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/?)

Over a decade ago, @FiveThirtyEight published a clever methodology for estimating someone's age based on their first name. I turned it into an interactive tool, the Name Age Calculator. Type in "Jennifer" and discover when that name peaked in 140+ years of Social Security data

2025 was even more disruptive in the public health sphere than I could have envisaged. As we look to 2026, I think we need to expect more chaos and more efforts to dismantle policies and systems meant to keep people safe.

The politics of green energy are sometimes topsy-turvy. Here you have North Dakota which gets 40% of its energy from wind enjoying low electricity prices. But that's happening while the Trump admin attacks wind energy. Meanwhile, Vermont has the country's most ferociously

Maria Farmer blew the whistle on Epstein to the FBI in 1996. The FBI never acknolwedged her complaint & for years she was called a liar. But the 1996 complaint was in the Epstein Files released. Maybe she's owed a presumption of credibility -- including her account of Trump...

I was reading this article last week about reading. Apparently, unlike listening and speaking, reading is non instinctual and our brains aren’t wired to read. So by learning to read, different sections of the brain gets activated and develops. In a very transformative way.

BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna says two of the most critical documents Epstein survivors demanded were not released today, a 60-count indictment drafted before Epstein’s sweetheart deal and an 82-page memo backing it up. Both are missing. Transparency law violated. Survivors ignored.

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year:

It only took 20 years. The FBI labeling the case as a “child prostitution” case back in 2005 — and the Palm Beach state attorney telling these victims they could be arrested themselves (for prostitution) was/is unforgivable. Congress must investigate who benefited (besides

about half of all homeless people in the united states have spent time in the foster care system. it’s extremely common for foster care kids to turn 18, “age out of the system”, & have nowhere to go.

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media

Large shares of Americans do too.

My annual end-of-year supercut is here: The wildest political moments of 2025

Kids don't read books anymore because their parents don't read books anymore. If you want your kids to read more, set the example for them.

Anonymous I work at a public library. A teenage boy came to the desk. He looked nervous. "I found this," he said. He put a copy of Harry Potter on the counter. It was lost 3 years ago. It was battered. "I stole it," he admitted. "We didn't have money for books. But I read it. I

Forest and trees re Epstein documents: Trees: Controversies about particular documents. Forest: Virtually none of the key documents, ones we know exist, the ones the victims and knowledgeable observers have been demanding to see, have been released. So the coverup continues.

Please spare a thought for those of us carers working 12 hour shifts on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day who won’t be spending it with our own friends and family, but will be doing everything we can to make the day as special as possible for yours.

On this day in 1956, Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama bombed the home of civil rights activist the R Fred Shuttlesworth while he was celebrating Christmas with family.ev. https://t.co/3qADa1kmSq

On this day in 1951, Florida’s NAACP President Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore, were killed on Christmas Day when their house was bombed by racist terrorists in Florida. The Moores were the first NAACP members to be murdered for their civil rights activism.

“Conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who themselves pleaded guilty to felony telecommunications fraud in 2022, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to lobby for a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of $38

The next phase of ICE's detention surge involves retrofitting warehouses to hold up to 10k immigrants each. The goal, one official said earlier this year, is to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.” https://t.co/mLmTvp6xyO