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/?)

Hey, look who made The New York Times! My high school guidance counselor is gonna need a while to accept this … Thanks to @joedrape for the great feature. nytimes.com/2026/04/14/bus…

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter has motioned to Subpoena Donnie Trump Jr for funneling $670 million dollars of taxpayer’s hard earned money to a Critical Minerals Company he has stake in which should be of no surprise to anyone.Republicans wouldn’t even listen to her & left the room.

Indigenous people in Mexico protest the U.S. blasting a sacred ceremonial site with dynamite to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The Kumeyaay people consider Cerro Cuchumá a sacred site where they hold rituals and shamans hold initiations. It also functions as a cemetery.

The lopsided balance of power between capital and labour: the workers have no ability to refuse to wear the cameras which are training systems which will eventually replace the workers themselves

The Trump administration is effectively ‘disappearing’ people on U.S. soil. ICE is not providing accurate information on where people are detained. Some people aren’t tracked for weeks. Some locations are wrong. Some people are deported before locations are put in the system. I’m pushing for accountability.

A huge factor behind the Pope's explosive popularity is that his mother tongue is English. For the first time ever, the Pope is easily understood by the English speaking world without a translator. Every statement he makes in English lands with an immediate thud like no Pope has experienced before. Pope Leo didn't quite get this in the beginning. Now he does and he's using it when he wants to turn up the volume. He's in control of the entire world's news agenda in a way that no Pope has known since John Paul 2.

EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS: Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it. Chad Bianco really seized over 650,000 ballots based on conspiracy theories that don’t even hold up to basic scrutiny. No credible fraud. No real discrepancy. The California Supreme Court stepped in and shut it down, because law enforcement doesn’t get to play election referee when they don’t like the outcome. Let’s be clear about the legal mess he’s in: • Lawsuit from California Attorney General Rob Bonta • Lawsuit from the UCLA Voting Rights Project • Ongoing Supreme Court review of his actions

So do something. Even if you fail. Try.

Indonesia on the move: Its electricity monopoly moves to retire 2,396 diesel generators across 741 locations > Will replace them with solar + storage and micro-hydro, slashing 200,000 barrels of oil imports/ day > Saves $2b in avoided oil imports every single year Burning expensive, imported oil to provide power to islands is a national security suicide note. Indonesia is finally starting to read the manual: The sun is free, local, and doesn't require a carrier strike group to protect its "supply chain" If your energy arrives on a boat, you aren’t a sovereign state. Indonesia, Pakistan, India are showing the way out #goog_rewarded" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hijau.bisnis.com/read/20260413/…

There are pretty much countless large parking lots for cars, and installing solar panels over them would generate half the electricity we use. Not only would this be an efficient use of land, but it would also help keep the cars cooler while parked.

I hate how poverty is seen as personal failure rather than a societal one.

Dua Lipa shared a message with her 88 million followers.

Apple deleting the maps of Lebanon's towns and villages before Israel even destroys them shows that the people who work for Netanyahu RUN companies like Apple. The billionaires and the fascists are one and the same.

Many of the world’s most important sources of underground fresh water took millions of years to form and could now require thousands of years to refill, as the water mined from them largely ends up in the rising oceans. propublica.org/article/water-…

Imperial decline in 3D. Local decay + foreign military overextension. Textbook.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. And prices only increased 1.5%. So a $4 burger would now be $4.06. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of workers got substantial raises, with the average raise registering at more than 10%. capitalandmain.com/despite-apocal…

As the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout in actual practice is prior long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people to understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

Courtney Bonneau from Lebanon: "I was shot at multiple times by the Israeli army. So I started making videos for my own safety — to have a record for when they actually do shoot me." This is what covering Israel has become. Journalists filming their own potential murder

If MAGAs want to compare Trump to Christ, why don't they crucify him and see if he gets up on the third day?

BREAKING : Italian 🇮🇹 Georgia Meloni becomes the first PM in the world to belt Trump for his remarks on Pope 🔥 🇺🇸 Trump –– "The Pope is weak against crime and he is not doing his job well. He is terrible for foreign policy" 🇮🇹 Meloni –– 🔥 "Trump's words toward the Holy Father are unacceptable. The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church and it is right and normal for him to call for peace and to condemn every form of war" Trump expected support at Strait of Hormuz from Meloni but she's exposing his hypocrisy instead 🤣