Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator

- Texas turned blue. - Kansas turned blue. Democrats flipped Senate seats in South Carolina and Iowa and took control of both chambers of Congress. A massive blue wave swept across the US.

Welcome back (again) to the team, USA! (For how long this time?)

Europeans and Canadians celebrating the defeat of Trump and MAGA. 🇪🇺🇨🇦

After everything Trump and MAGA have put Europe and Canada through, you can understand why so many of us are celebrating their defeat. But one thing remains unchanged: our future must no longer depend on who governs Washington. 🇪🇺🇨🇦

Texas is blue!

Trump and MAGA are so bad that they achieved what once seemed impossible: turning Texas blue.

Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Viktor Orbán all backed Polish President Nawrocki against Tusk. All three have a history of ties to Putin’s Russia. Even Alexander Dugin and Dmitry Medvedev have sided with Nawrocki. Russia and its allies in Europe clearly want PiS back in power in Poland. I wonder why.

MAGA, pro-Russian and anti-EU accounts are accusing Donald Tusk of being a “globalist” who wants to flood Poland with migrants. Let’s look at what Donald Tusk has actually done on immigration in Poland and Europe: - Deployed thousands of soldiers, police officers and border guards to secure Poland’s borders. - Reinforced the border fence with Belarus, expanding surveillance systems and security infrastructure. - Suspended most asylum applications at the Belarusian border, a measure repeatedly extended by his government. - Reintroduced border controls with Germany and Lithuania to combat illegal immigration. - Publicly refused additional migrant relocation quotas under the EU’s migration pact, standing right next to Ursula von der Leyen. - Tightened visa rules, student visa requirements and work permit procedures to restrict abuses of the immigration system. - Reduced the number of work visas issued by 87%, from 123 000 in the first quarter of 2022, under the PiS government, to just 16 000 in the first quarter of 2026, under Donald Tusk. - Increased the enforcement of deportation decisions, with 2 700 deportations in the first quarter of 2026, compared with around 900 in the same period of 2022, under PiS. - Continued border pushbacks, despite criticism from human rights organisations and international institutions. - Defended stricter European border protection and argued that uncontrolled immigration threatens Europe’s security. Donald Tusk is strongly pro-European, but his record on immigration is far more restrictive than the “globalist” caricature suggests. Being pro-European does not mean supporting open borders.

Holy Europe. 🇪🇺

In just a few days, both the President of Mexico and Poland’s Foreign Minister have publicly criticised Marine Le Pen over her statements. What a great start to her foreign policy, which is already isolating France.

Madame Le Pen, as a friend and ally of France, Poland does not interfere in your politics. Please respect us by not interfering in ours.

Dmitrij Miedwiediew, były prezydent Rosji, stwierdził, że w Polsce doszło do zamachu stanu, a “liberałowie Tuska, protegowanego Brukseli, uciskają konserwatystów z PiS”. I wszystko jasne.

W Polsce prawo wygra z przemocą.

The events at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw last night were not elegant but the alternative was to concede an unconstitutional transformation of Poland into a presidential republic. Poland continues to be ruled by a coalition government elected by parliament.

The stand off around Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is about restoring rule of law to an institution which had been politicised by the populist government which lost power in the election of 2023. Its president repeatedly broke the law by steering politically sensitive cases to hand-picked judges. It failed to pass its own budget,

⚠️Mamy kolejne nagranie z TK. Tym razem prezydent krzyczy do sędziów, że „nie są sędziami” i w otoczeniu funkcjonariuszy SOP wchodzi po schodach na górę.

I stand with Donald Tusk ! 🇵🇱🇪🇺

Moim zdaniem Karol Nawrocki przybył do sędziów TK, aby osobiście ich przekonać, że nie jest zdolny wykonywać funkcji Prezydenta RP. Mam wrażenie, że mu się udało.

This is Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki. Backed by PiS, the party behind Poland’s constitutional crisis since 2015, he refused to swear in judges elected by Parliament. Now he’s caught in a physical confrontation with a female judge, one of those he refused to swear in.