If you don't want to upset anyone you do what Atlanta is now doing. It's perhaps the best example in North America of keeping things exactly as they are with no substance attached. It's the consultants that love this. Congratulations.

🚨There’s a measles outbreak in South Carolina involving Spartanburg County with 111 cases reported to date. The outbreak has been ongoing since October but has recently seen an increase in new cases with 27 reported yesterday. dph.sc.gov/diseases-con...

INBOX: first reported by @kalahunter.bsky.social, weeks after Democrats flipped Georgia Public Service Commission seats by >20 points, PSC staff reached a last-minute deal with Georgia Power to generate more power by raising costs until 2075(!) The lame duck PSC will vote on the deal next week.

I truly want to love MARTA but the bad experiences are stacking up. The buses diverted for the A Line construction have no signage telling people where to go. There’s multiple people trying to catch the bus that don’t know the bus is on a whole other street.

I’m once again asking MARTA to TURN ON THE BUS TRACKERS FOR EVERY BUS. Waited 20+ minutes at Five Points and finally pulled the trigger on an uber to get home.

we have to go back. to warn them.

Watch the @kelseabondatl.bsky.social video on the TAD scam. She lays it out clearly and, dare one say, entertainingly? Refreshing to have a council member (elect) telling it like it is. #GApol www.instagram.com/reel/DRXD9RE...

The Trump effect:

I’m howling.

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

Donald Trump was practicing child rape the right way. by Ezra Klein

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Terrible news on the council president election. Overstreet doesn’t deserve the promotion, and Dickens needed a counterweight. Happy about Kelsea Bond winning D2 and the statewide PSC election falling the right way.

Eagerly awaiting any news about @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social becoming our next City Council President! Anyone seen news of that race?

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

Hey #atlanta, can a campaign put yard signs in front of the vehicular entrance to a polling place? Because that’s where Overstreet’s campaign is putting there’s at Grant Park Rec Center.

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

Does any ATL resident have insight to any of the judges in the ballot? (Specifically any NOT to retain)

People somewhat reasonably assume that the rules governing our built environments are built on careful assessment of the best available science and rigorous analysis of tradeoffs but in reality it's like 85% vibes.

Welcome back, otter. 🦦🏴‍☠️ #teamorca

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

I hope that other world democracies are noting very closely how ours is failing with increasing rapidity, and in doing so are fortifying their own to ensure it does not fall prey to the same tactics, like an entire political party being party to treason.

Atlanta, Marci Overstreet (and “Georgia On The Move” too apparently) is scared. Who do you want, someone who’s out to run a smear campaign because she can’t run on her own record and platform? Or someone who’s telling you all the things he’ll get done with the office? @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Every government website is full-throated propaganda now. Taken from HUD.gov:

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

Even if you aren’t masking anywhere else it still makes sense to wear a mask in medical settings & pharmacies because there’s a greater chance of being close to someone contagious & there are more people who are at higher risk in these places. Masking in these settings both protects you & others.

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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism

💉🧵PSA 🚨 We don’t know for sure but are very worried RFKJ’s ACIP is about to restrict access to RSV monoclonal immunization for babies (nirsevimab and clesrovimab). If your baby is eligible, get them vaccinated asap. RSV season starts late Oct-early Nov. See below for immunization recommendation info

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

One piece of advice I have for those seeing this post from within the United States — find ways to watch credible news from other countries. Whenever I watch U.S. news channels, it’s easier for me to understand how badly U.S. politics and discourse is broken, and how uninformed U.S. residents are.

It’s infuriating trying to accurately convey your convictions and opinions and still presenting yourself as hireable on LinkedIn.

GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: His tariffs were never about helping workers. His top priority will always be helping his Big Tech billionaire friends.

The last line of the article says it all. ...Overstreet said. “I just don’t want an outside person to be the next president.” Atlanta needs @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social to be our next city council president. saportareport.com/insider-or-o...

It’s not hyperbolic to say this—the middle red states have been working together to advance compacts that would determine delegate rules and gather a convention since at least 2023

It’s really hard to like this city sometimes. The Beltline publishes the results of their transit study about light rail, and then the CEO goes and totally trashes it the following week. Atlanta politicians seem to always fail this city.

Incredible, must-read article about your neighborhood’s public schools.

Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

Framing an anti-corruption law as an attack on someone implies that someone is corrupt. He’s gotta know that right?

Wow. Can't wait to hear how ABI spent an extra year and who knows how many dollars to tell us light rail is the best transit option. beltline.org/events/687ff...

Guess we found out what happens when they run out of immigrants.

Happy Battle of Atlanta Day to all who celebrate!

There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there

we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history