Reposted by Jenny GeibAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/05/2026🚨 GEORGIA!🚨 The GA primaries and GA supreme court election are happening now! 🗓️ Early voting: 4/27-5/15 🗓️ Election day: May 19 ⚠️ The GA supreme court race is an election, not a primary. Candidates from both parties will be on your ballot and will be unlabeled. Read ahead!⚠️ 29851
Reposted by Jenny GeibIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/04/2026There are many ways you can participate in the massive day of economic disruption on Friday, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... 7226151324
Reposted by Jenny GeibRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Remember: The richest 1% evade roughly $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are. 12971502299
Reposted by Jenny GeibMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn 191640565
Reposted by Jenny GeibWhen We All Vote @whenweallvote.bsky.social · 11/07/2025BREAKING NEWS: Starting today, Georgia is canceling nearly half a million voter registrations in one of the largest voter roll removals in U.S. history. Voting should not be a use-it-or-lose it right. Take 3 minutes to check your voter registration RN at weall.vote/georgia. 23435423
Reposted by Jenny GeibTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all. 3896582299
Reposted by Jenny GeibMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 07/11/2025The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire 1829001056
Reposted by Jenny GeibTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it. 141413273
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Great article by @aryamerikaner.bsky.social of Brown’s Promise! “School integration causes positive, permanent changes in mindset that can improve social cohesion, trust, and the health of our democracy as we fight for its very existence.” 040
Reposted by Jenny GeibDan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025New, 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/Najc.comExtending gentrifying Atlanta’s tax districts for 25 years makes little senseAtlanta'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. 25320
Reposted by Jenny GeibSara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 14/10/2025A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education. 428444
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I mean, they told us they were going to do this…but it’s still horrifying. 020
Reposted by Jenny GeibRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires. 20693812485
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 10/07/2025As a communications professional who has worked with USAID and its grantees for decades, this is sadly so true - we didn’t spend enough energy showing the public the value if our work… (gift article courtesy my public library!) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure. 141
Reposted by Jenny GeibJen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪scientificamerican.comHere’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by ScienceThese graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults 311102646006
Reposted by Jenny GeibJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war. 748257207090
Reposted by Jenny GeibAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away 608350058050
Reposted by Jenny GeibRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.youtube.comThe Truth About the U.S. Border | Robert ReichThe full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media. Watch More: The Military-Industrial 761730750
Reposted by Jenny GeibThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/05/2025Breaking News: A divided Supreme Court rejected a plan to allow Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school.nytimes.comDivided Supreme Court Rejects Bid for Religious Charter School in Oklahoma 30564911002
Reposted by Jenny GeibIndivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025TUES, 5/27, 6:30pm, 1800 Circle 75 Pkwy AND ONLINE (hybrid)—Public Service Commission Nonpartisan Candidate Forum WHY DOES THIS MATTER? The PSC regulates public utilities. It ensures consumers receive safe, reliable, and affordable services. Register here👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 143
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...nytimes.comTrump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation 120
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 18/05/2025bigeasymagazine.com/2025/05/11/p...bigeasymagazine.comPublic Money, Private Control: Inside New Orleans’ Charter School Overhaul - Big EasyNew Orleans became a national model for charter reform after Katrina. Two decades later, who really benefited—and who was left behind? 130
Reposted by Jenny GeibKelsea Bond 🌹 @kelseabondatl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Atlanta. We do not need tiny tourist clown cars. We need mass transit that benefits Atlanta residents and commuters. When is the mayor going to stop caving to business interests and move forward real sustainable transit options for the people who actually live and work here? 1607
Reposted by Jenny GeibTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025positing to americans that some problems are not solvable by individual action but rather are collective social endeavors is like talking with a megaphone full of soup, it gets messy so fast 441862201
Reposted by Jenny GeibPlatlanta @platlanta.bsky.social · 01/05/2025IT’S HERE. The Platlanta x How I’d Fix Atlanta @austinlouisray.bsky.social collab you didn’t know you needed. Buy a shirt. Contribute to a great cause (El Refugio). ATLiens on Bluesky, you are pretty much the target audience for this. Let’s go crazy. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/lets-do-some... 2134
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 23/04/2025So many cardinals hopping around my house today, think they’re stating their own conclave. Let’s hope it ends well. 020
Reposted by Jenny GeibIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists. 189107892117
Reposted by Jenny GeibDarin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Just a reminder: no referendum vote is required for spending gobs of public money on widening roads for car capacity. Meanwhile if we want to expand transit we have to vote on special taxes and then pray the money actually gets used as promised. www.constructionequipmentguide.com/gdot-to-begi...constructionequipmentguide.comGDOT to Begin $104M Road Widening Project Near Atlanta; Updates Status of Other Work : CEGGDOT awarded a $104M contract to widen Georgia Highway 20 near Atlanta. Projects include installation of RCUTs for safety. Updates on other road work in Bartow and Gordon counties also released. 1206
Reposted by Jenny GeibAdam Harris @adamhsays.com · 03/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Threatens to Withhold Funds From Public Schools (Gift Article)State education officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion that the administration deems unlawful, according to a new memo... 147858
Jenny Geib @jlgeib.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Great listen/watch - thanks Dr. Katie Acosta for engaging with Dr. Sig Giordano for this conversation open.spotify.com/episode/0fMV...open.spotify.comHope is a Practice: Bearing Witness to Palestinian ResistanceIntersectionality in the American South · Episode 110
Reposted by Jenny GeibWIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2025The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.wired.comThe DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and MuseumsThe Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow. 751851833
Reposted by Jenny GeibStephen Owens @stephenjowens.bsky.social · 21/03/2025“How will we feel the effect of the closing of the Department of Education?” You won’t. Probably. When you pull the stopper out of the bathtub the waterline appears to hold. For a time. 55314
Reposted by Jenny GeibDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Reminder that @globalvoices.org has a whole special coverage section dedicated to the impacts of the cuts to the global aid sector: globalvoices.org/special/crum...globalvoices.orgCrumbling of the global aid sector · Global VoicesThe global aid sector has been impacted by instability in the United States and civil society in Global Majority countries are paying the price. 01411
Reposted by Jenny GeibMadeleine L'Engle @tesserwell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025When I am constantly running, there is no time for being. When there is no time for being, there is no time for listening. Walking on Water 052
Reposted by Jenny GeibJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and catalogued and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like :) 📚❤️ 342344367
Reposted by Jenny GeibJarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Atlanta area! This is the last week to comment on the proposed redesign of the MARTA bus network. Public comment closes March 16. Explore and comment here! If you live or travel in Fulton or DeKalb Counties, we need to hear from you. Please share! www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetworkmartanextgenbusnetwork.comDraft Network | MARTA NextGen BusThe Draft NextGen Bus Network would reduce waiting time for most people and allow most residents of the region to reach more jobs more quickly. 02010
Reposted by Jenny GeibTom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay 85036990
Reposted by Jenny GeibMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all. 734386124721
Reposted by Jenny GeibBrooklyn Kennedy Scott @brookekennedyscott.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Economic Blackout Tomorrow 2/28 🖤 No reason everyone shouldn’t know about this Let’s DO something Acting > Posting 714071
Reposted by Jenny GeibAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This piece breaking down what California receives (back) from the federal government for public schools is helpful for seeing in detail what's being threatened in every state. #EduSkyedsource.orgWhat does threatened federal funding do for California K-12 schools? | Quick GuideIt is unclear which federal funding could be targeted if schools don't abolish diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, but these are some of the largest K-12 programs funded by the federal government... 142