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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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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 3d

As a man, I would like to say that women are smarter on average because women are less likely to vote conservative around the world.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

There are very few stores left in Portland that aren't made of wood. FYI

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Randy G @randygdata.bsky.social · 3d

Coming to a theater near you: Monty Python's "Life of Thiel" - Only the true Antichrist calls everybody else the Antichrist!

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

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Pete DeOlympio @pete-deolympio.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

Moldova 🇲🇩 👍

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

The Governor Newsom Press Account is beyond good.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 19d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

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 · Sep 14

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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