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Hungary: At 21.54% of the votes counted, TISZA approaches the 133-seat super majority it needs to amend the Constitution and get rid of the Orban mafia regime that controls the government. At 14.72%, TISZA had 125 projected seats. Gain of +3 to 128 in the latest update.

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Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hungary: You can follow the live vote-count here. Magyar needs a super majority of 133 seats in the 199-seat parliament to be able to affect any kind of change and remove Orban's control over the government - filled with his sycophants. vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

TRUMP: I did a mail in ballot for elections in Florida because I felt I should be here REPORTER: You were in Palm Beach the last few weekends TRUMP: Yeah. And I decided that I was going to vote by mail in ballot because I had a lot of different things

⚡ Zelenskyy: The Russians always blame others and always try to explain their wars through someone else’s actions. As if the reason for their aggression is never in Moscow but always in their neighbour's.

European leaders can rebut Donald Trump’s claim they are weak by cementing a deal to unlock hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal told POLITICO today.

EU can prove Trump wrong on Europe by agreeing on Russian assets plan, Estonian PM says

The U.S. president called the bloc’s members “weak,” but acting together on funding Ukraine would send a “very strong message,” according to Kristen Michal.

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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

One little item in Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Ukraine just jumped out at me: “Russia to rejoin the G8”. This is typical Trumpy arrogance. How does the US get to unilaterally decide to return Russia to the group? Does no one else have a vote? Canada would certainly oppose it.

Obeying Putin like the slave he is, Trump is trying to bully Ukraine into accepting Russia’s demands to surrender. He threatens to withdraw U.S. weapons and intelligence sharing from Ukrainian defenders. It won’t work. The U.S. will be humbled and humiliated by Russia yet again.

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

Leaving teaching to enlist and be a medic at the front was an incredibly difficult decision but I do not regret it. In fact, I'm still always teaching in one way or another and guest teach when I can. Be the difference. You never know the impact you have.

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists. As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this). #sciencesky #academicsky #science

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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When I reported for duty at Naval Station Great Lakes, I never imagined that some day a US President would seek to use it as a base for surveillance and enforcement activity on American soil. Our military was not set up to cater to the whims of a would-be American dictator.

Trump’s planned Chicago blitz would use naval base to house ICE agents, possibly National Guard

Federal agents would operate out of Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago through September, according to an email from a Navy captain who said there were "a lot of concerns and questions" abou...

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The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new “camp” deep in the Florida Everglades, where officials are openly describing it as “concentrating” certain people in one area. Have you seen the photos of the flooding? This entire site is a human rights violation.

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread

Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

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