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64 votes
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Advice for a few days in Atlanta please
This will be my first time there. We are interested to visit the Carter Center and the Martin Luther King center but haven't finalized plans. Lodging is taken care of. Is there food you highly...
This will be my first time there. We are interested to visit the Carter Center and the Martin Luther King center but haven't finalized plans. Lodging is taken care of. Is there food you highly recommend? Other sightseeing?
Thanks!
17 votes -
Vote to block Georgia spaceport upheld by state’s high court
17 votes -
Bickle - Big Blues (2023)
2 votes -
Plant Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear reactor reaches initial criticality
14 votes -
Father, son who murdered Ahmaud Arbery get life sentences for US hate crime
10 votes -
Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival canceled after court ruling made it illegal to keep guns out of event
15 votes -
Should eighteen-year-olds be able to buy semiautomatic rifles? In Georgia, two young men who want to be the ‘good guys with guns’ try to decide.
9 votes -
Georgia county files suit to force land sale for spaceport
8 votes -
Georgia Guidestones destroyed by explosive device
16 votes -
CEO of Atlanta's MARTA public transportation system dies by suicide
13 votes -
Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia governor in 2022
16 votes -
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers convicted of murder
22 votes -
The history of the Atlanta Falcons
5 votes -
Dot. - Don't You Worry (2021)
5 votes -
Georgia sixth-grade student challenges school suspension over "Zoom bombing" allegations
15 votes -
Georgia House passes sweeping bill that would restrict voting access, setting up final vote next week
8 votes -
Manchester Orchestra - Bed Head (2021)
3 votes -
In Georgia Runoff Elections, (D) Warnock wins vs (R) Loeffler, (D) Ossof very likely wins vs (R) Purdue
Text post because the big news companies are cowards playing it safe and not calling Ossof yet, though it's basically over Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority (AP News) My...
Text post because the big news companies are
cowardsplaying it safe and not calling Ossof yet, though it's basically overWarnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority (AP News)
My takes below:
What does this mean?
This gives Democrats a thin majority in the senate. Does it mean they have free reign? No, the party is not that unified. In particular, as you probably have heard his name many many times now, Manchin, the "conservative Democrat" from WV is likely to be the kingmaker in votes. So it's not like just anything can get passed, and Manchin will not eliminate the filibuster easily.
So is it pointless?
ABSOLUTELY NOT
It's a huge victory nonetheless for Democrats. Remember, with control of the Senate, Chuck Schumer will be Senate Majority Leader, who controls what legislation the senate votes on. Even bipartisan bills were consistently torpedoed by McConnell who would refuse to even have a vote on it. Now, there is politics that can be done - deals, compromise, whatever. If you can't vote on something, nothing can be done. Things that are overall popular like increased stimulus are also going to pass.
Additionally, perhaps an even bigger deal, Biden can get his nominations through for cabinet and judges. There's an insane amount of unfilled heads of state departments right now, and the rest are filled with people absolutely unfit for the job. Having a real human being be the head of the EPA, or Department of Education, or the Department of Energy, and so forth is a big deal.
It also means that Justice Breyer can safely retire and have another "liberal" Justice take his place.
It's not sweeping control over the government, but it's a immensely superior political situation to McConnell stone walling anything he doesn't want, and Biden having to haggle with McConnell over how incompetent his cabinet needs to be.
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Warnock and Ossoff are testing a new strategy for Democrats in the US south
8 votes -
Georgia Power receives first nuclear fuel shipment for Vogtle Unit 3
6 votes -
Donald Trump heads for Georgia but claims of fraud may damage Senate Republicans
10 votes -
Robin Kemp lost her news job in Clayton County, Ga. — but she kept reporting the news. It paid off on election week.
16 votes -
A history of voter suppression in Georgia – in pictures
7 votes -
Trio Mandili - Million scarlett roses (2020)
5 votes -
In Georgia’s chaotic primary, as many as 1,000 voters may have cast ballots by mail and in person, secretary of state says
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‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines
9 votes -
Killer Mike addresses the people of Atlanta
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Police chiefs in Dallas and Atlanta walked their cities' streets and talked directly with protesters, as demonstrations broke out over the death of George Floyd
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Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery video charged with murder
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Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work
13 votes -
CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same
10 votes -
Two suspects charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery killing
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A 25-year-old black man running through a Georgia neighborhood ended up dead. A prosecutor argued that the pursuers, two white men, should not be arrested
15 votes -
How Georgia is reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Georgia to mail absentee ballot request forms to all active voters
15 votes -
Atlanta hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients
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Georgia is the second state to delay their primaries over the coronavirus
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The Stonewall of the south that history forgot: A month after the riots in New York, a raid on an Atlanta movie theater sparked a gay liberation movement of its own
7 votes -
Hollywood studios bankrolled politicians behind abortion bans in Georgia and Louisiana
6 votes -
How Atlanta plans to get to 100% green energy by 2035
6 votes -
Only black reporters allowed in Georgia mayoral race event
7 votes -
Whores - Bloody Like The Day You Were Born (2016)
4 votes -
Dot. - Everybody Dances to Techno (2017)
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Black mecca or most unequal US city: Will the real Atlanta please stand up?
7 votes -
Georgia push for Equal Rights Amendment draws GOP support
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Wealthy White people in Atlanta suburb tried to secede from their Black-led town. They failed.
16 votes -
The strangest form of White flight
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At Atlanta’s rail stations, a transit-oriented soccer league takes shape
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Neither voter suppression nor being called 'coon' and the N-word will stop Black Georgia from voting
7 votes