Dr Seán Ketchem
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An American/German in Berlin. Berkeley alum (Go Bears!). Erstwhile Texan. Credo: “There are other forces at work than those of evil. And that is an encouraging thought.”
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![In the London Protocol signed on 12 September 1944, the Allies of World War II (then without France) agreed on dividing Germany into three occupation zones after the war.
EAC planning of occupation zone borders in Germany, 1944
The first zone protocol was drawn up at the meeting of the European Advisory Commission (EAC) on 12 September 1944 and signed by John Gilbert Winant (USA), William Strang (UK) and Fedor Gusev (USSR) at Lancaster House in London,[2] and described the first notions of the boundary between the zones to be created: Eastern, Northwestern, and Southwestern zones in Germany, and the three parts of the area of Greater Berlin. The basis of the ideas were the borders of Germany from 31 December 1937 and Greater Berlin from 27 April 1920.
The north-western and south-western zones in Germany and Greater Berlin had not yet been assigned as British or American sub-areas. The relevant text passages provided for this were only documented with spaces, whereas the eastern zone and the north-eastern zone of Greater Berlin were already marked directly with "USSR".
In terms of borders, the western borders of Thuringia, Anhalt and the Prussian province of Saxony were referred to. This meant that the areas east of the Werra and west of the Elbe were not - as was often published - "exchanged for West Berlin", but the areas in the west of the Elbe were already intended to be part of the Eastern Zone.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/bafkreihkoyhhjemwmw5o2u72tjml6sfk3orwuhgfq4ul57cjc77p2a2ole@jpeg)
![California Proposition 50, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act[2], is a constitutional amendment that will appear on the special election ballot in the U.S. state of California on November 4, 2025. The special election was put on the ballot by the California State Legislature and California Governor Gavin Newsom in response to the 2025 Texas redistricting. If passed, it will allow the state to use a new, legislature-drawn congressional district map for the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections instead of the one drawn by bipartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission. The map defined in Proposition 50 favors the Democratic Party more than the map drawn by the bipartisan commission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ndxd4h47nhylsdfke4x4arlk/bafkreigfa6gopy7imvc5g5fxqiges23f3t6rp3kfrhbqyh75gy22r2cybm@jpeg)
