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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Worse than Putin. By no means pacifying and consolidating Middle East, rather perpetuating and accentuating hatred and hostility, setting conditions for future conflicts. Shame.
apnews.com
At least 182 killed as Israel strikes central Beirut after saying Iran truce doesn't apply there
Lebanon’s health ministry says that Israeli strikes during the day killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Such tantrum of rage cannot be the words of a psychiatrically sane person. This disqualifies him from office and from humanity as such. These cannot be the words of a political leader. This is, at best, a child without discernment, pouring out his anger on the adults refusing obey his wishes.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 07/04/2026
The CJEU ruled that silencing the opposition radio station Klubrádió in Hungary was incompatible with media freedom and pluralism. MELINDA RUCZ shows why the ruling marks a subtle but important shift in the CJEU’s approach to media freedom. verfassungsblog.de/the-frequenc...
This reasoning sends an important signal in the context of captured media environments, where formal legality is often invoked to deflect scrutiny.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/04/2026
With widespread internet blackouts in Iran and new restrictions on certain satellite imagery of the region at the request of the US government, Bellingcat is launching a tool to help estimate the damage in Iran and the wider Gulf region. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
bellingcat.com
When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Damage in Iran and the Gulf - bellingcat
Bellingcat is introducing an updated damage assessment tool — called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map — focused on destruction in Iran and the Gulf .
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 29/03/2026
T-14 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️ In this thread, I discuss Magyar's prospects of success in restoring (liberal) democracy (if he wins) and will tell you he's not the saviour you might think he is (but that he’s still good enough for now). 🧵 1/
Magyar on stage with a huge Hungarian flag
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 25/03/2026
Viktor Orbán blocked the funds for Ukraine after having promised in December 2025 not to stand in the way. LUCAS SCHRAMM shows that this time the blackmail went too far. verfassungsblog.de/a-deal-is-a-...
If the other leaders fail to respond, they will be teaching everyone that the most profitable strategy in the European Council is blackmail.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/03/2026
The weirdest and also most important election in Europe this year www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Oh really, Mr Idiot in Chief?! How about taking Greenland? How about Europe should take responsibility for its own defense? How about "Oh, Canada"?! NATO is long dead, because you personally betrayed it. 🤡🤡🤡
ft.com
Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran
US president tells the FT in an interview that China summit could be delayed
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 14/03/2026
Is the war against Iran also fueled by a dangerous civilizational ideology? PAVLOS ELEFTHERIADIS argues that the Trump administration’s rhetoric about “Western civilization” revives an old logic of domination that threatens the foundations of international law. verfassungsblog.de/the-enduring...
Quote: “If you see other people as lying outside your ‘civilization’, you will be tempted to think of them as permanent foes.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/03/2026
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power
Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 09/03/2026
Did the law of armed conflict apply to the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader? AUREL SARI (@aurelsari.com) responds to a text we published last week and argues that the law of armed conflict applies from the very first act of violence in an armed conflict. verfassungsblog.de/killing-kham...
Quote: “Whether or not the law of armed conflict applied to Khamenei’s killing is not some technicality that risks diverting our attention from the ‘real’ issues. On the contrary, it has great practical and normative significance.”
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"It is the ‘reasons why’ that best define an ideology." This is very good and thought-provoking #longread by @polphilpod.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com I don't agree with all but the core arguments are sound and important. Well worth your time, if you are interested in political ideologies.
liberalcurrents.com
It Wasn't Fascism All Along
Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Epstein, as usual
thenerve.news
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🇭🇺 vs. 🇺🇦 on the verge of military conflict: 🇭🇺 authorities took hostage seven 🇺🇦 employees of state-owned Oschadbank, who were operating two bank vehicles transiting between 🇦🇹 and 🇺🇦 carrying around $100 million in cash as part of regular services between state banks.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#Orban vs. #Zelenskyy beef March 5. state: #Orban declared that they are going to constrain 🇺🇦 to restore the russian petrol transit pipe to 🇭🇺 by force. #Zelenskyy replied that if someone continues to block the 🇪🇺 aid package, the AFU will contact him. It doesn't need more than a spark to burst.
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 02/03/2026
The US and Israel have assassinated a sitting head of state. SOPHIE DUROY and LUCA TRENTA on Khamenei’s killing and the normalisation of assassination as a tool of statecraft. verfassungsblog.de/is-the-inter...
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“Assassinating a sitting head of state without any legal justification has now become a reality.”
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Another cowardly murder of a feminist activist. R.I.P. Yanar Mohammed!
newarab.com
Iraq: Women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed killed by gunmen
Mohammed had returned to Iraq from Canada just a few days ago, prompting questions on whether her killing was a targeted assassination.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Átlátszó Erdély @atlatszoerdely.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Az Iskola és az Eurotrans Alapítványok nagyjából összesen 5 milliárd forint, mintegy 13 millió euró értékű támogatást kaptak tavaly. A Sapientia, a foci és a hoki is maradt, a történelmi egyházak viszont eltűntek a képzeletbeli toplistáról. 🔗 atlatszo.ro/featured/bet... ✍️ Sipos Zoltán
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
From Radio Free Europe to sparkling fascism.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Excellent analysis of the upcoming Hungarian elections by @bironagyandras.bsky.social 🚨
theguardian.com
Hungarians have had enough of Viktor Orbán. But Trump’s tailwind could save his skin
Opposition challenger Péter Magyar is ahead on a promise of hope. Orbán is betting on fear of war to stay in power, says writer András Bíró-Nagy
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 05/02/2026
A multipolar world is unsettling long-standing asymmetries — and legal knowledge production is beginning to feel this shift, too. We are launching a new blog symposium on "reflexive globalisation and the law", introduced by PHILIPP DANN and FLORIAN JEßBERGER: verfassungsblog.de/reflexive-gl...
Quote: “Northern premises of concepts, vocabularies and epistemic certainties are questioned across multiple fields.”
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"underage women" is term coined to normalize pedophilia. Disgusting.
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
From cool 🟦 to bright 🟥. This heatmap of monthly global temperature anomalies since 1979 visualises an unmistakable warming pattern, with 2023–2025 topping the three warmest years on record.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Journalists must forcefully decry the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort: presswatchers.org/2026/01/jour...
presswatchers.org
Journalists must forcefully decry the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort | Press Watch
Press freedom is at stake, and news organizations need to say so
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
A young Fred KorematsuA photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lovely, but there is no such thing, unfortunately. 'Might makes right' was and will be the fundamental norm. What differs is merely the way it is dressed.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse". Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The only way to punish the New York Times is to truly boycott it. Which means not just unsubscribing, but also not to click on or engage with their stories. They live off liberal outrage! For colleagues, it means not to give interviews to the NYT and not submit op-Eds to them.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Musk bought Twitter, to retaliate for content restriction policies. Trump wants to grab Greenland to retaliate for the Noble peace prize. Musk wants to buy Ryanair, to retaliate for their refusal of Starlink. Trump wants tariffs on French wine, to retaliate for not joining his "Peace Council". 😵‍💫
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
When politicians talk IN public, they are talking TO the public. Thus, their words are randomly consistent with their actions. Trump is the weird exception. Apparently he is mostly talking to himself, and both his words and actions are completely erratic. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
theguardian.com
Macron warns against ‘new colonial approach’ in swipe at US and China – Europe live
The French president says the choice is to ‘passively accept the law of the strongest’ or to defend ‘effective multilateralism’
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 18/01/2026
STEWART MOTHA (stewartmotha.bsky.social) revisits the UK’s dispossession of the Chagossians as a cautionary tale for Greenland, where security narratives may enable a fragmented absorption of territory and distract from interconnected vulnerabilities. verfassungsblog.de/greenland-ch...
Quote from the piece by Stewart Motha: “It would be absurd to pretend that asserting legal principles alone (be they national, European, or international) can help to evade a fate that has been visited upon indigenous peoples for the last 500 years.”
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It means something like: how much land is Europe willing to give up without a fight in exchange for US "protection" against Russia & China?
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"We hold these truths to be self-evident" proves eventually BS. Since WW2, we Europeans, also know that "the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas" is also BS. That's why we criminalize hate speech. And that's why, our former US friends ended up under post-fascist rule.
nytimes.com
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In 1939, after doing away with its' formally democratic blueprint, a violent and predatory Western wannabee empire, which had the most powerful military of the planet as far as doctrine, training, discipline and armament goes, started a war of conquest against Europe. /1
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🇺🇦 was doing mostly well on the battlefield, as long as they had 🇺🇸 as ally. Alas, since the post-fascist, neo-colonialist, proto-mercantilist white supremacist wanton idiots took over, capitulation is only a matter of time. Not likely to make it to the next federal elections. If there will be any.
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Csongor Kuti @csokuti.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
No masterminds, just plain idiots currently in charge of a once great country.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Important @voxeurop.bsky.social article on a phenomenon that still gets too little attention in Europe.
voxeurop.eu
Beyond the incel: Europe in the face of masculinist terrorism
Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found.
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bate Vladi @batevladi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 25/11/2025
Some thoughts, in a hopefully more coherent form than my 300-character Bluesky posts hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/why-are-pe...
hungarianobserver.substack.com
Why are Péter Magyar’s Anti-Corruption Claims so Successful?
To understand why Péter Magyar’s anti-corruption claims were so successful in rallying opposition against Orbán, consider the broader environment in which he emerged - writes Gabriela Greilinger.
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Tineke Strik @tinekestrik.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Yes! A broad majority of the Parliament agrees: the EU must take more action against Orbán! My report on the rule of law in Hungary was adopted with a majority of 415 votes, urging to take away Orbán's voting rights and to freeze EU funds. We must stop his breakdown of democracy and human rights.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
siepr.stanford.edu
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/11/2025
⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show. The scholars had argued in the paper...
The scholars had argued in the paper that a network of pro-Israel donors and advocacy groups routinely pulled U.S. Middle East policy away from what was truly in America’s interest. Their analysis triggered a fierce backlash: institutions denounced them as antisemites, The Atlantic killed the article, and the Kennedy School stripped its logo from the paper.

Emails from Epstein’s Yahoo account show him reviewing early drafts of Dershowitz’s attack piece, accusing the authors of recycling “neo-Nazi trash,” and agreeing to distribute it through his network. The cache also highlights Epstein’s influence at Harvard and his role managing the finances of billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose foundation poured nearly $20 million into the Kennedy School.

The covert effort to smear the scholars mirrored the very dynamics the paper described: wealthy, well-connected actors mobilizing elite institutions to police criticism of Israel. The emails also show Epstein, during that same week, working with his lawyer on strategies to discredit a young woman who had accused him of sexual abuse.

🔗 Read: https://dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbym

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli sez keep on, keepin' on. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org
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