Image is sourced from this Economist article.
Most of the information in this preamble is from the Cradle; notably here, here, here, and here.
The features of an effective American war (proxy or otherwise) is that it is a) against opponents with much less military power than you; b) with very low American losses; c) with victories you can visibly show off from time to time to justify involvement, and d) with a profit margin beyond merely giving money to military corporations. The war against Yemen was none of those; airplanes tumbled off aircraft carriers, and the navy complained of the hardest fighting conditions in decades. Conquering Yemen for its resources was inconceivable given the terrain, lack of good intelligence, and the strength of Ansarallah, and all that seemed to be visibly harmed were empty patches of desert and civilians.
Apparently, the ceasefire last month merely stipulated that they stop attacking merchant vessels in the Red Sea; it said nothing about attacking Israel. Therefore, Yemen is absolutely free to create a new blockade of Israel by just striking their airports and seaports, and all Israel can seem to do is try and bomb them in retaliation, a futile strategy which has failed to produce a military or political change in Yemen for the last decade when many other countries have tried it. And if America directly attacks them in response to attacks on Israel, the ceasefire is off, and expensive equipment will continue to be lost.
Across the strait from Yemen is an interesting array of countries. Egypt’s position in this war is well-known, and Somalia is under a kind of US occupation under the guise of fighting terrorism (Trump withdrew most troops, but they were then sent back under Biden). The other three are Sudan, Djibouti, and Eritrea. All three are increasingly being drawn into the anti-imperialist camp, as they cooperate with Iran, Russia, and/or China. Sudan is undergoing a civil war, but the rebels fighting the government are famously backed by the UAE. Djibouti has refused to allow themselves to be a launchpad for US strikes on Yemen.
Eritrea has a fascinating history of flip-flopping between West and East over the past few decades, but has, since 2020, sided with the East. It was one of the five countries to oppose the 2022 UN resolution condemning Russia’s war with Ukraine. Eritrea sends two thirds of its exports to China, and Iran has reportedly supplied them with military equipment. If a stronger link could be reforged, then Iran would have significantly less trouble sending military technology to Ansarallah, and to other friendly groups throughout the region.
Naturally, the lidless eye of the imperial core is shifting its gaze onto Eritrea. Meanwhile, Ethiopia - a country that has experienced frequent conflict with Eritrea - is part of BRICS+ and their economy is increasingly reliant on China (as is most countries’ economies nowadays). If a permanent resolution between the two could be created, it would be a victory for themselves and the Resistance, and a defeat for America, which thrives on conflict and destabilization.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s 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.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
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.
Major ambush of zionist forces near Jabalia camp. First an enemy hummer was targeted with an anti-tank shell; then after the enemy forces retreated to a building, the building was targeted with a second shell. Then, as three helicopters attempted to evacuate their dead and wounded, one of the helicopters was struck by an anti-tank missile. At least three are dead and there are at least 11 casualties total.
It should be noted that the ruins of Jabalia camp are in the far north of Gaza, and was one of the first areas “cleared” by the enemy. Nearly 2 years of genocidal campaigning and bombardment has failed to make the area safe for the occupation.
In related news, earlier today the IOF confirmed that 75 officers and soldiers have been wounded in the Gaza strip over the past 6 days (unclear whether these figures include the toll of tonight’s attack)
The resilience of the Palestinian people is truly inspirational
I wonder if this is a sign that the incredible restraint on not targeting medivac helicopters is coming to an end.
Well, after IOF targeting ambulances and hospitals for decades …
It poses one of those macabre strategic questions: wounded IOF take resources and manpower to keep alive, not to mention morale and mental drain, so letting the medevac go through makes decent tactical sense, in a way.
My understanding is that it is religious. I’m not well versed in Islamic theology but there is apparently some sort of prohibition on attacked wounded fighters. Or that is how Hamas interprets it idk
Mexico will have a Supreme Court aligned with the left that governs the country, with an indigenous man as the possible president of the court, according to the count of 87% of the votes for this court. The Supreme Court was the jewel in the crown of the election of judges organized on Sunday, an unprecedented exercise in the world that the government promoted as the solution against impunity of more than 90%, but which, according to critics, consolidates a “totalitarian regime”.
- Telegram
Elections are now totalitarian
Totalitarianism is when you don’t roll over for America like a good dog and take care of your people instead
Literally
That’s why Ukraine is a bastion of freedom /jk
an indigenous man as the possible president of the court
Totalitarian is a code word for not manipulatable by the west. If your left-wing country gets called that, you are on the right way.
Doesnt the US president always fucking appoint supreme court judges lmao
The fucking gall of the NYT to send me this shit this morning. Immediately pissed me off.
Propagandists were hanged in Nuremburg, this is sort of thing is direct complicity in the crimes of Israel from the NYT.
Edit: After refreshing my memory the propagandists hanged were also members of the Nazi government, but my point stands.
Nuremburg was a half measure. No more half measures.
Well you can blame it on the anglos.
a less than half measure
Hope for Mathew Miller yet.
Near crowds? Not at crowds or into crowds?
They shot somewhere nearby and people happened to die, just a coincidence?
Well you see the soldiers were near the crowd, firing directly into it, so the phrasing is technically correct
Death to Zionism and the genocide promoters at NYT
You see they were firing ‘warning shots,’ which are not ‘into’ crowds by definition, so of course it was just ‘near’ crowds even if it was directly into the middle of them.
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Sad part is that the language used in the article is a massive improvement. The bar is this low
They actually named Israel, normally it was just “shots were reportedly fired” or something along those lines.
They also use “Palestinians” instead of “Gazans”. This has been a huge editorial no no up until now.
They also switched from " Hamas run health ministry" to “Gaza health ministry”.
New York Crimes earning it’s nickname
Artificial Intelligence vs Actual Indians.
I am convinced that tech startups that come out of nowhere and instantly bought for over $1 billion is a debt laundering scheme.
How does one take that kind of money and not do basic due diligence?
Move fast and break
thingsbank accounts!
pretty sure Indians count as real intelligence, not artificial, but I’m not a machine worshipper so who can say
Artificial Indians
Actual Indians.
“I have created a thinking machine!”
look inside
it’a a mechanical turk
Wait. Why the FUCK would you want to pretend it’s an algorithm generating an answer rather than a person (Indian or otherwise)‽ The whole point of LLMs is to try to trick people in the other direction: make them think it is (could be) a human talking to them. It was even the original formulation of the fucking Turing test.
Anyway, the “intelligence” part of “artificial intelligence” is already a lie, so it’s not like it’s a real thing these Indian workers are attempting to masquerade as.
We’ve seriously gotten to the point where these algorithms are so over-hyped that we think they actually do a better job at shit than humans do. Holy fucking hell.
Why the FUCK would you want to pretend it’s an algorithm generating an answer rather than a person
Because people doing things isn’t a hype attracting billions of dollars in juicy investments that you can cash off of
Czech secret police assessed Keir Starmer was an MI6 operative
The left should be screaming about the real deep state.
There’s nothing going on behind those eyes, the man has been an empty husk for a long ass time
What left? Actual British left does not support Labour anyways.
I did not say that we do.
Looks like a video game character lmao
Young Keir Starmer following Epstein around like the Adoring Fan
He looks like a bloke
His dad was a toolmaker
Certainly made a tool
Average sucdem poltiican.
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License to shill
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srsly its giving wallace & gromit year one
why does he look kinda like Kevin Pereira
I don’t remember seeing this mentioned here but the guy who just won the presidential elections in Poland “signed a declaration saying he would not ratify Ukraine’s accession to NATO” (Reuters).
And he’ll be president for 5 years which just makes the ukranians look even more silly when they ask for nato membership as a condition to end the war.
The few occasions where racism stops western imperialism
Contradictions so sharp the blade is chipping
Lula da Silva says there is genocide in Gaza and that the Israeli government needs to stop playing the victim.
Lula made the statement during an interview at the Planalto Palace when asked about a note from the Israeli Embassy in Brazil, which stated, without mentioning Lula, that authorities around the world “buy lies” from the terrorist group Hamas about the conflict in the Middle East.
Lula: “[Israel] comes and says everything is anti-Semitism. Israel have to stop trying to play the victim. It needs to stop this victimism and understand the following: what is happening in the Gaza Strip is genocide. It’s the killing of women and children who are not taking part in the war”
Still on the note, Lula said that it is not up to a president of the Republic to respond to an Israeli embassy and reiterated that he considers Israel’s attacks a massacre against Palestinian women and children.
“A president of the Republic does not respond to an embassy. The President of the Republic reaffirms what he said: what is happening in Gaza is not a war, it is an army killing women and children. It is precisely because of what the Jewish people have suffered in their history that the Israeli government should have common sense and humanism in its dealings with the Palestinian people. They behave as if the Palestinian people were second-class citizens,” he added.
In the interview, the President of the Republic also declared that all the “common sense people” in the world are taking a stand against the Israeli offensive.
- Telegram
took him long enough
Apologies, I forgot it was new thread time. I’ve been asked to repost this, so I will:
Confirmed Russian losses due to Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” attack on Russian tactical and strategic bombers.
Part 1, Olenya Airbase:
- 4x Tu-95 burning, severely damaged or destroyed:
- 1x An-12 transport plane burning, severely damaged or destroyed:
- In this photo, you can see that the 1st and 4th Tu-95s got consumed by flames, along with the suspected An-12 on the left
Belaya Airbase:
- 3x Tu-95s and 4x Tu-22M3s severely damaged or destroyed, 1x Tu-95 with some minor damage.
- UNCONFIRMED: Fire near or at the parking sites of Tu-160 strategic bombers:
Total so far:
- 7x Tu-95 severely damaged or destroyed.
- 4x Tu-22M3 severely damaged or destroyed.
- 1x An-12 severely damaged or destroyed.
- 1x Tu-95 with minor damage.
For a total of 13 aircraft confirmed damaged or destroyed, with 12 of them showing signs of severe damage. Ukraine initially claimed 40, but a success rate of 32.5%, or around 1/3, is nothing to scoff at for an attack like this. There is still potential for more damage to be discovered as more satellite imagery gets released.
I’ll discuss the impact on the Tu-95 strategic bomber fleet below in a reply.
To talk about the Tu-95 strategic bomber fleet, first we must look at the number of Tu-95 bombers currently operated by Russia and the variants used. As of 2023, Russia has been assessed to operate 55 Tu-95s. As for variants, 25 of these are MS6 specification, and 30 are either MS16 or MSM specification, as only MS16 specification Tu-95s can be modernised to the MSM standard, for reasons I’ll explain below. As of 2020 before MSM modernisation began in earnest, it was assessed that Russia operated 25 MS6 and 30 MS16 specification Tu-95s, hence the numbers above for the 2023 estimates. Source -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nuclear Notebook.
So what’s the difference between the three Tu-95 models in service, the MS6, the MS16 and the MSM? It’s all about the missiles they can carry and the functionality. The MS6 and MS16 were built to carry the Kh-55 cruise missile (with both nuclear and conventional variants), with the number being the amount of Kh-55s they can carry. MS6 specification Tu-95s carry 6 Kh-55 missiles on an internal rotary launcher and no missiles externally.
MS16 specification Tu-95s carry these 6 Kh-55 missiles internally, along with an additional 10 Kh-55s on external pylons for a total of 16.
However, the Kh-55 has seen limited use in the Ukraine war due to its low survivability, lacking stealth/low observability features and modern countermeasures and guidance systems. Instead, the Russians have made more extensive use of the more modern Kh-101 subsonic cruise missile (nuclear variant Kh-102), which has these features. However, due to the increased size of the Kh-101, it cannot fit in the internal weapons bays and rotary launchers of the Tu-95. This means that the MS6 specification Tu-95, of which Russia has 25 out of 55, cannot carry the Kh-101 at all due to a lack of external pylons. The MS16 specification Tu-95 can physically carry some Kh-101s externally, but not a load of 10 due to the increased size, I’d estimate a maximum load of 4 with Jerry rigged pylons, and without the full capabilities of the Kh-101 (such as changing target after launch) due to outdated electronics. This is where the MSM specification Tu-95 comes in.
The MSM specification Tu-95 is a full modernisation program, that costs about $50 million per MS16 airframe modified. MS6 airframes cannot be modified to MSM specification as they lack external pylons, the wings were not built to handle such loads. MSM modernisation consists of new engines, avionics, radars, electronic countermeasures, and new external pylons, which allows an MSM specification Tu-95 to carry 8 Kh-101 missiles externally. The increased size of the Kh-101 means a load of 10 externally is no longer possible, the outboard pylons can only hold two Kh-101 missiles each, not three as with the Kh-55. Also, the Kh-101 still does not fit in the internal weapons bays, so even the MSM can only carry the Kh-55 internally. Maximum combined load of an MSM is 14 missiles: 8 Kh-101s externally and 6 Kh-55s internally.
All this is to say that the effect on the strategic bomber force really depends on what variants of the Tu-95 Ukraine destroyed, an MS6, MS16 or MSM. It’s impossible to verify which aircraft have been destroyed at this time. MSM aircraft would be the most costly loss, followed by MS16. As for estimates, this is difficult as it’s unknown how many of the 30 airframes are MS-16 or MSM. For a Ukraine exclusive force reduction scenario, let’s say all 30 are MSM, and all 8 damaged are MSM. That would reduce the maximum Kh-101 salvo from 240 to 176, a 27% reduction in capability. However, such is quite unlikely. I don’t think Ukraine exclusively destroyed MSM specification Tu-95s, and I don’t think that all 30 potential airframes are at MSM standard. Ukraine could’ve also destroyed some MS6 airframes.
What could Russia do in the meantime? The could see if they have some old MS16 airframes lying around, about 55 were built, which leaves 25 currently not in service or in boneyards somewhere. However, the cost of bringing back one of these planes back into service, yet alone modernising it to MSM standard would be enormous, much more than the current $50 million to take an already flying MS16 and modernise it to MSM. That brings up the question of if this is even possible, the out of service 25 MS16 airframes might’ve already been used for spare parts to keep the 30 in service MS16s flying, or they might be in too poor of a condition to ever get airworthy again. It’s fair to say that these are permanent losses as Russia no longer makes Tu-95 strategic bombers. As for how long it’ll take Russia to make 7-8 new production Tu-160s to replace them, that’s anyone’s guess, but I’d estimate years, if not over a decade. As for the PAK-DA, the Russian equivalent to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, it only exists on computer screens at the moment.
Any updates to the aircraft losses?
Just more imagery further confirming these ones, still at 13 for now. The New York Times claims that they’ve spoken to European and American defence analysts that state there are 20 damaged or destroyed aircraft, and apparently there’s an “unreleased video” showing hits on the radomes of two A-50 AWACS aircraft. But I cannot verify what I can’t see, so still at 13 for now. Clouds are also making it difficult, hence the use of SAR imagery, the black and white images.
One of the Tu-95s destroyed had the registration RF-94257, Bort No. “22” Red, named Chelyabinsk. It appears to be an MS6 specification Tu-95, photos of it show no external pylons of any kind. Here’s it flying in happier days.
Another Tu-95 that was destroyed does appear to have the external pylons visible from the top, peeking out from under the right wing. I’ve circled it in yellow. The location matches exactly with the location of the outboard underwing pylons. Likely an MSM specification Tu-95.
If I see anything new I’ll post it.
- 4x Tu-95 burning, severely damaged or destroyed:
US greenlights Syrian plan to integrate foreign extremists into new army – the cradle
After 2011, tens of thousands of foreign extremists flooded into Syria with the backing of western intelligence agencies to help topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad
SDF releasing ISIS prisoners, US says “we will still help you fight ISIS,” and I guess their strategy is to eliminate ISIS by hiring them to be in the Syrian military. I saw a guy with a shirt today that said “Punks for Rojava,” and I guess joining forces with ISIS is the most punk thing imaginable
The end state of being defanged is bei turned into a consumer product.
SDF releasing ISIS prisoners…I guess joining forces with ISIS is the most punk thing imaginable
Do you say this about Hamas, too? It was a prisoner exchange, not simply a “release”.
It was an exchange between two groups who are now effectively a part of the same military, the Islamic State of Syria. It was a part of them becoming allies.
Comparing that to two warring groups doing a prisoner exchange is totally disingenuous
It was about the one act, not the overall situation. They were prisoners. They wouldn’t have been released without a quid pro quo. Whatever you think of the overall situation, you characterizing it as simply a “release” is what is disingenuous.
They gave quite a bit more prisoners than they got in exchange, and now they are officially on the same team, so it’s all just new US and Israeli soldiers in the end
And so barbarism spreads ever further. Their lust for destroying the future is endless.
Do General Order No. 1 and disband the Iraqi army
Spend 20 years killing or driving every member of the Iraqi army to extremism
Adopt foreign extremists into the Syrian army
This just in: Matthew Miller is still an absolute, whiny, slimy, shit-faced little weasel (apologies to weasels).
That’s right: even as he’s admitting “Israel has committed war crimes” (oops: make that “almost certain”), he’s telling us how he wasn’t lying about it, because he was only communicating the “government’s official position”, and that the war crimes aren’t Israel’s state policy, and that it’s basically like in any other “war/conflict”, and telling us that “it’s not a genocide” and “it’s an open question” whether Israel will hold its goons accountable.
When will this shitbag just die in a fucking fire already?
“I was just following orders”
Literally go to hell and suffer
imagining what kind of place this guy could live where doesn’t get tackled and beaten when he goes to buy groceries
maybe he has everything delivered no-contact to his front step
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Sorry: fixed to original video (xcancel -> Twitter) in my original comment, rather than someone reacting to it (YoutTube).
Mohammad Soliman, a father, and a man of honor and conviction 🫡
Soliman told the police he was driven by a desire “to kill all Zionist people,” according to an FBI affidavit.
“He stated that he had been planning the attack for a year and was waiting until after his daughter graduated to conduct the attack,” the affidavit says.
Soliman also told investigators he took a concealed carry class and tried to buy a gun but was denied because he is not a legal U.S. citizen.
Soliman was born in Egypt and he moved three years ago to Colorado Springs, where he lived with his wife and five children, according to state court documents. He previously spent 17 years living in Kuwait.
He was living in the U.S. illegally after entering the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired in February 2023
Soliman’s wife and five children were taken into custody Tuesday by federal immigration authorities and were being processed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said a DHS official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
(Source)
In bad country, nine generations of your family are executed for your “””crimes”””
Will the US left agitate for the release of him and his family from fascist prisons???
probably not. considering he threw molotovs at a bunch of 70-80 year olds, there are a lot of leftists outside of edgy internet communities like ours who won’t be willing to extend sympathy to him. hell, even here in our little bubble there are people who think this kind of adventurism shouldn’t be celebrated or lionized
he and his family should absolutely be released from prison though, on account of American prisons being as heinous as they are
there are a lot of leftists outside of edgy internet communities like ours who won’t be willing to extend sympathy to him.
I wonder how many of these leftists also don’t extend sympathy to Gaza or take a sympathetic position towards Israel. What people choose to put their energy into supporting or condemning is sometimes very telling.
hell, even here in our little bubble there are people who think this kind of adventurism shouldn’t be celebrated or lionized
“processed”
Jonathan Joss, ‘King of the Hill’ voice actor, killed in San Antonio shooting - NBC NEWS
The 59-year-old actor, best known as the voice of John Redcorn in the hit animated series, died Sunday, police said. Jonathan Joss, the voice actor best known as John Redcorn from “King of the Hill,” was killed in a San Antonio shooting on Sunday, police said.
A suspect, 56-year-old Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, was taken into custody and booked on a murder charge, the San Antonio Police Department said.
Officers were dispatched to Dorsey Drive around 7 p.m. Sunday for a shooting and arrived to find the actor, whose legal name is Jonathan Joss Gonzales, near the roadway after he was shot, police said. Authorities attempted life-saving measures until EMS arrived and pronounced Joss, 59, dead.
Joss was the voice of John Redcorn in the Fox animated series from seasons 2 through 13. John Redcorn was a “New Age healer” and masseur, who was always addressed by his full name or “Mr. Redcorn.”
A new season of “King of the Hill” revival is set to debut on Hulu in August. In a credit sequence shared Friday, John Redcorn is seen driving by in his classic tan Jeep.
Joss also played Ken Hotate in “Parks and Recreation” and had roles in “Tulsa King” and the 2016 remake of “The Magnificent Seven.” His most recent acting credit was in 2023 for voicing a character in the “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty” video game.
Joss’ family home in San Antonio was destroyed in a fire in January. An online fundraiser stated three of his dogs had been killed in the fire and raised more than $10,000. Joss told local reporters then that he did not have a job. Representatives and family of Joss could not immediately be reached for comment
As per his husband on facebook:
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss
My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.
Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.
When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.
While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.
Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.
Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.
He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.
I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.
To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.
My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.
If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.
Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.
– Tristan Kern de Gonzales
On pride month? Yeah its definitely a hate crime.
Someone ought to burn down that whole neighborhood, fucking monsters
I really cannot express my rage at this cause actionable, but was the killer also the one who put the skull there or was this just another neighbor who saw his chance to murder them after all this time? I genuinely don’t know which is worse
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Variety is reporting it as a homophobic hate crime.
CW for animal abuse as well
"My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done,” de Gonzales wrote. “Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.”
TMZ, which broke the news, reported that Joss was shot by a neighbor after a disagreement.
Yeah that is some fucking ‘disagreement’, why would they even say anything about why it happened if they didn’t know? Not like I should expect better from TMZ, but still.
So now three VA’s on that show has died: the VA’s for Redcorn, Dale, plus Luanne from a while ago. That’s pretty cursed for a cartoon series to lose three VA’s like that. Britanny Murphy’s death was also completely sketchy as well.
and
in equal measure.
https://freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
We will see if The Madleen actually makes the final approach into Gaza in the coming days.
So scared for them, but you have to respect the bravery to do something material to help. .
I imagine they doubt they will make landfall which makes their bravery even more noble. There is very little chance there is anyone on that ship who are naiive enough to think the Israelis won’t do something insanely dangerous.
May any god that exists lend them strength.
That’s probably true. We already know they don’t consider Palestinians human, but they’ve also killed American citizen aid workers, their own soldiers, Israeli hostages, etc. They’ll literally kill anyone.
But the flotilla still considers it worth the risk because a whole population of people is starving. I can’t argue against that, but I don’t think I’d have the bravery. It’s beyond admirable.
Absolutely. Going into those waters knowing what the Israelis may do to them is an astonishing level of courage.
West Bank settler attacks reach 20-year high, over 220 Palestinians injured in 2025– the cradle
Jewish Israeli settlers recently kidnapped and tortured two US-Palestinian brothers, leaving them hospitalized after their release
The Madleen Gaza flotilla has reported being followed by several drones 68 km off the coast of Greece. Everyone aboard is safe, but they’re obviously concerned.
You can follow their Telegram channel @FFC_official_channel for live updates on their situation.
I just keep seeing Madleen as Mad Lad. Greta is braver than the troops. I hope they are successful in their mission.
Call me mad, but the conditions in Europe right now are trending revolutionary. If Israel martyrs Greta (or attempts to and fails) things could really start to pop off.
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