Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

I remember about 8 years ago the pleads I got from Hungarian trans people when it became illegal to be trans there. I don't remember now if I was able to write about it for anyone. I was in a weird place in my career and didn't have access to many editors to place a story like that.

“racial entropy” is a concept which hinges on the idea that Black people in general have dysfunctional and dysgenic DNA.

Elon Musk is a straightforward eugenicist—like the old school 1910s type eugenicist—and I don’t think a single mainstream media outlet has mentioned that once

Tony Abbott recorded a podcast last week with the Denube institute in Hungary (of which is a visiting fellow) saying Orban is Hungary's greatest modern leader and he hoped he got re-elected. danubeinstitute.hu/en/podcast/s...

And, it is cowardly and hypocritical to claim you support intellectual freedom while attempting to shield speakers from scrunity because they lack the courage of their convictions.

Claiming to value "intellecutal freedom" while shutting down African American and Women's Studies reinforces the fact that the center is an authoritarian project, not a sincere attempt to expand intellectual life.

There is almost no demand for this center and even conservative students—the ostensible target demographic—aren’t interested in what the center has to offer.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

A cousin who jokingly writes, "maybe I won't have to close down the company now", another writes that perhaps there's now a chance that her children won't move abroad. This is a truly historic day for Hungarians.

And a commentator on Hungarian independent media livestream, almost tearing up, talking about the fact that he has three children who were born into this regime and that he now has the feeling that finally something positive *could* happen.

My god, all these videos of Hungarians on the streets and in the metro cheering and chanting "two-thirds", "two-thirds". 🥹

T-14 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️ In this thread, I discuss Magyar's prospects of success in restoring (liberal) democracy (if he wins) and will tell you he's not the saviour you might think he is (but that he’s still good enough for now). 🧵 1/

Also, a good opportunity to seek out Hungarians on here with critical, experiential knowledge. I’m learning from Gabriela Greilinger bsky.app/profile/gabr...

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

I think it's really weird that we KNOW there's a genocide going on, and we KNOW victims are trying to reach out on platforms, but there's no effort at all to create a safe and verified space for them. Like, "enabling a holocaust with tech while pretending to be innocent" weird.

Black women in the US already face the highest rates of pregnancy-related death. For those who are incarcerated, the risks are even greater. This Black Maternal Health Week, learn how you can support Black maternal health from our partners at @nationalbailout.bsky.social: www.nationalbailout.org

This is how it's done! "a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods" www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

50 former staffers!

Reminding folks that one of the first signs of Orban’s authoritarianism was his attack on universities, including closing the highly-regarded gender studies MA program at the Central European University in Budapest. That program left Hungary & continues today in Vienna.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

More than 600 children harmed in just over a month, entire communities uprooted, yet somehow this still gets filed under “security policy.” If that term is doing this much work, it deserves far more scrutiny.

I have two important points I'm going to make. First: BlueSky is just a website. It's a lifeline for Palestinians, but it is not a lifeline for us. It is not the beginning and it is not the end.

Workers at LA stadium threaten World Cup strike amid anger over ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's hard to do this easily in the current tech landscape, but the Visible app only stores data on your device unless you opt in to clinical trials, is customisable for various conditions but is built for ME/CFS and LC needs -- has been invaluable for me in many ways over the past few years.

The arena just played “All The Things She Said” as a singalong and I just texted my partner, whose father wrote the song. My partner is in the stands having a very bizarre few minutes as the whole crowd sings

aja monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare

Sorry I can’t help clean up right now I’m actually super busy

Im writing a microhistory of a deaf Indian girl, left at a mission in the middle of a devastating famine. Went to the US, was educated in a deaf school, and died of TB. An ordinary life, by some measures. She was not rich, no king, capitalist, or freedom fighter. But still a story worth telling.

There is so much emotion, beauty, joy, connection, grief, and importance to these lives lived in categories and spaces that never mattered enough to the compilers of archives. Those "small" lives have as much to offer us as the metanarratives of law and policy, as the lives and legacies of Great Men

As lawmakers fail to address the Black maternal health crisis, midwives turn to the courts to challenge long-standing restrictions. https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/georgia-midwives-lawsuit-maternal-health-crisis/

Just periodic reminder that deleting all the Gazans hasn’t led to less spam or less scams- it’s led to more 🤷🏻‍♀️

"A culture that starves its artists, writers, and teachers will have emaciated politics— politics that center profit over people, a politics that will have little to rely on but fear and domination— both at home and abroad." @karenattiah.bsky.social karenattiah.substack.com/p/anais-nins...

“the youth aren’t getting knocked up the way they used to” is quite the take

This is an actual exchange between Kernen and the head of Ireland's investment agency in 2014. www.thejournal.ie/ida-bizarre-...

Celebrate them whilst grieving the lack of depth in men’s tennis for around 2 decades now. (When I was growing up I was told the dominance of a few women: Navratilova, Evert, Graf etc revealed women’s tennis lacked depth. Somehow the same analysis hasn’t applied to the men’s ‘big’ 3 or current 2.)

❗Excited to announce my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. Hope you'll consider pre-ordering (with 15% discount) via @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

Since my book release, I have receieved hundreds of messages from Zionists desecrating the Holocaust and mocking its Bundist victims. All this while Israel massacres Beirut The Zionist sadism to the region is part and parcel of their contempt for their own murdered ancestors

This is still an incredibly timely and incisive podcast on the administration’s attacks on reproductive rights, and how it’s working from the same playbook as its attacks on trans ppl.🧵

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of

"I think it's not hyperbolic to say that sex ed is currently a battleground for the future of our country." Have you tuned in to our recent #podcast episode with @siecus.bsky.social's Callie Simon on comprehensive sex education? Listen here: www.reprosfightback....

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

From “Never forget.” to “Never. Forget!”

The anarchist group in Sudan calls on you to support a fundraising campaign to provide life-saving medicines such as paracetamol, antibiotics, Flagyl, and IV fluids. As we struggle to end this war, we also struggle to lessen its impact on us and on our people. Support your comrades in Sudan. #Sudan

don’t forget that wilson thinks black people should be enslaved!