mathbrook.bsky.social
@mathbrook.bsky.social
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Atlanta DSA is entering the most consequential moment in our history. We have to meet this moment. For Atlanta DSA's officer elections, we're running experienced organizers with a record of success leading efforts to build our party, build worker power, and win real change for working people!
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Anyone who spends a lot of time at young conservative conferences can tell you this is fairly common. Or who goes to a happy hour in D.C. for AEI, Heritage or any of the other big conservative think tanks.
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Did the Mamdani-Trump meeting preview a new kind of “bottom vs top” politics? Does Marjorie Taylor Green transcend political labels? Is it time to move beyond "left vs right" entirely?

No! Organizer @blimpjuice.bsky.social on the only two sides there are: powermapmag.com/it-is-about-...
It Is About Left vs Right - Power Map Magazine
Stop falling for the oldest marketing trick in the book.
powermapmag.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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May be posting these slides a lot in the next few weeks/months...

Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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MLT City Council voted 6-0 to cancel the contract w/ Flock Safety.

“We’ve heard from our residents about the many troubles & challenges that this has this possibility of bringing. I think it’s time to pull the plug,” said Mayor Pro Tem Bryan Wahl.

#MyMLTNews #MLTNews

mltnews.com/time-to-pull...
‘Time to pull the plug’: MLT City Council votes to cancel Flock contract | MLTnews.com
The Mountlake Terrace City Council at its Thursday business meeting voted 6-0 to cancel the City’s contract with the Flock Safety license plate
mltnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Remember when segregationist cops sicced attack dogs on peaceful Black protesters during "Bloody Sunday" in Selma?

Now, it's happening again in broad daylight, but with the federal government unleashing attack dogs on everyday residents

www.vice.com/en/article/a...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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as cities debate Automated License Plate Readers, we often hear the same reassurances: don’t worry, we’ll regulate them/set strict rules/never share data with ICE/we'll only use them for speeding/etc. political promises may feel comforting but it misses that the INFRASTRUCTURE itself is the danger.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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💥 💥💥New Article Alert.

"The ‘Beginning of the end’ for the Atlanta Way? Not so fast."

First 50 copies free (please use your library access if available).

Library access: doi.org/10.1080/0266...

First 50 free (if no library access): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CQ4VX...
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The People’s Power Union seeks to ensure the Public Service Commission works for all Georgians. Efforts by the People's Power Union and many others led to the overwhelming victory of two democrats in the statewide public service elections in November.
Explainer: People's Power Union wants clean, affordable energy
The People's Power Union seeks to ensure the Georgia Public Service Commission works for everyone.
atlpresscollective.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This article is copaganda. This article is intended to make us believe that holding police accountable is possible.

ALPRs are powerful. It's not safe for anyone to use them. There is no legitimate use of ALPRs. ALPRs make us all less safe.

www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Georgia police chief retires, then is arrested on stalking and misuse of license plate reader charges
The GBI says Braselton Police Chief Michael Steffman used license plate reader technology to track and harass multiple people. His arrest was announced hours after he revealed he was retiring.
www.cbsnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans.

(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)

🧵1/N
Extending gentrifying Atlanta’s tax districts for 25 years makes little sense
Atlanta's Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) have run their course and we should find more novel ways to spur prosperity, build housing and assist low-income residents.
www.ajc.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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"nixos is declarative and reproducible" why don't you "declare" you have a girlfriend and "reproduce"
June 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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When elected officials aren’t allowed to question those in power, your democracy is in full collapse.

Assemblymember and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani held back by police for trying to question Trump’s ethnic cleansing head Tom Homan. #FuckICE

(📷 @mahoneyw)
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...
EXCLUSIVE: Hackers leak cop manuals for departments nationwide after breaching major provider
Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.
www.dailydot.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM