Timothy Pratt

‘We told you it was coming': Developer never fulfilled its promises to DeKalb for land swap. Now it wants to sell Five years after DeKalb County swapped land with developer Blackhall, a public park remains closed and in disrepair.

In 2024, my "Cop City" reporting for @thexylom.com won me an Atlanta Press Club Award.

Now, @wabe.org confirms what we knew all along: DeKalb County's parkland swap and open contempt of a judge's order to reopen said park has led to no new park but one emboldened Republican now running for Congress

CAAT - Homepage Campaign Against Arms Trade

Arms industry gains across the board since the attack on Iran. I did a quick search:

Raytheon +4.7% ($12.7bn)
Northrop Grumman +4.1%
Lockheed Martin +4%
Palantir +5.8%
Gains for Renk, Leonardo, L3 Harris (for IDF)

UK: £83bn arms export around the world since 2008
caat.org.uk

Osprey=me, barracuda=Monday.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

ICE Deaths in Custody | UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project works to increase transparency and accountability in the US carceral system by compiling and researching data on deaths in custody.

new dataset tracking every ICE detention death since 2003 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...

(1/24) 🧵 Many people asked me for more information after my thread yesterday on the Tijuana River Valley health crisis. So here goes — what our @airborne.ucsd.edu team has found, and why no one should be forced to breathe this toxic air for another day.

Great reporting in the classic foreign correspondent mold…

Event / Conflict Year Volume Lost (MBP Hormuz Blockade (Current) 2026 ~20.0 Iranian Revolution 1978 5.6 Yom Kippur War (Embargo) 1973 4.4 Iraq-Kuwait War 1990 4.3 Iran-Iraq War 1980 4.0 Russia-Ukraine Invasion 2022 1.0 - 3.0

The largest oil supply shock in history in million barrels per day terms. Well done, Trump.

Marines go ashore in Vietnam - UPI Archives

61 years ago today...

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The Iranian women’s soccer team is in danger, and many are asking Australia to give them shelter to save them from detention and potential execution in Iran for the crime of not singing the national anthem before one of their matches. What a sequence of words to have to write.

The horror Israel/US has unleashed on Iran is going to unfold over time, over generations x.com/arianajasmin...

FUCK U @jaketapper.bsky.social. Pulling out of an illegal war would be supporting the troops you anti-democratic and bloodthirsty shill

Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran

- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact

- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures

- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Al Jazeera cracked this "enigma":

This school had many daughters of military officers and soldiers. The idea was to attract them to the school, strike it to draw in rescuers and relatives, and then strike it again to kill them.

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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Just two weeks ago Markwayne Mullen called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” and said he understood why his neighbor assaulted him. Now he has to be confirmed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee — chaired by none other than Rand Paul.😂🤣🤪🤡

5 Library Wins Worth Celebrating | American Libraries Magazine American Libraries highlights five recent victories for libraries, library workers, and their communities.

#2: Jones gets an apology in a Louisiana defamation case

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After jail, house arrest and an ankle monitor, a reprieve for a ‘Cop City’ protester: ‘The process was the punishment’ With no conviction, John Mazurek’s felony arson case for allegedly torching police motorcycles will finally be resolved

Accused of arson, finally pled to lesser chg and probation: "..case was never about justice for an alleged crime. It was about instilling fear in a strong movement"

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@willpotter.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @micahh.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social

Countdown to launch. T-minus 10 days (but your book will arrive before that). #BookSky

Unfortunately, this book is all too relevant in our current political moment. Help spread the word.

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What if an Iranian drone lands squarely on Tate’s head

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

No one has ever liked us, it won't change now or going forward.

Arsenal together.

I watched it recently for first time as well! It was a whole vibe, a great story worth all its praise!

The occupation's threat to the southern suburbs of Beirut includes Palestinian refugee camps Burj al-Barajneh and Shatila, up to 100,000 Palestinians

#Palestine #Lebanon

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Once Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran, Israel closed the crossings into Gaza and cut off all aid. Palestinians in the Strip now fear a return to famine amid food shortages and soaring prices.

like is it mark or is it wayne