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Randall Gross

@randallgross.bsky.social
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(he/him) Retired Global Sr. tech manager, & inveterate news junkie. Everyone is my friend until they firmly prove otherwise. Active on social media since the '80's @Tarkloon@mastodon.social formerly @tarkloon @ birdsite Ego tantum pro me loquor

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 8h
Why do some Black people support this racist piece of shyt? Instead of showing concern and looking into the deaths of Black people who died by hanging—he dismisses it as a "leftist race narrative". #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump Shares Article Calling Black Hanging Deaths a “Leftist Race Narrative”
President sends dismissive message regarding lynching investigations.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 11h
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11h
STATEMENT ON JUDGE'S DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE OF CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST DAVEY HEARN
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 13h
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Watchdog: AI Oligarchs Have Given Trump $227 Million - Joe.My.God.
Public Citizen reports: This week, Big Tech executives met with Donald Trump for a meeting about the threats posed by artificial intelligence. The meeting produced a nonbinding agreement among the tec...
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 14h
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Trump Calls For DOJ To Sue Powell For "Corruption" - Joe.My.God.
“The Inspector General’s Report just came out on Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell’s ‘renovation of the Federal Reserve Headquarters in Washington, D. C. The IG’s Report states that there were ‘deficiencies in...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 21h
Seth Meyers: Sen. Eric Schmitt & GOP Humiliate Themselves at Train Wreck Jack Smith Hearing littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5583...
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Seth Meyers: Sen. Eric Schmitt & GOP Humiliate Themselves at Train Wreck Jack Smith Hearing
Seth takes a closer look at Senate Republicans humiliating themselves in a train wreck hearing where they tried and failed to catch former special prosecutor Jack Smith in a gotcha moment.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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Code Junkie @codejunkie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trunp needs to be able to do more corruption: apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The skeet about postal mail truck scanners for some reason reminded me of this strange and bizzarre Science Fiction story from my youth from an author with an obscure history somehow more bizzarre than his stories. "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner...
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wouldn't YOU like to be an aide to Speaker Jesusbot and sneak off to a ritzy European getaway...only to cancel it when your itinerary was leaked???? www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
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Mike Johnson aide's luxury European tour axed after leaked itinerary surfaces
A top aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had planned a weeklong European trip packed with luxury stops, until reporters started asking questions.Curt Beaulieu, a senior policy and tax adviser t...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Roger Marshall couldn’t get out of his own Kansas town hall fast enough.😂
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Republican senator abruptly leaves contentious town hall
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 30/09/2026
Alaska prepares to surrender some Statehood Act land claims as it nears 105 million-acre goal, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/30/a...
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Alaska prepares to surrender some Statehood Act land claims as it nears 105 million-acre goal | Alaska Beacon
About 3.2 million acres of the state's original 105 million-acre grant has not yet been transferred by the federal government.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#RatepayerProtectionAct
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ICYMI
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These social media Riefenstahls have been among us for a long while.
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"This is the new Trumpmerica, we can toss that Deming and six sigma bullshit out the window just like like they were a disagreeable politburo member in Putin's Russia'
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Despite Trump vendetta accusations against Powell and the Fed www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n...
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Washington DC to become testbed for Postal Truck "scanners" (mobile flock-like ubiquitous cameras) www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI has no volition at this point, being "artificial" artificial intelligence, so real humans are fully responsible for every wrong that AI does. Hold them to account.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026
A federal judge ORDERED the Trump admin to privately show him the memo purporting to justify boat strikes that have killed 234 people in the Caribbean and Pacific. Judge Engelmayer rejected several rationales for withholding the memo from the public and will determine whether to release it.
The Court directs defendants to file the declaration(s), and to arrange for the Memo to be available for in camera review, within two weeks of this decision. See ACLU II, 2016 WL 889739, at *6 (ordering Government, within five days, to produce document at issue and “advise the court who has received [it] (including persons who received it from its original recipients) and for what purpose”); Elec. Frontier Found. v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 826 F. Supp. 2d 157, 172 (D.D.C. 2011) (directing agency to “provide further explanation regarding whether it shared with non-Executive Branch entities the responsive documents that it withheld from the plaintiff”). Defendants are authorized to make appropriate redactions in the declaration as publicly filed, while filing the unredacted declaration under seal. Upon review of these materials, the Court will determine whether to commission supplemental briefing.
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The skeet about postal mail truck scanners for some reason reminded me of this strange and bizzarre Science Fiction story from my youth from an author with an obscure history somehow more bizzarre than his stories. "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner...
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kimmel: Trump Falls Asleep on Live TV, Tells the Truth for First Time & Our Favorite Foxtrotter Guillermo! littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5582...
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Kimmel: Trump Falls Asleep on Live TV, Tells the Truth for First Time & Our Favorite Foxtrotter Guillermo!
Aunt Chippy joins us in Brooklyn, the Yankees hosted the Red Sox for Game 1 of the American League Wild Card Series, Trump told the truth today for the first time ever, had lunch with Elon Musk, Mark ...
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trump admin is planning to throw hundreds of thousands of people off ACA health coverage. The people removed will be forced to choose between expensive health insurance or going uninsured. Living under the Trump admin continues to squeeze working people.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The U.K. believes Iran played a part in an incident at an air base used by the U.S., British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says.
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Britain believes Iran was involved in incident near air base used by U.S., Prime Minister Andy Burnham says
The incident unfolded outside RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday, in which five men were arrested on suspicion of terror offenses. On Monday, Iran had denied any involvement.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Keep talking, Trump. Only 30something days to go.
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Washington DC to become testbed for Postal Truck "scanners" (mobile flock-like ubiquitous cameras) www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: In a 53-47 vote, Senate Republicans failed to pass an anti-voting measure that would have required voters to provide photo ID to cast ballots. The vote follows repeated failures by the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, an anti-voting bill Trump has called his “No. 1 priority.”
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GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate
The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...
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William "Chip" Nagel @cto1usn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Despite Trump vendetta accusations against Powell and the Fed www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026
I'm positively obsessed with corporate journalistic simulacrum. It looks and smells like journalism, but it exists exclusively to prop up the agenda of an extraction class that wants to accumulate wealth completely free of ANY meaningful public interest guardrails
a collection of headlines falsely claiming the new AI accord is "morally binding" and "almost like a constitution"
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Most of America will be in bare subsistence mode for the rest of Trump's term while the robber barons party it up. Meet your future Rulers America
Lara Trump, Scavino, ???, being pushed on a hotel luggage cart by Eric Trump in formal Tuxedo while waving shoes and spraying champagne in falling confetti
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Early voting has already started in several states, check your state's election calendar page!!!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron on the UK rejoining the EU: “If the British want to take a first step in this direction, I think it is very good news both for their country and for Europeans.”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith's brief opening statement is worth watching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1es...
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WATCH: Jack Smith's full opening statement in Senate Judiciary hearing on Trump investigations
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are entering a labor drought during a period of self-inflicted artificial inflation. This will also become another price inflation factor, while also becoming a longer term reason for business to further Enshittify service and products nationwide.
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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"Backpack" Crowned Winner Of Alaska Fat Bear Week - Joe.My.God.
NBC News reports: After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
RFK Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them. (Published March)
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In other words, Congress refuses to do its duty. Not just a broken branch. A bygone branch. (At least, part of it...) Willingly surrendering the People's power -- our power -- to a wanna-be king.
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today I learned a new word: "Himpathy" I did not have to look up the definition, I instantly knew what the term means.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perfectly innocent bullet, flying along, and then some terrorist throws his body in the bullet's way, totally assaulting the bullet, stopping it from traveling further.
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Kristi @kristikp71.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Senate Democrats @democrats.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Senate Republicans JUST BLOCKED Democrats’ legislation to stop Pres. Trump from terminating health care for up to 2 million Americans on the Affordable Care Act @baldwin.senate.gov on how Trump and Republicans are jeopardizing care for millions of Americans and increasing costs.
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well look who was committing voter fraud!!!!! www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t...
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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