'We have learned to live sick', a mother says. How US overconsumption is using Mexico as a garbage sink. The harrowing result: over 1,000+ 'sacrifice zones' where cancer and miscarriages have been normalized.

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

The Pelicot case shone a spotlight on this: While the public attention moved elsewhere, this behavior did not disappear. In shocking group chats, @cnn.com reports now how men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it.

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Memory loss with age? It's your gut, not your brain!

Every annoying person in your life adds 5.5 days to your biological age per year, a new study finds. Dealing with 'hasslers' shortens your life!

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big Tech bedient sich "im Giftschwank der europäischen Geistesgeschichte". Für mich, eine sehr erhellende Analyse über den Rechtsruck von Digital-Oligarchen von @chrixcoenen.bsky.social

“Water is coming.” As a child, Yaghi ran off with buckets and grew up in a refugee community in Jordan. He says that the hardships he endured there inspired him. Today, he is inventing a system that draws water from the air. What an admirable story!

Hassrede is coming. Das US-Außenministerium plant laut Reuters ein Online-Portal, über das Menschen in Europa gesperrte Inhalte sehen können, darunter Hassreden, Nazi-Hetze und terroristische Propaganda. Die Landing Page steht schon bereit: freedom.gov

In 1916, African-American chemist Alice Ball dies shortly after discovering an effective treatment for leprosy. Chemist Arthur L. Dean takes over her research findings and claims the discovery of the method for himself #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

Bleib mal bei Hegel, güey! Ein deutscher Kulturjournalist, der absolut keine Ahnung vom Thema hat, erklärt Hunderten Millionen Menschen aus den Americas, was nun politisch war beim Super Bowl – und was nicht. Koloniale Überheblichkeit in Reinform!

The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

Viele Accounts können oder wollen Trumps Bilder von den Obamas als Affen nicht benennen oder kritisieren, ohne dabei das Bild zu verbreiten. Erstaunlich. Liegt doch eigentlich nah: aus der Kritik am rassistischen Bild die Konsequenz zu ziehen, es nicht zu verbreiten.

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.