mckayjenkins

Author, Master Naturalist, Proud Baltimorean. Tilghman Professor of Journalism and Env. Humanities @UDelaware. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Justice

[Hopkins Press @JHUPress]

Thrilled to see McKay Jenkins of 'The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook', featured in Baltimore Magazine!

Co-edited with Joy Shindler Rafey, their guide explores Maryland’s vast ecological wonders — for both researchers and everyday readers.

https://t.co/IIGyS98S9x

[Nature Sacred @NatureSacred]

We’re proud to partner with the Stillmeadow Community Fellowship church, local environmental journalism professor @McKayJenkins, @SmithsonianEnv, @Balt_TreeTrust, @BlueWaterBmore, @CivicWorksInc, @NWF, and more. Learn more: https://t.co/cUouqTxA7A #NatureSacred #UrbanNature

[mckayjenkins @mckayjenkins]

@robertfworth “Like dropping acid at the opera” is a great line. Wonderful piece! Where are you these days? We’re in Baltimore.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

“Of course, age is an issue. I’m a grown man, and I’m running against a six-year-old,” President Biden jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “Age is the only thing we have in common…My vice president actually endorses me.”

[The Review @udreview]

Hundreds of students marched in a pro-Palestine protest today across the university's campus. SJP leaders organized the march, which began at Trabant University Center and worked its way past the The Green. #udel #netde #ud

Video: Macayla Cook and Konner Metz/THE REVIEW

[Rachel Sawicki @RachelSawicki]

UD students and a few faculty and staff are gathered outside Trabant preparing to march in a pro-Palestinian rally. @UDelaware now joins a growing number of universities across the country experiencing student protests against the conflict in #gaza. #netde #palestine

[mckayjenkins @mckayjenkins]

Hundreds of @UDelaware students march in pro-Palestine rally https://t.co/5DSwJ7LM2d

[TerryTempestWilliams @TempestWilliams]

Blessings to you, Wild Ones.

[John Domini @DavveroDomini]

@AoDespair For the season: https://t.co/luhKrNsSqb

[David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ]

Exactly right:

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty.

Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. 

Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world.

We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. 

They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. 

Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity. 

Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world. 

Safety for our families. 

Decency. 

Let’s welcome them back. 

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

"And as long as we have more confidence in the media’s ability to see the outcome than in our own ability to affect it, we surrender before the battle for our freedoms begins." ~@Mike_Podhorzer
https://t.co/O2dXasMJqd

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps planted 3 billion trees and built 30,000 miles of terraces, restoring vast landscapes in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl.

We have all the know-how necessary to mobilize a modern corps and restore today’s degraded landscapes.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

When people successfully run for high office because they have committed crimes and want to avoid prison, they ruin rule of law at home. The narcissistic focus and ensuing chaos is horrible for national security.

[mckayjenkins @mckayjenkins]

via @NYTimes https://t.co/u87A3WmaMH

[John K. Blake @JohnBlakeCNN]

Ketanji Brown Jackson exposes the Supreme Court’s "colorblind" lie. https://t.co/jbb3lKhW08

[10th Mountain Div. @10MTNDIV]

McKay Jenkins, an author and professor at the University of Delaware speaks to leaders of the #10thMTNDIV and honors the history of the division during #WWII. According to Jenkins division veterans would later build some of the first ski resorts across the U.S.

[mckayjenkins @mckayjenkins]

Honored to be inducted today into the 10th Mountain Division Hall of Fame, for my book The Last Ridge. After #WW2, division vets started the U.S. skiing and mountaineering industries, and led the environmental movement. The division remains the most deployed unit in the US #Army

[mckayjenkins @mckayjenkins]

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[Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert]

This is just outrageous and so, so sad: Biomedical labs bleed horseshoe crabs for vaccines with little accountability https://t.co/zWlWlTzcUf

[mckayjenkins @mckayjenkins]

via @NYTimes https://t.co/3eHbCHlWYz