Gail ☮️🌻 ♎️🌴🐶🌇🌳🚲🌼
@GailFriedt
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Feminist, Member @VibrantUptown, retired Navy Captain, nurse, YIMBY boomer 🌇, 🚲,🌻nature and dog lover, difficult woman.Views are my own. ☀️she/her/hers.
San Diego, CA
Joined October 2011
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Building Industry Association names Aimee Faucett CEO—longtime Mayor Faulconer aide. She vows to counter anti-housing campaigns and be "unapologetic." Good. San Diego needs fierce advocates willing to call out NIMBYism for what it is. https://t.co/V0gAvOIUBP
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The least efficient mode (cars) gets the most space dedicated to it on U.S. streets.
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CA's SB 79 allows apartments near transit, finally unwinding decades of exclusionary zoning. Climate win: less driving, lower emissions. Housing win: more supply near jobs. Critics worry about local control, but cities had their chance. https://t.co/QDq13TtkAi
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SB 79 overrides local zoning to allow apartment buildings near transit.
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🚨NEW: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has rejected the Trump Administration’s offer of federal funding in exchange for aligning with Trump’s agenda. This is the first university to do so. RETWEET to thank MIT President Sally Kornbluth for standing up to Trump!
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“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.” THIS is how you do it. https://t.co/XvIE5C61pz
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To summarize: Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize? Nobel Chair: the award only goes to people of courage and integrity. *mic drop* 🫳🎤
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wow, americans in the southeast of the US have a 20 year shorter life expectancy than those elsewhere wtf is going on?
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The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on. So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.
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What if we gave teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k in student loan forgiveness. You know, the same as ICE gets.
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A message from a Kindergarten teacher: After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s
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🧵 Thursday, San Diego Planning Commission decides whether SDSU staff, UCSD Health nurses, and students can live near two trolley stations—or if we keep forcing them to drive from East County. Let's dive into learn about the College Area Plan 1/9
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The Chollas Valley Community Planning Group denied a conditional use permit on Monday for land an existing cemetery already owns because the CPG thinks that's where "True Affordable Housing" should be built (midst offramps and tombstones) This is why local control does not work.
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Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, land-use sprawl, too many cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
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I genuinely don’t believe humans were meant to live in environments like this:
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The American car owner is held captive to a single mobility option, and then becomes conditioned to see their situation as necessary for their well-being. 😣
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