Chelsea 🇺🇦

Vegan Cupcake Dragon #DragonSquad

[Thia is with … 😏✌️💋🔥 @ThiaBallerina]

Aaron Bushnell wasn’t mentally ill. Stop chalking this up to mental illness. Self-immolation is the one of the most extreme forms of protest. Mental illness is when you’re ok with 15,000 children being massacred. Don’t confuse the two.

[Chelsea 🇺🇦 @chels1440]

@mehdirhasan @MehdiHasanShow @peacock @MSNBC I am heartbroken, you are the best journalist on TV

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Gaza:

More kids killed than the annual number of kids killed across all conflict zones since 2019 (Save the Children)

More UN workers killed than in any comparable period in the UN’s history (UN)

More journalists killed than in any conflict period since 1992 (CPJ)

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

If you find yourself making the argument, “11 year-olds aren’t really children tho,” you should take that as an extremely strong indication that you’ve strayed from the righteous path

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

BBC reporter in Gaza

[tern @1goodtern]

I think this is an excellent analogy 🔥👇

[Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone]

What Piers is trying to explain here is that the acute phase is not the disease. Covid comes for your health in the post-acute phase — it can be lingering symptoms like Piers, immune system impairment, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, lupus, vasculitis, cognitive difficulties…

[Benjamin Perry @FaithfullyBP]

There aren't "two sides" to bombing a refugee camp.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"How does bombing a densely-populated land strip, filled with 50 percent children, constitute self-defense?"

Superb and wide-ranging commentary from my colleague @JoyAnnReid, on war crimes, terrorism, antisemitism, and the future:
https://t.co/PiMde8wYfR

[Dr. Kyla Bennett, PEER @bennettpeer]

Is *anyone* ok? Your Jewish friends are not ok; your Palestinian friends are not ok; your Ukrainian friends are not ok; your ecologist/climate scientists are not ok; your Democrat friends are not ok; your vegan friends are not ok. Is anyone doing ok??? I'm not ok. You?

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

70,000 people trapped in a desert by extreme rain, running out of food, with rumors of disease spreading, and porta-johns overflowing - but determined to keep the party going, is such a great metaphor for our civilization right now.
https://t.co/iTQj6JashK

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Remember three days ago when people were furious at the climate protesters outside burning man?

[Wheels (Sean) @wheeler244]

Droplets at Picture Lake 💧
A rainy evening in the mountains.. looking back just 2 months ago.. something about the rain gives us a good cleansing #wawx #pnw

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

America needs universal healthcare. This shouldn’t be controversial. Especially with a once in a century pandemic.

[Chelsea 🇺🇦 @chels1440]

@waDNR_fire @RandySmall Hearing them and cheering them on from SV!

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Chelsea 🇺🇦 @chels1440]

@makeupartist524 I'm SO happy for you. We all need this every now and then and you did absolutely everything right. <3 <3 <3