Dániel Fehér

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1/ I owe Serbia’s students an apology. For two years I admired them but doubted they had a theory of change beyond protest. Yesterday, with riot police and black-clad men waiting in Belgrade, Vučić conceded: “The Students’ List has won.” Studenti su pobedili. Gotov je! 🧵

3/ Then they went home. Students from small towns knocked on doors in their own villages. In an information space flooded with propaganda, a familiar face at the door beats any algorithm. Hungary saw the same in April.

dfeher.substack.comThe Students Won. I Owe Them an Apology.How a leaderless Gen Z movement out-organised Aleksandar Vučić, and why the rest of the world should be taking notes

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4/ And they didn’t run themselves: doctors, teachers and scientists filled the list. From Nepal to Madagascar, Gen Z is toppling governments. Serbia shows how to finish the job at the ballot box. Pumpaj! ✊ dfeher.substack.com/p/the-studen... #Serbia #CivilResistance #GenZ

2/ Their secret was the thing I took for weakness: no leaders. Endless plenums are exhausting, but they left the regime’s smear machine, its police and its friends in organised crime with no one to target.

wsj.comExclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided UkraineThe SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.

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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

@occrp.org

Hungarian Tycoon’s Firm Funded Pro-Orbán Advertising Agency, Records Show

buff.lyHungarian Tycoon’s Firm Funded Pro-Orbán Advertising Agency, Records ShowMegafon Digital Incubator Center ran political advertising campaigns supporting the party of Hungary’s former prime minister, Viktor Orbán. Financial records show that Megafon received donations from...

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

🚨 BREAKING: Lula is projected to WIN reelection as president of Brazil, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of Donald Trump. The projection comes just ONE DAY after Reuters exposed a Trump administration effort to help return the Bolsonaro family to power.

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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Adam Schwarz

@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

April 12 was already a gift of a lifetime and now another electorate achieved the same, in the same year! I’m overwhelmed. PUMPAJ!!! 🇷🇸💪🎆

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Lest die Kommentare 😂

Maximilian Pichl@maxpichl.bsky.social

Welche Demo ist das? Nur falsche Antworten bitte.

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Grünes Grundeinkommen

Für die #BDK im Dezember hat das Sprecher*innen-Team der LAG Grundeinkommen Niedersachsen einen #Antrag verfasst. Wenn du Mitglied bei den Bündnisgrünen bist, kannst du ihn hier #unterstützen: antraege.gruene.de/52bdk/KI-und... Bitte teilen und weiterverbreiten #Grundeinkommen #Bündnis90DieGrünen

antraege.gruene.de KI und die Zukunft der Arbeit: Grundeinkommen als Bündnisgrüne Antwort konkretisieren (52. Bundesdelegiertenkonferenz Berlin, Antragsgrün)Antragsgrün ist ein Antrags-Verwaltungs-System, das speziell für Parteitage, Verbandstagungen sowie Programmdiskussionen entwickelt wurde.

dfeher.substack.comClass war unleashed: what the Neukölln smokescreen is covering up in BerlinBerlin voted for a city people can afford to live in. Why is everyone talking about something else?

Sunday: Die Linke wins #Berlin with 25.7%, campaigning on affordable housing, working public transport, and a clean city. Monday: everyone talks about Remmo and Neukölln instead. Why that’s a smokescreen, and who it’s really aimed at 🧵 Full article: dfeher.substack.com/p/class-war-... 1/6

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In Schwerin, nobody questions the Linke’s fitness to govern. The difference isn’t the party name. It’s that the Berlin Linke wants to touch property. 5/6

The choice: either a left answer to the social, economic and trust crisis, or Berlin drifts towards Saxony-Anhalt. My benchmark for red-green-red: halve the AfD’s share by 2031. Full piece: dfeher.substack.com/p/class-war-... 6/6

dfeher.substack.comClass war unleashed: what the Neukölln smokescreen is covering up in BerlinBerlin voted for a city people can afford to live in. Why is everyone talking about something else?

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To be clear: the antisemitic chants in #Neukölln were unacceptable, and the Linke has to deal with them. It has started. It’s not enough yet. But that is a problem to solve, not a reason to throw away an election result. 3/6

Double standards: in 2025 Remmo toured the Abgeordnetenhaus as a CDU MP’s guest. The Court of Audit found €2.6m against antisemitism allocated unlawfully and arbitrarily under a CDU-led Senate. Nobody called the CDU unfit to govern. 4/6

dfeher.substack.comClass war unleashed: what the Neukölln smokescreen is covering up in BerlinBerlin voted for a city people can afford to live in. Why is everyone talking about something else?

The outrage isn’t really aimed at @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social. It’s aimed at the @spd.de and @gruene.berlin, who hold the key to a left majority. The goal: a Senate that leaves everything as it is. And behind the #antisemitism talk, the #property question keeps turning up. 2/6

Worst about @deutschebahn.com aren't their #delays but their #customerServiceHell: 15' in waiting loops, annoying AI assistants, finally a real person, unfortunately the wrong one; when finally in the line to the right person, you're told that there are unexpectedly 🤡 many calls, try later, bye. 🤯

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Ed Hawkins

@edhawkins.org

4 July

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

lemonde.frEn Hongrie, Péter Magyar copie le discours anti-immigration de Viktor OrbanElu sur une promesse de restauration de l’Etat de droit, le nouveau premier ministre use de la rhétorique contre les migrants pour attaquer le bilan de son prédécesseur.

19 June

Sad but true.

EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live

En Hongrie, Péter Magyar copie le discours anti-immigration de Viktor Orban

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Helena Steinhaus

@helenasteinhaus.bsky.social

17 June

Dobrindt: verdient rund 30.000 € im Monat Bürgergeld: 18,77 € pro Tag für Essen, Kleidung, Hygiene, Strom & soziale Teilhabe Ab wieviel Euro Monatsgehalt verliert man den Blick zur Realität?

10 June

We have seen this playbook twice. Smartphones and social media made themselves indispensable, then sold our #dependence back to us. #AI is running the same script, faster and more personal. I wrote about how, and why #Europe may be the only one able to stop it. 1/6

The people least able to resist are the ones whose brains are still forming. We opened the door to social media and only thought about protecting kids fifteen years too late, when the platforms were already too big to regulate. The same door is open now. 5/6

open.substack.comThe Dependency Business, Now on SteroidsHow the AI industry is repeating the smartphone-and-social-media script and why Europe should not wait twenty years to notice

10 June

Europe already has the instrument: the AI Act bans vulnerability-exploiting systems. The burden of proof is high, which is exactly why the work has to start now. Do we close this gate before the harm is done, or long after? Read the full piece: open.substack.com/pub/dfeher/p... #AI #TechPolicy 6/6

The goal was never just to beat rivals. It is lock-in: get people dependent, then collect. We know this because someone wrote it down. A leaked Microsoft strategy named the first stage a "dependence phase." The CEO's denial confirmed it was already working. 3/6

10 June

Then they monetise. A Princeton study found a chatbot pushing sponsored products got users to pick them 61% of the time, against 22% for normal search. Most never noticed. When the model hid its intent, detection fell below 10%. 4/6

The money tells the story. Hundreds of billions burned on AI infrastructure with no clear path to profit. Nvidia "invests" 100bn in OpenAI, which spends it back on Nvidia chips. The same capital, counted twice, makes demand look real. 2/6

4 June

New piece on my Substack: In March 2026, #Hungary 's counter-terror police hijacked a bank convoy on its way to #Ukraine: €70m in cash and gold, seized weeks before an election #Orbán badly needed. We now know the order came from his own Cabinet Office. 🧵 1/4

The protection evaporated in a month. The files they'd signed did not. And the files are the problem: "following orders" hasn't been a defence since Nuremberg. 3/4

open.substack.comThey Bet on Orbán. They Lost in Five Weeks.What a hijacked gold convoy teaches about the price of loyalty

4 June

A case study in why loyalty to an authoritarian regime is a bet against time, and why the bill comes due faster than collaborators ever expect. Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/dfeher/p... 4/4 #CivilResistance #Justice #Loyalty

It took dozens of officials to pull off. Customs, intelligence, the tax authority. Most must have known it was unlawful. They did it anyway, because loyalty had always kept them safe. Five weeks later, Orbán lost. 2/4

politico.eu‘Pollute us and we’ll sue you’: The quest to give Europe’s lakes and forests legal rightsNature should be a considered a person under EU law, a group of conservationists argue.

1 June

Some ideas sound strange at first. Like legal personhood for rivers, forests or mountains. But when you look closer, it's not stranger than treating companies as persons. So I'm very proud to be part of this new initiative to bring #RightOfNature to the #EU with the support of 1.000.000+ citizens.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu

Should a lake be allowed to hire its own lawyer and sue a company? It may sound unlikely, but that's the goal of a group of European conservationists.

rightsfornature.euBrussels, 2 July 2026: A Day for the Rights of Nature at the European ParliamentOn Thursday, 2 July 2026, the Rights for Nature European Citizens’ Initiative comes to Brussels for a day of public action, political dialogue and...

1 June

Join us for the public kick-off of this initiative in #Brussels or online on 2 July! rightsfornature.eu/event/confer... #RightsForNature #EuropeanCitizensInitiative #ECI

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

1 June

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

economist.comForget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transportPedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

vaticannews.vaPope Leo presents 'Magnifica humanitas’ calling for disarmament of AI - Vatican NewsPope Leo XIV presents "Magnifica Humanitas" as the Church’s response to the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for AI to be ...

🧵 Pope Leo XIV's #MagnificaHumanitas landed on Monday. A thread on why its concept of work is disappointingly defensive – and why, despite that, it contains more fuel for the #UBI debate than most people will notice. 1/9 www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Leo XIV doesn't draw that conclusion. But the theological groundwork is there: unconditional dignity, universal destination of goods, collective inheritance. The gap between premise and policy is precisely where advocates need to work. 8/9

actionnetwork.orgThe AI Pledge for HumanityI just signed the AI Pledge for Humanity and I want to tell you why. For fifty years, productivity has soared and wages haven't. Now AI is about to accelerate that pattern. The people building it say...

If you agree that the people building #AI should stop saying UBI is a great idea and start actually backing it – there's a pledge for that. Drafted by an impressive circle, worth gaining some momentum: 👉 actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-ai-pledge-for-humanity #BasicIncome #FutureOfWork 9/9

This connects to what @scottsantens.com calls the Primordial Credit Argument: AI's capabilities rest entirely on accumulated knowledge, creativity, and labour of every human who ever wrote, drew, composed, or discovered anything. 👉 scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-primordial-credit-argument-for 6/9

scottsantens.substack.comThe Primordial Credit Argument for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)What David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years reveals about gratitude, interdependence, and why UBI is the smallest acknowledgment civilization can make to the unpayable debt of being alive

AI is literally trained on all of us. If its output is a collective inheritance and not the private property of those who happened to build the last layer on top, then a share of that inheritance flows back to all. The encyclical's logic points exactly there. 7/9

Which is a real gap. Because the encyclical's own theology insists human dignity is #unconditional – it precedes any economic contribution, any paid role, any productive output. That premise and that policy response don't quite meet. 4/9

But here is where it gets interesting. Leo XIV extends the "universal destination of goods" – the principle that the earth's resources belong to all humanity – explicitly to AI, algorithms, data, and digital platforms. That is a radical move. 5/9

Start with the disappointment. When Leo addresses AI-driven #unemployment, the response is essentially: protect paid employment, hold the state responsible. Classical labour relations, updated for the AI age. Defensive, not visionary. 2/9

Francis went further in #LetUsDream. He broadened the concept of work to include care and voluntary contribution – and explicitly called for exploring UBI as a mechanism to guarantee dignity when employment can't. Leo XIV drops that thread entirely. 3/9

20 May

Countries at war… against the planet and its inhabitants.

🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck@duycks.bsky.social

42/ 👀 This reaffirmation of legal obligations was only opposed by the 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇮🇷 Iran, 🇮🇱Israel, 🇱🇷Liberia, 🇷🇺Russia, 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia, 🇺🇸USA & 🇾🇪Yemen. ⏭️ 🌅 A different future will open once climate ambition will no longer be captive to countries with vested interests.