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Randy G

@randygdata.bsky.social

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💙Classically trained musician with day job in business and technology - passionate about preserving humanity and the arts from the ravages of AI. And from those tech bro oligarchs. Loves Tolkien. And women's basketball! Go UCONN Huskies and NY Liberty!💙

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Randy G @randygdata.bsky.social · Jul 4

"Poor" Sam Altman. He says he's "politically homeless". Sam, feel free to open your Hawaii estate, or your mega-mansion in San Francisco, or better yet, both, to the true homeless who don't have a roof over their head this 4th of July. And school them on the "compounding magic of capitalism".

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'politically homeless' in July 4 post bashing Democrats

"We should encourage people to make tons of money and then also find ways to widely distribute wealth and share the compounding magic of capitalism," he wrote.

www.cnbc.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

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Pete DeOlympio @pete-deolympio.bsky.social · 9d

The US isn't the only country in the world leaning towards authoritarianism. But I'll be forever blown away we let it begin, nevermind get this bad, at the heels of an unapologetically stupid man. Zero redeeming qualities. A walking punchline brought us to the brink. Incredible.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9d

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10d

Moldova 🇲🇩 👍

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

This is a great example a democratic politicians office doing internet well.

This is just an example and not an endorsement of the politician

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10d

The Governor Newsom Press Account is beyond good.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 13d

a good use case for LLMs is detecting when someone is replying to me with some false assertion about urbanism and auto-replying with a link to the relevant book

life is too short for me to hand-write replies to every false assertion

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23d

Calling it now: almost all the coming crackdown on progressive groups will be focused on those that provide funding, resources, research, knowledge, or assistance of other kinds to Democratic candidates, voters, and institutions focused on winning the midterm elections.

An authoritarian crackdown.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23d

With these now explicit threats to use the Kirk killing as the pretext to attack liberal political groups, and given the Ds hold the cards at the end of the month, what are @chuckschumer.com and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social going to do about this? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

www.nytimes.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23d

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them.

This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23d

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25d

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 25d

apnews.com/article/thre...
A series of reported threats toward historically Black colleges and universities across the US on Thursday led to lockdown orders, canceled classes and heightened security...

Historically Black colleges issue lockdown orders and cancel classes after receiving threats

At least six historically Black colleges and universities received threats or “potential” threats Thursday, prompting lockdowns and class cancellations.

apnews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26d

Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 27d

"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."

🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social

Mamdani’s New Ideas on Crime Show Make His Opponents Look Old

What he understands and they don’t.

nymag.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 26d

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson.

Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract

Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.

What a carousel of cronyism

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28d

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

zohranfornyc.com/events

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 4

Andrew Cuomo believes in nothing beyond his own power. He will sell out our city to get it back.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 31

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.

If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

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