Mexico is one of the countries where the most environmentalists are killed each year. Most of them are women. First-time Mexican director Pablo Pérez Lombardini therefore set out to raise awareness of their plight using the language of film.

Ghana’s incredible coffins: the true story the West got wrong. Hint, it has anti-colonial roots. Today, the largest collection of Ghanaian coffins is found not in Accra, but in Basel, Switzerland, at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures).

Flickers of Democracy

Cooking with cariño! In Mexico City, chefs are delving into centuries-old culinary traditions and the cultivation of indigenous foods. I wrote about this evolution for the German magazine Essen & Trinken. » bit.ly/454q1FN

Millionärserbe Burda wird Vergewaltigung vorgeworfen: Was macht die Polizei in Baden-Baden? Sie behelligt ihn gar nicht erst nach der Anzeige der Frau. Niemand beschlagnahmt sein Handy. Niemand suchte ihn nach DNA, Hautresten oder Kratzspuren ab. Die Ermittlung macht fassungslos.

455 – 400 BC "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2026 “We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force and power." Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump.

Das Recht als Waffe der Mächtigen. Der US-Ölkonzern Chevron hat in Ecuador eine der größten Umweltkatastrophen weltweit ausgelöst. Nach über 30 Jahren vor Gericht, steht nun fest: Der Ölkonzern erhält 220 Millionen Entschädigung.

Solidarity with @hateaid.org, an organisation that selflessly fights against digital violence. They have now been banned from entering the US because, apparently, their work to combat violence or revenge porn is seen by the Trump administration as an "extraterrestrial censorship of Americans".

USA gehen mit Sanktionen gegen HateAid vor. Solidarität mit Anna-Lena und Josephine, die angegriffen werden, weil sie demokratische Funktionen erfüllen! www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...

A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption. Intriguing!

Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.

Trump's policies trickle down. Sources told me that a $250,000 grant awarded by the U.S. Embassy for the renovation of the Alte Feste Museum, a national monument in the capital of #Namibia, has to be repaid by the Namibian government. Trump wants the money back.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Die heute veröffentlichte Studie von FIAN Deutschland deckt gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch den Berliner Agrarinvestor Amatheon auf. 📘 Die Studie „Amatheon in Sambia: Gewalt und Vertreibung bei einem deutschen Agrarinvestor" ist unter dem Link verfügbar: www.fian.de/wp-content/u...

A tale of resistance.

Ihara Saikaku fue el gran cronista de la vida popular en el Japón de la época Edo. Ya tenemos 'Este mundo astuto', con 20 historias satírica sobre mercaderes y sus esposas, actores, monjes prostitutas, ronin... Todos ellos removerán cielo y tierra para saldar sus deudas antes de que acabe el año.

Like humans, every trees has its own microbiome. Fascinating!

US-Lawfare. Since President Xiomara Castro took office in #Honduras, the country has faced 16 investor lawsuits totalling $13.5 billion. These lawsuits are a response to the government's decision to reverse a US-backed initiative which aimed to turn Honduran territory into private corporate domains.

Botanical Resistance: In Mexico City, people fight to save one of their oldest neighbours in the barrio, the tree "Laureano", who is at risk because of an housing development.

Survey maps published last month have revealed more than SIX MILLION animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the greatest migration of mammals ever seen in the world.

#ForgottenStories: In 1804: Zhen Yisao 鄭一嫂, a female pirate, takes command of the largest pirate fleet in history, comprising around 200 ocean-going junks and 70,000 fighters.

El olor de una multitud. Cuando las plantas de maíz están muy juntas, liberan una sustancia volátil que induce a las plantas vecinas a producir compuestos que frenan su crecimiento, pero activan sus defensas contra las plagas. Se susurran mensajes para defenderse de sus enemigos.

Indigenous knowledge has existed for thousands of years, teaching generations how to live in balance with the Earth. So why can't science finally learn from it?

Westliches, rationales Denken steht einem mitfühlenden Bezug zur Welt im Weg. Von den Weisheitstraditionen ortsgebundener Gemeinschaften könnten wir in Europa hingegen lernen, eine Ökologie der Gegenseitigkeit auszubilden. Mein Essay für Culturescapes. » culturescapes.ch/de/magazine/...

#ForgottenStories: Year 1260: The birth of Khutulun. The Mongolian princess reportedly insisted that any man who wanted to marry her had to beat her at wrestling. Those who lost had to give her a horse, and it is said that she acquired 10,000 horses in this way.

#ForgottenStories: Year 859: Fātima al-Fihrīya founds the University of al-Qarawīyīn in Fès, the oldest university that still exists today.

Economic sanctions are often presented as a more humanitarian alternative to armed conflict. However, a new Lancet study finds that sanctions have a death toll similar to that of wars. Between 1971 and 2021, sanctions contributed to 38 million deaths.

"Within every binary, are worlds in their becoming." #BayoAkomolafe and Andrea Hiott are having a conversation about radical incompleteness, love and holding paradoxes. Very moving!

"Hot" in the sense that it will heat up the planet? Coming off the back of a devastating impact in Ecuador, Chevron is heading to Guyana.

In Jamaica, only 1% of beaches are accessible to everyday Jamaicans, a new @theguardian.com story finds. This is one of the suffocating repercussions of colonialism acting as a biopolitical force. Allowing only a few to experience freedom of recreation and beauty.

Otan Aza Cananis neues Album #DieDemokratie verbreitet Witz und Wehmut im "Papierkramland". Yine muhteşem.

La noche nunca llega. La contaminación lumínica roba el sueño a los vecinos de Ciudad de México, expulsados de los barrios céntricos por los turistas.

Despite global gains on combatting child labour, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers. Approximately 63% - 87 million children - of the world's child laborers are in sub-Saharan Africa 1/2 www.dw.com/en/world-fai...

With cicadas emerging in a 17-year cycle in places like Georgia and Ohio, I recommend this article from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.

Die AfD behauptet jetzt, das BfV würde die Hochstufung zurücknehmen. Doch die „Stillhaltezusage“ bei Gericht dient dazu, das Eilverfahren zu beschleunigen. Solange nennt das BfV die AfD nicht „gesichert rechtsetxrem“ und behandelt sie bei den ND-Mitteln wieder wie einen Verdachtsfall. Mehr nicht.

"If 80% of new buildings were built with wood instead of concrete and steel, this would help to offset half of the emissions from the construction industry in Europe", this study found: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

"Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when the person is there (or when we think about the person). Every being cries out silently to be read differently." A reflection on justice by Simon Weil from her book "Gravity & Grace".

German media I beg you one day just please go just one day without being obsessed with migration. One day. I promise it won’t kill you. You have lakes and mountains and good football and good healthcare and asparagus. You’ll be fine.

Elements of a more ecological god: Beyond words, but also deeply connected with everything around us. Intercarnated, born in everything. (Catherine Keller)

Elements of a more ecological god: God is emergence. The constant instigation and invitation for the world not to congeal too easily to a fixed and absolute value. (Bayo Akomolafe)

From 'living from a river' as a resource to 'living as a river' as part of us: how different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the way people interact with and value nature. A fascinating infographic by @ipbes.net

As Wendell Berry says: "The impeded stream is the one that sings". Wonderful study of the freedom of movement of rivers.

Meta saugt Millionen von Bücher & Studien aus illegalen Schattenbibliotheken - ohne Menschen, die schreiben, mit einem Cent zu entschädigen. Schluss mit der Maskerade: Eine KI wird nicht "trainiert", Menschen werden beraubt. Eine KI "halluziniert" nicht, sie produziert algorithmischen Müll. #LBM25

The Republic of Užupis (heretics say: it belongs to Vilnius) has an embassy of wind and poetry, grants the adjacent river the right to "flow by anyone" as the river pleases, and was the first constitution in the world to mention an article on artificial intelligence (no. π). Have a look!

In contrast to Trump's transactional "diplomacy". There was a time when the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, jammed with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the General Assembly. People danced, the world dreamed of housing many worlds.

"Cognition is a relational property between the organism and its environment," says Paco Calvo. Why there is something catastrophically wrong with the way we understand intelligence itself is the subject of this brilliant article in @noemamag.com.

A misogynist US president and alleged sexual predator is protecting the 'rights' of the Tates, who are accused of trafficking, raping, grooming or abusing at least 48 alleged victims. In solidarity with all women who have to go through this.

#Moore sind Lebenslandschaften. In ihnen liegt ein Schlüssel für den Klimawandel, für eine ökologische Form des Bauens und der Landwirtschaft. Ein Einstieg🧵

The house with playful doors. The Habitat Centre is an example of #BioclimaticArchitecture in Namibia. A way of building with the local climate and context. 🛖 Architecture: Nina Maritz Architects 🎵 Music: Matemai #Mbira - Gomo Ramutare