JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary.
The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister.
What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.
They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...
"John Williams has lost 49 nominations at the Academy Awards; we talk to this elderly, all-timer loser..."
(He has 54 nominations!)
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
Else the Puck a liar call.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
<INT: a high school basketball gym; two young reporters sit in the back row of a sparsely populated bleachers>
Bill: Doesn’t this remind you of that scene from Teen Wolf?
Nancy: No.
Does this mean she interned with Bill Simmons? Is she the one who gets the job he didn’t, leading to his decades of disgruntlement?
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
For a decade, Trump has wanted to be a dictator. The only changes during that time are 1) the realization by Republicans across the board that they might be able to use his cult of personality as a *permanent* power grab, and 2) the speed of our institutional degradation and collapse.
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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“And who’s vice-president? Leona Helmsley?!?”
It also only happens if we make sure the wave is counted after Election Day.
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
Most bands would love to have one album as good as Black Sea, English Settlement, Skylarking, or Nonsuch. Insane for one group to have made all four and more.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
One episode away from finishing the first season for the first time, and these are my thoughts, word for word.