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You forgot to add that @pisorgpl voted against 180 billion złoty for armaments mainly from the Polish defense industry. Your representative called Polish defense products "junk." And also that the current government @KosiniakKamysz spends half of the funds in the Polish defense industry, while you spend about 20%. Have a lovely Saturday 😉 (translated)

Russia’s occupation is starving Ukrainians in Oleshky. In the Russian-occupied Kherson region, food deliveries to Oleshky have been cut off since the end of May. Around 6,000 civilians remain in the wider Oleshky community, including about 180 children. DW reports that local https://t.co/SFsLKSGJYN #Oleshky #Russia #Ukraine #UA #RU

“The Abolition of Slavery — and Its Unfinished History Slavery is far older than the transatlantic slave trade. It existed for thousands of years in societies across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. It was therefore not invented by Europeans or white people. But another part of the history deserves recognition. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, predominantly European and Western abolitionist movements developed sustained political campaigns against the slave trade and slavery. Britain is a major example. British abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp, together with Black activists and formerly enslaved people such as Olaudah Equiano, campaigned for abolition. Parliament abolished Britain’s slave trade in 1807, and slavery throughout most of the British Empire through the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, with emancipation beginning in 1834. Britain then used its navy and diplomacy to suppress the international slave trade. Between 1808 and 1870, British naval forces seized roughly 1,400 slave ships and liberated around 160,000 enslaved people. This does not erase Britain’s earlier role in the slave trade. Nor was abolition exclusively a white achievement. Black activists, former slaves, religious groups and others were important to the movement. Nevertheless, Western societies became leading forces in creating political, legal, diplomatic and military mechanisms to suppress the Atlantic slave trade and abolish slavery. And slavery has not disappeared. The latest global estimates, based on 2021 data, put the number living in modern slavery at 49.6 million: 27.6 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage. About 29.3 million were in Asia and the Pacific, 7.0 million in Africa, 6.4 million in Europe and Central Asia, 1.7 million in the Arab States and 5.1 million in the Americas. Slavery is ancient and global; Europeans became major participants in the transatlantic system and later major forces in its abolition. Yet an estimated 49.6 million people were still living in modern slavery in 2021” - ChatGPT

🤦🏼‍♀️ I was a bit astonished just now when I saw tonight’s Aktuellt and that they chose to let Järvafältet's now largest and soon perhaps gold-spade-armed badger/mole, Peter Wennblad (SvD), meet the former economic-political spokesperson for the Left Party, Ali Esbati. If they really wanted a representative for V, this was perhaps the only one available in these desperate times, but the clash is obvious from the start. One is a sharp, über-intelligent, and truth-seeking journalist while the other is an indoctrinated babbling cult member who will defend the cult at any cost. So, let the show begin.. 🎬 Wennblad states that he has had many and long conversations with voters in Järva while Esbati does not sound like he has actually talked to anyone at all. After a brief sweeping attempt at a counterattack, he quickly rushes into smearing SvD with the strangest thing I’ve heard in a long time: “a long-standing impulse to distrust people who are worse off”.. referencing opposition to universal suffrage in the 1800s (!).. Then of course it leads into a reflexive comparison with Trump and... I mean, I saw the mess, almost got a secondary stroke and was biting my nails in worry that Wennblad's head would explode from all the nonsense he heard from the opponent. Thank goodness he seems intact, but I may not be if I try to reference the entire segment. So shortly, a recording will be in the comments so you can endure and evaluate yourselves. Thanks for a phenomenal performance @peterwennblad 🙏🏼 (translated)

Alright, this is already going too far. The very fact that I have to stand up in defense of the UK after fleeing from this country is embarrassing for me. There are large wealth disparities in the UK. There is a lot of pathology, especially in cities. But even a poorly organized Brit, earning the minimum (which is about 6.5% of the working population), takes home £1800 a month. It's not exactly a fairy tale, but statistics say it covers about 80% of living costs (of course, outside London). In Poland, the minimum net wage is 3500 złoty, and it is earned by 20% of the working population. I haven't lived in Poland for almost a decade, so it's hard for me to comment on living costs. Still, when I occasionally visit Polish cities, I am shocked at how horrendously expensive everything is. I don't want to take a final stance, but the fact that in the UK they've been talking for several years about a "dramatic crisis" related to the "cost of living," while in Poland it's supposedly so good and we're supposedly overtaking the UK per capita, is really significant. (translated)

Unbeugsam wie die See von Emilia Hart übersetzt von Julia Walther 2019: Lucy erwacht aus einem Albtraum und findet ihre Hände an der Kehle ihres Ex. Entsetzt flieht sie zu ihrer Schwester Jess an die australische Küste, doch diese ist verschwunden. Während Lucy auf ihre Rückkehr wartet, erfährt sie von seltsamen Ereignissen in der Kleinstadt: Männer sind verschwunden, ein Baby wurde in einer Höhle gefunden, und Seeleute hören Frauenstimmen auf den Wellen. 1999: Jess ist eine einsame Sechzehnjährige in einer ländlichen Stadt in der Mitte des Kontinents. Mit einer seltenen Wasserallergie diagnostiziert, hat sie sich schon immer anders gefühlt, bis ihr junger, charmanter Kunstlehrer sich für ihre Zeichnungen interessiert. 1800: Die Zwillingsschwestern Mary und Eliza wurden von ihrem Vater in Irland getrennt und nach Australien verbannt. Auf der langen Reise beginnen sie, seltsame Veränderungen an sich zu bemerken und spüren, wie das Meer sie zu rufen scheint...

The discovery of an unknown Roman town with a planned street grid and an amphitheater in St. Pantaleon-Erla, indicating settlement around 80 AD and an orderly retreat around 180 AD, opens new perspectives for archaeology and could lead to the expansion of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Danube Limes. (translated)

Not only are there 350,000 shelter places in centers for migrants, but according to the Interior Minister, 75% of general shelter places are also occupied by foreigners in an irregular situation. That is to say, 75% of the 240,000 places in general centers, which is an additional 180,000 places. So 350k + 180k = 530,000 shelter places occupied by foreigners. Five hundred thirty thousand shelter places occupied by foreigners. Annual cost for the taxpayer: 5.15 billion for centers dedicated to migrants 180k places at €34/day for emergency shelter centers = 2.23 billion. Total = 7.38 billion euros per year. And this does not include HLM, student residences, and APL given to foreigners housed in the private sector. (translated)

Good morning. Today we commemorate the Battle of Assaye during the Second British Maratha War in 1803, between the East India Company under Arthur Wellesley and the Indian Maratha Empire. Despite the numerical superiority of the Marathas, the British won, and their grip on India was strengthened. (translated)

I am sure that in the case of a debt of €500,000 from the ex-husband, he would have helped him with €250,000. Some people have no dignity at all. Probably the husband with €180 million would have given something to the ex-wife, now he will fight to give her not even a euro, I enjoy it. (translated)

🚨 3 songs from the album "EQUILIBRIVM II" re-entered Spotify Brazil: #150. Don't Poke Me — 180,611 (RE) #176. You Already Know — 168,167 (RE) #197. Coarse Salt — 159,477 (RE) (translated)

Finland had quite a lot of independence as part of the Russian Empire: After the Russians conquered it from Sweden in 1809, the Tsar vowed to leave their Protestant church in peace, and the Finns even had their own currency (Finnmark). In 1906, Finland (still part of the Russian Empire) granted women the right to vote, the first country in Europe to do so, and Finnish men didn't even have to serve as soldiers in the Russian army during World War I. (translated)