Exactly one year ago today:

de loco

“It’s the way we make sure everyone is technically a crime suspect so we can get around the fourth amendment” is not a great defense of a criminal statute tbh

This sounds an awful lot like the “regular citizens” Putin gets on TV with who are always selected to be shorter than him.

Peter Magyar announced that CPAC Hungary and the rightwing Mathias Corvinus Collegium will no longer receive funds from the Hungarian state, and there will be investigations into the use of state funds to finance them. This is the end of the two biggest rightwing numbskull factories in Europe. 😎

We do ourselves no favors in fighting Christian nationalism by falling back—unknowingly, I’m sure—on one of the oldest canards of European antisemitism, the old/New Testament distinction, as if oceans of blood haven’t also been shed on behalf of the New Testament, quoting Jesus directly.

lustration now

be pope, do crimes

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe lacks a plan to tackle inflation.

@weel.bsky.social can confirm that i'm now stuck occasionally repeating "the POPE is WEAK on CRIME" to myself and snickering

I will never forget one of the last classes I had in college was one on Democratic erosion, as a consortium we had students from central European University. The students there needed to use signal out of fear that the regime would issue reprisals against them.

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

spotted at the local library

"Voting doesn't work" motherfuckers! Watch as enough people vote to literally rewrite a constitution! Watch and fucking seethe!!!!

I remember about 8 years ago the pleads I got from Hungarian trans people when it became illegal to be trans there. I don't remember now if I was able to write about it for anyone. I was in a weird place in my career and didn't have access to many editors to place a story like that.

Mr Magyar is not an outspoken SJW by any means, but he clearly isn’t interested in using the power of the state to promote Hungary as an international center of culture war agitation the way his predecessor did. One of the many reasons this matters outside of just Hungary.

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So when is Central European University moving back?

PETER MAGYAR ANNOUNCES ORBAN CALLED HIM AND CONCEEDED!!!!!

IT'S OVER!!!! IT'S FUCKING OVER!!!!!

A major reason the Catholic Church hierarchy's ban on trans care hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves is because establishment LGBTQ+ orgs have, since the 2000s, been loath to ever criticize religious institutions, no matter how conservative. That approach is a total failure, and must end

One of the trans folks I interviewed for this article isn't Catholic. Neither is their doctor. Or the clinic their doctor works at. Or their pharmacy. But their spouse has insurance through part of the church's massive healthcare networks, so their testosterone is now "non-approvable."

omg are the straits all right

💥Heroes’ Square in Budapest is hosting the “anti-regime grand concert,” with tens of thousands bracing for the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule on Sunday. Chants of “Russians go home” are heard, while performers mock Viktor Orbán and Péter Szijjártó as servants of Vladimir Putin. 📸 444.hu

Actually, the E.U system where rich countries give funds to poorer countries has by en large been a success. Spain and Ireland used to both be recipients, and graduated to becoming givers in the 2000s and 2010s. Estonia, Czechia, Poland, and Slovenia are expected to graduate in the next few years.

One night before the elections the great people of Hungary are on the streets, rejecting the malicious influence coming from Russia, Serbia and certain people from the USA. The crowds are huge across the country. They can write history tomorrow.

🇭🇺✊ Good luck to these people tomorrow, in their hands is not only the fate of Hungary, but also a big opportunity for Europe and Ukraine

This site should ban her for pig butchering and idk, facilitating criminal activity.

Coworker: “Hypothetically, if your son wanted to wear a dress would you let him?” Me: “Do I have to go buy it, or does he already have one?” Coworker: “…I feel like we’re not on the same page.” Me: “Cause if I have to buy it he can wait for his birthday.”

“Complying with the totally not mandatory copyrighted $10,000 ACME widget safety standard sure is the easy way to convince the Department of Widgets to believe it probably won’t catch fire” is such a scam. The standards are often good! But laws, including de facto laws, should be public.

If you’ve never been cross examined on the stand about your sexual history, I don’t want to hear your opinions on whether victims of sexual assault should come forward.

Please stop demanding more of victims. Nothing should be expected of them, much less demanded of them. Especially when someone has just finished telling you how excruciating her experience was when she tried to hold her abuser accountable.

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor). You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

The P-trap. This is a good visual showing the difference.

I think the upshot of Swalwell (officially or not) exiting the race is that it dramatically lowers the probability of a GOP lockout which was the only scenario where the GOP could win.

I want to express my gratitude to Mr Swalwell for having the foresight to disqualify himself from the jungle primary years ago. We may narrow the field enough to avoid two Republicans in the general (it takes at least 5 months to recall a governor, and realistically more likely a year!)

Politicians serve at the pleasure of the electorate in a position of trust that is granted at the sole discretion of the voters. Deposing them for any reason or none at all deprives them of no rights, because they are not entitled to rule. We call this “democracy.”

Maybe Moscow is a Calvinist utopia not seen since old Geneva in Wilson’s head, but in the actual town, St Mary’s has a mass every day and two on Sunday, the UUs are looking for a new minister, the mosque near campus looks like it used to be somebody’s house, etc.; the usual American pluralism tbh.

I love how there’s all these historical debates about vocal music style, bel canto, Sprechgesang, etc. etc., and then Fischer-Dieskau comes along and takes a drag of his cigarette and just sings the damn song and everyone has to throw up their hands and go “fine, Dietrich, whatever, go ahead.”

the leader of SECDEF Pete Hegseth's church held a conference announcing their vision (read: plan) of an america that bans non-"christian" religions, allows slavery, banning 'public' expression of LGBT identity, arguing for a "sexual gestapo" (their words), broadly banning women's vote, etc...

This is akin to the vestiges of a landed aristocracy opining on how to get the third estate back in their place. It’s over. Rights are legitimized demands taken by social classes by leveraging their economic power. There is no path to strip women of their economic power.

many are saying it

good things are still possible

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Using the ole "man's pen name" trick should not work at this late stage, but alas, here we are, still living under patriarchy in the year of our lord 2026