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>For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

>Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/gruene-wollen-abgabe-fuer-extremvermoegen-in-den-bundestag-einbringen-a-21c1c8ae-0fd8-456b-98f7-c424b998412d

Ein weiterer Vorschlag, ein weiteres absurdes Rechenbeispiel.

Bereits der Vorschlag der Linken hat gezeigt, dass eine starke Besteuerung von Reichtum über 100 Mrd. Euro im Jahr einnehmen könnte.

Jetzt bringt es des moderatere Grüne Vorschlag auf die Spitze.

Nur 2% auf Vermögen ab 500 Millionen

3% auf Vermögen ab 1 Milliarde

Und 4% auf Vermögen ab 10 Milliarden

könnten 20 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr einnehmen!

Von nur 0,0007% der Bevölkerung, also ca. 500-600 Personen.

60-70% der Deutschen sprechen sich in Deutschland für Vermögenssteuern aus, also stellt sich die Frage:

Sollten Oligarchen in Deutschland Steuern zahlen?

...oder haben sie sich ihr dasein als moderne Fürsten die Demokratie und Recht übergehen können verdient und sollten komplett unangetastet bleiben, während überall sonst gekürzt wird?

Ich habe Res.Publica in den vergangenen Monaten neben dem Studium aufgebaut. Die Plattform läuft auf einem Hetzner-Server für zehn Euro im Monat, Moritz schreibt mit, vor allem zu EU und Wirtschaft. Viel mehr steckt organisatorisch bisher nicht dahinter.

Das ändert sich jetzt ein Stück weit.

Res.Publica wird Teilprojekt von SOUNDS, einem neuen Forschungszentrum an der Universität des Saarlandes. SOUNDS steht für "Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources" und wird im Rahmen des Transformationsprogramms Forschung und Wissenschaft Saar vom Ministerium der Finanzen und für Wissenschaft mit 29 Millionen Euro gefördert.

Die Idee hinter SOUNDS ist ziemlich nah an dem, was wir mit Res.Publica versuchen: gesellschaftliche und politische Entwicklungen anhand von Daten sichtbar zu machen, die zwar vorhanden sind, aber bisher kaum systematisch zusammengeführt und ausgewertet werden.

Bei SOUNDS geht es unter anderem um Satellitenbilder, Suchanfragen, Bewegungsdaten und Social Media. Mittelfristig soll daraus eine Art Frühwarnsystem entstehen, mit dem sich gesellschaftliche Veränderungen und Risiken für Demokratien früher erkennen lassen.

Bei Res.Publica arbeiten wir mit anderen Quellen: Gesetzestexten, Gerichtsurteilen, dem Lobbyregister und jeder namentlichen Abstimmung im Bundestag. Aktuell haben wir 6.786 Gesetze erfasst und gut 20.000 Verbindungen zwischen Gesetzen und den Organisationen, die versucht haben, auf sie Einfluss zu nehmen.

Das meiste davon ist öffentlich. Es liegt auf den Servern von Bundestag, Ministerien und anderen Behörden. Das Problem ist eher: Die Informationen liegen an unterschiedlichen Stellen, in unterschiedlichen Formaten und sind kaum miteinander verknüpft.

Genau dabei hilft mir SOUNDS.

Ich habe dort künftig eine Stelle und kann einen Teil meiner Arbeitszeit in Res.Publica stecken. Noch wichtiger finde ich aber, dass ich die Plattform nicht mehr komplett allein im stillen Kämmerlein entwickle. Bei SOUNDS arbeiten Leute, die seit Jahren Datenpipelines und Methoden zur Auswertung großer Datenmengen entwickeln, und Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler, die beurteilen können, ob aus den Daten tatsächlich die Schlüsse gezogen werden können, die wir daraus ziehen wollen.

Wissenschaftlich geleitet wird SOUNDS von Prof. Dr. Ingmar Weber und Prof. Dr. Daniela Braun. Weber ist Informatiker und Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professor für KI und forscht seit Jahren mit neuen digitalen Datenquellen. Braun ist Politikwissenschaftlerin mit Schwerpunkt Europäische Integration und forscht unter anderem zu politischem Vertrauen und Demokratie in Europa. Die Geschäftsführung hat Dr. Anke Köhler, die als Wissenschaftsmanagerin und Beraterin seit Jahren unter anderem Organisationsentwicklung und Digitalisierung an Hochschulen wie in Unternehmen begleitet.

Eine Sache ist mir bei der Zusammenarbeit besonders wichtig: Für euch ändert sich am Grundprinzip von Res.Publica nichts.

Es gibt weiterhin keine Paywall und kein Abo. Die Universität bezahlt keine Artikel, gibt keine Themen vor und liest Texte auch nicht vor Veröffentlichung gegen. Redaktionell bleibt Res.Publica unabhängig.

Was sich hoffentlich ändert: dass die Datenbasis besser wird, neue Datensätze dazukommen und wir bei unseren Analysen methodisch sauberer und schneller werden.

Am 2. September findet in Saarbrücken der öffentliche Kick-off von SOUNDS statt. Die Veranstaltung ist für alle offen, die Anmeldung findet ihr über den Link im ersten Kommentar.

Ich selbst werde ausgerechnet nicht dabei sein, weil ich dann schon für mein Auslandssemester in Grenoble bin.

Wer aus der Gegend kommt und sich dafür interessiert, wie man aus ziemlich verstreuten öffentlichen Daten etwas über Politik und Gesellschaft lernen kann: kommt gerne vorbei!

2021 haben über eine Million Berlinerinnen und Berliner für die Vergesellschaftung großer Wohnungsbestände gestimmt. 2022 hat der SPD-Landesparteitag beschlossen, das umzusetzen, falls die Expertenkommission grünes Licht gibt. 2023 gab die Kommission grünes Licht.

Anfang August erklärt der Spitzenkandidat, mit der SPD sei Vergesellschaftung nicht zu machen.

Die vollständige Recherche mit allen Quellen:

https://respublica.media/mit-der-spd-jedenfalls-nicht/

Der Angriff auf das IFG muss deutlich mehr öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit bekommen. Es ist ein Unding, was hier passiert, und es sollte jeden Bürger dieses Landes interessieren.

Letztlich wird hier versucht, das Recht der Bürger einzuschränken, Informationen über staatliche Prozesse, Verfahren, Dokumente und Entscheidungen abzufragen. Genau dieses Recht ermöglicht es der Öffentlichkeit, staatliches Handeln nachzuvollziehen und den Staat in seinem Tun zu kontrollieren.

Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz ist kein lästiges Hindernis für den Staat, sondern ein wichtiges Instrument demokratischer Kontrolle. Wer den Zugang zu Informationen einschränkt, schwächt damit auch die Möglichkeit der Bürger, staatliches Handeln kritisch zu überprüfen.

Res.Publica steht demnach solidarisch hinter fragdenstaat!

https://x.com/i/status/2086109841605456184

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.

KI disclaimer und so

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Source:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5HYmraLuzUrzy7yX5mzMLB?si=-mvoyk7zQFWQdmK6tenPEA&utm\_source=copy-link

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The footage going around on 20 July is real. Yellow ten-foot barricades buckling under the weight of a crowd, one man standing on top of them, tricolour flags in every hand. The viral caption says Delhi's police could not contain the sea of people at Jantar Mantar, and that part is accurate. What the caption leaves out is who these people are, why they are there, and why a movement named after a cockroach is marching on the Indian Parliament.

The monsoon session of Parliament opened on Monday. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) had announced a march from Jantar Mantar to the Parliament building. Delhi Police denied permission, imposed prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS, built multi-layered barricades and called for reinforcements. Five metro stations were closed. Reporters on the ground counted close to a lakh, roughly 100,000 people, gathered outside the barricades and trying to march anyway.

Police resorted to a mild lathi charge to disperse the crowd. Senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Atishi, joined in. Samajwadi Party MPs led by Dimple Yadav marched with placards reading "NEET hai ya cheat hai", is it NEET or is it cheat. By midday two CJP spokespersons were on their way to meet Union Minister J.P. Nadda, the first sign of dialogue between the movement and the government.

Where the name comes from

The name is not a joke the movement's opponents invented. It is a slur it reclaimed. On 15 May 2026, the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, reportedly compared unemployed youth to "cockroaches" and "parasites of society" in open court. Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old Indian political strategist based in the United States, answered on social media with a single question: what if all the cockroaches came together. A day later he had launched the Cockroach Janta Party, an open parody of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.

Founded 16 May 2026, three months ago. Founder Abhijeet Dipke, 30, a Boston University graduate and former Aam Aadmi Party strategist, who flew in from the US to lead it in person. It is not registered with the Election Commission of India, so it holds no seat and no ballot symbol. Within days it passed 20 million Instagram followers, more than the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress, with over 350,000 members signed up. Its slogan: "Voice of the Lazy and Unemployed." Its single demand: the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Why they are marching

The trigger is an exam. NEET is India's single nationwide entrance test for undergraduate medical courses. More than two million students sit it every year to compete for fewer than 130,000 seats. In May 2026 the test was cancelled after widespread paper leaks and irregularities, forcing millions of aspirants to sit it again. In the weeks that followed, several students died by suicide. The CJP wants Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to take moral responsibility and resign.

The exam is the spark, not the whole fire. Social activist Sonam Wangchuk, who calls himself an "honorary cockroach", joined the protest and had been on a fast at the site. What began as a meme account has become a channel for a much older frustration over exams, jobs and a system that hands young Indians a degree and then no work to use it on.

A movement built on self-mockery has forced a question the establishment cannot meme away: what is a degree worth if the country cannot employ the people who earn it.

The real fuel: a degree and no job

The numbers behind the anger are the story most viral clips miss. The State of Working India 2026 report by Azim Premji University found unemployment near 40 percent for the 15 to 25 age group. Among unemployed Indians aged 20 to 29, the share holding a degree rose from 46 percent in 2017 to 67 percent in 2023. Two out of three jobless young Indians now hold a degree.

Less than half of all graduates report any form of work. Only 6.7 percent hold a permanent salaried job, and 3.7 percent are in white-collar occupations. Between 2004 and 2023, India added roughly five million graduates every year while only about 2.8 million found employment. The youth population aged 15 to 29 stands at 367 million, a third of the working-age total, and more than ten million new job seekers enter the market each year.

2 million students sitting NEET for under 130,000 seats. 67 percent of jobless 20 to 29-year-olds holding a degree, up from 46 percent in 2017. Fewer than half of all graduates in any work, 6.7 percent in a permanent salaried job. 5 million graduates added each year, 2.8 million absorbed. This is the fuel. The cancelled exam was only the match.

What holds up, and what does not

Strip away the framing and the core claim survives. The barricades did not hold, and the crowd was large by any account. But this is not a spontaneous mob, and it is not the picture the loudest replies paint.

The viral video is genuine, and the reported crowd of close to 100,000 is consistent with reporting on the ground. The pro-government line that these are "paid" agitators is not supported by any evidence in the coverage. What the footage shows is an organised, three-month-old youth movement demanding accountability for an exam system that failed two million students and a labour market that fails most graduates. Whether it lasts beyond the next election is genuinely unclear. That it out-followed the ruling party in days is not.

Why it matters beyond India

The Cockroach Janta Party is one node in a wider pattern. Across 2025 and 2026, youth-led movements have moved from social media into the street in Kenya, Nepal, Bangladesh and now India, organised around symbols and meme culture rather than traditional party machinery. Analysts are cautious about what comes next. One New Delhi researcher quoted in international coverage called the movement's future beyond next year uncertain, and the government has conceded nothing so far. The talks with Nadda are only beginning. For a movement three months old, forcing a cabinet minister to the table is already more than most expected.

The bottom line

Politics reacts to what it reads as the public mood. A movement is dismissed or taken seriously depending on how large it is judged to be, and that judgment is made by whoever names a number first.

The number here is not in serious dispute, which is exactly why it travels. A meme account turned into a march on Parliament, a slur turned into a slogan, and an exam scandal turned into a referendum on whether an education in India still leads anywhere. A grievance that a court tried to wave away as the noise of parasites is now standing outside the building where the laws are made. Whatever it becomes, it can no longer be un-counted.