A big day in Hungary ! I hope Hungarians finally get a taste of a political alternative. It’s way overdue

Policy shifts coming fast. France accelerates Electrification - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030 www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/el...

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Google's AI overviews give wrong answers 9% of the time (1.25 billion times a day), and in over half of the cases point to websites that don't actually support the answer given.

“It is unequivocally clear that the sales pitch for LNG as a reliable, affordable fuel is quickly evaporating. The rug has been pulled out completely from under the industry narrative.” Unequivocally clear. And yet, more new US LNG projects are moving forward. That won't end well for them.

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough” The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

Reinforcing my pet theories: 1) all reactionaries/authoritarians are basically the same; 2) misogyny is the molten core of every reactionary/fascist movement; 3) persecution of LGBTQ is downstream of the misogyny; 4) so are all the other bigotries (this is more tendentious I concede).

With Hungarian elections on the horizon, EU leaders are finally recognizing that this is not simple veto politics, but a sustained strategy of undermining—and instrumentalizing—European integration in ways that benefit both Putin and Trump. Long overdue.

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

The war in Iran has massively disrupted oil & natural gas supplies and inflated the cost of electricity produced from gas. Fortunately, the world doesn't need gas for power anymore. It can be powered entirely by solar! Listen in and find out how.

"...the real question is no longer whether Europe can afford to make the energy transition. It is whether it can afford not to. From a central banking perspective, the answer is clear."

BREAKING: In a desperate attempt to save face ahead of his fifth deadline TACO, Trump has apparently got the Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to publicly ask him for a two week extension. 👇

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria & Italy are calling on the EU to introduce a windfall profits tax on energy companies. This is a no brainer and should be implemented swiftly. Our democracies can’t take another redistribution shock. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/h...

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

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.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as: “Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”

Republicans in the House and Senate: impeach and convict and remove this deranged man. You have blood on your hands already and you are about to have a lot more. Trump is destroying this country and he’s not stopping there. You cowards. You worthless power-hungry cowards.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

The only sane thing to do: The French government will prepare a plan to electrify key sectors of the economy to reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, suggesting the measures could be funded from increased corporate tax revenue from fossil fuel companies.

Back in the last fossil energy crisis (2022), the EU racked up a fossil fuel import bill of roughly $750 billion. The current crisis again threatens sky high import costs. That money could buy roughly a terawatt of solar capacity, >2x the currently installed capacity in the EU (0.42 TW)...

PM of Poland

I just lost an hour to this thread. I miss old twitter.

The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

They are begging other countries to bail them out

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

Wow

NEW: UBS just told investors in a key fund that they can’t get their money out for three years. UBS message: “sorry, we don’t have your money.” Bear Sterns did this with two of their funds, in June 2007, months before the global financial collapse.

Germany's energy minister has correctly identified that it's sustainability that's crashing the German economy... First it was the pipeline supply of sustainability from Russia and now the seaborne supply of sustainability from the Gulf...

Enemies of Europe always target EU regulation first. They know that without those collective rules, we have no defense against their influence. We need to remember that the bureaucracy they criticize is often the only shield we have left

Det er LIGE NU, at usikker varmeplanlægning bliver dyr for borgere og virksomheder! Blandt andet i kommunerne: #Gentofte #Dragør #Holbæk #Rudersdal #Greve #Næstved #Slagelse - omkring 25 kommuner har stadig mere end 5.000 bygninger på naturgas. 👇

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

This is not some lefty, hippy, environmentalist point of view. It's what investors are saying. www.ft.com/content/4696...

Ses vi om lidt til Folkets Klimamarch?

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Even with all the news organizations and their taking-heads, this is still the best explanation for Trump's predicament I've seen so far.🗽

Præcis. Det er svært at forestille sig, at en russisk agent/kapacitet ville handle ret meget anderledes, uagtet om Trump så ligger under for kompromat eller ej.

There are a tiny handful of top editors and executives in the news business who've truly met this moment. @katie-drummond.bsky.social is one of them. Proud to play a small part on team @wired.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

Wow. Tulsi Gabbard deputy resigns to protest Trump’s Iran War.

Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.

🇭🇺 Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule, - Bloomberg