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My old friends, new friends, and strangers, I urge you to move on to the free Internet, and protect your emotional well-being from the capricious child king. Find my new home in my bio. Be brave and see you on the other side.
You will survive if you band together with your trusted coworkers, family, and friends. You are not alone. Tell us what you need. We will get through this together.
3. Stay calm and carry on. Don’t comply without question, don’t fold over in advance. Find small routines that anchor you and make you feel in control, even just for a few moments each day.
2. Record things, safely. Take notes. Take voice memos. Take pictures of your screen, emails, or documents using your own device and stash them away in a safe location. They may or may not matter in the end, but if they do, once you lose access there’s no way to ever get it.
1. Take care of each other. Use Signal or other secure chats to build trusted groups and talk to each other. Exchange info, check in on the vulnerable, offer help. An event like this is extremely emotionally taxing, and it’s much worse when you end up facing it alone.
“Fork In the Road”—As someone who went through an eerily similar episode of hostile takeover that also played out in public in real time, I want to tell all the fed workers, “I’m so sorry this is happening to you, I know how this feels.” And here are some of my learnings:
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Preventing a fascist takeover of the US is my top priority--as a journalist, as a voter, as a human. If it isn't yours too, you should feel bad about yourself. If you haven't made the stakes of this election clear to everyone within the sound of your voice, you should feel bad.
For @LondonBreed and others who say police enforcement is the key to ensure pedestrian & cyclist safety—we just saw an SFPD SUV making an illegal left turn from Mission station on Valencia on to 18th St, while cutting off through traffic. So *they* will enforce traffic laws?
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Streetlights and signs are the bulletproof backpacks of road safety. He is unwilling to inconvenience a single driver. This man is not remotely serious about preventing the next tragedy and it is just as certain is the next school shooting.
OPINION: “I’ve heard directly from residents who had raised safety concerns about the very intersection where the recent West Portal tragedy occurred, asking for streetlights and clearer pedestrian markers.”
— Mayoral candidate @MarkFarrellSF sfstandard.com/2024/03/21/fa…
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i’m pissed off that something as simple as a bollard does not get s mention in this article sfchronicle.com/crime/articl…
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“A family did what our city needs people to do in order to address our roadway safety crisis and climate crisis: Sold their car and took public transit.
They were living up to the policies the City and Mayor Breed claim to prioritize: Transit-First, Vision Zero, Climate Action.”
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It’s important @LondonBreed @sfbos and @SFMTA_Muni understand these deaths are the inevitable result of the choice to prioritize motorist convenience (and property) over human lives. Offering thoughts and prayers without pouring cement is identical to R cowardice on gun control.
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Please sign the petition to close the intersection of West Portal Avenue and Ulloa Street to car traffic: actionnetwork.org/letters/we…
This tragedy was preventable, including by closing the intersection to cars, and closing it to cars will also improve the speed/reliability of Muni.
What if, the reckless driving that ended on the sidewalk in front of the library, instead ended at the West Portal station, a mere 50ft or so away, as people were leaving the platform? Chilling to think it could still be worse. *That*, is a traffic engineering problem.
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If SF is unwilling to do whatever it takes to prevent the killing of families waiting for the bus, how can we criticize those that resist gun control and only offer thoughts and prayers as consolation?
We could end pedestrian deaths if we were serious.
missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-…
Someone from @SFMTA_Muni told me they really read every message directed at them. I believe them. So here is my question, “are you really listening, or are you patiently waiting for the mighty car culture to be finally outweighed by the bodies that keep falling in our streets?”
Look at this view from across the bus stop—site of the crash. The hills, the station, the trains. Don’t you think it’s a beautiful location for a plaza for all people?
Then look at the transit map—isn’t it too useful a transit hub to be constantly interrupted by cars?
SF grieves. We also need action, action to prevent the next tragedy—both here at West Portal, and also all over the city.
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Ideally SFMTA would close Ulloa in front of West Portal station, and make it westbound only at Lenox. The first block of W. Portal Ave should be pedestrianized, and the current parking and street used to create a park/promenade. Make it a jewel of the Westside.
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Did you know Paris has a 5-Year Pedestrian Plan?
- 300 million € to be invested by 2026
- 100 new hectares of pedestrian space
- 100 more “streets for kids”
- New focus on 0 pedestrian deaths #VisionZero
- Longer pedestrian cross times geared to seniors
Does YOUR city have one?
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In a move that could be a model for other communities, L.A. voters approved a measure that will require the city to implement the pedestrian, bus, and bike improvements in its mobility plan whenever it repaves a street. 🎉 @StreetsblogLA has more.
la.streetsblog.org/2024/03/0…