Birgit Beinsen

Senior lecturer @UniGraz

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Trump ließ den Ostflügel des Weißen Hauses abreißen – für einen privaten 400-Millionen-Dollar-Ballsaal von Unternehmensspendern finanziert. Jetzt wissen wir was sie dafür bekommen haben. 14 von 27 bekannten Unternehmensspendern erhielten in den sechs Monaten danach neue oder erweiterte Regierungsaufträge – zusammen über 50 Milliarden Dollar. Lockheed Martin allein: 43,8 Milliarden Dollar. Palantir: über eine Milliarde. 16 der 27 Spender standen unter Bundesermittlungen – bei den meisten wurden diese Ermittlungen danach ausgesetzt. Senator Crow w��rtlich: „Unternehmen schrieben große Schecks für Trumps goldenen Ballsaal. Jetzt kassieren sie Milliarden in Kickbacks – bezahlt von euren Steuergeldern." Es gibt dafür kein anderes ehrliches Wort als Korruption. 🇺🇸🇪🇺

[Birgit Beinsen @bb_Graz]

@chiaravonfa Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! Das klingt nach einem schönen Tag!:) Sie sieht toll aus!🍀💐

[Iman Sefati @ISefati]

16.500 Tote und 360.000 Verletzte?
„Das ist eine völlig neue Dimension der Brutalität.“ Das sagt Professor Amir Parasta, ein iranisch-deutscher Augenchirurg und ärztlicher Direktor des Münchener Augenzentrums Munich MED in der „The Sunday Times“. Die britische Zeitung hat einen ausführlichen Bericht über die aktuellen Gräueltaten des Mullah-Regimes im Iran veröffentlicht – und der übertrifft selbst die schlimmsten Befürchtungen. #IranMassacare @karenguttenberg
LINK https://t.co/1WH8lkbTJn

[Nida @nida_banou]

„Mein direktes Gespräch mit dem Iran (sehr zuverlässig):

‚Verliert nicht die Hoffnung. Lasst unsere Stimme in die Welt hinaus. Wir haben unser Leben gegeben, aber sie haben noch viel mehr verloren. Für jeden, den sie töten, töten die Menschen zwei ihrer Leute. Die Lage hat sich nirgendwo beruhigt. Lasst euch nicht belügen. Die Menschen warten auf Israel und Trump. Sie werden nicht nach Hause gehen, bis der Prinz zurückkehrt.‘“ #IranRevolution2026 #JavidShah

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Imagine this was your son.
Your brother.
Your husband.

You would want him to be brave.
You would want him to have moral courage.
You would want him to do the right thing.

This young man did.

And now he may be hung from a crane tomorrow — not for a crime, but for defying a regime that survives on fear.

The Islamic Republic has two options, as it always does:
Make an example of him, as it has done to thousands before — quietly, brutally, and without consequence.
Or finally face a world that refuses to look away.

If nothing stops the Iranian regime, this will not be the last body.
It will simply be the next one.

#ErfanSoltani #FreeIran #IranProtests #IranMassacre

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Remember Aida Rostami was a brave doctor in Iran. She cared for people who were fighting for freedom by protesting against the regime. For this, the Islamic regime punished her in the most horrific way. They tortured her, breaking her bones, her nose, and her shoulders. They gouged out her left eye. Then, they murdered her.

Her broken body tells a story of unimaginable cruelty. Aida didn’t deserve this—she was a healer, not a criminal. The regime’s evil took her life because she dared to help others. Her sacrifice must not be forgotten.

We can’t stay silent. Aida’s story is a call to action. We must honor her courage by standing up against this brutality.

[Sean Sweeney @seandsweeney]

If any of you are wondering what it’s like in Minnesota right now…

It’s worse than what you are seeing.

People are being grabbed at random in stores, in cars & even at home.

Schools and businesses are staying closed out of fear.

I live here & am seeing it with my own eyes.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Message from inside Iran:

Please help us. The situation here is horrific. It is a full scale war. The regime’s forces show no mercy. They shoot protesters in the head and heart and even finish off those already wounded on the streets. In hospitals the wounded are being kidnapped and killed.

Masih please tell the world we need help 💔

#IranRevolution2026
#Iran

[Katerina Horbunova @blue_eyedKeti]

No, this is not a nuclear explosion. The rest of the world can still sleep and live in peace. This is just another night in Ukraine, the view from the window of an ordinary Kyiv resident.

You watch this through your phone screens, while we watch it from the windows of our own homes. This is just a fragment of the nightly madness that russia allows itself to unleash on the territory of my country. A shard torn out of the lives of Ukrainians. Yes, people died again tonight. Yes, there are wounded. Yes, there was another swarm of attack drones and missiles. It continues, and it feels as though no one can do anything about it.

[inna shevchenko @femeninna]

Minus fifteen.
This is no longer weather. This is a weapon.

Russia struck thermal power plants.
Not the front line. Not the army.
Heat. Light. Survival.

Kyiv is dark.
Dnipro is dark.
Odesa is dark.

Minus fifteen.

People will die now without bleeding.
From cold rooms. From silence. From systems turned off.

From the outside, it looks like a blackout.
From the inside, it is a concentration of human warmth; the last place where light truly refuses to leave.

Everywhere else, just look, it is also dark and cold. The rooms are warm and bright.
But full of cowardice or indifference.

Russia switches off electricity.
The world switches off conscience.

And yet, if human light still exists, it is not where comfort is preserved, it is where people sit in the dark and choose not to freeze into numbness.

Ukraine.

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

I study authoritarianism for a living, so I do not say this lightly: America isn't facing an authoritarian future. America is living an authoritarian present.

(A long 🧵)

/1

[Martha Bueno @BuenoForMiami]

I’m absolutely astounded that Americans can see an unmarked vehicle with “agents” that don’t identify themselves shoot an American citizen - a mother with stuffed animals inside her car - and just say, “Oh well, she should have just complied.”

I’m logging off this app for the rest of the day. America is going to crap faster than I could have ever imagined.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

Great education.

Please stop using these 3 phrases when you talk about Venezuela.

From a Venezuelan journalist:

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed…Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding.”

[Klaus Schwertner @KlausSchwertner]

Ich war vor einer Woche in der Ukraine mit der @CaritasAustria, in Odessa musste der Notstand ausgerufen werden, weil nach den massiven russischen Luftangriffen zehntausende Menschen ohne Strom, Heizung, Wasserversorgung und Internet sind. Jede Nacht regnet es Drohnen und/oder 1/

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Keep repeating this. You cannot shame the shameless, but highlighting this both sidesing of a terrorist invader and its victims must be done if we are to live in a world with real values and not in the world of fake values.

[Montrey @Montrey82631182]

1/ 10.07.2014: Igor Girkin, Oberst des russischen FSB und erster Verteidigungsminister der Volksrepublik Donezk bestätigt, dass die russischen Spezialkräfte in die Ostukraine geschickt wurden, um den ukrainischen Staat zu stürzen - so wie sie es bereits auf der Krim getan hatten.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Carl Sagan predicted it. And now the dumbest motherfuckers ever to walk the face of the earth, MAGA Trump supporters, have fulfilled his prophecy. 😳👇

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Kyiv. Several private homes in a residential complex are on fire.

People’s houses. People’s lives.
This is russian terror — deliberate, systematic, and aimed at civilians.

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music first written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem