This is my first time giving the craic in years, which means I’m bound to make a mess. Also, I’m not Scottish, for which I blame others. Let us use obscure idioms today.
What’s the Skinny
- It’s Tuesday, which means Donald Trump has changed his mind again on gun control.
- CNN has Joe Biden up 9 on everyone else, which surely is an outlier poll that everyone will dismiss out of hand.
- That whole ransomware thing hitting state and municipal government organizations like the Georgia Department of Public Safety? It’s spreading.
- Boris Johnson thinks he can keep the Good Friday agreement from unraveling by saying “please.”
- China has started taking hostages in Hong Kong.
Spilling the Tea.
- WebMD has more on the ethylene oxide problem in Cobb.
- A man running from an Atlanta hotel’s security team tried to jump from one tenth-story ledge to another. He missed.
- The University of Georgia spends more on recruiting football talent than any other school, by a lot.
- Qualifying for municipal races continues today. No, I’m not running for anything, thanks.
Tittle-Tattle.
Advocates for cash bail reforms took to the Atlanta city council podium yesterday, concerned that councilman Michael Julian Bond was going to offer legislation to reinstate cash bail for minor offense. Bond strenuously denied the claim, though he didn’t rule out the possibility for later.
No, people. These are NOT ICE agents at Five Points. This picture started a viral rumor of an ICE raid downtown yesterday. These guys are a Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team from the TSA. They hang out at Five Points from time to time because there’s some value in knowing what passes for normal there in case they’re called out for something that’s truly weird. Condition yellow, team. Carry on.