Artemis🌙🏹 aka Grammar

As Hungary heads into a new era with the end of Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule, Polish investigative journalist Wojciech Ciesla — who witnessed years of eroding democratic norms under his own country’s populist right-wing government — shares his thoughts on the road ahead: occrp.org/en/feature/a-p…

🔥 🇭🇺 MAGYAR: “It feels good to be here — this factory of lies will be put to an end.” Hungary’s prime minister-elect Péter Magyar vows to shut down the country’s state broadcaster M1 (Hungary’s Fox News) after his landslide election victory over Orbán.

"Magyar wasn't engaging in a policy debate... His framing was Viktor Orbán and Fidesz are a criminal organization and we need to dismantle this... he connected the impact of the criminal organization to these rural Hungarians' experience." @AmbPressman on how Magyar beat Orbán.

The pro-Orban talking points are the most bizarre and they never make sense. -Orban was good because he stood up to Brussels. Why is Brussels bad? -Because Brussels is the EU and it was against the nation state of Hungary. Orban was defending the nation state. So you mean you admire the UK for leaving the EU and you like the UK? -No, the UK is also bad. So, if Orban opposed Brussels and was in power 16 years, why didn't he leave the EU, like the UK did? -No, you don't understand, he was fighting against Brussels trying to take over Hungary. He was our strongest nationalist leader. So, you like nationalism? So that means you admire Ukraine and Poland, as Ukraine fights against the Russian invasion? -No. Russia has a right to invade Ukraine, and Ukraine is against peace and backed by globalists. Orban stood with Putin against the globalist, NATO, EU agenda of migration and woke DEI. I see, so you like Orban because you like Russia destroying European nation states and weakening the EU and NATO, but you don't actually want to leave the EU because you want to erode it from within to help Russia destroy European countries and western democracy? -No, Orban was a key part of defending western civilization. But you just said you think it's ok that Russia invaded Ukraine and that you back an authoritarian one-party state attacking western democracies? -No, you don't understand, Orban was supporting democracy, he conceded an election, that shows he is for democracy. Right, he conceded an election after 16 years of one-party-one-man rule basically eroding democratic instittutions such as the balance of power and free media and he co-opted state media to only show his supporters and funneled money to his supporters, isn't democracy about more than just having an election every few years? -No, democracy is just about elections and he was taking over all the media to stop the EU colonization and globalists, don't you understand, he had to take care of the deep state. You mean he created a new deep state? -Yes, to defeat the deep state we have to create our own, to save the West we have to back Russia against the West, to oppose the EU we have to remain inside the EU to destroy it from within... Oh. Ok.

@SollenbergerRC If there's one national security risk in a seat at the Congressional table and 12+ other GOP members of Congress are aware of the national security risk, but decide to sit with him anyway, there are actually 13+ SECURITY RISKS in GOP seats. They're all accomplices.

Why Orbán's informational autocracy lost- me to @MaxGriera @POLITICOEurope. The clemency scandal caused “a moral crisis of a moralizing government”. Since then, whatever the government does, whatever the government says, it resonates less with the public. politico.eu/article/how-hu…

Investigative journalists at the Hungarian outlet Direkt36 obtained leaked tapes of Orbán on the phone with Putin. On those tapes, the man who spent 16 years publicly raging against George Soros, EU bureaucrats, and shadowy foreign interference... described himself to the Russian president as a mouse and Putin as a lion. The crowd that showed up to Heroes' Square in Budapest last Friday for Magyar's closing rally did not know that tape yet. But they chanted "Russians, go home." The same words their grandparents used when Soviet tanks rolled through Hungarian streets in 1956. Magyar won with a two-thirds constitutional supermajority. Tisza was on track for 135 seats in a 199-seat parliament. Record turnout: 77.8 percent. The highest in post-Communist Hungarian history. Orbán had the courts. The media. The rewritten rules. The oligarch money. Trump, Vance, Le Pen, Weidel, Netanyahu, Milei, a Russian intelligence team reportedly embedded in Budapest to amplify his social media campaign. Magyar had less billboard space than his opponent because the government controlled the advertising market. Magyar held five or six campaign meetings a day in the final stretch - in small towns and villages that hadn't been visited in years. He talked about health care, schools, and the economy. The assumption of inevitability just lost. That matters well beyond Budapest.

This is still one of my favourite videos from Sunday night.

@ThomasVLinge Looks like @RichardAyoade walking behind @magyarpeterMP lol he can direct the film

No way 😂 You couldn't get away with this plot development in an airport paperback.

Left: 24-year-old me, a journalist when Orbán was in opposition.
Right: 45-year-old me, still a journalist—two days before he’s there again. Between those moments: lots of work, lost jobs, closed papers, smear campaigns. And yet, we are still here. That’s all that matters.

A whistleblower from a Super Ego-affiliated company says dispatchers and managers in Serbia were told to overwork and exploit American drivers.

Bayern München player Peter Szijjarto transferred to Dinamo Moskau as free agent.

In a July 2025 survey, 47% of Republicans said they would still support Donald Trump even if he "was officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities". Doing the math, that suggests 12.7% of Americans are OK with raping children.

@panyiszabolcs @CatherineBelton In Moscow already?

Ez a kedvenc videóm lett 🥹

Today, the rule of Orban's corrupt regime has ended — a regime where the interests of the people were traded for bribes and cash in suitcases. There is no doubt that anti-corruption investigations made an enormous contribution to Orban's defeat. I watch with envy and admiration.

@AlessaSCyan @Penthor @antibot4navalny Exactly this. Important to document and share

@Penthor @antibot4navalny Very likely. In many other western nations however.. A lot of elections coming up in Europe next year too. Documenting these things would be great study material if only people chose to read it.

An extensive overview of Russian state's attempts to interfere elections in Hungary, with some contribution from yours truly:

Making all the gulyas, paprikás, and beigli this week lol