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Randy

@randyrnbla.bsky.social

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Feisty CA Democrat. I love life in LA, running my own communications company, DGA film screenings, endless tv, cooking, tennis & my jolly cat Sterling! 💙😻💙

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Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · Nov 23

Really settling in to the 1 like per post on this app. Been bageled a lot too. 😼

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 5h

Bringing this one back…

Meme: Zverev says (not really) “I think they made the Shanghai Masters courts slower for the two cousins.”

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. Take good care.

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 1d

I worked for CBS News. I will never get over what has become of it. It feels like a death to me. 😔

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 1d

What the hell happened to her? I used to admire her sports writing. Yeesh.

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 1d

I said this Thurs:
I had already written off Porter. Her whiteboard is her only accomplishment. She stupidly walked out on a risky purple House district for a Senate run we all knew Schiff would win. She’s not Governor material, especially in these times and after Newsom. Big no to Porter for me.

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 1d

Ok this is kinda great. 😂
#Tennis #Vacherot #Rinderknech #ShanghaiMasters

Meme: Zverev says (not really) “I think they made the Shanghai Masters courts slower for the two cousins.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 2d

This is Trump's America

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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 2d

Coco Gauff has won her first 9 hard court finals.

She is the first woman to achieve this in the Open Era.

She is also the first woman to win 9 consecutive hard court finals since Serena Williams in 2015.

Unreal stuff.

🇺🇸❤️

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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 2d

The moment Valentin Vacherot became the 1st man from Monaco to win a Masters singles title

From alternate to qualifier to beating Bublik, Rune, & Djokovic… to hugging his own cousin at the very end

One of the best sports stories you’ll ever hear

🇲🇨🥹

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The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 2d

Valentin Vacherot signs the camera after beating his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai final:

“Grandpa and Grandma would be proud.”

🥹

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 2d

These two. 🥹 Vacherot & Rinderknech. Hope we see more and more of them as they rise together. 💙
#Tennis #ShanghaiMasters #Final #Cousins

The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 2d

Arthur Rinderknech speaking through tears to his cousin Valentin Vacherot during his finalist speech in Shanghai.

“Two cousins are stronger than one.”

What a beautiful moment. 🥹

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 2d

No. Not Diane Keaton. May her beautiful memory be a blessing. 🥀

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 3d

I just love tennis! Cousins Rinderknech & Vacherot to face off in the Shanghai Masters Final!! What a story, what a week!
🥹🎾💙🎾🥹

Arthur Rinderknech hugs his cousin Valentin Vacherot.

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 3d

What kind actions? Or is that your point… 😉

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 3d

cc: WTA and ATP tennis schedulers

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 4d

Couldn’t you have just one of your stories about the Nobel Peace Prize celebrate the actual Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado only? No, you force the whiny loser into every one and make him the headline. For shame.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4d

Get the fuck out of Chicago.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 4d

I proudly stand with the LA Times Guild as I always have from the start. Stay #UnionStrong #GuildStrong in your first strike!
@laist.com @mattdpearce.com @latimes.com
#LATimesGuild

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Cat named Sterling sits next to flyer that says Solidarity with LA Times Guild

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

New statement from AG James:

"This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system.

"I am not fearful — I am fearless."

Randy @randyrnbla.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly. And Sinema 2.0 is a perfect comparison.