Not that I think we should save themselves, but smart people might recognize that you can be anti-administration, without being anti-party…

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

Mayor's folks are trying the line that TAD funds come only from "future tax growth". True in 1998. False in 2025. The future is now with $200M of taxes being diverted from APS, City, County. Mayor's team say, "Once the TAD closes ... it increases APS funding." Exactly. So close them already!

Seems property tax reform will be the theme of GA Legislature ‘26. We cannot in good faith talk property tax relief without school finance reform. Locals are feeling the squeeze because the state has continually walked back Ed $$. This is a state made problem that needs a state solution. #GaPol

I will GO TO MY GRAVE beating this drum. Republicans (and Democrats) can win on pro-public education platforms in Georgia. The MAJORITY of voters in Georgia send their kids to public schools. Georgia’s 2026 majority will go to whichever party can figure out this nuance first. #GaPol

Another flip by a Dem who ran as a strong supporter of public education. One common theme emerging in these upsets: winning candidates sound nothing like centrists & pundits when it comes to talking about schools. georgiarecorder.com/2025/12/09/d...

Admittedly, I don’t play kingmaker games for a reason, but is it not at least a little frowned upon that our governor can’t find anyone in his party from his own state, to back in our senatorial election? #GaPol

It would be really cool if the majority party in GA could take the lesson from HD121 that human-centered affordability and livability is a winning message over pure partisan division. It won’t happen and our legislative session will be horrible, but it would be cool.

Just finished a visit with one of my clients and I’m so depressed. Seniors are suffering while politicians play pass the funding game with tax payer money. THE SENIORS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE SUFFERING WHILE POLITICIANS PLAY BASEBALL WITH TAXPAYER MONEY.

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Voted three times for Mamdani from Atlanta, feels good to help

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

“Risk” is really putting in a lot of work there

Dems talking about flipping seats in ‘26 and ‘28 better have a clear plan for how they’re going to rebuild. I’m not talking about “hope and change.” I’m talking what is the timeline for codifying Roe, passing ERA, reinstating VRA, restoring DOJ, rebuilding DOE. Anything less is simply unserious.

Years ago I remember a colleague lamenting the challenge of ever increasing revenue for education because constitutionally, Colorado has to have a statewide vote on any initiative to raise income tax. This is incredible work that’s a long time coming.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Zohran quoting Mario Cuomo while bidding adieu to Andrew is such a fantastically nerdy flex... I’m so ready for the era of millennial governance

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

The mental gymnastics of political commentators having to differentiate between progressives and Democrats is an unexpected perk of today’s events

And a reminder that Georgia just HANDILY flipped two statewide seats that haven’t held public elections in FIVE YEARS - which we hope signals potential break from the monopolization of our utilities services.

they didn’t just win, either they kicked the shit out of ‘em

BREAKING: The city of Atlanta has filed a lawsuit against Fulton and DeKalb counties to keep Election Day polls open until 8pm after guidance from the Secretary of State's office mandates polls close at 7pm due to the special PSC election. #atlpol www.ajc.com/news/2025/11...

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

When a city (Atlanta) where land values have skyrocketed since 2012engages in "faux austerity" & moves to close schools, which will harm mostly Black families. Meanwhile, city moves to extend TIFs that will divert billions away from schools & local services & they frame it as "reducing inequality"

When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.

We have a $14B surplus… We aren’t bailing out Washington, we’re bailing out Georgians. 1 in 8 Georgians are on SNAP. ATL is the world’s busiest airport. We have some of the lowest literacy rates in the country. If this isn’t a rainy day, what is? #GaPol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

We used to live in a proper society

If a music streaming platform found a way to offer a one-time download/transfer of all playlists and follow data from Spotify, ala the great migration from GoodReads to StoryGraph, I suspect they’d see a significant influx of users pretty quickly.

Meanwhile in Georgia:

It is October 2025 and I am once again BEGGING the Governors Office of Scholastic Achievement and the GA Dept of Ed to standardize their data practices. Why do some headers have periods and others have underscores? Why are school IDs different lengths? WHY DOESNT ENROLLMENT MATCH?

If it looks like a nazi, and quacks like a nazi…

“The Democratic Party has a problem…. Their polling addiction ignores more complex political instruments telling them that the working class isn’t just white men and that centrism isn’t enough to bring white voters back into the fold.”

Yeah… I really can’t imagine why someone with long established ties to child sec traffickers might be avoiding any and all conversations where those ties are a focal point.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

I have never had any desire to live in California, but this made me cry. We could have this in GA. We could use our taxes to take care of people. Instead, we are sitting on a $16B surplus while state officials tell SNAP recipients to “plan ahead” for their funds to run out. We deserve better.

(THIS IS NOT A PRO CHARTER SCHOOL THREAD) There’s a weird resistance in the pro public ed camp to admit that the system is flawed and causing harm which is detrimental to our cause. I think we save schools with honesty AND a vision for transformation. So here’s my transformation wishlist by 🌶️

“No taxpayer funds were used to support the welcome packages” WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? This is the kind of thing I WANT my tax dollars supporting. Not discriminatory private schools. Not tax breaks for data centers. Support our schools! #GaPol #EdPol

Found out my 12th grade lit teacher died this week. She was the first person to tell me that I could be a great teacher and changed my whole life. Everyone has THAT teacher, and if you’ve never taken the time to reach out and tell them, you should.

If all day meetings, when work? If no work, why meetings?

Shout out to the woman at breakfast trying to explain to her father why it’s okay for him to be white and still acknowledge that racism and systemic abuse exists

WHY is there not a train from Atlanta to Albany?

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My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person

It may very well be one of the great tragedies of my life that I’ve wasted some of my best rhetorical writing on Facebook idiots instead of publishing something useful.

Just remember, before you hit block, take a screenshot.

If the echo in my chamber is “bigotry is bad” or “we deserve to live in a society without white supremacy” or “all violence is bad, not just the visible kind” then bring it on.

LFG BULLS 💚🤘🏽💚🤘🏽💚🤘🏽