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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 15h

Not beating the lizard people accusations.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine having all the fuck you money in the world and still being this way.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve heard from trans activists and trans people that they don’t like when you call it that.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tell me you’ve never been in a grocery store without telling me. Who buys a single stick of butter?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is why they still vote for him. They love the racism. They don’t care about anything else.

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A recent Star Tribune article found that 14 Minnesota CEOs took home more than $10 million, with one making more than $200 million. This is exactly why we need to tax the rich.

Screenshot of a Star Tribune graphic featuring stacks of green coins rising alongside U.S. currency and a businessperson carrying a briefcase. Large text reads: “14 Minnesota CEOs took home over $10 million, with one making more than $200 million.”

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Go nuclear. Fill you lawn with little Minnesota flags. Don’t let them win.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My family gave up their entire culture for the currency of whiteness. All I have is a sauce recipe that was survived. Makes me sad for what was lost. It’s great to watch the new communities hang on to their traditions and share them with the rest of us.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s an immediate block. Didn’t know he was here.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Make be she could go talk to the Democratic candidate for governor since that is her plan.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you have the white nationalists, you are the white nationalists.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Pope should excommunicate the Catholic justices.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can tell they are worried about the elections. Their attacks on trans people have gotten more vitriolic. Trans rights are human rights.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And not enough people have any idea GamerGate ever existed.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes they are. And if they ever get the White House back all those tech bros will be front and center with the President again.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Donald Trump's ICE thugs are breaking apart families and building a reign of terror in our communities. We need to abolish ICE now.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But lying doesn’t matter to MAGA because they are illiterate chuds that only listen to Fox News. Facts don’t matter to them.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”

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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People openly write about being shitty parents like it is some kind of flex?

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What evidence do we have that he is bound by the law?

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Sarah @sarahisathome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's never a bad time but seems like an extra good time to donate to the Science Museum of Minnesota. tickets.smm.org/events/30884...

tickets.smm.org

Science Museum of Minnesota

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JJ Abram’s destroys everything he touches.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you all ever going to address your partnership with OpenAI, MicrosoftAI and Claude?

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Make the maximum difference between the lowest paid employees and the highest a 20x difference including stock options.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026

Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Any Nazi scholars out there that can help me understanding what is going on with kids asking questions about Hallow Earth theory? Specifically asking if I’ve been to Agartha.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Voters understand who is responsible for the problems that affect their lives.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

STOP THROWS NG TRANS PEOPLE AND THEIR ALLIES UNDER THE BUS.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You just approved a monopoly of our media with capitulation to the Ellisons. Maybe you should STFU.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A friend is an infectious disease doctor and he has been warning everyone. “If you get a tick bite send me a text and I’ll get you a script right away.”

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colin Kaepernick has also been exposing Jay-Z in regards to Colin being blackballed by the NFL.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Or teach them these things before they leave and support them after they leave. Don’t be an asshole parent.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Raffle off tickets to hit it with a sledgehammer.

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