Véronique Gantenberg

Journalistin ARD #Monitor | leise zuhören, laut verstehen | Politik, Recherche | hier privat | she/her | Threema: XJKWFUSY

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.

https://t.co/Dqo309M8lW

[ProPublica @propublica]

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

[Véronique Gantenberg @verogantenberg]

Trumps Amerika 2026 - Menschen, die verschleppt werden; ein Präsident, der sich nur von seiner eigenen Moral aufhalten lassen will, der von vergiftetem Blut spricht. Unser Film über die Frage, die sich viele seit Monaten stellen: Ist das Faschismus?
https://t.co/vs7KXrlgYL

[Bastian Brauns @BastianBrauns]

Natürlich nicht

[Véronique Gantenberg @verogantenberg]

Informing Congress? No. Informing oil companies about a breach of international law that will be lucrative for them? Yes.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off?

Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.

[Véronique Gantenberg @verogantenberg]

Die AfD will eine neue Jugendorganisation gründen – was ist da zu erwarten? Wohl dieselben rechtsextremen Akteure wie schon bei der Jungen Alternative.
https://t.co/YEvOz2Qun1

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

⚡️🏳️‍🌈After Viktor Orbán’s government passed an anti-LGBT law to ban the Pride march, Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony announced the city will officially organize Budapest Pride as a municipal event—meaning the ban won’t apply, and police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

NEW: The White House is planning to carry out a wave of firings in what some staff are referring to as “The Purge.”

The plan is to carry out the firings in a single, decisive wave as early as next week.

w/ @DashaBurns @RobbieGramer @jake__traylor

https://t.co/snejKWNEfB

[Sam Stein @samstein]

JD Vance, Rubio, Witkoff and Tulsi on there too

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

There are many cringey things about Trump's 2nd term. But nothing is as cringey as watching these Cabinet meetings where Trump's appointees kowtow to him and slather him with praise like they're courtiers to a king. It's repulsively un-American.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So…here it is. The new look Observer.

And here - unbelievably- is the paper’s HOT new signing: Facebook’s very own NICK CLEGG!!!

The man who laundered Mark Zuckerberg’s reputation is now being reputation laundered by the paper which broke Faceboon’s biggest scandal.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

"If everything is antisemitic, then nothing is actually antisemitic." Rabbi @SharonBrous believes the Trump administration is using "legitimate Jewish trauma... [and] lack of safety as a pretext... to pursue anti-democratic measures."

[Bastian Brauns @BastianBrauns]

Jetzt schlagen bereits zwei US-Gerichte Alarm: Mit beispiellos scharfen Urteilen werfen sie der Trump-Regierung Rechtsbruch und Missachtung der Verfassung vor. Es klingt wie eine Mischung aus Warnung und Verzweiflung. @tonline https://t.co/uEY15VtQNk

[Véronique Gantenberg @verogantenberg]

Palais de l'Élysée is older than the US-Constitution.

[Jorge Liboreiro @JorgeLiboreiro]

The state of play: Steve Witkoff compares l'Élysée Palace in Paris to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

“It’s fabulous what it looks like. He (Trump) actually works on it himself. He’s like an architect.”

[Véronique Gantenberg @verogantenberg]

"Unfortunately, recent events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science."

[Kevin Hall @KevinH_PhD]

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on unravelling the reasons why diets high in ultra-processed food are linked to epidemic proportions of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Our research leads the world on this topic.

Given recent bipartisan goals to prevent diet-related chronic diseases, and new agency leadership professing to prioritize scientific investigation of ultra-processed foods, I had hoped to expand our research program with ambitious plans to more rapidly and efficiently determine how our food is likely making Americans chronically sick.

Unfortunately, recent events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science. Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.

I was hoping this was an aberration. So, weeks ago I wrote to my agency’s leadership expressing my concerns and requested time to discuss these issues, but I never received a response. Without any reassurance there wouldn’t be continued censorship or meddling in our research, I felt compelled to accept early retirement to preserve health insurance for my family. (Resigning later in protest of any future meddling or censorship would result in losing that benefit.) Due to very tight deadlines to make this decision, I don’t yet have plans for my future career.

The NIH has been a wonderful place because it allows scientists to take risks, form unique collaborations, and do studies difficult to conduct elsewhere. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished and I’m fortunate to have had such wonderful colleagues and scientific collaborators. I hope to someday return to government service and lead a research program that will continue to provide gold-standard science to make Americans healthy.

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

EXCLUSIVE — A government memo obtained by CBS News shows the Trump administration gave officials broad discretion to decide who to detain at Guantanamo Bay, allowing them to send non-criminal migrants there, despite a vow to hold “the worst” at the base.
https://t.co/9T4E8QejA1

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

‼️Viktor Orbán's government passed laws banning public gatherings that may violate "child protection" rules, and introduced a new measure allowing the state to strip (non-EU) dual nationals of Hungarian citizenship for up to 10 years. @France24_en's video.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?

BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous

TRUMP: These are sick people

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Unfortunately, this is what I have been talking about for some time. The plan to essentially end climate research and prediction (and many extreme weather research/prediction activities, as well) was all put in writing last year, and now implementation seems to be imminent.