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they flew to an impoverished prison state, celebrated the government responsible for a fifty-year humanitarian crisis, and painted the locals a mural with "notes of love." this is among the most vile kind of human the western world has ever produced.

🚨BREAKING: Just hours after Irish rappers Kneecap blasted the amps and turned a Havana concert into a rave for Code Pink activists chanting anti-blockade slogans, reports claim local hospital went dark and ventilator patients died. Meanwhile, members of the communist flotilla stayed in 5-star hotels with the lights blazing and AC running. No one cashes in on capitalism faster than the clowns preaching communism.

Cuban man reveals Code Pink activists 5 star hotel is the only building with electricity while the rest of Havana faces a complete blackout.

3 weeks have now passed following the start of the US 🇺🇸-Israeli 🇮🇱 operation to topple the regime in Iran 🇮🇷 🔸The Islamic regime is still holding 🔸The Hormuz Strait is closed 🔸Iran continues to retaliate 🔸No new protest in Iran 🔸US/ISR operations continue 🧵THREAD🧵1/20⬇️

Portugal bans sex change treatments for minors and repeals the 2018 gender self-determination law

BREAKING - It’s now been revealed the Cuban regime was forced to deploy armed security to protect the five-star hotel where champagne socialists like Hasan were staying, fearing locals might attempt to storm it in protest of the country’s electricity being diverted to the hotel.

“Hay una izquierda que sigue viendo a Cuba como su zoológico, como un museo. Vienen, van al Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos, que les prepara sus programitas para ir a cosechar una semana, un ratito a Tropicana y así es muy lindo ver el socialismo. Pero hay otra Cuba, en la que los paradigmas de la Revolución ya se han acabado o están agotados. Claro que la educación y la sanidad son derechos a preservar, incluso si tenemos otros sistemas políticos. Pero tiene que haber oportunidades de trabajo, la gente está pasando hambre y de mi generación apenas quedamos unos pocos en el país”. Esto es lo que me decían en 2021 Ulises Padrón, filólogo, editor y activista por los derechos de las personas LGTBIQ y afrodescendientes. Lo mismo que muchas de las personas represaliadas por participar en el estallido social. Ahora todos están encarcelados o en el exilio. Este mismo hartazgo de la supuesta izquierda que dice defender al pueblo cubano y le estrecha la mano a sus victimarios locales es el que me he encontrado estas semanas de nuevo en Cuba. lamarea.com/2024/03/29/cub…

🚨BREAKING: Footage from outside the hotel in Cuba where the communist flotilla, Pablo Iglesias, Hasan Piker, Code Pink, and other useful idiots and VIP propagandists lounge in comfort while Cubans are left in the dark during a nationwide blackout. The entire island is without power. Hospitals? Dark. People? Screwed. The contrast couldn’t be more startling. The lights are blazing, the AC is humming at the luxury hotel, and within seconds you can see how Cubans live. But hey, as long as the regime’s useful idiots stay comfortable, the show must go on. Classic communism: elites lit up, the people left in the dark. Hypocrisy on full display.

This is so embarrassing. They came to Cuba in their hundreds, carrying less food then they would end up eating there, only to tour around in little buses and party at private concerts while Cubans continue to suffer repression, poverty, shortages and power cuts. How much electricity did this little concert cost btw?

'I spent a week in your country on a guided tour and now have expertise' syndrome is undefeated across time and space One of humanity's most ancient traditions, it will last until our end as a species

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Russia's foreign intelligence (SVR) offered to stage a fake assassination attempt on Victor Orban to aid his election. Anyone now wondering if similar occurred in the 2024 US election?

The tone of al-Jazeera's coverage this war is fundamentally different from the 12 Day War. During that war, the Qatari-run network glorified & hyped up Iran's achievements in the war, and downplayed its losses. For example, their reporter in Tehran, Nour a-Deen Dgheir, claimed that the US was able to carry out operation Midnight Hammer without any aircraft lost because the US sent drones to keep Iranian air defenses busy... Now that Qatar is getting attacked, the tone is different. In response to Iranian threats to occupy lands of Arab Gulf countries if the US occupies the Kharg Island, AJ's top commentator Dr. Liqaa' Makki, simply points out Iran doesn't have the ability to do so. youtube.com/watch?v=24ECj4… In the current war, as can be seen in the clip attached, the coverage is critical of Iranian attacks on the Gulf, presenting them as serving Israel's interests in getting Gulf countries involved in the war against Iran. AJ, which for decades reported, without question, the claims of the entire Iranian Axis that it does not target civilians, now calls out Iranian lies, saying civilian infrastructure and civilians are being harmed in the Gulf. Since its establishment, AJ served as an amplifier for the propaganda pushed by Islamist groups and regimes, whether Sunni groups like AQ and Hamas or regimes like the new Syrian one or Turkey, or Shia militias backed by Iran and the Iranian regime itself. AJ staffed its roster of commentators with supporters of the Iranian Axis, like Palestinian Saeed Ziad and Jordanian Fatema a-Sumadi. These two commentators and others have disappeared from the screen and social media, and at least Ziad has been arrested by Qatari intelligence, likely ahead of deportation back to Turkey. More on Ziad, who aroused fury among Gazans for saying they have no choice but to keep resisting with the "flesh of their children" x.com/LizHurra/statu… More on a-Sumadi x.com/DrSASAIRAQ/sta… AJ's shift is a reflection of Qatar's repositioning after it became the target of Iranian attacks, but this change in tone matters in the wider Middle East. AJ is the most widely watched news channel in the Middle East. AJ is particularly watched by supporters of "resistance," and over the past 2 years, served as a source of comfort and wishful analysis for supporters of this Axis, as it suffered a blow after blow.

Range! Much greater than previously known or admitted. Range now includes Central Europe and almost Paris

This is so illustrative of Cuba 🇨🇺 in 2026. Communist autocrat Miguel Diaz-Canel receives a standing ovation by hundreds of foreign leftists while outside of the building an entire country is being impoverished and repressed by the regime.

Tuvieron que traer comunistas de otros países, porque en Cuba ya no tienen suficientes. Todos los que se han presentado a este espectáculo, son enemigos del pueblo cubano!

@akarlin No breakthrough but I think Russia will manage similar territory gains as last year. The terrain map and roadway map looks better for them. Also, Ukrainian manpower issues are worsening slightly faster than their drone advancements.

Highly bearish on Russia's offensive prospects in spring-summer 2026. 1. Starlink cutoff has reportedly pushed Russian kill chains from 2-3 minutes back up to the 20 minutes, reversing years of progress. Whereas Ukrainians keep improving and are now integrating AI into their faster kill chains. Russia will no doubt find other solutions over time but the gap will be difficult to close again. 2. Ukrainians are acquiring a significant lead in drones - especially medium-range drones to suppress logistics within 120 km of the front. Target acquisition and prioritization is now network-centric and reportedly heavily automated. This is worse for Russia as the attacking side since the offense needs more material than defense. 3. The Telegram ban, which is reportedly being seriously enforced. Kremlins always happy to kick the Russian Army while it's already reeling. No good alternatives (MAX is buggy and insecure, and amusingly, it's quite likely that some of Russia's own Chekists with their unlimited access rights will leak highly confidential information to Ukraine for money). As usual, regime security takes precedence over military effectiveness. Two "bullish" factors for Russia are higher oil prices thanks to the Iran War, which alleviates the fiscal problems that have been building up the past year, and the partial rebuilding of an armored reserve, which is now again being utilized in substitution of meat. The fiscal windfall allows Russia to replenish its state coffers and continue to increase sign-up bonuses, but it doesn't translate into significantly greater capacity for technological catch-up, and may in any case be very temporary if the world economy slips into recession. As for the armored reserve, at this point, the density of eyes in the sky is such that decisive breakthroughs appear to have become unviable in the absence of drone superiority. I expect Russian progress in the next six months to be marginal to zero (!); for the Ukraine/Russia KIA ratio to further improve in Ukraine's favor; for Russian voluntary recruitment to peak, if it hasn't already, and for attrition to equal or overtake it; and for the military balance to improve significantly in Ukraine's favor. I do not expect a new mobilization until before the Russian Duma elections in Sep 2026, but by EOY, I do expect Putin will have to make a choice between launching a second mobilization - probably a "quiet" and unannounced one through electronic draft notices - and wrapping up intensive offensive operations. (The rapid and strangely urgent rollback of Internet freedoms weakly suggests a preference for the former).