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Alex Contreras 🍉
@contrerasforca
I am that bitch who killed a freeway expansion. co-founder of @happycityco. Trans rights are human rights. Greenliners United. Tweets are my own. they/them.
Oakland, CA
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
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    Sep 23, 2020
    LA Metro plans to widen the 605/5 interchange. If this moves forward it would destroy my parent's home, my old elementary school, & two parks to widen the freeway. Email [email protected] or call 213.922.4091 & ask them to go with Alternative 1, the No Project Alternative
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Aug 26, 2024
    I am telling you, the number of men I've met in swing states who believe it is their right as husbands to dictate how their wives vote was way to damn high.
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    Ida 🇵🇸
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    Aug 23, 2024
    Divorce
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Jun 15, 2022
    I don't ever want to hear from a single "progressive" how we need more cars and no one uses bike infrastructure. The City of LA just outlawed owning bicycles for our homeless neighbors. Bike infrastructure connects everyone regardless of income, you know what doesn't? A freeway.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Apr 14, 2024
    As tax day approaches, I'm reminded most Americans don't like paying taxes because the benefits we see from our taxes are mediocre. Car-dependent infrastructure, urban sprawl, no guaranteed healthcare, little social safety net, Turbo Tax keeping the process complicated...
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Jul 9, 2022
    Therapy is not enough, I need to fight Robert Moses.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
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    Mar 11, 2022
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Apr 20, 2021
    LAPD is already declaring their intent to escalate, attack, and brutalize people in wake of a guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin. The system is working as intended. Abolish the police.
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    LAPD HQ
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    Apr 20, 2021
    In an abundance of caution the Los Angeles Police Department has called a tactical alert. There are no current unlawful assemblies and the department is proactively taking initiative to ensure adequate resources to respond to any situation should the need arise.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    May 8, 2022
    I absolutely love corner stores in the middle of residential neighborhoods
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Sep 18, 2024
    Green gentrification is not real, you're describing amenities that all neighborhoods deserve to have.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
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    Jul 23, 2021
    I would like to bike more but I also don't want to die.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Mar 8, 2024
    Saw a video today in which a man filmed himself saying people who call themselves expats are just immigrants and migrant workers. I have never seen people more mad in his comments.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Aug 30, 2022
    Housing policy is transit policy is climate policy
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Sep 29, 2023
    Therapist said that biking is inherently dangerous after I shared how biking is now becoming a source of anxiety for me - then followed up with she can't treat me. Still reeling from that conversation. Because that is the biggest case of car brain I have ever experienced.
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    Alex Contreras 🍉
    @contrerasforca
    Oct 27, 2022
    Housing cannot be a human right if we treat it as a financial investment. It's one or the other.