-- AMERICANS HEADING TO POLAND? - FAKT'S NUMBER ONE: "Donald Trump does not rule out the movement of US troops in Europe. Will Poland benefit from this? -- American soldiers on NATO's eastern flank are the greatest guarantee of the inviolability of our borders. We would benefit if there were more of them -- said Brigadier General Tomasz Bąk. "Fakt" shows on a map where US troops are currently stationed in Poland and what the rotation of American soldiers in Europe could lead to."
https://www.fakt.pl/polityka/zolnierze-usa-w-polsce-gdzie-stacjonuja-pokazujemy-to-na-mapie/gen1g57

-- DONALD TUSK'S GOVERNMENT'S BILL WOULD NOT PROTECT ZONDACRYPTO CLIENTS - MAREK KUTARBA IN RZ: "If anyone claims today that the bill on the crypto-asset market, vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki, would have saved the money of people who invested on the Zondacrypto exchange, or any other exchange, they are mistaken. And this can be easily proven. However, it should be remembered that in the case of Zondacrypto, it would not have mattered much anyway. It is a company operating under an Estonian license, which is not registered in the Polish registry."
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-ekonomiczne/art44180501-marek-kutarba-ustawa-rzadu-donalda-tuska-nie-ochronilaby-klientow-zondacrypto

-- NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT THE BOTS THAT DISTRIBUTED SPOTS PROMOTING THE CIVIC COALITION CANDIDATE AND DISCREDITING THE PIS-SUPPORTED AND CONFEDERATION CANDIDATES ONLINE AND ON SOCIAL MEDIA - SE: "Nearly a year has passed since the outbreak of the scandal related to bot interference in the presidential campaign. After ABW and NASK alerted about this in their reports, the prosecutor's office launched an investigation. It is being conducted by the Małopolska Regional Branch of the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption of the National Prosecutor's Office in Krakow. Despite almost a year passing since then – no one has been charged yet. It is also still unknown who was behind the financing of the actions aimed at promoting one of the candidates and simultaneously denigrating his rival."
https://polityka.se.pl/wiadomosci/boty-ingerowaly-w-kampanie-prezydencka-2025-winnych-nadal-brak-aa-fTew-C1MQ-korg.html

-- THERE ARE ALREADY 20 SUSPECTS IN THE CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN POZNAŃ. THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE CLAIMS THAT THE ARRESTED HEAD OF THE MUNICIPAL ROADS AUTHORITY RECEIVED 400,000 PLN UNDER THE TABLE IN TWO YEARS - PIOTR ŻYTNICKI IN GW: "The National Prosecutor's Office states that CBA agents found not only money and documents, but also drugs, as well as illegal weapons and ammunition. The new suspects include representatives of development and design companies and a chief specialist in the office of the Municipal Traffic Engineer. -- The aim was to unlawfully facilitate the implementation of construction investments in Poznań, particularly in obtaining the required administrative decisions and agreements -- assures Katarzyna Calów-Jaszewska from the press office of the National Prosecutor's Office."
https://poznan.wyborcza.pl/poznan/7,36001,32734997,juz-20-podejrzanych-w-aferze-korupcyjnej-w-poznaniu-sledczy.html

-- PRESIDENT NAWROCKI ON MORAWIECKI'S CIRCLE: "THERE IS HUGE POTENTIAL IN THESE INDIVIDUALS":
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-04-17/jest-ogromnie-potencjal-w-tych-indywidualnosciach-nawrocki-o

-- IS THIS GOOD NEWS FOR DONALD TUSK? NOT NECESSARILY - PRZEMYSŁAW SZUBARTOWICZ IN INTERIA: "However, Morawiecki's actions do not necessarily have to please the Prime Minister, because disintegration can easily turn into reconfiguration, i.e., such an arrangement of the right-wing offer that will create real chances of taking power from the Civic Coalition. And this without the necessity of making deals with Braun, which complicates everything. Already today, on the right side of the political scene, a media base and numerous 'channels of articulation' (as Kazik Staszewski sang in a song about something else) are being created, preparing for a ruthless election campaign and online propaganda, which cannot be said about the rulers, who are weak on the internet."
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-kryzys-na-prawicy-dopiero-sie-rozkreca,nId,23329556

-- IF KACZYŃSKI ULTIMATELY DECIDES TO KICK MORAWIECKI OUT OF PIS, HE WILL MOST LIKELY LABEL HIM A UNMASKED GRAND SPY OF TUSK AS A FAREWELL GIFT - PROF. ANTONI DUDEK IN INTERIA: "However, Morawiecki will only face the problem of choosing a name and new allies when Kaczyński finally decides to expel him from PiS. Most likely, he will label him a unmasked grand spy of Tusk, sent into the ranks of the 'patriotic camp' years ago with the task of disintegrating it, as a farewell gift. If anyone believes that the PiS leader would not be capable of such an attack on a man who, by his will, was prime minister for over six years, it means they know Jarosław Kaczyński's biography poorly."
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-to-moze-byc-najwiekszy-rozlam-w-pis-od-poczatku-istnienia-te,nId,23329646

-- THESE RIGHTS, WHEN PIS DOES NOT VIOLATE THEM, HAVE CEASED TO BE SO IMPORTANT TO POLES. AND THEY HAVE ONCE AGAIN BECOME THE DEMANDS OF "NAIVE" PEOPLE, "SENSITIVE SOULS" OR "LEFTISTS" - KATARZYNA SKRZYDŁOWSKA-KALUKIN IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: "It seems, however, that these rights, when PiS does not violate them, have ceased to be so important to Poles. And they have once again become the demands of 'naive' people, 'sensitive souls' or 'leftists', who are no longer just opponents of PiS and Confederation. And thus we come to the conclusion that nothing promotes equality, progressive, or ecological slogans as well as the rule of the radical right."

-- NOTHING STRENGTHENS PROGRESSIVE SLOGANS AS MUCH AS RADICAL RIGHT-WING RULE. WITHOUT IT, EVEN DONALD TUSK'S DECLARATIVELY PROGRESSIVE COALITION QUICKLY SHIFTS TOWARDS CONSERVATIVE REALISM - FURTHERMORE, KATARZYNA SKRZYDŁOWSKA-KALUKIN IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: "Now Rafał Trzaskowski has taken Szyszka's place, because it was in Warsaw that the most shocking events took place under the slogan of defending people from the huge population of wild boars. However, the coalition, a large part of which ran for elections as progressive, sensitive to the needs of people and animals, has now become overwhelmingly conservative and insensitive."

-- TUSK IS ENDING HIS SHORT AND COLORFUL CAREER AS A PROGRESSIVE POLITICIAN - FURTHERMORE, KATARZYNA SKRZYDŁOWSKA-KALUKIN WRITES: "The division between those who have a conservative or utilitarian approach to nature, and those who want to protect it, runs across party lines. And perhaps this is what Tusk sees when he ends his short and colorful career as a progressive politician. When not only nature, but also human rights are no longer threatened by PiS, these issues cease to be partisan and become worldview-related. Perhaps this is precisely why Tusk is not in a hurry to implement the right to transcribe same-sex marriages concluded abroad."
https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2026/04/16/co-zostalo-z-progresywnych-hasel-donalda-tuska/

-- TUSK HAS BECOME ROMAN GIERTYCH'S POLITICAL HOSTAGE - GALOPUJĄCY MAJOR IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: "The very fact that Giertych, as a lawyer, defends clients against the prosecution's accusations by his political colleague Żurek, can raise understandable doubts. But his relationship with Tusk is even more problematic. In my opinion, Tusk is fully aware of this. However, he has no choice, because he is Giertych's political hostage due to his two fundamental mistakes. The first was allowing Giertych to be both a lawyer and a politician of the ruling party. The very fact that Giertych, as a lawyer, defends clients against the prosecution's accusations by his political colleague Żurek, can raise certain doubts. The second mistake was leaving the reins of the KO's particularly active electorate on the internet in Giertych's hands. Although, in reality, Giertych created this for himself. As a rather clever person, he noticed a niche in KO, which, as a party with exceptional intellectual inertia, could not even create online farms. Giertych did it quite ostentatiously, he boasted about the reach."
https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/donald-tusk-stal-sie-politycznym-zakladnikiem-romana-giertycha/

-- THE LESSON FROM ORBÁN'S DEFEAT MAY NOT BE TO THE LIKING OF POLISH LIBERALS - PIOTR ZAREMBA IN RZ: "Of course, we do not know what is actually hidden behind this new prime minister's banner. When I hear that he accused Orbán during the campaign of bringing legal migrants into the country for work, the association with Tusk comes to mind. Only that for the Polish prime minister, selectively picking up the language of the right is reaching into an arsenal once alien to him. For the Magyar, it is certainly more natural. It can create a better right-wing party or it can take on the role of a delegate of the Eurocrats, who occasionally pretends to be someone. It is worth observing this, because there will be many lessons in it for Polish politicians as well."

-- ALL OF THIS IS COVERED BY SUCH A THICK LAYER OF POPULISM THAT THE DIVISION BETWEEN POPULIST AND MAINSTREAM PARTIES LOSES ITS MEANING - FURTHERMORE, ZAREMBA: "If Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek threatens presidential ministers with criminal prosecution for giving the president certain advice, it is a completely new quality, certainly unknown to liberal democracy. If, on the other hand, Roman Giertych responds to business and scandal accusations from journalists by interpelling the finance minister about the financial basis of the portal where this appeared, he behaves like the owner of Poland. Orbán's people took much longer to reach this point. All of this is covered by such a thick layer of populism that the division between populist and mainstream parties loses its meaning. These rules of the game will make the right wing even more predatory if, in 2027, it overcomes the complex obstacle course set for it by domestic and foreign factors and manages to seize power."
https://www.rp.pl/plus-minus/art44170151-piotr-zaremba-nauka-z-porazki-orbana-moze-nie-byc-po-mysli-polskich-liberalow

-- JAN RULEWSKI, A HERO OF THE FIGHT AGAINST THE COMMUNIST REGIME, TURNS 82 TODAY.

-- SUNDAY MARKS THE 83RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WARSAW UPRISING - THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Jan Rulewski. SUNDAY: Barbara Labuda turns 80, Małgorzata Sekuła-Szmajdzińska, Iwona Kutyna.