Julia Edinger

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

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.

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.

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.

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: thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jour…

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.

Corporate super PACs are trying to buy the 2026 elections. AIPAC: $96 million AI: $150 million Crypto: $193 million This is not democracy. It’s oligarchy. We must end Citizens United and establish public financing of elections.

The eyes of the world have turned away, but Gaza is still starving and the West Bank is still being annexed piece by piece in blatant violation of international law.

What is something you wish you had known when you started looking for an agent? #WritingCommunity #Querying

What's everyone reading right now? I just finished "Little Eyes" by Samanta Schweblin and I'm now reading "Tell Me an Ending" by Jo Harkin. #SFF #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity

Proceeds for this publishing industry auction will support mutual aid efforts in Minnesota: #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">32auctions.com/publishingforM…

The names of Palestinian babies (0-1) k!lled by Israel last year.

Arrest Jonathan Ross for murder!

I wrote my query letter, but the synopsis is intimidating! #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

What's something you wish knew before you started querying? #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

What was the best book you read in 2025? I can't stop thinking about The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami and Hum by Helen Phillips.

On #BiVisibility Day and every day you can support #bisexual people by:  ✔️Educating yourself.  ✔️Respecting their rights.  ✔️Actively listening.  ✔️Avoiding assumptions.  ✔️Reporting violence and discrimination.

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

"Shutting down this type of political speech ... would represent a serious threat to our freedoms and ability to hold those in power accountable." - Brendan Carr

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here: sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/it-is-g…

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S. 404media.co/doj-deletes-st…