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Ron Eastman

@ronaldospeaks.bsky.social
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Retired astronomer, aspiring artist, a husband and a dad, and a full-time worrier.

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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I nominate Jack Smith to be the next Attorney General of the United States. Wouldn't *that* be fun! And guaranteed it won't take him three years to fgure out how to bring back accountability and put the Trumps & their cronies behind bars.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ellisons "promise" editorial independence for CBS and CNN. WTF isn't the sale of CBS and CNN part.of the settlement? This sucks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount Settles States’ Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Bros. Merger
By resolving a lawsuit filed by a group of states, the media mogul David Ellison removed the last major hurdle he faced in buying Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" -- Peter Thiel www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
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The Education of a Libertarian
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The exact thing I've been wondering about! 👇 one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5898...
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🔊 Listen Now: The Social Security trust fund is running out, and yet it's not a top campaign issue
Morning Edition on NPR One | 3:42
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
1/ My rant: is NYTimes concerned about security, or are they simply harassing subscribers to get more money out of them? For the last several months, whenever I login to NYTimes, from the same 2 or 3 computers I use daily, I'm forced to do 2 factor verification. But then I'm told that if I get
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Stephen Miller Sent 9 Special Operations Goons to Tail a Guy Driving ICE Out Signs emptywheel.net/2026/08/25/s...
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Stephen Miller Sent 9 Special Operations Goons to Tail a Guy Driving ICE Out Signs - emptywheel
On February 26, Special Operations goons spent 13 hours tailing a guy transporting ICE Out signs in his truck.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Brilliant! Doctorow: "By repealing Bill C-11 and legalizing reverse-engineering and modification of digital technology with consent of its users and in accordance with privacy, consumer and labour rights, Canada will gain a devastating counter to Trump's tariffs." pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/e...
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Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cory Doctorow: "Mistaking cultural signifiers and identity markers for politics is centrism's most dangerous pathology, the thing that makes centrism the handmaiden of the right. " A worthwhile read. pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w...
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This has reminded me of where that feeling of being "Proud to be an American" actually used to come from. I don't know whose life these ICE thugs came to destroy, but I Love the person's neighbors!
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Stand Indivisible AZ ❌👑 @standindivisible.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#AZindivisible www.threads.com/@hunterbiden...
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Hunter Biden (@hunterbiden) on Threads
Some things need to be said plainly. This is one of them. More of my writing on Substack.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We need more BCTs!!!
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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ah yes. Not as dangerous as those radical leftists who want healthcare though! They are the REAL danger, here. Listen to your “moderate” overlords. They are moderately okay with fascist authoritarianism. Totally reasonable stance to take.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“.. Danielle Bensky, a survivor of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hugs Amanda Roberts, sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre, at the end of the 2nd day of confirmation hearings for U.S. Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche on Capitol Hill.” @reuters.com
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Josh Gerstein: "The prospect that Americans grow restless at being ruled by nine robed lawyers they never see doing their jobs has the potential to fuel a crisis of legitimacy." Ya think? www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force
The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security. At what cost?
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Oh please! This country has been a socialist country for most of it's existence. The problem is that it's always been corporate socialism. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
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Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Jared & Ivanka not winning any popularity contests in Albania Have fun spending billions to get some peaceful R & R over there! 🙃 🏝️
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Carol Norris @carolnorris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My response to today's SCOTUS decision in Chiles v Salazar, overturning CO's #ConversionTherapy ban.
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Conversion Therapy in Any Form Is an Abomination: And So Is the Chiles v. Salazar SCOTUS Ruling*
Today (31 March 2026), the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Colorado’s ban on so-called conversion “therapy” on minors.
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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 30/05/2026
Five years ago @univpressofkansas.bsky.social published a book on this very topic, though at the time it was about strengthening the administrative state. The notion that it would need to be protected from the other branches wasn’t (yet) on our minds. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700632077/
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
1/ Following heavy lobbying by such tech heavies as Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman & others, LANL last year partnered with Nvidia and OpenAi to "be used for energy and national security applications." www.lanl.gov/media/newsle...
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Laboratory partners with OpenAI to advance national security | LANL
For the first time ever, the latest reasoning models from OpenAI will be used for energy and national security applications on Los Alamos’s Venado supercomputer
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well, the resignation or removal of RFK Jr by itself would do quite a lot to alleviate many Amercan's dependence on SSRIs! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This so cheered me up, and gives me reason to feel optimistic. Graham Platner is so much more that a questionable tattoo and a few ill-thoughtout reddit posts by an angry young man who'd served 4 terms of duty in Iran. If only there were more like him running for office. youtu.be/-itNjgCJDxU?...
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Graham Platner On Service, Messaging & the Future for Democrats | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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mrslmb-1257.bsky.social @mrslmb-1257.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
They also deserve not to be starved!! Literally not getting proper amount of food! If this reporting is true the complete POS hegseth should be court martialed! bsky.app/profile/meid...
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J @jjst19.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it. Hasn't our state suffered enough? www.savetheboundarywaters.org
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Protect the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 08/04/2026
Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.
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Donald Trump Impeachment Backed by Most Americans: Poll
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Usually, as they say, history merely rhymes. But go back far enough and...yeah, we absolutely do keep doing the same stupid sh!t over and over again.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
As much as I'd like to believe that conservatives want to impeach tRump, most likely it's just that they're all oh so stupid.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I would be tje proudest man on Earth if this were my daughter. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Michigan student disciplined for protesting against war on Gaza reaches settlement with school
Teenager alleged she faced racism from teacher who told her to ‘go back to her country’ for refusing to stand for pledge of allegiance
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I said it 16 years ago: California's Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, 2010 Prop 14, is less democratic than what it replaced. Now, with 10 Dems running in the primary and only 2 Repubs, prob is high that the only two choices voters will have in Nov will be between two Repubs for govenor!
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I'm banned and canceled from "Truth" Social! I don't know whether it's because I commented that California, which has been "destroyed" by "lib Dems", has the 5th largest economy in the World, or maybe when I suggested that the US doesn't need intelligence 'cause we've Trump's bones, which never lie.
Cancelled!
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
If an aversion to fascist a$$h@le ideology makes me a terrorist, then I'm an Antifa terrorist. So where do I go to learn the secret hand signals?
Official White House announcement that tRump is a Fu<kin Fascist.An Antifa I mostly admire.
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Alyssa Stansfield @astansfield.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Reminder for everyone to submit your response to the NSF DCL about NCAR by this Friday! Tell your friends. Also call your representatives while you’re at it 😅 agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
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Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It's hard for me to believe the rush to war with Iran, w/o salable rational, planning or goals, that it isn't classic Wag the Dog. DJT's desperate to change the narrative, away from so many many things. So, as we teeter on the brink of WW3, let's not forget the victims: substack.com/@mikaanderso...
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Mika Anderson (@mikaanderson)
I’ve shared numerous stories on Katie Johnson (13 yo raped by Trump) but I feel like this story CANNOT be covered up again. GRAPHIC description of Sexual Abuse content.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Pete Hegseth doesn’t like photographers taking “unflattering” photos of him? Better not share this one around either.
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House Armed Services Democrats @democrats-armedservices.house.gov · 08/03/2026
"I have been in a lot of briefings w/govt officials & other experts ... over the last 9 days. It's as if we have learned absolutely nothing. We have to make the right policy choice, pressure the Trump Admin to find an off-ramp & get us out of this war." - HASC Ranking Member @adamsmith.house.gov
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thanks to SCOTUS via tRump v US, the Orange Buttface is free to run the executive branch as a tRump family crime syndicate. But the CEO's and oligarchs of America should be reminded that it is still a felony to pay or "gift" *any* member of the executive branch in exchange for quid pro quo.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It should be renamed Trump-Kennedy Disease. That'd please tRump, right? Listen to: Measles continues to spread in the US, but with some letup - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5698...
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🔊 Listen Now: Measles continues to spread in the US, but with some letup
on NPR One | 4:03
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If Democrats *really* want to own the issue of ICE reform while widening right of center public support for it, they should add explicit Second Amendment protections to the legislation, i.e. a holstered, lawfully permitted firearm shouldn't result in summary execution by ICE.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Been sleeping well at night? Yes? Well, I can fix that! Read about how Jon, a retired insurance salesman, had the temerity to write a polite letter to one of the DHS attorneys trying to deport an Afgan who'd assisted our troops. For his troubles, Jon's being invested! And ur next! wapo.st/4rtfCw8
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
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Jeannette💙 BLUE DOT IN RED BREVARD💙 🐶🌈🗽🐢🤬👩‍🏫📚🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇱 @jeannette116.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I renewed my driver’s license recently in Florida. I was told I was registered democrat and did I wish to change any information. I said no, and then told them I wanted to stay registered and democrat because I vote in EVERY election. She said I would be fine. I checked when I got home…kicked out
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a blue megaphone with the words " stay alert " on it
ALT: a blue megaphone with the words " stay alert " on it
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In 1968 black sanitation workers in Memphis struck for 64 days for their rights, higher pay, the right to organize. In this moment of existential crisis, is it not time to follow their example? Trump won't care, but a national strike and boycott would get the attention of Trump's oligarch enablers.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I am VERY concerned about the USPS postmark rule change. I will complete my ballot early, but my Gen-Z sons are expert procrastinators. How many millions of young people like them are going to have their ballots discarded? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...
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How new USPS rules put the right to vote at risk
Read more here.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A reasonable response, at least for the Dem govs of CA, NY, NJ and Virginia, would be an investigation of water waste at Trump owned golf courses located in their states, meanwhile terminating water service until a full (slow) investigation has been undertaken. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
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Health Dept. Freezes $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Looks like we have "let it". This was so predictable.
The Fascist in Chief
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
While we all wait to see how thoroughly the DOJ has scrubbed every references to DJT from the Epstein files, we can watch Katie Johnson's affidavit describing how she was raped by Trump at age 13. Warning: very disturbing. youtu.be/DeLoTf9QUqI?...
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Video Affidavit Of Katie Johnson Surfaces
YouTube video by Narativ with Zev Shalev
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
It is breathtaking! I wonder how much money Rump charges for a presidential pardon.
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Billionaires who throw their weight around (i.e. $$$) while paying taxes at a lower rate than school teachers aren't just tax slackers. They're a threat to our democracy, to our freedom. No one should have that much power. No one deserves such power. What's the solution? youtube.com/shorts/jsrVH...
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Billie Eilish asked the right question.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
How about a $2 billion lawsuit against Fox News by the Attorney General of Oregon, on behalf of the City of Portland, for the economic harm caused by Fox's libelous medacity? AG Dan Rayfield, are you listening? On 2nd thought, make it 4 billion! www.propublica.org/article/port...
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“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
NO Kings 🫢
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Ron Eastman @ronaldospeaks.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This sunset image was taken on 5/7/2025 at 9:45p, on the west coast of Ireland, near to the Cliffs of Moher. The extraordinary thing about it is that sunset occurred at 9:15p, and by 9:45p the Sun was already 7.5 deg below the horizon! It's an amazing example of the Novaya Zemlya effect
Image of Sun produced by Novaya Zemlya effect.
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