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Vine City Flooding Eased by $40 Million Atlanta Park - Capital B News - Atlanta After decades of damaging floods, Rodney Cook Sr. Park can now capture millions of gallons of stormwater, but residents say more work is needed.

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DeKalb County school board will meet to review policies following superintendent’s resignation The DeKalb County Board of Education will meet on Oct. 29 to discuss land, legal, litigation, personnel and student appeals, as well as review public comment on its policies, following the resignation of Devon Q. Horton as superintendent after a federal indictment.

DeKalb County school board will meet to review policies following superintendent’s resignation

The DeKalb County Board of Education will meet on Oct. 29 to discuss land, legal, litigation, personnel and student appeals, as well as review public comment on its policies, following the resignation of…

DeKalb County takes first step to form a community land trust. What’s next? As home prices soar out of reach for many residents, county leaders are assessing a new tactic to reduce housing costs.

DeKalb County takes first step to form a community land trust. What’s next?

As home prices soar out of reach for many residents, county leaders are assessing a new tactic to reduce housing costs.

A protester in Tucker, GA, in a blow up bee suit offers live flowers to fellow protesters.

Tucker, GA, had *at least* 4k folks!

A Supreme Court ruling on voting rights could boost Republicans' redistricting efforts A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to draw 19 more House seats.

As NPR reports, the Supreme Court is hearing a case on provisions of the Voting Rights Act which, if struck down, could allow Republicans to redistrict 19 districts in favor of the GOP -- possibly eliminating 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus. READ: https://loom.ly/sVtklII

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

This: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

@neonflag.bsky.social do you think the “Santa is Watching” signs relate to the announcement from DeKalb about its new FLOCK investment?

Not CITY LIGHTS

ICE, Homeland Security conduct workplace raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia Videos showed federal agents lining up workers at a battery plant under construction next to a site that makes electric vehicles and is one of the state's largest manufacturing facilities.

ICE, Homeland Security conduct workplace raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia share.google/uwORHeM3iDV8...

This is one way to completely destroy your economy and scare away all international business.

Why would anyone open anything there is this is what they have to deal with?

Because we all need a moment of joy.

FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.

I have a lot to say about this.

www.wired.com/story/fema-n...

Ahem.

I’ve always thought this.

As Cost-Burdened New Yorkers Give Up Pets, Shelters Turn Them Away

“…abt 1/3 of those were surrendered after their owners lost their housing or were forced to move into shelters. Other contributing factors: “a pandemic-era dip in the rate of spaying and neutering” + “the ⬆️ cost of veterinary care… as private equity firms acquire + consolidate smaller practices” 😢

Please make it stop

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

In 1965, the government recruited thousands of strapping high-school boys to replace Mexican workers on farms in Texas and California.

A lot of the boys went on strike. Others quit. The program "was considered a giant failure and was never tried again."

www.npr.org/sections/the...

"REMIGRATION"

An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life

WTF people

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...

The wildest part about us getting banned on instagram and threads and all meta platforms without warning or explanation is not even being able to get in touch with a human being about it.

Dystopian, Orwellian shit.

Opinion | Belarus Is a Warning

Gift link:
Belarus Is a Warning www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

Another mysterious anti-Trump sculpture appears on the National Mall This time, featuring clips of President Trump dancing. The White House was not amused.

Again, I would like to hug whomever this is. I hope one day, when it’s safe, we discover who it is!

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Border Patrol pizza box ads surprise Decatur pizzeria staff, diners Mojo Pizza N’ Pub, a neighborhood pizzeria in Decatur's Oakhurst neighborhood, wants no part in a campaign featuring Border Patrol ads on pizza boxes.

@ajc.com put it behind a paywall but an important read.

“We’ll use them in a bonfire.” 🔥

www.ajc.com/politics/202...

House torpedoes Rep. Al Green’s effort to impeach Trump over Iran strikes The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly torpedoed an effort by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) to impeach President Trump over the U.S. strikes on Iran, underscoring how little appetite Democrats have to try a…

One hundred-twenty eight Democrats voted with Republicans to table the measure: thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S. Sae Joon Park left for South Korea on Monday. His removal order was the result of drug possession and bail jumping charges from over 15 years ago — offenses that, he said, stemmed from untreated PTSD.

I am so saddened by my country.

Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.

www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g...

🤔

A very confused looking bird statue

He is all of us rn

How does one announce a non-Congressionally approved war on nuclear sites and in the same announcement call for peace?!

Congress, where ARE you?

A snippet of the article from The Guardian that mentions Carol Ruckdeschel.

“It’s kids learning. What is controversial about that?” —
Cathy Gorn

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

These signs have been appearing on light poles all over metro Atlanta. I would prefer not to guess why: if its you, ping me.