What a powerful moment. World-renowned Hungarian-British classical pianist and conductor Sir András Schiff returned to his homeland after a 16-year self-imposed exile, having fiercely boycotted performing during nearly two decades of the Orbán regime. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Prime Minister Péter Magyar
Greetings to all, far and near, from the sun-kissed island of Korčula, Croatia🇭🇷. We’re on the tiny Lumbarda peninsula, amidst uninterrupted vineyards connecting sandy beaches. Mid-June is perfect, well before hordes of tourists show up. Sending peace and love to all. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
Much of Europe will be facing a sweltering heat wave next week, nowhere more dangerous than in France 🇫🇷 . Climate change has become a fact of life that we’re too eager to tuck away in the back of our minds, until it suddenly reappears, more dire and perilous than ever. 🌡️ 📷 Nahel Bergherze
Finally getting a dog. We live in a tiny apartment on the 5th floor, with a really high-strung lady beneath us who gets irate if we make too much noise. Found this cute puppy, a Burmese-something. He’s so dainty, a lapdog, I think he’ll be a great fit. Bringing him home Monday.😊
Thinking of my late father with immense gratitude on Father’s Day, and the positive influence he had on me, our family, and so many good souls he touched on both sides of the Atlantic. Dr. Szabolcs Soby Kálmán 1936-2024 🕯️🕊️ Happy #fathersday to all the dads out there!
I’ll say it once, I’ll say it a thousand times. Easily the best thing that’s ever happened to me is becoming a father and raising three wonderful kids. This #FathersDay, I’m filled with gratitude for this immense opportunity & responsibility that I’ve been blessed with. 🙏🏼💝🕊️
"Eruption of Bromo and Semeru volcanoes with sea of clouds, Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Daniel Kordan©
Flinders Bay sunrise. Augusta, Western Australia 🇦🇺. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Photo by Nick Hilliard© | @cloudappsoc.bsky.social
Praying for all in Venezuela. 🇻🇪 Back-to-back earthquakes: Powerful 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes have struck near the northern coast of Venezuela, collapsing homes and buildings in the capital, Caracas, and causing widespread destruction. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️
“Nobody knows the truth. It's such a great love, and a greater one will never exist.” Montenegrin-British soprano Tamara Radjenović performs Parla più piano, the love theme from The Godfather, composed by Nino Rota in 1958. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
Knew it was coming after days of record-breaking, unabated, sweltering heat… massive power outage across downtown Budapest, right around 12:45 am. Eerie to experience, like being in an alien invasion movie. ⚡️😳👽
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on." — William Shakespeare, 1611 Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas and Chinese classical pianist Niu Niu perform Franz Schubert, Ständchen-Serenade, composed in 1828. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
And there you have it. All-time heat record broken in Budapest 41°C, and Hungary 42°C, today. Simply put, no hotter temperature has ever been recorded in this corner of the world. Good to know right-wing extremists worldwide continue to scoff at and ridicule climate change. 🌡️
Leonard Daniel Philpot, English painter, 1877–1973. June's Largesse, 1930. Oil on canvas. Harris Museum, Preston, Lancashire. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Manuela Orlandelli | Botanical Art
"There is always something left to love." — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967 Swiss classical pianist Bernhard Ruchti performs Robert Schumann, Träumerei, composed in 1838. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
Kirkjufell, Iceland 🇮🇸. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Jens Droth©
MAGA darling Viktor Orban was no fan of free speech — or democracy, transparency, or the Rule of Law, for that matter. "Nearly ten thousand users were blocked on Hungarian government's Facebook page." 🤚🏼⛔️🤐 📷 @telexhu.bsky.social
"At the height of the Cold War, an American walked into Moscow… and made history." Van Cliburn, American pianist, 1934-2013. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📹 From claamus IG
Svaneti, northwestern Georgia 🇬🇪. The eternal beauty of the Caucasus Mountains. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Soso Meladze© | Daniel Kordan
“It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Viktor Orbán, to get his take on politics and world events. I miss that guy!” /said nobody ever 🤷♂️
"Raging waves, strong winds and dramatic light on the Basque coastline of Spain 🇪🇸." 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Albert Dros©
Prime Minister Péter Magyar can move mountains, bring the stars down from the sky, defeat the deeply entrenched, corrupt Viktor Orbán and elicit regime change in Hungary, but one thing he cannot do... ...is beat legendary Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit Polgár. 😊♟️👏🏼
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923 Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs Frédéric Chopin, Étude, Op. 25, No. 7, composed in 1834. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
Scots pine and silver birch trees in Kielce, Poland 🇵🇱. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Aga Aga© | Ancient Forests
Happy #4thOfJuly to my fellow Americans stateside, and around the globe. May we turn to our better angels, individually and collectively. 🙏🏼🇺🇸🕊️ #IndependenceDay
Beautiful gesture from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, illuminating the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv in Stars & Stripes of the American flag. May the world continue to stand firmly alongside the resilient, courageous people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom & liberty. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🕊️ #4thOfJuly
I can’t get enough of these kids. ❤️ This morning on the bus to Budapest, practicing for today’s performance at Péter Magyar’s inauguration. “Zöld az erdő, zöld a hegy is” — the Hungarian Romani anthem about their historic struggle as outcasts. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️ 📹 Bácskai Napló
The celebration of Péter Magyar's inauguration — and the end of sixteen long years of the Orbán regime — continues well into the evening at the Hungarian Parliament at Kossuth Square in Budapest. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️ 📷 Photo by Réka Pigniczky©
After over a decade of protests — many I personally marched in — Hungary achieved regime change on April 12th, ending Orbán’s 16-year grip on power. This video is a tribute to perseverance and a beacon of hope to everyone fighting for democracy worldwide. 🔥📢✊🏼 📹 Áron Müller
"Where fruit blossoms bloom beneath the towering snow mountains." A beautiful spring in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan 🇵🇰. 🙏🏼🌏🕊️ 📷 Photo by Marcellian Tan©
