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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

A 200-person homeless encampment in Gainesville, GA, is being cleared this week. Many of those living in tents have jobs but can't afford rent.

One woman estimated she's been forced to move 20 times. "There's a lot of people who get checks that don't have enough money to get places," she said.

200-person homeless camp on community soccer field to be cleared

Many work full time but still can't afford housing.

www.wsbtv.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans.

(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)

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Extending gentrifying Atlanta’s tax districts for 25 years makes little sense

Atlanta's Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) have run their course and we should find more novel ways to spur prosperity, build housing and assist low-income residents.

www.ajc.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

www.thefarside.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is now going after Jack Smith.

You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 5d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2d

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do

Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

(It does not help that Pope John Paul II canonized Escrivá as a saint in 2002, in an absolutely terrible decision that is still causing repercussions, but again: I'm trying to keep this to the absolute basics. As usual for one of these threads, I swear this is the short version.)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

No, really. It was founded by Josemaria Escrivá in 1928 in Spain. Escrivá was closely tied to Franco's regime and was known to praise Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and support authoritarian dictatorships worldwide. Opus Dei members are tied to some of the worst human rights abuses of the 20th century.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Gimme an hour or two and then I'll explain why this is a "holy fucking shit" moment!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

it dramatically disrupts the flow of the money and removes the lay organization from their priests’ control

it really is huge

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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Eren Brumley @erenbrumley.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

www.nytimes.com

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Eren Brumley @erenbrumley.bsky.social · 2d

“Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 3d

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Patty Durand @pattydurand.bsky.social · 5d

The current PSC has never faced a rate hike they didn't approve or a dirty power plant they didn't greenlight (even though clean energy is now cheaper).

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Eren Brumley @erenbrumley.bsky.social · 5d

Early voting starts today. Roswell! Vote for me!

Advance Voting Hours
Tuesday, October 14 to Friday, October 31, 2025
Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Saturdays, October 18 and 25, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Sundays, October 19 and 26, from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Election Day:
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Eren Brumley @erenbrumley.bsky.social · 5d

Ditto

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6d

"Jody Reichel makes a living as a landlord and real estate investor with 21 properties in some of Fulton County’s lower-income areas... [She] lives in a 12-room house on Sandy Springs’ Carriage Drive valued by county tax assessors at $1.1 million."

John Ruch @johnruchatlanta.bsky.social · 6d

Some backstory: roughdraftatlanta.com/2017/10/02/s...

Sandy Springs council candidate’s rental homes draw praise, some citations

Sandy Springs City Council candidate Jody Reichel makes a living as a landlord and real estate investor with 21 properties in some of Fulton County’s lower-income areas. Some of Reichel’s tenants in A...

roughdraftatlanta.com

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Eren Brumley @erenbrumley.bsky.social · 6d

Image from “The good place”: first a woman says “fun fact: Columbus is in the bad place”, then she says “because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide”

Eren Brumley @erenbrumley.bsky.social · 9d

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12d

Democrats have been slow to respond to the prolfieration of right-wing information, misinformation and disinformation channels on WhatsApp. By this point, 70 percent of Latinos use WhatsApp and are more prone to disinformation exposure.
cisneros.columbian.gwu.edu/spanish-spea...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14d

One of the facts that should be mentioned is immigrants in the US without legal status still pay taxes in all sorts of ways, including the Medicare payroll tax, so it wouldn’t be “free health care.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14d

President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Here’s a closer look at the facts:

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

bit.ly

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