WFP knocked on over 60K doors in Georgia. Fund the work.

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

This was Cuomo’s only playbook. Spend a fuckton of money on ads (including mail), coast on name ID and fear mongering from centrist scolds, and do nothing to organize or coalition build.

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.

Be on the side of protesters. Period.

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

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This is also one reason they attack the department of education-if you end up NEEDING to homeschool children because their education has been gutted and left in tatters it gets those pesky moms out of the work force and back to fully unpaid labor.

A new Florida law creates new felony charges for people who volunteer for ballot initiatives. People subjected to those charges could be disenfranchised themselves. “Here you are, trying to keep democracy going, and you can lose your right to vote." boltsmag.org/florida...

Good morning! I am in an office tower in midtown Atlanta where the marta board and senior leadership is having a "retreat". They will be discussing the draft operating and capital budgets for the first time, and also receive briefings on federal grants. Follow me and @thexylom.com for more updates:

are you an early career journalist in the South who is working to inform your community about safety - what actually threatens it, how it can be protected, and what truly keeps people safe? if so, please apply for this cohort! a little more info in this thread: justjournalism.org/page/better-...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

Given Trump’s massive proposed cuts to affordable housing programs revealed in the last couple years of days, I am reupping my brief piece on how affordable housing impacts all sorts of things. Such cuts will greatly worsen so many problems.

A must read ⬇️

Absolutely disgusting. theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/cop-city-i...

"Many people don’t understand that 40% of households in Atlanta are a week away from homelessness, and that a disruption to any stabilizing program could be catastrophic."

The free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Beyond excited for this book! Pre-order pre-order pre-order!!!

Nobody involved in social movements / direct action / social work / legal aid ever uses the word “felon” as a pejorative. This is a fundamental disconnect between moderates who love to dunk on Trump and those who work and organize every day on the front lines of injustice.

Say - abduct, abductions, abducting, disappear, disappearing. Don't say - deport, deportations, deporting - unless that is the accurate term. Don't say - arrest as this conjures for people the person did something wrong.

Every time a citizen has input for the city budget, we ask ourselves, “What would the police union think of this?”

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Like I said, I was, for a time, this guys staff who oversaw housing. He doesn’t care and he isn’t smart.

I wrote about the lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation, and why you should care about it no matter where you live: private actors are increasingly exercising public power while avoiding public accountability, at the same time that open records laws are being gutted slate.com/news-and-pol...

Wynn-Williams “said the company was letting advertisers know when the teens were depressed so they could be served an ad at the best time.”

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

245 people so far.

This entire thread is absolutely riveting.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

So thrilled and grateful to see this generous, deeply thoughtful review. “There Is No Place for Us shifts the paradigm on homelessness, revealing how America’s disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth has come at the terrible expense of poor working families."

It’s just a fact that most of us are not particularly brave. But we *are* social—and we can become braver when someone invites us into action.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

turns out it did in fact ruin the tour

It's certainly a decision to frame this as a "young people are mad" thing and not a "people who don’t want fascism are mad" thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

TWO GIRLS IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF MAINE! FEWER THAN 10 IN ALL OF THE NCAA! i know true believers can't be swayed, but i think hammering these numbers is important for the average person to understand that republicans are OBSESSSSSSED with such a minuscule group of people and it's fucking weird!

This story is absolutely wild and has been unfolding for weeks. This is the same man who threatened to forcibly remove people from an encampment, resulting in the sweep in which Cornelious Taylor was murdered by a City vehicle. www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.

I am as dedicated to fighting fascism as anyone but you still should respect the office of the reich chancellor

They want families to get so frustrated with public education that they'll abandon public schools for private or charter alternatives or to just homeschool their children, instead.