Owen Jones made a good video about this shit. (CW: some uncalled for Russia brainworms)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/americas/no-a-remote-amazon-tribe-did-not-get-addicted-to-porn.html

Only the chancellor can initiate reelection (via a vote of no-confidence in parliament), so they’d need to replace Scholz first, which means the opposition (CDU/CSU, AfD and the just kicked out FDP) would need to all get behind the same candidate for chancellor.

Scholz says he will do the no-confidence vote in January, followed by elections in March. The CDU probably wouldn’t want the headache of making deals with the AfD just so reelection is two months earlier.

Nah he won in 2021 and he’s technically just the head of the government, there’s a ceremonial president which is the head of state. The coalition is incredibly unpopular though.

The German coalition government (socdems, greens, liberals) is over. Scholz fired finance minister Lindner (liberal) after he proposed reelections.

Netanyahu had faced pressure from far-right members of his cabinet to dismiss him. On Tuesday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir congratulated Netanyahu, accusing Gallant of being an impediment to “complete victory.”

That’s a lot. I can’t remember a time flooding in Europe had this large of a death toll.

Even German media is now reporting that “Ukraine is currently losing ground faster than ever – except for the first few weeks of the war.”

Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung (use Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension to read whole article)

Of course there’s also cope about how many soldiers Russia is losing and how they’re going to run out of armored vehicles.

I’m on the 2nd chapter (?) of farewell, so right behind you (i.e. probably 5000 more deaths and 5 hours).

“Friedenspreis” aka peace price of the German book sellers actually.