it 3 times now. 2 coroners, v depressing and straightforward. 3rd was crown court bullshit drug smuggling charge.
The police either lost the only actual piece of evidence that maybe implicated the guy or flat out lied about its existence in the first place. The rest was purely conjecture and I was still one of 3 that went into deliberation arguing to find not guilty. Eventually 'there isn't any actual evidence though' won against basically thinking he looked like a wrongun.
Plus watching the police officer getting a massive bollocking from the judge for fucking up so badly was entertaining.
I think it would be a shitty position to be in to have 11 people urging to convict just so they all don't have to stay sequestered at the Best Western, given coupons for free subway sandwiches and a continental breakfast. If that happens you face the same 11 dicks who don't want you to happen for a second night. I wish our system was better.
Always opt for a bench trial if you don't plead out. Judges might be stuffed shirts but they're better st less emotional judgments and paying attention to the rules of jurisprudence
If everyone sabotaged jury duties it might put the system under pressure and destroy it's ability to maintain the pretense of justice but if only a few marginalized leftists do it it won't even register. All you accomplish by getting yourself vetoed as a leftist is to have someone else who is likely to be a lot shittier than you take the place.
"I love crime I love criminals death to America" should do the trick
I was sure that just "I believe in jury nullification" was enough. Maybe I need to hit every topic possible in that 255. For starters...
Just walk through the court metal detector with the largest legal knife you can find.
"What do you mean I can't bring my utility cleaver in here?"
I got one from a state that I haven't lived in for two years, which they sent to a new, out of state address. They then demanded that I prove I was no longer a resident. I'm like mfs you sent the summons out of state, that's how I'm emailing you about it now lmao. I would have loved to inform my fellow jurors about nullification though.
This is why I've been eligible to vote for over a decade but have never registered to vote. Fuck Jury Duty. I would've registered to vote for Bernie in either general election though
You might have an opportunity to do some material good here. Go to the jury thing and pretend to be a sensible middle of the road law and order conservative. Then refuse to convict .
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Yeah... ACAB and prison abolition and all that but some people have it coming.
"OK then, I hereby try you under British common law as a landed subject of the Crown, traitor." is something I've always wanted to say to a Sovereign Citizen type
You also have to invoke admiralty law and talk about the fringes of navel ensigns. Also saying something like "ACAB I know cops are liars and the justice system is corrupt, I will never vote to convict, etc etc" basically be vocally biased against the prosecution. At least in Canada the defence and prosecution work together on selecting the jury and can veto biased jurors
When I was empaneled, the prosecution had used up their vetos before they got to me. I was telling all my comrades on the jury about prosecution conviction rates and the leverage they’d have over a witness that’s on probation. It was a good experience.
I would always say that I don't respect the moral authority of our criminal justice system. Also that I could never convict someone in court. Due to corruption and abuses within the system. It's basically the justice based version of the SovCit diatribe.