Development team calls Brownsville Pointe project neighborhood improvement “without displacement”
https://atlanta.urbanize.city/post/brownsville-pointe-south-atl-groundbreaking-mixed-use-front-door
Graphic for event on March 3 at Auburn Ave Research Library for paperback launch of There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone, in conversation with Josie Duffy Rice. Begins at 6:30pm, doors at 6pm.
Atlanta friends, hope to see you tomorrow night at the Auburn Avenue Research Library.
Free and open to all. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/there-is-n...
Happy Casimir Pulaski Day, ya filthy animals.
youtu.be/TfEkDqP34xo?...
Yes! I was in Manhattan last spring, post congestion pricing, and the noise was so human scale. The streets felt vibrant and oddly peaceful. So much better
IF ONLY ATLANTA HAD THE MONEY TO BUILD A SIMILAR PROJECT WITH TRAMS ON GRASS, SEPARATED FROM CARS 👀
If AI is so amazing and is going to create so much value, why do they need +$2.5 billion in tax incentives to build data centers? This is just for GA, over $2.5 billion.
A blesséd pigeon with a golden halo and golden details over its body. Painted over purple in acrylic
Today's pigeon is based on a photo by @banditelli.org, and also a GOLDEN GOD
Also: I'm thrilled to share that there will be a paperback launch event in Atlanta with the incredible @jduffyrice.bsky.social and Charis Books. More on that soon.
Go to bed; tired is stupid.
I hear this, and I see the connection with any local work that helps to connect people, that pushes our city to be better, to build for everyone, not just the rich.
Your work, which helps people imagine a more safe, vibrant city where people can move freely, helps build democracy here. Thank you.
Reupping my "Abolish ICE" Congress tracker. Right now, only one Minnesota Member of Congress (@repilhan.bsky.social) and one white Member of Congress (@repmcgovern.bsky.social) have publicly called for abolishing ICE:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
bsky.app/profile/alex...
"Sentator ___,
Vote no on any appropriations bill that funds ICE. ICE murdered another person this morning in Minneapolis. The agency is corrupt and lawless to its core and cannot be redeemed. It must not receive any more funding, and must ultimately be completed eliminated as a government agency."
Wasn’t expecting the GA shootout in the final comment
Mayor Dickens Unveils Transformative Plan for Equitable Access to Transit… Finally connecting Downtown to the Beltline via the Streetcar East Extension via the Streetcar East Extension at grade at Irwin St NE in Phase I of streetcar/light rail construction.
courtneyenglish4atl • There was no secret backdoor meeting. The Mayor has made his position clear. Hell, the AJC has covered it. We support rail, just believe Southside should go first because thats where the need is. And as far as the committee you're referencing, it’s mandated by the More MARTA program and has existed for for almost a decade.
March 2025 *official announcement*: PHASE ONE is the Streetcar East Extension to the Beltline
Jan. 2026: The Southside should go first, stop all work on the Streetcar East Extension
🥴 “The Mayor has made his position clear” 🥴
Honestly all Denmark needs to do is to withdraw all Ozempic exports to the US and Americans will finally revolt
Colored-pencil card drawings of Muhammad Ali
Remembering Muhammad Ali, born on this date in 1942
Atlantans - please sign this petition for Fulton County Commission to fully fund supportive housing (housing for homeless individuals). There are hundreds of people that are at risk of losing their housing because of this budgetary decision.
www.change.org/p/keep-peopl...
Regarding Atlanta’s proposed TAD extensions & Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiative, effectively a trust fund:
We may have ~$1.4 Billion+ through existing end dates.
Why not make the trust fund now?
Need the $ due to botched budgeting & project delivery? That’s a tough ask…
What’s the last car you took a photo of?
Christmas car at the Louisville airport
If you want more on elevator costs in the US vs the world, this was a great episode 🤓 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...
Digital illustration of an anthropomorphic champagne bottle, green glass, yellow label, gold neck ring and gold foil wrapped around the neck. The bottle is down on its little knees. The label is just an insane, furious face, mouth wide in rage and frustration, furious drool running down the bottle below. Is holding its tiny fists aloft as it lands back to howl at the implacable heavens and one fist grips a filled glass champagne flute. A cork is nowhere to be seen as, in its impotent fury, the bottle has blown its top and a frothy gout of sparkling wine is erupting out through the foil wrapped neck. Manic, messy red lettering fills most of the blue background reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
A cute mackerel tabby cat sitting on a towel
The cutest little tabby cat with her stuffed toast
Our sweet little Trixie the tabby cat is still in the wild here in the Ormewood Park/Glenwood Park neighborhood of #Atlanta… last seen Sunday morning.
Please be on the lookout or RT, and contact me if you think you may have seen her. 🙏😿 She is a chipped, indoor cat with no collar.
Revisit
Fascinating 40 part thread.
Imagine if every member of Congress had this kind of expertise!
Thank you for this!
In an ecosystem disrupted by federal volatility, Atlanta leaders will be judged not by their rhetoric, but by their willingness to act — to upzone where it’s uncomfortable, to tax where it’s overdue, and to preserve affordability before it disappears.
For @atlantaciviccircle.org:
seize the means of prediction
