Miriam Schneider

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

This is who @ElonMusk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla.

Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam.

[Miriam Schneider @BXL2017]

@annettedittert "God save the King" hört sich auch immer noch komisch an....

[Miriam Schneider @BXL2017]

@KMeeh_EU Tolles Foto! Bis zum nächsten Mal!

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Al Gore expressing the anger that all journalists should be. Stop and think: there’s almost no high profile journalists in the UK who focus on the climate crisis other than environmental specialists. It is the biggest failure of journalism in its history.

[Santiago M. Barajas @Santi_MBarajas]

Este es el primer mapa de basura flotante en el Mediterráneo, elaborado desde España

Es terrible ver la basura flotando en buena parte de los mares. También en nuestro mar Mediterráneo, donde continuamente pueden observarse botellas de plástico flotando.
https://t.co/g6BVM9Ylhw

[Natalia Junquera @nataliajunquera]

Mientras en el fin del mundo despedían al niño cuya imagen encarnó el desgarro de la emigración, X se llenaba de mensajes racistas. Una foto contra los prejuicios crónicos https://t.co/0KLDpYW1Mg

[ClimateHero @ClimateHero_me]

💚 Quel est votre impact climatique ?
👉 Faites le test de 5 minutes !

[Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie @BMWE_]

Vizekanzler #Habeck zum 8. und 9. Mai.
#TagderBefreiung #Europatag

[Miriam Schneider @BXL2017]

@GreensEFA Agree: fair remuneration for farmers! But do you really think the supply chains just consists of farmers and supermarkets?

[EU Agriculture🌱 @EUAgri]

🌱Pass it on! #UseYourVote

[Miriam Schneider @BXL2017]

"Health break" at the FOPNL symposium #NutriScore @EU2024BE #FOPNL

[Roberta Metsola @EP_President]

It has been 8 years since the #BrusselsAttacks.

An act of terror that struck at the heart of Europe.

Today we remember those killed and injured on that horrible day and in all terrorist attacks.

We stand strong and united in our fight against terror.

#22March 🇪🇺🇧🇪

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.

It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.

(Location: Bournemouth Beach)

[David Roth-Lindberg @RothLindberg]

🇩🇪🇮🇱🇵🇸
Hans Joachim Gustav Meyer (1924-2023):

"I saw In Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanise others, as the Nazis dehumanise me, the dominant group must first dehumanise themselves, the same holds nowadays for Israel.

I am appalled about how hateful, how... "

[METRO Public Policy @METRO_Politics]

As @EBedert of @EuroCommerce says traders have to meet consumer demand to stay relevant on the market in terms of quality assortment and price #digitalization #Sustainability #Skills investments needed for the sector’s transformation to better #AgriFood systems #EUFarmtoFork

[DIE ZEIT @zeitonline]

Die AfD tut so, als kämpfe sie für die Vergessenen auf dem Land, in Fabriken, im Osten. Doch ihre Politik würde genau denen schaden, die sich davon angesprochen fühlen – schreibt @MFratzscher in seiner Kolumne "Verteilungsfragen". https://t.co/2rVNo0kSUV

[NickDornheim @DornheimNick]

For the views of #retailers and #wholesalers at the refill requirements discussed in the #PPWR proposal, see our new visuals below 👇. Our sector needs workable and realistic measures that support the green transformation our members are undergoing.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

"How would you feel if something suddenly happened here and we had to flee somewhere?"

"We should be embarrassed. It's an atrocity."

This woman takes less than a minute to completely destroy the Tory government's archaic anti-refugee policies.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

July has already seen:

The hottest three-week period ever recorded.

The three hottest days on record.

The highest-ever ocean temperatures for this time of year.

It is still possible to avoid the very worst of climate change, but only with dramatic, immediate #ClimateAction.