I found the embassy posting this interesting.

This is how things look going into the last three weeks before the election, after a week of tens of thousands of pious, narcissistic self-righteous Germans dutifully braving the streets with their cellphone flashlights to proclaim their fear and hatred of the horror that is the AfD. BSW touched 10% this last year but now approaches the 5% hurdle from the top, while Die Linke attempts to approach it from the bottom, and aims to hold onto its direct mandates.

Posts on X, Mastodon, and Bluesky crow about the numbers of the Good People who have demonstrated against The Bad Ones while polling numbers remain stable or occasionally show a 1% improvement for the AfD.

Seymour Hersh:

The official told me that in late 2019 “the agency had a source in the laboratory at Wuhan” who reported—long before any official statement from Chinese authorities—that “China was doing both offensive and defensive work” with possible SARS pathogens and there had been a laboratory accident that left one researcher infected. The illness quickly spread.

I further learned then that the CIA’s source was being paid by arrangement with the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, which was one of many American institutions, including universities, funding the Wuhan laboratory’s research programs.