Beltline Rail NOW! 🚊🌹🌱 It’s time to deliver on the rail the people voted on! No more stalling, Atlanta deserves public transit investment. Great seeing @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social @samsonforgeorgia.bsky.social and @jeremiah-olney.bsky.social showing out for @beltlinerailnow.bsky.social ! 🪧🛤️🎉

There is a direct link to these issues & Atlanta DSA's opposition to the blanket TAD extensions until 2055, because the policy would impose unececessary long-term austerity by diverting $ from Fire, 311 diversion (PAD), & affordable housing (latter especially outside the often squirley-shaped TADs).

We’re building a movement to fight for people — not profits ahead of the World Cup and beyond! That means… ✅ A union contract for firefighters! ✅ 311 dispatching to PAD on weekends! ✅ Investment in violence prevention programs! ✅ Housing, not Handcuffs! ✅ No ICE in ATL!

Last Saturday, I had the honor of being endorsed by @atldemsoc! 🌹✨️ This Saturday, we're hitting the ground running! 🏃‍➡️ Join me and my comrade, @kelseabondatl.bsky.social, for a fun day of canvassing, followed by food and drinks! 🍻 Sign up at the link in my bio!✊️

Guys, we just want a train! 🚊🪧🌱 Join me & @atldemsoc this Saturday to march in the Inman Park Parade with @beltlinerailnow! Come out with signs, T-shirts, and chants to demand: Beltline Rail Now! 🛤️💚🌹

Guys, we just want a train! 🚊🪧🌱 Join me & @atldemsoc this Saturday to march in the Inman Park Parade with @beltlinerailnow! Come out with signs, T-shirts, and chants to demand: Beltline Rail Now! 🛤️💚🌹

Today, 90+ people signed up for public comment to fight for: 1) ICE out of ATL 2) Signing the firefighter union contract 3) Expanding 311 & PAD to operate on weekends during World Cup These are not disparate issues — all are part of the fight to win an Atlanta for the 99%!

We tried the new Rapid A-Line Bus! 🚌 It’s the perfect cool Sunday to get outside! 😎 I took my new rollerblades from Midtown to downtown along the ATL Streets Alive route (I only fell once), to meet friends and try out the new MARTA rapid bus line!

It’s great to see long-awaited More MARTA projects getting off the ground. Days like this show us what a more connected Atlanta can look like if we invest in people-first infrastructure. Can’t wait to see many more transit projects get completed. And it’s PURPLE! 💜

I enjoyed meeting Mathewos to answer his questions about what I've learned in pushing for economic justice in Atlanta & Fulton County. Plus sharing memories of Vincent Fort. We need smart, caring, young progressives in the State House like Mathewos & Jeremiah Olney!

It’s a bike lane! 🚴👏 This morning I was proud to join ATLDOT, Midtown Alliance, and community members to welcome the new Juniper Complete Street & bike lane! It’s so essential that we keep investing in infrastructure to build a safer, more equitable, and less car dependent Atlanta.

Tonight!!! Who should chair the Fulton County Commission?? 🚨 This is a big decision that impacts whether Atlanta extends the TADs, if we invest in diversion services vs new jails, and funding for supportive housing. Make an informed decision by attending tonight at 6pm!

We deserve streets that are safe for all of us, whether you’re walking, biking, driving, or rolling. Get the Zoom link in our bio: atlantaga-gov.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

TONIGHT! Tuesday April 14 at 6pm: Monroe Drive Safe Street Project Community Meeting 🚦🚴🚶‍♂️🚗 Join ATLDOT and your neighbors to hear updates on the status of the Monroe Safe Street project, give feedback, and ask questions!

I’m honored to have the endorsement of my friend and comrade Councilmember Kelsea Bond. Kelsea is a long-time community organizer and labor activist, and their commitment to their constituents is something I hope to mirror in the State House.

So proud to endorse @samsonforgeorgia.bsky.social in this race! 🌹 Georgia deserves leaders willing to fight for workers — not billionaire interests. Mathewos is the candidate I trust to stand up against corporate greed and champion housing, healthcare, and public education as human rights!

Atlanta renters are ready to organize!✊ Thanks to everyone who came to our tenant organizing training with Housing Justice League this Saturday! We educated the community on their rights as tenants, how to fight illegal evictions, and bringing their neighbors into the fight! 🎯

TOMORROW! Join our office and Housing Justice League 4/11 @ 1pm at the L5P Community Center for a tenant organizing clinic! ⚙️🌆 Learn your rights as a renter in Fulton County & how to organize where you live to win fair rents and good living conditions. Sign up: actionnetwork.org/events/tenan...

Great morning spent with CWA union member retirees, listening to their questions and what they want to see from our city! ✊💚

Just finished There is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone which tells stories of the working homeless in Atlanta. Never read a book so devastating. So many families who can’t make ends meet are rendered invisible under capitalism. It won’t end til we win housing as a human right! 🌹

INBOX: @kelseabondatl.bsky.social calls out the Atlanta Department of Transportation for refusing to provide taxpayer-approved bike and pedestrian safety improvements on Ralph McGill Blvd before the World Cup

Really proud to join community members in supporting @kelseabondatl.bsky.social anti-ICE 🚫🧊 resolution at City Hall this Monday! Keep fascists out of our city!

High rent? Bad landlord? Sounds like you need to organize! 🔦 Join us Saturday April 11 at the Little 5 Points Community Center for a Tenant Organizing Clinic with Housing Justice League! Sign up here: bit.ly/d2tenant 🔗

Spoke at Life After Cars with @kelseabondatl.bsky.social Walkability is not new. It is the Marietta we already have. Ask people if they want that. The answer is almost always yes. The real question is whether our kids will be able to afford to stay here. Thanks @letspropelatl.bsky.social !

My take on the State of the City: it’s deeply dishonest to characterize the subsidization of private development (at the expense of public schools) as the key to closing Atlanta’s wealth gap while standing on the stage with reps of multi-billion dollar companies. TAX THEM!!!!!

#GApol If ATL's corporate community pull off this heist of mostly school dollars, you can bet that within months they'll be berating us for poor school outcomes.

After months of “oversight” meetings, virtually no questions have been answered re the proposed TAD extension. What we do know is TADs have generated very little deeply affordable housing & ATL’s corporate community has a huge stake in forcing this vote. 🙃 atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/03/18/i...

Over 12 years (2014-25), City of Atlanta's 8 tax allocation districts (TADs) have funded <1,200 deeply affordable (<50% AMI) rental units, the sort most desperately needed in the city. That's less than 100 per year. Most of the units are 60% AMI or above (because they are primarily LIHTC units) 1/3

Let’s gooooo

Woke up thinking about what a great night we had. Thank you so much to @letspropelatl.bsky.social and our wonderful guests, @samformarietta.bsky.social and @kelseabondatl.bsky.social !

great show from @thewaroncars.bsky.social tonight. My distillation is: the guest speakers were @samformarietta.bsky.social and @kelseabondatl.bsky.social ! That's the key message! Systematically helping people, eg protecting them from cars, is electoral. We need more candidates like them.

I’m Mathewos Samson, and I’m running for State House District 58 to win affordable housing, universal healthcare, and an economy that works for working families. We can’t win this campaign without YOU. Click the link in our bio to get involved!

Disgusting. 11 months after bargaining, the mayor has not signed the firefighter’s union contract. ATL firefighters have some of the lowest pay in the SE. Unions deserve support from ATL leadership, but instead we ignore them just like the Republicans. atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/03/10/a...

Glad to see Fulton County moving forward on ACTION to reduce overcrowding at the jail. These steps will be a great compliment to the diversion resolution Council just passed, in particular the last chance diversion hub. No more excuses!

What is life after cars? 🚗❓Whether you’re a longtime advocate or just starting to question why getting around feels so hard, Life After Cars LIVE is for you. Get your ticket to this live event today: www.letspropelatl.org/life_after_c...! 🎟️

Our live show in Atlanta is on its way to selling out! We have some amazing guests for this one — @kelseabondatl.bsky.social @samformarietta.bsky.social and Beltline Kevin — and it's sure to be a very fun night. Get tickets: www.letspropelatl.org/life_after_c...

📢 Speak out for Diversion on Monday at City Hall! 📢 Join me at City Hall Monday for a press conference at 11:30AM in support of my first resolution, 26-R-3234, to expand diversion services ahead of the World Cup! Head inside afterwards to sign up for public comment.

Join us tomorrow at the Little 5 Points Community Center!

Love this attitude coming out of Fulton County! We can’t keep expanding the carceral system endlessly. We need to use every tool in the book to LOWER the jail’s population using diversion, increasing court staffing, and expanding mental health and housing services.

If anyone has questions beyond the pro-TAD propaganda numbers the city keeps releasing: only 18% of housing generated by TADs since 2014 was below 50% AMI, less than 10% below 30% AMI. This data is from Invest Atlanta.

My diversion resolution passed PSLA Committee today! On to the full Council meeting next Monday.

One of my goals of this Council term is to hold debate & discussion in a way that’s open and accessible to the public. You deserve that. If we can afford hours of proclamations on taxpayer time we can afford *minutes* of discussion, debate and Q&A.

Hear me talk Beltline Rail, the TADs, transparency, and democracy on Closer Look WABE with Rose Scott! 👇 www.wabe.org/atlanta-coun...

Let’s get Atlanta back on track with BELTLINE RAIL! 🚊🛤️ Join @atldemsoc this Saturday to speak with neighbors and residents about the future of green public transit in Atlanta! Sign up to canvass with us this Saturday 2/11 at 1pm! RSVP at atldsa.org/railcanvass 🔗

It’s live!

We can’t continue criminalizing poverty, homelessness, and mental illness. Instead, let’s fight for compassionate forms of public safety, and justice for all Atlantans — not just the wealthy who stand to profit from international events.

This resolution calls on APD to utilize the Center for Diversion Services to the greatest extent possible for eligible cases and to report data on the diversion to arrest ratio to City Council on a regular basis.

On average, only about three individuals per day are diverted to the CDS, even though the facility can serve 41 people at a time. Far too many eligible cases are not being diverted.

Since opening the Center for Diversion Services last year, data indicate that diversion referrals remain far below capacity. The CDS is a 24/7 facility designed to provide a safe, immediate alternative to arrest for individuals suffering from health needs or extreme poverty.

What’s happening at the jail is a human rights crisis and it’s morally imperative we leverage every tool to reduce the jail population. This means stepping up our use of pre-arrest diversion.