Karen Van Drie

Global librarian. She/her. #IntlYALitMonth #WorldKidLitMonth #Libraries #BlackLivesMatter 🇺🇸 🇨🇿 🇸🇬 🇹🇷 🇲🇲

[Karen Van Drie @worldlibraries]

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 @worldlibraries]

Wanda Sykes: I miss 2016 Trump

https://t.co/VXok18wSEs

#Comedy

[Amulya Shekhar @tweet_amulya]

Guys, please hit a follow on her handle.

She's one of the on-ground reporters providing live coverage from Lebanon's war zones and has been in the area for nearly 2 years.

Musk and Bier are throttling her reach.

Make sure to live/RT everything you see.

[Karen Van Drie @worldlibraries]

I saw this cemetery when I was 17 years old, and I instantly understood what a gift I had been given by all of these dead men: freedom.

This cemetery awed me.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Black people started Memorial Day.

It was originally called Decoration Day and it included a parade, but the most remarkable detail to me is that the newly freed dug up bodies of Union soldiers from mass graves, identified them and gave proper burials.

👇🏽

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS]

65 years ago yesterday my dad was part of a group of heroes arrested in Jackson, MS while participating in the Freedom Rides. This is what it takes. This is what it’s always taken.

He was 20 years old.

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[Karen Van Drie @worldlibraries]

Respect, dude!

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Matthew Boedy @MatthewBoedy]

Famously Charlie Kirk applied to West Point, was rejected, and blamed affirmative action, and that victimhood launched Turning Point

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🚨 JUST IN:
Brazilian President Lula da Silva: "I want to say this loudly and clearly: The Israeli president is committing genocide against women and children. This is a historical fact."

[Jay 🌊 @JayCSpain]

After 4 years, I’d like to reintroduce myself as Dr. Jalen Spain, MD 👨🏾‍🎓

I now join the 2.6% of Black men who are physicians. The journey has been tough but it has been conquered!

#emergencymedicine
#blackmeninmedicine
#medtwitter

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

My friend Robbie went missing in action in Vietnam on October 12, 1972. His body has never been recovered.

I think of him every Memorial Day — and what he died fighting for.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨Trump is now single handedly responsible for 27.7% of the national debt.

This is dramatically more than any President in American history.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He gets out in June.

Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person. Every MAGA accusation is a confession.

Full story: https://t.co/cU1WnZK2pT

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The problem is not people being uneducated.

The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Professor Richard Feynman (must watch)

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert..

24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi.

Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks:

- The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years
- Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set
- The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one
- Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show

Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Clinton balanced the budget in the late 90s, only for a republican to get elected in 2000 and destroyed the budget surplus that Clinton worked so hard on. I never want to hear how Republicans are “better” for the economy ever again.