Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by Orbán, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...

That's the plane they are talking about. It's universally agreed that it's good for what it is. But what it is, is ... that:

An underappreciated dynamic of recent Hungarian politics is how several ex-intel officials and generals joined Magyar's team early on. Most professionally minded police, intel and army officers in Hungary just wanted to rejoin the big kids table in NATO and the EU

💥🇭🇺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.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

ich freue mich über ungarn, wenn ich ergebnisse sehe.

Now Magyar has to do what he was voted into office to do.

Don't get too excited though. Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Xi and a slew of other authoritarian dictators are still in power. But this is at least going in the right direction ... in the 61st minute of the 11th hour.

60% of votes counted. 136 seats out of 133 seats required for a 2/3 majority. Magyar has confirmed that Orban has called and conceded his defeat. This looks like the first good night for Europe in at least two decades.

💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

Viktor Orban faces the dreadful fate of a guest fellowship at the Heritage Foundation

This is the 2/3 majority. 135 out of 199 seats, with more than half of all votes left to count. vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filt...

Now only one seat missing for a 133-seat-2/3 majority with just 29% of votes counted. This is really starting to look good now. vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026?filt...

If you want to follow the election in Hungary, this is the site:

125 of 199 seats after ~15% of votes counted, up from 110 seats after 6.5% counted. Getting close to the necessary 133 seats. Not there yet, but it's looking good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsSN...

With 6.5% of votes counted, Orban is out, but without a 2/3 majority - so far. (This would be small rural districts getting counted first, which are leaning towards Orban. Urban districts are coming later. 2/3 majority can't be ruled out yet.)

Traum eines jedes Journalisten, so eine Überschrift bringen zu können.

Hungarian elections live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsSN...

What else needs to happen until Americans stop talking about maybe, perhaps, electing a different president in two and a half years - after one and a half years of utter corruption, wars, threats and doing everything to make life for everyone on earth hell ... and do the Revolution thing again?

👀🗳️ When polls close in Hungary at 7pm, there won’t be proper exit polls. Instead, some reliable independent pollsters will release embargoed surveys conducted just days before the vote. Their results are in line with their previous, already published findings (no surprises).

That's bullshit. "Net zero" is a completely different statement from "expanding renewables". One is a zealous ideology the other is a pragmatic policy.

Laugh all you want at Trump's flailing, but real people are getting hurt and this can still get a lot worse.

💥🗳️ I’m speechless. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout is 66,01% already at 3pm (2022: 52,72%). Budapest and other opposition-leaning cities lead the way. Final turnout in 2022 and 2018 were 70,21% and 70,22%. Polls close at 7pm. It could go well above 80% this time. Bad news for Orbán.

With Hungarian elections, better to wait and see what the exact results are and how the population as well as state elites respond to them before flinging out any hot takes

No paranoia at all.

More CO2, higher temperatures and more rainfall will inevitably result in more biomass - and satellite observations are very clear that this is happening rapidly already.

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 11:00 AM CEST 2010: 24.78% 2014: 23.23% 2018: 29.93% 2022: 25.77% 2026: 37.98% Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary

Someone should check in on the rational actor assumption. Seems like it has had a hell of a week/month/year/decade.

Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold. Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.

It's not like people hallucinated that the US government and its agencies were thoroughly corrupt - including procurement at NASA - it's just that they were completely wrong in believing that Trump would be a functional way to get rid of it. And it's not like Democrats enjoy actual trust in the USA.

It would be 10 times cooler if the mission had cost $400 million instead of $4 billion.

It was a screenshot of the page that was linked to ... Lithium fanboys are the same everywhere.

"The christian east" Sure. He's the pope. But even the pope should be clever enough to know when to leave religion out of an argument that is supposed to have universal appeal.

Will Americans declare Trump a King, re-declare the Independence and thus get rid of Trump? Or are they so blinded by their constitution that it doesn't occur to them, that there are other ways to deal with politics?

Definitely one of the more significant conflicts that keep getting overlooked by Europe, despite having major implications for the EU regarding the relationship between Morocco and Algeria and by extension their relationship with the EU. Not to mention Mauretania, Mali and other w-african countries.

UMich all-time low

Is this decolonization?

Being a bunch of murderous assholes is not a PR crisis. It's being a bunch of murderous assholes.

zelensky zu seinen deals mit den golfstaaten

it's actually really funny he keeps going on about 'the warrior ethos', because the whole focus on lethality is antithetical to basic military honour as it has been conceptualised for thousands of years in every society except the nazis and imperial japan

The Ukrainian army has gotten very little positive coverage or acknowledgement for not doing war crimes on a constant basis even when they are waging a war for survival against an explicitly genocidal invasion. This is honestly completely unprecedented in the history of modern warfare.

No go today due to suspected COPV leak

i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video

We trust tech companies WAY too much and bored individual subject matter experts WAY too little.

"... the treatment of heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey is one of our earliest warnings against egoism and relying too much on ‘big men’. Each epic explains the separation between the worlds of gods and mortals and why heroes are also bad for us." neoskosmos.com/en/2026/04/0...

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped