A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

I'm in this boat. Was against Biden in the primary, viewed him as a stick in the mud. The level of miracles he was able to make happen turned me into more of an optimist about how government can work and how the Democrats can govern. Even now that has not changed.

meme image of a timeline of sports fandom where there’s a brief period of “oh boy am I excited to watch my favorite team play” a long stretch of “I’m going to kill myself” and a tiny moment at the end of “nice we won”

every primary process in California is this meme

At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.

watching THE MUMMY (1999), as one does. we used to be a proper country

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

incredible exchange here, this website has the juice

Spring in Philadelphia.

can this be a solution?

Bars in Washington, DC had been struggling since Covid. So why are the city’s Democrats so eager to get rid of Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and Jeanine Pirro?

DG The Daily Galaxy A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to 'Restore Pluto to a Planet,' and NASA's chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

"No. They know why."

I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.

the thing that's so unbelievably weird about this is that it's a dogwhistle against the culture that invented algebra

erika kirk played a nontrivial role in turning charlie kirk into a meme. if you are trying to coerce people into following a prewritten script for mourning kirk, his widow failing to follow a cultural script for mourning a spouse is a huge problem

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade

What did he know?

Could the truth and reconciliation commission be nicknamed Glamdring

The books are good but I would support a Tolkien revival on the sole basis that people really need to understand how dumb it is to call a company Palantir

Every elected official in California: Democrats, Republicans, MAGA people, moderate conservatives, centrists, liberals, progressives, and “socialists” alike are lockstep on this one issue:

“Insurance markets are not facing systemic climate risk, insurance companies are simply too greedy”

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history.

The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.

one thing i'm pretty certain of is that no one currently working in elected politics is prepared for the ways that our politics are going to change when hundreds of thousands of upper middle class, educated tech workers are getting laid off and rehired as contractors for ~60% of the pay

You can also tell that this is all just words to cover over gutter racism and not about cultural practice at all, because if the question was productive culture, they'd be praising the Springfield Haitians as a beautiful example of assimilation and adaption, not partnered with ICE to destroy them.

There's a sense in which I respect the evangelical leaders who unhesitatingly lined up behind the idea that President Pedophile B. Antichrist, the libertine looting and burning the world every day, is god's manifestation on earth. You have to rework your brain and moral sense so much to get there.

Ultimately, the incoherent whining about relativism comes from Peter Thiel's inability to actually accept that the post-WWII world did actually judge regressive cultures harshly, and that is why Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, and Nazi Germany went into history's dustbin.

Trump dropping his sassy little ad-libs in while reading from the bible on television. Drawling "and that's really so true" and "it's really amazing" as he plods through a verse chosen because Pete Hegseth's pastor thinks it justifies pre-emptive war. What a cool age we're in.

The world has lost over $50 billion worth of crude oil that has not been produced since the Iran ‌war began nearly 50 days ago and the aftershock of the crisis will be felt for months and even years to come.-Reuters

That’s the wrong framing. The purpose of a navy isn’t primarily to fight other navies. It’s to secure seaborne commerce. Since the US Navy’s primary mission is to secure the entire globe’s waterways, it should be funded to do so. Fighting other navies is a secondary mission.

Weekend Update #181; Germany Raises The Pot For Ukraine The USA Boasts, Bluffs And Then Folds; More On Ukraine Fighting Humans With Machines

"The Europeans are coming to understand two rather different things. The first is that the fate of Ukraine is crucial to their own fate. And second, more European states are seeing Ukraine as a new center of gravity for European defense and security." open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Is “seeks to overthrow the Constitution due to deep philosophical objection to the idea of ‘We the People’” a good trait in a defense contractor? The sort the government should pay billions of dollars to and integrate into sensitive systems?

Because that doesn’t seem like the most reliable partner.