🇵🇱🎲 Go ahead, keep telling me that board games aren't a serious business. Also, Polska stronk, Awaken Realms and Gamefound are both Polish companies (with the same owners).

The cognitive dissonance of far-right foreigners tweeting about an armed coup in Poland with police beating up judges while in Warsaw, a PiS politician and a right-wing TV anchor are doing low-quality karaoke to a small crowd of elderly protesters outside the Constitutional Tribunal is wild.

The cognitive dissonance of far-right foreigners tweeting about an armed coup in Poland with police beating up judges while in Warsaw, a PiS politician and a right-wing TV anchor are doing low-quality karaoke to a small crowd of elderly protesters outside the Constitutional Tribunal is wild.

🇬🇧🇭🇰 Those who predicted, before 1997, that at some point the PRC would destroy Hong Kong's democracy and the "one country, two systems" arrangement would evaporate were, sadly, right, and the PRC is now too big to be smacked around by some decaying middle power for violating the handover deal.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · yesterday

🇭🇰 Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 more years in jail on Thursday for colluding with foreign powers, the second time he has been penalised under the city's national security law. ➡️ u.afp.com/SyDa

Kinda fascinating how a large segment of American society has firewalled themselves away from their Muslim neighbours so hard that now US media have to explain what "habibi", "yalla yalla" and "falafel lavash with both sauces" mean.

Ukraine charges Zelensky's former press secretary Iuliia Mendel with treason kyivindependent.com/ukraine-char...

Ukraine charges Zelensky's former press secretary Iuliia Mendel with treason

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Prosecutor General's Office accused Iuliia Mendel of conducting "information and subversive activities against Ukraine."

kyivindependent.com

🇵🇱⚖️🐲 One thing I really appreciate about the recent crisis at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal is that we finally have public confirmation, from the man himself, that the Tribunal's President, Bogdan Święczkowski, is nicknamed "Godzilla", and he doesn't like that callsign very much.

🇫🇷⚖️🇵🇱 One nice thing about the last five years is the increased attention paid by French media to what's happening in Poland. It was great to chat again with @patricesenecal.bsky.social about the rule of law on the Vistula and contribute some comments for Libération on the Constitutional Tribunal.

Libération@liberation.fr · 2d ago

🇵🇱 Le Premier ministre et le président Karol Nawrocki ont fait du Tribunal constitutionnel, dont le président et le vice-président ont été suspendus vendredi 30 octobre, leur champ de bataille politique. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/acv

Cc: all the journalists/policymakers who live on Twitter 24/7.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

This election cycle has made one thing pretty clear: X is politically irrelevant.

🇫🇷⚖️🇵🇱 One nice thing about the last five years is the increased attention paid by French media to what's happening in Poland. It was great to chat again with @patricesenecal.bsky.social about the rule of law on the Vistula and contribute some comments for Libération on the Constitutional Tribunal.

Libération@liberation.fr · 2d ago

🇵🇱 Le Premier ministre et le président Karol Nawrocki ont fait du Tribunal constitutionnel, dont le président et le vice-président ont été suspendus vendredi 30 octobre, leur champ de bataille politique. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/acv

They just never checked that these accounts are based in South Asia.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think that so many elite institutions and people with important jobs staying on X persuaded many of them the median american voter was a greek statue avatar hailing the thousand year trumpenreich and complaining about race mixing bsky.app/profile/sara...

DisinfoCon returns to Berlin for its fifth edition! 👏🏽    More than two years into full DSA enforcement, investigations are open, fines are out, and there’s a non-compliance decision against big tech. Enforcement is running under conditions the drafters didn’t fully anticipate.

Viktor Orbán's former head of cabinet arguing that the Democrat's massive victory at the Midterms is very bad news for Magyar and Tusk, which he calls "liberal autocrats", is a very insightful peek into a panicked authoritarian's mind.

US Democrats: our European friends and allies will be over the moon 😻 Most normal EU friend and ally reaction:

flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@flere-imsaho.circumstances.run · 2d ago

i think most of us would produce more polite version of “congratulations, now get to work, and don't think we will trust you again”.

We're getting new pronouns, mine are kurwa/mać.

Looking forward to Hailey Stevens drunkenly stumbling through an interview tomorrow

Thoughts and prayers with PiS and President Nawrocki who went all-in on Trump. Tusk, you magnificent bastard.

axaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxax

Sangsin Lee@sslee.bsky.social · 2d ago

수전 콜린스의 30년 천하가 끝나는가?

People keep going about various forms of voter suppression in the US, but the fact that the voting day isn't on a weekend (or countrywide paid leave) automatically favours the people who don't have to spend 8h at work on that day for whatever reason (yes, I know that mail vote mitigates this a bit).

🇵🇱⚖️Beyond the dramatic events at Polish courts, there is one more drama playing out with regard to the Constitutional Tribunal: the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, a Polish NGO with a stellar record, saw 6 out of 8 of its advisory board members resign. What happened, and how do I view it?

Czech public media launch strike, accusing government of political meddling reut.rs/4f82EzY

Czech public media launch strike, accusing government of political meddling

Czech public television ​and radio workers launched a one-day strike on Tuesday against a government plan to ‌cut financing and move funding to the state budget, which they call an attempt to hurt the broadcasters' independence and viability.

reut.rs

Let me get this straight: Poland is legally obliged to have an independent constitutional court We can question the methods used but not the intent, which is required by the law (Polish and EU) albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/restoring-... albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/restoring-...

Restoring Poland’s Court Is Not a Coup

Poland has a legal duty to restore its captured Constitutional Tribunal. Its methods must be questioned, but treating both sides as equally culpable obscures how the crisis began and helps EU enemies

albertoalemanno.substack.com

Millions of Americans are turning to AI for election information, but chatbots are getting voting facts wrong and recommending candidates, raising concerns they could influence voters' decisions. n.pr/4BEKMX5

AI chatbots are becoming political advisers. Their answers can mislead voters

Millions of Americans are turning to AI for election information, but chatbots are getting voting facts wrong and recommending candidates, raising concerns they could influence voters' decisions.

n.pr

🎃🎄🦃🎲 Solidarity with all the American TTRPG players who have to endure every winter season their boomer GM running obligatory, eye-rollingly bad Halloween/Thanksgiving/Xmas themed adventures, with PCs squaring off against Evil Reverse Santa/Demon Turkey/Pumpkin Jack.

Russia withdrew from the @coe.int ‘s convention against torture a year ago - meaning the decision comes into effect today. Yes, the prohibition of torture is the only absolute prohibition www.coe.int/fi/web/cpt/-...

🇵🇱⚖️ I'm seeing some alt-left/alt-right media run stories about mass protests in Poland against Tusk's attack on the rule of law and I think I'm gonna make an evening walk through Poznań and the try to find those.

Polish President Nawrocki has refused to receive the oath of the newly elected judges of the Constitutional Tribunal. Over the weekend, a group of judges suspended the Tribunal's PiS-appointed president, who had blocked the new judges. JAKUB JARACZEWSKI explains. verfassungsblog.de/the-oath-tow...

Poland’s Constitutional Court has been the center of a political showdown. What happened and why is this not a coup, as some media are reporting? Our @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social spent a busy weekend speaking to media on this. Let’s unpack it with the help of his analysis. 🧵

🇵🇱⚖️🇦🇺 📻 I've been in Austrian media before, but Australian radio is new; the rule-of-law crisis escalation in Poland made it to down under. Not sure if it's something to cheer or kvetch about. Also, boiling down the Constitutional Tribunal story to 5 minutes is hard. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Why are tensions high over Poland's Constitutional Tribunal? - ABC listen

A power struggle between the government and the courts has broken out.

abc.net.au