Juliet Eilperin

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2/ And a two-decade slump in confidence in democracy continues one year after the deadly Capitol attack, the poll finds, with partisan divisions coloring nearly every view of Jan. 6. By @danbalz @sfcpoll and @emgusk — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Some sobering findings from a new Post-UMD poll: 1 in 3 Americans say violence against government can be justified, including 40 percent of Republicans, 41 percent of independents and 23 percent of Democrats. By @MerylKornfield and @marianaa_alfaro https://t.co/AMjIijoICE — PolitiTweet.org

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America's #pandemic paradox: we make biomedical breakthroughs but our health care delivery system is lousy. Vaccines, tests and antiviral pills don't matter, experts say, unless we can get shots in arms, swabs up noses and pills in mouths. @FrancesSSellers https://t.co/bgItArON2g — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JaneLubchenco46: 1/ We mourn the passing of 2 scientific pioneers & global champions of biodiversity, #EOWilson and Tom Lovejoy. See ou… — PolitiTweet.org

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Read this @kkOttesen @wpmagazine interview to learn what @GretaThunberg thinks #COP26 produced, how she views Biden ('If you call him a leader') and her strategy for playing Saudi Arabia in her school's mock climate talks ('I’m going to block everything.') https://t.co/wz4p9GcH4p — PolitiTweet.org

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'It was July 2003, and Richard Nugee, a British army officer, was baking inside the sweltering brick building that Saddam Hussein’s sons used as a smuggler’s hideout.' @michaelbirnbaum on the general out to defuse #climate as a national security threat: https://t.co/opjlqGOKbR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @yulsman: The new west under climate change: a rampaging winter wildfire. Record-setting warmth, long-term drought, and an historic wind… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahkaplan48: Follow my friend @samuelbrasch for close up reporting on the #MarshallFire as well as crucial context for how a blaze li… — PolitiTweet.org

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'Kerry, who drives a Tesla and nearly pulled away with its recharging device as he spoke to The Post by phone,' said he will push for better GhG emissions reports to the UN. “We have to be honest about it.” By @StevenMufson @brady_dennis @michaelbirnbaum https://t.co/cVQjAR2wVw — PolitiTweet.org

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I was hoping there would be no more weather disaster stories in 2021. But in a region that's been unusually dry this month, 'A wind-fueled grass fire in Colorado burned hundreds of homes in a matter of hours and forced thousands to quickly evacuate.' https://t.co/J7M4wmuNGs — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you! Given your dogged reporting on Alaska lands issues, that means a lot. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddiamond: “Its blue death mark might as well be a question mark: Is this tree worth more to us alive? Or dead?” A must-read detective… — PolitiTweet.org

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And if you want another tree story, check out this one: For Berlin Zoo animals, the tastiest Christmas leftovers are the trees. By @amymcheng https://t.co/oEfK47RhjH — PolitiTweet.org

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You just made my day, @jswatz — PolitiTweet.org

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As we enter the punishing fifth wave of #COVID19 hospitals face a new shortage just as they're filling up again: staff. @ddiamond provides this dispatch from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN: "Our absences are through the roof." https://t.co/j2YRuORyYl — PolitiTweet.org

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17/ And to appreciate the full extent of the tree, check out this minute and-a-half video @salwangeorges shot: https://t.co/eNcV5tsh7f (The regular-speed footage is twice as long.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anniegowen: On WaPo’s front page; A breaking point on the front line: respiratory therapist’s death by suicide spotlights growing menta… — PolitiTweet.org

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16/ Alaska is a wondrous state, which some Americans never get to visit. But even if you can't travel right now, plunge into this story, and it will give you a sense of what's out there, on our land, and why it matters. — PolitiTweet.org

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15/ This isn't the end of the story, since you'll be able to hear some of the voices of folks in the Tongass, as well as the sound of the forest itself, in a #PostReports episode produced by @EmmaTalkoff that's coming out soon. — PolitiTweet.org

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14/ Several in the timber industry and in AK, some of whom would rather not be named, shared their insights. Thanks to small sawmill operators and former loggers who recounted their experiences, like Keith Landers, Dick Wilson, Michael Kampnich and Don “Grizz” Nicholson. — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ @cwoodtrout has been talking to me about the Tongass for ages. @troutunlimited Austin Williams helped provide a sense of the terrain on the ground along with @southeast_ak_cc Meredith Trainor and Bob Claus, @alaskaseaplanes Dan Kirkwood, @MikeLeVine_AK and Lindsey Bloom. — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ I learned so much U.S. history by reporting this piece, from the Organized Village of Kasaan's Marina Anderson and Michael Jones, and @SHInstitute President Rosita Worl. If you don't know about how the U.S. Navy shelled the village of Angoon, read this https://t.co/Rs6h46mBOA — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ Several folks helped me understand the timber industry, like @ISER_UAA Professor Matthew Berman, Alaska Forest Association's Tessa Axelon, naturalist Richard Carstensen and James Mackovjack, whose book Tongass Timber is a great read: https://t.co/QR39oNWYlw — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ And a slew of scientists, naturalists and industry experts answered my pesky questions, at all hours, to make sure I got this right. @forestservice officials and scientists tromped through @TongassNF with Salwan and me. (We wore hard hats.) — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ I'm indebted to the generous and talented colleagues who helped transform these words and images into something magical: @TrishWbelli @olivierclaurent @garlandpotts @tierneyl @Julie_Vit @mg_callahan @stasiasayshey @rinehart_vince @krissah30 @chiquiesteban You all amaze me. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ To find out what happens to the Sitka spruce with the electric-blue slash on its trunk, marked for the chainsaw, you will have to read the piece. But it's worth it, given the hard work and collaboration that went into it. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ Washington politics has always played an outsize role in the Tongass. As sawmill operator Keith Landers put it, 'We change our underwear every four years.' But there's a growing push to move beyond this sort of policy whiplash. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ This might be the last @washingtonpost story I write for a while, since I'm now editing. I tried to make it count, by chronicling the life history of this spruce and the folks connected to it: a young Alaska Native leader, a sawmill operator and a logger-turned-fisherman. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Americans have fought for years over whether to cut down these ancient Alaskan trees. I've written about this dispute for more than a decade, but I've never seen them myself. So I went there to meet the people closest to the forest, and spend time in these groves. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ While a third of the carbon would remain locked in the wood, the rest would eventually escape in the atmosphere. The Tongass National Forest, as a whole, stores 9.9 billion tons of CO2, nearly twice what the U.S. emits each year by burning fossil fuels. — PolitiTweet.org