sometimes I have to remind myself I am just one media layoff in an enormous sea of them, including actual correspondents from 60 Minutes and Pulitzer Prize winners, and the media industry just breaks everyone's hearts over and over

Danish Pension Fund Blacklists SpaceX. Previously, dumped US Treasuries over Trump's threat to Greenland. It says Spacex is “grossly overvalued”, and has “catastrophic governance structure” as Elon Musk strives to be a trillionaire. Any chance of City of London growing a backbone? archive.ph/dsVfR

Today sucks. This sucks. Many of the comments, which I somewhat regret reading, suck. If you don’t support and engage with quality journalism, be it NPR or local newspapers or myriad things in between, the whole world is worse off for the knowledge and accountability and curiosity gone.

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why the Pope’s woke encyclical is a disgrace.

The threat to French democracy of a Bardella/Le Pen win next year is so much bigger because of the slow but steady cultural coup by Bolloré.

NEW She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. wapo.st/4wyzH7u

This tweet, for a Ross Barkan story that copied my lede and reporting, now has more than 10x the views of the original. Ross hasn't apologized or acknowledged it; maybe he's just waiting for me to shut up. Without any explanation, I'm left to wonder how many times he's done this

🇺🇦 The youngest released today is 21 years old, the oldest is 62 years old, — Lubinets ❗️Most of the soldiers released today were in captivity for 4 years - they are the defenders of Mariupol, soldiers and officers of the Security Forces, — Budanov

My Mama, Georgia Kakissis, the very best mother, a woman full of joy, love and wonder. How I wish I could hug her this Mother’s Day. How I miss her. 💔

Budapest now: The crowd gathered around Kossuth tér to celebrate Magyar being sworn in as PM spills out from the square, and people are still coming in from all directions for the celebration!

For your information: these are the final hours of Viktor Orbán’s 16-year-long rule in Hungary.

Extraordinary story, from Siobhán O'Grady, formerly the Ukraine bureau chief of the Washington Post, and her team. She and her colleagues were all cast aside by the management. Here's just one line: "He radios his commander and asks for a drone to drop a body bag from the sky."

The Democratic leadership is even more out of touch with its base over almost anything than Trump is with his base over Iran.

“Applications from the United States to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52% this academic year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50%. For the first time ever, America is not the first choice for its undergraduates”

New ratings data shows Tony Dokoupil’s “Evening News” sinking to historic lows, with veteran TV news executives telling us the network is a “sinking ship” and blaming its woes on Bari Weiss. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/tony-dokou...

If there is one world historical legacy that JD Vance and Pete Hegseth leave behind it could end up being so needlessly offensive that they turn British nationalists into European nationalists

"Maybe she was trying to put out the fire there, or maybe she was just looking for something. She had photos of her husband and all these books about Chernobyl." A story of two tragedies, 40 years apart. www.npr.org/2026/04/26/n...

❗️Ukraine could deploy four minehunters, currently docked in Portsmouth, to support demining operations in the Strait of Hormuz, with Ukrainian officers joining multinational planning talks in London. #Ukraine

‘Donnyland’? Ukraine Proposes Naming Part of the Donbas in Trump’s Honor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

“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?”

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

🕯️🇺🇦 Kyiv bids farewell to 11-year-old Maksym Veremchuk, who died during a Russian missile strike on the capital on April 16

I hope part of this is exposing how the propaganda that targeted various individuals and organisations (including Bellingcat and partners in Hungary) was produced and coordinated www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I have this on repeat! 🕺 #Magyarország 🇭🇺

Several excellent contributions to this @theguardian.com panel on the Hungarian election. I particularly like the one by Zsuzsa Szelény. “Removing Orbán from office is one thing. Dismantling Orbánism is quite another.”

right I have wifi again - here was Budapest just now - at quarter past midnight!

Orban's system was rigged to give plurality winners with widespread support in the countryside super-majorities in the parliament - so Peter Magyar generated widespread support in the countryside and has been rewarded with 69% of the parliamentary seats. Now he can undo Orban's constitution!

❓One person was missing from Viktor Orbán’s side and the Fidesz camp: Péter Szijjártó. Is he already on a plane to Moscow?

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Do not miss: Tonight at 7pm ET @normeisen.bsky.social , @kimlanelaw.bsky.social (one of the top experts on Hungary, Orban, democratic backsliding) and I will have special report on Hungary elections- humiliation for Vance/Trump? a good sign for democracy? find out at www.contrariannews.org

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

Here's the map with 1/3rd of the votes counted. Tisza = blue; Fidesz = orange. The strength of the color tells you how far ahead the lead party is. It's a blow-out. Fidesz strongholds are falling to Tisza.

Not tonight endless scream, not tonight.

JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary. The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister. What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.

Time to sit down and write my short contribution for the Guardian panel of tomorrow. God damn I am so pumped!

Breaking News: Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat on Sunday in a high-stakes general election in Hungary. His defeat is a blow to the global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump.

Recall that Hungary does NOT have a proportional representation system. Orban gerrymandered all of the districts. PLUS, Hungarians get two votes - one for a representative, one for a party - and the final result is a complex combination of the two votes. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how...

The polls have closed in Hungary - and it appears that turnout will approach 80%, a post-communist record.

Orban has not appeared on tv - he sent his chief of staff looking ashen. In the meantime, challenger Peter Magyar appeared on tv to claim that this is a historic day. There are no exit polls in Hungary but here are projections from a respectable researcher based on pre-election polls.

For the crucial Hungarian election, friends don’t let friends follow fake-experts. Follow these real experts instead: @gabrielagreilinger.com @danielhegedus.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social @zecsaky.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @eublogo.bsky.social

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

“While Mr. Orban has worked to close the gap by fulminating against Ukraine and the European Union, Mr. Magyar has focused on corruption and living standards.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

proud to work with @yjtorbati.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/i...

If German men aged 17 to 45 want to leave the country for more than 3 months, they’ll now have ask permission from the military: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The first astronaut in history to speak French while en route to the moon — Canada’s very own Jeremy Hansen 🇨🇦

Ok but if you read that NYT Waffle House story it’s … a journey and please go read it because what www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...