Bartosz Pieliński
@bartoszpielinski.bsky.social
Associate Professor @University of Warsaw // political science, public policy, computer science
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Hear me (a guy from Eastern Europe) out: it looks like the USA is in the process of fast-track Orbánization; in other words -- you are living in a prequel to Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
Why I’m so Mad Right Now
YouTube video by hankschannel
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June 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Hear me (a guy from Eastern Europe) out: it looks like the USA is in the process of fast-track Orbánization; in other words -- you are living in a prequel to Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
Vladimir, STOP!
April 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Vladimir, STOP!
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Reposted by Bartosz Pieliński
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Everyone who quotes the words of John Paul II “BE NOT AFRAID”, should remember that they were meant to strengthen the Polish nation in its resistance against the Russian domination.
February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Everyone who quotes the words of John Paul II “BE NOT AFRAID”, should remember that they were meant to strengthen the Polish nation in its resistance against the Russian domination.
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"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I am a Pole old enough to remember the fall of the Soviet Union. Believe me when I say that the United States is collapsing much faster.
February 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I am a Pole old enough to remember the fall of the Soviet Union. Believe me when I say that the United States is collapsing much faster.
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The American right has turned to Hungary to learn how authoritarians consolidate power.
The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.
The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.
February 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The American right has turned to Hungary to learn how authoritarians consolidate power.
The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.
The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.
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📆 On 1 January, Poland took over the EU presidency from Hungary.
John Chin & Ellie Kim outline the stakes for Europe, and the imperative of promoting a democratic U-turn ↩️ in central Europe, and Poland itself, after years of democratic backsliding.
👉 bit.ly/4gsrCIc
John Chin & Ellie Kim outline the stakes for Europe, and the imperative of promoting a democratic U-turn ↩️ in central Europe, and Poland itself, after years of democratic backsliding.
👉 bit.ly/4gsrCIc
Promoting Poland’s democratic U-turn
On 1 January, Poland took over the rotating EU presidency from Hungary. John Chin and Ellie Kim outline the stakes for Europe, and the imperative of promoting a democratic U-turn in central Europe – a...
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February 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📆 On 1 January, Poland took over the EU presidency from Hungary.
John Chin & Ellie Kim outline the stakes for Europe, and the imperative of promoting a democratic U-turn ↩️ in central Europe, and Poland itself, after years of democratic backsliding.
👉 bit.ly/4gsrCIc
John Chin & Ellie Kim outline the stakes for Europe, and the imperative of promoting a democratic U-turn ↩️ in central Europe, and Poland itself, after years of democratic backsliding.
👉 bit.ly/4gsrCIc
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When I was growing up in Poland, the communist government banned the word "elite" (because it was used by Djilas) and "bureaucracy" (because it was used by Trotsky.h
To comply with Trump's executive order on DEI, workers at NOAA have been instructed to deactivate specific agency materials containing the following keywords, per memos I obtained:
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
When I was growing up in Poland, the communist government banned the word "elite" (because it was used by Djilas) and "bureaucracy" (because it was used by Trotsky.h
Elon Musk + AfD = Ferdinand Porsche
December 21, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Elon Musk + AfD = Ferdinand Porsche
Wow! This book is just amazing.... Much more balanced than the cover or title suggests, but all the more chilling in its conclusions. I don't think there is an equally good position analyzing the political consequences of the development of Big Techs.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Tech Coup
An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
press.princeton.edu
December 1, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Wow! This book is just amazing.... Much more balanced than the cover or title suggests, but all the more chilling in its conclusions. I don't think there is an equally good position analyzing the political consequences of the development of Big Techs.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...