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President Karol Nawrocki at the inauguration of the academic year like Barack Obama in his heyday. "I got a bit carried away, but I'm landing now because I'm waiting for Professor Czabański's lecture on very important issues. There are 5 million suicides in the world, and in Poland, 5,000. I wish students academic freedom and responsibility for our beloved Republic." PERFECTION. There are few politicians who can do this. A master of this was Barack Obama years ago. First, breaking the serious character of the ceremony with humor, immediately drawing the attention of all of Poland to an important social problem, building pride in that academic community by praising their professor, and at the very end, wishes for students for the new academic year, extending that to the entire Republic. Such skillful maneuvering of emotions and political vectors in such a short time is really not easy. Especially when it has to come out as naturally as it did for Karol Nawrocki at the Academy of Jakub from Paradyż in Gorzów Wielkopolski. (translated)

This is very serious: US$ 1 MILLION AGAINST THE STF Revealed campaign from the Trump government. The government of Donald Trump allocated US$ 1 million to finance a campaign against the STF in Brazil. The revelations were published this Thursday by the British newspaper The Guardian, which points out how resources originally intended by the US for the global human rights agenda were redirected to the interests of the American far right. According to the report, a US$ 1 million grant titled "Combating Lawfare and Censorship in Brazil" would finance civil society groups that oppose what is described as excessive judicial action and censorship by the Supreme Court of Brazil. "The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Brazilian minister Alexandre de Moraes last year, following pressure from Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the former president," the article recalled. According to the newspaper, a Democratic congressional aide stated that a senator from the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, had maintained the blockage of ten disbursements totaling US$ 22 million, intended for projects in Brazil, South Africa, and Nigeria, as well as for promoting a right-wing ideology in the UK and Europe. This week, Shaheen sent a letter to the Trump administration to denounce interference in the Brazilian election and demand the White House recognize the election results in the country. "Throughout President Trump's second term, we observed US authorities engaged in a campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil," the senator said in the document. "This effort intensified dramatically during the summer of 2025, when the Administration imposed targeted tariffs and sanctions in an attempt to influence the verdict of the Brazilian Supreme Court in the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, accused of attempting to foment a military coup to remain in power," she stated. According to the aide consulted by the newspaper, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had personally signed a memorandum to ignore the senator's blockages and authorize the allocation of funds. Destabilizing the STF For observers and diplomats, destabilizing the STF has become a priority for the Brazilian and foreign far right. The movement sees the institution as a brake on implementing an ultra-conservative project in the country and regaining freedom of action on all fronts. The money comes from the Fund for Human Rights and Democracy, created to finance Trump's conservative agenda around the world and, according to its critics, to attack any form of opposition. "The largest disbursement, totaling US$ 40 million, was allocated to a consortium led by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) — a non-profit anti-communist organization that, in the past, had received much lower amounts in grants," the report indicated. A background check document from the Department of State, consulted by The Guardian, records previous contracts between the foundation and the agency totaling US$ 96,997 in the last five years — all in the fiscal year 2022 — and notes that the organization underwent a check in 2019 related to tickets for the foundation's gala event. The document also identifies Andrew Bremberg — former domestic policy advisor to the White House during the Trump administration and former US ambassador to the UN office in Europe — as a "senior leader" of the foundation. Via ICL COUP NEVER AGAIN (translated)

Trump sent $1 million to fund a campaign against the Supreme Court in Brazil, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. The $1 million subsidy, titled "Combatting Lawfare and Censorship in Brazil," would finance civil society groups, that is, bozos, who attack the Supreme Court with the talk of judicial dictatorship. Jamil Chade published this news recently in ICL. The election is Lula vs. Trump. (translated)

The attacks in Baidoa, Somalia, injuring children and damaging an @eu_echo-funded hospital are unacceptable. 
I urge all parties to respect international humanitarian law: protect civilians, healthcare workers and facilities, and ensure safe humanitarian access. #Somalia #HumanRights #HumanitarianAid #SO

Barbarism goes hand in hand with ignorance. An aggressor state that violates international law (Russia) cannot deny a victim (Ukraine) the right of self-defence. Including with weapons received from countries who are not parties to the war. Too complicated for the Kremlin?👇 #Ukraine #Russia #InternationalLaw #RU #UA

Judicial independence is non-negotiable. Without an #independent #judiciary, there is no strong democracy and no strong economy. People and businesses invest where rules are clear, contracts are respected and the law is the same for everyone. When the rule of law is under #Justicia #Democracia #EstadoDeDerecho #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

According to the Russian representation, it was the German side that did not want to allow press questions and audio recordings at the meeting #Wadephul-Lawrow. I asked @AuswaertigesAmt for confirmation. I also wanted to know when evidence of Russia's role in the Leipzig drone incident would be presented. The responses: First a denial, then a relativization of the denial and, surprise, surprise, there would be no new evidence... (however, there have also been no "old" ones so far...). (translated)

If you want to have knowledge of what a deceptive world we lived in, read this. If you want to be aware of what awaits us, read this. This may be my most important text. Once, "trolls" were farm workers who wrote what they were dictated. Now troll farms are collapsing because bots are replacing humans. Today, one moderately skilled programmer could control 100,000 bots. Hence the conflicts; troll farms are no longer needed, so why pay them? I saw a troll farm from the outside. I didn't enter their structures, I didn't create a fake account with a flag in the description, and I didn't write under the teachers' strike that children are hostages. I watched from a distance, at the network, at the comments that appeared quickly, too quickly, too consistently, too often on the same issues. And at the company that functioned for years like an ordinary e-PR agency. In 2019, an investigation by Newsweek and the Reporters' Foundation showed that the Wrocław Cat@Net was not just another agency for "creating a presence on social media." It was an organized troll farm. A dozen people managed over 170 fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The content reached millions of recipients. The business was co-financed from PFRON, as the company employed disabled individuals and could offer clients tax deductions. From November 2015 to August 2019, Cat@Net received around 1.5 million zlotys from the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons. From the outside, it looked innocent. An advertisement for teleworking, a student or graduate needed after journalism, working from home, "skillful influencing of recipients." Clients included large companies, small businesses, public administration, private individuals. In practice, accounts were built like characters from a series. A right-wing patriot from Żoliborz, a traditionalist, a student, a chatterbox. A photo from university, a post about lunch, and then, when a scandal erupted, a flood of comments. Teachers' strike - children as hostages, teachers are egoists in expensive scarves. TVP and Jacek Kurski - defense, image warming, attacks on critics. After the death of Paweł Adamowicz, blaming WOŚP and Owsiak, comparisons meant to shift responsibility from public television. What struck the most was not ideology, but flexibility. The farm had business accounts to slander companies, products, and brands, as well as political ones. It worked for TVP, but also for PiS politicians when they needed support before the European Parliament elections. Trolls from the same agency could publicly argue, but only according to a script. It wasn't about beliefs. It was about commission. The trails led journalists further, to the Art-Media agency, to circles associated with "Najwyższy Czas" and "Gazeta Polska," to names in the orbit of Antoni Macierewicz and Bartłomiej Misiewicz. I saw how easily a real person disappears behind an avatar, and the avatar begins to shape a debate that no one explicitly ordered, only paid for the chaos or falsehood of specific events. The troll farm didn't need us to believe in it. It was enough that we click, comment, and recognize as important and significant the voice produced on commission. PiS didn't have to paint the sign "PiS troll farm" on the office door to benefit from it. In practice, within the power camp, there was a mechanism that Newsweek's investigation exposed bluntly. It was fake accounts that coordinated hatred, defended TVP and Jacek Kurski, and attacked Owsiak, WOŚP, and Paweł Adamowicz, along with public money from PFRON that helped sustain this industry. It was a political infrastructure of lies, distorting the image of Poland as "Poland in ruins," pumping propaganda and sowing hate speech under the guise of "ordinary citizens." As long as a troll was right according to the line of power, no one in this environment asked whether the account was real. They only asked whether the post hit the opponent. #InstituteOfTruth (translated)

Lavrov points to the open wound of Germany's historical amnesia: Merz unabashedly announces that Germany should "again" become the strongest military power in Europe – and acts as if this is a harmless modernization phrase. “Again”? Really? The last time Germany claimed this role for itself, it ended in total catastrophe for all of Europe and cost millions of lives. Lavrov rightly asks whether the German Chancellor even understands the word – or whether he is deliberately playing with historical fire while simultaneously feeding Ukraine with weapons and dismissing Russia's security interests as "aggression." While the West incessantly talks about "Russian imperialism," Berlin openly dreams of a return to the old military dominance role. This is not a slip of the tongue, but a program. And those who know history understand where such ambitions have led in the past. (translated)

The accord comes amid massive global pressure from civilians and lawmakers alike to regulate the industry as reports of the technology breaking out of its confines continue to pile. Last week OpenAI revealed that its agent had hacked into an Australian government website during its testing phase. #ArtificialIntelligence #TechRegulation #SelfPolicing