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(((Matthew Lewis)))
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I’m not gonna defend DiFi but I’ve been livid for 3 years that Bernie came to my town to endorse a bunch of NIMBYs who are making climate change worse by blocking infill housingand building parking lots.

Can we all rail against Bernie for that for a week or nah
Hey @_waleedshahid can you come make a video of Bernie’s pals defending downtown parking spots, railing against apartments above trains because they’re “too tall” and cancelling rapid bus projects, I can edit it for you

because, you know, climate change
i’m totally down for this whole accountability thing for elected officials not being aggressive enough on climate, truly I am

so, kids, come on down to city hall in Berkeley or New York or LA or Seattle or Chicago or really any US city and give the Mayors a piece of your mind
Because Feinstein might be middling/meh-ish on climate but truth be told, she doesn’t control much in the way of carbon emissions.

But your city council? Well, they hold the keys to the biggest part of the climate puzzle.

Go get ‘em.
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(((Matthew Lewis)))
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My Green New Deal:

- $3T over 10 years ($300B/year) for mass transit
- Fed loan subsidies for housing near transit
- Ban gas cars by 2030
- 100% clean energy standard by 2035
- certify CLT for structural uses/ban cement
- border carbon adjustments/Buy Clean procurement standards
And you can pick off high-carbon Brazilian beef, Indonesian palm, and Chinese/Indian steel in the border adjustments. Done.
"What's Buy Clean?" So glad you asked, it's a project I've been working on for several years: buyclean.org
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(((Matthew Lewis)))
@mateosfo
A couple weeks back I tweeted that the earth shook on housing policy. It was because of this - AARP has just signed on as a supporter of the #MoreHOMES Act, SB 50. I have a short thread on why I'm so psyched about this - and why I think it's a big deal.
For quite awhile now, there's been a measurable trend of older Americans moving back into city centers to enjoy urban life - the services, the entertainment, the walkability. It's a smart move for many reasons, one big one being:

Suburban isolation accelerates health problems.
The science on this is unequivocal: People who have more social interactions live longer and have fewer health problems later in life than people who live in isolation and have to travel far to have social interactions.

Science!
aginglifecarejournal.org/health-effects…
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(((Matthew Lewis)))
@mateosfo
It's been four days since Associated Press falsely reported that Gavin cancelled high-speed rail. National media, and DC political media in particular, have had a field day dunking on California and spreading propaganda that in America, only cars infrastructure works; not trains.
It's true that AP's lie made it around the world before the truth got its pants on. But let's define "the world" a little bit.

California's political press - which I consider to be best-in-class - got the story *totally right.* We've been reading about the nuances all week.
This is a @jayrosen_nyu -level example of when the cult of the savvy meets fake news. National political reporters didn't bother to check with their colleagues in Sacramento to find out if AP's story was accurate. They just ran with it.

Whose job is it to go back and fix this?
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