The Ron Show

Micah Herskind is a writer & activist, and his Twitter account is one of the most thorough when it comes to the "Cop City" saga, so I had him on today to review everything we know (and what we've been lied to about) in that regard. Governor Brian Kemp's  ⁠ choosing to whine about what Senators Ossoff and Warnock aren't able (yet) to do ⁠  - and don't need to until 202...

The Dekalb County autopsy on Manuel Paez "Tortuguita" Teran found no gunpowder residue on his hands or body; kinda weird given that he's the one police and police investigators say fired from inside his tent shortly before being deluged with more than 50 bullet wounds from head to torso, arms, hands and legs. Just another chapter in the inability for pro-APD training facility folks t...

Will Atlanta local media EVER recall a Cherokee County School Board member was booted from a convention for using an anti-gay slur (f*ggot) and shouted anti-trans venom to a trans person? Well, the board meets tomorrow night, so I did a little refresh of the story, and started "at" tweeting media personalities who covered it when it was breaking news in early April but who've not cov...

As I went to tape today's show, I already had Andrew Lawrence on the line from Media Matters for America to discuss the Dominion v Fox News case - JUST as word got out a settlement had. been reached. So half the show is our reacting to it, and covering a host of other hot topics, including why the Clarence Thomas story isn't a bigger saga in media of any kind, and the lack of traction on t...

Thank goodness for the Braves & Dawgs, because Georgians have to be flat-out embarrassed, otherwise, with public figures from Georgia like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Clarence Thomas. Clarence - a Supreme Court Justice - can't seem to follow ethical guidelines, but gets to be one of the nine "end all be all" voices on legal matters? His latest? Not reporting income he and his wife...

New polling for Georgia's GOP presidential hopefuls and Trump's STILL in control, so far. Y'all know I love diving into polling, so I jumped right in. Blis Savidge from Georgia Innocence Project joins me to tell us what GIP does and how wrongfully convicted Georgians are still being screwed over by the state - with a familiar GOP name the giant clog in the pipe. Then, the latest Claren...

Today's a bit of a recycling effort; we've had some glitches getting the show to AmericaOne Radio this week but with insightful conversations with Reason Magazine's Joe Lancaster (covering Georgia's heavy backing of a Rivian that's hemorrhaging cash ) and Georgia WIN List's Melita Easters, on to discuss Mifepristone, Cop City & more, I felt compelled to make sure they w...

Tim Scott's in ... sort of. He's against "weaponizing" race, so allow me to "weaponize" RACISM and let ya eavesdrop on a former Georgia high school football coach - who has trained several NFL players - as he videos himself spewing jawdroppingly racist crap while visit Atlanta recently. He sent these videos to a friend or friends thinking it was funny. Not kidding. Geor...

Melita Easters, Georgia WIN List executive director and frequent pundit from FOX 5's The Georgia Gang, joins me today to discuss a range of topics - from mifepristone to Cop City, Fani Willis, the lost DNC convention bid, &even a local anti-trans school board member.

No lie; I had to book time with Amir Farokhi weeks in advance, and I'll give him his due - he doesn't cheat you. Atlanta's district 2 city councilman (my councilman) gave me a good chunk of show time to talk about everything on my list - "cop city," MARTA audit, gentrification & housing, infrastructure & more. He's a "one to watch" kind of politician so...

From an optics standpoint, has there been a worse week for Republicans in recent memory? Between the Trump indictment, the Tennessee House shenanigans and now the Clarence (have a Coke & a smile) Thomas is outed for sopping up lavish travel freebies from a billionaire Republican donor named Harlan Crow. So we have paid-off porn stars & fraud, racist politicking over dealing with slaughtere...

Breathtaking to watch (as we produced today's show) the first of three Tennessee House representatives are being expelled from a majority - solely because they'd rather expel opposition than confront gun violence. This is democracy dying in Tennessee. Earlier today, I got to spend a good half an hour or so in conversation with Bobbie Paul from 'Regulate Guns Not Women.' I found it...

Are Cherokee County school system parents even aware their school board's vice-chairman was banned from a professional wrestling convention last weekend for verbally harassing a transgender woman ? I'm here to make sure they're aware. Then, Bill White (and uh, his husband? Who knew? ) are taking their ball and going to north Georgia, leaving the "Buckhead city" movement in ta...

Right off the bat, Craig Harrington, research director at Media Matters for America, joins to discuss the Trump arraignment spectacle, right wing media handling of it, Majorie's megaphone minute (or two) and more. We've some audio from Marge in Manhattan, along with their Representative, Jamaal Bowman hollering for her to get outta there, too. Ooh, stinging rebuke from civil rights activis...

Marge had her big primetime moment on 60 Minutes last night; did she get the soft treatment? Even worse - did they elevate her? A little pretext from Kadia Goba at Semafor.com , too. Let's talk about on-court antics in women's basketball and the disparate reactions we have, societally, based on their ethnicity. Then Rep. Ruwa Romman spent a good bit of time reflecting on her first General...

The "law & order" party isn't very fond of "the law" bringing "order" to their twice-impeached former president and current (and still) leader of the GOP. Their apoplectic reactions to his being indicted yesterday is predictably rich. Take a listen. Locally, the University of Georgia Athletic department could be in more legal hot water than we previously thoug...

Atlanta journalist, documentarian & podcast King Williams joined me on the show today to cover LOTS of Atlanta and Georgia political topics, including "Cop City Brian Kemp's political ambitions, Jon Ossoff's future & more. Oh, Ron DeSantis was in town today, too, and unfortunately the Donald Trump indictment came down after the show so - more tomorrow.

Wait, so now right wing pundits want to disarm trans people - meaning the Second Amendment they fawn over doesn't apply to trans people? Isn't this LITERALLY "second class citizenship?" But does this surprise anyone, anymore? Republicans are like bigotry locusts, moving from one marginalized minority to the next when the clock expires on their previous target. Picking just on gay...

I make it no secret I'm not a fan of Erick Erickson. The man's divisive and lacking in self-awareness on a grand scale - as most right wing pundits tend to be. Some of his most recent anti-trans rhetoric, however can't go unnoticed here. As we're learning more about the Nashville school shooting killer, Eric wants to play the false equivalency game while feigning innocence in doing...

Between severe weather rocking rural Mississippi, Alabama and even part of Georgia and today's mass school shooting in Nashville, Georgia legislative chicanery took a backseat for a bit. Last week, the United Nations IPCC report - a pretty conservative commission, by the way - gave us a dire outlook. Can we correlate these "historic" tornado events? Well, it's not easy to but it&...

Lots of 'Cop City' coverage today. New details coming out about the violent & deadly clash that killed an Atlanta forest defender, plus Dekalb County's shutting down nearby Entrenchment Creek Park , citing "traps." Re-sharing yesterday's interview with environmental journalist Adam Federman to discuss the curious FBI hyper-scrutiny of environmental advocacy orgs even LOOSELY connected (in any...

First, something fun: the folks at Wander North Georgia have their "March madness" bracket out - sixteen of the best state parks in North Georgia to visit. I cast my votes - and some were tough calls to make - so feel free to do the same. More importantly, try to visit as many of them as possible! We learned today that Governor Brian Kemp - now in his second and final term as governor and free of...

Believe it or not, as contentious as the rhetoric was between Republicans and Democrats in the SB140 (anti-trans "gender-affirming care" ban), a big group of legislators and staffers still thought it would be cool to leave that Senate vote for a kickball game between the House and Senate. Poor optics. I've an idea, though: how about we get these two teams to take on a couple of LGBTQ+ Atlanta-area...

After a vote last night to audit MARTA, Atlanta city council members went before the media today to explain why. MARTA released a jaw-dropping statement , by the way. This line in particular: "The best thing the politicians on council can do for their constituents in the City of Atlanta is to get out of the way ..." is audacious! We'll go over legislative measures SB 233 (school vouchers) and SB14...

Don't fall for the bait, liberal friends; don't cancel your plans and call out from work to sit around waiting to see video of DJT being cuffed and stuffed into the back of a squad car, just yet. Just because he says it's soon to happen doesn't mean it'll happen. For all we know, it's just another in a LONG line of campaign fundraising gambits. Lord knows his Truth Social timeline is FILLED with t...