I don't know about you, but this is not what I voted for when I voted for Pope

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

2010: massive Orbán win 2014: massive Orban win 2018: massive Orban win 2022: massive Orban win 2024: Goodwin visits, starts promoting Orban regime 2026:

The Trump endorsement effect in action

Turns out getting JD Vance to campaign for you is a powerful voter repellent.

Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.

What a moment - Orban concedes defeat… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

late to this from James Marriott but it’s one of the best pieces I’ve read this year because going beyond day to day politics/struggles people share in focus groups it captures something bigger we hear - that we’ve passed our prime & it’s all been down hill for years www.thetimes.com/article/d123...

Unprecedented corruption

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

This is the sort of clip you see in the opening minutes of a deeply dystopian film

He's going to wipe out a civilisation but also help the people of Iran. And the regime is completely new and more reasonable but also need to be wiped out. He might as well be dribbling.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

Let me also note that the Germans had a generation traumatized by war and the Great Depression. The Americans had… a Black president and #metoo

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Trump just openly stating his intention to commit genocide at this point: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

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I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

Great speech, dude.

The headlines are getting more truthful.

I guess it’s better late than never; but still, should not have taken so long , or a massive series of international crises, to acknowledge this.

Need some time for administration insiders to reach out to their stockbrokers

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

'David Becker, head of the Center for Election Innovation & ​Research, said in a social media post the order was "clearly unconstitutional" and would be blocked immediately, adding Trump "might as well ​sign an EO banning gravity."' www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I have been thinking a lot about this article & the "BIDEN'S TOTAL FAILURE IN AFGHANISTAN!" coverage in 2021, & there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of that coverage & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran/NATO/Trump now.

Completely illegal. And at the rate cases have been moving, maybe the courts will do something about it 14 months from now

the most corrupt administration in history, every day a Teapot Dome level scandal

Pete Hegseth just held a prayer service in which he appealed for God's help in killing our "enemies" with maximal violence and brutality. Hegseth's bloodlust and sadism are drawing sustenance from his particular brand of far-right Christianity. 1/ (new piece from me) newrepublic.com/article/2083...

Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

Stunningly horrible tweet from the Home Office. Tars everyone from 4 countries with the same brush.

Not sure why so many people appear to be in an emotional relationship with using fossil fuels.

AMERICANS LOVE THEIR MANLY SECRET POLICE WITH THE BIG HARD MUSCLES! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!

This is what I was hoping to see from influencers and independent journalists who traveled to Cuba. The impacts of U.S. actions aren't getting the attention they deserve in mainstream media. My people are being ignored in the U.S. news.

Precisely this. It is the worst possible tesponse to the crisis. She is either too stupid or too dishonest to remain party leader.

Btw my key realisation when I was out there was that I was totally wrong about mandatory voting. The liberal implications are miniscule, but the political benefits are huge. I'm a firm convert.

Once again a heartfelt thanks to David "cut the Green crap" Cameron and Nick "What's the point in a nuclear power plant that isn't ready until the 2020s" Clegg for their visionary political choices, whose consequences we get to enjoy today.

It’s one war, Michael. What could it cost?

The fun thing writing about US elections is that it's just so comically polarised. Every race is like: Republican: made millions lobbying for oil companies, has been charged with fraud, tweets racism. Democrat: was a teacher before setting up a charity for needy children. Wants free healthcare.

Failing the ‘Can you name the current US president’ cognitive question is particularly bad when you’re the answer.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

"I made a mess and now I need help from countries which I slapped tariffs on for no reason and which I have threatened with annexing their territory. And I am still not asking but threatening." There, I fixed it for you.