Peter Magyar promises never to allow “government without accountability”—a pledge that resonates far beyond Hungary

Hungary will rejoin the ICC and enforce its arrest warrants, including against Benjamin Netanyahu, if he enters Hungary, says President-elect Peter Magyar.

Hungary’s Péter Magyar issues an ultimatum.

Very glad to have had this talk with @preetbharara.bsky.social staytuned.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Orban didn't have some kind of magic touch or contact with "real" people. Hungarians have rejected his authoritarian populism and his faux-nationalist propaganda www.ms.now/morning-joe/...

The authoritarian nationalists treated the Hungarian election as a global moment, and democrats should too, writes @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

"Putin, Xi and Trump all liked Orbán for the same reason: his hostility to liberal democracy and his willingness to play the role of spoiler within the EU. Orbán also played a useful ideological role" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

“Trumpism will not deliver broad prosperity any more than Orbánism did,” Adam Serwer argues. “It took Hungarians the better part of 20 years to reclaim their freedom. How long will it take Americans?”

Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat were the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits. @galbeckerman.bsky.social on the role of the "Tisza Islands" in the Hungary election:

The rallying behind Péter Magyar, who just defeated Viktor Orbán, “would be like an ex-MAGA Republican named Peter American winning the Democratic nomination with the endorsement of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Idrees Kalhoon writes:

Orban has lost. What a great day! (Unlike some sundowning clowns we know, he has admitted he lost, too.)

Call for papers - AAA 2026 - American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting November 18-22, 2026 St. Louis, MO Please see the panel abstract below. #cfp #linguisticanthropology #AAA #AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation #callforpapers

To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.

Reflections on the End of Democracy: The Orbán-Trump Connection

📣 Just published: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism:(Un)uttered Sentences by FXB Roma Program Director @magdamatache.bsky.social! Pre-order on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh Read a short excerpt on Foreign Policy in Focus: tinyurl.com/4nzfx59w

Codifying Belonging: The Legalization of Racialized Exclusion in Europe by Angéla Kóczé verfassungsblog.de/codifying-be...

Aladár Horváth, the President of the Roma Parliament Civil Organisation, discusses the many forms of implicit legal discrimination against the #Roma in #Hungary. hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/gypsy-laws...

✊🏽 Racism and Romani Studies Critical Romani Studies – Volume 8, Number 1 (2025) 🔗 Read the open-access issue here: 👉 crs.ceu.edu

The Romani Studies Program at CEU, the European Romani Institute for Arts and Culture, and the Intercultural Institute of Timișoara will launch the thematic issue of the Critical Romani Studies journal, Racism and Romani Studies Register at the link: www.facebook.com/events/86936...

Boldizsár Nagy M: I'll Be Poor Where I Want To A short story by Boldizsár Nagy M, published in the anthology These Roma Are Queer and translated by Hanna Zelma Horányi. hlo.hu/new-work/bol...

AAA CFP: Spectral speech: The voices of political pasts in contemporary discourse See abstract and panel description below. If you are interested in participating in this panel, please get in touch before Monday, 04/14/25.

World Roma Day isn’t about survival, writes Mensur Haliti. It's about Roma political power—disciplined, strategic and aligned. We are not entering Europe’s future. We’re writing it. #april8

The whiplash is incredible www.pressherald.com/2025/03/12/u...

did you hear about this today?

I used to be so ready for later sunsets. I am no longer. I would rather welcome the comfort that darkness, anonymity bring.

Yesterday morning, the price of regular unleaded gas at the gas station where I usually fuel up was $3.03. By the time I got off work at 4:30pm, it had increased to $3.14.

I work and teach at an institution of higher ed where the majority of students rely on Pell Grants (aka federal funding) to be able to attend college and earn their undergraduate degrees. If federal funding is denied to the institution of higher ed where I work and teach, it will cease to exist

I'm developing an Honors Project for my undergraduate ling anth course with a student in the Honors Program. The final product for the project will be a publishable article/blog post. Can you recommend online publication outlets/blogs that publish undergraduate research?

The far right condemn Brussels but embrace American, Russian and Chinese influence. Are they defending sovereignty—or handing it over to foreign powers? As Germany votes, Europe’s unity is at stake. Read Mensur Haliti’s take on far-right hypocrisy at the link in our bio. #GermanyVotes #romaforeurope

Mobility, work & rights is a new podcast hosted by @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & myself on #irregularmigration and the production of irregularised migrants. With the help of experts, we try to understand what is irregular migration & why is such a topical and polarising issue. i-claim.eu/podcasts/

Welcome to all my new followers. Here’s a free copy of my book “Queer Roma”. Happy reading! Enjoy www.routledge.com/Queer-Roma/F...

Our #podcast & lesson tells about the fate of Sini & Roma in Auschwitz. Podcast: https://buff.ly/3YY8hYO Lesson: https://buff.ly/3CuYNg6

Long excluded from higher education and professional careers, young Roma are increasingly answering a desperate need to fill healthcare positions in Bulgaria. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/roma...

article of note: Gendered Narratives in British Immigration Policy: Forced Marriage Policy and the British South Asian Diaspora [open access] scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/concern/gw_w...

I organized and chaired my first ever panel—and presented on it!—“Voicing ethnopoetics: A poetics of praxis” at last week’s American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL.