Raynell Cooper @rayyyynell Twitter profile

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Raynell Cooper

@rayyyynell

1 year

@DanAmira You missed him:

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4 months

crazy quick turnaround on this yard sign, DC suburbs are just built different

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San Francisco makes up for being a middling-to-bad pizza city by being an absolute God-tier sandwich city.

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according to wikipedia, we know exactly one thing that will happen in the year 2029

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I only worked briefly in journalism but I know I would have been torn a new one if I tried to tell a one-sided story like this one. The bus lane citations are there for a reason! Talk to the passengers!

Homa Bash

@HomaBashNews

2 months

Have you been hit with a $100 bus-camera ticket in D.C. recently? More than 145,000 citations issued over the last 9 months.. totaling nearly $15 million in fines. Maryland drivers lead the way, then DC, VA, and all over. Here's what some drivers we spoke with had to say:

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@rayyyynell

5 years

i did it, i found the subdivision with the worst street name theme

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3 years

Lmao my airpods case fell out of my pocket at the beach and all of the iron (?) in the sand stuck to the magnetic parts

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@rayyyynell

2 years

“those who can afford a bicycle” is such a bizarre phrase when discussing bikes and cars — even the most expensive bikes are cheaper than almost all used cars, to say nothing of insurance, maintenance, gas, etc.

SF Examiner

@sfexaminer

2 years

This ballot measure would go beyond reversing car-free JFK by undoing the car bans along stretches of Martin Luther King Drive and Bernice Rogers Way that together form a bike and pedestrian spine along the length of Golden Gate Park.

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@rayyyynell

11 months

new google maps UI is cartographically disappointing! major local roads and limited-access highways (freeways) are basically indistinguishable.

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@rayyyynell

7 years

Probably the only one on my TL watching the CMA’s (on after Jeopardy!) and Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood did a fun little anti-Trump diddy. Sorta surprised given the venue.

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Raynell Cooper

@rayyyynell

4 years

@zachheltzel @Dave_Horwitz INT: NYC condo, night WILL MCAVOY, who just moderated the first 2020 presidential debate, wakes up in the middle of the night with a dry cough. he checks his phone, stares at it, and immediately throws it against the wall

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4 years

I love being a transportation planner but it's really unfortunate how many people in our profession are sociopaths who want to do things like demolish homes to widen a freeway in 2020.

Alfred Twu

@alfred_twu

4 years

@aceckhouse Finally found the maps for the I-605 widening, and yikes that's a lot of homes being demolished in Downey.

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@HomaBashNews why didn’t you interview bus riders?

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4 years

@elonmusk @KenJennings man imagine being a billionaire during a pandemic and choosing to pick on a game show champion at 3:39 AM

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5 years

@CMikeWhitfield @PatMcAfeeShow how could you have been fooled, he has white sleeves on

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3 years

I don't really get why applying a vacancy tax to single-family homes and duplexes is supposedly politically unpopular. People hate living near vacant houses!

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4 years

Amy Schumer was born to be a mayonnaise spokesperson

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2 years

he's a zero but he can teach you how to dig holes in the desert

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1 year

What are some surreal and unexpected ways in which climate change has affected your life? For me today it’s “visitor center in Death Valley closed due to hurricane”

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5 years

at the grocery store instead of just an “international foods” section there should be an “intranational foods” section with like scrapple and cincinnati chili and that ice cream that people from texas like

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3 years

In celebration of my appointment last month to SF's Redistricting Task Force, over the next several weeks I'm going to walk all 48 miles of Supervisor district boundaries in San Francisco! #RaynellWalksTheLines

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2 years

@alfred_twu The urbanist / college football fan overlap is so incredibly tiny so I’m loving how many brains this is breaking

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1 year

Really hoping Gavin Newsom chooses chaos for his replacement appointment. Alyssa Milano, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nancy Pelosi, himself, etc. So many good options.

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8 months

hot take: spending $100,000,000+ on parking infrastructure is not the best way to make a city car-light

Joe Cohen

@CohenSite

8 months

My most controversial urbanism opinion: The City of Los Angeles should be building dozens of municipal parking garages throughout the city. They are necessary to make the transition to a car-light LA possible.

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4 years

@GregLidrbauch Clancy’s, Ted’s, Palm City Wines, Hummus Bodega, Estela’s, Submarine Center, Saigon Sandwich, Irving Subs, and Lucinda’s are all v good

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Raynell Cooper

@rayyyynell

4 months

could write a whole dissertation on the word "keep" in this tweet

Aaron Peskin

@AaronPeskin

4 months

"No one has fought harder for tenants than Aaron Peskin. Throughout his career, he has championed renters' rights and is the best choice to keep San Francisco affordable, family-friendly, and pro-renter" Grateful to earn the endorsement of the San Francisco Tenants Union!

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Raynell Cooper

@rayyyynell

3 years

A letter from Redistricting Task Force Member Chasel Lee, Vice-Chair Ditka Reiner, and myself regarding the San Francisco Elections Commission hearing tomorrow:

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@rayyyynell

11 months

If this Noah Kahan song had come out while I was in urban planning grad school I 100% would have used as a paper title.

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7 months

accidentally have my browser set to always translate spanish, creating a onfusing yet informational list of california counties

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3 years

Really says a lot that ski routes are more prominent that bus routes on Google Maps.

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3 years

extremely funny that the Panhandle is essentially a freeway median and yet it would be the best park in 95% of American cities

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@rayyyynell

4 years

Extremely funny that Steve Kornacki was (as far as I can remember) the only NBC personality to correctly pick the winning Derby horse.

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5 years

@McJesse @CMikeWhitfield I’m a counterfactual (intact room, not-very-rich family) but I’d like to think this is more true than not. I think 1) being an only child and 2) living in a house with a basement offset the money thing.

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@rayyyynell

3 years

Thank you to the Elections Commission for making the right choice and allowing me and my colleagues to continue our service. I would say “back to work” but we never stopped.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

3 years

JUST IN: The San Francisco Elections Commission voted unanimously Friday not to remove the three volunteers it appointed to the city’s nine-member Redistricting Task Force despite concerns from some advocacy groups.

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2 years

@DeanPreston @CSElmendorf can you please stop using Black Lives Matter-inspired language in your defense of San Francisco's racist zoning laws?

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1 year

(there is much more detail in the "2029 in rail transport" article)

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@rayyyynell

5 years

@LauraHayesDC Guy in the back drinking wine?

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2 years

3 likes and I do this on a Baywheels bike on Page

Whoa City

@WhoaCity

4 years

Cyclist unclips from his pedals, lies down on the seat, and stretches out his legs to achieve the ultimate aerodynamic efficiency.

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3 years

It’s very funny that Stanford’s campus is so bikey and then the connection to downtown Palo Alto is so frustratingly bad.

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2 years

@RedditCFB Japan should get at least half a point

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4 years

to be clear: there are good pizza places in San Francisco! The average pizza however is far worse than it should be in a city of SF’s culinary stature.

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1 year

@PEWilliams_ Antarco-communism is real and it is trans

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3 years

@JakeAnbinder the mountainness of California was something I didn't fully appreciate until I came here. The highest point in the City of Los Angeles is higher than the high point of 27 states, including WV and PA.

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5 years

@McJesse @CMikeWhitfield I guess how you define “rich” plays into this

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4 years

@thecliffbar makes absolutely zero sense that Dutch crunch is not a nationally-available sandwich bread option

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7 months

It was a lightbulb moment for me when I realized that environmental activism and climate activism often have different goals, the former often with a massively outdated understanding of what we need to do to create a sustainable California.

Louis Mirante (on threads @louismirante)

@louismirante

7 months

I am increasingly of the opinion that the environmentalist movement's opposition to modernizing environmental laws for climate change and the housing crisis is an existential issue for Californians. This week I am extremely worried this problem can't be solved. 🧵

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3 months

rainless rainbow above the @OaklandBallers game

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5 years

@MMSFOceanBeach @FitzTheReporter ah yeah it really sucks that people have to live near you

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4 years

Became a Jeopardy! champion 10 years ago today! #peakedinhighschool

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3 years

was mentally preparing to show my proof of vaccination at the airport until I remembered that that’s not a thing that’s required 😠

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4 years

gotta see something: can people name a city in san francisco county other than san francisco??

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4 years

my big takeaway from yesterday's thread situation is something lots of YIMBYs smarter than me have already figured out: "eliminate single-family zoning" is not particularly convincing language, in no small part because normies don't know what zoning is.

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2 years

@GADeptofTrans you stunned my timeline alright, with a taser. is that really the best use for all that land?

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4 years

@typicalfeminist @redditships it really all comes down to what exactly she asked she could do and with what but I highly doubt she did this intentionally to be abusive

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4 years

"1) build a sports brand that only attracts dumb people 2) open a sportsbook 3) profit" was a genius long con if that's what they were going for

Darren Rovell

@darrenrovell

4 years

Barstool Sportsbook was third in overall action in Pennsylvania, but did finish #1 in revenue, thanks to an unreal 19.1% hold percentage, which has to a sportsbook record for a month. Translation: They made more money from their bettors per dollar than any book in history.

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3 years

Incredible that Portland broke 110° and in San Francisco it’s a “wear a face mask to keep warm” sort of evening. Shoutout to the Pacific Ocean.

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4 years

All I’m going to say is that I live around the corner from a school on a Slow Street that has been open for months and everything has been going just fine! Schools and Slow Streets are friends.

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@rayyyynell

3 years

Did some transportation planning

BART

@SFBART

3 years

Cc @rayyyynell #newtwittername

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4 years

imagine waiting your whole life to go on jeopardy! and the host is dr. oz

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Raynell Cooper

@rayyyynell

2 years

Service fees being a percentage of a ticket price and not a flat fee sort of gives the game away…

Kalen Allen

@TheKalenAllen

2 years

THE SAGA IS OVER!!! P.S. Nobody better ever fix their fingers to say I'm not a real fan!

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1 year

RIP to the always-quiet 13th and Folsom Target. I wouldn’t be surprised if low sales motivated this more than “theft/crime.”

Joe Weisenthal

@TheStalwart

1 year

Target says it's closing these 9 stores due to theft/crime

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1 year

LAX above SFO is inexplicable

Morning Brew ☕️

@MorningBrew

1 year

Best US Airports in 2023 ( @WSJ ): 1. Phoenix (PHX) 2. Minneapolis (MSP) 3. Los Angeles (LAX) 4. Atlanta (ATL) 5. Detroit (DTW) 6. San Francisco (SFO) 7. Houston (IAH) 8. Seattle (SEA) 9. Las Vegas (LAS) 10. Boston (BOS)

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my favorite sf august tradition: watching the bikes return from outside lands through the fog

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@rayyyynell

3 years

Fun fact: you can’t bring your bike to Salesforce Park, built on top of a transit center, unless you’re a cop @TransbayProject

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@rayyyynell

4 years

I earnestly though making #CarFreeJFK permanent was going to be a slam dunk, but it looks like it's very much in jeopardy. I hope this gem doesn't get taken away from us.

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@rayyyynell

4 years

@MarketUrbanism @mnolangray what definition of obscure are you working from?

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2 years

the lunchabus is coming to a stop near you

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@cafedujord @angelaswartz Noooooo NIMBY Steph :(

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3 years

good candidate for office-to-residential conversion once we get the bugs out

Consulate General of Russia, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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why is this street so wide

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3 years

@adultmomband my favorite actress, jovie davechapelle

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5 years

PSA: remember to pack your hometown transit card if you’re heading home for the holidays!

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2 years

@MoDOT_KC why do you seem proud of this?

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Muni tracks finally got me while biking. Hate the irony of sustainable mode-on-sustainable mode violence. I’m mostly fine but there is something Incorrect about my shoulder.

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@rayyyynell

3 years

Done! Done! 48 miles of Supervisor district boundaries walked. What a feeling! #RaynellWalksTheLines

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3 years

the san francisco desire to compost food scraps even when you’re in a place that doesn’t do curbside compost pickup

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3 years

Huge nerd moment for me: I just saw my first standard-issue California license plate beginning with 9! Must be a month or so old. They’re issued sequentially and they’ve been in the 8s for quite a few years now.

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@mnolangray you didn't pick the best day to ask "why aren't more people moving to Texas?" from a current events perspective

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@rayyyynell

3 years

Thank you to the SF Elections Commission for appointing me to the City’s Redistricting Task Force! Honored and humbled. Looking forward to a very busy 10 months of maps, meetings, and making sure SFans are well-represented in local government! 🗳 🗺

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@rayyyynell

5 years

every time i get this ad i get excited until i realize they mean it like it’s a good thing

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@rayyyynell

4 years

Retweet if you have made essential trips on bikes.

Streets for People

@S4PBayArea

4 years

Mary Miles speaking again. Says MTA has not justified "the necessity of the projects." "No evidence that anyone is making essential trips on buses or bikes"

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5 years

@letsgoayo hard to overstate how relieved I was to find out that the replier is not THAT tom holland

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Raynell Cooper

@rayyyynell

3 years

Some fun news: getting back into the game show biz after a decade away. Catch me as a contestant on @thechaseabc on Sunday, August 22 at 9/8c on ABC! #TheChase

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@rayyyynell

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@uhshanti Broken Social Safety Net

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2 years

@rodger [at the beginning of stoppage time] it’s the witching 7 to 10 minutes, where wins become draws and losses become draws.

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@rayyyynell

3 years

No car on our streets should be able to go this fast. We have the technology to do this, it is purely an issue of political courage.

Post Sports

@PostSports

3 years

Henry Ruggs III reached a speed of 156 mph and had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit before the early-morning crash Tuesday that killed a 23-year-old woman and her dog.

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Find out why I am, uhh, trying to crush a ball of energy with my hands? on #TheChase this Sunday at 9/8c on ABC!

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Shared e-bikes are magical. Scan a QR code, sit in an uncomfortable chair and move your legs up and down a few hundred times and you’re home for like four bucks.

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3 years

@sbjinsfo @Google For reference, only three minutes longer on bike!

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4 years

@JackieFielder_ @sflabor @IFPTE21 we don't have to push austerity onto essential workers, but we do have to push them into traffic by blocking a bike lane I guess

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1 year

I asked the mayor of Idyllwild, CA if he was a YIMBY and he just panted at me…the movement has a long way to go.

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5 years

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Dad Dad: Not asking for a parking planner to help, are they? Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now Dad: Go and see if a “passenger loading zone" helps

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@rayyyynell

3 years

if i were a pedestrian advocacy organization i would simply support the bill that would make cars go slower

Brian Hanlon

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3 years

@zack @LorenaSGonzalez @CaliforniaWalks California Walks opposed AB 550.

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4 years

my least favorite NIMBY propaganda trick is implying a definition of the word "residential" that doesn't include apartments

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2 years

Left my headphones at home and now I’m raw-earing it on BART like a weirdo 😭

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@Jcaplan1212 I actually put my AirPods bean through this several times and got video evidence

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@ArmandDoma king shit

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@the_transit_guy I love Dunkin to death but would wait several years to get a non-Dunkin bagel over a Dunkin bagel if I had to.

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@sponhourm at the time I considered them to be selfless giants but now as an adult I realize that they, too, just wanted to watch the games and probably didn't want to be at school

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I also want to thank everyone for the outpouring of support, both directly to me and in public comment. Today could have been a very difficult day for me and you all made it so much better. I especially want to thank my coworkers at SFMTA and their immense support.

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