Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026www.npr.org/2006/08/24/5...npr.orgIndian Restaurant Out of Luck with Nazi ThemeThere's a new restaurant in Bombay, India: "Hitler's Cross." The Nazi-themed restaurant outraged the Jewish community. And the owner now claims he was just trying to attract attention. To many Indians... 000
Reposted by Matt RandallAlex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Donald Trump's Russian diesel "deal" has little to do with actual diesel or actual US market. The point of this brilliant Kremlin op is to use the WH as a disinfo tool for vilifying Ukraine: by falsely portraying Ukrainian long-range counterstrikes on Russia as "harmful" for the United States. 411950
Reposted by Matt RandallOpinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The 2026 midterms will be the most expensive election cycle in American history. (Bruce Mehlman's Age of Disruption) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/261005-top... 133
Reposted by Matt RandallRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.youtu.beHow to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist 6721541012
Reposted by Matt RandallCole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.cnbc.comNIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't haveA delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options. 317684
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Everyone thinking about the upcoming election needs to be prepared the your standard vote propensity model is going to underestimate turnout for Dem voters, and overestimate it for Rep voters. We're probably only talking a swing of several percentage points for each, but that will have huge impacts 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most of Norway 's deviation is probably due to petro wealth though, right? 111
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Is the reason the oil couldn't be shipped from other parts of the US down to the Jones act? 110
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You've got to appreciate the depths to which Mike Rogers sees Michigan as a path to power without being at all dedicated to the state itself: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...detroitnews.comMike Rogers' wife on why they took Florida home off market | Insider"... With Mike running for office and us not being trust fund babies, I'd love to sell that house," Kristi Rogers told The Detroit News. 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dual class shares are fundamentally harmful to both investors and society, giving founders a strangle hold on companies that persist on the massive advantages of scale. 001
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So mad you could cry. Congressional Republicans insist that everyone has to work, even if they are disabled. Unless that might hurt Don Jr's investments in Kalshi or Polymarket 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When I first posted that MAGA acolytes were going to flee like rats on a sinking ship, I couldn't have guessed Trump would start a war that turned into the worst strategic defeat the US has suffered since 1812. But unwillingness to admit defeat meant he was going to get stuck in a debacle 010
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Trump and his sycophants aren't just trying to roll back the Constitution, but Magna Carta as well. This is a basic principle established by the English Civil War that the founders saw as absolutely fundamental to democracy 010
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Trump is taking Grover Norquist thought to the extreme. If he destroys the economy, there won't be any money to have a government and then people will be free I guess 001
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;" 060
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Wouldn't want high school students to be learning about adult topics like welding or plant biology. 1130
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026As a mechanistic consequence of these, LA would would see less drop in turnout than NYC, even if was losing people at a higher rate. The enthusiasm effect just swamped the base number change 010
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026LA is physically larger, and so the city itself constitutes a much larger part of the metropolitan community, so much larger percentage is classic suburban population and much more Republican than NYC's more urban pop. As always enthusiasm drives elections. Dems had low enthusiasm, Republicans high 131
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Cardassian might be aspirational given this administration.static.klipy.comStar Trek Lower Decks: I Tricked YouAlt: Pakleds from Star Trek lower decks, saying "I tricked you." Pakleds are notorious for not being intelligent. 020
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026California is going to speed run the Brother Daniel debate apparently 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ok little orange buddy. Must be great to be 12 years old 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Or pretending that it's called football because you kick the ball, rather than because you play on your feet rather than horseback like 'real' sports eg. polo & jousting 040
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We have plenty of 5.56 small arms rounds. Surprise boots on the ground announcement :/ 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026How do they taste? I'd not heard good things about the taste of that variety 100
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Just had a good conversation with Will Lawrence at the Ingham County Fair. Good to see a Democratic Congressional candidate working to.court rural voters 021
Reposted by Matt RandallJosh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is an amazing story that helps us understand why the U.S. Iran war has not yet led to catastrophically high oil prices. China's actions to reduce its demand by a quarter, for reasons unknown and mechanisms unclear, are credited with blunting the damage thus far. 1379
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026hope you're prepared for the hunger games of competing with 500 other people for a single opening. 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026actually know anything" stance leads inevitably to more market swings and greater suffering when markets crash, which, yeah, is a great price signal but sucks for all the workers who have to live through the aftermath. Kind of like the job market today. If you have a job, you're fine, if you don't, 100
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It seems like Warsh is trying to tighten monetary policy, but he's constrained by manchild Trump who will throw a tantrum if rates actually go up. By introducing ambiguity into the market he is just making getting companies to pull back because of higher perceived risks. His Hayekian "we can't 100
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026People who think finish people are happier than Icelanders :/ 010
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Wonder what Trump would try to charge for unlimited voting? Definitely have to imagine he has a number in mind 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is likewise my greatest concern. Not every candidate can agree with every policy I like, but the need to fight tooth and nail to restore democracy and root out authoritarians put in place by the Trump admin needs to be non-negotiable. We can't give up like so many did on Reconstruction. 001
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Hegseth doesn't understand war. He thinks it's about killing people, rather than winning. He hasn't read clausewitz to understand that you fight to obtain political objectives, not punish people. He is like Hillary Clinton contemplating bombing Syria to punish Assad, but turned up to 11 0203
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This is a great success story for preventing traffic deaths. I hope a lot more communities can copy these policies: www.governing.com/infrastructu...governing.comThis New England City Hasn't Had a Traffic Death in Three YearsSomerville, Mass., officials say their success is rooted in tried-and-true best practices for traffic safety. 07619
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The whole reason the smoke is so bad is because of Trump. It all comes from climate change, which he makes worse. Then Canada can't cut down forests dying from too little water or too warm winters due to his tariffs, and all forestry efforts to decrease fires is paid for by those stumpage fees 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Im sure there is a great deal of complexity in market power concentration, but I'd favor hard rules that lean pretty far to limiting market consolidation because the alternative is so deleterious to both consumers and society. The march by private equity to consolidate all markets is a travesty 020
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We need strong anti-trust rules without discretionary waivers. I can't see a reasonable argument against 100
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Who would have ever expected that the alcoholic rapist wouldn't actually know how wars are fought or won and treat the DOD as some weird vanity exercise 010
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 11/07/2026With actual enforcement mechanisms for retaliation, because mostly right now the only option is sue them, get your name dragged through the news, maybe get a small payout years down the road 020
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Didn't realize the first bill was from Sen Levin, who I interned for. But Sen Warrens work on issues like this, consumer protection, and other efforts to reign in corporations is the main reason I took a job with her presidential campaign 010
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Stupid stuff like this is the reason the US is one of the worst sources of financial crime and money laundering in the world. And the horrible part is more states are creating even looser rules to try to get some of this corrupt action. We need federal rules 020
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Not to be an old man yelling on the lawn, but it actually wasn't that hard to navigate by landmarks when people weren't staring at phones or infotainment systems instead of watching the road 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Magyar is providing an important demonstration of what a de-Trumpification effort in the US is going to need to look like. It will require intensive efforts to root out people who enabled and supported the lawlessness of the last couple of years, and real legal changes apnews.com/article/hung...apnews.comOrbán allies protest in Hungary against plans to oust President Tamás SulyokOpponents of the Hungarian government's efforts to oust the president have gathered for a protest in Budapest at the urging of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. 032
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026TV contestants trying to figure out who Cy Young is kind of on point for argument: youtu.be/66AFOEm0nEQ?...youtu.beI've Got A Secret (April 13, 1955) - Cy YoungYouTube video by DTB1997 000
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Baseball isn't really playing to my strengths, just trying to be a bit broader than only hockey :) 100
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Glaring omission to not have Bobby Orr on there. He redefined hockey with his speed and stick handling. Shame his career was cut short by injury. Also, no Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron? 100
Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Definitely a democracy defender. People with this much wealth not only control politics both through campaign donations and distorting the media, they distort the economy and make everyone poorer: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 000
