-- A MUSEUM WAS MEANT TO BE BUILT, AND IT STILL ISN'T. PADEREWSKI'S MEMORABILIA, WHICH DIDN'T BELONG TO PADEREWSKI, WERE ALSO PURCHASED - SZYMON JADCZAK IN WP: “94.09 percent – that's how much of the public funds spent by the Institute for the Heritage of National Thought the tax office deemed irregular. This amounts to PLN 39.7 million out of PLN 42.2 million that the Institute received from the budget between 2020-2023. For this money, a museum was supposed to be built, which still doesn't exist. Paderewski's memorabilia, which did not belong to Paderewski, were also purchased.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/miliony-w-bloto-sztandarowa-instytucja-czasow-pis-rozliczona-7305976570407264a

-- “SO THERE IS NO MESS”. WE ARE REVEALING TAPES FROM THE AUTOPSY OF A PATIENT WHO DIED IN THE BATHROOM OF THE SOUTHERN HOSPITAL - PATRYK SŁOWIK AND JAKUB STYCZYŃSKI ON THE ZERO PORTAL: “'It's a bit of a mess. We need to make sure there's no mess.' This is how the head of the autopsy room at the Southern Hospital presented the case of a patient found in the bathroom almost four hours after death to the doctor performing the autopsy. He agreed: 'Okay, alright.' Hospital staff were surprised during the autopsy that the prosecutor hadn't 'burst into the hospital' yet.”

-- PROSECUTORIAL SLACKNESS - FURTHER IN THE TEXT BY SŁOWIK AND STYCZYŃSKI IN ZERO: “The family's attorney complains in an interview with Zero.pl about cooperation with investigators. The lawyer representing the autopsy room employee who secretly made the audio recordings also complains about the prosecutor's sluggishness in clarifying irregularities.”
https://zero.pl/news/pacjent-zmarl-w-lazience-szpitala-poludniowego-ujawniamy-tasmy-z-prosektorium

-- THE MANAGEMENT KNEW ABOUT THE PATHOLOGIES IN THE SOUTHERN HOSPITAL - MARCIN TERLIK, SZYMON PIEGZA AND MAGDALENA RIGAMONTI IN ONET: “— We were received by Dr. Agata Kusz-Rynkun and Dr. Patomorfolog in what looked like a conference room. My sister-in-law took out a piece of paper on which she noted the suggestions of the gentleman from the autopsy room, and I recounted my experiences. The doctor was surprised, her eyes wide as if hearing about it for the first time — says Ms. Małgorzata to Onet, who informed the facility's management about the pathologies in the Southern Hospital's autopsy room as early as last spring.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/o-patologii-w-szpitalu-poludniowym-wiedzialo-kierownictwo-robila-wielkie-oczy/1dwgx6t,79cfc278

-- A WEEKEND IN THE LIVES OF CIVIC PLATFORM POLITICIANS - DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ IN NEWSWEEK: “The recent heatwave, a big concert by the sea. Civic Platform politicians stroll in the VIP area. They chat with each other, journalists, some celebrities. Holiday topics – about children, vacations... When asked about the hospital scandal and the party's plans for the upcoming election campaign, they respond with a question: 'But why in these beautiful natural surroundings?'. The next day, Civic Platform politicians could be seen among horses, jockeys, ladies and gentlemen in hats at the races at Warsaw's Służewiec track. - You see how glum they look, it's sad to watch – a PSL activist tells me in a low voice about his coalition colleagues from Civic Platform.”

-- WHAT IGOR WILL COME UP WITH - CONTINUES DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ: “‘Igor is sitting and plotting, he'll definitely come up with something’ – this assurance in various versions I heard from all my interlocutors from Civic Platform. They are waiting with absolute calm to see what 'the Manager's' people, led by his long-time advisor Igor Ostachowicz, will tell them to do. Until they receive the order to fight from Aleje Ujazdowskie, they won't do anything themselves. It is astonishing, but in the third year after regaining power and a year after the spectacularly lost presidential election, the largest party in the ruling coalition still relies on what 'Igor will come up with.' Neither at the party headquarters nor in the Sejm is there any staff analyzing the situation, identifying potential threats, and devising methods to overcome image and polling slumps.”
https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/sojusznicy-donalda-tuska-widza-kryzys-koalicjant-nam-sie-pogubil/

-- RUMORS PARALYZE WARSAW CIVIC PLATFORM. ACTIVISTS FEAR THE DISSOLUTION OF STRUCTURES - ROBERT BISKUPSKI IN RZ: “Donald Tusk plans to dissolve the structures of the Warsaw Civic Platform – such a rumor has emerged in the party in recent days. Activists fear that this news might be true. – It's unclear what information the party leadership has received – says one of the Warsaw activists. – However, it is known that we have many skeletons in the closet, and they will start falling out soon. The question is, which skeletons does the leadership know about… – he wonders. He increasingly hears from party activists that they do not intend to engage in the referendum campaign. As he explains, they do not intend to work for the president or to save the party because of a doctor-millionaire.”
https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art44795511-plotki-paralizuja-stoleczna-ko-dzialacze-boja-sie-rozwiazania-struktur

-- A PORTION OF THE CENTRIST VOTERS WHO DECIDED THE OUTCOME IN 2023 IS ON THE OTHER SIDE, MOST OFTEN WITH KONFEDERACJA - MARCIN DUMA IN CONVERSATION WITH JAKUB MAJMUREK IN NEWSWEEK: “Let's go back to 2024. Back then, the price for the entire coalition's crisis, related to the fact that so little of the 100 concrete proposals were implemented, was paid not by Civic Platform, which promised these proposals in its campaign, but primarily by Trzecia Droga, and a year ago by Trzaskowski. Today, the hospital scandal reinforces the decisions of Trzecia Droga voters who drifted away from the October 15 coalition in 2024, solidly bolstering the ranks of Konfederacja, which significantly reduces the chances that they will vote for one of the coalition parties next year. And if they don't vote, then the coalition's maintenance of power becomes even less likely than the scenario of the right's return to power – although even before the hospital scandal, the probability of a second term for the current power structure was low.”

-- IF TODAY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE POLLS, IT WERE POSSIBLE TO TAKE 4-5 PERCENTAGE POINTS OF SUPPORT AWAY FROM KONFEDERACJA – AND IT IS EASIEST TO TAKE IT FROM THEM, BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE MOST CENTRIST, UNSTABLE VOTERS – THIS WOULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE DISTRIBUTION OF MANDATES – CONTINUES DUMA AT MAJMUREK'S: “While I don't believe that Ryszard Petru himself could shoulder this task, nor that the name 'Konfederacja light' is fortunate, the concept itself is at least intriguing. If today, considering the polls, it were possible to take 4-5 percentage points of support away from Konfederacja – and it is easiest to take it from them, because they have the most centrist, unstable voters – this would change the entire distribution of mandates.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/newsweek/zle-rokowania-dla-donalda-tuska-problem-nie-tkwi-w-notowaniach-ko/sjpw3c0,452ad802

-- MENTZEN TIGHTENS THE SCREWS IN NOWA NADZIEJA. HE IS ORGANIZING THE PARTY FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS - TOMASZ NYCZKA IN GW: “He is liquidating the positions of regional (voivodeship) presidents, who were previously ex officio members of the party's national council. Now there are only 41 districts with heads at their forefront, corresponding to the 41 districts in Sejm elections. This is also an element of preparation for the elections. - The district heads are to discipline activists and work for the party's good results next year – says a Konfederacja MP.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32905228,mentzen-przykreca-srube-w-nowej-nadziei-ustawia-partie-pod.html

-- ZGORZELSKI ON THE WORDS OF A POLISH DIPLOMAT IN VOLHYNIA: THE SO-CALLED KRESY MILIEUS ARE OUTRAGED BY THIS SPEECH - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-07-13/

-- ŁUKASIEWICZ'S SPEECH. THE BOTTOM OF HISTORICAL DIPLOMACY - MAREK MAGIEROWSKI IN WP: “Publicistic creations are one thing, and official statements by top state officials are another. Especially during immense tension in bilateral relations, fueled by the Ukrainian authorities. If Piotr Łukasiewicz does not understand this, he should not be heading the Polish embassy in Kyiv. Let's imagine a Chinese ambassador in Japan who, during the commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre, announced that 'the Chinese are not without sin either.' Or a representative of the State of Israel during a ceremony in Jedwabne (please forgive the brutality of this parallel) who 'cannot fail to mention Jewish prosecutors in Stalinist Poland.' Absurd? Of course.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/przemowienie-lukasiewicza-dno-dyplomacji-historycznej-opinia-7306695588452704a

-- NO JEW FROM VOLHYNIA WENT TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP, BECAUSE THE UKRAINIANS HANDLED THE WHOLE MATTER... - WITOLD SZABŁOWSKI, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "STORIES FROM VOLHYNIA" IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MAGDALENA RIGAMONTI IN ONET: “For instance, that the UPA was like the Home Army. Well, for God's sake, the UPA was not like the Home Army. It was the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). These were people for whom, out of political calculation during World War II, it seemed worthwhile to ally with the Germans. But when Germany, firstly, did not allow them to create their own state, secondly, arrested Stepan Bandera, and thirdly, suffered a defeat at Stalingrad, they changed fronts. They began to implement Plan B. They massively deserted German service, went into the forests, and formed a partisan movement. And even earlier, they helped the Germans murder Jews in Volhynia... No Jew from Volhynia went to a concentration camp, because the Ukrainians handled the whole matter…”

-- UKRAINIANS HERDED POLES INTO BARNS AND HOUSES AND BURNED PEOPLE ALIVE. THEY DID THE SAME TO JEWS EARLIER. THEY ALSO ORGANIZED EXECUTIONS - CONTINUES SZABŁOWSKI AT RIGAMONTI'S IN ONET: “And most of them were murdered by Ukrainians. On July 10, we commemorated the anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom – Jews were burned by Poles in a barn there. So, I want to mention in passing that at least several dozen wooden buildings with Poles burned down in Volhynia. Ukrainians herded Poles into barns, houses, and burned people alive. They did the same to Jews earlier. They also organized executions… In my book, there is the story of a Jewish pharmacist, Kagan, from the town of Kupiczów. This man, knowing what Ukrainians were doing to Jews in the area, entered a lake with his wife and… Drowned himself and his wife. They chose death on their own terms, not in torment. When the Ukrainians dealt with the Jews, they turned to the Poles and other nationalities inhabiting Volhynia. But this time, without the Germans, as the independent Ukrainian Insurgent Army. And the ethnic cleansing of the lands that were to be the embryo of an independent Ukraine began.”

-- I KNOW THAT DURING THESE EXHUMATIONS IT RAINED AND THOSE "SHADOWS" OF CHILDREN ON THE SAND WASHED AWAY. I THINK THE UKRAINIANS WERE FRIGHTENED THEN - STILL SZABŁOWSKI AT RIGAMONTI'S: “On one hand, politics intervened, and on the other… In my opinion, the Ukrainians were terrified by what was revealed during these exhumations. Over 250 remains of women and children, including infants. A mass grave. Only shadows remained of these children in the sand; archaeologists found pigtails… I know that during these exhumations, it rained, and those "shadows" of children on the sand washed away. I think the Ukrainians were frightened then. On one hand, Ukraine, a young, independent state just beginning its functioning on the international stage, and on the other, such a legacy… It should be remembered that at that time, most Ukrainians actually didn't know what was going on with the UPA.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/szablowski-ukraincy-przerazili-sie-tym-co-okazalo-sie-w-czasie-ekshumacji/3brdd3k,79cfc278

-- ONE HEARS THAT ZELENSKY IS SO BUSY HE DOESN'T HAVE TIME FOR VOLHYNIA. HOWEVER, HE HAS TIME FOR VARIOUS NON-WAR MATTERS, AND ESPECIALLY FOR TOUGH POLITICS - JERZY HASZCZYŃSKI IN RZ: “One hears that Zelensky is so busy that he doesn't have time for Volhynia. However, he has time for various non-war matters, and especially for tough politics. This includes provoking a conflict with Poland over history. I don't want to delve into the time he wastes fighting the consequences of corruption in his immediate circle. The Ukrainian parliament found time at the beginning of last year, during the war, to recognize the genocide of the Circassians in the Russian Empire (1763–1864) and called on Moscow to 'recognize this crime and apologize.'”

-- THIS IS A KIND OF NEW SYMMETRY IN THE MILIEU THAT HAS LONG FOUGHT AGAINST SYMMETRY. THE ARGUMENT ALSO APPEARS THAT VOLHYNIA IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY - STILL HASZCZYŃSKI: “One also hears that naming a military unit after 'Heroes of the UPA' should not upset us, since we have a Roman Dmowski roundabout in Warsaw. This is a kind of new symmetry in the milieu that has long fought against symmetry. The argument also appears that Volhynia is not the whole story. Of course, it is not the whole story, but it is an unresolved, unaddressed great crime. Under the influence of emotions, one might recall the statement by the leader of the AfD, Alexander Gauland, that the Third Reich was merely a 'bird's droppings' in Germany's thousand-year history.”

-- THE QUESTION OF POLEXIT LOOMS IN THE BACKGROUND. TEMPORARILY NOT DANGEROUS. BUT POLAND MUST PREPARE ITSELF FOR THE ROLE OF A NET PAYER IN THE EU - CONTINUES HASZCZYŃSKI IN RZ: “And what if pressure began for Ukraine's rapid admission 'with Bandera'? Would Poland defend the slogan that never with Bandera? Or would it yield? Because the question of Polexit looms in the background. Temporarily not dangerous. But Poland must prepare itself for the role of a net payer in the EU. Without easily demonstrable financial benefits, support for membership may decline, and there will be no shortage of those willing to call for a Polexit referendum. In the event of Kyiv's admission to the community, there would also be dissatisfaction among some professional groups due to Ukrainian competition. A scenario for elites to consider.”
https://www.rp.pl/plus-minus/art44795511-jerzy-haszczynski-ukraina-wejdzie-do-unii-europejskiej-a-polska-z-niej-wyjdzie

-- 18 YEARS AGO, Professor Bronisław Geremek died in a car accident in Lubień, Wielkopolska.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Sylwester Latkowski, Marian Banaś, Karol Działoszyński.