she/her, War on Cars, BLM, ESOL instructor, mother, feminist, Jewess, bike rider, transit user, pedestrian, music lover, letter writer, library super-user
I'm in Oregon virtually attending a @MomsDemand training about effective using Twitter for advocacy. JOIN ME! Text READY to 644-33 to join the movement to #EndGunViolence and start making your voice heard today!
Today at Almaty railway station, Kazakhstan. Tanks that are spotted are heading west towards Russia. Kazakhstan is looking more towards the west and is rather unfriendly towards Russia when it comes to the war.
This is what solidarity looks like!🌟New School students occupy the University Center “until the administration resumes pay, full health-care protection, and retirement benefits to all striking employees and a fair contract is reached with part-time faculty.”🌟
There is no natural law that democracy can’t be brought down by ridiculous people and trolls. Some of history’s most successful authoritarians were considered goons and buffoons by their contemporaries - until they became goons and buffoons in power.
The 81 schoolgirls from Nhamaphaza Secondary School in Maringue are celebrating with happiness. With SEJE's bicycles, they are now able to go to school regularly and safely.
#Mozambikes#SEJE#EuSouCapaz
I think most Americans underestimate just how much better their life would be if they could get around easily without their car. It improves your physical and mental health, your sense of community, your finances, the time you have in the day. Life changing tbh.
@myrabatchelder It took a law to put seatbelts in cars. Then ANOTHER law to make people wear them. We have seatbelts because they were required, not recommended.
"Cynicism is an excuse for inaction." (@shannonrwatts talking to @nicolewallace)
Thought this a damn good statement. There is NO excuse. If you are with Democracy and our nation, you must vote. The Parties ARE different and who wins makes a BIG difference
#WarnockForGeorgia
The Colorado Springs mass shooting is a tragic reminder that homophobic and transphobic rhetoric coupled with weak gun laws enable terrorist attacks on the LGBTQ+ community. 10,300 hate crimes involve a gun each year, 20% of which target LGBTQ+ people. https://t.co/h8N0tPHFwL
A memorial to the 20 first-graders and six educators shot and killed at Sandy Hook School in 2012 opened to the public Sunday, a month before the 10th commemoration of the mass shooting.
https://t.co/YEziFpIfFW
Driving is like smoking in the 70s. It’s not possible to go anywhere without constant exposure to visual clutter, degraded cities, noise and air pollution and risk of blunt force trauma. It should be possible to go weeks, even months without any meaningful interaction w/ a car.