conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

The EU cutting off aid to Hungary was a big step in beating Orban. He stayed in power by denouncing the EU while taking its money and spending it on his cronies & propaganda. (Article's from January, it explains the EU started reducing his money in 2022) theconversation.com/why-has-the-...

Trump lured the Iranians to the bargaining table under false pretenses, telling them their 10 point plan would be the basis for negotiation only to try to impose his own wishlist as the basis. Then he violated the ceasefire with a blockade, itself an act of war. Nobody will ever trust us again.

Somehow simultaneously working in Nevada with Rep Kustoff and in Missouri with Rep Jason Smith. Fascinating.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Trump has to order DoorDash or he'd starve, because of his physical and mental disabilities. The food should be free, and the imperialist media should stop tip-shaming him

Excellent apnews.com/article/minn...

I see no problems (multi-decade ground quagmires) here. H/T r/noncredibledefense

Pew data shows Israel viewed unfavorably in every category except white evangelicals over 50

Hungary under Orbán was not a classic fascist or monarchical regime. It was a species of what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism" — where elections are generally free, meaning not formally rigged, but held under extremely unfair conditions.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Quid pro quo. Could be big, and not great for Iran. theprint.in/world/riyadh...

"Jews promote race-mixing among everyone else, to undermine the white race, while protecting their own racial purity" is a quite longtime fascist view about the Jews. It's literally part of Nazi ideology.

Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”

"Russian forces have generally adhered to [Easter ceasefire] terms" "The enemy used 4,767 kamikaze drones and carried out 840 shelling attacks" These can both be true because the war is so damn big www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...

Even Orban is less of a sore loser than Trump

I see mutual aid bluesky has found this. A broad social safety net that takes care of everyone's basic needs is fairer and more equitable than a network of privatized interpersonal charity in which people's benefits depend on their ability to accumulate internet clout and perform abjection online.

I mean, you know something doesn’t add up when it’s the party in change of the government (and so of the electoral process) which screams of “vote fraud”…

Addendum: Seeing a lot of folks saying, "surely this will piss off allies" (true!) "and china" (true!) "and so someone will stop this." (false!) Blockades as part of war are legal, no one else has a navy capable of breaking a US blockade and blockades rarely draw in new belligerents to wars.

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Today Trump says he's continuing the war because of "the NUCLEAR". The fool thinks he has a chance at something more than the prewar situation. We'd be lucky to get back to that.

These organisations are all working in Gaza and Lebanon right now. "I can't find a legit recipient to donate to" is not a valid excuse. Shelterbox shelterbox.org Médecins Sans Frontières www.msf.org Mines Advisory Group www.maginternational.org

REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.

I talked to numerous people in Newtown. They were surprised to hear Trump condemn Alex Jones for his Sandy Hook denial, because they expressly asked Trump to disavow this in 2017 during his first term and he refused. I've got quotes from them and the backstory here: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

In his tirade against MAGA war critics, Trump blasted Alex Jones for calling Sandy Hook a hoax. This seemed odd. So I went back and checked. At the time Trump hailed Jones as "amazing" and rebuffed demands that he denounce lies about the shooting. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

Analysis | Faced with accusations of sexual assault, Eric Swalwell's political future may depend on whether he's willing to become a Republican.

They are so fucking racist, they don’t even want to see your papers.

This what I’m talmbout right here!!!!! You see how they in there going crazy????? Need det

I’m very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did. I’m disgusted by all of it. She found herself in one of those moments where she didn’t care what she lost if it helped one other person. The reality is the truth don’t care who tells it, but she told it. Love you @allysammarco.bsky.social

32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine, for Orthodox Easter www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Learned to fight for real, from video games

One of the favorite tactics of the Nazis was to ascribe crimes committed by an individual to a group. While the crimes may, in some instances, have been real, that did not make the group guilty of them.

a lot of people really miss that the key inflection point in the decline of the protests wasn't Trump's election or a giant crackdown but 'the summer 2024 academic break', after which some students graduated, some new ones came in, and most people just kind of moved on to new things

The protests stopped after the election because they achieved their objective, they're telling this lie because they don't want people protesting Trump.

Writer acknowledges that Biden followed his "more stimulus" advice and it didn't have the hoped-for political effects. Honest. And I went through the same sequence of opinions basically. The public has always hated inflation tho prospect.org/2026/04/07/a...

First observed within-group chimp war

This guy - who knows about shipping - says he doesn't think Iran has actually mined anything. So far. youtu.be/E9rslGBcEZQ?...

Melania's press conference about Epstein today:

Soldiers deny Hegseth's version, say they had poor defenses. Not clear why they were there at all www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

“If the Iranians are demanding a toll right now, if you pay that toll you are likely to be violating the US sanctions on Iran,”

Even the "good" AI companies are still colossal threats to the rest of us and it's long past time that Congress started arming normal Americans with the tools needed to hold AI companies liable for all the reckless destruction they are causing.

I would simply threaten the Catholic Church with the power of the sword, a problem it has never previously confronted.

Now says 6% (day/night difference?) Anyway, strait not open. Iran is apparently not abandoning Hezbollah, so if Israel keeps bombing Lebanon, it could end the whole ceasefire

So the strait is not open (and Israel is still bombing Lebanon) 15% traffic hormuzstraitmonitor.com

The ceasefire is absolutely supposed to cover Lebanon. We'll see if Netanyahu's BS blows up the whole thing (probably his goal) en.prothomalo.com/internationa...

New deep dive piece on 2 new big studies on ideology and moderation, including a data exclusive from Blue Rose Research. Short version: Only 8% of "moderates" say they want a moderate party. And when candidates do move to the middle, fx are often negative www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...

NEW: Donald Trump is underwater with registered voters in **135** GOP-held House and Senate seats. His approval is <45% in 44, including 10 senators. Should be a warning for Republicans in Congress weighing electoral cost of Trump's war and crazy tweets. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...