Christiane Meier

Tschüs New York: wieder ein Perspektivenwechsel. Jetzt aus Bayern. Nach wie vor mehr interessiert an Gemeinwohl als an Gemeinheit.

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

ABENDREPORT aus Europa 🇪🇺🇺🇦
1/7
Das darf nicht wahr sein. In Europa, wo alles und jeder unter Schutz steht:
Jared Kushner und Ivanka Trump wollen Albaniens geschützte Südküste in ein 1,4 Milliarden Euro Luxusresort verwandeln – Insel Sazan und Küstengebiet bei Zvernec.
Die EU-Kommission „beobachtet die Lage genau." Und tut NICHTS!!!

DER SKANDAL:
Das Land gehört der albanischen Familie Konomi die es seit Generationen bewirtschaftet. Wer sich wehrt wird verprügelt und eingesperrt.
Albaniens Regierung ignoriert den Eigentumsanspruch. 41 Umweltorganisationen aus 28 Ländern haben protestiert. Das Gebiet ist EU-Schutzzone – Heimat des Mittelmeer-Mönchs-Seehunds, 70 bedrohter Arten, 200 Vogelarten.

Albanien will EU-Mitglied werden. Und baut für Kushner auf geschütztem Land.
🇦🇱🇪🇺🇺🇸Bewaffnete Männer im Auftrag von Oligarchen verprügeln Unterstützer der rechtmäßige Grundbesitzer – die ihre geschützte Küste gegen Trumps und Kushners Luxusresort-Landnahme verteidigen.
Das passiert in Europa. In einem EU-Beitrittsland. Heute. 🇦🇱🇪🇺
Das darf nicht sein.

[Korina Graf @GrafKorina]

Baerbock bei Jon Stewart.

Und ehrlich: ziemlich witzig und souverän

Die Frau, die in Deutschland gern belächelt wird, sitzt da locker bei Jon Stewart, macht Witze („Atombomben? Frauen nicht“) und verkauft nebenbei noch die UN.
@UN_PGA

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

Die Bahn @diebahn @DieBahnMuenchen braucht eigentlich keine Fahrpläne mehr. Sie kommt einfach irgendwann, oder eben auch mal gar nicht. Aber meist geht ja doch ein Zug nach irgendwo -irgendwann. Immerhin.

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

@Microinteracti1 So it is not Trump, it is America?

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

Yes and yes. I feel the exact same way. Japan can teach people the art of politeness as a mean for peaceful coexistance like no other country.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇯🇵 Japan is trending on X today. Good. It’s long overdue.

Let me tell you three things about this country that will quietly rearrange everything you thought you knew about human nature. And animal nature, for that matter.

Someone left an iPhone on a bench in Tokyo. Not in a sleepy suburb. In Tokyo, a city of thirty-seven million people, most of them late for something. The phone sat there. The next day, it was still there. Which means that every single person who walked past it made a small, private decision: not my phone. Leave it.
In most cities, that phone would have had the life expectancy of a mayfly in a thunderstorm.

Then there are the football fans. Japan plays a match, the stadium shakes, and then they tidy up. Every wrapper, every cup, every last plastic bag. They leave the stands cleaner than they found them. As a matter of course. As if it simply never occurred to them to do anything else.

And then there is Nara. In this ancient city, over a thousand wild deer roam freely among temples and schoolchildren and tourists. They have lived alongside humans for thirteen centuries, considered sacred messengers of the gods. They will walk up to you, look you in the eye, and bow. Deeply and deliberately. It is, I should mention, a learned trick to get rice crackers. But here is the thing: somewhere along the way, a deer decided that the correct way to ask a human for something was to bow politely first. In Japan, even the wildlife has manners.

No law requires any of this. No fine threatens it. It emerges from something much harder to legislate: the quiet, unshakeable conviction that the space around you is shared, and therefore your responsibility.

Three small stories. One very large idea.

The rest of us might want to take notes.

ありがとう、日本。
Thank you, Japan.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

@justicenow_alan @atrupar Did you say „unusually sharp“? No, it is degrading and I cannot understand how any American can put up with that ill-mannered demeanour of an intellactually underwhelming person

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

Never give up!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She destroyed the most powerful corporation in America with nothing but a pen, a notebook, and five years of accurate investigation.

She stood alone against the richest man of her time, someone who controlled the railroads, politicians, and even the land itself. Instead of running away, Ida Tarbell chose to write. Her memory of her father's struggle became the tool that helped break apart the largest corporate empire in history.

Ida Tarbell was born in 1857 amidst the booming oil fields of Pennsylvania. Her father, Franklin, was a hardworking man who ran a small, honest refining business. Life was good until a shadow fell over the valley: Standard Oil. Led by John D. Rockefeller, this massive corporation didn’t just want to compete; it wanted to own everything.

Rockefeller made secret backroom deals with railroads to get cheap shipping rates while charging small businesses like Franklin’s double. He used spies, bribes, and intimidation to crush anyone in his path. Ida watched her father’s spirit break as he struggled against a rigged system.

She was only a child, but the image of her defeated father stayed with her forever.

As Ida grew up, she showed she was different. In 1880, she graduated from Allegheny College as the only woman in her class. While many expected her to settle down, Ida wanted to search for the truth.

She moved to Paris, became a skilled researcher, and later caught the attention of the editor at McClure’s Magazine. In 1902, she was asked to investigate Standard Oil. At that time, Rockefeller controlled 90 percent of America’s oil and had more money than the government, along with many lawyers to protect his interests.

Ida did not hesitate. For five years, she followed the evidence wherever it led. She visited oil fields and archives, spoke with former employees and competitors, and searched through shipping records and court documents that were meant to stay hidden.

Standard Oil tried to bribe her, and their lawyers tried to intimidate her, but Ida said their lack of “fair play” ruined their greatness in her eyes. From 1902 to 1904, she published nineteen chapters of her investigation.

Her work was not just a rumor; it was a detailed and well-documented account of corruption.

The public was electrified.

The “History of the Standard Oil Company” became a national sensation, moving from magazines to a bestselling book. People who felt helpless against the “Octopus” of Standard Oil now had the evidence they needed to fight back.

The outrage reached the halls of Congress and the desk of the President. In 1906, the government finally used Ida’s research as a roadmap for a massive antitrust lawsuit. By 1911, the Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly and ordered it to be broken into 34 separate companies.

The empire that took forty years to build was torn down because one woman refused to look away from the truth. Ida Tarbell proved that facts are the ultimate equalizer and that no giant is too big to fall when faced with a person who cannot be bought.

You don’t need a fortune or a title to change the world; you only need the courage to stand by the truth and the persistence to see it through.

Success built on corruption and “unfair play” is a house of cards.

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[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

The end of USAID in Kenya. Very sad and disappointing

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

https://t.co/MJaW90AmMP via @NYTOpinion

[Frau Fechner @carolineroyge]

Originalaufnahmen aus den Grönländischen Nachrichten...

[Eddie Graf @Eddie_1412]

Neueinsteiger der Woche und gleich auf Platz 1 in den grönländischen Musik-Charts. 😂

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

“He wants to own what he cannot tame.”

🟥 WOW... 🇬🇱🇩🇰

The lyrics of this new “Greenland Defense Front” video. 👌🏼

Just - WOW.
‘Epic’ doesn’t even begin to describe it.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Wow USA, this one must hurt!!!

“We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. We would not sell ourselves. We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. Their land was taken, and they were not treated well.”

— Greenlandic politician Tillie Martinussen

That is not a throwaway jab, it is a full moral indictment. It flips the usual American self image on its head: wealth is not automatically admired, and power is not automatically respected. When someone says they would rather stay themselves than become “rich like Americans,” they are basically saying the brand is broken, and the history is part of the reason.

Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[Miriam Hollstein @HollsteinM]

Dear Americans, do not believe what your political elites are telling you about us.
Here is the truth:
In Germany no president would dare to call a woman “piggy” (he would be out of office by tomorrow).

We don’t have masked men on our streets who draw women and kids out of …1/X

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

@OldWhiteBoomer Die Logik wende ich jetzt mal auf mein schmutziges Geschirrr an :)

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

@Daphne_Web Beste Überschrift zu diesem Foto!

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

The return of the old white men.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Attendees of Germany’s state minister conference

[Christiane Meier @ChristianeMeier]

Auf dem Weg zur Autokratie. Trump zerstört den amerikanischen Traum

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump’s new Defense plan quietly outlines a “National Guard response force” trained in crowd control and civil unrest, to be deployed across all 50 states by April 2026.

Let that sink in.

They’re not preparing to leave office; they’re preparing to lock the country down.