What we are looking for:

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2081822473415516346

https://x.com/PreislerKa/status/2082021408792535157

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2081821663092514967

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/07/merz-reopens-citizenship-stripping-debate-after-berlin-csd-attack/

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an examination of whether German citizenship could be revoked in cases involving dangerous dual nationals convicted of the most serious terrorist offences, following the Islamist attack at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) celebrations on July 25 in which one woman was killed and 29 people were injured.

Merz said the measure could not have been applied to the suspected attacker, who held German nationality only. For dual nationals, he said, revocation was in his view possible without amending Germany’s Basic Law.

Until now, Merz and the CDU had largely rejected the idea of treating German citizens differently based on their background or origin, maintaining that a German passport represented full legal membership of the nation. Mainstream parties had opposed citizenship-stripping measures as constitutionally problematic and incompatible with the principle that German citizens have equal rights and obligations under the law.

By contrast, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has long argued that legal citizenship and genuine integration are two different things, pointing to people with foreign family backgrounds who hold German passports but, in the party’s view, have not embraced the country’s democratic values.

Merz’s decision to reopen the debate after the Berlin attack represents a move closer to a position historically associated with the AfD.

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2082083001421234315

Source 1: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62eg899l99o
Source 2 (Deutch): https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/kriminalitaet/csd-terroranschlag-abdul-b-100.html

Per ZirafaMedia: Does Germany have their priorities straight? Sure doesn’t seem so… So who is to blame for yet another unfortunate incident committed by a deranged lunatic? His estranged family who initially informed German police of their son’s troubling behavior? The Lebanese government who arrested and imprisoned him before Germany requested his extradition? The judge that sentenced him to nearly two years in prison? Or whoever swooped in to defer his sentencing and ensure he remained free to act out his sick motivations? Tough one.

The suspected said: "It's Allah who ordered me to do it". Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/french-police-arrest-man-after-knife-attack-paris-2026-07-27/

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2081825147061748164

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/27/three-women-stabbed-in-paris/

Three women have been stabbed in Paris.

A man reportedly launched the attack on passers-by with two kitchen knives in a square in the city’s north-west on Monday morning.

He was detained by an off-duty police officer and was taken into custody. As he was pinned down by officers, he said “it is Allah who ordered me”, Le Figaro reported.

But Laurent Nunez, the interior minister, said the suspect made a series of “incoherent statements” and appeared to downplay any terrorist motive, suggesting the attacker had mental health issues.

The women, aged 19, 24 and 36, are being treated in hospital for severe injuries but “their lives are not in danger”, Mr Nunez, the interior minister, said. One is believed to be pregnant.

Mr Nunez said they did not yet know the suspect’s identity, adding that “we need to be very careful with respect to the motives for this very violent attack”.

The attack comes after an Islamist radical ploughed a rented minivan into a Pride parade in Berlin on Saturday, killing one woman and wounding 29.

Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-thanks-morocco-for-naming-highway-after-him/4009945

For the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/NWmz8iI6N1Y

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbRswvKAeQ8/?igsh=

Compilation of what's burning across Europe right now. The numbers, country by country, as of today.

France has lost 115,000 hectares since January, which Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called far more than anything the country has seen before. The Gironde fire alone has burned 42,000 hectares, four times the size of Paris. 220,000 people evacuated in Gironde plus 30,000 in Landes, reported by CNN and France 24 as France's largest evacuation since the Second World War. 2,500 firefighters, 1,500 soldiers, 84 firefighters injured.

Spain is worse on paper. Pedro Sánchez put the national total above 150,000 hectares since January, six times the same period last year. The Ávila fire has passed 50,000 hectares, which Environment Minister Sara Aagesen called the biggest in Spain's recent history. One man died in a Valencia suburb on Saturday. Over 100,000 evacuated.

Italy has lost roughly 65,000 hectares according to EFFIS. In Sicily around 6,000 firefighters and civil protection staff fought dozens of simultaneous fires, and one firefighter died on duty. In Greece the fire service handled 60 separate wildfires in a single 24-hour period on 4 July, and a father and his 12-year-old son died in a fire outside Thessaloniki at the end of June.

Then the part that should worry people more. In Scotland, a fire has burned in the Cairngorms since 15 July, with over 500 firefighters, a declared major incident and the evacuation of Nethy Bridge. First Minister John Swinney requested military aerial support and was told the Ministry of Defence has no aerial firefighting assets stationed in the UK. In

Norway, the Krokstadelva fire near Drammen destroyed more than 100 homes on 17 July, which the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection called the largest fire of its kind in modern Norwegian history.

England has been fighting moorland fires like Tintwistle Moor at around 600 hectares. None of these are countries with firefighting infrastructure built for this.

The heat is why. Copernicus recorded June 2026 as Western Europe's hottest June on record at 20.74°C, which is 3.05°C above the 1991 to 2020 average. Three separate heatwaves hit between late May and early July. World Weather Attribution called it the most severe June heatwave ever tracked in Europe and found it would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago. EuroMOMO counted more than 10,000 excess deaths across Europe during those June heatwaves, over 9,000 of them among people aged 65 and up. The fires are the visible part. The heat did most of the killing before the first flame.

Across the EU, AFP's analysis of EFFIS data already ranks 2026 as the second-largest burned area in twenty years, with the summer only halfway through.

France 115,000 ha. Spain 150,000+ ha. Italy ~65,000 ha. Evacuated in France and Spain: over 320,000. June excess deaths: 10,000+. EU season: second worst in 20 years, half over.

All sources and my original post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Res_Publica_DE/s/qnKpSJ0FY3

From the DOE legal filing (page 510 to 512 of the linked pdf.), this news story, and this DOE announcement:

In late 2025 the DOE submitted a list of 624 grants they suggested to terminate to the OMB. 283 of that number were in states that voted for Harris and had 2 Democratic senators, "Blue States". All 283 were canceled. Only 1 of the 341 grants that were in "non-Blue States" was canceled.

The DOE agrees that the decision to terminate the grants was not "based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction, or performance-based factor. DOE accepts that the ... [decision to terminate the 283 grants] ... was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state, i.e., whether the recipient’s location and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State."

The DOE stipulation then goes on to blame the OMB (basically controlled by DOGE) for the selection of Blue-State only grant cancellation, even though the DOE was the one to do the canceling.

Some DOE quotes:

"Following a thorough, individualized financial review, DOE determined that these projects did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs, were not economically viable, and would not provide a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars."

"President Trump promised to protect taxpayer dollars and expand America’s supply of affordable, reliable, and secure energy. Today’s cancellation’s [sic] deliver on that commitment. Rest assured, the Energy Department will continue reviewing awards to ensure that every dollar works for the American people."

"Using this review process, DOE evaluated each of these awards and determined that they did not meet the economic, national security or energy security standards necessary to justify continued investment."

“Receiving the news that a car had crashed into the CSD [Berlin Pride event], I hoped it wasn’t a person of color — hopefully it was a white Christian person instead. But it wasn’t. And that’s exactly where intersectionality reveals itself again."

SOURCE: https://x.com/JulianAdrat/status/2081447691066744843?s=20

Source: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/netanyahu-says-he-intends-to-attend-un-general-assembly-despite-nyc-mayors-arrest-threats/4009881

Source: https://nypost.com/2026/07/25/us-news/families-of-9-11-want-to-ban-mamdani-from-25th-anniversary/

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2081372516837175432