Karen Van Drie

Inspired by young people around the world, each week I am going to share one resource on this thread relevant for learning more about human impact on the planet. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Anthropocene #PlanetEarth (1/?)

Outdoorsmen don’t want this mine. Conservationists don’t want this mine. Tribal leaders don’t want this mine. Most Minnesotans don’t want this mine.   Who DOES want this mine? A massive FOREIGN mining conglomerate: Antofagasta.

People will look at you with a straight face and say that this isn't genocide.

ICE is creating a humanitarian crisis in our own backyard. Feeding people one meal a day that makes them sick, overcrowding holding cells, denying medical treatment — they are denying people basic human dignity. Here’s what’s really happening: azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

«Donald Trump est incroyablement limité intellectuellement et culturellement. C’est quelqu’un qui ne lit pas, qui ignore totalement les leçons de l’histoire», déplore Dominique Moïsi dans Le Club Le Figaro International présenté par @geliefig.

"A drop of clean water for a child is worth more than a billion AI-generated images."👏 This isn't just about technology; it’s about survival. 🛡️ In Ravenna, Ohio, Will Hollingsworth just exposed the "19th-century resource heist" happening in our own backyard. Trillion-dollar companies are trading our local reservoirs for chatbots - all while hiding behind secret contracts and NDAs. It’s time to stop the sales pitch and start looking at the science. Our community is not a laboratory, and our future is not for sale! 👇

"IF THE DRYING CONTINUES — and the researchers warn that it is now nearly impossible to reverse “on human timescales” — it heralds “potentially staggering” and cascading risks for global order."

“It’s not race; it’s racism.” A D.C. OB/GYN explains the Black maternal health crisis. “It is the implicit bias and structural racism that is leading to these outcomes.” nbc4dc.com/3rreZpg

If current cuts to the Federal Science Budget proposed by the White House are approved by Congress, that will far-and-away be the largest cut to science since the United States began funding it. Republicans & Democrats alike know there’s no surer path to Making America Not-Great

New: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. propub.li/4moYTbS

Hasan Piker speaks at Yale University "Trump's Budget manages to be $361 Billion larger than last year, despite cutting $300 Billion in social programs and public investments. All of that money is going to policing and endless war. It's not going to bridges, tunnels, and it's not going to healthcare. Every single one of you, regardless of your political affiliation, should consider that money stolen from you."

Menendez: For Trump to attack the pope and to depict himself as Jesus—like, I just don’t know what else the American people need to see for them to be convinced that he is not stable and that he should not be president.

I remember back in 2024 when JD Vance said grandparents should be providing childcare. But how are they supposed to do that when they’re working DoorDash just to afford cancer treatment?

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: "It is shocking that Trump said no one informed him that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz. I find it unbelievable that one of the fundamental pillars of geopolitical strategy in the Middle East was ignored. That was the first thing we assumed Iran would do. It is their main tool of global leverage. We are now seeing the consequences of a foreign policy driven by impulse rather than strategy.

Today we filed legislation to invoke the 25th Amendment. Here’s what it does ⬇️ @RepRaskin

I am documenting for you, with my phone camera while riding in a car, the scale of destruction that has hit Gaza City. This is my city, these are our homes… and we are still breathing ✌️

Jasmine Crockett “The fact that no one is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild”

🇺🇸 Trump: “She doesn’t care if Iran acquires nuclear weapons and blows up Italy in two minutes.” 🇮🇹 Meloni: “As far as I know, nine nations possess nuclear weapons, and only one has ever used them. No one throws around nuclear threats like Washington.”

The Trump family real estate business is undergoing the fastest overseas expansion since its founding a century ago, each deal potentially shaping everything from tariffs to military aid. to.pbs.org/482NOaK

If you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale.

140 police officers were beaten. With flagpoles. Batons. Baseball bats. Four died. Today the Justice Department erased the convictions of the men who organized it. And called it justice.