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Image is of a satellite image from MizarVision, a Chinese firm that has recently shown pride in being sanctioned for showing uncensored images of the Middle East. The West is not allowing up-to-date satellite imagery of the region to hide destruction.
As always, my weekly summary/preamble is in spoilers below.
preamble
Military news remained relatively subdued last week, with the main front continuing to be the Lebanon border. With dozens of vehicles destroyed and many more Zionist casualties, they are now desperately searching for a solution to the FPV drone threat, with certain analysts characterizing the whole situation as the entity stumbling foot-first into a bear trap (hence the megathread title). Unfortunately for them, two better and more resourceful militaries have spent the last year or two also searching for a solution and have generally failed - with anti-drone strategies consisting mainly of 1) build your own cheap drones designed to physically intercept their cheap drones and 2) separate your forces up rather than conducting large frontal assaults WW2-style and accept that you’re gonna have to fight for many months to gain substantial ground. This also explains why they’re so eager to kickstart a civil war in Lebanon, although as I’ve stated before, I don’t personally know whether that would be a silver bullet given how the Lebanese army has been deliberately not allowed to become a threatening force due to Zionist fears, and indeed, I don’t know how many Lebanese citizens and soldiers would fight against the only force in their country fighting against an army trying to annex their territory and which murders hundreds of people at a time in aerial bombings on their cities.
Aside from the ever-worsening global economic catastrophe, the main event has been the US visiting China. Trump clearly intended to time the summit such that it took place after subjugating Iran and perhaps also Cuba. However, with the former goal not even remotely achieved, and the latter goal delayed - hopefully indefinitely, though the US still seems pretty intent on it - it all amounted to a big nothingburger. Marxist economist Michael Roberts has written up a great piece on the current state of the US-China economic conflict, stating among things that, despite the last decade of US sanctions and economic warfare, the Chinese economy has done extremely well, building up their own domestic industries to replace commodities lost from sanctions. China has, up to this point, refused to withdraw its aid from Iran, and seems to be looking to start moving its tankers through the Strait via Iran’s new tolling mechanism.
China obviously continues to maintain its position on Taiwan, and Trump has continued the US tradition of respecting this in words and disrespecting it in actions, but it’s becoming clear to everybody but the most delusional diehards that the US will not be fighting China in and around the Pacific for at least a couple decades, and likely never will. There is little choice. The Ramadan War has definitively proven that the US has been severely militarily and logistically weakened over the decades despite skyrocketing military budgets, and much of their equipment, strategies, and tactics are woefully outdated for the modern battlefield. The prospect of the US fighting a war against China and not immediately losing has gone from “almost implausible” to “hilariously absurd”. Unable to meaningfully impede China, the US will have to content itself to increasingly ineffective sanctions campaigns and bullying/overthrowing nations that do not currently have much of a capacity to resist. In that vein, one hopes that Iran and friends will share their expertise in drone technology and underground fortification around the world. The age of the tunnel is upon us.
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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.
another source
It’s not exactly a ruling it’s just a reply to a citizen petition by the court, but it’s a good reply.
Here’s the translation to the article
The Supreme People’s Court’s Reply Letter Is Heartening
This is no ordinary reply letter. It comes from the Research Office of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), dated May 8, 2026. In it, the SPC not only gave a positive response to a citizen’s proposal to “clearly prohibit, in judicial adjudication, the principle of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” but also systematically reviewed three major breakthroughs Chinese courts have made in recent years in protecting the rights of sexual minorities. It made an explicit statement: any unreasonable discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is prohibited by law.
This is a long-overdue but weighty piece of reassurance. It clearly traces three solid lines of defense for the protection of sexual minorities’ rights in our country’s judicial practice.
I. From “Disease” to “Person”: The First Line of Defense — Protection of Personality Rights
The letter first revisits the landmark “China gay conversion therapy” case. In that case, the binding judgment explicitly stated: “Homosexuality is not a mental illness.”
That sentence shattered the long-standing shackles of stigma. Its significance goes far beyond the victory in a single case — it was a judicial-level declaration that sexual orientation is not a disease, but one of the normal sexual orientations of human beings. Therefore, any electroshock, hypnosis, or aversion therapy carried out in the name of “treatment” is not only ineffective but also a serious violation of a citizen’s personal dignity.
The court’s ruling was unambiguous: in cases involving the public insult or defamation of another person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, courts generally find this to constitute infringement of general personality rights, ordering the cessation of the infringement, a formal apology, and compensation for emotional distress. This means the law will protect every person from being publicly shamed or attacked because of their identity.
II. Refusing Differential Treatment: A Judicial Red Line Against Employment Discrimination
The second type of landmark case mentioned in the letter is China’s first transgender employment discrimination case. The judgment in that case was the first to feature the concepts of “gender identity” and “gender expression.”
The plaintiff was unjustly fired by their company for wearing clothing that matched their gender identity to work. The court ultimately held that when an employer engages in differential treatment on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, this constitutes employment discrimination. It ordered the relevant decisions overturned and damages paid.
The significance of this ruling lies in extending the scope of equal-employment protection from traditional sex discrimination into the deeper layer of gender identity and expression. It sent a clear signal to all employers: your prejudice cannot be grounds for depriving someone of a job opportunity.
III. Safeguarding Campus Safety: A Judicial Backstop for Students’ Lives
The third type of case in the letter concerns schools that improperly punish students on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, or fail in their management duties and thereby allow campus bullying to occur — in such cases, courts have lawfully ordered the schools to bear responsibility.
In Zhang et al. v. a Hefei school (an educational-institution liability dispute), the court ruled that because the school had failed to provide appropriate psychological intervention for a gay student who showed suicidal tendencies — and instead simply asked the parents to take him home — the school was ordered to bear 30% of the damages.
This ruling rang an alarm bell for every school: when facing sexual-minority students, a school’s responsibility is not to “correct” or “avoid” them, but to provide a safe and inclusive learning environment that protects their personal freedom and human dignity. Any form of campus bullying — and any inaction by the school — will face legal accountability.
Most Importantly: The Future Plans in the Letter
The value of this reply lies not just in reviewing past precedents, but in the direction it sets for the future.
The letter states: “Going forward, we will continue to compile cases nationwide involving the protection of sexual-minority rights, summarize adjudication rules, and unify sentencing standards. When mature adjudication rules are ready, we will clarify them through judicial interpretations, conference summaries, and guiding cases to strengthen the supply of rules. And we will incorporate the protection of personality rights into judges’ training.”
This means the SPC is preparing to transform these scattered, breakthrough individual cases into systematic, nationwide judicial rules. In the future, the handling of similar cases will no longer depend on the open-mindedness of individual judges, but will follow clear, established rules.
To Everyone Going Through Hardship
Change rarely happens overnight. Like this reply letter, it isn’t an earth-shaking declaration — but it is a sincere step by the judicial system in listening to public voices and responding to citizens’ demands.
From ending “conversion therapy,” to prohibiting employment discrimination, to holding schools accountable for bullying, the law is building a protective net for every sexual-minority citizen. That net may not yet be tightly woven, but it is growing stronger.
If you or someone close to you is facing injustice, remember: you are not alone. These precedents and this letter are among your most powerful weapons in defending your rights.
Equality has never been a gift from others — it is a right that is ours by nature. And the law is becoming our most solid backing.
Gather faint glimmers into a galaxy; light up rainbows with kindness. Thank you for your warm support.