— IN MAY 1939, WE ALSO STRENGTHENED POLISH-FRENCH RELATIONS… — MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A TREATY.
https://x.com/MSzuldrzynski/status/1905885345377333538

— TUSK CALLS FOR A MARCH A WEEK BEFORE THE FIRST ROUND: The best response to PiS's April march will be a great May march of patriots. Because this May will decide whether Poland will be strong and secure, or isolated and weak. Are we agreed? Sunday, May 11, Warsaw, noon sharp. Let me know if you'll be there!
https://x.com/donaldtusk/status/1905926395068334557

— KACZYŃSKI RESPONDS TO TUSK: He wants to deceive again, but we know that Tusk = Trzaskowski. The real march of patriots will be on May 18 – all patriots to the polls! For Poland!
https://x.com/OficjalnyJK/status/1905963653913845880

— SZEFERNAKER RESPONDS TO TUSK: Thank you for highlighting the stakes of this election: either Tusk or change.
https://x.com/szefernaker/status/1905954421923598484

— SZYMON JADCZAK ON X: If everyone who got a job thanks to PO is ordered to come to the march, then attendance won't be a problem.
https://x.com/SzJadczak/status/1905950455085097279

— GERMANY, HAVING ITS PEOPLE IN POWER HERE, BELIEVES THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. THEY ENTER OUR TERRITORIES. GERMAN POLICE CARS CAN BE SEEN EVEN FAR FROM THE WESTERN BORDER AT THIS MOMENT – SAID JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI DURING A VISIT TO THE BORDER BRIDGE IN SŁUBICE: But there is no symmetry here, it's not like Polish cars enter Germany. This is a situation of subservience. It might be normal for Tusk, normal for his people, but for normal Poles, it is abnormal, unacceptable.”

— AT 2:00 PM, Mariusz Błaszczak will visit the border crossing in Rosówek.

— AT 4:00 PM, Mateusz Morawiecki and Elżbieta Witek will visit the border crossing in Zgorzelec.

— DOES DUDA WANT TO BE PRIME MINISTER? ACCORDING TO LEAKS, MASTALEREK IS TALKING WITH KONFEDERACJA – DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ ON ONET: “There are a month and a half until the election, and it's time for intricate strategies that will bring success in the final stretch. The puzzle related to the second round of elections is starting among the presidential candidates' campaign teams. — Mastalerek is clearly trying to build some environment for Duda. I don't know if he understood something or if something happened, but he seems to have said goodbye to international plans and wants to make him some kind of player here, but it will be more difficult – say politicians from the right.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/newsweek/duda-chce-byc-premierem-pis-zmienia-strategie-wobec-konfederacji/9bcl1wf,452ad802

— THE MENTZEN VOTER LARGELY VOTES FOR THIS CANDIDATE PRECISELY BECAUSE HE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE WHO CRITICIZE HIM MOST STRONGLY AFTER HIS INTERVIEW ON KANAŁ ZERO – ARTUR BARTKIEWICZ IN RZ: “The liberal mainstream's attacks on the leader of Nowa Nadzieja regarding abortion may be seen as proof that Mentzen genuinely threatens the status quo, given how intensely he is being scrutinized for his words on an issue that – let's recall – is not a top priority for voters today.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art42030351-artur-bartkiewicz-dlaczego-slowa-o-aborcji-nie-musza-zaszkodzic-slawomirowi-mentzenowi

— A POKER GAME FOR POWER IS UNDERWAY IN PSL – MONIKA WALUŚ AND SEBASTIAN BIAŁACH ON ONET: “This looks like some kind of conspiracy within our party – says someone from the PSL leadership when we ask about recent accusations against the leaders. Marek Sawicki publicly stated that Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz knew about the past of the now former deputy minister Zbigniew Ziejewski. In turn, Lublin activist Piotr Rzetelski accused Krzysztof Hetman of giving the green light for a coalition with PiS in Puławy.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/w-psl-trwa-pokerowa-walka-o-wladze-kampania-oskarzen-i-pretensji/t86khel,79cfc278

— ONCE HE CALLED THE DIRECTOR OF THE CZARTORYSKI MUSEUM AND TOOK ME THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO SIT IN FRONT OF REMBRANDT'S "LANDSCAPE WITH THE GOOD SAMARITAN" AND LEONARDO DA VINCI'S "LADY WITH AN ERMINE" – RAFAŁ TRZASKOWSKI IN A CONVERSATION WITH DONATA SUBBOTKO ABOUT PIOTR SKRZYNECKI: “Piotrek Skrzynecki treated me exceptionally, which was an honor. He was a Kraków legend. He considered my brother, who was the director of Piwnica, almost his protégé, so I also had an advantage. Moreover, I was the son of his friend, as my father used to play in Piwnica during his Kraków years. I was sixteen, and Skrzynecki could invite me for vodka or talk to me seriously about Poland. When he had money, he funded and gave away everything, and on another day he would say: 'Rafał, do you have any money? Because I'm broke, maybe you could invite me for a glass of wine?' Once he called the director of the Czartoryski Museum and took me there in the middle of the night to sit in front of Rembrandt's 'Landscape with the Good Samaritan' and Leonardo da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine.' He took me to the museum cellars, where he would find paintings that no one looks at and tell me about them.”

— IT WAS OUR DOMESTIC CATCHPHRASE. TO THE QUESTION: "WHERE WERE YOU?" WE USED TO ANSWER EACH OTHER: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WITH YOU AT 'RIGOLETTO'." IT WAS GREAT BECAUSE IT WAS TOTALLY OURS – ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM THE INTERVIEW-BOOK WITH TRZASKOWSKI, REPRINTED IN GW: “We had thousands of such sayings that meant nothing to anyone outside our circle. In Billy Wilder's beloved comedy 'Some Like It Hot,' the mafia boss explains to his not-so-bright bodyguards that if the police ask them where they were, they should give him an alibi and reply that they were with him at 'Rigoletto.' When he barely survives an assassination attempt afterward, he yells at his thugs, 'Where were you?!' and they respond, 'With you at Rigoletto.' It was our domestic catchphrase. To the question: 'Where were you?', we would answer each other: 'What do you mean? With you at Rigoletto.' It was great because it was totally ours. If someone didn't know the context, they wouldn't get the joke. Only Mom and I knew what it was about.”

— THE BOXER BUMBEL, AFTER FIVE MINUTES, STUCK HIS SNOUT INTO MY CRADLE AND STARTED LICKING ME. IT WAS TRULY LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT – ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM SUBBOTKO'S CONVERSATION WITH TRZASKOWSKI: “My parents also installed a door for me because I was frail after birth, and they were afraid the dog would transfer all sorts of germs to me. And when they brought me home, the boxer Bumbel, after five minutes, stuck his snout into my cradle and started licking me. It was truly love at first sight. My current dog is also named Bumbel.”
https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,31791524,planowali-ja-szantazowac-rafal-trzaskowski-opowiada-o-rodzicach.html

— CALLS FOR PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES HAVE APPEARED. AND ALLEGEDLY EVERYONE AGREES TO THEM. BUT I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THEY WILL HAPPEN, ESPECIALLY BEFORE THE FIRST ROUND. I'LL BE SURPRISED IF I'M WRONG – PIOTR ZAREMBA ON INTERIA.

— I DISAGREE WITH HIM ON THIS MATTER MYSELF, BUT I RESPECT IT. HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT AN ACADEMIC DEBATE, BUT AN ELEMENT OF SEEKING SUPPORT – ZAREMBA ON MENTZEN'S WORDS ABOUT ABORTION: “In his conversation with Stanowski, he declared himself in favor of an unconditional ban on abortion, even in cases of rape. Even the pre-war criminal code, which was very conservative, listed 'pregnancy resulting from a crime' as one of the few exceptions for abortion. I was full of admiration listening to how a pragmatic tax advisor defended his convictions on this matter. Likely aware that he is going completely against the attitude of the younger generation, which prefers the right to convenience. I disagree with him on this matter myself, but I respect it. However, this is not an academic debate, but an element of seeking support. In the context of an open debate, Trzaskowski would benefit from something that young voters might not even notice on a daily basis.”

— I ALSO DON'T REALLY BELIEVE IN A DEBATE AFTER THE FIRST ROUND. THERE WAS NONE FIVE YEARS AGO. AND NOW IT'S EVEN MORE LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO – ZAREMBA'S CONCLUSION: “I largely agree with this approach. Which doesn't mean that some campaign slip-up, especially between the first and second rounds, cannot be decisive. It can. Therefore, if I were to bet today, I also don't really believe in a debate after the first round. There wasn't one five years ago. And now it's even more so, just like five years ago.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-wszyscy-chca-debat-i-bardzo-mozliwe-ze-ich-nie-bedzie,nId,21324004

— If someone was born when Paweł Piskorski became the mayor of Warsaw, they will be 26 years old on Sunday…

— Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of KTT's death. In the Solidarity years, Toeplitz was one of the few prominent publicists who unequivocally sided with the authorities and also defended the idea of introducing martial law.

— BIRTHDAYS celebrated today by Renata Grochal. BIRTHDAYS ON SUNDAY: Mieczysław Kasprzak, Hanna Bakuła.