ending support for beltline rail at this stage means the beltline was just a well branded, bold-faced lie with the goals of rampant gentrification, lining developer pockets and mass displacement of (mostly) black residents because without rail that's all the beltline will ever do
Mayor Dickens has walked back on Beltline rail, now saying that analysis will decide if the path gets rail or "rubber tires," "small pods" or nothing at all. Similarly, Beltline chief Clyde Higgs says their "position on all things transit" is yet to come.
my transition was forever improved by Annihilation. the book expanded my imagination just enough to allow me to dream of the woman i wanted to be. the idea of fighting against ones circumstances and body to become something previously inconceivable is so powerful
@jeffvandermeer
cop city is their priority meanwhile they can’t keep water inside pipes, something ancient romans basically figured out.
@andreforatlanta
guess the atlanta way is militarize the police to squash our inevitable water riots
in case anyone forgot, the following beltline businesses are against beltline rail
- Ladybird Grove and Mess Hall/Ranger Station
- Muchacho
- Electric Events catering
- Rathbun Steak
- KR Steakbar
- Two Urban Licks
- Bully Boy
- Tap
- Lingering Shade Social Club
- The Ice Box
@borgposting
WORK AND LIFE BECOME INSEPERABLE. CAPITAL FOLLOWS YOU WHEN YOU DREAM. TIME CEASES TO BE LINEAR, BECOMES CHAOTIC, BROKEN DOWN INTO PUNCTIFORM DIVISIONS. AS PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION ARE RESTRUCTURED, SO ARE NERVOUS SYSTEMS.
Atlanta Police staging protest inside of
@atlcouncil
finance meeting on Cop City. Roughly 10% of the police department has been deployed to coerce the vote of the representatives and to prevent civilians from speaking up against allocating tens of millions in public funds.
the sheer amount of money APD spends on deployments against protesters / in defense of cop city would probably make any atlanta resident sick to their stomach
RIGHT NOW: Mayor Andre Dickens, with Atlanta’s Police Chief & Fire Chief, launches the city’s summer safety plan, coined ‘Operation Heat Wave.’
Quite the backdrop including a helicopter and horses.
Dickens has already addressed yesterday’s 2 shooting incidences.
@ATLNewsFirst
BREAKING: At USC’s Gaza solidarity encampment, protestors surround an LAPD car and successful de-arrest a student. Brutal crackdown by police is ongoing but the students are undeterred
st. marks aka area x was gorgeous and then some… rain cleared completely as i drove up to the lighthouse with salt marsh on all sides as far as the eye could see. glad i could make my pilgrimage. thanks
@jeffvandermeer
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this chud follows matt walsh, jk rowling, ben shapiro just to name a few but is couching their whole shtick in "well i want to share MY experience as a confused smol bean who was gr00med"
something something positive disintegration, how much can you change before you become someone else, when is it good to become someone else for your own sake, etc
taking a train from atl to nyc and i am
having the time of my life. sleeping was a bit of an adjustment last night after boarding at midnight i never wanna fly again
@jeffvandermeer
not to keep harping on a book that came out in 2014 and that i've only ready on audiobook 10 times, but i can say honestly i wouldnt be at this part of my transition without this book. i've wanted to write this essay forever but i havent gotten around to it
bro the amount of fuckin cupcake-only retail businesses atlanta has…. y’all gotta be laundering money because i know this market can’t support this many
Coming to Colony Square in December, Cupcakin' will feature 15 to 18 cupcake flavors daily, including red velvet, key lime pie, Madagascar bourbon vanilla, and chocolate raspberry with an Oreo crust:
we are very focused on making sure that we continue to move down a path that leads to a bridge, where we'll have to answer riddles three with real data for safe passage, then we are taken to the center of a labyrinth in an autonomous pod and we will have to find our way out of th
JUST NOW: Mayor Andre Dickens just clarified his stance surrounding transit ON the BeltLine.
"We want transit on the BeltLine, that's my interest. I want folks to be clear about that because it seems like there's some uncertainty about where my interests lie."
@ATLNewsFirst
there should be studies done on how quickly inman park/o4w/poncey-highlands areas were invaded by legions of tesla-driving, suburban lunatics who have cobb county-ass politics
Went to an Inman Park nhood meeting last night on BeltLine transit. While I don't think the streetcar extension is perfect, it was pretty shocking to hear folks in opposition act like the project was being forced on the city, rushed, with no input etc. 1/x
$55k??? what an insulting JOKE, that's barely one salary... that's literally .02% of your $236 million police budget...
@andreforatlanta
once again you should be ashamed and laughed out of town
Mayor
@andreforatlanta
proposed $55,000 in funding to support Atlanta’s transgender community.The funding represents the City’s single largest investment in the transgender community to date & was introduced via legislation sponsored by CM
@WestmorelandATL
i've said it before and i'll say it again, you really have to be a pathetic little worm to be against beltline rail. just say you hate living in a city and go bitch
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff became one of the highest-profile Democrats to endorse the need for a new public safety training complex in Atlanta, though he stopped short of backing the specific project that Mayor Andre Dickens has championed.
#gapol
#atlpol
in 2016 i tried bumming a cig from a guy seated facing away from me outside octane in grant park (rip octane) only to have jon hamm turn around and politely offer me an american spirit yellow. later he took a group pic with the staff.
all they seem to do is host vapid “exhibitions” meant to elicit instagram posts from hordes of out of towners clogging up surrounding streets. whether it’s the “stranger things experience” or the “balloon exhibit” it’s all a cynical cash grab that does nothing for kirkwood
@Variety
nobody was asking to hear from her, nobody was curious about her take, this isn't newsworthy, it's just fun for some bigot at variety to beg the question
@aidannilsen
@LawndrySauce
@mwgarbett
@cardenonwheels
@BATransit
Better Atlanta Transit is an organization focused on supporting alternative transportation projects and policies in the City of Atlanta.
That would include protected bike lanes, new streetcar routes, high-speed rail, BRT, and good sidewalks. 🚲👨🏽🦽🛴🚍🚇
you know what? this has me longing to be 21 again. what a silly, foolish age to be just as you've developed the vocabulary required to be a huge piece of shit
@jeffvandermeer
thank you for writing it, truly, and for making it a journal. really shifted my internal dialogue and approach to my own biology because of that!
joyce's pathetic justification about the current APD facility being a complete dump is further proof that we CANNOT give APD 150 more acres worth of concrete and structures to ruin. maintain the buildings you have, that's what you expect of everyone else. EARTH IS BURNING
🚨BREAKING: The company responsible for the cargo ship that destroyed the Baltimore bridge has a history of suppressing employees who voice safety concerns.
Regulators sanctioned the company last year for retaliating against whistleblowers.
i grew up in a rural food desert in north georgia where the only stores for miles were gas stations so it pleases me that krispy krunchy is getting its due