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Folks, did you hear about what the woke liberals did to my good friend Mr. Mistoffeless? It's just terrible.

Love how our big wet boi is just minting Onion-quality dimes day in and day out.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-education-department/

Washington — President Trump announced the signing of an executive order that would begin the process of dismantling the Department of Education "once and for all."

[Mr. Trump] added, "We're not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven't for a long time."

No, Mr. President, no we are not.

Some internet nerds were able to figure out what all the US mid air refueling aircraft with "GOLD" callsigns (usually used for the deployment of fighter jets to foreign nations east of the USA) were doing. It turns out that more F-35A fighter aircraft are being deployed to the Middle East, with a stop over in the UK. The first four F-35As have already arrived, and there are rumours that more are on the way, a total of 12 is the number floating around as of now. But those are rumours, so far only four F-35As have arrived. The UK is increasingly being used as a midpoint base by the US for deployments to the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.

4 F-35s with refueling support aircraft headed to the UK

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Same F-35As heading to the ME region, different tanker aircraft

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Edit: Further investigation reveals that the 4-12 F-35As are based out of Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, and a total of seven C-17, and one C-5M military transport/cargo aircraft have dropped off cargo there in support of the F-35 mission.

F-35As and transport aircraft in Saudi Arabia

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Dear nortenos, what is the current average egg price in the good 'ol US of A?

Not that eggs are THAT cheap as Gunther would like you to believe, I just paid 5 heckin' Euroinos for 6 eggs, which didn't even come from so organic free range farm.

(I insist that this post is "news" on multiple levels! Relevant for eggs enthusiasts, Gunther enjoyers and general Euro-US decline news.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1jf3jr9/ua_pov_the_white_house_declares_that_trump_seeks/

Trump wants ownership of Ukraine's nuclear power plants, lmao.

Ukraine is going to end up as a giant fully-foreign-owned AI slop farm at this rate.

Nora Barrows-Friedman just said on the latest Tankie Therapy that zionist quadcopter drones swarmed a mosque on Ramadan and started killing people inside a few days ago. does anyone know more about this I have not been firehosing twitter horrors

Trump Seeks Russian Support For War On Iran | Moon of Alabama

this post verified free of brainworms by real hexbear fedayeen ✅

Curse you Vincent Bevins, I can’t look at a mass protest without thinking about horizontal organization and the lack of a communist party!

Re: Turkey (what’s hexbear opinion on the use of the word Türkiye?)

https://t.me/enemywatch/32410

Thousands flood Turkiye's streets protesting arrest of Istanbul mayor | The Cradle

The Turkish government has identified hundreds of social media accounts and has detained dozens of people for 'provocative posts' about the mayor's arrest

Chuck Schumer's brother's law firm is pledging $40 million in free legal services to the Trump administration.

https://x.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1902858459244028032

Where did that take you? Back to me :IMPERIALIST-MONETARY-FUND:

Argentina’s Lower House grants blind approval to Milei IMF deal

The government has not given any information about the amount or conditions of the new loan

Argentina’s Lower House has approved President Javier Milei’s executive order allowing the administration to seal a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the 23rd the country has made to date. The decree was approved with 129 votes in favor, 108 against, and six abstentions, after a heated debate Wednesday afternoon.

The decree Milei sent last week does not contain any details of the new deal, meaning deputies voted without knowing how much money the lender will disburse or whether the nation will be required to change its monetary policy as a condition of the loan. Opposition deputy Aldo Leiva stopped during the vote to ask Lower House President Martín Menem how much the deal would be for.

“The time is up,” Menem replied.

Deputies from the ruling La Libertad Avanza coalition and the PRO, Unión Cívica Radical, Coalición Cívica, and Innovación Federal parties voted in favor of the decree, while the Peronist Unión por la Patria opposition and smaller left-wing parties opposed it. The Encuentro Federal bloc was divided.

After the vote, several Peronist deputies remained in their seats, blasting Menem over the lack of transparency regarding the deal’s contents.

Finance Secretary Pablo Quirno said on Tuesday that the deal would be a 10-year Extended Fund Facility with an interest rate of 5.63%. The IMF defines an Extended Fund Facility as providing “financial assistance to countries facing serious medium-term balance of payments problems because of structural weaknesses that require time to address.”

It adds: “To help countries implement medium-term structural reforms, the EFF offers longer program engagement and a longer repayment period.”

Quirno said the loan would be used to pay Treasury’s debt to the Central Bank.

All other details, including the loan’s value and disbursement schedule, have yet to be decided, he added.

A ‘serious violation’ of the constitution

Presidential decrees can only be overturned if the upper and lower houses both vote against them, meaning the senate cannot overturn today’s result. However, the decree is likely to face legal challenges, since critics argue that approving an IMF deal this way violates Argentina’s laws and constitution.

A 2021 law requires all new debt with the IMF to go through Congress. Conversely, emergency decrees such as the one Milei issued are law the moment the government issues them and can be only repealed if both houses vote against them.

Constitutional lawyer Daniel Sabsay told the Herald it was a “serious violation” of the constitution, article 75 of which gives the legislative branch the power to negotiate foreign debt. “Issuing [the decree] as a closed book makes deliberation impossible, which is the fundamental activity Congress carries out when it discusses bills,” Sabsay said.

Milei and other officials have repeatedly said that the new agreement does not need to go through Congress because it is not “new debt,” since the funds will be used to pay back the Central Bank. Former economy minister Martín Guzmán, the author of the 2021 law, contested that claim, saying the Fund “is not a charity,” and that the new debt will be used for capital flight and financial speculation.

Guzmán also said that one of the rules of the IMF’s exceptional credits is “broad political support.” “What the government itself recognizes is that they do not have it and that is why they are not going to Congress. Therefore, the legitimacy of this debt will be questioned,” Guzmán told Revista Crisis.

Peronist senators Juliana Di Tullio, José Mayans, and Anabel Sagasti wrote a letter to the IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and other senior officials on Tuesday, expressing their opposition to the deal. Like Sabsay, they argued that passing the deal by decree would violate the Constitution and the 2021 law. They said the contents of the agreement would be “covered by a mantle of secrecy that is incomprehensible unless [the conditions] are of such seriousness that they imply the handover of strategic assets of the Argentine Nation or establish austerity measures even more brutal than those the Milei government is implementing today.”

Pensioners protest

The decree was passed while a large protest took place outside Congress. Every Wednesday, retirees protest against austerity measures. Pensions account for 30% of the Milei administration’s cuts, according to a report by the Center of Argentina Political Economy (CEPA) think tank.

The minimum monthly state pension in Argentina is currently AR$349,122 (US$321 at the official rate, US$284 at the MEP rate), a figure which includes an AR$70,000 monthly “bonus.” It falls far short of the basic basket for older adults, which is currently AR$1.2 million, according to the country’s ombuds office. Protests the previous Wednesday reached breaking point after football fans joined in. A police crackdown left 672 people injured, making it the most violent protest since the country’s catastrophic 2001 economic crisis, according to the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria human rights nonprofit.

Photojournalist Pablo Grillo was shot in the head with a tear gas canister, and remains in hospital in critical condition. Oscar, 71, a retired dentist at the march, told the Herald: “I have always participated in demonstrations since I was very young. In 50-odd years, I have never seen such indiscriminate shooting of rubber bullets and gas.”

After the vote, the President’s Office celebrated in a post on X.

“This agreement will guarantee a public credit operation for the National Treasury to pay existing debt with the Central Bank and implies a reduction of the total public debt,” the post said.

“The government will not rest for a minute until the disinflation process is definitive and the liberation of exchange restrictions is a reality, because that is what we have been elected to do.”

We are fucked, so fucking fucked. We might be the most fucked nation of all the fucked up nations that were fucked up by the fucking IMF my fucking god end this fucking nightmare

Fortunately the protest went on without serious incidents. A bunch of undercover cops tried to start shit up but they were ratted out by protesters and thrown away. A bunch of wannabe cops belonging to the libertarians (dressed as cops) also walked among the prosters to intimidate, but were all kicked out. The good thing here is that protesters are getting used to having undercover pigs among them and finding out who is who.

US airstrikes continue against Yemen for the sixth night in a row, with the first strikes reported in Hodeidah Governorate.

Yemen has launched a ballistic missile towards Israel.

More US airstrikes in Saada Governorate.

Statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces at 22:00 UTC.

Al Masirah TV twitter

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The Pentagon today attempted to reassure its international partners in the F-35 program that there is no “kill switch” on the stealth fighter jet

With the resumption of US intelligence sharing to Ukraine, Ukrainian F-16s have resumed frontline operations. One was spotted in the Sumy region.

Video of F-16 in Sumy

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For more information on their mission, why US intelligence sharing is vital to carrying it out, loadout, etc, I made a comment on that here.

There are also rumours circulating on Russian telegram channels that a Ukrainian F-16 was shot down over Sumy, using an innovative method. I'll comment further if there is any confirmation of this.