George Chidi, Evil Reporter
@neonflag.bsky.social
Journalist for The Guardian (and occasionally Rolling Stone) in Atlanta, covering politics and the odd Young Thug tidbit. Massive D&D nerd. Veteran. #AddToBlackSky Signal: George_Chidi.80
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I think that's my fucking beat at this point. George, what do you cover?
"Evil, motherfucker. I cover evil."
"Evil, motherfucker. I cover evil."
LIVE with Decaturish. Talking schools and elections in DeKalb. www.youtube.com/live/rRWtY4w...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I had a chat about the Epstein Files with the podcasters at The Guardian this morning. Kash Patel, Larry Summers and the NYT got some 'splainin to do.
Also, Jack Schlossberg, who is gonna get smoked by Micah Lasher like a sausage in the House race to replace Nadler. open.spotify.com/episode/0jYe...
Also, Jack Schlossberg, who is gonna get smoked by Micah Lasher like a sausage in the House race to replace Nadler. open.spotify.com/episode/0jYe...
The Epstein files are back to haunt Trump
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November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I had a chat about the Epstein Files with the podcasters at The Guardian this morning. Kash Patel, Larry Summers and the NYT got some 'splainin to do.
Also, Jack Schlossberg, who is gonna get smoked by Micah Lasher like a sausage in the House race to replace Nadler. open.spotify.com/episode/0jYe...
Also, Jack Schlossberg, who is gonna get smoked by Micah Lasher like a sausage in the House race to replace Nadler. open.spotify.com/episode/0jYe...
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ICYMI: How Atlanta communities are affected by and responding to SNAP cuts – including rescued food, reduced-price markets, food distros:
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Atlanta community members respond to SNAP cuts
The Trump administration cut funds to SNAP on Saturday, putting at risk the 1.4 million Georgians who depend on SNAP to feed their families,
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November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ICYMI: How Atlanta communities are affected by and responding to SNAP cuts – including rescued food, reduced-price markets, food distros:
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We are at that time of year when journalists write holiday stories: evergreen pieces that could theoretically run whenever an editor wanted. These stories are often ridiculous and glorious. I flex my writer muscles on them.
Free shot. Pitch the Guardian a story you wouldn't expect me to swing on.
Free shot. Pitch the Guardian a story you wouldn't expect me to swing on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We are at that time of year when journalists write holiday stories: evergreen pieces that could theoretically run whenever an editor wanted. These stories are often ridiculous and glorious. I flex my writer muscles on them.
Free shot. Pitch the Guardian a story you wouldn't expect me to swing on.
Free shot. Pitch the Guardian a story you wouldn't expect me to swing on.
As we contemplate the end of the shutdown, consider class issues here. Yesterday, I wrote that Democrats had been holding the line on the shutdown because they calculated that damage done to poor people on SNAP was acceptable to support working class people on the exchanges.
Trump changed the math.
Trump changed the math.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As we contemplate the end of the shutdown, consider class issues here. Yesterday, I wrote that Democrats had been holding the line on the shutdown because they calculated that damage done to poor people on SNAP was acceptable to support working class people on the exchanges.
Trump changed the math.
Trump changed the math.
This is some of the finest feature reporting I've ever seen. It's a poetic piece befitting the subject and a robust argument to kill public subsidies for a sport that kills horses and exploits workers.
Pulitzer material from my friend @noahshachtman.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Pulitzer material from my friend @noahshachtman.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | Dead Athletes. Empty Stands. Why Are We Paying Billions to Keep This Sport Alive?
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is some of the finest feature reporting I've ever seen. It's a poetic piece befitting the subject and a robust argument to kill public subsidies for a sport that kills horses and exploits workers.
Pulitzer material from my friend @noahshachtman.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Pulitzer material from my friend @noahshachtman.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Democrats effectively decided that the damage the shutdown does to the poor is worth it to defend the interests of the working class.
This isn't quite a criticism, just an observation. Working class Americans turn out to vote more predictably than the poor do. The shutdown is raw class politics.
This isn't quite a criticism, just an observation. Working class Americans turn out to vote more predictably than the poor do. The shutdown is raw class politics.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Democrats effectively decided that the damage the shutdown does to the poor is worth it to defend the interests of the working class.
This isn't quite a criticism, just an observation. Working class Americans turn out to vote more predictably than the poor do. The shutdown is raw class politics.
This isn't quite a criticism, just an observation. Working class Americans turn out to vote more predictably than the poor do. The shutdown is raw class politics.
WalMart's website allows third-party sales without a lot of vetting. Here's an example of how that is starting to work in practice: this racist T-shirt is on sale. Instructions to report it following.
#walmart #racism
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
#walmart #racism
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
WalMart's website allows third-party sales without a lot of vetting. Here's an example of how that is starting to work in practice: this racist T-shirt is on sale. Instructions to report it following.
#walmart #racism
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
#walmart #racism
www.walmart.com/ip/Paper-Bea...
My former partner in crime comes correct.
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Atlanta Is... | iHeart
From the underground clubs that birthed music that took over the world, to the hustlers who made the city a mecca for filmmaking, and the churches whose pastors influence politics, “Atlanta Is…” tells...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My former partner in crime comes correct.
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Sandwich Guy was acquitted.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sandwich Guy was acquitted.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
Juries are the last line of defense for democracy. The Constitution provides an absolute right to a jury trial, and if the crimes of the state are egregious enough, a jury will not convict those who stand against that state.
It is increasingly apparent to me that officials in the Trump Administration are operating under the presumption that they will be given a blanket pardon at the end of his term for any federal crime they commit while he is in office. So they ignore FOIA and record laws and whatever else they can.
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It is increasingly apparent to me that officials in the Trump Administration are operating under the presumption that they will be given a blanket pardon at the end of his term for any federal crime they commit while he is in office. So they ignore FOIA and record laws and whatever else they can.
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I really love this for them
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I really love this for them
What the fuck is this supposed to mean, Collins?
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What the fuck is this supposed to mean, Collins?
Decision Desk has called the Georgia PSC race for the Democratic candidates. The polls have been closed for 45 minutes. That's a drubbing.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Decision Desk has called the Georgia PSC race for the Democratic candidates. The polls have been closed for 45 minutes. That's a drubbing.
Democrats appear to have some advantages going into tonight's vote in Georgia on the PSC race, but only if presumptions about Black voters remain true. I remain dumbfounded that Donald Trump just about doubled his share of the Black vote in 2024, with the best Republican result in about 80 years.
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Democrats appear to have some advantages going into tonight's vote in Georgia on the PSC race, but only if presumptions about Black voters remain true. I remain dumbfounded that Donald Trump just about doubled his share of the Black vote in 2024, with the best Republican result in about 80 years.
The conversation about illegal immigration would be very different in America if the focus of federal law enforcement was on arresting and prosecuting corporate employers who hire undocumented workers.
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The conversation about illegal immigration would be very different in America if the focus of federal law enforcement was on arresting and prosecuting corporate employers who hire undocumented workers.
Colton Moore is an ass. He was also legally correct, I think, in asserting his right to attend the session. He might have even had a case against Keith Williams.
He is being represented by Catherine Bernard, an asshole legal troll, which probably dooms him. People who can deny her a win usually do.
He is being represented by Catherine Bernard, an asshole legal troll, which probably dooms him. People who can deny her a win usually do.
Georgia state senator pushes for arrest of House lawyer
The House speaker’s general counsel Keith Williams blocked state Sen. Colton Moore from entering the chamber during a joint session, grabbing and pushing him to the ground.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Colton Moore is an ass. He was also legally correct, I think, in asserting his right to attend the session. He might have even had a case against Keith Williams.
He is being represented by Catherine Bernard, an asshole legal troll, which probably dooms him. People who can deny her a win usually do.
He is being represented by Catherine Bernard, an asshole legal troll, which probably dooms him. People who can deny her a win usually do.
Trump is threatening to cut aid to Nigeria.
He is surfing social media which has alighted on the murderous attacks of Islamic extremists on Christians in the border regions between Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south.
He is surfing social media which has alighted on the murderous attacks of Islamic extremists on Christians in the border regions between Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south.
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump is threatening to cut aid to Nigeria.
He is surfing social media which has alighted on the murderous attacks of Islamic extremists on Christians in the border regions between Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south.
He is surfing social media which has alighted on the murderous attacks of Islamic extremists on Christians in the border regions between Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south.
Cuomo is auditioning for the role formerly played by Rudy Giuliani in American politics.
New York City has lower violent crime rates than any major city in the United States and most suburbs as well. New Yorkers understand why. Only someone who doesn't understand New York would run this ad.
New York City has lower violent crime rates than any major city in the United States and most suburbs as well. New Yorkers understand why. Only someone who doesn't understand New York would run this ad.
Jesus Christ this Cuomo ad that ran during the Army/Air Force game
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Cuomo is auditioning for the role formerly played by Rudy Giuliani in American politics.
New York City has lower violent crime rates than any major city in the United States and most suburbs as well. New Yorkers understand why. Only someone who doesn't understand New York would run this ad.
New York City has lower violent crime rates than any major city in the United States and most suburbs as well. New Yorkers understand why. Only someone who doesn't understand New York would run this ad.
We're getting mobbed in Pine Lake. Must have been 150 trick or treaters at my house so far. Costume game is solid.
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We're getting mobbed in Pine Lake. Must have been 150 trick or treaters at my house so far. Costume game is solid.
My vagueposting of the day: the fucking password, unencrypted in the machine, is the word "security."
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My vagueposting of the day: the fucking password, unencrypted in the machine, is the word "security."
Good column by Bill Torpy in the AJC today.
If there's some question about whether or not the administration's view of America looks like 1933 Germany, this answers it. The imagery in these pictures is something out of a white supremacist advertising campaign.
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
If there's some question about whether or not the administration's view of America looks like 1933 Germany, this answers it. The imagery in these pictures is something out of a white supremacist advertising campaign.
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
Labor Department’s anti-DEI campaign is Norman Rockwell meets Josef Stalin
The Labor Department's ad campaign, with numerous posters reminiscent of Russian propaganda, is part of a deliberate anti-DEI campaign being waged by the Trump administration.
www.ajc.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Good column by Bill Torpy in the AJC today.
If there's some question about whether or not the administration's view of America looks like 1933 Germany, this answers it. The imagery in these pictures is something out of a white supremacist advertising campaign.
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
If there's some question about whether or not the administration's view of America looks like 1933 Germany, this answers it. The imagery in these pictures is something out of a white supremacist advertising campaign.
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
I'm at Azalea Fresh Market at Five Points, having lunch. This place is going to get mobbed once the word gets out. Krog Street at regular person prices.
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm at Azalea Fresh Market at Five Points, having lunch. This place is going to get mobbed once the word gets out. Krog Street at regular person prices.