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Recent emigre from the other place. Mostly just a listener. Most comments are intended to be wry, even if the attempt fails.

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
.@nhannahjones@bksy.social thank you for your thoughtful essay about your daughter's school journey. New York City spends prodigious sums per pupil on K-12 education. The contrasts with Massachusetts and Mississippl in accompanying student proficiency are chastening. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
A former guard at a Tennessee youth prison claims she was fired after calling 911 during an attack on another employee. “I thought I’d done something to save somebody’s life,” she said. “You shouldn’t have to choose a person’s life over your job.”
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Why the National Association of Black Journalists 'Personally Attacked' Stephen A. Smith, Explained
It's impossible to understand why the ESPN personality won NABJ's Thumbs Down Award without knowing the history, the mission and the series of events that preceded the decision.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The path to voting rights was paved with the blood, sweat and tears of generations of people who endured injustice from a system that did not recognize their equality or, at times, their humanity." - Rep. Jennifer McClellan www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
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What we lost when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act — and why we need a new one
We face one of the greatest challenges to Black political participation since the VRA first came into existence.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Krugman puts the big numbers in context; tells readers Trump's ballroom cost 300,000 foodstamp person years paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-explosi...
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An Explosion of Misery
Making American hungry and uninsured again
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
stop wasting your life! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again
AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.
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UpEarly.bsky.social @upearly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
funny, but how about this actual recall www.reuters.com/world/us-age...
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US agency denies Tesla petition to avoid recall fix over headlight issue
The National ​Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday said it was denying ‌a 2024 petition filed by Tesla to avoid a recall fix for nearly 20,000 vehicles with headlights that may exceed max...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social More great work by ProPublica. And more insight into how Trump will try to steal the election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
important meeting
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The First 18 Months
A Cabinet meeting with my son, who is exactly as old as the current administration
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
WoodMac: Federal changes halted gigawatts of renewable energy development in 2025 #energysky -- via Solar Power World:
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WoodMac: Federal changes halted gigawatts of renewable energy development in 2025
Federal funding withdrawals and permitting changes contributed to cancelling or halting 7 GW of renewable energy projects on federal land in 2025, with
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 29/06/2026
The Trump administration is pushing the USPS to adopt a dangerous rule that could deter millions of Americans from exercising their fundamental right to vote via mail. Help us stop this extreme rule — submit a comment to the Postal Service today: bit.ly/3Sphj1r
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A #mural by Dutch #artist Judith de Leeuw shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes (in shame) in Roubaix, France (in 2025, just before July 4th). Judith de Leeuw, also known as JDL #StreetArt, creates #murals worldwide (41 countries) to draw attention to social issues. info@jdlstreetart.com
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13/06/2026
How hot are global oceans? Compare the 1982-2025 global sea surface temperature average, to this year:
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Bob Libal @blibal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Statesman is too busy with local austerity sensationalism to investigate the link between these headlines. But idk maybe we should tax the *trillionaire Austin resident* who spends his days inciting racist riots abroad so my kids school can have a fucking librarian next year….
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
US solar generated more electricity than coal during May! US solar generation rose 17%! US coal generation fell 11%! Solar & storage were 91% of new capacity in first quarter. Solar is vital to USA, but Secretary Wright & POTUS constantly attack it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
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Solar Surpasses Coal in Historic Shift For US Electricity Mix
Solar overtook coal in US power generation in May, the first time the renewable source bested the fossil fuel in a calendar month.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/06/2026
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2026
The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/05/2026
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Solar Panels can be Strategically placed, I am not sure how useful data centers will be…. I find it odd that the same people who complained about solar panels being a waste of land have no issue with opening data centers 3x the size.
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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2026
The president’s crypto partners are offering World Cup box seats to high-ranking coin holders.
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Trump meme coin contest: Win exclusive access to “World Football 2026 Final Game”!
The president's crypto partners are offering World Cup box seats to high-ranking coin holders.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Utilities know distributed energy resources are the future, so they're attempting to do the thing that's worked for them for the last century: convince policymakers to let them monopolize. This op-ed argues for a different path: www.utilitydive.com/news/competi...
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Competitive markets are best for virtual power plants, consumers
If allowed, utilities will prioritize infrastructure they own over rapid expansion of rooftop solar and other decentralized energy resources, writes Shannon Anderson of Solar United Neighbors, who arg...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Over the years, Al Gore pivoted significantly toward a climate justice framework, increasingly calling out the role of political & economic systems/injustices: "We cannot have climate justice without racial justice." The Climate Reality project is an also important part of his legacy and lessons.
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Cranky Northerner 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thunderbuck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I've been following this project for a few years and it's fun to start seeing hard results. Covering irrigation canals with PV solar panels is turning out to be one of those awesome win-win-win scenarios where there's less water loss and less algae growth www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85%
The 1.6 MW Nexus pilot project in California has demonstrated that solar panels installed over irrigation canals can significantly reduce water evaporation and algae growth by 85%, while also showing ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/05/2026
Congress is still debating reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a law the government has repeatedly abused to spy on Americans without a warrant. If passed without meaningful reforms, all of our rights are in danger. Congress must vote NO.
Author George Orwell understood something about surveillance that Congress apparently does not (or pretends not to). In his novel “1984,” Orwell described a totalitarian world where “nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” Everything else — what you said, what you wrote, who you called — belonged in some sense to the state. And now how far are we, really, from the world he described? Your emails are collected. Your texts are collected. Your calls are collected. Your face is collected, scanned and stored by surveillance systems already deployed by this administration. They sit in a federal database, searchable without a warrant, by an administration that has already told you who it considers an enemy.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As civil rights historians we can do nothing but stand in (this sounds contradictory, but completely unsuprised) astonishment as the South re-disenfranchises Black people in a matter of weeks. -OS
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/05/2026
John Roberts has been dismantling the country’s most important civil rights law for over 40 years.
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Blame John Roberts for destroying the Voting Rights Act
He's been dismantling the country's most important civil rights law for over 40 years.
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Never trumper Ever @okieblue54.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What is the term usually associated with people that say things like what she said, Oh I remember: LIAR!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/04/2026
The investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another example of the Trump administration’s extreme attempts to silence its critics. Weaponizing institutions to target organizations speaking out against the administration’s agenda harkens back to the McCarthy era.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23/04/2026
In his second administration, some of the president's family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh
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Tracking the Trump family’s business deals and profits in his 2nd term
In his second administration, President Trump’s family members, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions o...
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There's only 1 one problem with the reports of Trump supporters fleeing the MAGA plantation: The narrative is like the 2020 election victory, the definition of DEI and the great replacement theory. It's just something white people made up. www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-report...
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The Reports of MAGA Abandoning Trump Are Greatly Exaggerated
The narrative that Trumpworld is beginning to sour on the president is the real "fake news."
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/04/2026
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A federal judge forcefully struck down HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s attempt to impose far-reaching restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, ruling the policy unlawful and blocking its enforcement in the states that challenged it.
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’
Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/04/2026
Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
A headline reads: "Times Exclusive: The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade the Supreme Court. Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine 'shadow docket' rulings on presidential power."
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job
The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Donald Trump claims he “saved historically Black colleges.” According to college administrators, HBCU presidents and the actual data, Trump is overseeing the worst attack on these institutions in American history.
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How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Defunding HBCUs
Despite Donald Trump's false claim that he "saved HBCUs," he is overseeing the biggest economic attack on historically Black college institutions in U.S. history.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Looks like our planet’s climate sensitivity is much higher than most climate scientists realised. Looks like Dr James Hansen was right.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/04/2026
Three Southern California residents were sentenced to jail after masterminding a scheme in which they staged fake bear attacks on their luxury cars, then collected more than $141,000 in insurance payouts, officials said on Thursday.
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Humans Who Used a Bear Suit to Defraud Car Insurers Sentenced to Jail
The California residents collected more than $141,000 in insurance payouts after staging bear attacks on their luxury cars, state officials said.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment. That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting.
She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said.
ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities.
After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
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Cynan Houghton @cynan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hard to imagine why anyone would want to buy a petrol-powered vehicle after seeing this #energysky elitre.com.au/dollar
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UpEarly.bsky.social @upearly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
www.eenews.net/articles/a-c...
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A critical moment for the nuclear safety policeman
The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations is struggling to bring a new wave of nuclear startups into their system.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/04/2026
Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.
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