This is very good. www.equator.org/articles/the...

I think the word crisis is apt here. apnews.com/article/iran...

Orban was funding the Reform support network.

Why? 'Blue' Labour. Glasman. McSweeney. Mahmood. This is their doing. Amazing for a party which won a (shallow) landslide 651 days ago to struggle so badly with electability. @darrenpjones.bsky.social

It's magic rainbow story time

📰 And in Metro, she describes Viktor Orbán’s defeat as a “good earthquake”: metro.co.uk/2026/04/13/h...

🇫🇷 For our French-speaking audience, she also spoke to France 24: www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...

“This is a serious movement… it’s a generational shift.” @ucl.ac.uk's Dr @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social on Péter Magyar’s election victory, speaking to Bloomberg Television. Watch the full interview ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB9W... #Hungary #Magyar #Orbán #Elections #Politics

UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies. It is net energy importer. Imports most things, all affected by price of energy. At home, energy companies profiteer, hike inflation, reduce people's purchasing power. Nationalisation of energy would help, alternative is stagnation.

i just think it’s really sad that we just accept greenwich mean time and never think about greenwich kind time

Add a laugh track at the end and this an absurdist SNL sketch intro from any time before 2015

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

🚨🚨 "Orbán’s loss brings to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded the MAGA movement...that illiberal parties are somehow destined not just to win but to hold power forever, because they have the support of the “real” people. " Great piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Quote of the day so far.

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Useful explainer video on the Hungarian elections balkaninsight.com/2026/04/10/a...

dad: so whats the deal with the war me: *speaks for 5 min* dad: wow that is an impressive analysis me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert dad: oh whats their name me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

Vance has been trafficking in conspiracy slop for years - but this is another low. He accuses Ukrainian intelligence of interfering in both America’s and Hungary’s elections. “This is just what they do,” Vance said. Not it isn’t. This is what the Kremlin says they do.

The hangover from Britain’s student housing boom - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

UK newswatch, pov: It is very disappointing to see people trying to make political hay out of this when we don't actually know what went on behind the scenes. We should all be breathing a big effing sigh of relief and try to keep moving away from the brink, together.

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

I don't want to live in a republic where I have to check my news access handheld device every 2 minutes to see if our mad king has changed his mind about killing thousands of people.

It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.

Anyone following orders to commit war crimes should remember that “I was following orders” didn’t quite work at the Nuremberg Trials.

Why does Vance care whether Orban wins? Because if he loses, it will challenge the MAGA belief that history flows in only one direction from @theunpopulist.net open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

The president speaks genocide open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

If you think thowing jibes referring to a Mexican sandwich is good fun, you are part of the problem that led us here.

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

It is interesting because today my tasks included Teaching a lesson on nuclear proliferation Writing notes on multiple regression Teaching a section on logarithms and regression Checking in on administrative tasks Speaking to a global audience Making contingency plans in case the IRGC attacks

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Network Mapping: Unravelling the HARTleaks; Exposing how Conservative MPs embraced the covid disinformation ecosystem open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Trump Betrayed His Own National Security Strategy open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Something something AI data centers 170% more water usage in the next four years

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Throwback to 1979

The Incel Global Order open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

This is a good start. But someone soon is going to have to admit and address the addictive behaviour that educators are seeing. And the fact that it is encouraged by AI companies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Stateless people with no rights is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump/Wurman/Barnett plan.