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Kathy Cunningham, PhD

@ksocial-024.bsky.social

Bioscience. Data. Bike, pedestrian and mobility advocacy. Pro-environment. Pro-equity, diversity, and civil rights. Anti-disinformation. Anti-corruption.

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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is REALLY important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature/green in cities isn’t the density of buildings or the density of people — it's the density of cars. And the better designed your density of people and buildings is, the fewer cars you need or want.

High density mixed-use neighbourhood in downtown Vancouver with FIVE rows of street trees creating “kissing canopies.“
Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far

The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

bloomberg.com

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

NPR@npr.org · 7mo ago

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

n.pr

ProPublica@propublica.org · 7mo ago

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. (Published 2023)

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...

propublica.org

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 7mo ago

Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.” But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

propublica.org

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 7mo ago

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Thomas Leeper@thosjleeper.bsky.social · 8mo ago

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.