The Ron Show

Whoa; a SWAT raid of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund "Teardown House" netted three arrests for ... "money laundering?" While the price tag for "Cop City" has doubled , this is latest salvo? Interesting. Local activist & writer Micah Herskind joins me to discuss. By the way, GREAT Twitter follow to stay on this: A tlanta Press Collective & MIcah , of course. Also j...

"Dark Brandon" strikes again; staving off a debt default, you can TELL he won the poker match by hearing all the HOWLING from the right. Did Kevin McCarthy mislead the GOP base with these results? Was this the last bullet in the GOP chamber to try and "off" the Biden re-election bid? Local tidbits about Ed Sheeran in local bars/clubs, a not-so-random Buckhead shooting, more tha...

On this Memorial Day, I share with you audio from ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, with remarks from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley, and President Joe Biden.

Mocking the disastrous DeSantis rollout is too easy, so I won't. What I will hone in on, however, is this dangerous "anti-woke" pushback targeting (pardon the pun) Target, Anheuser-Busch, Disney, et al; a WaPo op-ed (with some commentary additions from yours truly) gets us going today. Been a minute since we've had an MTG update, but we've a doozie today. This 'un had the...

Well, we know Ronnie D's running ( even if Twitter's audio feed wasn't ); it's the support that he and Trump combined get that's so troubling. For a group of self-professed patriots and lovers of country, it's just odd they go with "dividers" instead of uniters. Also odd that Elon "free speech" Musk aligns in any way with Governor Ron "Book Ban This...

Ron's running, and I have the details how he'll roll out his campaign will launch. Dare I say - Lauren Boebert acted like a mature adult at a recent hearing, but also sounded like an 'Obamacare' proponent in the process? Oops. Eric Erickson got conned into yelping "SATANISM AT TARGET!" and ... it's pretty hilarious. Thanks to the folks at TheStreet.com for clearing up...

Surely you see the GOP's debt ceiling endgame, right? They're giving two options and both can and likely will derail the economy, which surely tanks a Biden re-election; but they ran on FIXING the economy in '22. So who are they punishing: us for not giving them their "red wave," or Biden for simply not being one of them? Speaking of cuts, Kemp's budget cuts don't jib...

New polling reveals who likely Georgia GOP presidential primary voters would vote for right now, and - while the big guy still leads all other options - there's a lot to decipher from the data. A new addition to the Braves' jerseys has me grousing a bit like an old timer "traditionalist." Go figure. A recent Gallup poll reveals rising anxiety and depression in American adults; my...

"Fulton County election integrity" as a concept dodged a bullet. Even the GOP "fox" nominated to count the eggs in the henhouse saw how awful the optics were and essentially withdrew himself after IMMENSE backlash. On that note, an op/ed at Slate.com today (rightfully) asks why the DOJ isn't investigating Trump being implicated in a vote machine theft. One of the co-authors...

It was "the 300" (or more) mostly Atlanta citizens vs. their city council yesterday in a seven-plus hour long public comment hearing. Every person who came to speak about the proposed Atlanta police training facility spoke in opposition. Every. Single. One. I share a couple standout moments, and give this warning to Democrats: ignore this backlash locally at your party's peril, natio...

Who lets foxes guard hen houses? So why is Fulton Commission chair Rob Pitts nominating a Republican to chair the county election board - giving it a 3-2 GOP majority in a solidly "blue" county? Given all that occurred since 2020 ... this just cannot happen. Matt Gertz joined the show from Media Matters for America to discuss Fox News' upfront pitch to advertisers this week & wha...

About that town hall ... also, about Governor Brian Kemp snuffing out any notion of a special session to address gun violence. He claims Democrats were "posturing." The guy who aired a campaign ad sitting next to a teenage boy while holding a shotgun in his lap had the audacity to claim someone else was "posturing."

Wasn't a good day of news coverage if you're a Georgia Bulldogs' fan; the father of Devin Willock, killed in the auto accident stemming from street racing after the national championship celebration in Athens, is coming for a big sum of money - and may file to get more from the university. Plus, the athletic department can't get on the same page with The White House about a champio...

In the grand scheme of things, $5 million is chump-change for THE chump - found liable for sexual battery & defamation today. Does it affect his base of support? Pfft. Will it give GOP voters reason to pause? Ehh. Will the party elite wash their hands of him? C'mon. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in town over the weekend; the highlight being his commencement speech at Georgia Tech&#...

Last week I noted a right wing pundit sneered at the idea that white supremacy is the nation's greatest domestic terror threat as he pointed out the ethnicity of the midtown assailant. Here's where I say "Allen and Brownsville, TX have now entered the chat." Speaking of Texas, with federal troops heading to the southern border and anti-immigrant crimes in headlines, today was a p...

Today was fun; I got to hang out with CNN producer, Kennesaw State professor & Anecdotal ATL creator & host Will Edmonds. DO follow @anecdotalATL on Instagram and/or TikTok and learn SO much Atlanta history that's not "textbook history" and get to know how it came to be and meet Will with me!

It might be easier to tell you what Clarence Thomas' "sugar daddy" Harlan Crow ISN'T paying on behalf of the justice and Ginni, his wife. ⁠More revelations revealed⁠ ; and ⁠Herschel Walker either conned a guy into being HIS "sugar daddy" too ⁠ or just committed wire fraud and broke campaign finance laws. Where IS he, by the way? There's a strain of smug dismissivism...

For nearly three hours today, midtown Atlanta was on lockdown, as yet another mass shooting took place in the heart of Atlanta. Hear instant reactions and information from Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens & police chief Darin Schierbaum.  We get a recap of the situation from  ⁠ Donnell Suggs ⁠ , editor-in-chief at the  ⁠ Atlanta Voice, ⁠  and have Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock's floor speech on...

"Southern. Gay. Teacher"⁠ author Randy Fair rejoins the show to discuss Georgia's efforts to whitewash terms like "diversity" and :inclusion" from state teacher prep jargon, plus the rise in anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric orbiting public education. He recently wrote ⁠an eye-opening op/ed in Other Words⁠ that seems to indicate society is backsliding on treatment of LG...

Took a cheat day so you're getting a replay of the White House Correspondents' Dinner featuring President Joe Biden and The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. Enjoy!

Local documentarian and journalist King Williams and I caught up on a Zoom to talk Cop City, MARTA, why Atlanta wasn't "it" for the DNC convention and if it's possible to generate Gen-Z & millennial enthusiasm for "Biden/Harris 2024." We're also on the same page with what the Hawks might ought to do with Trae Young. A second black trans Atlanta woman has been ki...

Friday promises to be a traffic & parking nightmare in downtown Atlanta with Taylor Swift AND Janet Jackson performing at adjacent venues; so why, when the Georgia Department of Transportation is having a little fun with their song titles to warn motorists & concert-goers, did they NOT mention MARTA as an "alternative?" So now that we've had a couple days to let the "Joe...

Marianne Williamson was a viral presidential sensation in 2020 before she bowed out in mid-January of that year. She's back, and one of only two challengers aiming to wrest the Democrats Party nomination from a sitting President. She joined me today to make her case.

Joe's running ... and so is Marianne Williamson. She's on the show, with me, in-person tomorrow, but let's hear Joe's pitch first. Then we'll hem and haw about the arduous task his campaign will have to win over American and Democratic voters who aren't warm to his re-election bid. Heidi Mirracle, Cherokee County parent, LGBTQ+ parent, and one of the brave folks who spoke o...

Ding dong, Tucker Carlson's gone; Media Matters for America's senior fellow Matt Gertz speculates - with me - what's next for Tuckums and Fox News. Don Lemon got whacked, too, and the "thing" folks are pointing to as the reason why doesn't really add up. I'll explain. So it turns out there were MULTIPLE Cherokee County residents and parents of current and former schoo...