Paulina Kozlowska
@powderblush.bsky.social
(((Part Yoda, part Suzy Menkes))).
Somewhat charming lady, but a product of domestic politics.
Mostly coffee.
Please, clap
Somewhat charming lady, but a product of domestic politics.
Mostly coffee.
Please, clap
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Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich
June 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich
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"We have an FBI director who received $25,000 for appearing in a film, executive producing a film, made by a Ukrainian-American-Russian who worked on a propaganda project that was financed, in part, by Vladimir Putin's office."
"Why this isn't a bigger story, I don't know."
"Why this isn't a bigger story, I don't know."
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
YouTube video by Mother Jones
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"We have an FBI director who received $25,000 for appearing in a film, executive producing a film, made by a Ukrainian-American-Russian who worked on a propaganda project that was financed, in part, by Vladimir Putin's office."
"Why this isn't a bigger story, I don't know."
"Why this isn't a bigger story, I don't know."
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I see Trump admin skipped the Hungarian/Polish step of "harass judges who disagree with you by disciplinary proceedings or removing them from leadership positions or some other dickery" and went straight for the next level.
🚨 BREAKING: FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for obstruction of ICE agents, Kash Patel says
Patel said that Dugan obstructed "an immigration arrest operation last week."
www.axios.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I see Trump admin skipped the Hungarian/Polish step of "harass judges who disagree with you by disciplinary proceedings or removing them from leadership positions or some other dickery" and went straight for the next level.
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Visits to the U.S. in March fell nearly 12 percent year-over-year, government figures show, the first significant downturn since early in the pandemic. Analysts say Trump's visa revocations, detentions, deportations and tariffs are pushing tourists away
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
April 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Visits to the U.S. in March fell nearly 12 percent year-over-year, government figures show, the first significant downturn since early in the pandemic. Analysts say Trump's visa revocations, detentions, deportations and tariffs are pushing tourists away
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
April 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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I believe the swing in the polls for the center left in Canada is the largest ever swing in the polls — across every country with polling since 1935 — in a four-month period
Incredible. There has been a 144 seat swing in the Canadian seat projections in just *four months*. Has there ever been a rally-round-the-flag/leader like it?
April 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I believe the swing in the polls for the center left in Canada is the largest ever swing in the polls — across every country with polling since 1935 — in a four-month period
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City said that he would not run for re-election in the Democratic primary, an acknowledgment of the growing backlash against his embrace of President Trump and his record-low approval ratings. He will run as an independent instead.
Read more: nyti.ms/4j9Z3RG
Read more: nyti.ms/4j9Z3RG
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City said that he would not run for re-election in the Democratic primary, an acknowledgment of the growing backlash against his embrace of President Trump and his record-low approval ratings. He will run as an independent instead.
Read more: nyti.ms/4j9Z3RG
Read more: nyti.ms/4j9Z3RG
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this is a financial markets angle, which will likely prompt the Main Street vs Wall Street line, but www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Emerges as Biggest Loser in Markets From Trump’s Tariffs
Donald Trump’s shake-up of the global trading system is hurting US assets more than those in many of the big economies he has just slapped with additional tariffs.
www.bloomberg.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
this is a financial markets angle, which will likely prompt the Main Street vs Wall Street line, but www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Why would any self respecting lawyer want to work for this firm - which has a big London office - now it’s bent the knee to the gangster trying to end the rule of law?
Lawyer goes scorched earth on former employer in viral LinkedIn post
‘As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,’ former Skadden attorney Brenna Trout Frey declared Saturday
www.independent.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Why would any self respecting lawyer want to work for this firm - which has a big London office - now it’s bent the knee to the gangster trying to end the rule of law?
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Call me crazy, but I suspect the possible conviction of Marine Le Pen today for embezzlement of public funds is a priceless gift for her party, and particularly it's president, Jordan Bardella. Why, you ask? After all, she risks being banned from running for president in 2027 1/3
March 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Call me crazy, but I suspect the possible conviction of Marine Le Pen today for embezzlement of public funds is a priceless gift for her party, and particularly it's president, Jordan Bardella. Why, you ask? After all, she risks being banned from running for president in 2027 1/3
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The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
March 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
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Measles outbreaks have been reported in Oklahoma and Kansas as it continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico, with at least 370 people infected. See the spread of the virus in the U.S. here.
Where U.S. Measles Outbreaks Are Spreading
As new cases are reported, our maps and illustrations show the spread of the virus and how infections can run through a community.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Measles outbreaks have been reported in Oklahoma and Kansas as it continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico, with at least 370 people infected. See the spread of the virus in the U.S. here.
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I agree. I was in Munich and saw Vance’s speech - and the reaction to it. It was a visceral shock. Immediately afterwards I told an American friend, outside the hall, that Europeans would have to stop buying American weaponry. She just laughed. But you can see that beginning to happen.
In the past month, and I would mark the watershed moment as JD Vance's Munich speech, Europe has realized there is no going back: There may still be periods of Europhile Democratic administrations in which closer cooperation is possible, but the fundamental nature of the relationship has changed.
March 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I agree. I was in Munich and saw Vance’s speech - and the reaction to it. It was a visceral shock. Immediately afterwards I told an American friend, outside the hall, that Europeans would have to stop buying American weaponry. She just laughed. But you can see that beginning to happen.
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NEW: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has sued after the Trump administration's decision to cut funding.
The retreat of media as soft power is a BIG story right now. Meanwhile, Russia/China spending $$$ to reach more audiences.
RFE, Voice of America, BBC World Service all under pressure:
The retreat of media as soft power is a BIG story right now. Meanwhile, Russia/China spending $$$ to reach more audiences.
RFE, Voice of America, BBC World Service all under pressure:
Radio Free Europe Sues Overseer USAGM To Block Termination Of Federal Grant
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on March 18 said it had sued the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), as well as USAGM officials Kari Lake and Victor Morales, to block their attempt...
www.rferl.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
NEW: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has sued after the Trump administration's decision to cut funding.
The retreat of media as soft power is a BIG story right now. Meanwhile, Russia/China spending $$$ to reach more audiences.
RFE, Voice of America, BBC World Service all under pressure:
The retreat of media as soft power is a BIG story right now. Meanwhile, Russia/China spending $$$ to reach more audiences.
RFE, Voice of America, BBC World Service all under pressure:
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The big US academic conferences will be much smaller in future.
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The big US academic conferences will be much smaller in future.
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Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
The White House war on federal statistics
Economists and scientists worry over disappearing data and advisory groups
on.ft.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
Informacje ze świata powodują, że najchętniej poświęcałbym czas perfumom i klasycznym koktajlom.
Co mi przypomina, widziałam wczoraj w Biedronce szampana za 89.99 i zaczynam się zastanawiać, czy a) warto?, b) aby nie wrócić, by kupić.
Pił ktoś, wie ktoś coś? Te 90 zł to 2 porządne butelki prosecco.
Co mi przypomina, widziałam wczoraj w Biedronce szampana za 89.99 i zaczynam się zastanawiać, czy a) warto?, b) aby nie wrócić, by kupić.
Pił ktoś, wie ktoś coś? Te 90 zł to 2 porządne butelki prosecco.
March 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Informacje ze świata powodują, że najchętniej poświęcałbym czas perfumom i klasycznym koktajlom.
Co mi przypomina, widziałam wczoraj w Biedronce szampana za 89.99 i zaczynam się zastanawiać, czy a) warto?, b) aby nie wrócić, by kupić.
Pił ktoś, wie ktoś coś? Te 90 zł to 2 porządne butelki prosecco.
Co mi przypomina, widziałam wczoraj w Biedronce szampana za 89.99 i zaczynam się zastanawiać, czy a) warto?, b) aby nie wrócić, by kupić.
Pił ktoś, wie ktoś coś? Te 90 zł to 2 porządne butelki prosecco.
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Ukrainian immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits, a report by Poland's National Development Bank has concluded.
The research also indicated that Ukrainians contribute between 0.5% and 2.4% to Poland's annual GDP growth.
The research also indicated that Ukrainians contribute between 0.5% and 2.4% to Poland's annual GDP growth.
Ukrainian immigrants have "positive impact on Poland's GDP and budget", finds report
notesfrompoland.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Ukrainian immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits, a report by Poland's National Development Bank has concluded.
The research also indicated that Ukrainians contribute between 0.5% and 2.4% to Poland's annual GDP growth.
The research also indicated that Ukrainians contribute between 0.5% and 2.4% to Poland's annual GDP growth.
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Putin rejects 1-month ceasefire in Ukraine. He wants a final settlement instead (read, Ukrainian surrender). Much harder now for Trump to present Zelenskyy as the obstacle to peace but I fear he'll do it anyway. www.ft.com/content/c169...
Russia says it does not want a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine
Putin’s foreign policy adviser says Moscow wants long-term settlement taking its interests into account
www.ft.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Putin rejects 1-month ceasefire in Ukraine. He wants a final settlement instead (read, Ukrainian surrender). Much harder now for Trump to present Zelenskyy as the obstacle to peace but I fear he'll do it anyway. www.ft.com/content/c169...
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Breaking News: Pete Buttigieg is said to have decided he will not run for Senate in Michigan, opening the door to a 2028 presidential bid.
Pete Buttigieg, a Possible 2028 Contender, Won’t Run for Senate in Michigan
The former transportation secretary, who moved to Michigan from Indiana in 2022, had been seen as the most prominent potential candidate in next year’s marquee contest.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Breaking News: Pete Buttigieg is said to have decided he will not run for Senate in Michigan, opening the door to a 2028 presidential bid.
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The “heads, we win; tails, you lose” White House argument is probably the most notable part of this. The rest of this column misreads the history politics, imo.
Party in power historically takes blame for DC dysfunction. Idk why’d that would change now.
Party in power historically takes blame for DC dysfunction. Idk why’d that would change now.
Column: Senate Democrats haven’t even surrendered yet on a government shutdown — but already White House officials are gloating about making them eat crow, almost taunting them to vote “no,” writes Capitol bureau chief Rachael Bade.
‘They’re Totally Screwed’: White House Taunts Democrats on Shutdown
The administration thinks the opposition is about to eat crow.
www.politico.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The “heads, we win; tails, you lose” White House argument is probably the most notable part of this. The rest of this column misreads the history politics, imo.
Party in power historically takes blame for DC dysfunction. Idk why’d that would change now.
Party in power historically takes blame for DC dysfunction. Idk why’d that would change now.