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Kolja Barghoorn referred to a witty comeback from Helmut Kohl in response to the question of what he was getting paid for. He wrote that an AfD politician would be considered anti-constitutional today for a similar remark and called that ridiculous. #Politik #AfD #Schlagfertigkeit (translated)

Bernd Kaiser expressed his condolences to Bärbel Bas on the death of her stepdaughter but accused her of politically exploiting the tragedy. He wrote that Bas is resigning from her position as Federal Minister of Labor and the presidency of the SPD party but is keeping her Bundestag mandate. Kaiser criticized that Bas would therefore continue to receive a salary and additionally statutory transitional pay: the full ministerial salary for three months and then half for up to two years. He compared this to the regulations for employees: those who lose a stepchild have no right to statutory special leave; in the public sector, there are two days off for the death of direct relatives. He claimed that Bas did not change this regulation during her time in office. Kaiser accused Bas of evading political responsibility by referring to grief and public attacks while the costs would be borne by taxpayers. #BärbelBas #SPD #Doppelmoral #BärbelBas #SPD #Politik (translated)

Emrah Erken criticized the UN Human Rights Council and Navi Pillay. He wrote that the body had condemned Israel for human rights violations a total of 116 times since its founding in 2006, while China, Turkey, and Qatar had not been condemned even once. The United Nations, he claimed, had turned human rights into a weapon against the West, particularly Israel. Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. During this time, the Human Rights Council never condemned China, Erken wrote. UN Watch and former UN employee Emma Reilly accused Pillay of having passed the names of more than 50 dissidents, including Uighurs, to China under her leadership. Additionally, Pillay stayed away from the Nobel Prize ceremony in 2010 in honor of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Erken further wrote that Pillay later led a UN commission of inquiry that accused Israel of genocide and previously signed calls for sanctions against Israel. In 2012, she criticized the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its Muhammad cartoons, describing the drawings as malicious and intentionally provocative. Critics also accused her of opting for appeasement and restrictions on freedom of expression rather than defending it in the debate over Muhammad cartoons. Erken called it a shame that Pillay would receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and expressed opposition to post-colonialism, the "Woke Left," and Pillay. #Menschenrechte #UN #Israel (translated)

I find that absolutely absurd. This is a leader who leads the way. Yes, he is somewhat the face, if you will, of a team that has not been very successful in tournaments in recent years. But Joshua Kimmich is for me an outstanding German player and we should be glad to have such a player in our ranks! Bayern's sports director Max Eberl (53) now makes it very clear regarding the discussion: "I find that absolutely absurd. This is a leader who leads the way. Yes, he is somewhat the face, if you will, of a team that has not been very successful in tournaments in recent years. But Joshua Kimmich is for me an outstanding German player and we should be glad to have such a player in our ranks!" #Kimmich #DFB #Bayern (translated)

The Kiel shareholder wrote that, according to Welt, the parties of Red-Red-Green in Berlin had more or less agreed and wanted to begin exploratory talks to form a coalition. He accused the SPD and the Greens of disregarding democracy. #Berlin #Koalitionsverhandlungen #Demokratie (translated)

The 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, the face of the protest movement against the housing crisis in Spain, has died after her eviction and a dramatic increase in rent, which she could no longer afford, triggering nationwide outrage and mass protests. #Wohnungsnot #Zwangsräumung #Mieterproteste (translated)

Daniel Haseloff wrote that Mario Voigt will not continue the legal dispute regarding his doctorate. This confirmed what Haseloff had stated earlier. At noon, the other factions could clear the way for new elections, he explained. That is the only way for the government to exit the situation while preserving its dignity. Thüringen has earned new elections more than ever, Haseloff added. #Thüringen #Neuwahlen #Politik (translated)

Gimby reported that he had to pick up his eight-year-old son from school after he had hit a classmate three times in the face. The teacher had initially told him that his son had acted without any apparent reason. However, on the way home, the boy explained that the classmate, together with two other boys, had been bullying him daily for two weeks, and he had lost control the day before out of pent-up anger. Gimby wrote that if discussions did not have any effect and teachers did not intervene, his son's behavior was acceptable. He believed one should not have to tolerate everything. #Mobbing #Konflikte #Erziehung (translated)

Max Mannhart wrote that Sven Schulze announced that the CDU parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt would abstain from voting for the president of the state parliament the following day. According to Mannhart, this would allow the AfD candidate to achieve a majority of his own even without the BSW; merely the CDU's abstention would suffice for this historical novelty. Previously, there had been significant tensions due to possible dissenters within the CDU and the question of whether they could help Siegmund become the minister-president. Mannhart interpreted the abstention as a possible compromise that offers Schulze a way to save face and allows potential AfD supporters to remain anonymous until the election of the minister-president. https://t.co/izzQAA0WY8 #CDU #AfD #SachsenAnhalt (translated)