👨‍💻 🇺🇸 📊 There is an employment recession in the US Information sector.

The Information industry shed -23,000 jobs in August, bringing employment down to 2.75 million, its lowest since the 2020 pandemic.

The Information sector includes software publishing, data processing and computing infrastructure, web search, telecom, broadcasting, publishing, and other information services.

Excluding 2020, this is the lowest reading since April 2015.

Since the November 2022 peak, Information employment has contracted -270,000, or -12%.

By comparison, during the 2008 Financial Crisis and its aftermath, employment in this industry also fell -12%, or -350,000 jobs.

AI is increasingly replacing skilled human labor across parts of the Information sector.

📎 KobeissiLetter

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 Germany, 1320/2660 electoral districts counted:

Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election

AfD (ESN): 49.0% (+28.2)
CDU (EPP): 16.2% (-20.9)
SPD (S&D): 8.1% (-0.3)
LINKE (LEFT): 7.8% (-3.2)
GRÜNE (Greens/EFA): 7.2% (+1.3)
BSW (NI): 5.1% (new)
FDP (RE): 2.5% (-3.9)
FW (RE): 1.1% (-2.0)
Tierschutz (LEFT): 1.0% (-0.4)
Tierallianz (*): 0.6% (+0.1)
Garten (*): 0.5% (-0.3)
Volt (Greens/EFA): 0.3% (new)
PARTEI (*): 0.3% (-0.4)
PdF (RE): 0.2% (new)
Basis (*): 0.1% (-1.4)

+/- vs. Last election

➤ europeelects.eu/germany

📎 Europe Elects

📖 🇩🇪 🗳 If the AfD end up at 43% today as the polls suggest, then they would be outperforming even the Nazi Party in the state of Anhalt at the peak of their electoral success in 1932.

📝 v. Stormberg: Anhalt was a very small part of current-day Saxony-Anhalt. A better comparison is adding the Weimar electoral districts of Magdeburg and Merseburg together, which gives 43,2% for the NSDAP in July 1932. Meaning AfD probably still outpreformed them today.

📎 Ikon

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 The AfD won decisively in all age groups, except for one: 70+.

In that age group the AfD and CDU received 31% of the votes each.

📎 EuroCon

🗳 🇩🇪 🚷 AfD is popular because Germans have been replaced.

Germanys % Germans dropped from 98% in 1950 to 72% in 2026.

People vote for AfD because of immigration.

📎 swenstone

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 Strongest party in each German state. Based on August 2026 polls.

🔵 AfD (far right)
⚫️ CDU/CSU (centre-right)
🔴 SPD (centre-left)
🟢 Greens

📎 Xavi Ruiz

🗳 🇩🇪 🎉 AFD plays the the WW2 marching song Erika in a modern electro version on their YouTube channel

Their stream is showered with AFD blue hearts and pro AFD comments

📎 Lord Bebo

🇩🇪⚡️ — German AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla:

2029 will be the decisive election year at the latest.

Then we will have brought about the second turning point in this country and will then govern Germany. That is our mission.

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 Results by age group in Sachsen-Anhalt. AfD is weakest among the oldest.

📎 Stefan Schubert

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 The CDU’s has suffered a massive collapse in support among young voters in Saxony-Anhalt.

The exit poll shows that only 5% voted for CDU while 2% voted for FDP.

Meanwhile, Linke and the Green Party got 18% and 14% respectively compared to 9.5% and 9% among all voters.

📎 Visegrad24

📢 🇩🇪 🗳 The youth branch of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt has called on party leader Sven Schulze to quit.

📝 eugyppiys: "Sachsen-Anhalt chapter of CDU will now have to try to hold their whole faction together and prevent all defections to AfD, just a few renegades can put AfD in power. if that happens, huge political crisis, may take down federal gvt."

📎 Tom Nuttall

🗳 🇩🇪 📈 The AfD’s victory was principally a mobilisation surge. The extraordinary increase in turnout - from 60.3% to around 76.5% was overwhelmingly advantageous to the AfD. People who had withdrawn from politics did not return to defend the centre; they returned to punish it

📝 Tom Nuttall: "The growth in AfD support came, above all, from mobilising previous non-voters."

📎 Mujtaba Rahman

🇩🇪🗳📝 What will happen next in Sachsen-Anhalt?

The Landtag is established. The AfD does not have an absolute majority.

Within one month, there will be a secret election to elect the new president, who will form the new government.

The AfD only needs 3 other members from political parties to vote with them to win.

The CDU is under massive pressure from their base because they would need to form a coalition with hard communists and left-wing parties to prevent the AfD from governing.

Also, the anti-imperialist left-wing party BSW is open to cooperating with the AfD. The left-wing German establishment will put immense pressure on both parties. The AfD is in a perfect position.

Entertaining weeks ahead.

🔗 Martin Sellner

🗳 🇩🇪 🚷 65% of AfD voters in Saxony-Anhalt reported facing financial struggles.

Turns out that when you correctly link mass immigration to the decline in job security, homeownership, accessible healthcare, quality education, decent wages, and almost every other quality of life indicator for existing residents, they respond accordingly at the ballot box.

📎 Gabe Guidarini

🗳 🇩🇪 📈 42% of AfD voters didn't vote in the last state election

📎 Adam