Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Wordle stats, up-to-date on 4/6/26: 1385 played 99% win 69 current streak 69 max streak Very nice!

Very nice, at last!

Has he even seen any Star Trek?

Got some Bill Nye vibes there, tho...

Haley Joel Osment really hasn't been given the credit he deserves. He sold that line about the best that any actor of that age could.

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

"I'll sooner share my rifle than share my truck!" - MAGA faithful, presumably

...and Mountain View, and Palo Alto, and Carmel, and Bellevue, and Boca Raton... those are just ones I know about. Pflugerville is just an Austin suburb, so likely a bunch of mini-Joe Rogans there.

Food replicator

...it would, however, glide ever so down on its own after the pilot bails (even crazy Randy in this case - he'd be so impatient)

Is that Dana Holgerson at the replicator?

<sarcastic voice> Say it isn't so...

Holy shit, Nostradamus over here!

Lol, whoops.

"You got the TOUCH... You got the POWER..."

No Democrat Should Give Trump a Blank Check for His Illegal War The case for opposing funding for Trump's War in Iran

While Democrats almost universally oppose Trump’s War in Iran, many of them are considering voting for a bill to fund the war.

This would be a catastrophic mistake.

Here’s why: messagebox.substack.com/p/no-democra...

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

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I think about this a lot

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social

*ALARM*ALARM*ALARM*

Moe throwing Barney out of the bar meme, but it's Anderson Cooper throwing Bari Weiss out

Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

That’s Dan❤️‍🩹🦅

A screenshot of People Over Papers’ ICE reporting map. The map resets at 4 am ET every day. In Minnesota, over 100 reports have been filed today, with the overwhelming majority in and around the Twin Cities. Stay safe. Fuck ICE.

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far.

In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Born in Texas here, and Texans are dead wrong about beans. They belong in chili! It's for the fiber!

Oh, Jaleel White has nothing to second-guess of himself here.

The best. Simply... the best.

What are we doing here?

That antisemitic sticky note had exceptionally good handwriting

...and by the way, that famous "novel" is just a collection of short stories, tied together by the theme of "robots". They are all mid, at best.