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On the afternoon of Friday, October 30th, Poland's president boarded a plane for Senegal. Karol Nawrocki was somewhere over Spain when the news reached the cabin. Back in Warsaw, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, who had never taken the oath before the president that Polish law requires of a Constitutional Tribunal judge, ordered the suspension of the Tribunal’s president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and its vice president, Bartłomiej Sochański, for one month. She announced that she was now running the court. Nawrocki told the pilot to turn around at around 6:12 in the evening, and by midnight he was standing inside the Tribunal building beside...

you can: 🇧🇷 Steal elections 🇷🇴 Annul elections retroactively 🇬🇧 Cancel local elections 🇺🇸 Raid the home of the former President and opposition leader 🇷🇴 Ban election winners from running again 🇭🇺 Ban political opponents from running again 🇩🇪 Threaten to ban the most popular party 🇫🇷 Threaten to ban the leading presidential candidate 🇧🇷 Jail your opponent 🇵🇱 Storm the Constitutional Court And you still talk about doing all this in the name of “democracy” and the “rule of law.” Notice something? #polandcoup https://x.com/balazscseko/status/2116291760531857690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2116291760531857690%7Ctwgr%5E41659675535d7ad681b76b1908aa56a776650c9c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.fifthquarter.net%2Fthreads%2Fthe-pit-of-misery-politics-and-religion.2602%2Fpage-834

Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Saturday accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk of staging a forced takeover of the country's top court after the head of the court, an ally of ​the previous far right government, was suspended. Late on Friday, the Constitutional Tribunal said its ‌longest-serving judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska had suspended Bogdan Swieczkowski, the tribunal's president and an appointee of Tusk's hard-right predecessor, and was now in charge of the court. The move escalated a battle between Nawrocki, an ally of the previous nationalist ​government, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European government over control of the judiciary. "Tonight, there was...

Coup d'état underway in Poland after EU-aligned Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent police forces to the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw right after President Nawrocki left for Senegal for a diplomatic visit. Nawrocki is currently headed back to Poland. The President of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, Bogdan Swieczkowski, was suspended and possibly arrested. He is a known support of President Nawrocki. Several right-wing Polish MPs and their supports are reportedly on their way to the Constitutional Tribunal to defend the institution from being taken over by Donald Tusk. Warsaw's police forces are preventing the President of the Constitutional Tribunal...

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin will apparently talk to anyone about the Democrats’ lawfare plans if they capture the majority in the House or Senate next week; all you have to do is ask. Slotkin, while campaigning Thursday for congressional candidate Sean McCann, dished on what she has up her sleeve, according to an undercover video obtained exclusively by Townhall. “I’m worried that we’re going to be too nice,” the person said to Slotkin in the video, triggering a smirk from the senator. “What are we going to do to hold the Trump regime and its collaborators responsible? I’m talking prosecutions,”...

Former special counsel Jack Smith obtained draft fundraising emails and donor information from hundreds of President Trump’s supporters following the 2020 election, according to documents obtained by The Post. The records show that Smith was hoovering up details about potential donors to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee (TMAGAC) by obtaining draft fundraising appeals in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked for his supporters to contribute as “2020 Election Day Donors.” Smith’s team obtained the materials as part of the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” probe into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, an effort that culminated in the Jan....

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Monday that ​the country's federal police had requested that he ‌turn in his passports following a visit to his imprisoned father, former President Jair Bolsonaro. The senator, who was defeated on ​Sunday by President Luiz Inacio Lula da ​Silva in a runoff vote, said he intended ⁠to comply with the request, denying he planned to ​flee the country after the election. The younger Bolsonaro claimed, ​without providing evidence, that the police request was based on a ruling from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Brazil's ​top court and federal police did not immediately reply...

The judge wrote that the Trump administration’s defense of her firing “flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent.” A federal judge in New York ruled Monday that the Justice Department unlawfully fired Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI director James B. Comey, from her job as a federal prosecutor. Comey had argued in her federal lawsuit that she was fired because of her father, whom President Donald Trump fired as head of the FBI during his first term, and because of her perceived political beliefs. The Trump administration has brought federal charges against her father,...

I’ve warned before about the consequences of the 2026 election amounting to enabling the vengeance-minded wing of the Democratic Party, and that their target list will run much, much longer than just President Trump. Now, the Left has made explicitly clear that they plan to punish young people who had the audacity to try and serve the country in a Republican administration – and the costs for their careers will be great. Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin, currently one of the CIA’s Senators tangentially from Michigan, who repeatedly acts as an object lesson in demonstrating what GLP-1 overuse does to the...

The employee, Ashley Tellis, is also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense The Department of Justice said Tuesday that a State Department employee allegedly removed classified documents and met with Chinese officials. The employee, Ashley Tellis, is also a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense, and is considered a subject matter expert on India and South Asian affairs, according to the DOJ, https://www.foxnews.com/us/state-department-employee-allegedly-removed-classified-docs-met-chinese-officials

SEATTLE - Two bins of undelivered ballots were found inside a dumpster at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, King County Elections confirmed. What we know: Officials said they recovered multiple ballots after two bins of mail were discovered inside a dumpster at Golden Gardens this week. Election workers have since reissued the mail-in ballots to the affected voters. King County Elections reported the incident to the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which are currently investigating the matter.

1. The Left collapses in Latin and South America2. Far fewer kids claim to be Alphabet people"a recent analysis of federal data indicates a sharp decline in the percentage of young American teenagers identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. According to a October 2026 report by The Washington Post and an analysis by psychologist Jean Twenge on her Substack Generation Tech, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a significant reversal of previous upward trends."https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/10/08/number-teens-who-identify-themselves-gay-or-bisexual-free-fall/3. (C)rap suddenly collapses"Rap and hip-hop experienced a historic commercial downturn, marked by a complete absence of rap songs in the top...

On Oct. 14, MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had secretly traveled to Russia for meetings with the Russian security service, the FSB. The sensational story was attributed to two anonymous sources and immediately suggested that the FBI director was involved in some sinister dealings with Moscow. ---snip--- Russiagate remains the prime example of how this machinery operates. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manufactured the Trump-Russia collusion narrative and used its contractors, Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, to disguise its allegations as independent intelligence. That much is now widely understood, at least among conservatives. What remains far...

Only two years ago, the idea that some Americans were being “debanked,” or cut off from financial institutions after being deemed politically incorrect, extreme, or dangerous, was often dismissed as a conspiracy or an accident. But federal regulators announced on Wednesday that they had reached a very different conclusion: Debanking really did happen. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said that nine of the nation’s largest banks, as measured by assets, had policies in place between 2020 and 2025 that may have influenced their decisions to “deny or limit access to financial services” to customers or potential...

Ex-special counsel Jack Smith obtained personal information on 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters — including some who contributed as little as $1 or bought “red MAGA hats” — according to subpoena returns obtained by a Senate Republican committee. In a Wednesday memo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) disclosed the details of data Smith’s office received, denouncing the former prosecutor of President Trump for “abuse of authority.” More than 148,000 rows on spreadsheets containing the findings, including donors from 2005 to 2021. Dates of birth, home addresses, email addresses, Republican party registration, information about credit cards or employment...

Infamous J-6 instigator Ray Epps never served time for any crimes after the January 6, 2021, protests and riot at the US Capitol. Ray Epps was listed as #16 on the FBI Most Wanted List for a few days after the January 6, 2021 protests until he was removed from the list. Epps led the charge on the US Capitol and was up front when protesters broke through two bike rack barriers. And it was Ray Epps who pushed a giant MAGA sign at police, a crime that sent at least eight protesters to prison for several years. Yet, Ray...

War Correspondent@warDaniel47·21hTHEY DIDN’T JUST KILL A DRUG LORD.THEY KILLED A DEEP STATE GENERAL.“El Mencho” was untouchable for 30 years. He had drones. Armored vehicles. Land mines. He shot down a military helicopter. The CIA looked the other way.Why?Because he wasn’t just moving drugs. He was moving children.On Sunday morning, Trump’s intelligence led Mexican Special Forces straight to his door in Tapalpa, Jalisco.He died in the helicopter. Like a dog.$15 million bounty. Collected.His son — life in prison.His daughter — arrested.His empire — burning.Right now, his soldiers are setting fire to buses in Guadalajara. They are pulling people from cars. They...

The Biden administration did attempt to prosecute parents federally for the crime of disagreeing with school boards in 2020 and 2021, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Weaponization Working Group. As America begins to vote early before the November 3 midterm election, this is worth recalling -- and, indeed, getting more details on, as it shows how far some are willing to go to criminalize and thereby control free citizens. The Weaponization Working Group came about after President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14147 to bring accountability and to hopefully prevent this from happening again....

...Afederally funded project recruiting landlords to house refugees kept operating after the Trump administration suspended its State Department award—with support from another federal agency. The project, Refugee Housing Solutions, is run by Church World Service. It recruits property owners and connects them with ReHome, an online platform matching refugees and other newcomers with rentals.... Its own suspension announcement⁠ explains how the operation continued: work funded by the State Department stopped, while services supported by the Department of Health and Human Services remained. One federal funding stream was suspended. Another kept the project running. The housing arrangements can include substantial financial...

In a huge scandal that’s destined to be ignored by the mainstream press, allegations have emerged that former special prosecutor Jack Smith’s team wiretapped and monitored not only President Donald Trump’s then-campaign adviser Susie Wiles in 2023, but also his lawyers as well.Citing newly declassified FBI records, Just The News reported on Monday that Smith’s team used a pen register/trap-and-trace (PR/TT) device on Wiles’ phone that allowed them to see who she called, who called her, when the calls happened, how long the calls lasted, and their metadata.