Your weekly ATL politics briefing, Aug. 14

This week, King and Sylvia take on census data, face-to-face education, Trae Young, McDonald’s ice cream machines, and a last call for candidates in two uncontested city council races in Sylvia’s new candidate alert. In addition, they invite everyone to check out Aja’s #StopCopCity article for The Intercept, create a new segment called Bottom of the Ballot, and of course, drop a few F-bombs outside of the F-words section. King also invited Patreon members to have coffee!

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Aja’s article for The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2021/08/11/atlanta-police-training-center/

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