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Randall Jay
@randyjay.bsky.social
Artist & online book dealer. I live near Palm Springs, California. Friend of cats, birds, nature. art, books, movies, music, history, paper...

I'm on AbeBooks as Randall's Books https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=61552643
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We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
"Do the rich have too much political power?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
December 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Vintage pics of Old Hollywood & Silent Film thespians, anyone? Recent finds, now posted on #AbeBooks #PatsyRuthMiller #WalterMcGrail #GeorgeFawcett #AnitaLouise #cinema #MovieHistory #SilentMovies #actors #actresses #booksky #Hollywood
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Current conditions
#PalmSprings
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."

-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Photo I took through a window last night.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Yuk. Just noticed my phone’s weather app radar map has ‘Gulf of America’ on it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Loved this early 20th C. photo I found even before I noticed the lady in the bonnet. She makes it even better. Taken by Andrew Putnam Hill (1853-1922). His efforts to save this forest from the sawmill helped jumpstart the CA state park system. #California #photography #redwoods #BigBasinStatePark
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Enjoying sorting through stacks of 20th century #photographs acquired over the weekend. Hollywood, fashion & more. #photography #bookselling #booksky #ephemera
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
First snow of the season up on Mt. San Jacinto this morning.
#PalmSprings #CoachellaValley
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's raining in the desert.
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just grabbed this pic from an email sent by #FloraGrubbGardens (San Francisco & Marina Del Rey), taken at their wholesale nursery. #Stapelia plants are pollinated by flies, so these clever froggies are making this large flower their home. #nature #frogs #plants #flowers
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
thanking the gods
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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trump is only gonna pardon the turkeys that did frauds and schemes
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I love waking up to coffee and good news. Thank you fellow voters.
#coffee #California #Prop50 #antifa #democracy
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Never forget that the oppression of intellectuals is the sign of a regime’s weakness, not its strength…

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
RIP Prunella Scales
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Currently reading 👇
'Saul Steinberg: A Biography' by Deirdre Bair (Doubleday, New York, 2012).
#booksky #books #biography #SaulSteinberg #artistsB
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM