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Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
One of the only existing groves of American Chestnut trees is scheduled to be destroyed next month to make room for a datacenter. I made an entire video about what this tree meant and the efforts to bring it back that have lasted decades. Consumption knows nothing of sacrament.
Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
El-Sayed: But it is on us to have the empathy to ask, what is it like to be young now? If you’re 26, you were one year old when 9/11 happened. Our country has been at war for most of your life.
In 2007, we had this catastrophic financial crisis for which the banks were not held liable. Chances are you or your family or a neighbor lost their home. Donald Trump came down the hideous golden escalator when you were 15 and has been a fixture of politics for your whole adult life. You are 26.
If you are young, think about it. We’re always like the young people do not seem to want to get engaged. If that is all I have ever lived, part of me is like, to what end?
We have to understand what it is like to be young these days and the incredible act of faith it takes to be invested in your politics, to believe that you can actually solve those problems.
Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
Later, when all of the news has been digested, need to talk about why so many of us were awake at 4 am.
Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
Every Democratic member of Congress should be on a plane to Minneapolis right now to join the people protesting in the streets. Federal elected officials should physically place themselves between the public and these dangerous thugs sent to terrorize this American city.
Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
This is the most incurious I’ve ever seen any news corp about the details of a former President supposedly being shot.
OMG OMG OMG!!!🥰
WE HAVE A NEST! 🤍
Read the @ChicagoParks press release:
chicagoparkdistrict.com/abou…
My time in the 90's Trib composing room was complex. 24yo woman working w/ middle-aged + union printers scarred by the '85 strike. But I can't stress enough how cool it was to paste up Pg 1 adjacent to the press room. The whole building vibrated, a physical reminder of our labor.
Jennifer McLaughlin retweeted
Chicago is the most dangerous city for migrating birds per a 2019 Cornell Lab of Ornithology study.
Chicagoans, we can change this, if we have the will to do so. We encourage you to pipe up for all birds. Below is one act you can take today.
Building collisions kill millions of birds—like this Blackpoll Warbler—each year. Many of these deaths can be prevented. Urge your members of Congress to support the Bird-Safe Buildings Act—a bipartisan, common-sense solution to prevent bird collisions. bit.ly/4dykolW
ALT A photo of a dead Blackpoll Warbler in hand. Credit: Stephen Maciejewski/Audubon
