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Political Scientist.

[AGeuchen @AnnaGeuchen]

Tötung von Umweltschützer:innen hat in der Pandemie zugenommen. Tiefer Respekt für diejenigen, die gegen Großkonzerne und Regierungen ihr Leben für die Natur riskieren. Am gefährlichsten sind klar die lukrativen Sektoren Bergbau, Agrar und Abholzung 💸⚒🩸 https://t.co/E5TsrffZpY

[Nico Ernst  @Golemiker]

„Solange wir noch über den Spritpreis reden, reden wir über den Einsatz von Soldaten, die ihr Leben aufs Spiel setzen, damit zuhause jemand ein bisschen mehr Geld in der Tasche hat, um Schrott im Internet aus China zu bestellen“ sagt Reserveoffizier Moritz Brake bei #Lanz 1/2

[Martin Günzel 🇺🇦🇪🇺🌹 @MartGuenzel]

Ich kann’s nicht mehr sehen. So viele dieser „Diagnosen“, und keiner hat irgendeine Ahnung vom Begriff „Arbeiter“, „DEN“ klassischen Arbeiter gibt‘s heute nicht mehr. Die „Arbeiterschaft“ ist mittlerweile extrem divers - mithin gibt‘s auch nicht „DIE“ Agenda für die Arbeiter. 1/2

[Andreas Püttmann @Puettmann_Bonn]

@spdbt @spdde Außenpolitisch gibt die SPD nach Scholz/Mützenich sogar wieder ein besseres Bild ab. Sie stellt künftig 5 von 16 Ministerpräsidenten und trägt in 6 weiteren Ländern Regierungsverantwortung. Sie zeigt klarere Kante gegen Feinde der Demokratie und hat weniger Skandale als die CDU.

[Andreas Püttmann @Puettmann_Bonn]

Das allgemeine Herumhacken auf dem Wahlverlierer SPD als "profillos" etc. teile ich nicht. Pragmatische Mitte-Rechts oder Mitte-Links-Parteien , zumal in Koalitionen, ziehen sich leicht diesen Vorwurf zu. Aber ideologisch schärfer konturierte Parteien flößen mir eher Furcht ein.

[CNN International PR @cnnipr]

Exposing a global 'rape academy.'

A months-long CNN investigation uncovers a hidden network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

New from @SaskyaCNN @karadaniellefox @Niamh__Kennedy
https://t.co/zByM8dlmQh

[Mel Aura @mel__aura]

Söder möchte nicht, dass diese Video weiterverbreitet wird. Also bitte nicht teilen.😌

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

As International Women’s Day approaches, let’s remind the world that under the misogynistic Taliban regime, Afghan women are banned from education and most jobs, cannot go to parks or gyms, cannot travel without a male guardian, and cannot raise their voices in public.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"All you need is one perfect substitute for yourself."

Claudia Goldin addresses the challenges facing modern women. Her research illustrates how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time in the United States. She explains this pattern as the result of structural change and evolving social norms regarding women’s responsibilities for home and family.

Goldin was awarded the 2023 prize in economic sciences for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes.

What challenges do you face in your workplace?

Learn more about Claudia Goldin: https://t.co/G7nQlKtjeA

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

For most of history, language was trained through books, sermons, letters, and long conversation. People grew up hearing scripture, poetry, speeches, and literature. Their vocabulary expanded because their mental diet demanded it.

Now language is trained by algorithms that reward speed and reaction.

Short posts have replaced letters.
Memes have replaced arguments.
People will point to your origin rather than debate your point. Nor can they tolerate a dissenting view.

All of it is done on purpose because our leaders want followers and loyalists not those who would ask or challenge.

So the language shrinks. And when language shrinks, something deeper shrinks with it.

Because a civilization can only think as clearly as the words it still remembers how to use.

[DIE ZEIT @zeitonline]

In manchen europäischen Ländern sind Schwangerschaftsabbrüche nahezu unmöglich. Die EU hätte mit einem Reisefonds für Betroffene helfen können – aber traut sich nicht. https://t.co/sTJYyO7BSN

[Heike Specht @HeikeSpecht]

#DieErstenihrerArt im #WomensHistoryMonth : Elisabeth Selbert haben wir die Formulierung "Männer und Frauen sind gleichberechtigt" in Art. 3 des GG zu verdanken. Sie kämpfte im Parlamentarischen Rat gegen massive Widerstände für diesen Satz, denn ihr war klar: "Es ist eine ...

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story.

A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island?

It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel.

These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time.

Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’

Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’

Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind.

Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world.

I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived.

I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life.

Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

[Peter Voegele @Voegizug]

Der UK-Korrespondent der FAZ nennt Opfer sexueller Gewalt "minderjährige Gespielinnen". Vielleicht muss man Männern einfach mal 1 Jahr lang das Schreiben verbieten.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"Gisèle has demonstrated to the world that it's not for the victims of sexual abuse to feel shame"

Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, describes the impact Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history, has had on the world.

#Newsnight

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Great sitting down with @BrianTylerCohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the @ObamaFoundation. https://t.co/xyskxKbM8n

[Maryam @hell_line0]

You ever notice how the sentiment: girls mature faster than boys, is never used to put women and girls in leadership roles or explain why we should admire or look to women for guidance.
It is however, used to demand domestic labor from girls, and excuse predatory behavior in men towards younger girls and women.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Gender studies brings a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. This lens reveals how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle believed they had the right to commit. https://t.co/oGrBkjDg7p

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

There is no gender war. Men have been abusive to women on a large, systemic scale, and women are refusing to keep absorbing that violence.
That refusal has been reframed as extremism, or “war,” because it threatens a long-standing arrangement where women’s pain was expected to be endlessly accommodating.
Calling it a “gender war” is a deflection. It shifts attention away from abuse and places blame on women for reacting to it.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Our millennial experience of girlhood was directly tied to the most powerful sexual predators in modern history.