Actual news is in the link. The image is a joke circulating on other platforms.
https://apnews.com/article/falcons-logo-social-media-d6d38280c8d6b78bedae74719f89ede6
#NFL #Atlanta #Georgia
#atlanta
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Atlanta Police Must Stop High-Tech Spying on Political Movements
„ The Atlanta Police Department has been snooping on social media to closely monitor the meetings, protests, canvassing–even book clubs and pizza parties–of the political movement to stop “Cop City,” a police training center that would destroy part of an urban forest. Activists already believed they were likely under surveillance by the Atlanta Police Department due to evidence in criminal cases brought against them, but the extent of the monitoring has only just been revealed. The Brennan Center for Justice has obtained and released over 2,000 pages of emails from inside the Atlanta Police Department chronicling how closely they were watching the social media of the movement….“
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/atlanta-police-must-stop-high-tech-spying-political-movements
#Copcity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #Surveillance #Repression #Police #Antireport
In women's basketball, #Atlanta Dream player Angel Reese becomes the first player in Women's National Basketball Association history to reach 500 rebounds in a single season.
https://en-wp.org/wiki/2026_WNBA_season
https://newsasfacts.com/news/161610
Federal appeals court voids 2023 ruling that Georgia’s political maps violated Voting Rights Act
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/12372440
From WABE Politics News:
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is sending a lawsuit over Georgia’s 2021 political maps back to a lower court, ordering it to reexamine an earlier ruling that concluded […]
#Atlanta #WABE #AtlantaPolitics #AtlantaNews #theATLBot
For the first time in a while, I heard some new rock music that was interesting. Caveat - they were covers of old songs.
But I think I dig the 99x 'resurrection weekend' playing just oldies. It's always fun to hear songs from my youth that I missed when they were new.
https://www.99xatl.com/player/?playerID=3413
#music #atlanta
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There's an "Alt-Rock Fest" planned for Avondale on Aug 22, featuring several 90s tribute bands.
https://www.99xatl.com/events/560962/
#music #decatur #atlanta #avondaleestates #dekalbga
Dad Turned Weekly Library Trips with His Daughter into Beloved Community Event: Meet ‘Library Dads’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dad-turned-weekly-library-trips-with-his-daughter-into-beloved-community-event-meet-library-dads/ #Georgia #Atlanta #Books #BlackLivesMatter
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…Tunick’s lawyers argued during the hearing last week that the seizure was unlawful, & that he was targeted because of his #political #activism against #Atlanta’s plan to build a police & fire training center within a 1,000-acre stretch of urban #woodland. Opponents argue that the center, known as #CopCity, would militarize officers & destroy precious #GreenSpace.
#law #InfoSec #privacy
'285 South' reports news about the Atlanta-area immigrant and refuge communities:
https://285south.com/
#journalism #Atlanta #Georgia #refugee #immigration
Let's talk about Sam #Tunick. Sam is an #Atlanta activist with Defend the Atlanta Forest, aka Stop Cop City. SCC had great #infosec, and the feds were hoping to bypass need for a #warrant by using border patrol. Most news stories are missing the fact that this was an #FBI action using #ICE as cover.
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Officer Burnham and Special Agent Andrea Coble arranged for US CPB to question him and search his phone when he landed.
The unidentified searching officer in the indictment serves on #CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which allegedly gave FBI access to a search power they would not ordinarily possess inside the country.
Sam was refused an attorney and told he couldn't enter the country until "those guys were done with him", or he unlocked his phone...so he gave them an unlock code that wiped the phone. Now they are charging him with "destruction of evidence".
Sam's filing https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.351975/gov.uscourts.gand.351975.21.0.pdf
Red String https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/07/27/the-tunick-exception-when-the-fbi-put-constitutional-rights-on-hold-at-the-border/
#4th #5th #Kafka
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American
for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone,
according to an indictment and media reports.
This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday,
Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges.
Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year
and that any evidence
— including the alleged wiping of his phone
— should be thrown out.
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices.
Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border,
which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter.
The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”),
accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone
to “delete the digital contents,”
prior to the device being seized.
Tunick’s attorneys filed a motion to suppress the evidence, claiming that the detention and the seizure were unlawful.
The motion said U.S. border authorities took Tunick into a secondary inspection at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport as he returned from overseas on January 24, 2025,
but that he was repeatedly denied access to an attorney and was not informed of his legal rights.
Tunick’s attorneys accused the government of demanding access to his phone under the pretext of searching for child exploitation imagery,
but without providing evidence to justify its suspicion.
His motion to suppress argued that the government was instead investigating him over his association with a
long-running environmental movement called "Defend the Atlanta Forest", which opposes the development of a sprawling training campus for law enforcement in Atlanta dubbed “Cop City.”
#duresspasscode #grapheneos
#copcity #atlanta #samueltunik
#cycling #Atlanta #RoadSafety
“one driver essentially used the concrete separator to execute a skateboard-style grind with their sedan”
“the #infrastructure isn’t the problem—motorists simply need to pay better attention and stay in their designated lanes”
“While a car climbing a concrete divider looks like an #infrastructure failure, it is actually the barrier successfully absorbing an impact that otherwise would have struck whoever was riding in the #bikelane”
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@ascentale@sfba.social @geonz@mathstodon.xyz @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1a. #Atlanta, GA, USA
A1b. Back when I lived in Austin, TX one of my neighbors had a bicycle with their mailbox mounted on top as the post to hold the box. I can't remember if the box itself was on the seat or the handlebars or how it worked, but it was just a full bicycle mounted upright at the edge of the lawn/road.
#BikeNiteQ
West-nile virus has been detected in Atlanta mosquitos. News says that cases are increasing early this year across the country (according to CDC but I cannot find source). My recollection is that it normally gets detected in mosquitos around here in late summer. Maybe all this rain has increased mosquito populations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/west-nile-virus-detected-in-atlantas-grant-park-as-cdc-warns-of-unusually-early-mosquito-season/
#disease #publichealth #Atlanta #Georgia
Deep in this stretch of high summer the land does its slow patient thing regardless of us. The blackberries are darkening on the canes along every Georgia fence line, sour to sweet in their own time, asking no one's permission. Somewhere a wetland is filling.
What's ripening near you that doesn't care about the headlines? I would really love to know.
https://twp.ai/4htXsH
#Nature #Phenology #Summer #EarthBased #Druid #Gaelic #QueerNature #Solarpunk #Atlanta #Herbalism #trans #queer
#tanka by new contributor, Joy Hallinan.
Born in the 60’s flower child era, Joy spent many happy unsupervised hours roaming the woods & building secret girls-only forts. Her haiku, tanka, haibun, and tanka prose poems have been widely published. By day, Joy is a not-for-profit leader working with vulnerable populations. At night, fairy lights dance on her high-rise balcony & if you listen closely you might hear her singing madrigals. #poetry #gardenia #Atlanta
The red clay in my yard has gone the color of old brick, split into a map of hairline canyons — the way it does when the rain forgets us. Tha an talamh a' cnàmh — the earth is smouldering.
Today's Safety: Fill one jug with water, salt, a squeeze of lemon. Set it where you'll see it. Drink every time you pass.
#Nature #Druid #Weather #ClimateCrisis #Atlanta #Phenology #EarthBased #Herbalism #Pagan #Solidarity #News #fediverse #Mutualaid #Mutualaidrequest
I wish Banksy would visit America!
Trump tied up the Statue of Liberty and declared that there is no difference between free speech and hate speech.
#nokings #banksy #trump #democracy #america #chicago #newyork #washington #losangeles #atlanta #antifascist #antifa #frump
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space here in #atlanta in the United States , I raised my issue to the transit authority ( called #marta ) and they just laughed at me. It’s very common here and happens regularly. The fact that I am 192cm and 17 stone doesn’t make a lick of difference