Some of my favorite bike routes in Atlanta are streets with exactly the right amount of crappy paving to discourage cars

This antagonism is what allows media organizations to feel daring and progressive while publishing very conservative perspectives.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Why do so many "progressive" nonprofits end up acting like anti-labor oligarchs? Too many MBAs in management?

Will no longer donate to @propublica.org unless management behaves differently towards workers.

Cosigned!

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

How does this read if/when the president follows through on killing thousands of Iranian civilians? Wealth has been funneled to the top my whole life, we can take a second to care more about avoiding a genocide.

I mean, probably already some blood on your hands, but this is potentially another scale.

If you're in congress and you sit on your hands now, this should/is going to stick to you forever.

Two panels, first panel a baby Kim jong un plays with toy bombs, labeled “question everything” Second panel, woman in workout outfit, labeled “but yourself” An ad for equinox fitness

This is … incoherent, right?

You know how people go on The Price is Right in those custom t-shirts just in case they get to COME ON DOWN?!

This is like that.

Guys. You are still sitting in Trump’s studio audience, and you are still acting like he is Bob Barker

Reminder: "separate the art from the artist" is about literary analysis. It means your interpretation of a work is not invalidated by the author saying "nuh-uh". It does not mean "you can consume any media without guilt".

You are responsible for your choices. A misused phrase doesn't change that.

Yah, the wheels turn slow. Those blog posts are at least pretty thorough at least

Atlanta Beltline Design and Construction Updates: February 2026 Recent updates and photos of each of our Atlanta Beltline projects in design or construction for January 2026.

This is the latest I've read: beltline.org/blog/atlanta...
Segments 4+5 (by Glenwood) open April
Segments 2+3 (DH Stanton Park) open June

The NYT style guide

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

At least one cop in Kansas is going to demand that a driver pull down their pants, "just to check," before this is over.

A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.

Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

so what happens to all the collected tariff money?

A screen in s transit station that has scrolling information that block upcoming train times

The MARTA screens are dumb. The scrolling alerts block upcoming train times. This screen isn't even showing the next train arrival, this Doraville train is the second one coming. The number one thing a screen in the station should show is upcoming trains. #MARTA can you fix this? #transit #Atlanta

sadly i think they were cynical and ruthless enough to not use it. class solidarity with the rich perverts above all else

Thursday, January 29, 2026 Plan floated to end Ga. property taxes

This article is way too credulous about the practicality and impact of eliminating property tax editions.ajc.com/shortcode/AJ...

Dear @ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov. It’s abolish ICE. That’s it. Not a penny for Trump’s criminal gang. Ever.

Cannot repeat the Obama-era dodge of saying "we tortured some folks" and not holding accountable the torturers and especially the chain of command. You want to stop state-sanctioned crimes? Trials not words are the only way.

Thankfully, there wasn’t that much road ice today in town. But that’s gonna mean basically everything will be open tomorrow, and people are going to need to get to work.

Marta is on an “inclement weather service plan” (down to 9 bus routes) today and tomorrow (Monday). I’m not sure the forecast supports that.

it's boring as hell but data governance and regulation needs to be a central plank of Reconstruction 2

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:

‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

Bill Foege Tribute - The Task Force for Global Health A TRIBUTE TO DR. WILLIAM H. FOEGE 1936-2026 “Public health might be the greatest measure of kindness, the greatest measure of how to treat each other.” Dr. William H. Foege Task Force for Global Healt...

RIP Bill Foege - a heroic American whose public health leadership has saved countless lives and will keep saving lives for decades to come www.taskforce.org/bill-foege-t...