Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt www.wired.com/story/govern...

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Also, "woke" in the now-common white supremacist appropriated vernacular just means "I'm a bigoted and/or complacent piece of shit, and every reminder of the vastness of human diversity—up to and including simple basic acts of human decency—confront me with my moral failing, causing me to lash out."

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Victor Orban the original "spin dictator" has conceded defeat. The far right around the world have looked to Orban as the model. Trump and Vance interfered again and again to try and prop him up. Clearly the people in Hungary want nothing to do with Trump. This is a great day for democracy.

You have to understand his reasoning: Iran closed off the strait and won the war, ergo if we close off the strait we will also win the war

These are the scenes outside polling stations in Budapest today as national voter turnout hits 54.14% by 1pm (vs 40.01% in 2022). I'm feeling hopeful for all my Hungarian friends today who've waited a long time to oust their authoritarian Putin-puppet autocrat.

Sulzberger’s @nytimes.com, Grade: C- Under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Joe Kahn neither American democracy nor the pro-democracy movement are given substantive coverage. -"primal scream" headline -no emphasis of the pro-democracy goals, size -juxtaposed an opinion piece by Jeremy Peters 3/n

Every time Alex Karp has a thought that makes the news, it should be accompanied by this photo so we remember that he talks like an Adult Swim parody of a coke bender. [Photo: David Dee Delgado / Futurism]

Terrific analysis by Katie Rogers, suggesting that gender studies might be a relevant framework for explaining the Trump phenomenon. I would suggest she keep this paragraph out of her NEH proposal.

Great piece highlighting the unintended harms of the bill just passed by the MA House. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

No one who tries to have a sexual or romantic relationship with their subordinates should be in a position of power. Full stop. Even under the most charitable circumstances of consent and mutual adoration, an elected official should resign before dating.

I’m no military strategist, but to my eye, this has the subtlety of a toddler trying to steal a cookie from the kitchen while the parents are distracted, thinking they won’t notice.

Meanwhile...

Couple in a Parisian bar Paul Almàsy, 1961

Don't blame the victim. Don't blame reporters who can't report unless they have sources. And stop practicing mirror imaging; your views aren't automatically how things play out for others in real life. Sit with that discomfort and reflect.

I'm moonscrolling

Sounds like he’s really panicking.

Goodnight. Fifth Avenue at Twilight Lowell Birge Harrison, 1910

Since discovering that today is the anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution by the Nazi regime (Apr 9, 1945), I thought it would be appropriate to repost this thread of some key, and timely, lines from his Prison Letters. 🗃️

Everyone I and others in the camp of “do stuff, and do it often” have called for this over the last year and even during Trump I, the response is always “they tried it twice and it didn’t work” or “Dems are the Minority” Bullshit. Wield the levers of power available to you at all times

That’s pretty interesting.

Oh. Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child. Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

floral still life oil painting anna ruysch

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Holy shit — this right-wing “Christian Nationalism” cult ideology is extremely dangerous and should not be ignored. Rachel Clayton ABC News Australia

None of Netanyahu's 3 goals - the fall of the IRI, destroying its nuclear program, eliminating its ballistic missile threat - has been achieved. It's the 4th time – Gaza, Lebanon, 2x Iran – "his boasts of total victory have been exposed as empty promises". www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

We have an Iranian friend in Tehran who has devoted his career to translating Thoreau for an Iranian readership. Starting with 'Walden,' through Thoreau's anti-slavery works and essays on civil disobedience, the lot. We have not heard anything from him since the bombardment began.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

God this poem is haunting me again.

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

A push for impeachment could "represent the Democratic Party’s first unmistakable attempt to end this war; to define themselves in the public mind as a party that’s wholly opposed, and is trying in earnest to stop it." - @brianbeutler.bsky.social on how Dems should be leading in this moment.

Democrats should be introducing articles of impeachment now and forcing Republicans to say no. Yes, it won't work. But at least force those fuckers to defend this shit to the public. I don't know what else to say at this point.

This image, which claims to show one of the airmen rescued by US special forces from Iran, has racked up millions of views after being shared by some major influencers, and even by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The image is AI-generated and features multiple errors.

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

"Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk" - Henry David Thoreau

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

My rather basic theory about why more ppl use tik tok than bluesky: they're young. Young people grew up with video as the norm. We are old. We grew up with text as the norm. Twitter bridged the generation gap and kept its horrible old people after it became what it became.

The new Ofcom media use survey came out last week. This bit caught my eye. www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

I’ve been thinking this, too, though I’d like to believe some are simply bailing on social media entirely rather than switching to chatbots. But the internet does seem to be dying.

Just as a reminder, the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan was wildly and violently anti-Catholic.

David Simon said it best

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...