In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The moral and strategic heart of the defense of liberal democracy doesn’t beat in Washington,” our columnist David French writes. “It’s in Kyiv, where a courageous leader and a courageous people have picked up the torch America has dropped.”

what are friends and family but not the stakeholders in your life story. my brain is very normal,,,

wedding planning is really testing all the skills honed in a think tank/foundation career: spreadsheets, budgeting, event run of shows, stakeholder management

journalists all over the world go into horrible war zones and tangle with autocrats who actually move to have them imprisoned and killed. seeing DC media tweets this morning has been embarrassing to read

unreal amount of helicopter noise right now

Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

just happy to see more places learn to serve a Tiny Coffee

celebrating 25 years since I first came to the U.S. ✌🏻

More than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russian forces since the start of Putin's bloody war. America must work to secure the return of these missing kids to their families and freedom for the Ukrainian people.

Putin has been very clear he wants to wipe Ukraine off the map so he can annex their land & would kill anyone who stood up to him if he could. He does not believe Ukrainians have a right to exist. This is pathetic & spineless. What else would you call that if not genocide?

and the UK Greens are picking up speed right now - *this* is the state of their leadership

honestly I lived in the uk for all of the first term and I had this convo a lot. in my experience it is weird and rude to be spoken to like this

Good reminder here of what a trash news org Politico is and how much a lot of the corrosion in our news media landscape is downstream of the "its all a fun game" horserace style coverage of politics that they pioneered

(incumbent’s in prison) is a crazy parenthetical

What a difference the Hungarian election has made!

wearing a linen suit today and feel that if i make any sudden movements it’ll become entirely crumpled

I grew up nova, our plans to transform the state have been measured in centuries

ha ha bluginia strikes again

I think there’s a large number of liberals who are embarassed about it and find something comforting in being told it’s all their fault, since that also kinda means it’s within their control

NEWS: A federal judge has saved the 15th Street protected bike lane (for now), saying the decision to remove the lane running from Constitution Avenue to the Tidal Basin was "arbitrary and capricious and not the result of reasoned decision-making." It was to be removed this week.

this won't be confusing at all!

just a reminder to everyone that this is a significantly different undertaking in a parliamentary system than another (he also has a unprecedented supermajority in the unicameral parliament)

an unborn miliband?

Trump has extended a sanction waiver for Russia’s oil until mid-May. Everything to accommodate terrorist Russia This after Bessent said otherwise the other day. They all are liars ofac.treasury.gov/media/935526...

these people will eventually be gone, this will collapse under the weight of its own incompetence and corruption much like orban did

send a lightly threatening email citing DC climate control regulations for rented units. no heat or AC for a month straight

Well worth a read in my view. Hits at an interesting intersection between the quasi-corruption of London's elite circles and the crisis of young masculinity in the modern era.

finished 'london falling' in all of two days - speaks to how page-turning it is!!

It’s incredibly patronizing when people treat the collapse of the USSR like a chess match between superpowers while ignoring the actual human beings on the ground. ​ It wasn't a CIA memo that ended it; it was millions of people finally reclaiming their sovereignty

The more I thought about it the more I realised it’s also very pathetic that this - a foreign policy related decision around funding - is the “proudest achievement” of a presidency that pitched itself as transformative. 0 impact on any actual American people

​I do not know if Vance can fully comprehend the scale of the tragedy unfolding here: a brutal, illegal war of extermination by Russia, and the slow abandonment by our allies. There is nothing to be proud of. Absolutely nothing.

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

feeling a bit vindicated for my vague distrust of ruben gallego

our entire HVAC system in our apartment is broken and the landlord is currently demanding we split the cost of replacing it because they say we aren't changing the filter enough. meanwhile the system remains off as the temps rise. are they legally allowed to hold this over our head

for what it’s worth I had a LOVELY time pottering around after dinner - if I have to travel for work to a city where I can walk around, I’m pretty much always going to have a nice time

cambridge, mass is like: what if we built everything between 1850-1972 and then nothing new ever again

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

great thread

work trip aka perfect bookstore + find a random pub evening

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Hungary’s next prime minister, Péter Magyar, celebrates his landslide victory in Budapest, with the Hungarian Parliament behind him. His MPs will occupy more than two-thirds of the seats. Pics: Szabolcs Vörös / Válasz Online

💥🇭🇺With 95% of votes counted, Hungary’s map shows the opposition Tisza party crushing Fidesz 94–12 in constituencies. Péter Magyar has secured a 2/3 majority, asked President Tamás Sulyok and other Orbán loyalists to resign immediately, and announced his first visit to Warsaw.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

jd kiss of death confirmed

hey-ooooooo

is it orbanover

💥Polls closed in Hungary. No exit poll, but 21 Research Institute’s Apr 8–11 exclusive survey for @telexhu.bsky.social shows the opposition Tisza party leading Orbán's Fidesz 55–38, with the far-right Our Homeland around the 5% threshold. Tisza is on the verge of a parliamentary supermajority.