PM designate Péter Magyar has nominated a blind man to be Minister of Social and Family Affairs, a position that also oversees equal opportunity. This is a first in our history. Hats off to him for this choice! 👌

Judit Lannert, an experienced professional will be the new education minister. Balázs Orbán, PM Orbán’s close aide is “promoting” her with this photo. He’s concerned that “left-wing forces” are taking over. “Thanks for the photo, she seems even more likable now,” someone commented under his post.

Our first quarterly update of various economic and social indicators under Trump's second term as president. www.factcheck.org/2026/04/trum...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Meta Tells Staff It Will Cut 10% of Jobs in Push for Efficiency and offset AI spending www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

These people are behaving as if there will never be another election.

"In the MAGAsphere, Canada is often portrayed as a land emasculated by wokeness, conquered by Chinese Communist encroachment & Indian immigration, where free speech is suppressed & Albertans — portrayed as salt-of-the-earth ranchers & roughnecks — are desperate to escape to the embrace of the US."

FALTER: How does the U.S. president’s blatant blasphemy fit in with the American right’s dream of a Christian state? Isolde Charim in her column ↓

Of course, this is not specific to Orbán only, but it's a fitting example www.direkt36.hu/en/tiborcz-i... www.occrp.org/en/news/hung...

Orbánism, when the son of the leader "wins" public tenders

Reform candidate accused NHS of causing Covid ‘holocaust’ inews.co.uk/news/politic...

“A Wayne County farmworker and grandmother was detained by ICE during an in-person check-in and now faces likely deportation to Mexico.” “I’m here because I’m trying to do things the right way,” said Dolores Bustamante: www.whec.com/top-news/im-...

Libération: “Back then, my colleagues simply couldn’t imagine me as a gay man”: In the workplace, inclusion of LGBT+ people remains fragile and uneven

ENDSTATION RECHTS: #Ilmenau: Following an attack on a refugee shelter, six young men are facing trial on charges of attempted murder and aiding and abetting the crime. They had thrown a firework battery into an occupied room and filmed the incident:

ENDSTATION RECHTS: The rescue team for the whale stranded off the coast of Poel Island includes several individuals from the far-right: a far-right influencer with a history in the Hells Angels, a sponsor who has donated to the AfD, and an operations manager who denigrates democratic elections:

Sebastian Bohrn Mena: Worth reading! Not even the cheerleaders are recruited domestically. Far-right extremists and their Nigerian fan base—a highly recommended study on the AfD and social media: www.reset.tech/resources/co...

The U.S. seems to be heading toward a future where states are either solidly blue or solidly red, and that kind of divide could lead to some serious internal tension. #AntebellumEra2.0 www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

A viral image that appears to show people cleaning blood off a street in Iran isn’t real. It’s true that thousands of protesters were killed in January, but this image is fake and there are several signs it was made with AI.

Viral videos of overturned dinghies in the Channel have been shared with claims that over 100 people have died. It’s true that six people have died attempting to cross the English Channel this month, but these videos are fake and were made using AI.

FALTER: @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com have written a fascinating book about “Muskism.” Their take: The tech billionaire isn’t in it for the money. He wants to give the world a new operating system. An interview by @evakonzett.bsky.social ↓

The sooner the better. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda. snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...

ENDSTATION RECHTS: The trial of six people accused of chanting “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out” following an AfD party convention ended without a verdict. The defense was handled by well-known lawyers with ties to neo-Nazi parties:

@kagi.com the same—I've been Googling for over 25 years, but now I don't miss it at all. I can see clearly without the advertising fog. @holgi.bsky.social: „By the way, I’ve been using kagi.com as a search engine (paid service, €10/month) for a few months now, and I’m extremely satisfied with it.“

Internazionale: A government proposal calls for compensation for lawyers who encourage migrants to leave the country, but the Quirinale has blocked it. Read the article by Annalisa Camilli.

💥Days after Viktor Orbán lost reelection, Hungary's data protection authority is investigating Webloc — an Israeli tool that harvests mobile ad data for mass surveillance, likely violating GDPR. We exposed its use by Hungary on @vsquare.bsky.social with @citizenlab.ca: vsquare.org/goulash-with...

Ambassadors meet on Wednesday, with Hungary expected to lift its veto on the implementing rules for the loan, paving the way to finalise the deal – including the legal agreement and payment timeline – by early May.

It’s striking how deeply the Orbán regime has embedded itself across society — from “civil” organizations to sports federations to cultural institutions. This isn’t just about politics at the top. It’s about networks of influence that reach into everyday life. 🧵

“The PP's pact with Vox in Extremadura—which aims to set a precedent for all others—confirms, for the umpteenth time, the PP's willingness to swallow racist bitter pills.” ‘Feijóo's One-Size-Fits-All Politics,’ an #opinion piece by Javier Caraballo dozz.es/v2k582

💥 Budapest is celebrating the fall of the Orbán regime. Driven by a surge of young Hungarians—first on the streets, then at the ballot box—the message was a deafening “Russians, go home.” VSquare.org

It's really tiresome to constantly see young women turning to the left portrayed as a problem to be fixed 😩

Gave various interviews + wrote my promised articles re the 🇭🇺 election over the past week, and recorded my (presumably) last podcast on 🇭🇺 for the foreseeable future today. Now happy to get back to my actual work, i.e. fun stuff like grading, working on co-authored projects and, oh, my dissertation.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

In light of Trump’s increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior, many of you want to know: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f4a

watch the full episode here and listen to the 404 Media Podcast wherever you get your pods: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUq...

horrified by that mass shooting story? Forbes would love you to predict what comes next

#OTD in 1914, the Ludlow Massacre: state troops and private guards opened fire on striking miners in Colorado, killing 25 people, including 11 children. It would take decades before the National Labor Relations Act guaranteed workers the right to organize. theconversation.com/1914-ludlow-...

Der goldene Aluhut: Xavier Naidoo warns against “child eaters.” We warn against Xavier Naidoo.

Marcant: I went to see Xavier Naidoo at his child protection rally... :D #Misinformation #ConspiracyNarratives #FactChecking de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_... youtu.be/Ws9gloooELk

It's likely too late at this point to actually promote a good candidate, but if you're interested in understanding exactly how embarrassing Graham Platner is, I talked about it back in November. The tl;dw: it's not even JUST the Nazi tattoo. He's also a terrible liar. skepchick.org/2025/11/grah...

🥶 EU will freeze a €1.5 billion pot of funds earmarked for Serbia over controversial judicial reforms Belgrade pushed through in January, @politico.eu reports. Brussel demands that Serbia “align its judicial laws with the Venice Commission’s recommendations.”

Creating false equivalence between people like Andrew Tate/Charlie Kirk and Greta Thunberg/AOC 🤯🤦🏻‍♀️

Simply juxtaposing "young angry women" with the manosphere and suggesting the latter is less relevant/dangerous/concerning is 🤯🤯🤯

Insane timing, insane takes, but women, regardless of age, must always be turned into the enemy in a world of himpathy. It's a pattern, just remember the "organised gangs of wine moms" we learned about following ICE aggression and violence.

Another country just ejected the right wing in favor of anti-corruption progressives. I’m sensing a trend. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

Leaving out that crucial fact allows the reader to miss the way this echoes prior authoritarian "investigate the investigator" moves as well as the fundamentally Orwellian character of this. (3/3)

including a Senate investigation, the Mueller report, multiple intelligence investigations, multiple reportorial investigations in the US and elsewhere, and multiple books. (2/3)

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...