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October 2025
September 2025
   | 11 |   The US bailed out the nation of Argentina. US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent's text messages then leaked, suggesting the bailout immediately backfired on the US since after "the announcement of the aid, Argentina turned around and sold soybeans to China". This is at the same time the US and China are having a trade war over soybeans, so Argentina undercut the US's leverage in that trade war. |
   | 18 | Tom Homan was being investigated for taking bribes from undercover FBI agents. After Trump took power, his DOJ shut the investigation down. |
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The Soy Right strikes again as a Texas A&M University professor has been fired for teaching that trans people exist. The DOJ has also expressed an "interest" in the incident. |
   | 26 |   Spain imposes weapons embargo on Israel. Ships carrying fuel to Israel's military are also banned from docking in Spain. Planes carrying military material to Israel are banned from entering Spain's airspace. The government of Spain says these measures are aimed at "stopping the genocide" in Gaza. |
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Left-wing Military junta in Burkina Faso is now formally criminalizing homosexuality.[1][2] |
   | 16 | Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigns after it emerges that she didn’t pay enough tax on her flat. |
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