✈️🇩🇪 Germany's Lufthansa cancels 20,000 flights to save fuel due to soaring prices, — FT

Domestic flights in Germany may also be suspended in the near future.

Bravo Baltic States for telling Fico to FAFO

🇸🇰✈️❌ Fico publicly stated that 🇱🇹Lithuania and 🇱🇻Latvia have already informed Slovakia they will not allow his government plane to fly through their airspace for the planned trip to Moscow on May 9, 2026, for Russia’s Victory Day celebrations (the 81st anniversary).

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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Two bankruptcies, six jobs before ICE hired him Among the new hires is Carmine Gurliacci, 46, who resigned as a police officer in Richmond Hill, Georgia, to join ICE in Atlanta in December, according to a resignation letter obtained by AP. He filed for bankruptcy in 2022, saying he had no income and had been unemployed for two years after moving from New York to Georgia, court filings show. He said he was living with a friend and doing chores in exchange for housing, listing tens of thousands of dollars of unpaid loans, bills, child support and other debts. He also had filed for bankruptcy in 2013 in New York, when he listed $95,000 in liabilities, records show.

Really good reporting from AP. They took 40 people who had listed their new ICE job on LinkedIn, then looked for red flags.

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Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

The Expert Trap and the Next War what forecasting failure tells us about the future

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April the anarchic curb your expectations

Reading against fear. Bazyar, Smith, Catton, Darwish, 19th century Germans. Tehran, Britain, New Zealand, Palestine/exile, Germany. Resistance over decades, resistance now, theatre school, self-elegy, eerie tales.

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Here is their summary:

1. Erika Kirk didn’t show!

2. It started with a guy selling his loan shark business

3. Then TPUGA leader

4. Then Georgia Lieutenant General

5. Then JD Vance

6 Finally, despite long line, only 5-6 questions

Trump Rages at Pope Leo, JD Vance Fumbles Iran Deal & Hungary Ousts Viktor Orban | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Trump Rages at Pope Leo, JD Vance Fumbles Iran Deal & Hungary Ousts Viktor Orban
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Libraries have to stay!

Hungarian people will party all night long in Budapest!

#Budapest #Hungary #Elections #OppositionVictory #Orban #Breaking #Europe #Politics #Putin #OrbanOut #EU
#PeterMagyar #Magyar #Ukraine #Zelensky #Trump #JDVance #NATO #EuropeanUnion

Euphoria in Budapest after the opposition’s victory against the ruZZian Orban.

Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to celebrate 🥳

Incredible scenes from the Hungarian metro.

#Budapest #Hungary #Elections #OppositionVictory #Orban #Breaking #Europe #Politics #Putin #OrbanOut #EU

JD Vance, are you free in October

Hungary, you gave us hope when we really needed it.

such good news

Hurrah!!!!! We will win!

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

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Writer as tiger.

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

Ļoti ceram.

The grief stays. But you grow rings around it.

I have been thinking this for a long time as well as we graze through trailers. Rotting female corpses, kidnapped and murdered women, pretty women young moms dead and tortured.

Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.

“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.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Horriblorbanblurb.

As aside, this is one speech Melania didn’t plagiarize from Michelle Obama.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Hope we are both content