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Die Linke gewann nicht nur wegen guter TikTok-Videos und einer Megarede von Heidi Reichinnek, sondern weil sie die echten Alltagssorgen der Menschen in den Mittelpunkt gestellt hat, statt dieses stumpfe „Ausländer raus“-Thema mitzumachen.

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Berliner Runde time

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Election turnout at 83,5% - highest turnout since German reunification

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The AfD had the full support of broken social media algorithms, the world’s richest man & Trump. This the best they can do (it’ll only get worse for them as America implodes). Still, won’t stop 85%+ of UK media from celebrating this as a victory worthy of Alexander the Great 🤪🤣

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South Sudan? Malawi? Libya?? What would little Markus prefer 🧐

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Scholz will be Germany's shortest-serving Chancellor since Kurt Georg Keisinger in the 1960s. (For more information on Keisinger's electoral defeat, see this History of Elections podcast I recorded recently! #ShamelessPlug historyofelections.substack.com/p/episode-1-...)

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For all the media hype about Sarah Wagenknecht, we will probably read little about the fact that Die Linke has profited massively from her leaving the party. As a clearly left-wing party, now without strong reactionary tendencies, it scored almost twice as much as the left-conservative BSW! #BTW25

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This is off. BSW is much more populist left than Linke.

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Klar, noch viel zu früh, dazu wirklich etwas zu sagen. Aber: wenn ich auf die Berliner Wahlkreise schaue, dann hat nach erster Tendenz der Grünen-Wahlkampf hier wirklich krass gefloppt und die Linke wirklich massiv bei den Erststimmen zugelegt.

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One of faves this one 😅 although the Greens are a solid force in Germany and held the Foreign Ministry in the outgoing government.

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Soviet legacy is a real thing. Even in the Westernmost West.

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Best thing that happened to Die Linke. Solid left policies, well articulated. Lessons for the Left in Ireland? (Worth noting that the combined Die Linke/SPD/Greens is projected to be 276 out of approx 630)

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I don't agree with a lot of the Linke's foreign policy stances, but they are a clearly democratic oriented party loyal to Germany's constitutional order. Putting them in the same bracket as the anti-constitutional AfD or BSW is beyond off base.

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It is still too early to be sure, but I assume that neither FDP nor BSW will make it into the next Bundestag. In this case one should assume that CDU/CSU & SPD most likely next German federal coalition.

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Yes but addictive (all eyes on the Saxonies and Mecklenburg among others)

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So it’s going to be one of those games is it #ITAvFRA

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7-7…FORZA AZZURIIIII 🇮🇹

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As others point out - this isn't drugs, it's projection. A lack of empathy in the sense of being unable to perceive other people as individuals with their own thoughts, drives. "I don't do anything except commit fraud ergo 'my' employees must be doing the same". That's the real billionaire mindset.

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Sadly expected

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To any of my german followers: Get to the polls stop the AfD in its tracks! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 Deutschland stark. Zerstöre die Faschisten!!! #germany #elections #vote

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Whatever happens with German elections today, I thank Olaf for all he has done to help me to stay in this war for this long. His escalation management delays & drip feeding made the difference.

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Niall as ever valiantly exposing the latest manifestazione that our neighbours are having. Not up to the EU to accomodate the UK.

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Catherine Connolly for the Áras, is it?

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Whither the Gatland femboys eh sorry fanboys now?

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Put Bundee in the Arás.

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Dear lord. What a game #walvire Now to soak up more sun

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We are all Bundee Aki 👀👀😅😅 #walvire

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The sockless brown slipons. Blackrock College, summer 1996, post leaving cert vacay with the boyz.

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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Hey Fianna Fail, even the Far Right can't Justify being associated with Trump Maga. You still going to the WHITE House? #IrishPolitics #Speirgorm

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INDEPENDENT TD CATHERINE Connolly said that she is keeping an “open mind” to running for Presidential elections this year, on the condition that her campaign would “unite the opposition”. #Connolly4President #IrishPolitics www.thejournal.ie/catherine-co...

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Europe should ban fb and Twitter. They'd make tech bro stocks drop instantly and significantly curtail nazi propoganda. Then maybe fund their own to make revenue for democracy. When you complain about Elon on X, you are funding nazis. #Europe #Germany #Norway #Ireland #denmark.

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Like we look at papers from 1938, so we will look at a slate of Irish newspapers from 2025 in the future. Honourable except for The Journal as the ONLY Irish news outlet with fact checking and calling a spade a spade.

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Pleading with people to understand exactly this:

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New York Times: “Concern That Muscular Spasm Afflicting MAGA Elite May Be Contagious”

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I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

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