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Eli @elium2.com · 6h

Atlanta CC D2: Kelsea Bond leads the field in cash raised by a good margin; they pulled in $102K in Q3 and have raised $217K total. Courtney Smith is in second; she raised $68K in Q3 and $214K total. Smith leads in spending, at $59K Q3/$84K total to Bond's $53K/$79K. #gapol

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Eli @elium2.com · 6h

Atlanta City Council President: CCI leader Rohit Malhotra leads councilmember Marci Collier Overstreet in both Q3 and cumulative funds raised and spent. Malhotra raised $227K in Q3 and $489K total to Overstreet's $196K in Q3/$402K total. Malhotra spent $200K/$221K to Overstreet's $101K/$124K. #gapol

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 1d

How long until the famous Reynoldstown Cybertruck is parking in the “traversable island”?

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 1d

Exurban sprawl developers LOVE to name a multi-big box project “Town Center” and then it’s a 4 mile, fully 90 minute walk including an interstate crossing from the actual town center.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor Tumlin (Marietta in NW suburban Atlanta) needs to go. In 2015, when observing a new development he had pushed to demolish apartments that housed low-income Brown & Black families, he said “It’s almost like a dream. It’s almost like it’s 1970 again." (See: #RedHotCity)

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 2d

A @runforsomething.net race to keep an eye on: Sam Foster, a 24 year old community activist, running for mayor in Marietta, GA, against a 78 year old incumbent who's been holding the office for 15 years & vetoed a resolution on Juneteenth, among other things. www.mdjonline.com/opinion/arou...

AROUND TOWN: Youth vs. experience: Foster challenges Mayor Tumlin in heated Marietta race

The Marietta mayoral race is heating up as candidate Sam Foster has turned to punchy videos on TikTok and Instagram to sharpen his challenge to longtime incumbent Steve “Thunder” Tumlin.

www.mdjonline.com

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 2d

Scientific polling. In-person meetings are DEEPLY unrepresentative without doing extensive work to ensure demographic representation.

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vladimir.theatl.social @vladimir.theatl.social · 2d

Yeah I made that distinction a little more on the blog.
"Some seniors are displaced purely due to financial need, and they are disproportionately renters rather than home owners. This policy does nothing for them."

safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/10/vote...

Vote Against Fulton County Ballot Measures to defund Fulton County Schools

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 2d

Old people? You mean the people hoarding all the wealth?

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vladimir.theatl.social @vladimir.theatl.social · 2d

this is not an anti-displacement housing policy, it is about defunding schools. Especially for Fulton County.

Voting against the exemptions, but I'm pessimistic.

atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/09/24/a...

On metro Atlanta ballots: New property tax breaks for seniors?

Three ballot measures would establish new homestead exemptions for homeowners over 65.

atlantaciviccircle.org

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 2d

How does he blame bike lanes for this situation?

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently Dungeons and Dragons. Not sure where these 38 year old D&D diehards were when I was 15, but they’ve infiltrated all my friend groups and group chats now.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 4d

Between this and the convocation center parking deck (both added to the area with the HIGHEST ratio of parking to everything else), GA State is really showing their DNA as a commuter college.

Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 4d

Continuing to use this much land for surface parking -- next to MARTA's only significant expansion of high capacity transit (Summerhill BRT) in 25 years -- seems like a ridiculous waste.

We have to get serious about matching transit investments with growth in walkable density in Atlanta.

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 4d

Continuing to use this much land for surface parking -- next to MARTA's only significant expansion of high capacity transit (Summerhill BRT) in 25 years -- seems like a ridiculous waste.

We have to get serious about matching transit investments with growth in walkable density in Atlanta.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4d

INBOX: a second windowless self-storage facility has hit the intersection of Atlanta's Piedmont Park and BeltLine Eastside Trail, thanks to the years-long concerted effort of the Atlanta Botanical Garden to exploit a clerical error by City Council that temporarily erased a ban on such structures.

Poll: How bad is this new self-storage facility overlooking Beltline?

Say hello to great big walls at doorstep of Piedmont Park, too!

atlanta.urbanize.city

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Mike B @madhominem.bsky.social · 5d

"I'm ok with contributing fractions of cents of my taxes so that other people don't die"

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 5d

I wasn’t personally a fan, but I can empathize with the love and sadness - which I myself experienced with the closure of Carver’s in 2013. Ponce has grown and changed a lot, and I look forward to the next chapter of this parcel. I hope whatever it becomes earns the same kind of love as Eats.

austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 5d

after 33 years, Eats is closing. what an absolute bummer for ATL.

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Platlanta @platlanta.bsky.social · 5d

God damnit. The first domino was Dekalb cops arresting a journalist and now we’re here.

ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 6d

Bizarre story! And it highlights the problems with GA's laws about LLCs: we can never really know who owns property in the city because the state offers them so much protection.

Knowing who owns land is important for cities. Meaning: this is another way the state prevents cities from succeeding.

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 6d

This is NUTS. The reason the old Hand in Hand has been sitting empty for so long is because it’s a f#cking money laundering scheme for a f#cking Russian oligarch!

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 6d

I’d also like to hear about trains. How can the PSC support MARTA especially after the failure of the proposed Clayton commuter rail? Can the PSC help cities manage overly long trains blocking at-grade intersections for extended periods? How can the PSC support new regional line development?

Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 6d

What does he see for the future of natural gas in GA? Can the PSC leverage Southern Company’s ownership of both Georgia Power and the former Atlanta Gas Light to create a decarbonization offramp to reduce natural gas as an energy source?

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 6d

How does he compare GA’s regulated utility model vs deregulated energy markets in other states? What best practices in other states should GA adopt? What best practices should we share? Does he believe the regulated model is or can become the best option for GA ratepayers?

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John R. Bennett @johnreidbennett.bsky.social · 7d

This is terrific.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 7d

Genuinely thought you were talking about present day until the second half of that post.

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Julian Bene @julianbene.bsky.social · 7d

It's a $5 Billion tax hike on Atlanta residents to create a mayoral slush fund.
The entire promise, when the TADs began, was that our Schools & Public Services would get a big revenue boost after 25 years. Now residents are hung out to dry?
#GApol
www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/30/c...

Atlanta mayor unveils $5 billion neighborhood reinvestment plan

The Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative will begin in seven neighborhoods the city says suffer from historical disinvestment.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

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