Someone leaked to the Austin local news that city council staff plays constituent bingo during public commentary hearings. It's almost all boomer and right-wing nonsense, real Parks and Rec shit. Ngl it's pretty funny.

As a general rule, the only reason anyone should “listen to the community” is they can abuse the legal system to stop good projects with endless litigation. Vast majority of the time their ideas are terrible, their concerns are nonsense, and their engagement is in bad faith.

Amidst the current trend mocking Millenial 2010’s culture (skinny jeans, stomp clap music, all season scarves, West Coast IPAs, etc), I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about bocce which briefly conquered the restaurant patio and generated short lived competitive leagues.

On X, DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social endorsed the reelection campaign of Mayor @andreforatlanta.com, who overturned a citizen's transit expansion referendum by press conference and successfully blocked another referendum (on Cop City); erased a Downtown road diet and led to two deaths... (1/3)

A surface parking lot in a historic commercial node turned into homes and businesses. The Make Atlanta 1988 Again regulars said this building would destroy the neighborhood, but with it, East Atlanta is stronger than ever.

Every neighborhood commercial district could look like this every Saturday if we opened the streets to people.

Love to see a second story added to an existing building in EAV. This type of construction was unremarkable for thousands of years, but thanks to our insane land planning and zoning laws, it’s extremely rare today. Kudos to whoever is behind this!

the audacity of this administration bringing a "making a false statement" charge against literally anyone

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Missouri adopted a law that ends St. Louis’ ability to run its own police, transferring control to the GOP-run state government. The law also requires St. Louis to commit 25% of its budget to policing.

Damn, it’s been 16 years to the day since they banned clove cigarettes. Kids today will never know the joy of ripping a drag and hearing that satisfying snap, crackle, and pop.

I couldn’t despise these asshats any more www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

City council candidates will promise to preserve community character, and the character is literally just “economic apartheid”.

We are not talking enough how DeKAlb Police and the DeKalb Sheriff did this. We should be. apple.news/Ar6NLW2jsTqa...

People who are willing to go to an event where they're going to be walking and standing around for hours but balk at walking half a mile from a train station are just so funny to me

How is this different from the push to erect Confederate monuments after the end of Reconstruction?

I'm genuinely curious how much money the White Stripes make during football season for Seven Nation Army

booming voiceover on political ad: BUDDY CARTER, MAGA WARRIOR helium voiced Buddy Carter: I'm Buddy Carter and I represent the lollipop guild

Finally rode my bike down the Peachtree Center Ave protected lane, and it is remarkable that we removed 2 out of 4 car lanes in one of Downtown’s most notorious car sewers, and car congestion is essentially unchanged during rush hour.

Half a billion a year that #ATL commercial trophy properties get away with not paying. When will local electeds fix this scandal? This was me urging mid Fulton Dems to demand better.

Disney done been leaning. They hinged the entire marketing for their megablox ass sequel trilogy with “choose your side” between heroes and space n4zis.

"Where debate and opposition has arisen is not the building itself—but about the who—the residents that will ultimately live there." Not unexpected but it's still so disappointing to see

ATL: You can tell ATL power players are terrified of @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social because the racist smears are ramping up. Yesterday, this FULLY ANONYMOUS email landed in my inbox - alleging that Rohit, a nonprofit leader and organizer, is an "Alarming Threat to Public Safety". THREAD ⬇️ #gapol

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.

politically motivated gun violence deserves the death penalty, says Trump friend Kyle Rittenhouse

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

Congrats to @cardenonwheels.bsky.social for being selected by Atlanta City Council as the interim Council member for District 2 (my district)! Good choice, y'all. And thanks to @atlpresscollective.com for the great coverage.

Fuck yeah! Congratulations!

Ethical use of the other site is impossible.

Still wrestling with person getting fired from “liberal” tv for saying some patently true things about Kirk but guy on Fox says we should murder homeless people and it’s just okey-dokey.

had no idea this was possible but having a tough-as-fuck Georgia Tech team around is a life happiness booster

dude just casually calls murdering homeless people the thing we need to *vote for*

OTOH from an engineering perspective, great case study showing the system works. This new infrastructure has successfully redirected the consequences of driver negligence back onto the driver instead of some poor pedestrian or cyclist like on unprotected streets.

Wow Or the other way, the DMV (/DDS) should pause issuing licenses until they figure out why their tests don't work

Newsmax asked me why the “left” is saying ICE disappears people

Important to remember that with Amsterdam’s Walk, the evil developer is the one creating affordable housing and the plucky neighbors are the ones trying to maintain economic apartheid in their community.

Studio rents to start from $1,000 at contested Beltline build, per Invest Atlanta funding recap

I’m once again asking why land owners get a voice in who is allowed to have a home in their wealthy community. No matter how numb we have become and accept this as the status quo, this is an apartheid system built to keep the Have-Nots away from the Haves.

Trump’s statement last night is not getting enough attention. It was a despicable (though predictable) attack on his political enemies, cherry picking only left wing political violence and without a shred of irony blaming dangerous “rhetoric” from the left, *when we don’t even have a suspect yet*

They say comedy = tragedy + time, and for my ATL political group chat today, it was about 3.5 hours before the memes started flowing openly and unapologetically without caveat.

Your yearly reminder of the correlation between income and student outcomes

He has never made a public comment regarding the CDC shooting and killing of Off. David Rose.

LFG! Huge win for a bunch of kids who got railroaded! Massive L for Georgia Republican Gubernatorial Candidate and AG Chris Carr!

Slightly finish a book: The Strange case of Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

There is being a NIMBY dipshit. And then there is being the kind of evil NIMBY dipshit that takes the time to attend a meeting to oppose affordable housing for seniors and then gives a fucking quote to a reporter about how happy they are it was defeated.

Have to maintain the character of the self storage center.