Editor & Founder of Pretty Southern; #journalism alumni @redandblack @UGAGrady @universityofga #GoDawgs #LoveTheSouth #ATL #Atlanta 🍑 thoughts are my own

Atlanta, GA
Joined June 2011
Lauren Patrick retweeted
This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy. Join @IndivisibleTeam's midterm election protection program to help make sure we're ready for whatever tricks Trump tries to hold on to power. indivisible.org/campaigns/ou

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Lauren Patrick retweeted
I see Trump finally revealed his healthcare plan today.
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
Q: Will you pledge to serve your full six year term if you win? OSSOFF: Yes, I will. I have zero interest in running for president. I'm running for Senate.*immediately resumes savaging Mike Collins*
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is halfway through the @atlpressclub debate, where she’s appearing solo after Republican rival Rick Jackson declined to participate. #gapol
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
Listen to this SUPERMAN looking mfer and VOTE EARLY Cornbread fed Fitz Jr says go to iwillvote.com/GA đŸ—łïž
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
National Democrats are putting serious money behind Keisha Lance Bottoms’ bid for governor, even as she faces a massive financial disadvantage against billionaire Republican Rick Jackson. #gapol
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
GEORGIA: Did you know that during early voting you can vote at ANY polling place in your home county? #TeamAu has made this map of all the early voting locations in Fulton County! đŸ—ș maps.app.goo.gl/ajbmoUchWgyL
 Find the polling place most convenient for you, and bring a friend!
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
The city of Atlanta has quietly joined a lawsuit seeking to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from municipalities because of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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Republican Clay Fuller wins the special election runoff to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s unexpired term, defeating Democrat Shawn Harris and keeping the deep-red northwest Georgia district in GOP hands. #gapol
Georgia’s 14th: There are plenty of reasons Democrat Shawn Harris shouldn’t win tonight’s runoff. He’s running in the Trumpiest district in Georgia, a conservative pocket where voters repeatedly sent Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress back when she was one of the president’s most loyal allies. But Democrats are making the case that if any Democrat can pull it off, it’s someone like Harris. He’s a rural cattle farmer and former military commander who is fluent in MAGA themes. He's well known in the district after challenging Greene in '24. He has worked to connect with conservative-leaning voters by criticizing tariffs, opposing the Iran war and pushing back on some of Trump’s policies without making the race solely about him. And he’s quick to say there are areas where he agrees with the president — and others where he breaks with his own party. Harris’ GOP opponent, Clay Fuller, brings strengths of his own: Trump’s endorsement, a rĂ©sumĂ© as both a military veteran and former prosecutor, and the cold, hard math of a district where Republican candidates combined to win roughly 60% of the vote in the all-party first round in March. Harris must run up the margins in the bluest corner of the district — a slice of Cobb County precincts — while hoping that supporters of Republican Colton Moore, who notably declined to endorse Fuller after finishing third, stay home. Just as importantly, Harris has to peel off a meaningful share of Trump voters who are disillusioned with the president in a district Trump carried with roughly two-thirds of the vote in 2024. “It’s not just walking a tightrope. He has to hope for more than that,” said University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock. “He’s got to walk the tightest tightrope and then hope for a disaster to win this.” Stay tuned. ajc.com/politics/2026/03/sha

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Lauren Patrick retweeted
This statement changes nothing. The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat. He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world. Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos - from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe “settlements” - has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people. All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment. We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States. Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.
Trump declares two-week ceasefire after threatening to destroy Iranian civilization truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT

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Lauren Patrick retweeted
Georgia’s 14th: There are plenty of reasons Democrat Shawn Harris shouldn’t win tonight’s runoff. He’s running in the Trumpiest district in Georgia, a conservative pocket where voters repeatedly sent Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress back when she was one of the president’s most loyal allies. But Democrats are making the case that if any Democrat can pull it off, it’s someone like Harris. He’s a rural cattle farmer and former military commander who is fluent in MAGA themes. He's well known in the district after challenging Greene in '24. He has worked to connect with conservative-leaning voters by criticizing tariffs, opposing the Iran war and pushing back on some of Trump’s policies without making the race solely about him. And he’s quick to say there are areas where he agrees with the president — and others where he breaks with his own party. Harris’ GOP opponent, Clay Fuller, brings strengths of his own: Trump’s endorsement, a rĂ©sumĂ© as both a military veteran and former prosecutor, and the cold, hard math of a district where Republican candidates combined to win roughly 60% of the vote in the all-party first round in March. Harris must run up the margins in the bluest corner of the district — a slice of Cobb County precincts — while hoping that supporters of Republican Colton Moore, who notably declined to endorse Fuller after finishing third, stay home. Just as importantly, Harris has to peel off a meaningful share of Trump voters who are disillusioned with the president in a district Trump carried with roughly two-thirds of the vote in 2024. “It’s not just walking a tightrope. He has to hope for more than that,” said University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock. “He’s got to walk the tightest tightrope and then hope for a disaster to win this.” Stay tuned. ajc.com/politics/2026/03/sha

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The government is shutdown, but the House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. @SpeakerJohnson doesn’t want that to be the news.
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Blaming Democrats for a shutdown when you control the House, Senate, and the White House only proves you can't govern.
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
Compelling talks on the FCC and Kimmel on NPR this morning. A free speech lawyer says the FCC lacks legal authority to police speech or arbitrarily cancel licenses. As for companies caving in, the lawyer says: “A spine is a terrible thing to waste.” npr.org/programs/morning-edi

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Lauren Patrick retweeted
RIP: President Jimmy Carter as a Georgian, Southerner and Advocate for who deserve the dignity of decent shelter i am honored to say I have known a "Good Man" who truly made a difference in a wicked world. May God bless your legacy always.
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Georgia is moving forward in an orderly manner to certify the election results per the law. It’s interesting that no one is raising any questions about the process anymore. As I said many times, the repeated refrain of election fraud election fraud election fraud was just that a smoke screen. There has never been any evidence of widespread election fraud. But what there has been is evidence of widespread voter suppression. Carry On. – at Tucker, GA
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Lauren Patrick retweeted
Mr Biden, I need you to stand up, straighten your back and make some things shake before your departure xoxo the women in america 💙
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until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this
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I cannot emphasize enough how disturbing it is that Fulton and Dekalb county voting precincts were targeted for bomb threats. These are the biggest, Blackest counties in Georgia. A quarter of the state's Black population between them.
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