The Trojkast (formerly Gdańsk News)

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After years of complaints by business owners and foreigners that the residency process at the Pomeranian Urząd Wojewódzki was excessively slow and arbitrary…an investigation has uncovered several officials taking bribes to “expedite” the process. gov.pl/web/po-gdansk/…

nytimes.com/2024/11/17/wor… via @NYTimes

IDF firing on UNIFIL locations in South Lebanon. Polish soldiers are also part of this mission.

Discovered an active Facebook group with 23K members dedicated solely to gathering and identifying mushrooms in and around Gdańsk. The Polish (Slavic?) is strong with these ones: facebook.com/groups/4082340…

Today is Tag der Deutschen Einheit in Germany, the national holiday in honour of German reunification. It's also the day we celebrate David Hasselhoff single-handedly bringing down the Berlin Wall by singing "Looking for Freedom" atop a cherry picker.

@steven_seegel Seeing what happened in Springfield after comments by Trump and Vance, perhaps they didn’t want to provide a highly visible platform for more disinformation?

Wish there was a 2nd Harris-Trump and Walz-Vance debate on foreign policy. Still can't believe they devoted so little time to US engagements, and zero time during the #VPDebate2024 to Ukraine. Playing to the swing state votes, I guess. Trust your voters. We don't live in bubbles.

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, changes their identities and their names. How does that differ from the Nazis who kidnapped Russian and Polish children for the same purpose?

@steven_seegel @20DaysMariupol @mstyslavchernov @Liberov I hope you also urged your students to make sure they are registered to vote…

Today, I showed @20DaysMariupol in class to undergrad students, and I don't regret it one bit. Some of my students cried while watching it. The conversations we managed afterwards were extraordinary. Thank you @mstyslavchernov @Liberov and to everyone involved with the film. 🇺🇦🙏

This is Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic Margaret Eleanor Atwood, author of the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale", supporting Ukraine at a rally in Toronto (2022). Thank you Margaret. Thank you Canada! 🌻🇨🇦

The true test of your integration programs- if three foreign nationals choose (and are able to) communicate in the host language (in this case Polish) as it is the common shared language among them.

My course books and some source books for 2024/25. I’ll be adding items by @EricaMarat @OKhromeychuk @BotakozKassymb1. I wish someone would put together “The Ukraine Reader” for undergrad students. Don’t know if anyone has thought about it yet. Maybe I will have to do it myself.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a US permanent resident rescued from imprisonment in Russia, displayed incredible eloquence despite the circumstances. He had been jailed by Putin since April 2022.

@ChrisLashHist Dear Poland: Please stop trying to win the Victim Olympics. Your neighbors have you beat in this regard, and you have actual arenas (in both politics and sports) where you SHOULD be leading. Take your rightful place as a demographic and geographic CEE leader, proszę bardzo.

Pretty sure that it'd be the first one as Poland has this constant desire to educate the outside world about what it's gone through rather than be comfortable enough to present its achievements in other fields as important in themselves

Ok, here's a good one. If Poland was to have an Olympic games would you prefer an opening ceremony to be historically educative for outside viewers or culturally ironic/winking aimed at domestic audiences? Also, what would you include?

NA ŻYWO | Spotkanie premiera Donalda Tuska z prezydentem Ukrainy Wołodymyrem Zełenskim. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

LIVE: Kyiv children's hospital hit in Russian attack twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is so you believe nothing. Then you will do nothing.

@steven_seegel Come to Gdańsk!

A good June morning to be doing my thing in Warsaw. The talk went well!

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about Georgia without telling me you know nothing