Zuri

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Transportation Housing Civil Rights Healthcare

Would love a fully multimodal, housed Colorado Springs.

I cannot spell/proofread.

Follow on Instagram @CSCarsKill highlighting El Paso County, CO's state leading traffic fatalities (sadly) and @BeautifulColoradoSprings highlighting ways we can fix our roads and honor Colorado Springs' beauty.

They/Them, probably somewhere on the spectrum

#ActuallyAutistic #Politics #Journalism #Urbanism #CityPlanning #Transportation #HumanRights #GunControl

ZuriSep 30, 2023

"He Said He Was Falsely Accused of Sexual Harassment. Now This Ex-Republican Official Allegedly Dismembered His Fiancée"

#politics #murder

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/29/san-francisco-elected-republican-official-arrested-dismembered-body/

Ex-SF Republican Official Allegedly Dismembered Fiancee

Joseph C. Roberts, once a local party delegate, faces a murder charge.

The San Francisco Standard
Show threadZuriJul 16, 2023
@carnage4life You would have to trust that twitter will last a year and can safely take payments.
Show threadZuriJul 8, 2023
@benhaube @brett @mekkaokereke There's a lot we can do to fix it...apparently Bogota has been doing a good job transitioning from being car centered to being people centered in his planning: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/friday-fun-bogot-colombia-celebrates-its-15th-annual-car-free-day/1044326/
Bogotá, Colombia Celebrates its 15th Annual Car-Free Day | Smart Cities Dive

Smart Cities

Show threadZuriJul 8, 2023

@brett @mekkaokereke Streets are wide, fast, and straight which teaches people to drive through neighborhoods instead of being aware and interacting with them. And big clumsy vehicles with huge blindspots don't help.

I get little spicy about calling drivers "assholes" because we shove a lot of systemic issues onto personal responsibility. The system is bad and we can fix it but just hoping drivers will change through more enforcement isnt the answer.

Show threadZuriJul 8, 2023
@brett @mekkaokereke We design streets to prioritize cars first over every other mode of transit which makes drivers assholes. The burden of safety is on every other mode of transit. When a car sees a pedestrian at a signal they know they dont have to pay attention to the pedestrian because the pedestrian has to wait an entire light cycle to cross. They know if they see a pedestrian they have a right to hit them if they "jaywalk," they know that a bike lane is just ill defined paint.
ZuriJul 3, 2023

The idea that something can't win because it's bad is a useless argument.

History has proven time and time again that dumb bad things win all the time.

Fighting for policy and basic human rights is the best way to proactively address bad stuff.

Doesn't mean we'll win because our moral argument is better but because there was energy & strategy to stop terrible stuff.

And it still doesnt mean we have the power to change anything.

#uspolitics

Show threadZuriApr 25, 2023
@QasimRashid An exact replica of our County Commissioner meeting when one of them proposed not putting money towards feeding hungry families and instead wanted to put 1.5 million to programs that would stop out of wedlock pregnancies and two parent (heterosexual) households.
ZuriApr 24, 2023

"Kyrsten Sinema spent more than $100K in campaign cash on jets, limos, luxury hotels and wine"

"In August, Sinema squashed a challenge to the “carried-interest” loophole that taxes private equity and hedge fund profits at a lower rate than other businesses. The move benefits only a handful of private-equity and hedge fund titans — most of whom are in New York and LA not Arizona which Sinema is supposed to represent. "
#USpolitics
https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/kyrsten-sinema-spent-more-than-100k-on-jets-limos-luxury-hotels-and-wine/

Kyrsten Sinema spent more than $100K in campaign cash on jets, limos, luxury hotels and wine

Last month, On The Money reported Sinema’s campaign is being hounded by angry Democratic donors who want their money back.

New York Post
ZuriApr 16, 2023
Hey if you're posting about #News #USPolitics #USpol #USNews please link back to an original article so we can verify what you're posting.
ZuriApr 14, 2023

“The next weeks and months are going to tell us an awful lot about what happens when women who have been insulted and ignored repeatedly by the courts rise up to organize and vote, only to learn they are being boxed out of the voting booth as well.”

@Dahlialith #abortion #choice #freedom #rage #deepseethingrage

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/mifepristone-case-rulings-explained-women.html

Exploiting the “Between a Woman and Her Doctor” Loophole

Judge Kacsmaryk and the Fifth Circuit are simply cutting women out of the decision-making.

Slate