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Troy Heerwagen
@TroyHeerwagen
Professional consultant and author of Move to the Place of Your dreams: A Relocation Handbook. I care about cities and I like to walk, hike, and bike.
Seattle, WAtroyh.usJoined May 2009
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Alec Karakatsanis
@equalityAlec
This is an important article. It highlights core police propaganda: contrary to what SF elites say, most violent crime is not random stranger violence. Very little of it comes from unhoused people they scapegoat. And, violence is near historic lows in SF.
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Sources: Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — slain tech exec, alleged killer purportedly knew...
Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, Mission Local is told that San Francisco police...
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Robert Cruickshank
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This whole thread is critically important, especially this point. One of the most effective and important tools to stop gentrification and displacement is to upzone wealthy white single family neighborhoods.
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Welcoming Neighbors Network 🏗🏘👋
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So, if a city/metro has jobs & amenities and any part of it has explicit or implicit bans on new housing, it will trigger a gentrification cycle in that city/metro. You can't even rent control your way out of it, because affluent incomers will just buy the houses. (6/x)
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lauren
@NotABigJerk
the turbotax ad campaign where they're like "think of all the stuff you could be doing instead of your taxes" just reminds me they lobbied to make sure the government couldn't just do our taxes for us
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Conrad Hackett
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Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy. Source: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9
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So, with yet another social media platform being run by a megalomaniac who has his sights set on undermining democracy, maybe now's finally the time for Google+ to shine.
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@TroyHeerwagen
While there’s lots of blame to go around, Republicans have stood in the way of additional funding for COVID response and for health care in general, making it harder for people to get the protection they need, ultimately leading to more sickness and death. Please vote! 8/8
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Eventually, we will find a way to get our shots. But people who aren’t as motivated or who have fewer resources are less likely to persevere to get their COVID booster making them more likely to get infected and have longer-term or more significant health consequences. 7/8
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So, we looked online at our Primary Care Provider, which had plenty of appts. My wife called to confirm that the shots would be the bivalent boosters and found out that they only have the old boosters! They don’t know when they’ll get the new bivalent COVID boosters. 6/8
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That’s right, even though every other COVID shot for kids includes 5-year-olds, for some reason Moderna’s bivalent booster doesn’t. So, we are limited to just the Pfizer booster, which is not available at the vaccine clinic in the neighborhood. 5/8
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Then, we tried the state’s PrepMod site, which we used for previous COVID shots. Great news: there’s a vaccine clinic in our neighborhood next week! Bad news: The bivalent booster they have is Moderna’s, which is only for kids 6-12, and our son is 5. 4/8
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