Sherrill Stroschein
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Political Science and other things. Reposts are for information and do not mean agreement.
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Taught Havel this year. We all need to think more on taking agency.
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This is very good.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Mittel Man • EQUATOR
What was Viktor Orbán’s vision for Europe?
https://www.equator.org/articles/the-mittel-man?preview=true
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Five key questions: who overruled decision to deny Mandelson security clearance?
Ministers and civil servants face scrutiny after revelation Foreign Office overruled vetting procedure for US ambassador appointment
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/five-key-questions-decision-peter-mandelson-security-clearance?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 16 hours ago
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Are Axel Rudakubana’s parents responsible for his terrible crime? It’s a question many families will fear to answer | Gaby Hinsliff
Children could have been saved, had some of the adults involved acted differently. To protect lives in future, families must be able – and willing – to seek help, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/17/axel-rudakubana-parents-shame-warning-violent-behaviour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 16 hours ago
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The Editorial Board
1 day ago
I think the word crisis is apt here.
apnews.com/article/iran...
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AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns
The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703?user_email=02b9ea1b0091994aa5bc64b3e4dba276a8bd0caefce0c63c06e45806eb6cda49&utm_medium=Afternoon_Wire&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Wire%20April_17_2026&utm_term=Afternoon%20Wire
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Mark Chadbourn
1 day ago
Orban was funding the Reform support network.
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EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Br...
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/exposed-how-viktor-orban-bankrolled-the-network-around-reform-uk/
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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit
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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
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www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...
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Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network
“Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 2018. Since returning to power in 2010, Orbán has used a network of state-backed think tanks, media outlets, and conferences to […]
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/mapped-the-reform-farage-orban-network/
2 days ago
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UCL Political Science
2 days ago
📰 And in Metro, she describes Viktor Orbán’s defeat as a “good earthquake”:
metro.co.uk/2026/04/13/h...
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Why Orban's defeat spells trouble for Trump and MAGA
Widely considered MAGA’s closest ally in Europe, now that Orban is gone, support for the US in Europe could dip further.
https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/13/how-orbans-defeat-shows-far-right-strong-men-are-defeatable-27958112/
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UCL Political Science
2 days ago
🇫🇷 For our French-speaking audience, she also spoke to France 24:
www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...
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Péter Magyar peut-il "désorbaniser" la Hongrie après sa victoire aux législatives ?
Après sa large victoire face à Viktor Orban, Péter Magyar a promis une “nouvelle ère” pour la Hongrie. Mais avant de pouvoir réellement parler de page qui se tourne, le nouvel homme fort hongrois va…
https://www.france24.com/fr/europe/20260413-p%C3%A9ter-magyar-desorbaniser-hongrie-sa-victoire-aux-l%C3%A9gislatives
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UCL Political Science
2 days ago
“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
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Prem Sikka
3 days ago
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.
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UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies, IMF says
The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v670qwz97o
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will pooley
3 days ago
i just think it’s really sad that we just accept greenwich mean time and never think about greenwich kind time
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Pwnallthethings
4 days ago
Add a laugh track at the end and this an absurdist SNL sketch intro from any time before 2015
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derek guy
4 days ago
i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
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Jacob Öberg
4 days ago
🚨🚨 "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
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Quote of the day so far.
6 days ago
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alyssa || lovelandisle
6 days ago
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
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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Abhorrent’: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
A Guardian investigation reveals how the prediction market can shape news – and how it rules on ‘the truth’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/11/polymarket-gamblers-betting-iran-war-ukraine-news-truth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
6 days ago
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Useful explainer video on the Hungarian elections
balkaninsight.com/2026/04/10/a...
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https://balkaninsight.com/2026/04/10/arte-europe-weekly-hungary-elections-is-this-the-end-of-orban/bi/?utm_source=Reporting+Democracy&utm_campaign=a44d4c6c02-RSS_RD_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9d01889c15-a44d4c6c02-1367073765
7 days ago
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www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-h...
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Will Hungary rip up its authoritarian playbook for universities?
With polls predicting defeat for Viktor Orbán in Sunday’s elections there are hopes that controversial governance reforms – copied by Donald Trump and other populist politicians – will be abolished. Yet not all scholars are convinced that reversing a decade of contested legislation criticised for restricting academic freedom would be straightforward, says Seher Asaf
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-hungary-rip-its-authoritarian-playbook-universities?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial-daily&spMailingID=32865949&spUserID=MTAxNzcwNzQ2OTY4NAS2&spJobID=2930482678&spReportId=MjkzMDQ4MjY3OAS2
9 days ago
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
9 days ago
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
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Tom Joscelyn
10 days ago
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.
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Key quotes from Vance and Orban's news conference
U.S. Vice President JD Vance lashed out on Tuesday at what he called "disgraceful" interference by the European Union in an election in Hungary, as he lauded Prime Minister Viktor Orban as an ally of ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/key-quotes-vance-orbans-news-conference-2026-04-07/
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The hangover from Britain’s student housing boom -
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The hangover from Britain’s student housing boom
Concerns about affordability and community impact are mounting, even as purpose-built accommodation gains traction elsewhere
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/a03c036e-a8bb-4f61-a01e-37b5571f2dbe
10 days ago
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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.
10 days ago
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Tammy Duckworth
10 days ago
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.
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Christopher Hale
10 days ago
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.
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William B. Fuckley
10 days ago
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
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Darin Self
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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.
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Ken Schultz
10 days ago
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.
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Digital Relic 🌀
10 days ago
Anyone following orders to commit war crimes should remember that “I was following orders” didn’t quite work at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Anne Applebaum
10 days ago
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
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If Orbán Loses Hungary's Election, It Will Dispel the Air of Invincibility Around Strongmen
This would prove that consolidating power does not protect authoritarians from self-destructing, especially when a smart opposition exploits their vulnerabilities
https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/if-orban-loses-hungarys-election?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Garrett M. Graff
10 days ago
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.
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The president speaks genocide
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The president speaks genocide
The words, the law, the future
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-president-speaks-genocide?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
10 days ago
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If you think thowing jibes referring to a Mexican sandwich is good fun, you are part of the problem that led us here.
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Chris Murphy
10 days ago
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.
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Paul Musgrave
11 days ago
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
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Cas Mudde
10 days ago
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.
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Andrej
11 days ago
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
https://open.substack.com/pub/democracyforsale/p/orbans-brits?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
11 days ago
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Network Mapping: Unravelling the HARTleaks; Exposing how Conservative MPs embraced the covid disinformation ecosystem
open.substack.com/pub/counterd...
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Network Mapping: Unravelling the HARTleaks; Exposing how Conservative MPs embraced the covid disinformation ecosystem
How conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers influenced the CRG, the Common Sense Group, 1922 Committee Chair, Education Select Committee Chair, two APPGs, Bills and Ammendments
https://open.substack.com/pub/counterdisinformationproject/p/network-mapping-unravelling-the-hartleaks?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Trump Betrayed His Own National Security Strategy
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Trump Betrayed His Own National Security Strategy
There is no doctrine, just whim.
https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-trump?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Andrea Phillips
13 days ago
Something something AI data centers 170% more water usage in the next four years
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A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says
Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/04/masculinity-crisis-brewing-uk-schools-teachers-union?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
14 days ago
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Carl Quintanilla
14 days ago
Whom to believe? 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...
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Fifty Shades of Whey
15 days ago
Throwback to 1979
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The Incel Global Order
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The Incel Global Order
modern autocracy as a cult of masculinity
https://open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/p/the-incel-global-order?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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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.
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Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests
Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solving
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/pupils-england-losing-thinking-skills-because-of-ai-survey?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Strait of Popehat Or Iran Or Whatever
16 days ago
Stateless people with no rights is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump/Wurman/Barnett plan.
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