Image is of a destroyed American AWACS plane in Saudi Arabia, of which there is a very limited supply and each of which is enormously expensive both monetarily and in terms of components. Iran hit this with a precision drone strike that likely cost ~$20,000.
I don’t have much to add from the last megathread description. This isn’t to say that nothing has happened or has changed since then - decades are still happening in weeks - but the general flow of the war is remaining the same. Trump sometimes threatens to open the Strait with troops and flatten Iran to rubble, and other times threatens that he’s gonna back off and let other countries handle it if they really want little trifles like “fuel” and “energy” so much. Iran continues to strike across the Middle East. The West continues to bomb civilian infrastructure due to their relative inability to affect the missile cities. In all: things are generally getting worse for America and the Zionists.
April is the month where the last ships that left Hormuz before it was closed will arrive around the world, so the last month of economic turmoil has been a mere prelude to what’s going to occur in the near-future. The silver lining is that Iran appears to be formalizing the new state of affairs in Hormuz, creating a rial-based toll to allow passage between a pair of Iranian-controlled islands where they can be monitored, meaning that, as long as the US doesn’t do something exceptionally stupid, the global energy crisis may “only” last a couple years instead of simply being the new reality from now on. Some countries have already agreed to this arrangement, and others will inevitably follow despite their consternation as their economies increasingly suffer.
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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 the Zionists’ 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
A correction will appear in tomorrow’s print edition:
“A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization.”
Top minds over there.
British former diplomat Craig Murray confirms rumors I heard during my recent time in Venezuela. Multiple high level sources confirmed to him that Nicolas Maduro ordered Venezuelan forces to stand down in an eventual kidnapping operation to avoid a ground invasion and save lives.
Journalist: Are you prepared to be nuked by Israel?
Iranian Governor of the Hormuzgan province: We might have a surprise for them
Iranian missile launches sure seem to be reducing in numbers… https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/2039366109753663528
According to the Times of Israel:
- Iran launches 10-15 missiles a day at Israel on average
- There have been six waves of launches today alone
- The largest of these waves was 10 missiles
And this is just Israel. It doesn’t include launches towards Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, KSA, or Jordan.
Iran fires largest missile barrage in weeks as Israelis set to sit down for Passover Seder
According to initial IDF assessments, some 10 ballistic missiles were fired at central Israel, in the largest Iranian salvo on Israel since the early days of the war. Minutes later, sirens again sounded in central and northern Israel, as the IDF detected another Iranian ballistic missile launch, the sixth such salvo of the day. Around the same time, sirens sounded in the Golan Heights and Galilee due to rocket fire by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
According to the military, most of the incoming missiles were intercepted. Some missiles were allowed to hit open areas, “according to protocol.”
we intercepted everything, but anything that we didn’t intercept? well it wouldn’t have hit anything important anywayMen between the ages of 17 and 45 apparently need to obtain permission from the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) if they wish to leave Germany for more than three months, as a result of changes to conscription regulations. According to the “Frankfurter Rundschau,” this rule previously only applied in crisis situations, but has been permanently in effect since January 1, 2026.
We just got this Force Majeure letter today from AirGas, our helium supplier (for our food science lab, where we have multiple mass-spec instruments that use helium).
The letter says that helium supplies are cut off, and if you’re lucky, you might be allotted HALF the helium you need. Even then, you will be charged extra for any helium you get. A LOT extra.
So basically, every mass spec lab in America is about to go offline. AirGas is expressly invoking FM and saying they cannot meet their contractual obligations. Not their fault. Trump did this by attacking Iran.
My lab is fine, of course, because I saw this coming and I ordered my lab staff to buy a one-year supply weeks ago. We already have it in place. So we’re still up and running with plenty of helium.
But very few lab science people are paying attention to the Strait of Hormuz, so they are getting blindsided by this.
Trump’s war is shutting down science labs all across the country right now. Don’t dare call this “winning.” It’s a loss for America. And the world.
https://xcancel.com/HealthRanger/status/2039216983544070604#m
This was published in the Atlantic by one of the top neocons;
Even the threat of terrorism from the region was a consequence of American involvement, not the reason for it. Had the United States not been deeply and consistently involved in the Muslim world since the 1940s, Islamic militants would have little interest in attacking an indifferent nation 5,000 miles and two oceans away. Contrary to much mythology, they have hated us not so much because of “who we are” but because of where we are. In Iran’s case, the United States was deeply involved in its politics from the 1950s until the 1979 revolution, including as the main supporter of the brutal regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The surest way of avoiding Islamist terrorist attacks would have been to get out.
Iranian General Seyed Majid Moosavi responded to US imperialist threats:
“You will not send Iran back to the Stone Age, you will send your soldiers under the tombstone instead. The Hollywood fantasies have twisted your thinking so that you, having a modest 250-year history, threaten a civilization that is more than 6,000 years old.”
No Good Friday truce as Russia launches daytime attacks on Ukraine, killing 14, damaging vet clinic
wont somebody think about Ukranian dogs?! 🫨
lol no mention of the usa doing cooked war crimes over easter is there?
https://xcancel.com/HormuzLetter/status/2040256730785804792#m
BREAKING: A massive line of US Air Force C-17 transport aircraft is currently crossing the Atlantic toward the Middle East, alongside KC-135 refueling tankers. A second wave is already over Europe heading for the eastern Mediterranean. C-17s carry troops, armored vehicles and heavy equipment. This is the largest visible airlift movement since the war began.
The Doomsday Plane landed at Andrews tonight for a reason. This may be it.
MORE: The second wave of C-17 transports is crossing the UK and Europe toward the Middle East right now. The downed F-15E was based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK, the only European country still actively supporting US combat operations.
Also https://xcancel.com/HormuzLetter/status/2040242809135849670#m
BREAKING: The US Air Force E-4B “Nightwatch,” also known as the Doomsday Plane, has just landed at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington. The aircraft is the military’s airborne nuclear command post. It departed from Omaha, home of US Strategic Command. The President is at the White House with his national security team. Press conferences have been cancelled.
Is the Easter invasion happening?
This is a great NYT update summary of Trump’s speech.
Trump has concluded speaking after 19 minutes. Nothing new was said tonight. This was a rehash of his Truth Social posts over the past month.
I’m amazed that an editor didn’t jump in and nuke it or force the reporter to make it ten times as long.
https://xcancel.com/bonzerbarry/status/2039304614294499431
- At least 30 wounded in strikes on israel so far today
- British Castrol oil warehouse in Erbil was hit by a drone
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- Ongoing barrages from Hezbollah on the northern settlements. Documentation from Kiryat Shmona and Nahariyya.
- IRGC: A tanker belonging to the child-killing and illegitimate Zionist regime, named “Aqua One,” in the central area of the Persian Gulf was precisely targeted by the brave naval forces of the IRGC and is currently burning.
- IRGC: Early this morning, several squadrons of kamikaze drones were fired towards the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in the northern Indian Ocean.
- Massive ongoing attack from Iran. They have fired six successive waves of missiles towards Tel Aviv with combined fire from Hezbollah. Sirens have been active for 20 minutes, from the Dead sea to the northern settlements.
- Israeli platforms: Continuous shooting from Iran on the holiday evening-several impacts in the center-Sirens for the fifth time in Tel Aviv
- Israel MDA: It’s impossible to reach the places where Iranian missile fragments fell due to the continuous bombing.
- Channel 12: Combined firing from Iran and Lebanon: A series of alarms across the country. One of the launches from Iran is likely a cruise missile. At least one splitting warhead.
- Ynet: Constant alarms in the center due to combined fire from Iran and Lebanon
- …
- Army radio: An exceptional event in Israel, and cluster rockets are falling everywhere. This was one of the most significant launches of the war.
- There are also reports of a “huge explosion” in the Negev, no sirens were activated
“Iran is preparing a military response to the Israeli aggression carried out in Lebanon”
- Iranian Fars News.
Well that was a nice ~12 hours or so I guess.
Edit w/ Quick Update:
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Iran shot down an israeli Hermes 900 drone that entered Iranian airspace.
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IRGC: Any enemy aircraft entering our airspace is a ceasefire violation and will get a decisive response.
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Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi discussed ceasefire violations in Iran and Lebanon in a call with Pakistan’s army chief.
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An official Iranian source to Fars: We’re considering attacks on israeli targets over the Lebanon ceasefire breach.
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Iran has urgently informed Pakistan it will respond to “israel” after the truce was violated and Lebanon was bombed.
1? more quick update since this post is pretty visible still:
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Reuters seems to be reporting that ships are saying Iran is sending them messages that the strait is still closed. Marinetrafic shows little movement as of now for ships.
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Tasnim is reporting that Iran is considering withdrawing from the ceasefire and the talks slated for friday if attacks on lebanon continue.
As an aside oil seems to be moving up again probably due to all these factors after dropping some ~17% overnight
IDF Suspends Reservist Who Promoted His Business Using a Blindfolded Palestinian
The soldier posted a story on Instagram showing the detained Palestinian holding a sign with the social media handle of his business, and the words ‘Happy Holidays’ in Hebrew. The IDF said it considered the incident ‘very serious’
https://archive.md/twmiq - haaretz com/west-bank/2026-04-03/ty-article/.premium/idf-suspends-reservist-who-promoted-his-business-using-a-blindfolded-palestinian/0000019d-54ac-db3c-a3df-ddad512f0000
disgusting. theyve also deleted their instagram
