Janet Lawrence
@jmolawre.bsky.social
Never stop moving—you won’t start up again. Spouse. Parent to three young adults.
My duel with Stage 4 cancer will end in a draw, not a loss.
Plant for Pollinators🐝🐛🌻🌾🌎
Visit Chicago!🌇🌃
My duel with Stage 4 cancer will end in a draw, not a loss.
Plant for Pollinators🐝🐛🌻🌾🌎
Visit Chicago!🌇🌃
Coffee with Santa. Now we just need some snow for his sleigh here in Chicagoland! 🎅❄️🦌🛷
December 15, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Coffee with Santa. Now we just need some snow for his sleigh here in Chicagoland! 🎅❄️🦌🛷
Masterfully written and detailed piece. Also damn scary: 🧲
Pub day for this, ahem, perhaps controversial piece my pal @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social & I wrote for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Between us we have about 37 yrs covering the Right. We're seeing something new we think must be addressed, fascism's tractor beam.
inthesetimes.com/article/form...
inthesetimes.com/article/form...
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
inthesetimes.com
December 12, 2023 at 6:51 PM
Masterfully written and detailed piece. Also damn scary: 🧲
This seems to tie in with @radiofreetom.bsky.social latest piece about presidential superheroism in @theatlantic.bsky.social
December 12, 2023 at 6:31 PM
This seems to tie in with @radiofreetom.bsky.social latest piece about presidential superheroism in @theatlantic.bsky.social
Keep your kitties indoors!
Free-ranging domestic cats, including feral ones, eat more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, a new study found. The research — which included surprise species like camels, cows and sea turtles — has raised concerns about the ecological fallout.
What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think.
Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Keep your kitties indoors!
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How much of culture war is Ivy League grads carrying on their intramural fights from school, or the sort of person who wanted to get in but didn't still being bitter about it, generating outsized attention for their pet peeves because they hold prominent positions in govt and media?
Looks like a lot
Looks like a lot
I'm a professor at an Ivy League institution and I think about Ivy League institutions about a tenth as much as the editors of major media outlets do.
I'm begging you, for the love of God:
Touch grass. Somewhere *other* than Harvard Yard.
I'm begging you, for the love of God:
Touch grass. Somewhere *other* than Harvard Yard.
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Caring About What's Happening in the Ivy League
December 11, 2023 at 2:52 PM
How much of culture war is Ivy League grads carrying on their intramural fights from school, or the sort of person who wanted to get in but didn't still being bitter about it, generating outsized attention for their pet peeves because they hold prominent positions in govt and media?
Looks like a lot
Looks like a lot
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YES. Adding, as a happy dog-owner most of my life: your dog really does *not* want to attend parades, fireworks displays, farmer's markets, street fairs, craft shows, etc. They don’t care. Leave ‘em home and comfy.
one of my genuinely unpopular opinions is that you should not be able to bring your dogs into most indoor public spaces and that you also should be prohibited from tying them up outside
November 27, 2023 at 6:10 PM
YES. Adding, as a happy dog-owner most of my life: your dog really does *not* want to attend parades, fireworks displays, farmer's markets, street fairs, craft shows, etc. They don’t care. Leave ‘em home and comfy.
Illinois prairie, dusk. Opted outside.
November 24, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Illinois prairie, dusk. Opted outside.
My god in heaven yes. ⬇️
i don’t know if there is anything i give less of a shit about than sam altman (the fuck is a sam altman anyway?) and yet the news seems obsessed with everh twist and turn in his employment saga
November 21, 2023 at 3:41 PM
My god in heaven yes. ⬇️
Folks, get your Covid booster update.
anyway, hysterically exaggerating the actual risk of Covid and claiming that anyone who disagrees with you is basically a mass murderer does not do disabled people any favors in my view. I'd say prominent people ought to be instead recommending the updated booster, as uptake is just 14 percent
About 36M American adults have received the updated COVID vaccine: CDC
Newly released survey data from the CDC shows 36 million American adults, about 13.9% of the U.S. adult population, has received the updated COVID vaccine.
abcnews.go.com
November 15, 2023 at 5:52 PM
Folks, get your Covid booster update.
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"With malice toward none with charity for all."
-Lincoln
"A shining city upon a hill... teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace."
-Reagan
"We will root out... the thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."
-Trump
-Lincoln
"A shining city upon a hill... teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace."
-Reagan
"We will root out... the thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."
-Trump
November 15, 2023 at 12:53 PM
"With malice toward none with charity for all."
-Lincoln
"A shining city upon a hill... teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace."
-Reagan
"We will root out... the thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."
-Trump
-Lincoln
"A shining city upon a hill... teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace."
-Reagan
"We will root out... the thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."
-Trump
Golden Hour at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL
November 14, 2023 at 2:14 PM
Golden Hour at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL
Sometimes the best fall color is just outside your window.
November 11, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Sometimes the best fall color is just outside your window.
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first they’re coming for immigrants, but they won’t be the last people in these camps www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...
Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans
If he regains power, Donald Trump wants not only to revive some of the immigration policies criticized as draconian during his presidency, but expand and toughen them.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2023 at 12:37 PM
first they’re coming for immigrants, but they won’t be the last people in these camps www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...
Golden Hour at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.
November 8, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Golden Hour at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.
Late October in Illinois. Grey skies, fungi, and grandpup in autumnal camouflage.
October 27, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Late October in Illinois. Grey skies, fungi, and grandpup in autumnal camouflage.
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How to help migrants in Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/13/h...
How To Help Migrants In Chicago As Winter Approaches
Block Club compiled several ways Chicagoans can help support newly arrived migrants, especially as the pace of arrivals increases and the temperature drops.
blockclubchicago.org
October 13, 2023 at 1:34 PM
How to help migrants in Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2023/10/13/h...
Illinois October sunset.
October 13, 2023 at 3:02 AM
Illinois October sunset.
My noble grand-pup😆🐶
October 10, 2023 at 7:17 PM
My noble grand-pup😆🐶
Early October on the Illinois prairie.
October 5, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Early October on the Illinois prairie.
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At least 125 Amazon river dolphin carcasses have been found after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 39.1 degrees Celsius. One expert described the high temperature, the only known cause of their death, as a “soup.”
A Lake Turned to a Hot ‘Soup.’ Then the River Dolphins Died.
The carcasses of at least 125 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating or beached after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached a staggering 39.1 degrees Celsius.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2023 at 3:23 PM
At least 125 Amazon river dolphin carcasses have been found after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 39.1 degrees Celsius. One expert described the high temperature, the only known cause of their death, as a “soup.”
Houseguest ‘grand-pup’. Adopt Don’t Shop.
October 4, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Houseguest ‘grand-pup’. Adopt Don’t Shop.
The geese are starting to head south.
September 30, 2023 at 5:01 AM
The geese are starting to head south.