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We will revisit these comments when the World Cup begins, I suspect. This is a spectacularly bad idea even by the standards of the Trump Administration. It's how you make the images that eventually get Ossoff reelected and either he or Warnock elected president. This is ICE as a Jack Doherty video.

Went to Social Circle, Ga. to report on the strange bedfellow coalition forming against what cd. be one of largest ICE det'n centers in US: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @dnbrgr.bsky.social @neonflag.bsky.social @lexmcmenamin.com @austinkocher.com

This person has lied to me, directly, more than once. One can only assume her replacement will do the same.

The hollow right wing derision of Jesse Jackson has illuminated my sense of politics and race. Whenever a white person does something terrible to a Black person, someone would say "well, here comes Jesse Jackson" - usually followed by Al Sharpton - implying untoward media attention and race grift.

Serious question. If you were going out to dance, listen to music and look for love in Atlanta ... where is that? I've been married too long to know the answer to this question today.

Boko Haram has to get on our level. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

DHS has lied to me often enough in unambiguous ways that I only record their responses for whatever future tribunal follows this insanity.

Mike with the story you need to read. We are torturing children so far right assholes can laugh.

www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes... When the right goes alt-right. Nazis.

Sushi, at Five Points. Place below the Coca Cola sign. Seriously, this is going to blow up as a space. Surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Partisanship means there's no point to public argument. It shows. Floor debate in Congress should be the highest form of argument in our democracy. I've been listening to it as I work, and it is the most useless empty bullshit around. We get better arguments in the stupid 20-vs-1 Hasan Piker things.

I'm all in favor of killing Boko Haram terrorists. Understand though that our military activity in northern Nigeria is at least as much about blunting the influence of Russia as it is about terrorism. The Russians have flipped governments across the Sahel, and nearly have Nigeria surrounded.

Hannah Hackemeyer, the teen drunk driver who killed Sophia Lekiachvili in 2024 has been sentenced to 2 years of house arrest and 10 years of probation. You get three guesses about her socio-economic status. You'll get it in one.

I've just gone through the affidavit that the FBI used to obtain the ballots and documents from 2020 in Fulton County. It relies entirely on assertions found wanting in several lawsuits by election denialists who have been getting laughed out of court for five years. Kevin Moncla. Joe Rossi. Others.

Big if true.

open.substack.com/pub/theatlan... Connecting the dots.

Maybe it's this shit that lost Moore the Trump endorsement.

Other news organizations *cough cough* are going to be picking off the talent the Washington Post just shed. Don't be shy about telling people you're looking for work on social media, people.

Donald Trump endorsed Clay Fuller in the Georgia 14th congressional race. Not Colton Moore. I am ... rather surprised, frankly.

The trucking thing might be the most interesting, and I'm working on more reporting about it. A state strategy could cut the country in half for undocumented drivers going cross country.

Anyone claiming that noncitizens are voting in meaningful numbers is lying, starting with the president. Donald Trump tells lies. And I find myself having to say that in plain English in news stories.

I suspect I am going to have to compile a list next week of all the times ICE agents went into churches without a warrant over the last 12 months, with Pam Bondi's quote about people being free to worship safely at the top of the story. Reasonable people are not the audience for their bullshit.

NEWS: TWO Black journalists arrested by Trump’s DOJ this morning. Journalist Georgia Fort, who was covering the same protest as Don Lemon, was also arrested this morning, according to a live video she recorded as agents at her door demanded her surrender. www.advocate.com/news/don-lem...

Naturally, there's a big Epstein data drop today while all this is going on. www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...

The story I write providing a basic backgrounder about Don Lemon will be read by more people than are watching CNN right now. Bet.

Goddamn it. They really are going to make me defend Don Lemon. If Don Lemon is a criminal, then I'm a straight up terrorist and they should work the logistics out for a drone strike on Pine Lake. Everything he's done, including the stuff I dislike, is First Amendment protected press activity.

Looking for job hunting advice in Atlanta. Job hunter is a young man, thin resume but has an associates degree in psychology, coming out of a long recuperative period from an illness. Work from home would not be ideal. Half the jobs with a callback are devilcorp full commission sales scams. Advice?

Here's the full scoop from ATL local & media guru @neonflag.bsky.social @theguardian.com : www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A federal search warrant is being executed at the same address as the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, *right now.* If you know what's going on with that, or are an elected official, ping me.

video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight

Yesterday, I asked Steven Bansbach, spokesman for DHS, if reports that CBP were pulling out of Minneapolis were accurate. Rather than answer that question, at 11:05 a.m. today he sent me a note reposting Tricia McLaughlin's X post: "Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties." A lie.

We have an unconfirmed report that CBP is pulling out of Minneapolis. DHS has denied it. The problem, of course, is that DHS *lies* all the goddamned time. Lies enthusiastically, about things that we can actually see with our own two goddamned eyes. The only real way to tell is direct observation..

A question that should be answered on Signal: George_Chidi:80. Suppose I wanted to know where ICE was in Atlanta and what they were doing - whether they were surging or receding. Some folks are tracking these things. As a journalist, I'd like to know who they are NOW, before the stupidity starts.

You will be remembered by your family and your community in a year and ten years and a hundred years for what you do in the year to come. St. Crispin's Day is coming. It may be here already.

An apparent white supremacist punched Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost in the face at a party at Sundance yesterday. The reason you're not hearing more about this guy - aside from the fact that everything is on fire - is that an assailant named Christian Young in Utah is functionally un-Googleable.

My first instinct was to fear that aggrieved Minneapolitans would start torching the city. But I don't actually think that's what's going to happen. People in the street aren't calling for accountability for *city* government or *state* government. The target of anger is clearly in Washington D.C.

Federal agents are acting as though any crime they commit will be ignored by federal prosecutors today, and pardoned before Trump leaves office. The proper political response to this is to impeach and remove the president from office before he can do that.

You assholes are going to make me take Don Lemon's side, aren't you.

I am going to have to write about this at some point: if I had hair, I would be tearing it out of my head right now trying to find a "fair" representation of conservative opinion on Greenland for a story. Social media prioritizes ... well, people who post on social media. The extremely online.

If you are in Terminal E - International - at Hartsfield-Jackson right now, look for a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant and in a state of medical distress. She is being deported by ICE right now, a human rights attorney said, today pleading for emergency assistance for his client.

Trump keeps referring to Greenland as "Iceland" at Davos. This is a spectacular display. Tell us again that Joe Biden's mental fitness was the problem, Republicans.

My wife is about to be on 99x in a segment about cringe traditions. I am feeling my age.

Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in office ... for the work he did on nuclear disarmament as a U.S. Senator. Donald Trump wants to be "better" than Obama, and will be mad forever that he is comparative garbage, and thus must denigrate the concept of peace as a social value.

Trump's push to annex Greenland for "national security" has been attributed to a desire to control arctic shipping lanes and mineral resources. I think this is a mistake. I think Trump wants it for "security" purposes, but Isn't being honest about why. He wants to end the MAD nuclear doctrine.

Once a year, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce commandeers Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the Eggs and Issues Breakfast, which is usually little more than an opportunity for political schmoozing and free Chick-fil-A sandwiches. I haven’t been to one for years. This year is different. #gapol

Georgia House speaker says the legislature will propose legislation to eliminate the homestead exemption on property taxes, replacing it with ... something else. He cites the 300 local governments which opted out of the state’s reforms last year. The issue is hideously complex.

For the Redditors in Atlanta: you may have noticed that r/Atlanta has been dead for years. Turns out ... that was deliberate. The previous moderator appears to have been deliberately trying to kill it. I sense shenanigans. www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/co...