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‼️🇩🇪 This is what German police actually do with their time now. Going door to door, seizing tablets and phones from pensioners over memes and tweets. The case of the Fortnite teen getting accused for cursing out Olaf Scholz is not an isolated one.
Prosecutors can now open cases on their own under "special public interest." The politician doesn't need to file anything. The result is a steady drip of cases that look insane from the outside and barely register inside the system.
Germany has a law problem.
The §188 StGB statute, "insulting a person of political life," got beefed up by the Bundestag in 2021.
This has led to the following absurd cases:
- Pimmelgate (2021): Hamburg interior senator Andy Grote got called a "Pimmel" (dick) on Twitter after he was caught violating his own COVID restrictions. Police raided the user's apartment at 6 a.m. with six officers. The Hamburg regional court later ruled the raid disproportionate. The term "Pimmelgate" became national shorthand for state overreach.
- The Schwachkopf-Affäre (2024): Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old pensioner, reposted an edited meme putting Robert Habeck on a fake "Schwachkopf Professional" shampoo bottle (roughly: "Professional Moron"). Reported via a state-linked "trusted flagger" pipeline, police raided his home at dawn in November 2024 and seized his tablet while his wife and his daughter with Down syndrome were home. Habeck filed the complaint. The main insult charge was later dropped, but Niehoff was fined €825 on related counts. He died in early 2026. The case became the single most-cited symbol of the law's reach.
- The Merz "Pinocchio" probe (per Brussels Signal): a pensioner reportedly commented "Pinocchio is coming to HN" with a long-nose emoji on a police post about Chancellor Friedrich Merz visiting Heilbronn. Police flagged it during routine monitoring and opened a full §188 file, sending him a formal letter. Legal commentators have called the comment protected satirical speech.
- The David Bendels case: the right-wing journalist shared a photomontage mocking then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. He was initially given a 7-month suspended prison sentence. On appeal in 2026, he was acquitted. The court ruled the satire was protected political expression.
The pattern is the same every time. A low-engagement post or meme triggers a complaint. Prosecutors open a §188 file. Police execute a dawn raid or send a formal letter. Months or years later, a judge throws it out or dramatically narrows it.
By that point the damage is already done. Devices are seized. Names are on file. Pensioners are dragged through a criminal process for posting a shampoo joke.
This is what "wehrhafte Demokratie," aka militant democracy, looks like in 2026.
Prosecutors can now open cases on their own under "special public interest." The politician doesn't need to file anything. The result is a steady drip of cases that look insane from the outside and barely register inside the system.
Germany has a law problem.
The §188 StGB statute, "insulting a person of political life," got beefed up by the Bundestag in 2021.
This has led to the following absurd cases:
- Pimmelgate (2021): Hamburg interior senator Andy Grote got called a "Pimmel" (dick) on Twitter after he was caught violating his own COVID restrictions. Police raided the user's apartment at 6 a.m. with six officers. The Hamburg regional court later ruled the raid disproportionate. The term "Pimmelgate" became national shorthand for state overreach.
- The Schwachkopf-Affäre (2024): Stefan Niehoff, a 64-year-old pensioner, reposted an edited meme putting Robert Habeck on a fake "Schwachkopf Professional" shampoo bottle (roughly: "Professional Moron"). Reported via a state-linked "trusted flagger" pipeline, police raided his home at dawn in November 2024 and seized his tablet while his wife and his daughter with Down syndrome were home. Habeck filed the complaint. The main insult charge was later dropped, but Niehoff was fined €825 on related counts. He died in early 2026. The case became the single most-cited symbol of the law's reach.
- The Merz "Pinocchio" probe (per Brussels Signal): a pensioner reportedly commented "Pinocchio is coming to HN" with a long-nose emoji on a police post about Chancellor Friedrich Merz visiting Heilbronn. Police flagged it during routine monitoring and opened a full §188 file, sending him a formal letter. Legal commentators have called the comment protected satirical speech.
- The David Bendels case: the right-wing journalist shared a photomontage mocking then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. He was initially given a 7-month suspended prison sentence. On appeal in 2026, he was acquitted. The court ruled the satire was protected political expression.
The pattern is the same every time. A low-engagement post or meme triggers a complaint. Prosecutors open a §188 file. Police execute a dawn raid or send a formal letter. Months or years later, a judge throws it out or dramatically narrows it.
By that point the damage is already done. Devices are seized. Names are on file. Pensioners are dragged through a criminal process for posting a shampoo joke.
This is what "wehrhafte Demokratie," aka militant democracy, looks like in 2026.
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‼️🚨 BREAKING: The "British patriot" Facebook pages flooding UK feeds with anti-Muslim AI slop are not British. One of them is in fact a devout Muslim living in Pakistan who makes $1,500/month posting Islamophobic content.
They have monetised feeding hate against their own people.
A Sri Lankan operator claims $300K career earnings and runs a course with 2,500 graduates.
A 7-month Bureau of Investigative Journalism probe traced the operators.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/social-media-facebook-ai-slop-hateful-south-asia
They have monetised feeding hate against their own people.
A Sri Lankan operator claims $300K career earnings and runs a course with 2,500 graduates.
A 7-month Bureau of Investigative Journalism probe traced the operators.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/social-media-facebook-ai-slop-hateful-south-asia
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‼️🚨 MAJOR IMPACT: The 18-year-old NGINX critical RCE vulnerability "NGINX Rift" (CVE-2026-42945) now WORKS with ASLR turned ON.
PoC code with the ASLR bypass has just been published on GitHub.
https://github.com/Hamid-K/nginx-rift-private-lab
PoC code with the ASLR bypass has just been published on GitHub.
https://github.com/Hamid-K/nginx-rift-private-lab
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‼️🚨 BREAKING: GitHub has been compromised by TeamPCP. GitHub has confirmed the internal breach. A poisoned VS Code extension on an employee device exfiltrated ~3,800 internal repositories.
TeamPCP is already selling the data on a cybercrime forum.
https://x.com/github/status/2056949168208552080
TeamPCP is already selling the data on a cybercrime forum.
https://x.com/github/status/2056949168208552080
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‼️ Meet the guy who allegedly stabbed Henry Nowak, a student who died at 18. He was stabbed five times, and bodycam footage shows police handcuffed the dying victim after the suspect claimed he had been racially abused and does not carry a knife. Yet we found a photo of him carrying his knife in public...
The suspect "Vickrum Digwa" can be seen wearing his "religious" Sikh knife, or "kirpan". Sikhs have a clear, statutory defence to possess and wear a kirpan in public in the UK. Two-tier policing, written into statute.
The suspect "Vickrum Digwa" can be seen wearing his "religious" Sikh knife, or "kirpan". Sikhs have a clear, statutory defence to possess and wear a kirpan in public in the UK. Two-tier policing, written into statute.
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‼️🚨 Drupal CMS (which powers about 1 in 100 websites on the internet) has just released, not a 'critical' vuln patch, but a 'highly critical' patch to fix a SQL injection vuln.
This vulnerability only affects sites using PostgreSQL.
ID: CVE-2026-9082
This vulnerability only affects sites using PostgreSQL.
ID: CVE-2026-9082
‼️ AI gooners be warned: the FBI and DOJ announced the arrests of Cornelius Shannon and Arturo Hernandez, both charged with violations of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which prohibits nonconsensual publication of AI-generated deepfake pornography.
Shannon and Hernandez allegedly posted thousands of images and videos that appeared to depict real people nude and engaging in sexual acts. Victims included actresses, singers, elected officials, and private acquaintances of the defendants.
Shannon, 51, of New Jersey, ran 360 albums depicting ~90 female victims, viewed millions of times. Hernandez, 20, of Texas, posted 113 albums depicting ~50 victims, including non-public figures whose innocent photos were morphed into explicit content.
The DOJ is charging conduct from May 19, 2025 onward, the day President Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law. Both men allegedly kept posting for a full year after that date, into the new federal statute.
Each defendant faces up to 2 years in federal prison.
Shannon and Hernandez allegedly posted thousands of images and videos that appeared to depict real people nude and engaging in sexual acts. Victims included actresses, singers, elected officials, and private acquaintances of the defendants.
Shannon, 51, of New Jersey, ran 360 albums depicting ~90 female victims, viewed millions of times. Hernandez, 20, of Texas, posted 113 albums depicting ~50 victims, including non-public figures whose innocent photos were morphed into explicit content.
The DOJ is charging conduct from May 19, 2025 onward, the day President Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law. Both men allegedly kept posting for a full year after that date, into the new federal statute.
Each defendant faces up to 2 years in federal prison.
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‼️ Steam has listed a game in which you whip Black slaves to keep them working, called "Plantation Simulator".
It costs $0.83 USD. The developer, FzzyBzzy, describes the content on the Steam page like this:
"In this game, you will be whipping black people to keep your farm productive. If you whip your black person too much, they will die."
It costs $0.83 USD. The developer, FzzyBzzy, describes the content on the Steam page like this:
"In this game, you will be whipping black people to keep your farm productive. If you whip your black person too much, they will die."
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‼️ Dutch and French authorities have taken down "First VPN," a criminal VPN service that openly marketed itself to cybercriminals on dark web forums.
Every user received a notification on takedown that the service is gone and they have been identified.
Before pulling the service offline, police had full visibility into the criminal traffic of every user. 33 servers were seized. 83 intelligence packages were shared with ongoing investigations through a Europol Operational Taskforce.
First VPN advertised directly on known cybercrime forums and promised users no logs, no cooperation with justice, and no jurisdiction. Customers used it for ransomware attacks, system intrusions, and account hijacking.
The takedown ran on 19 and 20 May 2026, led by the Dutch Team High Tech Crime and the French authorities, with coordination support from Eurojust and Europol. Action days hit Ukraine, Switzerland, the UK, Romania, and Luxembourg simultaneously. The administrator was interrogated in Ukraine at France's request.
Every user received a notification on takedown that the service is gone and they have been identified.
Before pulling the service offline, police had full visibility into the criminal traffic of every user. 33 servers were seized. 83 intelligence packages were shared with ongoing investigations through a Europol Operational Taskforce.
First VPN advertised directly on known cybercrime forums and promised users no logs, no cooperation with justice, and no jurisdiction. Customers used it for ransomware attacks, system intrusions, and account hijacking.
The takedown ran on 19 and 20 May 2026, led by the Dutch Team High Tech Crime and the French authorities, with coordination support from Eurojust and Europol. Action days hit Ukraine, Switzerland, the UK, Romania, and Luxembourg simultaneously. The administrator was interrogated in Ukraine at France's request.
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Kash Patel's apparel website is reportedly hosting ClickFix malware, according to multiple visitors.
A fake Cloudflare verification page is tricking users into pasting OS-specific "verification" commands that execute malware. The macOS path fetches an infostealer targeting Keychain, browser data, session tokens, and crypto wallets.
A fake Cloudflare verification page is tricking users into pasting OS-specific "verification" commands that execute malware. The macOS path fetches an infostealer targeting Keychain, browser data, session tokens, and crypto wallets.
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