My news feed is being flooded with stories about a far right victory in Germany. Obviously as an American, “far right” has a certain connotation given our current political climate.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-afd-saxony-anhalt-election-e9c2b1bb69a9dab1778b80866ffa4c4f

And why is every second British person on Twitter suddenly doing all of their marketing for them? Every other week there’s some new product they’re pushing that I inevitably try and am inevitably left disappointed (pistachio “sandwich”, looking at you) despite Twitter’s proclamations that it will “change your life”.

https://x.com/gamray/status/2096551358845374639?s=46&t=hCmCvEd2I7xzAe0kC7j-dw

Is there a reason he did it?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hair-brunette-brown-b3045388.html

(Such a weird question to ask as someone with blue hair, but Trump is clearly someone whose giant pivots may indicate something more imo)

Just opened my Twitter to this post: https://x.com/jjkkwhite19/status/2096764724679528797 . What the hell is going on right now? Who are any of these people?

Also, as I type up this post and about to hit submit, I realize I think OP typo'd "if" as "of" so I assume she's not dead?

What's going on with them?

There seems to be some sort of sea change towards the right in a regional election. What exactly has happened, who are the major players, and what does it portend on a national level?

https://www.reuters.com/world/germanys-far-right-afd-seeks-landmark-state-victory-saxony-anhalt-votes-2026-09-06/

The latest jobs report in the US apparently showed that job growth is currently being driven almost entirely by women. What does this exactly mean, and is it accurate?

https://fortune.com/2026/09/04/jobs-report-september-women-162000-jobs/?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=mobile&utm_campaign=social_share

Bit old but https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv16lq2rp1o alignment with Russian influence, atleast more than anything else that could be interpreted as speculative. this outright seems like an open alignment. I’m sure someone will tell me to google and the answer is obvious but based off principe and from what I understand the campaigning in a foreign nation came about rather unexpectedly which confuses me a bit (if I’m being naive.) so based off this why isn’t it mentioned more in regard to Trumps alleged Russian affiliation?

https://stoptheracetoreplace.org/en/sign/stop-replacing-jobs-with-ai?
the music in the ads sounds like the music in certain AI ads and I’m curious where these petition came from and how it got the money to have ads all over YouTube

https://www.reddit.com/r/EdutainmentShows/comments/1w89yys/happy_27th_anniversary_to_pbs_kids/

I grew up in a non-western country, and throughout my childhood, JK Rowling was taught to us in school as an inspiration, as a woman who came from a not-so-priveleged background, and through sheer perseverance and tenacity, was able to lift herself up out of poverty.

We were taught how she was rejected by n number of publishers before being accepted, and the story of Harry Potter ended up achieving phenomenal success.

I have also seen so so so many Potterheads growing up, so I do know that there really is some substance.

As the new Harry Potter series came up, I saw many people actually cancelling her. Upon research, I saw everyone calling her a TERF, which I am not exactly sure what it is. What comments did she make?

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

ok I keep seeing this everywhere the past few days and I'm lost lol. My brother was talking about it just last night, & from what I can piece together a mistrial just got declared today after the jury was stuck for like 7 days, kept telling the judge they couldn't agree.

basic of what I've heard so far — Lindsay Clancy killed her 3 kids back in 2023 in MA, and the defense is saying she wasn't responsible for it bc of postpartum psychosis + a ton of psych meds she was on. but then I've seen totally different takes too, like some ppl saying this is obviously someone who had a full mental health breakdown and the system failed her, and other ppl pointing to her journal entries and the fact she sent her husband out right before as proof it was planned. and apparently there's ALSO some whole side thing about her ex husband and people questioning his behavior too?? not sure what that's about

found this that kinda breaks down the different sides people are debating about: Verity

now there is a mistrial? what happens next, and is there actually real evidence behind the premeditated angle or is that mostly just internet speculation at this point

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/bernadette-giacomazzo/inde-navarrette-journalist-weird

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/s/2Bsud8qrUW

Some random journalist seems to be crashing out because he was threatening her?

Is he a Muslim now? What happened? Last I checked he was a Trump loving Gay Conservative or something. He's Muslim now?

https://x.com/Nero/status/2096648784151187550

https://aftermath.site/markiplier-says-he-didnt-bump-and-dump-gopro-stock/

Please go easy on me as I don’t know much about stocks/investing as I am quite young and haven’t done any of that yet.

From what I’ve heard, Markiplier invested millions of dollars into GoPro, became the largest stockholder in the company. He boosted the stock value by almost 50% in one day because of this. Then a day later GoPro announced a ~$280M merger with a company that makes AI and funds the military industrial complex? Markiplier says he had no idea this would happen, but why would someone invest that much money into a failing stock that miraculously bounces back not even 24 hours later? Markiplier is walking away with 1.5x the money he started with from all this and that in and of itself feels like a dirty transaction. Millions of dollars apparently! I’ve also heard that he made a sponsored GoPro review video where he didn’t disclose his stake in the company? I don’t know, I used to watch Markiplier all the time years ago when I was younger, but it’s been a while. He’s been the creator that’s always seemed to avoid any and all controversy. It sounds like he didn’t have anything to do with this? But maybe he’s just not the person I thought he was. This whole ordeal stinks of capitalistic money-making greed and I’m not sure how to feel about it. Multi-millionaires tossing around their money like it’s nothing…and as someone who is very anti-AI and anti-war, everything that’s been happening with the GoPro company makes me sick to my stomach.

Then again, I know that I really don’t know much about the logistics of everything. I’d really appreciate someone who’s more well-versed in this whole debacle to explain things unbiased-ly, as I’m very confused with all of the recent developments. Thank you all so much in advance! :)

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-donald-trump-javier-milei-falkland-islands-britain-e84d99c99cfb1cb1ad232be8e3ea6c8a

I don't get why the islands are worth a fight. Is it mostly a symbolic argument?

US congress passed a law banning federal funds from universities boycotting Israel https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/israel-boycott-university-ban-bill

US congress also passed a law condemning socialism

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-condemns-socialism-supports-save-act/

Why are they suddenly passing these laws which probably don't solve the issues American citizens are currently facing?

What is going on with the recent hugging face AI incident in which a bunch of AI agents went rogue? They basically went off on their own and started committing crimes and worked together apart from OpenAI.

https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESfAHrOzAVY2aPLqx2AIM1ai-PPQDAd6fr7rhIyl9i8M9PPlYkEV0D4eQIclo8EGlfCm9oI2eXg5FeXMms8ROVJKvnbj5X8r-lQAIGYCkpUBBxm7Kqpbx2nJSp87xcEvwKArWOvM4kJp2QsIkYkpVF5CPLoRPIzQGnWoHPa4E

Seems like a trend I only noticed this year with certain cons now even promoting the activity. Is it a means of showing off what you did at the con?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/02/jd-vance-end-times-gods-work/91576546007/

Remind me who are the bad guys? Who are we rooting for here?

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49806356/nba-announces-punishments-clippers-kawhi-probe

https://entertainment.inquirer.net/682353/what-to-know-the-evidence-that-led-to-keffe-ds-conviction-in-tupac-shakurs-killing

So he ended up putting himself in jail when he could have gotten away with it and not do any jail time ?

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/jbs-co-owner-lobbied-trump-005419130.html

Are cattle in states like Texas still suffering from the tapeworm epidemic?

You also had the cyclospora outbreak that apparently stemmed from a lettuce supplier of Taco Bell in Mexico, supposedly, and that Taylor Farms, this supplier, had lobbied the FDA to cut red tape for their checks or something?

Can someone break down for me what has been going on, especially with what this "mystery beef" news is (I'm from the UK and we don't always get this news, even in our current age of 24/7 news coverage)?

For years, Coppermind struck me as one of the worst laid out wikis on the Internet. It prized up-to-date information above all, meaning that most pages spoiled the books they covered seemingly at the earliest possible mention. As an example, the page for the character Sazed, from Mistborn spoiled the ending of the trilogy he appeared in in the first sentence.

Given that the Cosmere is a shared setting for many different but similar series, this made it extremely inconvenient if you wanted a refresher on the events, setting, or mechanics of magic for a series that you'd last read a few years ago. You would inevitably have the significant plot beats of the book you were reading spoiled more or less immediately (I read 2024's Wind and Truth the month it released and wanted to brush up on which of the characters are Heralds and was immediately spoiled that the book's climax replaces one Herald with a new onefor the first time in thousands of years).

At some point since 2024, that changed. There are now spoiler warnings, and the most spoilerific information is now organized in such a way that books aren't spoiled without warning. It's an excellent change...but I don't know why it happened or who spearheaded it. Does anyone else know?

I've been seeing all over Tiktok and Instagram of this influencer who claimed she went to Duke University but she was never there. I tried to find the full story but people are only sharing snippets,, i'm really curious as to what actually happened and how people found outhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DcofXoLxtYO/?igsi=NXVhdWU5eHYwOXAw