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At this point I’m giving AI or aliens an audience to hear ‘em out. Humans aren’t exactly clicking on all cylinders.

Fresh off her securing a spot in the run-off to replace Brandon Beach, Debra Shigley joins me today. Hear that conversation at 9am and 5pm today on @americaone.bsky.social and 11pm at @progressivevoices.bsky.social

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New @georgiademocrat.bsky.social chair Charlie Bailey joins me tomorrow to fill us in on all he’s gotten his hands into since taking the helm last month. Hear us at 9a & 5p on @americaone.bsky.social & 11p on @progressivevoices.bsky.social or via you podcast. #gapol

BREAKING: Shawn Harris announces run at MTG on The Ron Show Retired Marine sergeant and Army Brigadier General, Northwest Georgia cattle farmer Shawn Harris made a go at Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024, outpacing the Harris/Walz campaign by 12% in Georgia's 14t...

BREAKING: @shawnforgeorgia.bsky.social announces his run at MTG on The Ron Show today. ronshowatl.com/f/breaking-s...

@shawnforgeorgia.bsky.social joins me today to fill us in on his political future. Listen 9am / 5pm on @americaone.bsky.social & 11p on @progressivevoices.bsky.social

Indulge me pls: my latest project is up & running for the ATL-based LGBTQIA+ community (the “GayTL”) - Audio GayTL! Our very own audio station with dance hits & throwbacks and room for more of OUR proud voices to go with OUR music choices! Locally gay-owned & operated. Like/follow & get the app!

Time for Georgia to do the same but Georgia Power keeps looking back to coal.

Jesus Christ.

NYU graduate Logan Rozos is facing criticism after condemning the atrocities committed in Palestine during his commencement speech. #gaza #palestine #israel #nyu #nyugallatin TikTok video by Daily Mail

This is the kid who NYU is considering withholding graduation from for speaking out against Gaza. This speech. Ask yourself why. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5mEgHo/

This shit makes “HuNtEr’S LaPtOP” & “BuRiSmA!” look as the transparently feigned outraged many of us knew it was from the jump.

Thisssss

The Hard Calls Dems Must Make to Regain Power Democrats want to win over more moderate voters. But are they willing to adopt moderate positions?

“There is near-universal agreement … that the party needs to expand its tent and appeal to more moderate and independent voters.”

They could - I don’t know - appeal to their own voters AND independent voters left of center, win AND keep their values intact. Just a thought.

Deep and depressing.

Acting, carpentry, politics, sewing: an ever-evolving Ethan Embry I've followed Ethan Embry on ⁠Twitter/X⁠ (he's ⁠on Bluesky now⁠) for years now, and have always been fascinated with how well-versed he is on political and social issues. Today, I finally got to sit d...

Wide-ranging & undisciplined (in a good way imho) conversation with @ethanembry.bsky.social today. Thanks buddy!

You ain’t lyin’ 💅

Roses are red, hippies burn incense …

Over the moon excited to have actor & liberal/progressive bad-ass @ethanembry.bsky.social on the show tomorrow. Hear it on @americaone.bsky.social (9a & 5p) & Progressive Voices (11p) or where you podcast.

while pointing out that not doing so would run afoul of this President’s attacking CBS News for having done ANY editing of the Kamala Harris sitdown last fall.

John Oliver makes a point in a funny way but the point needn’t be lost: @terrymoranabc.bsky.social shouldn’t move on from abject stupidity. Keep rolling. Show the photo and let the world see that feable old dementia-addled diaper Don insist that photo shows tattoos. Then INSIST on airing it all 1/

How many Chinese patents does Ivanka “need?” How many BILLIONS from Saudi Arabia? 2,3,4,5 enough?

America has no money to pay for cancer research for kids, but we’ve got tons of cash to rebuild Alcatraz for Trump’s vanity. Unbefuckinglievable

Money motivates Atlanta electeds at the expense of city residents It's easy to grouse about "NIMBYism" in situations where organized neighbors push back against "progress," but in the case of Atlanta's Amsterdam Walk, the neighbors weren't against sensible developme...

Too many of Atlanta’s electeds (all Democrats) are failing the people that elected ‘em in favor of developers. Here’s an example:

The duality of the Trump WH feigning concern about antisemitism on college campuses & pulling funding from targeted institutions while handing over BILLIONS to Elon Musk-owned businesses is … something. NeverMIND that a large portion of campus protestors are, in fact, Jewish.

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

My day job is residential real estate: it’s hard to ignore what Trump’s tariff fumbling has done to the bond markets & how that affects mortgage rates. They’re back at 7.5% - erasing a couple Fed rate cuts. In the UK they’re at 3.8-4.8% & dropping. In the EU they’re 3.3% and dropping.

“But if federal courts cannot order the return of someone exiled to a foreign gulag by mistake, then the administration is free to exile citizens and then claim they did so in error, while leaving them to rot” t.co/Ns38TTO91k

These aren’t all “liberal bastions,” either.

Obama’s Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward In an appearance on Thursday, the former president laid out the connection between Trump’s lawlessness and—yes—the price of eggs. Will other Democrats follow?

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering takedown of Trump's lawlessness. Importantly, Obama also offered Dems a way to argue that Trump's dictatorial abuses of power and his imminent wreckage of the economy are the same story.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Arresting officers aren’t THE JUDICIARY.