Jennifer (Jenn) Weaver

You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

Fatalities in the congestion relief zone are down 40% from this time last year. Zero motorists were killed in the zone.

That's right: since the January 5 launch of congestion pricing, not a single driver, passenger, moped rider, or motorcyclist has died in a crash in the zone.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

We all matter or none of us matter. This is bullshit.

It’s a hell of a time to be a human with a heart and mind and soul all linked together just generally speaking (same as it ever was, I suppose) but have mercy it’s a hell of a time to have a kid starting freshman year in college next week.

I am reading a lot about Ed tech and AI this month, to get caught up.

And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.

Right.

This is a something all of us took for granted before, but all of us need to take seriously now.

On this day 60 years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, enforcing the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and seeking to prevent racial discrimination in voting.🧵

Just absolute garbage from the NYT. It takes a really special kind of person to ignore a mountain of evidence and look at one RCT exploring a specific causal finding, and then say that because we didn't see certain brainwave activity at age 4 that $333/mo for every kid would not help the poor.

Breaking: The court just ruled that FEMA can’t spend NC’s $200m in disaster preparedness money elsewhere while our lawsuit against them plays out.

FEMA broke the law when it cut these funds for our water and sewer systems. We’re going to keep fighting to make sure this funding is restored.

It's staggering how comfortable Trump is being this racist on national TV. Because he knows at this point there's just no cost for doing so. His supporters knew who he was and this is what they voted for.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

When does the next bus come? GoTriangle reduces wait time on its busiest routes The regional agency joins GoDurham and GoRaleigh in offering bus service at 15-minute intervals between Durham and Chapel Hill.

Raleigh increased bus service from every 30 min to every 15 min on its route serving Glenwood Ave. Ridership then doubled in the year that followed.

Over last year, city’s high-frequency routes have had 89% ridership growth.

People will ride when you give them service that they can rely on!

Official US economic statistics are no longer reliable and community efforts will be needed to replace them. Reply “YES” to this post if you have a job and “NO” if you don’t. Later on someone can count them.

all i want are televised congressional hearings forcing every doge chud to confront their role in killing hundreds of thousands of people

Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.

Not good!
"Duke Energy can now backslide on its legally mandated carbon emissions reductions, offload a greater share of fuel costs to residential customers and charge ratepayers for financing costs of planned new power plants even if they’re never built."

It's Heritage *and* hate

Okay let me avoid my deadlines by making a thread of the recommendations you all made to this verbal hiccup I made this morning:

Back in 2023, a farmworker named José Arturo Gonzalez Mendoza died while working on the massive farm estate owned by Republican State Senator Lisa Barnes.

What happened next should shock the conscience.
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It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

Thread. Never would have imagined such a heartless approach, rather attack, on homelessness and all the by now proven strategies for ending it. This EO breaks the hearts of so many both experiencing homelessness and spending their careers to combat it.

This week, Republican leaders in the North Carolina state legislature will attempt to override Governor @joshsteinnc.bsky.social's veto of the big corporate lobby's biggest policy priority of the year - and most people haven't heard anything about it.

Welcome to the REINS Act.

In the past 3 weeks, how many hours did state and district leaders spend frantically re-arranging budgets, contracts, and staffing plans to address the budget uncertainty? Did that improve student outcomes?

What a ridiculous waste of scarce resources.

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

I never want to hear that expensive climate change mitigation is too expensive. Look at the exponential growth in climate related disaster costs

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

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A reminder as the federal government sunsets LGBTQ+ services on the 988 helpline that @thetrevorproject.bsky.social is still here, and still critically important. #mentalhealth #helpline #trevorproject

Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.