Hungary just showed what happens when people get sick of the bs and do something about it. No wannabe king is untouchable and no democracy stays alive by itself. When people organize, persist, and vote, change can happen. It’s past time for us to take our own stand. www.vox.com/politics/485...

The only way to make Orban losing sweeter was for JD Vance to be partially blamed for it.

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

JD Vance is heading to the US and is ready to offer his assistance to any candidates back home.

The real lesson of the Hungarian people's victory over authoritarianism is that people power can defeat dictators. The massive opposition movement led to a massive electoral victory. We can do it too!

A reminder— for most of the trump-vance era: vast majority of stuff you’ve read about or heard about re: the administration’s mass detention & mass deportation regime? The stuff that appalls you? Gotta keep in mind almost all of it you didn’t see live-streamed. The horrors go on behind closed doors…

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Albanian president preemptively pardons Eric Adams for all crimes the former NYC mayor may commit as an Albanian citizen.

Pete Hegseth has cut ALL educational funds for active-duty service members at Harvard and Princeton (despite him attending these schools) in favor of Christian-affiliated colleges.

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Afrika Bambaataa, considered one of the pioneers of hip-hop and was known for founding the Universal Zulu Nation, has died at 68. (AP photo)

If you havent seen this, make sure you read.

Rep. Randy Fine: "We cannot let a terrorist regime that acts in belief with their faith have their ability to create a nuclear weapon" (Has he ... has he ever listened to Pete Hegseth?)

Wow, how could I have missed/forgotten this? Thanks!

Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into

Brutal.

The fact that republicans are getting away with everything and we don’t have much power to stop them is why we kept saying 2024 was an incredibly important election.

propublica workers are on strike today as they fight for a fair first contract. don't cross the picket line by reading/sharing their stories! solidarity with my fellow newsguild comrades 🖤✊

This Guardian story from 2020 asked: "Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development, want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?" I think we know the answer. Release all the Epstein files. End the Trump cover-up.

WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now. No way. It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

pope says call your fucken reps reps.fyi

Three takeaways from @nytimes.com "inside the room" account. 1) Previous US admins mostly resisted being conned by Netanyahu. Trump was a complete sucker. 2) Vance and, to lesser degree, Marco playing "we always knew this was bad idea" card. 3) Trump is an idiot. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

"Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be...the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!" - Adolf Hitler, Jan. 1939

I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

As a journalist, I find the mere fact that this insipid event is happening this year to be several steps beyond disqualifying. You’re watchdogs, not lapdogs. Have some damn integrity.

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/4e5vZLL

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

PLEASE give me a 7-game playoff series next month between the Spurs and the Nuggets.

Perfectly done. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...

This is now a Geno Auriemma hate account. Of all the criticisms he richly deserves, stalking off at the end of the game without even a second look at the crushed young women on his team who just saw their season end, is beyond defense.

Twenty years ago, John Chaney retired as the head coach of the Temple men's basketball team and I blogged about the "fantastic, gutsy coach" they should hire to replace him, "a role model and a winner who embodies so many of the positive principles" Chaney espoused. It was Dawn Staley.

No handshakes for Geno - Not even a good game, good game, f*** you

Trump April 1st: We could hit it and it would be gone. And there’s not a thing they could do about it. They have no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable…

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

there are so many things i hate about the fascist project, but administration officials making up increasingly absurd lies about the amazing mind of Donald Trump is way up there

This post is a good example of how major media normalize Trump's erratic conduct and inability to present a coherent explanation of his war strategy--if you can even call it that.

The White House has removed this video from their social media channels. But not before we could post it.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

/2 Second: it’s a travesty this bullshit was treated this seriously — and it did real harm to the nation and democracy that it was indulged. Third: It’s a very bad sign how many absolute amoral shameless hacks are willing to conjure up bullshit to support it.

DON’T lose sight of (3), (4). There will be dozen op-eds when Trump loses abt “SCOTUS finds its independence” or such nonsense. Think Roberts was often good at producing just enough outcomes like this to maintain a favorable narrative while consistently doing real harm to democracy. Don’t bite.

"We need intellectualism because we need liberal democracy. And that is precisely why these guys—they’re all guys—don’t like it."

Iran won’t close the Strait Iran better open the Strait Iran has 2 days to open the Strait Iran has a week to open the Strait NATO, open the Strait I’ll bomb your critical infrastructure if Strait isn’t opened I don’t care about the Strait No ceasefire till Strait is open

Congrats again to Ezra Klein: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Bronstein's work on albums and with musicians is IMO as instantly recognizable and evocative of music in a locale as William Claxton (LA) and Francis Wolff (NYC)...ct'd

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.