— a once in a lifetime shot..

captured by wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen

Perhaps “peace hawk” gives you a better understanding of what kind of peace the de facto pro-Russian “utcaharcosok” were talking about.

EU top court strikes down Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules Viktor Orbán had banned mentions of homosexuality in media accessible to children and outlawed Pride marches.

🚨🚨It is not often #EUlaw make the headlines but today's significant seminal ruling by the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social where the Court ruled that #hungarian laws breached the fundamental values of the EU in Art 2 TEU is a major political victory for #LGBTI+ rights. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

🔥 This court ruling is historical! Not only does it ban LGBTI discrimination, but for the first time it issues a ruling based on Art 2 of the Treaties, that lays down the values on which the European Union is based. A big step for the European Union as a community of values

The fake news Rod Dreher "fell for" was that Péter Magyar mast*rbated in front of his three young sons and that he put a puppy in the microwave. I wish I were joking.

Dreher’s ”Moving soon” will definitely make a bunch of my friends reach for another bottle of pezsgő to celebrate.

Och så pratar jag om Ungern i Medierna i P1 i dag. Om Péter Magyars uppmärksammade ”intervju” i ungersk tv och om den orbánistiska medieapparaten.

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Nejnej, det tar bara ett halvår innan de säger att du väl kan ta en kortisonspruta, och sedan släpper det efter några veckor och efter åtta månader är det nästan borta.

Fast sedan är det dock stor risk att du, som jag, får det i andra axeln också inom ett par år.

Välkommen i klubben!

Endast 7 procent är för marknadshyror. De som är för marknadshyra är främst män i storstäder, med hög inkomst och ägt boende.
Indikator Opinion / Hyresgästföreningen

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Just hemkommen efter två veckor i Budapest, och efter att sedan 2010 dagligen ha följt hur Fidesz styrt sina medier (även statsfinansierad public service) till att smutskasta misshagliga journalister, demokratiaktivister och oppositionella, kan jag bara hålla med.

Analys: ”Pinsamt, Mohamsson!” När en svensk partiledare inte känner till Sveriges viktigaste grundlag kan det bara sammanfattas med ett enda ord: Pinsamt! Extra pikant blir det förstås när det är Simona Mohamsson, partiledare för Liberalerna, det parti som genom åren mest har förknippats med bildningsideal och vikten av lärande.

”Pinsamt, Mohamsson!”
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/pinsamt-mohamsson

He said the party, especially the parliamentary faction, would have to be completely reorganised. And that he enjoys spending time with his family. So maybe he’ll withdraw and hope for Magyar to fail, and in a year, or next election, come back as president.
But he looked so grey and old yesterday.

Especially at the end of the interview, when he started talking about his family, I almost thought he would finally announce his resignation.
Well, well, the Fidesz party conference is on 28 April.

Som cashkorten?

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

A study by Republikon shows that Magyar was actually mentioned more times in state media news than Orbán, but almost exclusively in negative context.
Wife-beating Brussels-lackey who will send Hungarians to the slaughter in Ukraine vs the peace-loving patriot who saves us from poverty.

But Orbán’s voters didn’t know it. Already in the first few days after the election, it will be obvious to them that they’ve been fed lies for years. Magyar’s press conference was the first time they saw him on M1. Wednesday morning he’ll have interviews on M1 and Kossuth Radio.

To scholars of democratic backsliding, it is difficult to overstate how big a deal today's election in Hungary, a country of less than 10 million people, is likely to be as a narrative milestone for our age, regardless of which way it goes.

Hungary: New Government Needs to Restore Rule of Law Hungary’s incoming government should take immediate steps to restore fundamental rights, dismantle abusive laws and institutions, and strengthen democratic institutions, after years of backsliding, Hu...

Human Rights Watch about Hungary: New Government Needs to Restore Rule of Law

I didn’t take it. I just snatched it from Facebook somewhere.

What Viktor Orbán’s Landslide Defeat Can Teach Anti-Fascists Across the World Philosopher Jason Stanley, who has been visiting Hungary for over 15 years, breaks down the historic defeat on Sunday of Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu’s top EU ally.

"Hungary taught me to take authoritarians seriously. This is a lesson I then applied in my work in the United States, where for a decade I have been urging Americans to take the MAGA fascist threat seriously. It was Viktor Orbán’s Hungary that gave me this initial education."

Eufória és népünnepély a Nagykörúton YouTube video by 444.hu

I spent too much of the night watching videos of people in Budapest partying in the streets, even on the metro. That they danced on the site where Magyar spoke — logical. But all these people, these very young people, out on the Nagykörút, it does something to you:
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Praise can't get much better than Elon's damning, hahaha

(Screenshot from HVG's relevant article.)

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

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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.

Hungary’s next prime minister, Péter Magyar, celebrates his landslide victory in Budapest, with the Hungarian Parliament behind him. His MPs will occupy more than two-thirds of the seats.

Pics: Szabolcs Vörös / Válasz Online

I hope Hungary will preserve the €170,000 treeless forest walk as a monument to Orbánism.