Mike Lawlor

Prof of Criminal Justice @UNewHaven, former prosecutor, legislator & Governor’s Criminal Justice advisor. married to @DavidZakur

[Mike Lawlor @MikeLawlor]

@JaxsonDart WTF dude???

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Q: "To what extent are American's financial situation motivating you to make a deal [with Iran]?"

Trump: "Not even a little bit…I don't think about Americans' financial situation, I don't think about anybody."

[Pete @splendid_pete]

Péter Magyar visited the Sugó Tambura Orchestra in Sükösd in November 2025 during his nationwide tour, where he met a group of disadvantaged local children who are being taught music as part of a wider social and community-building effort.

During the visit, he promised the orchestra’s children’s group that if the Tisza Party won the election, he would invite them to the inaugural session of Parliament, and they would also be able to see the building from the inside.

As part of that promise, the children from Sükösd were given the opportunity to perform the Roma anthem at the inaugural session on 9 May 2026.

During the visit, Péter Magyar praised the orchestra’s leader, Zsolt Nébl, who teaches disadvantaged local children to play music as a form of social engagement, helping their inclusion, development, and sense of belonging.

The second song they performed was one of the most beautiful and best-known Hungarian folk songs, “Tavaszi szél”, which has also become strongly associated with Tisza. The title means: “The spring wind makes the waters rise.”

For some people, it raises a few questions whether it is appropriate to play the song of the election-winning party at the inaugural session of Parliament, but I would not open that question now.

[April Ajoy @aprilajoyr]

How am I supposed to make satire when headlines like this are real 😭

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Well, John, we thank you.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had another mental health episode and spiraled out of control on social media last night:

12:18am - Demands Chuck Schumer resign
12:19am - Posts a tweet saying Obama tried to “overthrow the government in 2016.”
12:22am - Reposts a statement from Sen. Mike Lee calling for the filibuster to be removed
12:27am - Posts a conspiracy video alleging Obama and Hillary Clinton committed treason
12:27am - Posts a tweet from a MAGA account calling for Obama and Clinton to be arrested for treason
12:28am - Another post calling for treason charges against Obama and Clinton
12:28am - Yet another post demanding treason charges for Obama and Clinton
12:29am - Posts an AI image of a man holding a sign
1:13am - Demands the 2020 election be “wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect.”
2:43am - Posts about Clint Eastwood complimenting him
2:44am - Posts about Elon Musk calling the Southern Poverty Law Center a “scam”
2:45am - Posts about a far-right podcast

This man is not well. He is a demented lunatic who is spiraling out of control. He must be impeached and removed from office.

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

This is pure gold.

A Ukrainian fighter, posing as a “participant of the special military operation,” infiltrated a meeting where students of Kuban State Agrarian University were being recruited to sign contracts with the Russian army.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The United States has just nuked its own arms export business. Not with a missile. With a phone call.

Pete Hegseth rang Estonia’s defense minister and told him the HIMARS and Javelin deliveries are on hold.

Indefinitely. Months, not weeks. No timeline. No alternative. Just: sorry, we’re busy bombing Iran.

And that’s it. Twenty years of patient alliance-building, vaporized in a Monday morning call.

Here’s what European defense planners now know for certain: American weapons come with an asterisk. The asterisk reads “subject to cancellation whenever Washington decides its own adventure takes priority.”

You can sign the contracts. You can train your soldiers. You can build your entire defensive posture around US systems. And then one day, the ammo stops. No warning. No plan B.

Estonia is already shopping elsewhere. So is everyone else, with the kind of focus that only comes from genuine betrayal.

The Americans think this is a pause. Europe knows it’s a divorce.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Clip 1: RFK JR cites a study.
Clip 2: RFK JR cites another study.
Clip 3: Cassidy finds the first study and suggests the study contradicts RFK JR’s claim.
Clip 4: Cassidy finds the second study and points out the study was published before the vaccine came out.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Throwback to a year ago, when Vance said “I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents”

Quotes that certainly aged

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😂 “Chinese Trump” is taking over social media

Videos of blogger Ryan, who mimics Donald Trump’s speech, facial expressions, and gestures — from intonation to signature pauses — are going viral online.

Users say it’s the “best impersonation yet” and joke that the double is just as good as the original.

Does he look the part?

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Resolved: Pete Buttigieg is very talented.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨A Border Patrol agent, in the Florida Keys, has been caught on video… multiple times… racially profiling, assaulting, and illegally arresting U.S. citizens.

The agent pulls over a car, removes the driver, who is a U.S. citizen, and handcuffs him…

Then, in the video, he is seen trying to forcefully handcuff the passenger, too… again, a U.S. citizen… with no clear justification.

Another agent is heard yelling that he’s going to tase the passenger if he doesn’t comply, while they’re illegally handcuffing the U.S. citizen.

The person in the back seat starts, saying, “this is f*cking crazy,” trying to document what’s happening, and the moment the agent notices he is recording, he tells him to stop and tries to grab his phone.

Recording law enforcement, in public, is protected under the First Amendment… and trying to seize someone’s phone to stop that recording is unconstitutional.

Even the person being handcuffed says, “Hey, you can’t take his phone…” because that’s how obviously illegal that action is.

And after all of that… the illegal stop, the force, the arrests… they were all released, because none of it should’ve happened to begin with.

And if this were an isolated incident, that would already be a problem… but it’s not.

Two weeks later, the same agent is recorded AGAIN, pulling over the same U.S. citizens…

So, this is where it stops being about one bad stop, and starts looking like something bigger…

Because when the same agents are caught, on camera, violating the Constitution… over and over… and nothing happens to them…

You no longer have those Constitutional rights.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

A week ago at this exact time, at 9:09 PM, my phone rang, and I heard:
“This is Viktor Orbán. I’d like to congratulate you on your victory.”
...and the rest is history.

[Mike Lawlor @MikeLawlor]

@brian_lenney @GovernorLittle @realDonaldTrump

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The violence used by NYPD officers in this video is extremely disturbing and unacceptable. Officers should never treat a person this way. The NYPD is conducting a full investigation into this incident.

[Matt Rice @matt____rice]

Andrew Harnik has been awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association award for excellence in presidential news coverage by visual journalists for the following photo:

[History Defined @historydefined]

Former US president Barack Obama saw a choir of Danish girls practicing in their apartment with their balcony doors open and asks them to continue

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

There is one universal rule. Whenever Moscow is thrown out of a country, mass celebrations happen