Netanyahu claimed last week that Magyar invited him to Hungary.
Today Magyar said that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary:
“I made it clear to the Israeli PM — we will not back down... If a state is an ICC member and a person who is wanted enters that territory, they must be detained”
It remains notable that The Onion — The Onion! — has had a stronger moral compass and more clear set of values in this moment than nearly every powerful and well-funded institution in American life.
Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.
Who says we can’t have nice things.
Like a fetching tote bag!
HomeOfficeItis does seem to be virulent in that office. Perhaps they should knock it down and build a better building.
the two positions i hold simultaneously based on my mood
optimist: things can't continue in politics like this
doomer: things can't continue in politics like this
Nothing like being surrounded by Lilliputians to make you look tall
Yup
Your options are Butlerian Jihad, Canticle for Leibowitz, or Immortal Dark Lord Peter Thiel's Technofeudal Imperium.
okay how candid do you imagine you have to be to prevent a 30% unemployment rate leading to some kind of societal collapse, exactly
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
“We’ve now crossed into a point where anytime anyone is looking at investing in the power system, batteries are one of the most attractive options,” said Brent Wanner, head of the power sector unit at the International Energy Agency.
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Sir Keir Starmer is scheduled to address the House of Commons at 3:30pm on Monday (20 April) regarding the controversial appointment of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador, which proceeded despite security vetting failures.
Over the weekend, I wrote about the mood among Labour MPs over the Mandelson affair. Things aren't much better this morning. One MP texts: "It's over. Even supporters want Keir to go."
Read all about it in my piece for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
More good stuff in-coming from Miliband reportedly. An accelerated Warm Homes Plan and reforms to minimise the role of gas in setting power prices are precisely the levers the government should be pulling to try and tackle the oil and gas shock. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528505...
I'd actually watch the Epstein biopic for the world-historical sheer malevolence distorting the characters around him.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lots of people want things with unintended consequences. Not even Kissinger imagined the petrodollar system replacing the gold standard would last this long.
Black Hole Sun
Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson?
No.
If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can.
And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels.
electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...
Every column now is now basically a meditation on some aspect of The Problem of Evil. But this @nesrinemalik.bsky.social take is beautifully done.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mechanised factories didn't cause gruelling 12-hour-day-child labour. People thinking the mechanised factories gave them license to stop being responsible humans caused child labour.
Like, there are acceptable ways to work with an LLM in the same way there are acceptable ways to work with interns, non-native speakers, or driving-assisted cars. You never ever have to hand it to Sam Altman et al but people need to get a grip.
This is for the "we have made no progress" camp
Petroyuan breaking petrodollar monopoly is the 150th Trump-caused unthinkable thing that will have happened in the first 4 months of 2026.
And UAE/China have been prepping for it for >10 yrs.
We turned rivers into road and wetlands into suburbs.
Extreme weather turns them back to rivers and wetlands.
This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like.
A photograph of an Israeli soldier hitting a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has led to widespread outrage. https://aje.news/3i78ht
“Israeli soldier smashing Jesus with a sledgehammer, confirmed authentic by IDF” is better PR for Hizbullah than anything it could ever have done for itself.
This is going to go about as well as burning a Quran. I’m sure Whiskey Pete and his ChrisNat pals will be appropriately outraged.
Initially misread this as “medieval litigator”
“Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf.”
"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...
