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“At the Ludwig Erhard Summit of the Weimer Media Group…” https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/brosius-gersdorf-frauenhostigkeit-verhinderte-richterwahl-100.html

My family is out. All of us: #FreeIran

R to @sabinedoering: Hey @schnellenbachj Jazz finances itself. It's just good.

Doric, not Phrygian. But just good. @mrcllsmxms @Going_Loopy @DanielMFeige @TimHenningJGU , scraps of thoughts and rants" Masala">@CarloMasala1 @schnellenbachj https://open.spotify.com/track/5v8oHydXFHM1je05EFyIdw?si=88fXGpHeTKuq3sov73ng6A

“Feeling Good” with the OWL jazz orchestra. Without any state music policy.

RT by @sabinedoering: Have we reached peak postliberalism?

Is this heralding the next label fraud with which the state makes money at the expense of its citizens? A higher contribution assessment limit is only consistent with the system if it results in higher pension entitlements. Otherwise it is hidden redistribution. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/klingbeil-erwaegt-hoehere-rentenbeitraege-fuer-gutverdiener-200781845.html#

RT by @sabinedoering: That's how it is. Bavarian voice of reason.

R to @sabinedoering: Maybe just a tiny question about AI competence? Maybe program a line of code like this.

Wir sind dem Untergang geweiht. Monty-Python-Vibes.

Then I'll go. 😉

The planned GKV “reform” achieves what the federal government has failed to achieve so far: it unites critics from all camps. Welcome to the much-vaunted “middle”.

RT by @sabinedoering: The slaughter goes on and on

Has it ever happened before that a sitting chancellor is practically asked in the title of the program whether he has now realized that governing is harder than opposition? Addressed so directly, it sounds less like a life cycle assessment than a question of character and learning curve.

RT by @sabinedoering: It would be good if the MPs followed this initiative by Tim Klüssendorf https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-04/bundestag-gesetze-diaeten-erhoehung-verzicht-spd

RT by @sabinedoering: Merz and Klingbeil failed. The problem is not that they are different when it comes to taxes, pensions, health and work. Rather, they are terribly united in their aimlessness and helplessness - they don't know what to do with this country. The #immersion heater Sunday @wiwo

Research, the very area in which 🇩🇪 is still first-class in AI, unfortunately remains marginal here. Many technological breakthroughs are based on – publicly funded – basic research. @bmftr_bund, take over. https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article69e21f99052c4a5f23367d5e/katharina-reiche-wir-bedarfen-ein-souveraenes-europaeisches-ki-oekosystem.html#

Instead of attacking Eva von Redecker, it would be more productive to understand that the blanket rejection of AI in certain milieus has long been a signal of distinction. The result is such omissions. Tragic because it stands in the way of rational handling just as much as hype does.

“Willingmann left the question of whether he would like SPD leader Lars Klingbeil or SPD General Secretary Tim Klüssendorf to appear in the election campaign in Saxony-Anhalt unanswered.”

RT by @sabinedoering: Great interview by Friedrich Breyer on the Health Minister's reform proposals. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-mit-friedrich-breyer-gesundheitsoekonom-uni-konstanz-zu-gkv-reform-100.html

RT von @sabinedoering: „Alle Mitglieder des JSS (Arbeitskreis Jewish Safer Space) werden gejagt, bis alle ausgetreten sind.“ Leider bezeichnend, was in dieser vermeintlich progressiven Partei passiert. Gute Recherche der @zeitonline. https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-04/antisemitismus-vorwuerfe-gegen-volt

RT by @sabinedoering: The Foreign Office has summoned the Russian ambassador. Former President Dmitry Medvedev previously described a list of European drone manufacturers published by the Russian Defense Ministry as “potential targets for the Russian armed forces”.

RT by @sabinedoering: There was some excitement today about this post from the Ministry of Finance: In fact, Klingbeil was in his role as Federal Finance Minister at the "In Defense of Democracy" conference that emerged from the UN General Assembly. The joint final declaration by the “heads of state and high representatives” has also been coordinated with the Foreign Office. The post is therefore not about the “Global Progressive Mobilization”, which also took place in Spain. 1/2

RT by @sabinedoering: It's not about the principle. It's about plugging holes. (It's embarrassing.)

RT by @sabinedoering: 👇This is an important and very constructive contribution to the reform debate, which will hopefully be taken into account in the political decision-making process!

Understood. But what does this have to do with neutral departmental communication from the *Federal Ministry of Finance*, which you are supposed to represent via this *official* account?

RT by @sabinedoering: This really has nothing to do with bureaucracy, but rather with who in the country pays for this element of the welfare state. All or just the GKV members.

RT von @sabinedoering: RIP Nathalie Baye. Sie war so unglaublich charmant. Mein Lieblingsfilm ist Day For Night von Francois Truffaut (La nuit américaine)

RT by @sabinedoering: The #health insurance companies as a shadow budget by @larsklingbeil The fact that Health Minister Nina Warken is attempting a reform that doesn't spare anyone is courageous. But a blind spot remains - and it costs ten billion a year. 👇 https://www.handelsblatt.com/100218029.html?utm_medium=sh&utm_campaign=sharing&utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=web

RT von @sabinedoering: Hoch problematisch!

RT by @sabinedoering: those with very high profits automatically receive much more funding than those who are struggling to survive due to high energy prices. But that only seems to be of political interest in debates about gasoline prices, not in welfare state debates.”

RT by @sabinedoering: "The plans are more likely to involve the contribution system even more for socio-politically motivated income redistribution, although this function belongs strictly to the tax system. Incidentally, there - in contrast to the contribution system - would be lower https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/ contributionbemessenslimit-umdispersion-ist-leider-nicht-reform-200742167.html

Lose track: Who now supports the Iranians who risk their lives every day for a change of government? #FreeIran

RT by @sabinedoering: @larsklingbeil's refusal to finance the flat rate contribution in #citizens' money from the federal budget "prevents a solidarity-based distribution of the burden". Press statement from the @BKKDV on the package of measures from @ninawarken. 👇 https://www.bkk-dachverband.de/presse/pressemitigungen/statement/ contribution rate stabilization law-ist-ein-solider-auftakt-fuer-die-rettungsmission-der-gkv

RT von @sabinedoering: Gestern hatten wir auf der @PIIE eine interessante Diskussion über Eurobonds, inspiriert von den Präsentationen von @carlos_cuerpo, @ojblanchard1 und @AngelUbide. Da viele Anleger nach Alternativen suchen, um nur in US-Staatsanleihen zu investieren, ist dies ein guter Zeitpunkt, die Debatte noch einmal zu überdenken.

If the federal government completely covered the health costs of citizens' benefit recipients, it would also be more transparent. Then there would be in the federal budget what is now partially co-financed through statutory health insurance contributions, and transfer costs could be discussed in a correspondingly transparent manner.

RT by @sabinedoering: Health and taxes: This is how higher earners should close the black-red financial gaps (by Johannes Pennekamp, Dietrich Creutzburg, Julia Löhr) https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/so-sollen-besserverdiener-die-schwarz-roten-finanzluecken-stopfen-accg-200740881.html

RT by @sabinedoering: So. 👏 Carsten Linnemann says clearly: Having the health costs for citizens' benefit recipients only paid by those insured by statutory health insurance is massively unfair. This must be changed!