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Atlanta. Your Next Best Friend.

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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s NOT 140,000+ people being evicted from THE CITY OF ATLANTA in 2026. That number came from a study based out of a housing lab at Princeton University. That lab looked at evictions for the region for 2025… Not the city.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tomorrow! I’ll be a guest on Ann Hill Bond’s new show ‘Love Atlanta’ on 89.3 WRFG to talk about the state of ‘the Atlanta way of doing things’. You can listen live at 4 PM on radio or WRFG’s website!
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know that’s not original thought but… as somebody who goes out to a lot of restaurants in this town we’ve gotta stop charging full price for nonalcoholic cocktails
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe it’s the hyper personalization era of everything, social echochambers, or the growth of think pieces/essay as proxy for analysis Whatever it is, this is exhausting
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I never took too much stock into the media literacy debate until recently…But I think a lot of people are having a hard time just accepting character motivations in fiction and not able to accept what they are reading/seeing/hearing
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My latest op-ed for Decaturish! Why the greater Decatur area is shaping up to be the next music hub for Metro Atlanta
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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't wanna overpromise before we get the official report back in a couple months, but there's a very real the chance the money we raised last week will abolish more than $4M worth of medical debt around the ATL metro 😵‍💫
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had a great time hosting a historic tour of the West End w/ realtor Carolyn Githeya-Dennis! This was in partnership w/ KKRU, the West End’s first Pilates studio and is the latest new black-owned business. Special s/o to Iman and her tea company The Waha Brand for providing the refreshments!
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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Y'all ready to do some good this week? How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors. As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...
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When Good Georgians Get Together, Great Things Happen
How I’d Fix Atlanta was a free monthly essay series for four years. It’s been a couple of print zines and a performance on a stage a few times. Quite often, it’s stickers. HIFA is large, it contains multitudes. Every September, we do a big fundraiser to abolish medical debt. From 2023-2025, we raised more than […]
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had a great time talking to Clark Atlanta University communication students in the Department of Mass Media Studies. We talked about explainer journalism, digital fact finding, and worked in a real time, real world scenario to build on a still developing story.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Man, I’m sorry to hear that… I know it has to be tough right now
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😬🫤
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah, this morning was the first time I got to see a little preview and maybe it’s just on this side of town, but if this is actually an indication, people are gonna be real upset 
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyone in metro Atlanta thinking that we’re approaching a gas shortage? Maybe it’s just where I’m at
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As well as being rooted in Jim Crow era economics, secondhand slavery, and the need to police others All the which are out in the open
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s culture also comes from a large queer influence, American Christianity, lowercase ‘c’ conservatism, isolationism, white supremacy, Corporatocracy, boosterism, black respectability politics, nightlife, being sexually forward, and southern liberalism.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Atlanta’s culture since its founding has always been black, full stop. That means EVERY type of black. It’s been like that before and after emancipation… Blackness is at the heart of Atlanta. Where people have tried to reduce, reuse, and recycle
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But the one thing I will give all of them is that Atlanta’s culture is something that recently seems to be defined, written, and sold, by people not from here Atlanta now is often by people who are defining it based on how THEY feel and how THEY see things, and often wrong
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are multiple subcultures of things in Atlanta that overlap each other and influence/interact/conflict with each other. Things that on paper don’t always make sense, but in the macro are part of a larger tapestry. Multiple truths, multiple experiences.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Atlanta’s culture has been around for well over a century. It has ebbs and flows. Different players and multiple vantage points. …and we’ve got to just start acknowledging that you’re covering a small section but not the whole story
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a lot of “content” being produced right now about Atlanta’s history focuses only on when they were young…or seems to be focused around signifiers to them, like hip-hop or the projects…
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The 1,000-to-1 funding gap in the Georgia Governor’s race, is part of the reason why you aren’t seeing a lot of Keisha Lance Bottoms marketing anywhere
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you to everyone who came out on a school night to hear me and Victoria @archiveatlanta to talk about Atlanta’s past, present, and future! Special shoutout to redsbeergarden for hosting us!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If the media is going to demand that Democrats disavow a Twitch streamer they’ve never associated, they better demand Ted Cruz disavow the Republican convention attendee who responded to Cruz’s own attacks on Democrats with calls for their murder.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s week two of college football and Kansas is posting a hype video with John Brown and dating their rivalry with Missouri back to slavery is the most insane thing I’ve ever seen (supportive)
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My Thoughts on Atlanta Losing the 2028 DNC Bid iamkingwilliams.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
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Thoughts on Atlanta Losing the 2028 DNC Bid
The 40 Year Drought Continues
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was a guest on @sabalong.bsky.social podcast to talk about — Why Did Stonecrest’s New Black Wall Street Failed? youtu.be/8dV1kwcOMHM?...
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Why Did Stonecrest New Black Wall Street Failed? | Ep. 121
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest column for Decaturish.com Lessons from New Black Wall Street’s closure www.decaturish.com/opinion/colu...
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King Williams: Lessons from New Black Wall Street’s closure
When the doors finally closed in April, I stood outside alongside dozens of others who had stopped by the former Target store turned mini-mall, New Black Wall Street, in Stonecrest,
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 25/08/2026
youtu.be
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors First Performance
YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The 1996 Olympic Cauldron is moving from Summerhill…for another generic real estate project from a developer with no vision that will be torn down in 10 years for another developer’s bland project
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Terrible
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/08/2026
This is very bad, horrible, no good. Georgia is reducing college education into vocational training: (h/t @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social) www.ajc.com/education/20...
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Georgia greenlights 3-year college bachelor’s degree
Georgia is the most recent state to endorse a concept that’s been percolating across the U.S. in recent years: a more cost-effective college degree.
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The 1996 Olympic Cauldron is moving from Summerhill…for another generic real estate project from a developer with no vision that will be torn down in 10 years for another developer’s bland project
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Who’s gonna be a NABJ this week? I’ve never been and was considering going
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Collab video with Invest in South DeKalb coming soon!
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“I hate Atlanta” “Atlanta isn’t _____” Atlanta vs * insert city here * ‘To critique’ Why can’t I get _____ in Atlanta I need ‘support’ from Atlanta …Or using a misleading stat or headline (w/ no substantive education) are all growth hack / attention grabbing strategies
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m down
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BOO!👻 LAO GATE! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Who in Atlanta/Marietta is interested in a new restaurant/barcade my younger brother is going to be the head chef at opening soon @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social @austincreedwins.bsky.social @austinlouisray.bsky.social @atlpresscollective.com @furryweekend.com @dragoncon.org @momocon.bsky.social
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What’s the Atlanta version of ‘The Odyssey’?
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I think they should keep going after this
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That stage has been surprisingly good
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Downtown Decatur is moving in a direction where it could be this era’s live music district in metro Atlanta
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My latest for @decaturish.bsky.social Why South DeKalb Mall needs revitalization versus demolition www.decaturish.com/opinion/sout...
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South DeKalb Mall needs revitalizing, not demolition
King Williams argues Gallery at South DeKalb, the former South DeKalb Mall, doesn’t need demolishing — it needs renovation, redevelopment and repurposing, modeled on Ponce City Market, Lenox Mall and ...
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Atlanta is a city in a forest, it always has been and historically rains more than Seattle We’ve also been in a waterfall deficit until the last few weeks That increase in rainfall we’re seeing is due to climate change big and small
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Looking forward to getting on the grill today!
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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This banana split with caramel sauce dish in the new season of ‘The Bear’ is the only thing I will be attempting to make for the rest of the summer
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 20/06/2026
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King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
You can read my writing on DeKalb County here on Decaturish dot com www.decaturish.com/users/profil...
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