Albert Moon

Dumm ist der, der Dummes tut.

[Skee-Ball Librarian @oodja]

BOSTON ATM

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”

— Wassily Kandinsky

More than a century after the Bauhaus, Kandinsky’s ideas about colour, form and perception continue to inspire artists, designers and architects around the world.

Follow Kandinsky’s journey through the places:
https://t.co/MmKnSKnMOj

#Kandinsky #Bauhaus #Art #Design #Animation

[Albert Moon @AlbertMoon16]

@SophyRidgeSky Did you ask him how integrating a tech firm run by one of the most high profile fascists on the planet - a man who has publicly stated his hatred for democracy - into police operations would make London more safe?

[Albert Moon @AlbertMoon16]

@holysmoke Colbert is basically describing the Beatific Vision. Which, as a self-described Catholic, you should know.

[Albert Moon @AlbertMoon16]

@SamCoatesSky "Amongst those who want Burnham to win Makerfield include:
16% current Tories
46% current Lib Dems
6% current Reform UK and
35% current Greens"

0% Labour right current and former Cabinet ministers and their advisors

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The Sopranos perfectly captured the thinking of conspiracy theorists.

These guys used to just talk in diners.

Today Bobby Baccalieri would be a regular guest on Rogan.

[Albert Moon @AlbertMoon16]

@edwest Someone needs to write a PhD on the fascination the right has for AI, the most inauthentic, anti-human technology ever invented, in particular for its capacity to generate ludicrous images of a fantasy "more authentic" past.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

The hypocrisy is absolutely volcanic.

For years, Orbán’s propaganda machine screamed about “foreign interference”, “sovereignty”, “rolling dollars”, and evil foreign money corrupting Hungarian politics. Meanwhile, the same regime was quietly using Hungarian taxpayer money to build its own foreign influence network through the state-funded Danube Institute, tied to the Batthyány Lajos Foundation.

According to Átlátszó, the Danube Institute became one of the regime’s main vehicles for cultivating foreign right-wing populists, MAGA-world conservatives, Brexit nostalgics, and sympathetic Western intellectuals. And this was not some harmless academic tea party. The contracts reportedly required media appearances, articles, conferences, networking, and the promotion of Orbán’s Hungary abroad.

In plain English: Hungarian public money was used to manufacture foreign validation for Orbánism.

The spending exploded. Átlátszó says Danube Institute research contracts rose from 76.76 million forints in 2022, to 179 million in 2023, to 284.6 million in 2024. Then in 2025, just before the election, DI-linked partners signed contracts worth more than 389 million forints.

So while Hungarian hospitals were rotting, schools were begging, and ordinary people were counting every forint, the regime was shovelling public money into foreign cheerleaders.

Lord David Frost reportedly received more than €43,000 in total, averaging over €3,600 per month. His tasks included appearing regularly, or at least twice a month, in British media.

David L. Dusenbury was identified as receiving €4,666 per month for three years, totalling €168,000. His duties reportedly included writing books, teaching, and representing the institute at events.

Timothy Burns reportedly received $12,500 for 36 days of work, plus a return transatlantic flight.

Melissa Ford Maldonado was connected to an $8,400 contract for a 10-page paper on Hungarian migration policy and lessons for Texas.

Philip Pilkington was linked to a €5,000-per-month contract involving British media networking and themes connected to Ireland, Northern Ireland, and alleged risks of liberal political shifts.

Carlos Roa reportedly signed contracts worth $160,000 over 16 months.

Rod Dreher was also part of this ecosystem, with Átlátszó previously reporting a Danube Institute contract worth $8,750 per month, or $105,000 a year.

Jonathan Price reportedly received €5,000 per month for 12 months, totalling €60,000, while objecting to disclosure on privacy grounds.

And then there was the article-production model: Átlátszó reported a $4,500-per-month contract requiring at least two articles per month for Western outlets such as American Conservative, National Review, Newsweek, The Federalist, The Spectator, and UnHerd. Átlátszó said the contract was most likely signed by Michael O’Shea.

So let’s say it clearly.

This was not “sovereignty protection”. This was Orbán’s taxpayer-funded foreign influence operation. A public-money laundromat for ideological networking. A state-financed fan club for foreign right-wing pundits, academics, Trump-world operators, Brexit nostalgics, culture-war influencers, and professional Hungary-praisers.

They accused everyone else of foreign interference while literally paying foreigners to interfere on their behalf.

They cried about NGOs while funding their own GONGOs.

They screamed about the “dollar left” while running a forint-funded international propaganda export business.

And the dirtiest part? Much of this was happening while Hungarian public services were collapsing. Hospitals without toilet paper. Schools without teachers. Families crushed by inflation. Villages abandoned. Public transport rotting.

But there was always money for some Western “conservative intellectual” to write a love letter to Orbán or explain why Hungary is the glorious model of the future.

NER using Hungarian taxpayers as an ATM for its international ego project.

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/HH2upvhfmI

[Irish Times Opinion @IrishTimesOpEd]

Kathy Sheridan: Farage’s success is the Leopards Eating Peoples’ Faces Party meme come to life https://t.co/kAixiPpWKH

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Brutal resignation letter from Jess Phillips accusing the PM of action on violence against women & girls *only*
as a reponse to ‘catastrophic mistakes’ & after ‘threats’ by JP when Safeguarding Minister

‘…real change and direction in this area usually came from threats made by me in light of catastrophic mistakes. The Mandelson saga whenever it bubbled up made No. 10 kick into gear on the subject in order to prove our credentials. I will never waste a crisis to make advancements for women and girls and so demands were made and some were met’

[Albert Moon @AlbertMoon16]

@paulmasonnews @Keir_Starmer They are not bigger than I thought in 2024, and I'm nobody. I just pay attention to the world around me.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power.
https://t.co/Fv7p6tkzoH

[Sarah Creighton 🍂 @Saraita101]

Wrote this about Farage last year and I still think I'm right

[Clint Warren-Davey @Clint_Davey1]

The Thirty Years War can be confusing to study.

Nations come and go, the geography is always shifting.

Here's how I break it down.

One side is the Catholic side. It stays pretty consistent throughout the whole war. It's Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

The Protestant or anti-Catholic side changes a lot.

There's one front that remains consistent. Spain and the Dutch are locked in a grinding war of sieges in the Low Countries, basically from 1621 to 1648. This is like the Western Front in WW1 and remains pretty static.

All the movement is happening in Germany.

And here there are 4 distinct stages:

1. Bohemian Phase (1618-25): This is where the main enemy of the Catholics are Protestant rebels in Bohemia and the Palatinate. These are crushed by 1625 but there's a few big battles and a lot of maneuvring.

2. Danish Phase (1625-29): Bohemians and Palatinate crushed but Denmark enters the war as a champion of the Protestant cause. Denmark is also crushed by the HRE. By the way, Sweden is busy fighting Poland during this time.

3. Swedish Intervention (1630-35): This is were shit gets real. Sweden, which is completely badass and probably has the most "modern" army in the world intervenes and rallies Protestant German states back to war. This includes some of the biggest and most decisive engagements, like Breitenfeld and Nordlingen. If you like the 30 Years War you probably like this phase the best.

4. French Intervention (1635-48): The French, who had been bankrolling the Protestant side for years already despite being Catholic, actually enter the war. They're like America coming into WW1. A superpower that enters the fray when the other countries are exhausted. But France doesn't steamroll everyone. They have to fight long and hard to bring the Catholic side to negotiations. Notably during this phase you have the Battle of Rocroi (1643), a tragedy for fans of the Spanish Tercios as this is one of their very few defeats.

The war ends with the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) which basically determines the outlines of international law and church-state relations until the 20th century.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Last spring, MAGA Catholic Congressman Riley Moore flew to El Salvador and gave two thumbs up inside Bukele’s CECOT prison, with rows of shaved-headed deportees crowded behind him.

On Friday, Pope Leo XIV named a former undocumented Salvadoran refugee bishop of his diocese in West Virginia. https://t.co/MIofJf00bA

[Albert Moon @AlbertMoon16]

@paulmasonnews The Berlin police has been creditably accused of targeting Jewish individuals joining Gaza solidarity demonstrations. You ok with that?

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

I will die on this hill: Angela Merkel broke Germany and probably Europe. In the wreckage of post-2008, she was uniquely positioned to choose social welfare over austerity. She chose austerity. Centrists loved her. But the fascists are now stronger than they’ve been in decades.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

introverts pretending to check their schedule before ultimately saying "unfortunately can't make it"

[Sarah Deech ☕️ @londonette]

Me flicking through the menu at an Indian restaurant pretending to be open minded when I know full well I’m going to order the chicken tikka masala