What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

🇸🇩 Fighting around Dilling in South Kordofan has escalated as SAF-aligned forces move to break an RSF siege on a city facing catastrophic starvation, TRT Afrika reported, citing UN assessments.

Military sources told the outlet that gov't forces cleared routes from the south & entered Dilling over...

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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Thinking about Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti this morning as the news comes in about Venezuela. The word “empire” is not an exaggeration. This is how it regularly defines itself.

🇸🇩 Since the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) retook Khartoum in March, forensic teams under Khartoum State authorities have exhumed more than 15,000 bodies, Le Monde reports in a long-form ground investigation from the capital.

Bodies are being reburied in formal cemeteries, often with bones removed...

Andreas Krieg says the UAE has cultivated militias, separatists, & other non-state actors across the Middle East & Africa—an “axis of secessionists” in places like Yemen, Libya, Sudan, & Somalia—to project power & influence beyond formal state structures.

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I called for a Canadian arms embargo and trade restrictions on the UAE until it stops funding the RSF and for Canadian weapons manufacturers to be held accountable for their complicity in the Senate today, I also called for Canada to adopt bill c-233 (1/4)

Darfur24 reports that Russian forces have advanced into Sudanese territory in South Darfur via CAR, expelling RSF personnel in the area. Interesting and concerning development.

www.darfur24.com/2026/01/04/%...

UN Fact Finding Mission: “A war of atrocities:” Sudan civilians deliberately targeted.

“Our findings leave no room for doubt: civilians are paying the highest price in this war,” said Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Much of the affected region has become mostly inaccessible to the UN and aid groups.

How European powers could ignite a new war with Iran - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/iran-european-powers-could-ignite-new-war-how

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A thousand years of priceless cultural history vanished.

“More than 20 museums across Sudan have been looted or destroyed, according to officials, who estimate the total value of the losses to be around $110 million so far.”

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Transitioned to another continent so I figured it was time to make the transition to Bluesky. It’s kinda nice here…