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This week we were at Chibo Coffee in Lilburn for our 2nd Coffee & Convos! What an amazing conversation with community members about AI, data centers, public health, education and so much more! Next stop, Ellenwood on Oct 5th @ Mojo Coffee at 4 pm!

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Rick has scrubbed his website of references to trump, but we REMEMBER

As the race in Georgia tightens, the Trump ally known as “Action Jackson” has found himself under growing scrutiny over his companies.

Japan’s newest political party, Team Mirai, leverages AI technology to enhance democracy by engaging voters and promoting transparency, leading to significant electoral success.

Also mind you, there’s a high degree of regionalism too– $2000 rent in LA or NYC is a lucky find; in Macon, GA this would be a luxury apartment. The great equalizer is proving to be utility rates now. In the cheaper areas, they aren’t as regulated and fluctuate wildly; in the metro areas, the dips and humps are smoothed out by subsidies.

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Happy 314 Day, St. Louis!!! The original area code holiday, often imitated, never ever duplicated!

I critique Trump’s aggressive foreign policy tactics, suggesting they jeopardize U.S. interests and fail to garner necessary international support, particularly …

A whistleblower says more than 300 million Americans' Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not sub...

A special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is headed to a runoff between Trump-endorsed GOP candidate Clay Fuller and Democratic candidate Shawn Harris, CNN projects. https://cnn.it/4b4zYXj

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European energy giant Vattenfall has started construction on a new hybrid renewable energy project in southwest Germany that combines wind and solar power at a single site. more…

An increasingly unpopular Trump lurched from plodding teleprompter readings to gothic MAGA fantasies in his long-winded speech.

People online are going nuts right now debating whether a C-Span caller named John Barron is actually President Donald Trump trying to get some good press. Here's the deal ... somebody called into C-Span Friday under the name John Barron --…

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended their directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.