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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 3h

Argentina’s libertarian experiment crashed and burned.

But that’s bad for our president, whose ally implemented those reforms.

So now this.

Meanwhile, we gutted USAID.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna Ressman @annaressman.bsky.social · 4h

Watching agartha slop is fandom like watching your team that's still up in the series even though they're actually dogshit & it's 50° and raining. But they're winning right now so you're gonna stay in the stands bc it's the playoffs & your team may not get back to the playoffs for a couple decades.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 4h

Watched Perfect Blue in 4K at the theater and man it really is such an amazing movie that predicted so much about modern culture.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 6h

Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

Also the pope like figure with the Sonnenrad behind him is not meme JD Vance, it’s something worse and I refuse to elaborate on what it is.

olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 7h

know the difference, it could save your life:
hyperborea: home to a far-northern population of the mythical hyperboreioi who live in utopian society in a hidden, temperate land, more of a terra incognita thing

agartha: underground utopian civilization of white people, more of a hollow earth thing

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 7h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

“I’ll see you in Valhalla”

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

Also the pope like figure with the Sonnenrad behind him is not meme JD Vance, it’s something worse and I refuse to elaborate on what it is.

olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 7h

know the difference, it could save your life:
hyperborea: home to a far-northern population of the mythical hyperboreioi who live in utopian society in a hidden, temperate land, more of a terra incognita thing

agartha: underground utopian civilization of white people, more of a hollow earth thing

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

I saw the video I know EXACTLY why this explainer needs to be out there.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

Love that we have to have this explainer out there. Great times.

olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 7h

know the difference, it could save your life:
hyperborea: home to a far-northern population of the mythical hyperboreioi who live in utopian society in a hidden, temperate land, more of a terra incognita thing

agartha: underground utopian civilization of white people, more of a hollow earth thing

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 7h

know the difference, it could save your life:
hyperborea: home to a far-northern population of the mythical hyperboreioi who live in utopian society in a hidden, temperate land, more of a terra incognita thing

agartha: underground utopian civilization of white people, more of a hollow earth thing

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

Oh I agree. I feel like we’ve been here before but one can hope.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 7h

I really, REALLY hope this ceasefire holds. It doesn’t solve the core issue at the heart of all of this but peace is preferable to what is currently going on.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 8h

It’s a good bit that at least one of the singers from Kpop Demon Hunter, Rei Ami, has had a career of producing music that is just wildly un child friendly

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 8h

Kinda surprised it’s taken this long and it’s not entirely unwarranted honestly.

rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 8h

And that’s why you don’t fuckin’ fedpost in the group chat

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Attorney General Paxton Investigates Discord After the Platform was Used by the Reported Assassin Who Murdered Charlie Kirk
AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton expanded his Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act investigation into online chat platform Discord after it was used by the reported assassin who murdered national hero Charlie Kirk, as well as reports that the platform is addictive and has exposed minors to sexual exploitation and extremist content.
"I'm standing shoulder to shoulder with the Trump Administration to root out and defeat nihilistic violent extremism in all its forms," said Attorney General Paxton. "Discord has chosen to allow extremist content, sexual exploitation, and addiction to flourish on its platform. It has a legal obligation to prevent minors from being exposed to these evils, but instead its actions have contributed to the growing wave of nihilistic violence all across our nation."
Attorney General Paxton previously launched an investigation into Discord regarding its privacy and safety practices for minors. As part of this new expansion in the investigation, Attorney General Paxton has issued an expanded Civil Investigative Demand ("CID") to Discord focused on extremist content, sexual exploitation of minors by grooming gangs, the rise of shooters carrying out acts of nihilistic extremist violence, and the addictiveness of the platform for minors.
The Attorney General's investigation will examine the content on Discord's platform and its role in contributing to the radicalization, sexual exploitation, and addiction of minors.
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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely cursed content

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 11h

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

the entire punchline for the last 1/2 of this video is just pure epic sauce ironic reddit antisemitism

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.bsky.social · 13h

Everything is Gamergate theory is undefeated

cc: @mikesenters.bsky.social

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 20h

Classic Steam forums

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah. It’s a very cute and touching tribute. Someone made an Ema for Grass Wonder too

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 14h

More of the ema plaques

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 14h

Umamusume IRL 2/2

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 14h

Umamusume IRL 1/2

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.