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Stepsen wrote that a post pinned to his profile against the AfD received 1,000 likes and 48 comments, most of which disagreed. Previously, the ratio of likes to comments was about 1:1, now it is 20:1. He interpreted this as a sign that many AfD bots had disappeared from X. He also wrote that Russian propaganda was decreasing; this could allow the online discourse to recover. He described the day as good for X, the online debate, and Germany, and contrasted the colors of the German flag with the blue hearts and the Russian flag. #AfD #OnlineDebatte #Deutschland (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann wrote that 22-year-old student Marius Dick was stabbed on July 15, 2026, around 10 a.m. in Trier on a pedestrian path by 22-year-old Afghan Sajad M. After the act, Sajad M. was taken to a psychiatric clinic. There is a suspicion that he was incapable of culpability or had diminished culpability due to a mental illness, Kussmann wrote. Sajad M. had already been in a psychiatric clinic before. Despite repeated inquiries, the public prosecutor's office has not yet informed Kussmann whether he was committed at that time due to a danger to others. Marius's parents gave an interview to the Trier Volksfreund. Four weeks after the death of his son, the father suffered a heart attack and had to undergo surgery. He is currently in a rehab clinic and is supposed to come home on the weekend so that his wife and younger son are not alone. Kussmann wrote that Chancellor Merz called the parents shortly after the act because Marius’s mother was politically active in the CDU. The father reportedly urged Merz to immediately deport immigrants who had committed offenses to prevent further acts. This was a promise that Merz had made before the election. The father is now disappointed because, in his view, nothing has happened. He said that such acts could happen to anyone and accused the government of not protecting citizens. He said this would tear the CDU apart and could lead to other parties taking power. Germany is currently at a turning point, he also reportedly said. As of now, Sajad M. has not commented on the act. Kussmann wrote that she is looking forward to the trial with anticipation and fears it could end with an acquittal due to insanity and placement in overcrowded preventive detention. She announced that she would ask the public prosecutor's office again in the following week about the possible conclusion of the investigation and the status of the forensic psychiatric report. The interview can be found in the comments. #Trier #Gewalt #Justiz (translated)

Critical Cat wrote that ARD fact-checkers presented burning churches and vandalism as an invention of a Christian NGO. At the same time, the author accused the public broadcaster of reaching a new low in hate against Christians and referred to a link to the fact check in the comments. https://t.co/yJJ1OdNZwS #FakeNews #Christen #Vandalismus (translated)

Donald Trump claimed in a campaign speech that Germany was "two days away from annihilation" due to the energy transition and criticized countries with green energy as bankrupt, while also threatening tariffs against France and making insulting comments about a Muslim politician. #Trump #Energiewende #Wahlkampf (translated)

Eva Selsing wrote that her criticism of modern art in B.T. could also be directed at Jens Galschiøt's Trump sculpture, which she described as vulgar kitsch. She believed that much modern art was poorly conceived and executed political contributions that conveyed propaganda for an oikophobic establishment rather than uplift or give spirit to the human condition. Selsing stated that she was not surprised that the Danish Arts Foundation supported that type of projects. She pointed out that artists, works, funds, and museums, in her view, were influenced by left-leaning individuals, and that the result was often works characterized by ugliness, death, something unpleasant, and meaninglessness. She emphasized that her criticism was not about art being provocative, but that provocation had been highlighted for decades as the only or most important task of art. She asked why art should not also show beauty, and called provocation that followed the demands of the time ideological commission work. Selsing rejected that she had the sole right to define art but believed that works that could be reduced to poorly conceived political contributions were not good art—if they were even art at all. She referred to most modern art as societal-degrading kitsch. #ModerneKunst #Kitsch #KunstDebat (translated)

A comment calls for the authorities to take decisive action against the abuse of social benefits, particularly against support scammers who falsely claim a need for housing for two single apartments, thereby misusing taxpayers' money amounting to 18 billion euros annually. #StützeAbzocker #Mietbetrug #Jobcenter (translated)

Malca Goldstein-Wolf recommended reading a linked comment in full and stated that she agreed with its assertions. The comment criticized that politics and the media focused on right-wing forces while left-wing extremism advanced. At the same time, it accused politicians and journalists of having a negative fixation on everything right-wing and pointed out that "right" was used as a pejorative in national newspaper headlines. According to the comment, the Union, FDP, and AfD together achieved 45.9 percent in the federal elections in 2002 and 53.7 percent in 2025 — if one categorizes these parties as conservative or at least not left-wing. It also complained that there was a demarcation to the right but no corresponding demarcation to the left, causing the distinction between right and right-wing extremist as well as left and left-wing extremist to be lost. Goldstein-Wolf also highlighted the question of whether the left is the new right. https://t.co/TsSnyqmFvP #Politik #Extremismus #Demokratie (translated)

The contribution referred to Daniel Brössler's comment "The Complete Moral Bankruptcy of Gerhard Schröder" for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Brössler described the former chancellor as a symbol of German-Russian rapprochement, which, according to his account, took place at the cost of the lives of Ukrainians. https://t.co/DfIplxDUUS #Deutschland #Russland #Ukraine #DE #RU #UA (translated)

JUNGE FREIHEIT reported that BMW withdrew its leasing offer after the election of an AfD state parliament president. At the same time, the medium pointed to shrinking profits and the planned reduction of thousands of jobs. Political oversight is now part of the "standard equipment," it said in a comment. https://t.co/Ps7uRAidBf https://t.co/Gc5e4PHehe #BMW #Politik #AfD (translated)