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Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll now has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead of the Conservatives.

Politico has more on what Kallas said here: She Europe had “a very clear understanding of the diagnosis of the disease” when it came to China, but did not yet have an agreement on the cure. { Note: Beijing will not enjoy the descriptor "disease"

Some shame for the US: In 2025, Germany surpassed America as the OECD's largest international aid donor for the first time, despite German GDP being about 1/6th of America's.




@mattforney How the hell do they have that many people dying from heat?? Is it the olds? The Scandis? Baffling.





COMMISSION - Yujiro Hanma face Obelix


The series finale of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” drew 6.74M viewers on Thursday night, making it the most-watched weeknight episode in the show’s history. • The finale was up sharply from the show’s 2026 Q1 average of 2.69M viewers • It’s also above “The Late Show” series premiere on Sept. 8, 2015, which averaged 6.55M viewers • The most-watched episode remains Colbert’s post-Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 7, 2016, which drew 20.55M viewers variety.com/2026/tv/news/t…

In the 1980s there was an attempt to destroy tabletop roleplaying games! The claim was that it caused teen suicides. The proof? A kid that played D&D killed himself, so his mom founded a group named BADD (Bothered About D&D) named either in homage or mockery of MADD (Mad About Drunk Driving). The kid who died was also up on charges of grand theft auto, which is incredibly sad, but kind of weakens the idea it was D&D. Most of the focus was on D&D because that's the only RPG that most people had ever heard of. (Side thought - how much more appropriate would Stranger Things have been if the kids had played Call of Cthulhu?) But the people running BADD barely knew about Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, or GURPS. Few articles targeted my games. I did get an occasional mention in a BADD-sponsored editorial. My favorite epithet (repeated several times) was that Call of Cthulhu was "crueler and darker than D&D" so I'll always have that to treasure. 1/2

its an ugly truth but having irl normie friends will save ur life

24 year old Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls (1995)

@captive_dreamer "China wants you to..." "FSB wants you to..." "The Jews want you to..." What about what I want?













