A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Out now! Check out out upcoming Special issue on Business and Labour in German Colonialism.

Thanks for this great collaboration
@pocobusiness.bsky.social
@jzurlage.bsky.social
@debneill.bsky.social
Mona Rudolph
Michael Rösser

with contributions from
Mona Rudolph, Michael Rösser, Julian zur Lage @jzurlage.bsky.social , Deb Neill @debneill.bsky.social ,
Nina Kleinöder

Glad to share that our special issue of German History, co-edited with @nkleinoeder.bsky.social, is now available in First View. It focuses on colonial railway infrastructure in the German Empire. If you would like access, just let us know.
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Wonderful news! Congratulations!

This brings to mind a novel I just finished - The Correspondent. The main character is a letter writer and some of the book focuses on how she writes and receives lovely letters from writers she admires. Such a beautiful and profound book.

Photo du premier ministre Carney devant un podium à La Citadelle à Québec, Québec. Une citation de son discours est éditée ci-dessus : « LE CANADA ET LES ÉTATS-UNIS ONT ÉTABLI DES RELATIONS REMARQUABLES DANS LES DOMAINES DE L'ÉCONOMIE, LA SÉCURITÉ, ET DES RICHES ÉCHANGES CULTURELS. CEPENDANT, LE CANADA NE "VIT PAS GRÂCE AUX ÉTATS-UNIS". LE CANADA PROSPÈRE PARCE QUE NOUS SOMMES CANADIENS. »

Le Canada prospère parce que nous sommes Canadiens.

tweeted by a Spanish deputy to the European Parliament

"In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice – compete with each other for favour, or to combine to create a third path with impact."

Prime Minister Mark Carney
Davos 2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

"If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules & values for the unhindered pursuit of their power & interest, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate" -- Carney's speech at Davos is an extended criticism of the damage Trump is doing (though he's not mentioning his name)

The Sunday Editorial: Venezuela’s fate is a warning for Canada The U.S. military action to seize Nicolás Maduro marks the formal debut of an imperial America

The Globe and Mail (Canada’s sober, establishment, slightly centre-right paper): Trump plans to treat Canada as Athens treated Melos—“the strong do what they please; the weak suffer what they must”—and Canada must regard itself as in a “national emergency.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f9f7c04...

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

Canada effectively legitimating unfettered US aggression, with not even a hint that this might have horrifying consequences for Canadian sovereignty going forward.

Solidarity with Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and all First Nations in Alberta fighting these nonsense separatist efforts.

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This insight unfortunately is usually only internalised by a society after its state has experienced a potentially terminal crisis

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC.

Three

Hundred

Thousand.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Oligarchs are addicted to greed.

In 1982, there were just 13 US billionaires worth $14 billion.

Today, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, there are 903 US billionaires worth $6.8 trillion.

Enough is enough. We need an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

I am so deeply uninterested in AI. Just think of all the 🤩 stories that aren't being covered by journalists, the worthy projects that aren't being funded, the institutional challenges that aren't being addressed by uni administrators — bc their 👀 are all focused on this dumb product nobody asked for

Europe Freezes US Travel as Lufthansa, British , Air France, KLM and More Slash Routes to Major Cities Including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago to Tap Soaring Demand Across Canada, Mexico, ... European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and ...

www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

King Charles to travel to Canada, deliver throne speech | CBC News King Charles will travel to Canada later this month and deliver the speech from the throne on May 27, it was announced Friday.

The last time Canada's official Head of State came in person to open our Parliament was 48 years ago. PM Carney definitely sending strong signals with this invite.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

From Andrew Coyne's G&M article about Poilievre's proposed use of the Notwithstanding clause: “Poilievre isn’t proposing to use the notwithstanding clause to pass his crime bill — the point of the crime bill is so that he can use the notwithstanding clause.” #cdnpoli

57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US

EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)

yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...

Additional caution recommended for several categories of academics including:

- Those who have expressed negative opinions about the current U.S. administration or its policies

- Those whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current U.S. administration

#AcademicSky

Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter

Prime Minister Mark Carney on Pierre Poilievre promising to use the notwithstanding clause:

"I think this is a very dangerous step"

In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election

"I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics."

well this is terrifying.