If you squint your eyes a little bit, after a few drinks. And some dope.
Germany: Gender switch neo-Nazi sent to men’s prison – Far-right provocateur Marla Svenja Liebich was transferred to a men’s prison after being extradited from the Czech Republic. Authorities say the decision took into account the safety of prisoners at a women’s facility.
Always a left-wing workers’ district.
Berlin’s “Red Wedding” is still concerned about German militarization (some call it self-defense) in a Germany that has a military about the size of a large American city’s police force.
Germans protest Rheinmetall’s plans for Berlin arms factory – One of Germany’s biggest weapons makers, Rheinmetall, has announced plans for a plant in Berlin. Opponents are warning against more German militarization.
Especially if they’re German.
Women just can’t resist them.
Oh Thomas Tuchel, how I love you! Unlike the last boss of the England team, Saint Gareth of Southgate, there’s no smart suit and fashionable theories about sad young men for you. You won’t write a book called ‘Anything Is Possible: Be Brave, Be Kind & Follow Your Dreams’. No one will ever write a play about you, though you are beautifully portrayed in the current series of Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, repeatedly correcting Gary Lineker’s sloppy thinking and Harry’s Kane’s flights of fancy with a kindly but firm ‘No, Gary’ and ‘No, Harry’ before explaining to them exactly what’s what. There’s always a special affection about the way the studio audience laugh at your small speeches and cheer when the sketches conclude…
German of the day: Amerikabild
That means image of America.
The soccer fan who is shaking up Germany’s image of America – For years, Germans have viewed the U.S. primarily through headlines and mostly negative news: Donald Trump, polarization, gun violence, and culture wars. And now an unknown German soccer fan named “Freddy from Germany” comes along, posts on social media about his first visit to a “Waffle House,” expresses amazement at a massive gas station with more than a hundred pumps and a shooting range right in the middle of an outdoor store—and suddenly, millions of people are seeing a different side of America…
Perhaps this World Cup ultimately says more about Germany than it does about the United States.
This time it’s “blame the Designated Bad Guy for everything.”
They just switched it from Trump to Merz.
Germans’ New National Sport: Blaming Friedrich Merz for Everything – Blaming the current chancellor cannot conceal the deeper, collective responsibility for Germany’s nearly 20 years of drift.
That impulse says less about Mr. Merz than about the political maturity of the Federal Republic.
The German population, as in actual Germans, in Germany?
Most definitely. And it’s been doing so for years.
Germany news: Population shrinks for first time since 2020 – A dip in net migration meant it could not cancel out Germany’s low birth rates in 2025.
Germany’s population shrank by roughly 110,000, or 0.13%, last year.
Whether working or at play…
Is the true “good German” way.
“Yes, I feel the guilt every day. I never get bored of it, to feel the guilt, because it’s necessary to act right.”
This attitude seems odd, even pathological. Why should someone feel a crippling inherited guilt over atrocities that were committed decades before she was born, that she was neither responsible for nor had any influence over?
That, as they say, is the qustion.
German union leaders cry.
“He keeps investing in Giga Berlin and creating more jobs!”
Tesla invests $250M more in Giga Berlin battery cells, boosting capacity to 18 GWh – Tesla announced today that it will invest almost $250 million more in battery cell production at its Grünheide factory outside Berlin, more than doubling planned capacity to 18 gigawatt hours per year and creating over 1,500 battery-related jobs…
In late February, Musk sent a pre-recorded video to Grünheide’s roughly 11,000 workers warning that expansion would not happen if IG Metall gained a majority in the upcoming works council election. He said that “things will certainly get more difficult if there are external organizations pushing Tesla in the wrong direction,” adding: “We will not close the factory, but realistically we will also not expand.”
The message was clear: vote for the union, lose the investment.
IG Metall’s vote share subsequently collapsed from 39.4% in 2024 to 31.1% in the March election. Tesla’s management-aligned list, Giga United, took 24 of 37 seats. IG Metall has since filed a legal challenge alleging unlawful interference in the election.
That means spring fatigue.
The shocker: Researchers say it doesn’t exist. It turns out Germans are no more fatigued in spring than they are in winter, summer and fall. Although that is pretty pooped.
Study busts myth: German ‘spring fatigue’ doesn’t exist – Do we really feel more tired in spring? Researchers in Switzerland say, “there’s no such thing as spring fatigue.” But it is a deep cultural phenomenon in German-speaking countries.
It’s one of the first warm days of the year. The first harbingers of spring are cautiously poking their heads out of the ground, the cappuccino in the street cafe tastes of new beginnings. Winter seems to be over.
Everything seems easier — if only it weren’t for that one feeling that seems to plague many people (at least in the German-speaking countries) every year: spring fatigue.
PS: But Stink-Fuß does exist. Although it is more prevalent in the summer. “Out through the night an’ the whispering breezes to the place where they keep the imaginary diseases…”
Avoid children and dogs too, ladies.
Cats are OK, though.
Avoid men, German police association chief tells women – Police association chief Dirk Peglow has stirred debate with his advice to women to avoid relationships with men for safety’s sake. But his provocative tip is not without reason, as statistics show.
Observing Hermann 