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@jonahssiegel.bsky.social

Professor at Rutgers. Student of literature, museums, collections. Always a late adopter.

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Javier Milei's free-market shock therapy to transform Argentina's economy gets huge endorsement as sudden growth rebound seen | Fortune Moody's upgraded Argentina one notch to Caa3 from Ca and boosted its outlook to positive from stable.

What a success!

Let’s give him 20 billion to celebrate how good his approach to the economy is!

26.09.2025 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's Gaza plan sees digital land tokens, mass relocation | The Jerusalem Post The administration's plan would see Gaza transformed into a tourism resort and a high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.

www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

It reads like a satire, it’s so stupid, immoral, and dangerous.

β€œAccording to the Washington Post, Gazans would be temporarily relocated, either through voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones within Gaza during reconstruction.”

01.09.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know who she is. And probably everyone who does will pretend they don’t either once the president has her fired.

16.08.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œPutin would eat you for lunch.”

Today, exactly that happened.

15.08.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 23619    πŸ” 7565    πŸ’¬ 694    πŸ“Œ 736

I must be right because the person in the world who has the most to gain by our country falling apart said I’m right

16.08.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 374    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, there you go then. More of our time and money wasted by Taco Trump.

16.08.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

09.08.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6548    πŸ” 911    πŸ’¬ 221    πŸ“Œ 83

Guerrero!

23.07.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified β€˜SECRET,’ watchdog told The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the β€œSignalgate” scandal.

SCOOP: Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN," per info provided to the DOD Inspector General for a forthcoming report, flying in the face of Trump administration claims that no classified info was shared www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

23.07.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
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How Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Are Derailing Young Scholars’ Careers Budding academics are delaying their graduate studies, continuing them abroad, or forgoing them entirely.

Well, at least we are not eating our seed corn.

We are feeding it to the birds.

07.07.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"

04.07.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1049    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3
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A β€œStriking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

01.07.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 274    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 13
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Orban’s Hungary is now officially the poorest nation in the EU Hungary now ranks last among European Union member states in a vital measure of household welfareβ€”Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capitaβ€”according to June 18, 2025 data from Eurostat. At just ...

Our future.

"State-owned industries have been hollowed out, public subsidies redirected to political allies, and EU funds commandeered by power networks close to the government. Meanwhile, ordinary Hungarians contend with low real wages, high inflation, brain drain, and a hollowed middle class."

30.06.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The voicemail threatened to rig Mamdani's car to explode upon ignition, a plot that was foiled from the outset because the now Democratic nominee doesn't own his own vehicle."

Yes indeed, we have a New Yorker running for Mayor!

26.06.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Relationality, Agency, and Injury: The Darkness of The Radical Aesthetic Abstract. This essay traces Isobel Armstrong's achievement in The Radical Aesthetic (2000) to her commitment to reflecting on difficult states of beingβ€Šβ€”β€Šnecessarily imperfect, inevitably incompleteβ€Šβ€”...

"where radical hope may live when it has been let down by a culture committed to the destruction of social solidarity in the pursuit of individual wealth and by an intellectual culture that cannot imagine a world different from the one we do inhabit."

Pleased this appreciation of Armstrong is out!

25.06.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're in so much trouble

25.06.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 689    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 4
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31 | 2025 Museum Storytelling: Collecting Stories, Inventing Narra... Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world

Very pleased to be in this special issue devoted to museums and the stories they tell.

"Tell me a story says the child, expecting something with a beginning a middle and an end, something new and yet recognizable, a narrative the familiar form of which brings comfort at night . . ."

20.06.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing β€˜personal cost’ of Iran war - postponing son’s wedding Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict

His obsession with cosplaying Churchill is pathological--and it is embarrassing that he cannot even recognize the suffering of others.

For example our President has not been able to play golf for weeks!

19.06.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Palantir's CEO Throws Money Behind Andrew Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Race The creepy company's chief creep is backing a mayoral candidate who has been called a creep.

If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company.

#nycmayoralrace

gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...

19.06.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7
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Landers is out. Gave an uplifting, modest, inspiring speech.

17.06.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

someone must be enjoying this, otherwise it's a lot of my tax dollars going to waste

17.06.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

good

17.06.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OK. Thanks. I knew they detained him there, but not that that is where he was being kept. I have a few things to do at home, then I'll head over. This is New York City, we don't really like racist authoritarians all that much. I also have kind of appreciated the democracy we've had till recently.

17.06.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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MAGestapo Brad Lander joins the ranks of Baraka, McIver, Dugan, Padillaβ€”and Ernst ThΓ€lmann. ICE joins the ranks of criminal organizations like the Gestapo.

Brad Lander, NYC Comptroller, has been assaulted and kidnapped. No exaggeration: ICE is the American Gestapo.

MAGestapo open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

17.06.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now

17.06.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1962    πŸ” 515    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 21

Does anyone know where Brad Landers is being held? Shouldn't we be outside of wherever that is, showing support?

17.06.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Like β€œWandering between two worlds, one dead, /
The other powerless to be born”?

04.06.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries β€” but they did worsen income inequality.

β€œβ€¦study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group β€” the rich.”
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...

03.06.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 928    πŸ” 327    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 68
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22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler In our new series β€œThe Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...

He needed air. The price was $539.

When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attackβ€”with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

03.06.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3254    πŸ” 1787    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 450

I have no tolerance for this shit. As a tutor, I met a person who had been in the TB death wards in Africa (not naming country for security reasons). They have so many cases they just warehouse the sick in a room. Very few survive.

04.06.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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