I remain a pretty hard "no" on this plan because:
1. There is no near-term deadline to extend TADs, so there shouldn't be any urgency.
2. The city under Mayor Dickens continues to have an awful project delivery record, and has literally $700M+ it has yet to spend from existing infrastructure funds
Kind of hard to choose between two political parties, both of which have factions of antisemites, TBH 🤷
Got this mailer today from the Keisha Lance Bottoms for Governor campaign. An oversized 20-page book. That's what I would call wasteful spending!
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Two ideas that I feel like are related: elect anti-corruption politicians and citizens will be happier to pay their taxes.
Justice means prison for the people who keep doing this with Trump’s tacit approval and the confiscation of every damn penny
One of the best pieces I’ve seen on the omnishambles of the FTC, by @masnick.com
www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/o...
So you're saying there really is no true Scotsman..
I just saw someone refer to that Trump as Jesus image as a "total apostrophy" - yeah, I guess you could say he was possessed in that moment.
Fani Willis couldn't help herself:
"The JQC’s hearing panel recommended last year that Williams be ousted from office, saying she’d inexcusably broken the law by jailing a young woman called to testify in her parents’ divorce hearing. Williams said she’d wanted to teach the 21-year-old a lesson..."
A supermajority is also a crucial requirement for real reform to take place in the US. That can't be put into place until early 2029.
Without real reform the are at risk of tepid reforms that do little or nothing to address the deep structural and systemic problem. /1
So how many of the national Dems who are supporting Keisha Lance Bottoms' race for Governor also supported Shawn Harris? Whatever the case, their support wasn't very visible, if there was any. That probably helped the Harris campaign. But what do I know? 🤷
Some politicians have fire in the belly. This one has a fire extinguisher.
Atlanta and Fulton County voters would do so well to demand and vote for better, better, better. For their own sake, for the sake of the State, and for the sake of the Democratic party.
Fani Willis is such a disgrace as a DA. Someone with better judgement better please primary her when she's up for re-election. www.ajc.com/news/2026/04...
Depluralize a movie.
Koyaanisqatsus
Hard to make it more obvious that a lot of people are now just saying “AIPAC” as not so veiled code for “the Jews”
Let's watch and see how the GA Democratic Party botches gifts like this one 🫣
An incredible gift to Georgia’s entire Democratic slate of candidates.
Feels like the only way to run and win this year is as a Democrat, but somewhat against the woke left and much against the party establishment at the same time. As this op-ed has it: run on anti-corruption, even if it means ruffling feathers within the party, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...
Call your lawmakers.
Hegseth accuses Iran of plagiarism
I like to think there was a time when we were all learning better things from enlightenment thinking.
Feels like low levels of trust and high levels of inequality are simply the natural outcomes of reaping what's been sown.
Why people compare this to the Constitution You’re noticing a real parallel in Enlightenment thinking: Political System vs Economic System: Competing factions balance each other Competing self-interests balance each other Power checks power Markets check greed No one faction dominates No one firm dominates (in theory) Both systems assume something similar about human nature: People are not perfectly virtuous So the system should channel imperfect motives into productive outcomes That philosophical symmetry is one reason the founders were heavily influenced by thinkers like Adam Smith.
I ask AI: I hear people talk about the wisdom of the founders for creating a system of government that gets opposing sides talking to one another.
And: I feel like I hear a similar sentiment about the US economic system as well, that greed is turned into a virtue.
This at a time when they could really use more talent to help them clear up that needlessly complex user interface.
Atlanta is a magnet for grifters and charlatans.
FulCo Commissioners get to appoint members to the Development Authority. One such appointee, newly bankrupt Real Housewife of Atlanta Pinky Cole, worked with election denier Brandon Beach to give Elon Musk a $10 million data center tax break.
When conservatives claim to interpret the "literal" words of the constitution, their intent is to interpret the constitution in the same way a genie interprets the literal words of a wish.
