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Frank Steinhofer
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🌱 For a climate change within the mind. Novelist and a contributing writer for international media such as Der Spiegel, SZ or the Architectural Review. Topics are mostly about environmental and social justice.
📍Mexico City
https://www.franksteinhofer.com
In 1916, African-American chemist Alice Ball dies shortly after discovering an effective treatment for leprosy. Chemist Arthur L. Dean takes over her research findings and claims the discovery of the method for himself #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Bleib mal bei Hegel, güey! Ein deutscher Kulturjournalist, der absolut keine Ahnung vom Thema hat, erklärt Hunderten Millionen Menschen aus den Americas, was nun politisch war beim Super Bowl – und was nicht. Koloniale Überheblichkeit in Reinform!
Bad Bunny beim Super Bowl: Die Tiraden von Donald Trump zeigen nur eine Sache
Donald Trump hat es nicht gefallen, dass Bad Bunny in der Halbzeitpause des Super Bowls Spanisch gesungen hat. Doch selbst die Tiraden des Präsidenten können nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass das Sho...
www.faz.net
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
Viele Accounts können oder wollen Trumps Bilder von den Obamas als Affen nicht benennen oder kritisieren, ohne dabei das Bild zu verbreiten. Erstaunlich. Liegt doch eigentlich nah: aus der Kritik am rassistischen Bild die Konsequenz zu ziehen, es nicht zu verbreiten.
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Mexico is one of the countries where the most environmentalists are killed each year. Most of them are women. First-time Mexican director Pablo Pérez Lombardini therefore set out to raise awareness of their plight using the language of film.
trailer LA RESERVA
YouTube video by PIKILA
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
Ghana’s incredible coffins: the true story the West got wrong. Hint, it has anti-colonial roots. Today, the largest collection of Ghanaian coffins is found not in Accra, but in Basel, Switzerland, at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures).
Ghana’s incredible coffins: the true story the West got wrong
Ghana’s incredible coffins — between secret rites, craftsmanship, and pop culture: the true story of a tradition the West misunderstood.
www.domusweb.it
January 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Flickers of Democracy
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Cooking with cariño! In Mexico City, chefs are delving into centuries-old culinary traditions and the cultivation of indigenous foods. I wrote about this evolution for the German magazine Essen & Trinken. » bit.ly/454q1FN
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Millionärserbe Burda wird Vergewaltigung vorgeworfen: Was macht die Polizei in Baden-Baden? Sie behelligt ihn gar nicht erst nach der Anzeige der Frau. Niemand beschlagnahmt sein Handy. Niemand suchte ihn nach DNA, Hautresten oder Kratzspuren ab. Die Ermittlung macht fassungslos.
Franz Burda: So gut wie nicht ermittelt
Ein merkwürdiges Urteil in Baden-Baden spricht den Millionärserben der Verlegerdynastie Burda vom Vorwurf der Vergewaltigung frei. Doch es bleiben viele Fragen.
www.zeit.de
January 7, 2026 at 12:57 PM
455 – 400 BC
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

2026
“We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force and power." Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump.
January 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Das Recht als Waffe der Mächtigen. Der US-Ölkonzern Chevron hat in Ecuador eine der größten Umweltkatastrophen weltweit ausgelöst. Nach über 30 Jahren vor Gericht, steht nun fest: Der Ölkonzern erhält 220 Millionen Entschädigung.
Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million - Inside Climate News
Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go to Chevron, which acquired Texaco ...
insideclimatenews.org
January 1, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Solidarity with @hateaid.org, an organisation that selflessly fights against digital violence. They have now been banned from entering the US because, apparently, their work to combat violence or revenge porn is seen by the Trump administration as an "extraterrestrial censorship of Americans".
USA sanktionieren Führung von deutscher Organisation HateAid
Die Amerikaner kritisieren »Ideologen in Europa«, die US-Plattformen zensieren würden. Nun verhängen sie Sanktionen gegen einen EU-Kommissar, britische NGO-Vertreter und zwei deutsche Aktivistinnen ge...
www.spiegel.de
December 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
USA gehen mit Sanktionen gegen HateAid vor.

Solidarität mit Anna-Lena und Josephine, die angegriffen werden, weil sie demokratische Funktionen erfüllen!

www.digitalpolitik.de/usa-gehen-ge...
USA gehen gegen HateAid vor
Passend zur Weihnachtszeit verhängt das US-Außenministerium Sanktionen gegen fünf Personen. Sie sollen Teil eines angeblichen „globalen Zensur-industriellen Komplexes“ sein – so behauptet es Außenmini...
www.digitalpolitik.de
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption. Intriguing!
What if Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do?
The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow
www.theatlantic.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Trump's policies trickle down. Sources told me that a $250,000 grant awarded by the U.S. Embassy for the renovation of the Alte Feste Museum, a national monument in the capital of #Namibia, has to be repaid by the Namibian government. Trump wants the money back.
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
Die heute veröffentlichte Studie von FIAN Deutschland deckt gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch den Berliner Agrarinvestor Amatheon auf.

📘 Die Studie „Amatheon in Sambia: Gewalt und Vertreibung bei einem deutschen Agrarinvestor" ist unter dem Link verfügbar:
www.fian.de/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
Ihara Saikaku fue el gran cronista de la vida popular en el Japón de la época Edo. Ya tenemos 'Este mundo astuto', con 20 historias satírica sobre mercaderes y sus esposas, actores, monjes prostitutas, ronin... Todos ellos removerán cielo y tierra para saldar sus deudas antes de que acabe el año.
September 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Like humans, every trees has its own microbiome. Fascinating!
In Every Tree, a Trillion Tiny Lives
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
US-Lawfare. Since President Xiomara Castro took office in #Honduras, the country has faced 16 investor lawsuits totalling $13.5 billion. These lawsuits are a response to the government's decision to reverse a US-backed initiative which aimed to turn Honduran territory into private corporate domains.
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Botanical Resistance: In Mexico City, people fight to save one of their oldest neighbours in the barrio, the tree "Laureano", who is at risk because of an housing development.
Resistencia botánica: el árbol centenario que unió a la Benito Juárez
Les queremos presentar a uno de los vecinos más antiguos y queridos de la Benito Juárez. Con ustedes, el árbol Laureano.
www.local.mx
August 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reposted by Frank Steinhofer
Survey maps published last month have revealed more than SIX MILLION animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the greatest migration of mammals ever seen in the world.
New maps reveal greatest mammal migration ever seen
Survey maps published last month have revealed more than six million animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the largest migration of antelope in the world.
thred.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM