That and was Atlanta the big winner in the FIFA World Cup aftermath? Those topics and more with Donnell Suggs, from The Atlanta Voice.

Mike Collins' son-in-law is a devout white supremacist, but also ... well, Mike Collins' son-in-law ... who until recently appeared all over Mike's campaign site.

On to discuss that, the GOP's complex relationship with Israel, the evidence of antisemitism in our political discourse, and her insights into key 2026 Georgia races is former State House candidate and co-host of Georgia NOW's 'At The Kitchen Table' show and podcast, Debra Shigley.

Prior to Donald Trump's latest public hissy fit over election security, I (and the AJC's Patricia Murphy) had a pretty solid idea what would be covered - and that would a) not amount to much and/or b) actually benefit Democrats.

A recent spate of deaths at the hands of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrants further scrutiny of all the carnage caused by them in the second Trump presidency.

Speaking od "the Donald," TV networks were positioning themselves to decide if (or not to) carry the President's Thursday night election blather.

Campaign largesse for Senator Jon Ossoff not only bodes well for his re-election bid, but it may aid the gubernatorial bid of Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Lastly, will all the private and public sector investment in Atlanta's hosting the FIFA 2026 World Cup pay off, economically?

PLUS: the Graham "pleasure-givers" start speaking up & the subtleties of KLB's 'black' sales pitch

Social media was abuzz last night and into the morning that a planned address to the nation Thursday by the President was going to include salacious allegations that the elections of both Senators Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock were illegitimate.' The White House (somewhat) walked back those rumors, but it still drew rebukes from both Ossoff and Warnock.

Meanwhile, after we (and many others) discussed the potential for a Warnock Presidential run in 2028, it's notable that not only has Rev. Senator Warnock gotten two "affordability" bills passed and made into law (the $35 insulin cap being a big one), his bill capping home ownership by private equity firms not only became law, it did so without the signature of President Donald Trump.

That's right - Senator Warnock got his bill through Congress while Trump keeps flailing on his voter suppression bill. Who's got more sway in the Beltway these days, then, hmm?

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Progressive podcaster Keith Edwards brought the world's attention to the first voices of those hired to bring "pleasure" to former Senator Lindsey Graham on his podcast, but he also stated - more eloquently than I could, frankly - why he, too, being a gay man, took issue with Graham's hypocrisies.

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Lastly, a (gift link) good piece by Greg Bluestein at the AJC noting the differences between the campaigns of Stacey Abrams and Keisha Lance Bottoms despite both having glass ceilings to shatter in being Georgia's first female and black (plus female AND black) governor. Bottoms' more subtle tone vs Abrams' more vocal tenor is - if nothing else - noteworthy.

As the world wondered where Mitch McConnell was, the grim reaper threw us all a curveball and came for South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham instead.

The "decent" thing to do is to pay your respects to someone when they pass even if you disagreed with them ideologically, right?

Sorry, but the "open secret" part of who Lindsey Graham was, blended with his rock-solid anti-LGBTQIA+ voting record for a party filled with acolytes who knew of his "open secret" but didn't mind so long as he towed the party line on issues that he smugly believed weren't aimed at the likes of him means this out gay white southern man owes him no respects, alive or dead.

Georgia leaders (Republicans and Democrats) took the high road. None of them are gay, though, so ...

Bitter? No. Steadfastly disappointed? Absolutely. Disgusted that he spent decades piling, legislatively, on to people he knew had no choice in who they loved because he, himself, had no choice sa to what he was drawn to sexually.

Then again, there was the 2016 Lindsey Graham who warned us all (correctly) how disastrous a President Donald Trump would be and the Lindsey Graham of January 6, 2021 who had 'had enough' of the Trumpist antics. Unfortunately, there's the years between those eras and the last five years where he enabled the man he exclaimed was going to be so dangerous to his party, the nation and the world.

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Hear me (and Greg Bluestein at the AJC) out ...

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