George Chidi, Evil Reporter

I dont mean what brand ... I mean which specific store, like the McDonalds on Moreland in East Atlanta, or the Chik-fil-a on Ponce.

If you had to pick one fast food restaurant location to represent working class Atlanta, which one would you pick?

Explain.

I am writing a story about food and class in Atlanta. I'm looking for the fanciest holiday party you know about in the Metro area, for a piece in the Guardian.

Who should I ping?

The DC National Guard won't tell me if a formal operations order had been issued for the deployment to the streets.

If it exists, I'm going to find it. When I do, I'm going to remember who was jerking my chain around today.

White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism

It is unclear to me what The Guardian has done to merit this treatment. I assure you that, at least in my own effort, I will strive to rectify the oversight of being omitted from this list.

You seem nice.

Sharlto Copley in the Witcher is like watching Daniel Day Lewis play Bill the Butcher again. A remarkable performance.

The West Virginia governor has walked back his previous statement saying the guard troops had died. That is a holy shit error.

OH! The West VA governor has walked back the initial statement saying they were dead. That is a holy shit serious mistake on his part.

The tactics have been militarized. And due process is questionable. But I was a soldier for years, and I am reluctant to call this "war." I think it's happening under civil authority, still.

But right now, I am less worried about affixing political blame than seeing that the deaths themselves are not politicized. The family members of those two National Guardsmen must be treated with dignity by everyone. They are not a prop to be used to serve either a pro-Trump or an anti-Trump agenda.

But why would soldiers need to be drawing fire at all? There's no war. Violent crime was - and is - falling, and approaches two-generation lows.

They should never have been there in the first place. I think most people, including and especially most service members and veterans, understand that.

The reason we do not expose soldiers to civilian police activity is to maintain legal and practical distance between what is crime and what is war.

Soldiers wear uniforms to be distinguished from civilians, to draw fire away from civilians by presenting a "legitimate" target by the laws of war.

We are not in a war. Killing soldiers on a street corner in D.C. is an act of war only if you are a legitimate combatant. Calling it terrorism is charitable; it is simply murder. It is also what I've been worried about for weeks. Soldiers on the street can't police. All they do is present a target.

This is helping me define what working class and middle class actually mean.

Atlanta airport traffic, right now. Standstill for 15 minutes.

I'm old enough to still be shocked by this, even as tiresome as the lies are.

A lawyer might weigh in here, but my understanding is that straight up lies by a federal agency are still a crime.

False Statements Accountability Act (18 U.S.C. § 1001)
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As should be clear at this point: nothing the administration asserts without evidence should be trusted on its face. Not their activities, not the time of day. They view the propagation of disinformation as a policy goal, because they want media reports to be disregarded as unreliable.

Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance ICE and CBP’s North Carolina operation faced an early-warning system run by thousands of volunteers

My post on Reddit yesterday was worded poorly. I said "Charlotte's Web Isn't Done Yet." Should have been "CBP says Charlotte's Web Isn't Done Yet."

Because CBP was, in retrospect, plainly lying to the public. Again. A point I made in the story published today.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance ICE and CBP’s North Carolina operation faced an early-warning system run by thousands of volunteers

Clearly in retrospect, CBP was lying, a point I made in the story today.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance ICE and CBP’s North Carolina operation faced an early-warning system run by thousands of volunteers

"alleged"

That was me. Clearly in retrospect, CBP was lying.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

President.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, says she is resigning from Congress in January.

AAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA

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No.

The Mecklenburg sheriff said CBP quit Charlotte today. CBP neither confirmed nor denied. I asked the sheriff their source.

"I just know federal officials. We actually don't have any information. We don't receive any info from CBP. All we got was that they are leaving. Authoritative?"

It is not.

‘I lose my liberty in that moment’: Charlotte shuts down as citizens and noncitizens alike face ICE arrests As federal agents descend in North Carolina, businesses close as even an after-school program is targeted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...