"As well as his vocal antisemitism, Braun is anti-Ukrainian, anti-American and anti-EU. In 2019, he declared that “the American empire is a political and military tool of Jewish blackmail against Poland”."
#scumbag
notesfrompoland.com/2026/03/07/p...
He missed the Steelers beating the Cowboys. Maybe he watched in 1980.
"The proportion of Poles saying they dislike Jews (40%) and Americans (18%) rose eight percentage points in both cases since last year, more than for any other group. The next biggest increase, of five percentage points, was for Ukrainians (43%)."
notesfrompoland.com/2026/02/06/p...
A noir-style illustrated poster titled “The Case of the Disappearing Copyright.” The Lockette—a cartoon character whose body is an open yellow padlock—cautiously steps out of an open vault marked with a copyright symbol. A strong beam of light shines from outside the frame, casting a large copyright symbol onto the floor. Floating eyes and a magnifying glass with a question mark evoke a detective mystery. Red footprints lead toward the open vault door. Text reads: “Public Domain Day 2026” and “Jan 21st @10am PT: Virtual.” Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
Celebrate the public domain on Jan 21, 2026! 🕵️🔍
“The Case of the Disappearing Copyright" is a virtual event — FREE to attend! Come explore what enters the #publicdomain & why it matters.
📅 Wed Jan 21
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍ONLINE
🎟️ Register ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1977502652...
#PublicDomainDay
"Nawrocki, a former boxer and supporter of his hometown football club Lechia Gdańsk, admitted that in his younger days he had taken part in brawls between football hooligans, calling them “noble fights”."
#ffs
notesfrompoland.com/2026/01/11/p...
The proportion of Poles opposed to accepting Ukrainian refugees has reached its highest ever level of 46%, up from 3% in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Other recent surveys have also indicated that sentiment is turning against Ukrainian refugees, almost a million of whom remain in Poland
NPR: Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions
This DoD review is clearly designed to shrink the number of women who bravely serve in combat roles, which would be devastating to our military readiness.
Women have always made our military stronger—
And they're more qualified to serve in combat than Hegseth is to be SecDef.
📣 Kicking off 2026 with a new article in @eepolitics.bsky.social!
When do voters with left-wing economic views support populist radical right parties?
Many supporters of 🇵🇱 PiS are left-authoritarians (left-wing econ & authoritarian socio-cult views)... 1/4 👇
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EISET...
Post-communism is over!
"The removal of the round table means that “I can proudly say that post-communism has today ended in Poland”, declared Nawrocki. “Long live a free Poland.”"
#RevisionistHistory
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/18/p...
"During the final, run-off round of the election in June, Nawrocki sought to win over the voters of eliminated candidate Grzegorz Braun, a far-right leader who attacked a Hanukkah celebration in parliament, putting out the candles with a fire extinguisher." 🤔
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/13/n...
🎉 We're back with our year-end countdown of SI articles you may have missed at number 8️⃣:
📘"Overdried, Without Curing? F*Ck, this [Is Supposed to be] Government Licensed Skunk!” Medical Cannabis and the Refracted Publics Within an Online Polish Drug Forum"
Funded by @ncn.gov.pl and the Polish Academy of Sciences, with thanks to IFiS PAN and GSSR
We also had a nice conference at IFiS PAN and @gssr-warsaw.bsky.social that invited scholars from the CEE on social movements and protest about the CEE
Thank you to @radiukiewicz.bsky.social and everyone who participated!
funded by...
politicalinequality.org/2025/11/06/e...
We had a nice three-day PhD workshop, connected to a conference, on social movements and protest @gssr-warsaw.bsky.social
Funded by NAWA, co-organized with GSSR
Thank you to the students and faculty who participated!
politicalinequality.org/2025/11/28/p...
"OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, is acquiring Neptune.ai, a Polish-founded startup that helps track the training of AI models through tools for monitoring, analysing and comparing machine-learning experiments."
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/04/o...
"In April this year, PM Donald Tusk established a special commission to investigate “the mechanisms of repression against civil society organisations and social activists in 2015-2023”, the period in which the national-conservative PiS government was in power."
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/26/p...
and for migration: culture under attack; economic burden; illegals and fraudsters; extradition necessity; nation-state should decide; administrative burden; general system failure; security threat; criminals; and welfare state overload.
The ID'd illiberal themes (labels) for covid: threat scepticism; great reset and elite control; undermining the economy; medical choice; truth; and threatening way of life
See comments for more
-- Q: do monthly increases of asylum seekers and covid deaths lead to increase in illiberal policy frame messages?
-- A: No. Neither for migration nor for covid
See comments for more
Strong conclusion. Take a close look at the empirical aspects:
-- Members of Parliament and Congress
-- Legislative speeches in Austria & Germany (2014 - 2017), Hungary & USA (2021 - 2021)
-- policy domains of migration and Covid pandemic only
See comments for more
"On Thursday morning, an overwhelming majority of 554 MEPs voted in favour of waiving Braun’s immunity. Only 60 were opposed to the motion, including MEPs from Poland’s opposition national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party"
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/13/p...
#ZofiaRydet "first major solo exhibition in the UK presents Rydet’s monumental project, Sociological Record, in which she ambitiously documented the homes and people of Poland in more than 20,000 images taken between 1978 and 1997, the year of her death."
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/04/l...
"OECD also notes that Poland has one of the highest rates of employment among immigrants as a whole, as well as experiencing some of the highest levels of immigration among the 38 countries belonging to the organisation."
notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/05/p...
It was a particularly easy Spelling Bee, today. But still, I got it.
It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of the universe, but I was pleased to get my Halloween Hat badge on Spelling Bee today.
Scumbag antisemite and *member of the European Parliament* Grzegorz Braun, along with vicious Polish right-wing trolls, forced a small Polish town to not honor a local Jewish composer.
Remember: Braun got 6% of the vote for President in Poland
#StopAntisemitism
notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/24/p...
Its a sensible translation.
Are the seats inside the train?
🔔 New paper with @susanszky.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly: The Effect of Politicization on Protest Participation in Non-Democracies: The Case of Hungary 🔔
We test whether politicization mobilizes or demobilizes partization in an autocratizing context
Paper: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...
