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Huge congrats to Dr. Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard on being elected as Georgia’s next Public Service Commissioners. As Trump raises utility costs, this is a huge deal. They are the FIRST non-federal statewide Democrats to win in Georgia in nearly 20 years.

I do not think it is possible to believe that what we do is important at all if you are unwilling to even consider these questions. I repeat that as far as I'm concerned, what Kreis, Bernick, and Gowder have done is something to celebrate and aspire to. This stuff matters.

Andy Beshear Slams Gavin Newsom for Having Steve Bannon on Podcast “I don’t think we should give him oxygen on any platform — ever, anywhere,” the Democratic governor of Kentucky said of President Trump’s former chief strategist.

Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky sharply disagreed with a decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom of California to host Steve Bannon on Newsom’s new podcast this week, saying Bannon’s voice should not be elevated “on any platform ever, anywhere.”

The Mayor Office's announcement fulfills a key demand from the astroturfing NIMBY group Better Atlanta Transit and developer Portman Holdings just days after Dickens launched his reelection campaign.

Since the 2016 passage of the More MARTA referendum, exactly zero projects promised have opened!

Mr. Sood's death was not only tragic, but entirely preventable. I'm proud to join alongside CM Farokhi to not only demand the restoration of this crossing, but for Atlanta to reinvest in the Peachtree shared street experience that was promised to our citizens long ago.

🚨🚨 @evanbernick.bsky.social, @paulgowder.bsky.social, and I have published a draft of our article, 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, forthcoming in the online companion of Cᴏʀɴᴇʟʟ Lᴀᴡ Rᴇᴠɪᴇᴡ, on SSRN. Comments welcomed, as always! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Resurfacing the road, putting in extra wide car lanes, and not including a cycle track… which would connect two disjointed cycle tracks on the *same road blocks away from one another* was a mistake. @westmorelandatl.bsky.social @jasondozier.bsky.social @andreforatlanta.com

I think about this headline all of the time.

Worried about the measles outbreak in West Texas? This one-pot chili will make you feel like you're on the streets of Laredo.

Pedestrian death at Peachtree Center renews crosswalk safety debate Merchant killed by car at faded crosswalk after previous road safety measures were reversed.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens' unilateral decision to dismantle Shared Peachtree Street, a move that wasted millions in regional funding and ignored near-unanimous downtown business support, has claimed its first life.

Blood on his hands.

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Is that thing narrow enough for the protected one way bike lanes we have that need cleaning?

I would become the magnet man of bike lane cleaners and volunteer every week to drive that thing around

……come again?

I hold a lot of disdain for the people who didn’t see this coming given P2025 but it does seem like the actual support for these goals is nonexistent, everyone who voted for him did so under the incredibly stupid assumption that he wouldn’t do this

Front of marta CQ400 trainset

First look at the new marta CQ400 trainsets

Rail transit key to Downtown revitalization - SaportaReport Read Rail transit key to Downtown revitalization by Maria Saporta for SaportaReport here.

This is a good writeup, but something is missing.

All talk about "fixing the streetcar" needs to include the urbanism on the route. There's far too much land occupied by empty buildings & parking & unbuilt lots within two or three blocks of streetcar stops.

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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

You can the pedestrian-safety projects from the "Moving Atlanta Forward" tax we approved in 2022 listed here:
www.atlantaga.gov/home/showpub...

and here:
atldot.atlantaga.gov/maf-dashboard

But you won't see them on the actual streets. Is ATL DOT incompetent? Understaffed? We need to know.

My lawyer hot take is that the lawyers defending the birthright citizenship EO should be driven from the practice. They shouldn't know a day's rest and should never get to practice law again.

Users: We just want precise, Boolean searching. Or like, maybe just pull up the case when we type in its exact name.

Lexis/Westlaw: Okay, here is an AI assistant!

Report that Muchacho fired staff, including news article about owner opposing Beltline rail.

Can anyone confirm this report about Muchacho?

Firing staff for not coming to work on a day when MARTA buses aren't running due to icy roads 🤬 I don't know if any of the staff are transit dependent but it's the principal that matters. If conditions are too bad even for pro drivers, have a heart.

Everybody learns, from a pretty young age, that the Nazis were unfathomably evil, and they performed a “Nazi salute,” and this is something you don’t copy in your everyday life: bit.ly/4gdjnQe

Opinion | It’s time to deport the immigrants who are destroying America

by Elon Musk

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

“That’s crazy”

I'm a Georgia Law Professor. The YSL Trial Was a 'Drain on Everybody's Resources' A Georgia law professor and legal scholar opines why the YSL Young Thug trial had "issues from the start" and was a "drain on everybody's resources."

After yesterday's verdicts, I wrote for 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 as a semi-casual YSL trial observer. What do the events in Fulton County Superior Court indicate about our criminal justice system, constitutional values, and trust in institutions? Well, it's not so great. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...