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Now would seem to be the critical time when all Southern leadership could join in setting an example of acceptance of the right of qualified persons to vote. This would seem a simple and easy thing to do.
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
April 23, 1960
January 2021: Thank you Georgia! You made real change in our nation possible.
March 2021: Fuck you rednecks! I am not going to film/work/visit/patronize your state. I will keep my money in New York and California, states without highly problematic political leaders.
I have an outside-the-box idea about what we should do with a turnkey hospital facility.
And y'all hear me out.
HOW ABOUT WE FIGURE OUT HOW TO OPEN IT UP AS A FUCKING HOSPITAL AGAIN!
Somebody puked in a stall at the Benz and my son said "They must've drank too much Sprite and eaten too much candy" and I don't ever want him to grow up and lose his innocence.
The Grant Park Neighborhood Association is poised to pass a resolution that "reject[s] a proposal by the Atlanta Police Foundation to locate its proposed public safety training facility at the site of the former Honor Farm (aka Old Atlanta Prison Farm)."
Our mission at
@RickStevesEur
is to help Americans understand the world through travel. But when we bring travelers to Russia, we also bring their dollars — dollars that would support Putin’s aggression.
We have now canceled all 2022 tours to Russia:
57 shots to the body.
No body camera footage.
No gunpowder residue on the victim's hands.
@TheJusticeDept
needs to take over this investigation from the
@GBI_GA
now.
They say local newspapers are dying because of the internet, but I choose to believe it's because they aren't fully leveraging potential income streams.
For example, your newspaper could double as the PR arm of the local police department.
#BREAKING
: The personal diary of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, an activist who died after exchanging fire with police near the site of the planned public safety training center, was filled with phrases such as “Cop cars love being on fire;” “Prisons were built to be burnt down,”
Governor Kemp and Chris Carr appear to be setting up crime as their top issue.
So, plan on lots more disingenuous rhetoric characterizing Atlanta as a violent hellhole in the coming years.
But also, in 2022 violent crime was down 8% in Atlanta. And is down 21% so far this year.
Herschel: [incomprehensible word salad]
Georgia Political Commentariat: Wow. I am impressed. Not once in that answer did he say that Stalin built a time machine to try and murder Ben Franklin. He looks polished, and dare I say it, senatorial.
It's not feasible for to seize all the AR15s.
How about this:
Govt will buy back at fair price.
You don't have to sell, but if you keep the gun you have to register it. If you don't -
felony.
You can't sell it. If you do - felony.
Nobody else can fire it. If so - felony.
ATLUTD Supporters: Get some good players and win games.
ATLUTD: We are doing a crazy cool kit reveal event.
Supporters: Plz just win.
ATLUTD: Get tickets now for our exclusive Block Party at Underground.
Supporters: Win
ATLUTD: [cute tweet of dog]
Supporters: [die waiting]
All the dudes on here talking about how their guns are the only thing keeping the government from putting us all in concentration camps are definitely the same dudes who would willingly sign up to be the guards at those concentration camps.
20 years ago somebody gave Chase Oliver a copy of Atlas Shrugged and now Georgians have to be subjected to another month of political advertising hell.
Real butterfly flaps its wings shit.
In which the AJC again fails to disclose that the Chairman and CEO of its parent company is the single biggest booster for the razing of the South Atlanta Forest in order to build the police training facility despite the existence of alternative sites.
Q: What was the first facility built in anticipation of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
A: The Atlanta City Detention Center, which was used to shield the city's image by incarcerating the homeless, sex workers, and others while our visitors from around the world were in town.
A vote seems like a way for Mayor Dickens to get out of the political quagmire he is in.
So what do we think Governor Kemp is holding over his head to make him to continue to cap so hard for the police training facility?
(a) Buckhead City 2.0
(b) State Airport Takeover
(c) Both
A Kelly Loeffler Story in Two Tweets
Unpaid mostly black athletes should get out there and play!
[one hour later]
The Masters is absolutely right. America's oligarchs should watch from the safety of their homes.
As a Fulton County resident and lawyer, I just really can't get hyped for these Trump indictments.
It's important work, but it also feels like Fani is running for Governor.
Between this and YSL our criminal docket has ground to a near halt.
All while men die in Rice Street.
Atlanta voters may not agree on Cop City, BeltLine rail, and a host of other issues.
But I think we all agree that these staggered, off-year Atlanta School Board elections are just the dumbest possible idea.
@bluestein
Greg, I specifically asked to be quoted as "local political idiot," but it appears you have failed to honor my request and instead went with "Atlanta attorney."
Hit a run on the South River Trail in DeKalb County. Saw several deer and turtles.
I don't think
@atlcouncil
realizes that the South River Forest is part of a contiguous wild space that runs from ATL to Jackson Lake in Butts County.
It can't be replaced by planting a few trees.
The Battery is located directly at the intersection of two interstates and is 14 miles from Downtown Atlanta.
This is located two miles off a state highway (GA-400) and is 31 miles from Downtown Atlanta.
Channel 2
@wsbtv
EXCLUSIVE -- New project in Forsyth County, bigger than The Battery, with new 18,500 seat arena, could be home to newest NHL team in Georgia
I feel it is my duty to remind everyone that
@kwanzahall
is a cryptocurrency shill and political grifter who endorsed Governor Brian Kemp and Coup Conspirator Burt Jones.
Putting the logo of a gas station or restaurant that is more than a half mile off the exit on one of those highway signs should be a war crime punishable under the Hague Convention.
"We have the lowest violent crime rate in the city, but I think we can pull resources from other parts of the city and drive it even lower!"
- Mary Norwood, probably
Council member
@marynorwood
unveiled new patrols in Buckhead’s corridors. This initiative is part of a partnership between Buckhead organizations and several law enforcement entities. Read full press release here:
I am not so sure that Beth from Ohio in the comments, who somewhat racistly thinks KLB and Stacey are besties, has the inside scoop when she predicts that KLB is gonna run for Lieutenant Governor.
"With the fatal stabbing, five Fulton County inmates have died in recent weeks, and the notoriously dangerous jail is under review by the U.S. Justice Department."
This is why so many of us in Atlanta took no pleasure from the bookings and mugshots.
If you want to witness demand for wild public lands near urban cores obliterate supply, then take a visit to Sweetwater Creek State Park on a beautiful spring Sunday.
More State Parks. More National Parks. More public land preservation. Now. Please.
I hate that all the images of the forest we are seeing these days are of destruction.
If you have photographs from the South River Forest from the before times, I encourage you to share them.
This is some Cub Scouts on a hike in the forest in September of 2019.
Good morning.
If anyone other than Alabama wins the National Championship me and my fellow Georgia Bulldogs are going to be insufferable.
Only kidding. We'll be insufferable regardless.
Oh y'all are seeing President Biden in a parking lot in Gwinnett?
Cool. Cool.
I was super into him when he was the Democratic Candidate for President.
Even saw him at Lakewood in 2020.
But his new mainstream stuff seems pretty good too.
Drinking smuggled beers, rocking a t-shirt and cutoffs, and smacking a stupid white ball around the local cow pasture with my mainest man. Love this place's entire vibe.
@BravesAndBirds
If only there was a university with many, many lawyers on Twitter who have spent decades crafting significantly more convoluted arguments to explain away their programs various and sundry shortcomings.