Overnight follow-up identified the Berngau gunman as a policeman after the weapons-check killings. Morning stayed on the Saxony-Anhalt fallout: AfD's Siegmund threatening a Heute-Show reporter with a 'new era', questions over Landtag president Rausch and BMW withdrawing a car leading the AfD to approach Tesla, while the Union debated the end of the Brandmauer formula and Ă–zdemir warned SPD and CDU not to cede workers to the AfD.
Midday attention shifted to coalition friction: Merz delaying a pension decision to spring over Rente mit 63, and two SPD state leaders backing expulsion of Schröder after his Putin birthday visit.
Evening converged on Washington: analysis of Trump's Russian diesel import as a propaganda win for Putin turned into Trump demanding Ukraine replace Zelenskyy after Kyiv's criticism.