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After midnight, a special program with Michal Sírový @sssirda, a person who professionally bets on election results around the world😉. About how one gets into political betting, how a bettor from the Czech Republic can successfully bet on election results in Bolivia or the USA, and how betting companies react to successful bets. Who is more accurate in predicting election results, bookmakers or agencies studying public opinion? Or are they interconnected, influencing each other? Do political bettors use AI? Does AI improve the prediction of election results or just speed it up? And finally, Michal gave us basic advice for beginner bettors on election results. (translated)

Historian Adam Raz, however, in his book The Thirty Years' War: Benjamin Netanyahu vs. Israel analyzes this event based on memories, eyewitness statements, and written evidence from that time and presents a compelling argument that everything was planned - that its inevitable consequences from a diplomatic-security perspective were precisely what Netanyahu wanted. (translated)

So it turns out that Israel provided the UK with detailed intelligence about Iran's plan to attack the RAF Fairford base. And what did the Labour government do in return? It announced sanctions against Israel, and its foreign minister gave a hostile speech shortly after shaking hands friendly with a representative of the Iranian terrorist regime. (translated)

I consider the appointment of Taťána Kuchařová to the Government Council for Human Rights unacceptable. The advisory body of the cabinet should protect vulnerable groups and systemic standards, not serve as a political traffic jam for celebrities without legal expertise. A fundamental obstacle is her behavior during the divorce from Ondřej Brzobohatý. The purposeful misuse of sensitive queer topics and the privacy of her partner in the ecclesiastical court demonstrated complete disrespect for human dignity and minority rights. A person with such practices cannot credibly defend equality. After the civil divorce, Kuchařová initiated proceedings at the Metropolitan Church Court for the purpose of ecclesiastical annulment of marriage. In ecclesiastical law, marriage can only be annulled for specific reasons, which include, for example, the inability to fulfill marital duties, serious personality disorder, or the concealment of key facts before the wedding. To achieve annulment, Kuchařová based her arguments on her husband's intimate life: 🧊 In the lawsuit, she claimed that Brzobohatý is not sexually oriented and suffers from sexual orientation deviations. 🧊 From his private interest in dressing as a woman as part of artistic stylization (drag queen under the alias Tiffany Richbitch), she created evidence of his alleged inability to live in a heterosexual union. 🧊 She was represented by lawyer Jakub Kříž, known from ultraconservative organizations rejecting the rights of LGBTQ+ people. The contents of the ecclesiastical lawsuit, which was supposed to remain strictly confidential behind the closed doors of the ecclesiastical tribunal, leaked in May 2023 to the tabloid Blesk. Civil Court Ruling In January 2026, the District Court for Prague 2 ruled in a personality protection dispute that Brzobohatý brought against Kuchařová: ⚖️ The court concluded that Kuchařová presented false claims in the ecclesiastical lawsuit and consciously harmed the rights and dignity of her former partner. ⚖️ The model was ordered to pay Brzobohatý compensation for non-pecuniary harm amounting to 250,000 CZK. ⚖️ The court also ordered her to publish a public apology in the Blesk newspaper and prohibited her from continuing to spread these false statements. For all this, she should absolutely not be a member of the Government Council for Human Rights. 1️⃣ According to information from Blesk, she presented drag culture and non-traditional gender expressions in court as mental defects, immaturity, or inability to live a normal life. This is a textbook example of homophobia and transphobia that reinforces prejudices in society. 2️⃣ According to information from Blesk, she used sexuality and private preferences as leverage in property or divorce disputes. This is in direct contradiction to fundamental human rights standards. ⚠️🚧‼️ A person who has resorted to the denigration of minority identity for personal gain and faces legal repercussions for undermining human dignity cannot, by principle, guarantee the protection of equality and human rights at the national level. (translated)

„Naše schopnost vytvářet hotovost nám dává prostor investovat do technologií, které tuto transformaci posouvají dál, a současně vracet kapitál akcionářům. Toto rozhodnutí odráží naši důvěru v dlouhodobou příležitost, která je před námi,“Zakladatel a generální ředitel Nvidie Jensen Huang spojil rekordní program s prudkým růstem společnosti během rozmachu umělé inteligence. #Nvidia #zpětnýodkup #akcie

The principal of a Slovak elementary school, who succeeded in her efforts to calm the attacker after his murderous attack in the school office, received an award for professional conduct, while two victims of the attack, including a twelve-year-old teacher, are fighting for their lives. (translated)

Please, Mr. Babiš graced us with the information that he is sufficiently wealthy and therefore does not need to steal. Coincidentally, this is the same narrative that retirees used to share among themselves in chain messages at a time when even Andrej Babiš did not yet know that he wanted to enter politics. And I think that the whole idea is fundamentally nonsense. It is information that is objectively correct, but it does not describe the problem as it really is. Andrej Babiš really does not need more money. Sure, we have the scandals around subsidies and the use of Agrofert, which his critics have long attacked as privileging a large holding at the expense of smaller players. But all of this is just a facade. What Andrej Babiš truly desires is power. To prove not only to himself but also to his surroundings what can be bent, and what cannot be bent; what can be broken. Ideally, without consequences. Andrej Burešuje simply because he can. Do you remember the episode of The Simpsons in which Mr. Burns blocks the sun over Springfield and then also steals a lollipop from Maggie? Not because he needed the lollipop. Because real power does not begin at the moment when you can take what you need. It begins at the moment when you can take even what you do not need at all, just to show everyone that no one can stop you. And this is exactly what this argument of "I am rich, I do not need to steal" is not about at all. (translated)

Some events have symbolic significance. Šimon Pánek was dismissed from the Council of the Government for Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations. Founder and director of "People in Need". He had to leave. He stood by Havel during the Velvet Revolution. He created a great humanitarian work. They hate him. True believer in human rights. That’s why he had to go. (translated)

In the laboratory without a photomicroscope, she counted forty-seven chromosomes in the child's cells. A colleague took the preparations for photography. She was then listed as the first author on the article that laid the foundations of human genetics. Additionally, her name was misspelled in the publication. Welcome to another episode of my series #WomenInScience. If you like it, please like and share it. Recommendation for threads - like each tweet (also for you to see where you left off), it's best to share just the first one (if you do it right away, then you won't have to come back). (translated)

The Chamber has begun discussions on a motion of no confidence in the government, with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš rejecting opposition accusations as part of the pre-election battle, while in Slovakia, following an attack by a student at a primary school, the death of a teacher has been confirmed and concerns about safety in schools have intensified. (translated)