Elin Folgerø Styve 🌻

I hope you will read my novel - Una, Unwanted.

[Stuart Dowell @StuartDowell_]

A week after Hungarians voted out Viktor Orbán, Bulgaria may be about to hand the Kremlin his replacement.

When Bulgarians vote on Sunday in their eighth parliamentary election in five years, the frontrunner is former president Rumen Radev, a politician analysts have begun calling a "moderate Orbán."

As president for the last 9 years he opposed EU sanctions on Russia, blocked weapons shipments to Ukraine, threatened to veto EU sanctions on Rosatom, and tried to delay Bulgaria's entry into the eurozone. He now leads the polls on between 30 and 34 percent with his newly formed Progressive Bulgaria coalition.

The vote is important becaus Bulgaria supplied roughly a third of Ukraine's ammunition at the start of the full-scale war. It sits on NATO's southeastern flank as one of only three alliance members on the Black Sea coast. TurkStream, now the only working Russian gas pipeline into the EU, runs through Bulgarian territory onward to Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia.

A Radev government would almost certainly end Bulgarian ammunition flows to Kyiv, weaken EU unanimity on Russia sanctions, and slow the commitment to phase out Russian gas by 2027.

The election is happening now because the previous government collapsed in December after the largest Bulgarian street protests since the fall of communism, triggered by a 2026 budget widely read as proof that the formally pro-European coalition had become a front for the captured state built by three-time former prime minister Boyko Borisov and US/UK-sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski.

Bulgarians overwhelmingly tell pollsters that inflation and the cost of living are their biggest worry, sharpened by January's switch from the lev to the euro and by a year of rising food prices.

The campaign itself, however, is being fought on corruption, the grievance Bulgarians believe their political class has refused to address for fifteen years. The country sits joint-bottom with Hungary in Transparency International's EU corruption rankings. Radev's pitch fuses this anti-corruption anger with foreign-policy positions that worry Brussels.

Possible outcomes? A Radev government paired with the pro-Ukraine reformist PP-DB, an ideologically combustible arrangement. A minority government leaning on Peevski, which would mock the protests that produced the election. Or a ninth election, which five years of Bulgarian politics suggests cannot be ruled out.

[Idris @7signxx]

"The most clueless Leader ever stepped on this Planet Earth 🌏"

©bill_hajj

[Tyrone Scott @CloeyTheDog]

Fuckimg piece of shit who the whole world cannot wait to celebrate his being unalive.

[Honey ✌️💛🩷💜💙💚 @honeywhite2023]

@DemocraticWins This is why.

[Peter Scott-Morgan @P_ScottMorgan]

@MerlijnTrader I wonder why?

What possible reason could there be for people commenting on his dementia and cognitive decline?

[Elin Folgerø Styve 🌻 @ElinStyve]

@LangmanVince 🔥

[Elin Folgerø Styve 🌻 @ElinStyve]

@RonFilipkowski Comic Ali all over again

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

[inna shevchenko @femeninna]

So here we are, a “peace plan” meeting where Ukraine isn’t a partner but a bargaining chip. A table full of serious faces, yet the message couldn’t be clearer: my country is being used as currency in someone else’s transaction.

When corrupt businessmen sit next to state officials to draft a « peace plan », it’s no longer geopolitics, it’s liquidation. And notice where the pressure goes - not on the 🇷🇺 aggressor who launched this war, but on the 🇺🇦 nation that refuses to die quietly.

If this is what the West now calls “peace,” then let’s speak plainly. These guys are preparing to present Ukraine to Putin, not a plan to stop him.

And Europeans, still holding your breath, waiting for Americans to decide what will happen to your continent? Yes.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28 point plan: This is the end of the end.

We have been told repeatedly and unambiguously that Ukraine’s security, and therefore Europe’s security, will be Europe’s responsibility. And now it is. Entirely.

If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t.

Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval office.

Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there. We aren’t poor, we have options, we can finally decide to assist Ukraine to the full extent of our very extensive capabilities, restore European dignity and defend Europe.

Or we can continue to wait for the miracle we now know is not coming.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

I feel like they are all trying to tell us something. It’s on the tip of my tongue and the bottom of their signs.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS IS MURDER‼️

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT IS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY WITH A SICK WARPED RADICAL MIND, KILLING SMALL BUSINESSES WITH CRAZY TARIFFS, TAKING HEALTH CARE FROM CHILDREN, PARDONING J6 THUGS, SENDING THE "PRIVATE ARMY" TO ARREST GRANDMA, WRECKING OUR BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENT, DEFUNDING OUR SCHOOLS, AND DESTABILIZING LONG-STANDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL. BUT FEAR NOT, WE HAVE MADE GREAT PROGRESS IN RECENT WEEKS, AND AMERICA WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN! AGAIN, HAPPY LABOR DAY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA! — GCN

[Iryna Voichuk @IrynaVoichuk]

In Kyiv, a dog refuses to leave the ruins of a building destroyed by a russian strike — still waiting for its owner, who was killed💔

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

Remember when Stephen Miller spray-painted his bald head to go on national TV?
That doesn't get talked about enough.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is true. Right @grok.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

PAY ATTENTION @TheDemocrats @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems

Y'all need to grow a pair of balls, and stop hoping and thinking that the Republican Party will eventually "do the right thing," bcos that shit ain't happening. Their loyalty is to Trump, not this country .
👇👇👇👇

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

1/4 Trump and Putin are negotiating behind Ukraine’s back, and the rumored terms are clearly unacceptable.

This isn’t about peace — it’s about making Ukraine look like the problem. Bad-faith diplomacy.

The good news? The illegally annexed regions are already on the table

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace. Any decisions that are against us, any decisions that are without Ukraine, are at the same time decisions against peace. They will not achieve anything. These are stillborn decisions. They are unworkable decisions. And we all need real and genuine peace. Peace that people will respect.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump’s heading to Scotland tomorrow. The Scottish papers aren’t exactly rolling out the red carpet.