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.
David Attenborough narration
Here you see two boats out in nature…
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.
That’s the NYT updates page. I’ve never seen clocks before on any site’s live updates page. I wonder if the paper is expecting American ground troops will soon enter the war.
I wonder if Trump starts doing major war crimes on Friday because it’s Good Friday so the American stock markets will be closed.
Trump’s speech was the usual combination of declaring victory, saying that Iran has no military or leadership left, threatening to completely obliterate Iran and hit its power & gas fields and “send Iran back to the stone age”, along with telling the US allies to “open up your own damn Hormuz”.
[edit] Oh and also “the Strait will open up naturally”
Ex-Iran foreign minister, involved in peace negotiations, badly wounded after US-Israel airstrikes
Former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi has been seriously wounded in a strike on Tehran that also killed his wife, according to Iranian media reports.
Outlets including Shargh, Etemad, and Ham Mihan reported that his home was targeted earlier in the day in what was described as a US-Israel strike. He was subsequently hospitalized with severe injuries.
According to Mehr News Agency, Kharazi had been actively involved in diplomatic efforts in recent weeks. He was reportedly overseeing engagement with Pakistan ahead of a potential meeting between Iranian officials and US Vice President JD Vance.
Two Iranian officials cited in reports suggested that the targeting of Kharazi may have been intended to disrupt ongoing diplomatic efforts. The former foreign minister was considered a veteran policy expert and a moderate political figure.
Kamal Kharazi recently said in a CNN interview that he no longer believes diplomacy is viable, accusing the United States of deception during negotiations. “I don’t see any room for diplomacy anymore. Because Donald Trump had been deceiving others and not keeping with his promises, and we experienced this in two times of negotiations – that while we were engaged in negotiation, they struck us,” Kharazi said.
COMING SOON: President Trump Makes Oval Office Address To The Nation About The Iran War - Forbes Breaking News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9j2JSOLJEo
9pm ET, so I think that’s in like 2 minutes
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Recent Russian drone footage shows strikes on a US-built M1117 armored vehicle and on another M1A1 “Abrams” tank:
https://s1.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/m6.mp4 (18+ combat footage)
Edit to add, this video likely contains footage of the US-built “Abrams” tank that Russian forces destroyed today in the Donetsk People’s Republic, referred to in this article:
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov promised further support for Cuba:
Commenting on reports that a Russian tanker carrying oil has arrived in Cuba, the senior Russian diplomat described the developments as “a victory of common sense.” “Throughout a lengthy decades-long period when the United States put increasing pressure on Cuba, we have not concealed our intentions to stand shoulder to shoulder with Havana and render assistance to it,” he noted.
What Ryabkov called Russia’s principled action is underpinned by humanitarian reasons. “We are also driven by the understanding that Cuba is our closest partner in the Caribbean and that we just have no right to let it down. So, support to Cuba will continue,” he said.
It seems the White House may have uploaded that video unintentionally. It’s now been made private.
But I downloaded it, so here’s the full WH feed of the Easter lunch earlier today
“We could just take their oil. But, you know, I’m not sure that the people in our country have the patience to do that, which is unfortunate. You know, they want to see it end. If we stayed there, I, you know, I’d prefer just to take the oil. We could do it so easily. I would prefer that, but people in the country sort of say, ‘just win, you’re winning so big. Just win, come home.’”
7 minutes to Artemis II launch
Successful launch as of +10min
US consumer inflation expectations spiked +0.7 percentage points in March, to 6.2%, the highest since August 2025.
This also marks the largest increase since April 2025, following the “Liberation Day” tariffs.
This follows the University of Michigan’s 1-year inflation expectations, which jumped +0.4 percentage points, to 3.8%, the largest monthly increase since April 2025.
As a result, the percentage of consumers saying that interest rates will be higher over the next 12 months jumped +7.5 percentage points, to 42.4%.
Inflation is a major concern for Americans right now.
