Jennifer Mesenbrink

Editor, thinker, autodidact, lover of language. All views here from my own personal POV.

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@ladyperpetuall This was incredibly well done. Grateful that “Blue Lights” took this on. 🙏

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@SLessard Hey my friend 👋

The Police
U2
Peter Gabriel
Black Pumas
Pearl Jam
Dropkick Murphys ☘️
Florence and the Machine
Depeche Mode
Gaelic Storm ☘️
Dave Matthews Band (60+ and hoping to see you twice this summer!)

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

Heartless and completely capricious.

[Megan O'Matz @MegsNewz]

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami Catholic Charities of funding to house migrant kids - by ⁦@MiamiHerald⁩ https://t.co/tGQFLsUWXg

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@PopBase She’s been silent while DJT has set fire to our democracy, ruined our economy, rained missiles on the Middle East and presided over the killings by ICE. She let others take fire—Gov. Newsom, Sen. Kelly, Sen. Raskin.

Her silence = Total lack of leadership

She cannot run again.

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@FoxNews It’s interesting to see the responses to this. Dems and some Repubs don’t want to pour billions into the ICE budget, so daycare teachers and moms and nurses aren’t shot by the federal government.
They do want to carve out funding to pay TSA workers.
That’s it. That’s the point.

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@SenDuckworth Please work with your peers and the courts to stop this violence.

The responses to this post from the cult crowd are terrible. Please be careful out there.

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@SenDuckworth Keep fighting, Senator!

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@DMBGorgeCrew @davematthewsbnd So glad you asked!! 😍
I haven’t heard “Two Step” in too long. Nothing like Carter playing “Two Step” in Heaven’s Amphitheater.
Hoping for #27, #41, Warehouse, and forever Grey Street… (Bonus if we get “Pig” for my best friend…)

Don’t burn the day…
❤️🙏🎶🐷🥂❤️

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@MegsNewz @nytimes This is awful, Megan. 💔

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@united Semi-serious question: Is group 1 just…everyone, now?

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@LongTimeHistory What a shame. 💔

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@ChrisMurphyCT Thank you! Please keep going!

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@WESWomensEnergy What a spectacular panel and challenging conversation! Bravo to these leaders for sharing their wealth of experience and knowledge with us all. 🙏

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

We are still waiting on the runway,
@British_Airways
En route to LHR from ORD, we started 2 hours late & diverted overnight to Goose Bay out of an abundance of caution… And we have been sitting on the plane for 5+ hours. Will you be sending a plane and crew? Please send help.

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@LaurenPaige_BA I’ll follow the BA account now; thanks.

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@British_Airways En route to LHR from ORD, we started 2 hours late then landed overnight in Goose Bay out of an abundance of caution… And we have been sitting on the plane ever since.
Can we deplane? Will you be sending another plane?
Please send word and assistance…

[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

@candid_carol One. Big. Crouton!!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow.

Here’s 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.”

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[Jennifer Mesenbrink @EditorThink]

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