@beauwanzer Innit! The conflict cos she seems nice enough, Seymour’s date. But best/saddest line of the film, when talking about that Skip James cut - “there *are* no other records like that"
Making a guest appearance alongside @RealSeunKuti on Is This Afrobeats? on East Village Radio in NYC today.
Show theme: Innovation & Tradition in Nigerian Music
4 PM EST
9 PM WAT
https://t.co/J3z4RGcXsP
“Barbershop” from Atlanta (2016–2022) is one of the funniest episodes. Watching Al get dragged across the city by Bibby for an entire day while somehow never getting a haircut feels painfully relatable and completely surreal at the same time.
fully sick debut from São Paulo's mysterious Iguana with one of the year's most advanced dancefloor mutations, drawing from funk's outer fringes w/oversaturated rhythms x airlockd sound design, tipped if yr into Arca, DJ K, Mosca, Nazar , SD Laika
https://t.co/uiyTwz8MLM
🚨 Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis just dropped some hard truths about the real reason behind the 🇺🇸U.S.-🇨🇳China trade war. And no, it’s not about “fair trade” — it’s about survival. 🧵
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The U.S. doesn’t fear China because of “cheap labor” or “IP theft.”
What it truly fears is China’s capacity to undermine the U.S.-led global financial order — the very system that allows America to print dollars and buy the world.
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Wall Street’s aging financial architecture is losing its grip.
It can’t control crypto flows.
It can’t keep up with new financial ecosystems.
China — with its digital yuan, vast industrial base, and rising global influence — is the first real threat to this system.
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Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” were never about balancing trade.
They were a desperate attempt to slow down China’s rise and protect the dollar system from collapse.
Because if China succeeds, the U.S. loses its magic weapon: monetary dominance.
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Today, Trump is laser-focused on America’s financial core:
• The Treasury bond market (America’s lifeline)
• The stock market (America’s wallet)
Both are fragile. And any external pressure could trigger a chain reaction.
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The U.S. is now panicking over who’s selling off U.S. Treasuries.
China? Japan? Others?
Trump reportedly wants to punish any surplus country that dumps Treasuries — with tariffs, of course.
This is not about trade. It’s about a dying empire trying to stop the bleeding.
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In short, America is no longer confident in its own financial fortress.
And China is no longer playing by the old rules.
This isn’t just a trade war — it’s a war for the future of global finance.