Jadwiga McKay
@rexjadwiga.bsky.social
“We have a saying in Ukraine: if you let a cat under the table, it will appear on the table. It’s the same with Putin.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“We have a saying in Ukraine: if you let a cat under the table, it will appear on the table. It’s the same with Putin.”
Reposted by Jadwiga McKay
Reposted by Jadwiga McKay
Blessed are the peacemakers
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Blessed are the peacemakers
A fitting poem on Poland’s Independence Day, motherland that I love so deeply.
Verses About Poland
By Adam Zagajewski
Translated by Antony Graham
(Postwar Polish Poetry - Third, Expanded Edition)
Verses About Poland
By Adam Zagajewski
Translated by Antony Graham
(Postwar Polish Poetry - Third, Expanded Edition)
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A fitting poem on Poland’s Independence Day, motherland that I love so deeply.
Verses About Poland
By Adam Zagajewski
Translated by Antony Graham
(Postwar Polish Poetry - Third, Expanded Edition)
Verses About Poland
By Adam Zagajewski
Translated by Antony Graham
(Postwar Polish Poetry - Third, Expanded Edition)
November 9th in German history:
1918 Fall of the German monarchy
1923 Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
1938 Kristallnacht
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1918 Fall of the German monarchy
1923 Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
1938 Kristallnacht
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
November 9th in German history:
1918 Fall of the German monarchy
1923 Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
1938 Kristallnacht
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1918 Fall of the German monarchy
1923 Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
1938 Kristallnacht
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
Interesting observation about Irish politics:
Presidential elections typically have a lower turnout than general elections (parliamentary) ones.
2025 presidential election - 45.8%
2024 general election - 59.7%
Presidential elections typically have a lower turnout than general elections (parliamentary) ones.
2025 presidential election - 45.8%
2024 general election - 59.7%
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Interesting observation about Irish politics:
Presidential elections typically have a lower turnout than general elections (parliamentary) ones.
2025 presidential election - 45.8%
2024 general election - 59.7%
Presidential elections typically have a lower turnout than general elections (parliamentary) ones.
2025 presidential election - 45.8%
2024 general election - 59.7%
Just another day in the United States of Authoritarianism.
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Just another day in the United States of Authoritarianism.
Ron Kostar From Frederick II and Catherine II to Hitler and Stalin, plus all of the other meddling, Poland has suffered immensely. At least Germany has mostly reconciled its destructive past. Moscow hasn’t; instead it takes pride in it and keeps the baleful wheels rolling forward.
August 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ron Kostar From Frederick II and Catherine II to Hitler and Stalin, plus all of the other meddling, Poland has suffered immensely. At least Germany has mostly reconciled its destructive past. Moscow hasn’t; instead it takes pride in it and keeps the baleful wheels rolling forward.
Stunning Pictish ring unearthed in Burghead excavation led by the University of Aberdeen this past autumn.
My ancient Scottish heart swells.
Photo: National Museums Scotland
My ancient Scottish heart swells.
Photo: National Museums Scotland
July 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Stunning Pictish ring unearthed in Burghead excavation led by the University of Aberdeen this past autumn.
My ancient Scottish heart swells.
Photo: National Museums Scotland
My ancient Scottish heart swells.
Photo: National Museums Scotland
Dagmara has met a couple of her music uncles today, and Budzyk got to show off for Uncle Joe.
July 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Dagmara has met a couple of her music uncles today, and Budzyk got to show off for Uncle Joe.
I’d already been planning to make Makaron z Truskawkami, then Iga Świątek won Wimbledon putting this dish on blast along the way to victory. It’s a delightful summertime treat. I used Latvian farmers cheese and Skyr garnishing it with fresh mint from my little herb garden. Smacznego!
July 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I’d already been planning to make Makaron z Truskawkami, then Iga Świątek won Wimbledon putting this dish on blast along the way to victory. It’s a delightful summertime treat. I used Latvian farmers cheese and Skyr garnishing it with fresh mint from my little herb garden. Smacznego!
I drove on a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway yesterday that I’d not been on since before Helene and was hit by the tree loss I saw.
July 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I drove on a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway yesterday that I’d not been on since before Helene and was hit by the tree loss I saw.
Whipped up Zupa Szczawiowa, often called Green Barszcz. A soup of various monikers as well as preparation methods. This batch had a Latvian touch. I see another heritage soup being conjured in the near future.
July 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Whipped up Zupa Szczawiowa, often called Green Barszcz. A soup of various monikers as well as preparation methods. This batch had a Latvian touch. I see another heritage soup being conjured in the near future.
Reposted by Jadwiga McKay
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
Reposted by Jadwiga McKay
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Weeding out more pro-Russia/antisemitic/pro-murder people from my social media circles.
May 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Weeding out more pro-Russia/antisemitic/pro-murder people from my social media circles.
“Hey, comrade Putin.” -President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
May 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Hey, comrade Putin.” -President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
After years of waiting my Nordica Iris has bloomed. Gorgeous cumulus clouds of white with hot bolts of red orange beards.
May 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
After years of waiting my Nordica Iris has bloomed. Gorgeous cumulus clouds of white with hot bolts of red orange beards.
Those dudes in Call The Next Witness know how to throw down a set of Rolling Stones tunes.
April 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Those dudes in Call The Next Witness know how to throw down a set of Rolling Stones tunes.
Lukashenka continues to subjugate Belarus. Trump is trying to follow his playbook in threatening journalists and restricting journalists’ access among his other attacks on democracy.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
An incessant crackdown in Belarus hurls dozens of independent journalists into harsh prisons
Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko
www.independent.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Lukashenka continues to subjugate Belarus. Trump is trying to follow his playbook in threatening journalists and restricting journalists’ access among his other attacks on democracy.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
So did JD Vance kill Papa Frank with Russian poison, some concoction made by Bobby Jr. or Oz, or was it just the weight of his evil?
April 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So did JD Vance kill Papa Frank with Russian poison, some concoction made by Bobby Jr. or Oz, or was it just the weight of his evil?
Carried out of a school board meeting for saying one word - “cowards.”
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April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Carried out of a school board meeting for saying one word - “cowards.”
roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/04/18/t...
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Spring is truly springing here. Greens are growing greener. More perennial blooms are unfurling. The sun’s warmth graces us.
April 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Spring is truly springing here. Greens are growing greener. More perennial blooms are unfurling. The sun’s warmth graces us.
Orbán’s Fidesz has implemented a constitutional amendment to attack LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of assembly rights.
April 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Orbán’s Fidesz has implemented a constitutional amendment to attack LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of assembly rights.
The night creatures have stolen the suet, cage and all, again.
April 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The night creatures have stolen the suet, cage and all, again.