Julia Edinger

🍉(she/her) published poet, essayist, journalist, and storyteller 📝 ||
this is my creative writing account, opinions are mine

[Julia Edinger @julia_edinger]

Found by my mom in my 5th grade yearbook. 🥲

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

We must end U.S. participation in the Israeli apartheid regime's invasion of Lebanon. The Israeli military continues to target journalists like Amal Khalil and use our tax dollars to commit war crimes. I urge my colleagues to vote YES on today's Lebanon War Powers resolution.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Today Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is announcing that he will temporarily halt tax breaks for data center developers.

He will also call on the state legislature to take multiple actions around data centers, including banning NDAs that have been used to keep these projects secret.

[Thomas Dekeyser @ThomasDekeyser]

As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Today I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies.

We cannot take water for granted.

[Julia Edinger @julia_edinger]

We should all support this!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Summer Lee have introduced the Abolish Super PACs Act.

The bill would cap Super PAC donations from individuals at $5,000 so that billionaires wouldn't be able to influence US elections with outsized spending.

[love drops @lovedropx]

Me and my friends getting left behind by AI

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United.

The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections.

The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Four years ago today, Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the Israeli military, and our government did nothing. Since then, over 260 journalists have suffered the same deadly fate. We must uplift the truth in Palestine; they were murdered for reporting.

[sydneyྐ✚ - the evermore long pond clairvoyant @rumoursoflight]

@liyyabona13 13 devided by 1.4 = 9 = ts9 = evermore long pond studio sessions

[inez @illicitbrennan]

can they just agree on something???

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

But not for voting.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Apartheid states aren’t democracies.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide.

It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.

[Julia Edinger @julia_edinger]

https://t.co/x71SCjKWtH

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council.

It will be the size of Central Park.

And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

23 years ago today, American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza.

[Hanaa’ Tameez @HanaaTameez]

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: https://t.co/0JvCy6mvX2

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Today, I'm calling on the DNC to release the full 2024 autopsy report.

We need to deal with the hard truths about the genocide in Gaza.