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Griffin Wasdin
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1% haterade // 39% property taxes are too low // 40% about infrastructure lifecycle budgeting // 15% anti-Stitch & other megaprojects // 5% trying to make the term “BeltLine St” happen.
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This is so exciting, two blocks away from where I live!

Hundreds of seniors will now have direct access to healthcare services and marta next door.

If only this building was five times its planned size!
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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This group is trying to prevent a church from building supportive housing for elderly disabled homeless residents.

People this heartless should not be taken seriously at any level.
Here is the website NIMBYs have set up to oppose a Permanent Support Housing project in Kirkwood. They would rather people sleep in the freezing temperatures outside than see this development be built on church property.
www.riseatl.org
RISE Atlanta
www.riseatl.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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In Fulton #GApol, data centers don't even need tax breaks (though most get them).
That's cos County Assessors only value them at 10-20% of what data center developers say they are worth.
Correcting this raises $48M this year. Another ~$140M/yr as $10 Billion more come on line.
NEW: 36 states lavish tax breaks on data centers. But just 11 of those states reveal the names of the companies getting the tax breaks, fewer disclose the value of the tax breaks, and NO state provides both estimated and actual jobs created. 1-
goodjobsfirst.org/cloudy-data-...
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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☝️Our polling data shows that district 2 voters are 2/3 in favor of rail, which lines up very neatly with our election results
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Here is the website NIMBYs have set up to oppose a Permanent Support Housing project in Kirkwood. They would rather people sleep in the freezing temperatures outside than see this development be built on church property.
www.riseatl.org
RISE Atlanta
www.riseatl.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Fuck it. Reboot as a multiverse, and bring back Timothy Dalton as the antagonist. Bond vs Bond.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reminder: these dumb pods are going to cost $200 per trip, so the economics is basically impossible that they are cost feasible. City leaders are basically spending money to subsidize a tech company.
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Entirely unserious
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is a video I think about EVERY TIME I drive the perimeter.
Some students drove the speed limit in all lanes of 285 back in 2007. Hilarity and rage ensued… youtu.be/OoETMCosULQ?...
A Meditation On The Speed Limit
YouTube video by Campus Movie Fest
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This is a campaign and a moment that I will never forget for the rest of my life. Thank you, a million times over.

Forever I love Atlanta.

#atlpol #atlroh
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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someone came for me yesterday when I said buckhead was the suburbs butttt like what else would it be sis? it may as well be forsyth county
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Terrible news on the council president election. Overstreet doesn’t deserve the promotion, and Dickens needed a counterweight. Happy about Kelsea Bond winning D2 and the statewide PSC election falling the right way.
Atlanta establishment prevails in city races, despite strong progressive challenges

Democratic Socialist Kelsea Bond scored an outright victory in crowded District 2 city council race, as five council and school board races head to runoffs
Atlanta establishment prevails in city races, despite strong progressive challenges
Democratic Socialist Kelsea Bond scored an outright victory in crowded District 2 city council race, as five council and school board races head to runoffs
atlantaciviccircle.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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defunding local schools is a horrible result for metro Atlanta. Kids can't vote and it is a real shame how few voters understand that having a representative government means voting on their behalf.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If anyone ever asks where Buckhead starts and stops, show them this map wow.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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May tonight mark the beginning of the end of every political dynasty that made life harder, nights darker, and the world more violent.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Rohit won over 70% of the vote in Atlanta-in-Dekalb.

And Andre massively underperformed his vote total in the rest of the city there.

The Eastside is fucking done with the Atlanta Way.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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With hefty leads in early returns, state and national Democrats declare victory flipping Georgia’s two Public Service Commission seats. The Democratic sweep would give the party its first statewide wins in nonfederal elections since 2006. #gapol
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Incredible that @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social already called it. Do y’all believe us now that Georgia is in play next year but only if we organize for it?
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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More like PSCya later am I right folks
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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UPDATE: I will appear alongside @peterhubbardga.bsky.social, the Democratic Candidate for Georgia Public Service Commission District 3!
SCHEDULE ALERT: I'll be joining @atlpresscollective.com's Election Night Livestream at 7pm ET to discuss some of my past reporting for @thexylom.com, including on the state of marta and the heavily watched Georgia Public Service Commission races.

Bookmark this link for tonight:
Election Night Livestream | Tue, Nov. 4, 2025
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Cities aren’t loud. Gas leaf blowers are loud.
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Would have been a yes on a homestead exemption that was means-tested.

But I am not giving a tax break to thousands of the very richest Atlantans.

We, as a society, have an obligation to fund public education. All of us. Tax breaks for wealthy seniors on this is a pernicious trend that needs stop.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Voting down a homestead exemption for wealthy seniors like
a basketball player with the number 5 on his shirt
Alt: a basketball player with the number 5 on his shirt
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM