Good news (cw24)

Can there be any good news on a Monday after a very sad & terrifying result of the European elections yesterday???

The answer is yes. Yes, and we need more Irmelas!

Kein Aufkleber mit Nazi-Parolen oder Hakenkreuz-Graffiti ist vor ihr sicher:
Irmela Mensah-Schramm kratzt sie ab, übersprüht sie oder verändert ihren ursprünglichen Sinn – und das seit über 40 Jahren.
Für ihre Zivilcourage wurde sie ausgezeichnet – etwa mit dem Göttinger Friedenspreis. Doch zugleich geriet sie mit Polizei und Justiz in Konflikt: So wurde sie etwa wegen Sachbeschädigung verurteilt.
Mittlerweile gibt sie auch Workshops an Schulen und arbeitet mit Schülern.

Germany opened it’s first overhead electric line highway on May 7th 2019. This electrification is available on #Autobahn_A5 from
#Frankfurt_airport_global_freight_hub to an #industrial_park near #Darmstadt for a distance of #10_kilometers. This allows trucks to draw electric power from overhead cables thus making it a #green_corrider.

Die Ringe, die sinnbildlich für fünf Kontinente stehen sollen, wurden vollständig aus recyceltem französischem Stahl gefertigt. Die Spiele finden vom 26. Juli bis zum 11. August statt.

Adele to an audience member who yelled “Pride S*cks!”
“Did you come to my f**cking show and just say that Pride sucks? Are you f**cking stupid? Don’t be so f**cking ridiculous. If you have nothing nice to say, shut up, alright?”

Halla Tómasdottir will be the seventh President of Iceland! Iceland has been ranked the best country in the world for gender equality for the last 14 years straight. The country has also seen two women serve as prime minister in recent years.

Bill May is a towering figure in the sport of artistic swimming, a breaker of barriers for more than three decades and a leader in the decades-long effort to open Olympic competition to men.

But his fate this summer will rest not on his individual achievements or stature as an advocate, but on his ability to perform as one-eighth of a team of women half his age.

A rule change in 2022 cleared the way for men to compete in the sport at this summer’s Paris Games.

That means that this is May’s first and, realistically, last chance ever to fulfill his lifelong dream of competing in the Olympics. He is 45 years old, and on Saturday, the team will announce who made the tinal cut.

“I didn’t think you had to look a certain way,” he said.

“I just knew that I loved the sport.” Once, when he was 14, the family of a girl he had defeated in an individual competition booed him, but mostly his gender wasn’t an issue. “They treated me like any other athlete,” he said.