🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The Pentagon has added another U.S. military death to its public casualty database amid the war with Iran, bringing the officially disclosed total to 19, although U.S. officials say the actual number is higher, WaPo reports.

The Army identified the officer as Capt. Bianca C. Wilkerson, 37, of Norfolk, Virginia, who died on September 18 following a "non-combat-related medical emergency" while flying to the Middle East.

She was assigned to Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and was supporting operations in Doha, Qatar.

Wilkerson was posthumously promoted to major.

📝 🇩🇪 🗳 Björn Harms on X: The results from the individual Berlin electoral districts provide the most interesting map of the election in the capital. The Left's electoral victory is geographically clearly concentrated in the urban center, especially inside the S-Bahn ring, where many young newcomers and migrants live. In the outskirts, they (as of yet) have no widespread support, because the population is considerably older. In the outer west Spandau, Reinickendorf, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Steglitz-Zehlendorf – the CDU continues to dominate. And often with a large lead, especially in the wealthy southwest.

For the first time, the AfD has managed to secure individual electoral districts in every district, even in West Berlin. Such as Mariendorf, Rudow, Schönow, Tegel, or Spandau. None of these are wealthy areas, but they have a high proportion of long-established, Berlin residents. In the outer east Lichtenberg, Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Treptow-Köpenick, and the northeastern tip of Pankow – the AfD dominates anyway. Young Berliners, however, steers well clear of the party.

📎 Björn Harms

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 In polls for the next federal election AfD is now top in West Germany, including here in Germany's largest state. Given that NRW has more residents than the entire former East, it's simplistic to keep blaming the AfD's rise on disgruntled Ossis

NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA | Sunday Poll Federal Election Forsa/Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

AfD: 24% (+2)
CDU: 22% (-4)
GREEN: 18%
SPD: 14% (+1)
LEFT: 12% (+3)
FDP: 3% (-1)
Others: 7% (-1)

Changes from the last poll on April 22, 2026

📎 David Broder

🗳 🇩🇪 📊 Bundestag Projection

Nowcast (09/21/2026) for the 299 Bundestag constituencies:

Strongest force in the first votes:
🟦AfD: 150
⬛️CDU/CSU: 87
🟩Greens: 39
🟥SPD: 17
🟪Left: 6

https://poll.graphics/bundestag

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