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Yangon, Myanmar
Joined April 2013
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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/?)
Karen Van Drie retweeted
I recently finished listening to the entirety of @ehanford's #SoldAStory and feel a lot of gratitude to be beginning my teaching career at the same time as this work is in the world. Truly some of the most consequential reporting of our time. 🧵
Do not miss this podcast if you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling, educator, or ed administrator. This is an absolute must listen.
#SoldAStory #ReadingExcellence #Dyslexia
#LearningDisabilities #PleasureReading
NYT: “There is this urgency around the story, this unbelievable grief,” said @ehanford, a journalist at APM. Her podcast #SoldaStory detailed how stars of the literacy world & their publisher diverged from scientific research. It racked up ~5M downloads. nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/sc…
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Axios: Heather Honey, most known for denying the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania and Arizona, is now the Homeland Security Department's deputy assistant secretary for election integrity and senior advisor to the ICE Director.
Axios: MAGA activists are pushing for President Trump to resort to extraordinary measures — including martial law — if they believe the midterm elections are "rigged."
Ticktin, Trump's childhood friend, said on the call "there would have to be martial law in the event... [of] another rigged election."
axios.com/2026/10/16/trumps-…
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Across the world, right-wing and even occasionally liberal governments are using the immigration system as a way to punish and silence individuals whose speech those in power disagree with.
In the US, @IlhanMN is one of the most prominent examples yet: jacobin.com/2026/10/trump-va…
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Trump’s War In Iran Is Eating Up Your Paycheck
apple.news/AoECWkQGgSgqLqfKi…
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Welcome to the five Ds of Climate Change denial
First ‘downplay’ suggests climate change cannot be that bad.
Science suggests it is really bad and effects the health of 100s millions of people
theconversation.com/five-typ…
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In this week’s Frankly I unfurl a metaphorical “ladder” that traces the systems-oriented forces shaping the economic Superorganism:
Seven rungs that trickle down to affect the behaviors and events we witness in our daily lives, as well as reinforce humanity’s dependence on energy and material growth.
Watch:
youtu.be/1_iUUeXtZk0
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There has been a Wilful Optimism amongst Scientists and policy makers. Only a small number of people have dared to call it as it is. And now we have Trump charging the world over the precipice. I’ve been on the right side of this Debate but that doesn’t help my grandchildren.
New paper by the World’s most prominent climate scientists shows rapid acceleration of human-caused warming, with a warming rate now that tracks to near 2.4°C by 2050, far faster than was expected, if it continues.
From paper: “We are witnessing the rapid destabilization of the Earth’s climate system. This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present. Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond. Human activities are driving profound shifts in the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere.”
Paper Link in replies… H/T @LeonSimons8 …
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Seconded. The film is tremendous.
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Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat? | @daisydunnesci #CBarchive
Read here: buff.ly/3ZND907
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These are insurance executives warning of The Great Climate Insurance Collapse, and of what that portends for the economy. Time for us all to wake up.
insidetrack.org.uk/releases/…
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Let me get this right - in the last week we’ve seen cars washed away in Chile,
Istanbul, Turkey and now São Paulo, Brazil.
And no media is joining the dots @bbcnews @itvnews @skynews @thetimes @bbc5live @lbc @DailyMail This isn’t even the new normal. It’s going to get much much worse.
#climatecrisis #climatebreakdown
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Data centers are less popular that prisons.
Blue Rose Research's @davidshor on why AI data centers have become a major issue in the midterms, with just 12% of voters wanting one nearby compared to 13% for a prison:
"If you ask voters, 'Do you want a data center built in your neighborhood?' 12% of voters say yes. If you ask whether they want a prison, 13% say yes. Those numbers were in the 40s 8 months ago."
"Data centers have become just a radioactively unpopular thing, and both political parties are running tons of ads about that."
"I personally think that AI is gonna be the dominant issue about a year from now when these primaries are really kicking off."
Karen Van Drie retweeted
This a cinema in Göktürk, Turkey after the extreme rain.
Ironic considering that Hollywood has barely engaged with the climate Crisis, in the weeks after one of the biggest films to ever do so, Digger, was savaged by critics.
Biz Göktürk’ün sinemasıyız…
Burada yalnızca film göstermiyoruz. Çocukların ilk sinema heyecanına, ailelerin birlikte geçirdiği güzel saatlere, komşularımızın anılarına ev sahipliği yapıyoruz.
Artan maliyetlere ve enflasyona rağmen ayakta kalmaya, hizmet kalitemizi korumaya ve sizlere en iyisini sunmaya çalışırken, sinemamız bir kez daha su altında kaldı.
Bu görüntülerde bizim emeğimiz, geçim kaynağımız ve büyük çabalarla yaşatmaya çalıştığımız sinemamız var. Yaşadığımız hasarın yanında, kapalı kaldığımız her gün kaybımız da büyüyor.
Yeniden toparlanmak, kapılarımızı açmak ve sizleri ağırlamak istiyoruz. Ancak üst üste yaşadığımız bu mağduriyet bizi hem maddi hem manevi olarak çok zorluyor.
Bu süreçte mağdur olan tüm komşularımıza da geçmiş olsun dileklerimizi iletiyor, benzer bir durumun bir daha yaşanmamasını temenni ediyoruz.
Göktürk’ün duyarlı komşularına sesleniyoruz: Yaşadıklarımızın duyulmasına destek olmanız, bu paylaşımı yaymanız ve yeniden açıldığımızda bizi tercih etmeniz bizim için çok kıymetli.
Dileğimiz, bu soruna kalıcı bir çözüm bulunması ve emeklerimizin yeniden sular altında kalmaması.
Göktürk’te sinemanın ışığını birlikte yaşatalım.
Cineport Sinemaları
Göktürk’ün sineması.
#göktürk #kemerburgaz #afet
Karen Van Drie retweeted
We need an ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS which puts a floor under people's livelihoods and a ceiling on the extreme concentration of power and wealth.
🔗 Today I am launching my new YouTube channel: youtu.be/Wj_GdHSo7PU
Karen Van Drie retweeted
Read this book: even if you have doubts about the fascist vs anti-fascist perspective, you will enjoy the concrete proposals on affordability, dignity & democracy
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Climate Change Is Increasing Simultaneous Exposure to Heat Waves and Wildfire Smoke when each is dangerous alone. More than 1 billion people per year were exposed to heat waves and fire pollution at the same time from 2010-19, a sharp jump. @Katie_Surma insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
