Ron Gaydos

Ron Gaydos

@rondeegee.bsky.social

Democracy absolutist. 🌎🌍🌏 Cooperative business developer. 🌱 So, democracy for the economy, too. 🖖🏼 Pick just one thing to resist, please. ⚡️ Hey! Heard any good music lately? 🎶 HE / EL No DMs. You may be beautiful, but I can’t tell bots from babes on here. ✌🏼

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Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

A nice chart on “Get down ballot” offices…

TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛@tommasinaresist.bsky.social

Hammer this daily: "Down-ballot" races, for local leaders & issues, are the most important. High-profile national ones get attention, but town councils, school boards, state legislators, etc. impact us most. Vote BLUE down-ballot. The impact of local government is BIG. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

Has he ever fully paid ANYBODY?!

Mary Geddry@magixarc.bsky.social

Pretend Trump is on the ballot, maybe you get $5,000 if Republicans win Congress. A trillion-dollar promise, Vance started trimming within hours. It joins the DOGE and tariff dividends in the museum of checks not in the mail. #uspolitics #midterms #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

open.substack.comThe Trump Dividend, and Other Checks That Aren't in the MailA trillion-dollar campaign promise, three vanished payouts, and one remarkably convenient Election Day deadline.
Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

This administration’s robotic operatives were betrayed by robots! LOL

Die_Robots_Die@die-robots-die.bsky.social

Reuter got this story wrong… It’s not mislabeled countries. None of those blobs are the shape or location of any actual African nation. It’s entirely AI slop! What a joke! www.reuters.com/world/africa...

reuters.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Erin Hébert
@merylscreech.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh Progress@pittsburghprogress.bsky.social

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Erin Hébert
@merylscreech.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh Progress@pittsburghprogress.bsky.social

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pittsburghprogress.comThis new media cooperative invites the community to join us on our journey of creationWelcome to the Pittsburgh Progress, a news organization forged by a team of union journalists and community members. That’s us. We own this thing. It’s a cooperative. You can be an owner, too. You sho...
Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

True, according to @opensecrets.org. They’re at it more than ever.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

propublica.orgThat Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election DenialA previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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Kyle Whitmire
@warondumb.bsky.social

Republicans says they believe in voter ID, but when one of their own got caught in the snare, what happened? Donald Trump endorsed him. I give you the curious case of John Wahl.

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

25:47

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan
@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social

Grateful for the last word in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter about #NoKings. As a social movement scholar, the protests were important for their size and for how many sites participated but also because they are part of a trajectory of participation of millions. A 🧵:

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social

October 19, 2025

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comOctober 19, 2025All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan
@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social

Replying to @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

We have millions in the streets already and he has some incel making middle school AI videos … that’s ALL HE’S GOT.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan
@drlisacorrigan.bsky.social

Replying to @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

“Well, we all decide to become a lobbyist sometime.”

Senate Majority PAC@majoritypac.bsky.social

Iowans deserve better than a senator who laughed in the faces of people living with the very real consequences of her actions. www.cbsnews.com/news/joni-er...

cbsnews.comSen. Joni Ernst officially announces she won't seek reelection in 2026, opening Iowa Senate seatSen. Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, announced Tuesday that she won't seek reelection in 2026 after two terms in the Senate.

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Margaret G
@mls0308.bsky.social

Senator Warnock @warnock.senate.gov has reintroduced The John Lewis Voting Rights Act. 💥 Very little media coverage. Share ♻️ Call your reps: ☎️ (202) 224-3121 #Pinks #ProudBlue

Michelle Fowle@mmanire.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: The John Lewis Voting Rights Act (killed by Sinema & Manchin in 2021) was reintroduced yesterday by Sen. Warnock (HR114)! Almost no media coverage. Let’s change that. Call your reps. Make noise. Pass the damn bill.🗳️ More: www.hrc.org/resources/vo...

hrc.orgJohn Lewis Voting Rights Advancement ActThe John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would strengthen voting rights by expanding and strengthening the government's ability to respond to voting…

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

President Trump stumbles while walking up the stairs to Air Force One

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸
@theswprincess.bsky.social

This is a consistent theme since yesterday from people on the ground in Paramount. Yes, there are crowds, there are protesters. But they are PEACEFUL. ICE began firing tear gas, flash bangs and smoke bombs once they saw people who happened to be there start filming.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

JULIETTE KAYYEM: “Active duty Marines for this, Hegseth? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know this is going on.”

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

Squeaker Johnson is the perfect namby pamby fascist tool…

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Speaker of the House: Using active duty Marines on the streets of an American city is just “peace through strength.” ‼️ So we can’t count on the Speaker to defend the rule of law, or to defend the military against misuse.

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

This administration is doing everything we would only suspect, back in a time when thinking they were doing such things was just paranoia. NO LONGER.

Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social

🚨 WaPo Exclusive 🚨 The Postal Service's law enforcement arm is assisting Trump's mass deportation push, per docs and sources. USPS takes photos of the front and back of mail and packages. DHS *really* wants that info, me and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report.

washingtonpost.comUSPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records showThe Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtaine...
Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

People now need concrete action they can take to stop this wanton destruction.

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com

9/9 And another angle on the same dynamic: Trump’s approval is holding up very well with Maga, but he’s rapidly losing support among the rest of the coalition who voted for him in November. Or to put it another way, the view from inside the Maga echo chamber remains rosy. Outside, not so much...

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

There’s no place to look but our house afire…

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com

8) And this one is important. For all the talk about the powerful pro-Trump media ecosystem, the share of Americans who have heard negative business news coverage of the government has exploded. Evidently even the podcast bros can’t distract Americans from the realities of the stock market.

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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Replying to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

7) This one is fun: Remember when Trump won the “inflation election”, as voters united behind him because they were p***ed off with rising prices? Fast forward a few months and Americans’ inflation expectations are now as high as they were at the peak of Biden-era price rises.

Ron Gaydos
@rondeegee.bsky.social

Wow. People are just writing off the next four years. #idiocracy

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com

6) Just 25% of US adults say they expect their finances to look better in five years than today. That’s lower even than at the nadir of the Great Recession.