How Is This 10-Year-Old Fighting Climate Change? First, by Ditching School.
She started a litter-picking campaign, sharing photos and videos on social media through Lilly’s Plastic Pickup. She’s since been invited to international environment conferences, and is now a youth ambassador for the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an anti-plastic alliance based in California, and HOW Global, a global development NGO. “I’ve never stopped picking up plastic,” she…
Here’s My Super-Abridged Green New Deal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let’s noodle some more about climate change today. On Thursday I regaled you with my abridged Green New Deal. It’s still fine, but I think it can be abridged even more. Bear with me here. First off, I want to acknowledge that for all the…
A Shadowy Conservative Group Has Started a Billboard War with AOC. She Refuses to Stand Down.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Visitors to New York’s Times Square saw a new billboard earlier this week that spelled out the jobs, wages, and economic activity New…
Violent Clashes Take Place Along Venezuela’s Borders as Humanitarian Workers Try to Deliver Aid
Demonstrators tend to a fellow protester who was overcome by teargas during clashes near the Venezuela-Colombia border on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Rodrigo Abd/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tensions along Venezuela’s borders escalated on Saturday when Venezuelan military officials clashed with protestors and aid workers attempting to bring humanitarian relief…
Mueller Asks Judge to Throw the Book at Manafort
Paul Manafort at the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016.Patrick Fallon/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a lengthy sentencing memo released Saturday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort face around 20 years in prison for committing “an array of felonies for over…
The Internet Can’t Stop Laughing About the Way This Senator Talked to Some Children
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at the Capitol on Tuesday, February 12, 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The internet lost its mind on Friday evening when the Sunrise Movement, a climate activism group composed of youthful volunteers working to gain support for the Green New…