What Orban’s Defeat Means for the Rest of the World
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/opinion/orbans-defeat-hungary-trump-world.html?unlocked_article_code=1.alA.PL-0.KJXvJjfYmh1m&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Apr 13 2026

[I think her analysis is correct. Magyar is a conservative, but not a fascist type like Orban. Now the left will have a chance to recover.]

On Sunday, it happened: #ViktorOrban was defeated. In an election with the highest voter turnout in #Hungarys democratic history, #PeterMagyar’s #Tisza Party won a two-thirds supermajority, enough to alter the constitution that Orban had rewritten to shore up his power.

Some admirers of #Orban have argued that the fact that he lost proves he was never an autocrat to begin with. What it really demonstrates, however, is that opposition to #Fidesz was so strong it was able to overwhelm all the structures Orban put in place to protect his rule: wildly distorted voting districts, a captured media, state-sponsored propaganda, local patronage networks, and widespread threats and intimidation.

#news #politics #EUpol

I loathed the man and his choices as much most liberals I know did. Maybe more. I don’t want to make this unpleasant reply thread any uglier, but I just want to say three things.

If we only extend basic empathy to people we agree with, it’s not really empathy, it’s just another expression of tribalism.

Wishing pain on people because you think they ‘deserve it’ is exactly the mindset progressives used to argue against.

I can’t choose for others, but I refuse to equate accountability with …

Strip migration out of the equation, and Italy's population would still be shrinking at pace. Yet politically, the country is moving in the opposite direction. Giorgia Meloni’s government has doubled down on a hard-line approach: extending detention, tightening family reunification, accelerating asylum procedures and pursuing expansive forms of externalisation beyond Italy’s borders.

https://euobserver.com/210185/italy-and-europe-need-migrants-but-wont-say-so/

Le service info trafic du réseau de train Nomad (en Normandie) n'est disponible que sur... X/Twitter, avec des instructions claires qui demandent aux voyageurs de créer un compte twitter pour suivre les alertes.

Quel terrible fail, en 2026.

https://www.ter.sncf.com/normandie/se-deplacer/info-trafic/alertes-trafic

#trainsnomad #sncfVoyageurs #questionsSNCFvoyageurs #xtwitter

Information provided by the company shared by journalist Carole Cadwalladr says reports that villages and town names have been removed is incorrect and that the locations have never been featured, but there is no explanation as to why this is the case.

Bosses have also claimed a newer Apple Maps image of Lebanon is not available in all regions.

The National has approached Apple for an official on-record comment.

Is Apple deleting place names from its map of Lebanon?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26015581.apple-deleting-place-names-map-lebanon/