“Using Hungarian public money – funnelled through legally insulated foundations partly funded by Russian oil revenues – Orbán…built a cross-border network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists.”
By Dan Nolan … 1/
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.
Taxing billionaires is not radical.
What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
Of course we agree with Bernie, but the rich and powerful are so damn greedy
Anybody get your doge check yet?
Or your medical check for $2000 to take the place of health insurance?
Trump's Budget Director admitted it: Trump & Republicans CHOSE to give big PERMANENT tax cuts to the rich, while the much smaller cuts for working Americans EXPIRE in 2 years.
Their priorities are clear.
We need a tax code that works for working people, not the super-rich.
$200 billion materialized overnight for Trump’s war of choice in Iran.
But for 25 million uninsured Americans, Congressional Republicans have nothing. No urgency. No bill. No vote.
They fund what they value.
#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar
This is so scary!
We need to push back on this with everything we've got.
Come join us tomorrow night to talk about how you can make a difference.
#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar
www.mobilize.us/grassrootsde...
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
CA voters, I encourage you to look at Xavier Beccera for Governor
Becerra is an attorney who served as the 25th U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
He currently served as the AG of California from January 2017 until March 2021
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Trying to remove Trump via the 25th because impeachment is too hard is like trying to eat the sun because jalapeños are too spicy.
Daily reminder:Release the Epstein Files👇🏻
Today, Pamela Jo Bondi, our most recent head of the Department of Justice, is blithely ignoring a valid, legal subpoena requiring her to testify before Congress.
We are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of some people can get away with anything.
Exclusive: Trump’s son Eric to join father's state visit to China By Reuters April 14, 20263:33 PM GMT+1Updated 16 mins ago U.S. President Trump departs the White House in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Eric Trump as they walk together to depart the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, will accompany the president on his May trip to China, a spokeswoman for Eric Trump told Reuters on Tuesday.
I hate to whatabout, but this was literally the core of what right wingers wanted to impeach Biden over.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.
I believe her
My sister Kelly in New York, laughing with a big smile and talking with her hands
Six years since my sister died. COVID⇒blood clot⇒pulmonary embolism⇒dead. No ventilators, not even enough tests unless you were already in deep distress. None of it needed to happen, and the country elected the same assholes to run it, now partnered with anti-mask/anti-vaccine shitheads. She was 45
Pam Bondi is once again defying a legally binding subpoena.
I moved to hold her in contempt before; there’s no reason we cannot try again.
Bondi must be held accountable for her handling of the Epstein files, for weaponizing the Department of Justice, and for evading the law.
You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.
The authoritarian nationalists treated the Hungarian election as a global moment, and democrats should too, writes @gregsargent.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2090...
State Department Tells Latin American Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings
A State Department spokesperson instructed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to focus on
decades-old matters instead of the boat strikes.
theintercept.com/2026/04/13/t...
Together we win.
Whether it happens 6 hours from now, 6 days from now, 6 weeks from now, 6 months from now, or 6 years from now, it will be one of the largest worldwide celebrations in the history of the human race.
The devil made him do it.
Jesus turned water into wine. Trump turned faith into grift.
"FBI agents prepared handwritten interview notes that contain names of corroborating witnesses and other information detailing a woman’s accusations that Epstein lured her into his deviant orbit when she was a teen on Hilton Head Island and sexually abused her"
www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-wit...
Dankazura: an 800-year-old cherry blossom path in Kamakura 🌸 Japan 🇯🇵
The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it.
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
Example 4,008,236: "The two parties are *not* the same."
