Banning TikTok was the biggest own goal of the US. The reactionaries that want to ban social media platforms really haven't thought it through.

Banning TikTok = Empowering RedNote
Boycotting Twitter = Empowering fascists

So basic that it's crazy that so many don't understand.

4-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel has endorsed the Greens for the next German elections.

So I've decided to make some bets on which party each of the current F1 drivers would vote for. Completely scientific and unbiased.

"Ah, but you can't trust polls in Romania because [this and this partisan reason]"

Yet they are, even if with bigger margins of errors than in other places, usually accurate enough. So the shocking part is not the errors on Lasconi, Ciolacu or Cuicǎ - it's the Georgescu error.

It also wasn't simply a lack of polling or specific pollsters failing. All pollsters had Georgescu in a short range of results, very far from the result.

What happened in Romania and polling is an interesting case. The error on Georgescu is gigantic, and it's not mirrored in candidates from the same populist camp.

Mainstream candidates all have high errors (positive for Lasconi and negative for the government's candidates).

The article offers an overview of the state of party politics in Eastern Europe.

But also has 4 visualizations to explain some key facts and Eastern particularities that will be key for the next years.

👉🏻 www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/can-eastern-...

🎉 Someone got a promotion 🎉

I'll now be working as Political Advisor for Strategic Research and Data Analysis for the European Green Party in view of the 2024 European Elections.

Incredibly interesting museum about how over time the Andalucian people fought and gained autonomy and the role of Blas Infante. A must-go if you're ever near Seville.

📍Museum of Andalusian Autonomy (Coria del Río, Spain)