Pirátská ženská revoluce
Výsledky voleb v letošním roce ale naznačují, že voličstvo Pirátů hledá po letech strávených s muži ve vedení a u moci i něco jiného. Nastala ženská pirátská revoluce.
KOMENTÁŘ 💬 | „Výsledky voleb v letošním roce ale naznačují, že voličstvo Pirátů hledá po letech strávených s muži ve vedení a u moci i něco jiného. Nastala ženská pirátská revoluce,“ píše Apolena Rychlíková pro Český rozhlas Plus. irozhl.as/xNj
08.10.2025 08:52 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babiš’s Pyrrhic victory
Andrej Babiš’s ANO won the 2025 Czech election on 3–4 October. Yet as Jan Rovny explains, Babiš will find it challenging to form a stable government.
Fine blog on Czech election. Big win for Babiš as in 2017 pyrrhic.
But am left wondering after cost-of-living dominated campaign, if liberal–illiberal cultural divide so key. And if shapeshifting pragmatist AB really readable in classic left/right,lib/con terms?
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
07.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Zemřel spisovatel,dramatik a disident Ivan Klíma(94). Napsal přes 20 knih a byly přeloženy do 30 jazyků. Hlavním motivem byly vztahy mezi muži a ženami. Uspěl v 60.letech, za normalizace šel na index. Publikovat mohl až po listopadu 1989. Čest jeho památce! #RIP ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domac...
04.10.2025 09:40 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
TLDR: Expect a Babiš-Motorist government with small majority or a strong minority administration reluctantly enabled by opposition parties as the less evil.
04.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
With just under half of electoral precincts in Czechia counted, it looks like Andrej Babis’s ANO movement that won big. Now on 38% of votes counted. Likely to drop has results from big cities come in, but 35%?
04.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Over 95% votes now counted. Babis’s ANO wins over a third of the vote. Some form of coalition with ANO at the helm likely.
04.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Czechia, 97,63% polling places counted:
National parliament election
ANO-PfE: 35.08% (+8.0)
SPOLU-ECR|EPP: 22.95% (-4.8)
STAN-EPP: 11% (n.a.)
Piráti-G/EFA: 9% (n.a.)
SPD-ESN: 7.88% (-1.7)
Auto-PfE: 7% (new)
Stačilo!-NI|S&D: 4% (n.a.)
...
+/- vs. 2021 election
➤ europeelects.eu/czechia
04.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 15
A Timeline of High-Profile Shootings at Houses of Worship
The attack on a Mormon church in Michigan was one of many similar shootings over the past 20 years, according to an analysis by The Trace.
The September 28 attack on an LDS church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, was at least the 20th high-profile shooting at a house of worship in the past two decades.
Collectively, these shootings left at least 92 people dead and 100 wounded.
29.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 9 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
Moldovan voters have (yet again!) thwarted Ru’s efforts to intimidate, buy, and manipulate them into abandoning their pro-EU course.
29.09.2025 00:35 — 👍 275 🔁 53 💬 6 📌 0
In the data on drone and missile strikes by fascist Russia on democratic Ukraine since Trump took office, you can literally see Putin test Trump, gauge the reaction, and then test more - each time raising the intensity of his attacks.
21.09.2025 19:11 — 👍 64 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 0
Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump
Think you know what the First Amendment means and protects? You − and a lot of Jimmy Kimmel’s defenders − may well be wrong.
The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel is a serious threat to free expression – but not because the comedians’ rights were violated.
Just last year a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that the government can’t legally pressure a corporation to suppress speech.
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19.09.2025 21:04 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.
Early climate models from the 1960s accurately predicted global warming, stratospheric cooling, and Arctic amplification decades before observations confirmed these patterns. A @noaa.gov scientist explains:
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03.09.2025 20:26 — 👍 38 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
02.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 106 🔁 58 💬 0 📌 6
NEW: The Fifth Circuit rejects a Second Amendment challenge to the federal law strictly regulating the possession of firearm silencers. The panel describes the law as presumptively lawful & holds that the challenger failed to rebut that presumption on these facts.
cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
01.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk
Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...
Ellen Lust from Cornell: "If the NRC & FLAS programs are shuttered permanently, the effects will be felt for generations to come..US citizens will be ill-equipped to live, work & lead in a global world.. these policies weaken the US’ global position & will make America less secure and prosperous.”
30.08.2025 00:32 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Bulletin: Women in Rural Areas Face a Higher Risk of Harm
Geographic isolation and an uptick in gun ownership increases their chances of experiencing violence
Geographic isolation and increased gun ownership puts women in rural areas at higher risk of becoming victims of violence.
28.08.2025 20:38 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Thai Woman Jailed For 43 Years For Lese-majeste Freed
A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom's longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on Wednesday under a mass pardon marking the king's birthday.
A Thai woman originally sentenced to 43 years for lese-majeste has been pardoned and freed. But she still spent 8 years behind bars just for posting anti-monarchy material on social media.
27.08.2025 14:07 — 👍 239 🔁 57 💬 10 📌 3
Trump’s intel chief freezes out Five Eyes allies on Ukraine
The intelligence alliance of the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as the U.S. is one of the closest in the world.
“In a July 20 directive signed by Gabbard, reported by CBS, the U.S. intelligence community was given orders to classify all analysis and information related to the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations as "NOFORN," or no foreign dissemination”
www.politico.eu/article/tuls...
25.08.2025 01:33 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
SCOTUS now being asked to take up this case and strike down large-capacity magazine bans nationwide www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
25.08.2025 01:48 — 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1
Russia–Ukraine: peace looks more remote than ever
Russia has not scaled back its ambitions and America will not pressure it to do so. Territorial issues and security guarantees are currently second-order issues. The war remains intractable.
"There is currently no sign Putin will scale back his expansive ambitions unless he concludes that continuing to pursue them may call into question the security of his regime."
Sharp and succinct as always from @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social
22.08.2025 22:09 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
President Nawrocki starts his five-year term in Poland.
This presidency is expected to bring a much more difficult cohabitation with Tusk's government than under President Duda. Nawrocki is set to clash with the government over the rule of law. And he is already criticizing judges. Let's unpack.
06.08.2025 08:55 — 👍 18 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has amended the constitution. From now on, he is no longer limited in how many times he can run for president — he can participate in elections as many times as he wishes.
Additionally, the presidential term has been extended from 5 to 6 years.
02.08.2025 11:16 — 👍 282 🔁 131 💬 40 📌 27
Selected school shootings in the US, 2012-2022
When researchers looked at about 100 communities across the country that had endured school shootings, they found that local economies also struggled in the aftermath.
School shootings reshape communities beyond the schoolyard. Residents withdraw from public spaces, leading to lasting declines in consumer activity. buff.ly/L3uPPae
01.08.2025 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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