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Karolina

@permanentoptimist.bsky.social
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Politics, International relations, science and tennis | Living somewhere in the world wherever this experience will finally take me

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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Kolejka w Sheffield o 6:50 rano, 10 minut przed otwarciem #wybory2025
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Got myself a ticket for RG, for what is the price of 2nd level at USO. And that’s my seat. Just above Rafa’s plaque. 😍
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Zachód, ruszać na wybory…
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Wszyscy wiedzą o kolejkach przed zamknięciem lokali wyborczych, a kolejkę zaraz po otwarciu widzieliście? To jest Sheffield 26 minut po otwarciu. #wybory
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
US citizens, be prepared to be sent to prison in El Salvador without a due process for pushing the wrong person in the subway… I guess that means all NYC gets deported in the first round. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Swedes replying to the question: How would you describe your opinion of the following people?
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
With horrible literacy rates in US, 21% struggling with basic tasks, are we sure they haven’t understood “go right wing” instead of “do the right thing “? 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Ada Szpilka @adaszpilka.art · 19/03/2025
1. Jacek Ozdoba Z PREMEDYTACJĄ planował stratowanie Ewy Wrzosek przez rozemocjonowany tłum, chcąc zainicjować to popchnięciem. 2. Jan Kanthak otwartym tekstem potwierdził, że mieli swoich prokuratorów. JEBAĆ PiS! Materiał z @tvp.info
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’m sure all the banks will be thrilled to have new KYC requirement, even better one that would require to be renewed before each overseas wire transfer. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
All governments should now put travel to US as highly risky, as we already had tourists being”disappeared” and now it’s going for death penalties for everyone who they will define as “violent crime” (hint: anyone speaking and doing anything against Elon).
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
axios.com
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Europe, I guess we are up for a challenge now on: can we drink ourselves all the alcohol that was usually exported to US. 🙃
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Dumb and Dumber
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
NEW: Canada’s new PM, Mark Carney, has just delivered what sounded like a wartime speech, savaging Trump & the US. "These are dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust. We are getting over the shock, but let us never forget the lessons. We have to look after ourselves."💥
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
As a tumblrina I also feel compelled to say…
Screenshot showing a countdown to the Ides of March. It is in 6 days.
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
RIP Article 5
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A guaranteed job? Businesses not allowed to move production to locations that are cheaper, and the want to tell me they are against communism? 🤣
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
5 marca 1940 roku w Moskwie zapadła decyzja o wymordowaniu ponad 22 tysięcy polskich jeńców wojennych. Pamięć o kłamstwie i zbrodni katyńskiej niech będzie przestrogą dla świata. Nazywajmy zawsze rzeczy po imieniu: zbrodnia jest zbrodnią, ofiara - ofiarą, agresor - agresorem.
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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Kernen to Lutnick: When you talk about fentanyl and Canada, it sounds like an excuse. 43 pounds came across the Canadian border last year versus 21,148 pounds from Mexico. So it is really fentanyl?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau to Trump: "This is a very dumb thing to do."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This BBC graphic is a good way to show why reciprocal 25% tariffs will cause prices on some goods to go up far more than 25%. A piston used in a car engine made in Michigan will cross the U.S. border twice, and will be taxed 25% each time. Some products cross the U.S. border even more than that.
Heading: Tariffs could push up costs for car industry. The graphic shows a map, with 5 steps in the manufacture of a piston.

1. Powdered aluminium sent from Tennessee
2. Turned into rods in Pennsylvania
3. Shipped to Canada, Canadian tariff paid at border, rods shaped and polished in Canada
4. Rods sent to Mexico for assembly into pistons. Direct transfers from Canada to Mexico do not incur tariffs.
5. Shipped to Michigan. US tariff paid at border. Pistons become part of engine in Michigan.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2025
you can watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump talks about tariffs
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
American media has to finally learn that “mir” in Russian is not only translated to “peace” but also to the “world”, if you read it as: “was Zelenskyy ready to hand the World to Putin? no. Was Putin ready to have the World handed to him by Trump? Yes.” It finally makes sense.
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Well, farming dependent countries supported Trump with a 78% average, so if that’s their definition of „fun”… I guess to each their own.
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So he got picked because he’s great for the economy? 🙄
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Po czym poznać, że ruskie onuce już same nie wiedzą, gdzie mają szerzyć propagandę z Kremla? Nawet na Pudelku pełno ruskiego plucia na Tuska za to, że pojechał do Londynu. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Facts matter.
Social media post by Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner
) with the text: 'If you include aid that’s been promised but not yet allocated, Europe is putting twice as much money towards supporting Ukraine.' The post includes a bar chart titled 'Aid Promised to Ukraine: US vs Europe,' showing the US has promised $125 billion ($120 spent in the US, $5 spent outside) and Europe has promised $259 billion ($138 allocated, $121 promised). The chart, labeled 'My @Morning_Joe
 chart,' cites sources from the Kiel Institute and CSIS, with red and blue bars representing the US and Europe, respectively.
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Polish Foreign Minister adding to the European voices in support of Ukraine.
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Radosław Sikorski @radek-sikorski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Sercem jestem z dzielnymi żołnierzami Ukrainy, którzy bronią bastionów wolności przed agresją, chciwością i nihilizmem. Polska będzie wspierać wolną Ukrainę aż do osiągnięcia sprawiedliwego pokoju.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
EU foreign policy chief: “.. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.” @kajakallas.bsky.social
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PLGC @plgc-ontwitterx.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Zelenskyy meeting was a planned ambush. Set up in advance. Watch the video. They are deliberately blindsiding Zelenskyy, deliberately trying to smear him, provoke him and humiliate him. The intended audience is not us. The intended audience is Vladimir Putin.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
You CAN do something and donate to the Ukrainian Armed Forces here ↘️ savelife.in.ua/en/reporting...
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Fund reporting - savelife.in.ua
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
As if it wasn’t clear yet that Trump never planned to sign it today.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Is that the way all bearded men will dress going on according to MAGA?
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Rest in peace, Roberta Flack…
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.
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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥 @sanderturnhout.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#swasticar #swasticars
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 23/02/2025
The blue and yellow of Ukraine. The colours of resistance against imperialism. On the eve of this grim anniversary, they adorn our building as a symbol of our unflinching support for the Ukrainian people. Our neighbours, partners, and future EU members.
The buildings of the European Commission and the European Council are illuminated in blue and yellow, the colours of the Ukrainian flag. Between them, the street, an EU flag and a Ukrainian flag are visible. It is otherwise dark.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. 
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Karolina @permanentoptimist.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
PiS już otwarcie za nazizmem. Z jednej sceny Morawiecki i hajlowanie.
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Jacek Liberski 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇲🏳️‍🌈 @jacekliberski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is Ukraine, Mr. Trump.
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