@rohitforatlanta.bsky.social I need to get in touch with someone with the campaign. Would love a DM!

My sister texted me to tell me she liked my podcast episode. 😭😭😭

OMG. Helping someone with homework. I have a BA in political philosophy. I’ve taught AP government. But nothing prepared me for helping someone understand the social contract via Rousseau without reference to Locke. 😭😭

Atlanta, meet your future. FIVE bold leaders running to shake up City Hall: 🌟 Kelsea Bond (D2) 🌟 Liliana Bakhtiari (D5) 🌟 Charles Bourgeois (D9) 🌟 Nate Jester (D11) 🌟 Rohit Malhotra (Council President) This is what the next generation of leadership looks like.

We hope you’ll be able to join us on October 4 from 6:30-8. Find one of nine gathering places across Atlanta by RSVPing.

RJL Season Five is here! In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature. -Bullying in Japanese schools + the Japanese workplace -Examples in Japanese novels. -Mizuki Tsujimura and her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror, trans Philip Gabriel Transcript on the episode page.

For a decade, my attempts to tell folks they need to monitor their kids’ media consumption has led to accusations I’m afraid my kids are queer. Fuck that. My white son is a prime target for the alt-right! Teaching kids independent media literacy is part of 21st century parenting, my friends.

If y'all are Atlantans, you gotta learn more about Rohit!

Yes, we saw the email. No, we’re not taking the bait. Yes, they darkened my beard and skin and called me a “threat to public safety.” No, we’re not sharing their images. Yes, it was dangerous rhetoric. No, we haven't lost hope. Calling me a threat to public safety is a threat to public safety.

On October 4, Atlanta chooses light. We will gather locations across the city, then lift our candles to light Ponce de Leon Avenue from downtown to Stone Mountain. RSVP on Mobilize for information about where and how to participate. October 4 | 6:30-8pm

D, no contest. G if you had a soy allergy, I guess.

Georgia folks! 👇

We accidentally turned into the free applesauce house? Teenagers show up at 8:45 and excitedly clean out what we’ve got leftover on the porch—“Dude! It’s applesauce!” (Not sure why they have Millennial slang, but I swear that’s what I heard! Lots of ironic angst round these parts.)

Tomorrow is the first of a 6-session writer's workshop led by Shaira Chaer, "Poetry for the People." This one supports the family of Khalil Zeyara whose last gofundme was shut down and funds frozen. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/poe...

FREE Rodney Taylor! Take Action Against ICE Illegal Arrests + Deportations! Rodney Taylor, a double-amputee with pending green card application was arrested by ICE 7 mos ago. His life hangs in the balance at Stewart Detention, in subhuman conditions + without proper medical care. Take action now!

Check out Angela Rye's podcast “How the Rodney Taylor Story Exposes ICE’s War on the Black Community”. It includes an interview with Rodney’s fiancée.

Are Saja Boys yangban outfits a big seller this Halloween?

“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.”E.BWhite

Y'all, is it pronounced MEXT or M.E.X.T.?

Y'all, Memphis is 330 miles from Atlanta. It's smack-dab at the intersection of three state Trump won handily in 2025. He won Tennessee with 64% of the vote. But Memphis has a democratic, Black mayor. Are y'all going to fight for Memphis the way y'all fought for Chicago?

Dear Rough Draft, I, a white, male, boomer with enough money to travel, would like to lecture young people on how to work harder at jobs that don’t pay a living wage. I’m not sure if they’re entitled to that break or if they’re supposed to know how to work that system, but I’m watching. 1/3

Showing 14yo the capitalist dystopia, techno-fascist world of Minority Report. At the moment, the most unrealistic parts are how universal the access to the tech is and how functional civil society remains in the 2050s. 🫠

I chose very intentionally to launch this campaign with Atlanta Labor — to keep the working class people who I’m doing this for at the center of my work and vision for this city. Atlanta — and its workers — are worth fighting for.

If you live in the City of Atlanta and you have not heard of Rohit Malhotra, check out his campaign for City Council President IMMEDIATELY. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Now. We have a chance at something progressive and different in our city. Give. Talk about it. Vote.

@rohitforatlanta.bsky.social, I’d totally show up for a Beltline walk and talk!

🚨 “As Georgia Covid rates rise…” Mask up. Get vaccinated if you can. Remember that self care and protecting folks with compromised immune systems are acts of resistance against this anti-health, anti-science, anti-disabled regime!

The Trump Regime has already shut down the government! No more concessions to keep up the illusion of normal!

"The (Atlanta) BeltLine 'lost its way from a transit and trails project to this transformative real estate development project,' said Dan Immergluck" For a deeper dive on the Beltline, here is Chapter 2 from Red Hot City. drive.google.com/file/d/1sX9I... Gift link to NYT:

Glad Elena Parent, my state senator, threw away years of allyship with the LGBTQ+ community to vote Republican on this one. 🫠 The Third Way is destroying what’s left of the Democratic Party.

Tech oligarchs are destroying American democracy.

@rohitforatlanta.bsky.social, give me more content to boost! 😅

Ummm… the Democrats are the party with a gerontocracy problem? Younger Republicans don’t feel shut out bc they haven’t been? Republicans have been effectively cultivating and empowering younger leaders for 40yrs while the Democratic establishment watched and hoarded power like an ancient wyrm.

The Regime’s key demographic wants federal employees and foreigners to suffer. The press is doing the Regime a favor by keeping the suffering of veterans quiet.

is ChatGPT rotting your brain? get that to quit by trying this one weird trick! stop fucking using it

If you live in the City of Atlanta and you have not heard of Rohit Malhotra, check out his campaign for City Council President IMMEDIATELY. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Now. We have a chance at something progressive and different in our city. Give. Talk about it. Vote.

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

5yo neighbor says, "Even though our Tesla is made of Elon Musk, it is good." I may never get over the idea of good Teslas being made of Elon Musk. I'm on board. 😅

In a frankly wild turn of events, Dilemmas of Working Women has been selected as the September title for Dakota Johnson(!)'s TeaTime Book Club! I was asked to write a few messages that will be posted in the Book Club's Insta channel throughout the month. Join up! www.instagram.com/p/DOERxI3icX...

My review of Fumio Takano’s Miss Ruki (trans Alexa Frank): “Those who are willing to live outside of what society dictates make for memorable characters, as do characters who can fall down and keep getting up again. Time, as Ecchan notes, has no effect on Miss Ruki.”

AI is an answer machine! You put in an answer and it spits out an answer. Any answer. Might be right. Might be wrong. Just an answer.

Ever dealt with a liberal dude whose emphasis on “healthy discourse” turns out to mean “I demand you spend your time arguing with me until you give up”? 🫠

Influential progressive organization Working Families Party released its endorsement of six Atlanta municipal election candidates.

Anyone else have terrible insomnia when they’re on the mend from COVID. Every. Fucking. Time. (“Every time,” you say? It’s 2025, and I still mask in public. But I’m immune compromised and live with two people who spend their time being educated in germ factories, so…)

Y'all have no idea how long I have been WAITING for someone to ask about the environmental impact of social media and other digital content. No. Idea.

And also being racist AF. Who do you think are the first victims of gerrymandering and voter suppression?

Dumb(?) question. Is the Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology an acronym (MEXT) or an initialism (M-E-X-T)? 🫠

Dogma. 🫠 Lonely, unacceptably smart Southern Baptist girl in exurban Atlanta gets shown this MINDBLOWING film by a guy she’s dating. (She’s the last girl he ever dates and maybe she’s not actually a girl, but…) Helped me realize the world was bigger than I thought and I needed to GET. OUT.

“This female author’s book about feminist concerns is not her best work. Let me, a man, explain to you…” 🫠

This man is running to replace Jon Ossoff as one of GA’s two U.S. Senators. Pray for the state of GA. 🫠