What are the implications for Hungary? I expect the Magyar government to implement this judgment and remove some of the most problematic anti-LGBT+ legislation and policies of the Orban era. But I wouldn't hold my hopes up for Magyar being a champion of gay/lesbian/trans rights in Hungary.
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Terrific piece from @gregsargent.bsky.social
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
“.. It does set a precedent, and we will follow it ... Donald Trump, all of his kids. Everybody," Frost said.
@nbcnews.com
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this is a Minnesotan thing, but it’s also a gender thing. Lots of women in MN clock ICE as just the most heavily armed version of “that type of guy” they’ve had to deal with their whole lives. And they’re not tolerating it! So many badass women and femme folk on the front lines for that reason.
Google with AI buttons
Google without AI buttons
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.
I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
2 0 2 5 Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor Va. Gov. County Margin Shift from 2024 pres. T Votes Loudoun Spanberger +29 * 12 pts. 164,366 Prince William Spanberger +34 × 16 pts. 161,419 Portsmouth Spanberger +47 * 8.1 pts. 29,956 Washington Earle-Sears +49 * 4.5 pts. 20,927 Louisa Earle-Sears +20 * 6.5 pts. 18,719 Orange Earle-Sears +15 * 9.3 pts. 17,127 Powhatan Earle-Sears +40 * 4.4 pts. 16,957 Pulaski Earle-Sears +38 * 7.1 pts. 12,466 Dinwiddie Earle-Sears +17 ~ 6.3 pts. 11,974 Harrisonburg Spanberger +41 × 15 pts. 11,753 Manassas Spanberger +30 * 16 pts. 11,514 Carroll Earle-Sears +57 ~ 6.1 pts. 11,277 Wise Earle-Sears +59 ~ 4.6 pts. 10,962 Fairfax City Spanberger +45 * 11 pts. 10,232 Fredericksburg Spanberger +43 * 11 pts. 10,191 Salem Earle-Sears +12 6.9 pts. 9,374 King William Earle-Sears +34 * 7.1 pts. 8,999 Russell Earle-Sears +63 * 4.9 pts. 8,860
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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first day in Mamdani's new york. I have already been forced to change my gender
Love to see Senate Dems subskeeting their own colleagues to make this same point lol. You're right, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I hope this point is being made clearly to leadership and the Let's Cave Caucus behind closed doors bsky.app/profile/chri...
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Ok “mamdani and spanberger/sherrill took two wildly different paths to winning” is not the take, people. Really. Not everything is a left vs. center battle for the soul of the party.
Come with me. 1/
"'I’m the speaker and the president,' Mr. Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him." [Gift link]
“Breaking: Cishet white people don’t find Nazism a deal breaker.”
Modern slavery, labor exploitation, and forced marriages.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates:
50M people in modern slavery in 2021
28M of the 50 in forced labour
22M trapped in forced marriage.
There was an increase of 10M people in modern slavery from 2016 to 2021.
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in news not at all related to the Broader Discourse: I wrote about DoorDash's new partnership with Waymo and its experiments with autonomous delivery robots—and why they represent a last-mile run to undermine the human Dashers who've agitated for better labor protections slate.com/technology/2...
Some of the attendees of the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1850: Top: Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis; Bottom: Lucretia Mott, Harriot Kezia Hunt. Harriet Martineau (bottom right) did not attend, but her receipt of the convention transcripts led to her to encourage a similar movement in England. Image credits: Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, National Portrait Gallery.
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1850: The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Mass. The two-day conference attracted more than 1,000 delegates from 11 states to promote women’s suffrage and greater political, legal, social and economic equality. /1
Graham Platner should have just said the tattoo was off the record
I feel like I'm losing my mind. The idea that this is some super obscure thing only freaks know about is absolutely absurd
There’s nothing that can sum this up,
