Die AfD gilt als Gewinnerin der Landtagswahlen. Wie lässt sich ihr Ergebnis erklären und wo schneidet die Partei besonders gut ab? Ich habe dazu Strukturdaten & Wahlergebnisse zusammengetragen und am Beispiel Sachsens einige statistische Modelle gerechnet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

Regarding women's rights and religion: Bavaria, ruled for decades by the Catholic CSU, is the only one of Germany's states still opposing the decriminalisation of abortion in the first 12 weeks. It also has the worst abortion access in the country.

I wrote for The New Statesman about why the vote for the AfD reflects Europe-wide trends and not just the cultural idiosyncrasies of former East Germany newstatesman.com/world/europe/2…

This is awful news. We use the Internet Archive library all the time to research episodes. Its disappearance will be an enormous barrier to the genuinely communal spread of information, encourage piracy, and discourage the preservation of information.

For Sidecar, Loren Balhorn (Loren Balhorn) on the elections in Thuringia: 'Wagenknecht’s rhetoric makes many on the left bristle, but has it at least succeeded in taking some wind out of the AfD’s sails? Thus far, the answer seems to be no.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Many of Macron's supporters (+media allies!) have dismissed talk about him lurching hard-right for years. But the Barnier nomination makes it obvious. He'd rather his coalition govern with Le Pen's stamp of approval than have to compromise with the left. Can't be any more clear.

Video reconstruction of how Israeli troops killed a young Palestinian boy in Gaza for no reason, then killed six of his family members as they returned from a cemetery to bury him, holding a white flag. Their remains were bulldozed into a pile of garbage. trib.al/9wf8crj

A baker in France writes to the London Review of Books to disabuse its writers and readers of the stereotypical belief that sourdough bread is closely associated with gentrification lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Wrote a longread about the very fascinating story of the Koryo-saram: Koreans who migrated to Siberia in the late 19th Century, were deported to Central Asia by Stalin, and are now migrating to South Korea in large numbers. aljazeera.com/features/2024/…

hadn't really considered the "at least we will get a few cool pictures" angle on climate change

Posted less than eight hours apart. Amazing commitment to fighting misinformation.

Seit Monaten tötet Israels Militär gezielt palästinensische Journalist:innen in Gaza. Int Medien haben keinen Zugang, Berichte übernehmen oft unkritisch Infos des Militärs. Die Situation ist untragbar. Deshalb habe ich diesen offenen Brief mitunterzeichnet …zajournalistenschuetzen.wordpress.com

An AUB doctor told me he hasn’t seen anything like this since the 2020 port explosion. “It’s chaos inside. It isn’t just men. Women and children too. A woman has had her whole face disfigured”.