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Randi.Doeker

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Silicon Valley & DC alum. Hometown is Boulder. Chicagoan at heart. New Mexico Social Democrat.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 11h
EXCLUSIVE | A MAGA-backed ministry leader vying to be Colorado’s next governor recounted how he threw his toddler across the room and declared that God gave him a “gift” for violence.
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‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h
No explosives were found in vehicles searched after arrests were made Sunday near a military base run by the U.S. in England, British counterterror police say.
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British police say no explosives found after arrests near a US-run military base
British counterterror police confirm no explosives were found in vehicles searched after arrests near a US-run military base.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Eric Schmitt went to Truman State University, so …
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 13h
www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/irs...
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The IRS Is Reshuffling Staff Without Telling Them Why
The tax agency tried to turn more than a thousand HR and IT staffers into tax processors. That failed. Now they’re being assigned to a team that remains a mystery.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They are trying to get the non-voting Rs to vote. Pollsters like Garrett Morris say those Rs hate moron.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
US Ambassador to China David Perdue says in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/09/2026
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform.
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE | DHS wants a custom-made apparatus for ICE trainees to rehearse the smash-and-grab tactics that have repeatedly led to lawsuits.
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ICE Wants Custom ‘Breach Box’ to Practice Smashing In Doors
The training unit also lets rookie agents perfect their technique when cutting through barriers.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was 16% when I bought my first place. Would go to almost 19%. Corporations had to fund the high rate if they wanted someone to relocate and leave a lose interest rate.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US only buys 80% of the diesel refined. What would more diesel do. Well, we would not get it because there is no where to store it. So they stop refining that 20% and along with it goes gasoline and the other fuels that come out of the same process.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stunning. From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle.
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 24/09/2026
Despite the breach happening in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the tech giant only notified the government about the incident earlier this month and did so via an email to a generic “public mailbox.”
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OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search for data
Australia’s leader said it was ‘unacceptable’ OpenAI took months to report the incident.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seriously?
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have to admit I love not having to race to the mute the sound when the news played the moron talking. It's a quandary. First amendment vs my happiness.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prices are not from a Supply Shortage. There are no lines at the pump. No rationing. No place in the system to put more diesel.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OpenAI: AI agent improperly accessed Australian government files; no evidence patient records were breached
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy: When was the last time that Amy Acton gave you an opportunity to do what we're doing today? Reporters: Yesterday
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We do not have a supply Shortage. The price of fuel is not because of supply problems. No rationing. No waiting in lines. (Been there; done that.) And just how will the diesel being refined along the Gulf get to the rest of the US. Where are the empty pipeline going out into the country.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We saw the same post he did.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Banning exports will ensure investors don't fund another refinery. Already there's been one in NJ (I think) that the Biden administration approved and it can't find investors. In the US, crude is seen as a diminishing return for people who want a lifetime ROI.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Refineries are at capacity. More crude in the US will just sit in storage.....or the ground. By not exporting our excess crude to the countries that make the things we use, those producers won't make things and/or the prices will skyrocket to pay for the extra diesel shortage in the world.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wonder if the October surprise will be Hegseth getting fired. Turmp will say it was all his fault and now that he is gone T can return the country to where maga wants it to be.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s hand-picked EPA administrator oversaw a process that let a huge pesticide company pick its own regulations.
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Trump Goon’s Stunning Favor to Corporate Giant Exposed
The EPA let a huge pesticide company pick its own regulations.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device
Flock claims that images are only briefly stored on its cameras before being forwarded to the company’s servers, but a group of hackers determined that this wasn’t the case.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*GOOGLE'S GEMINI HACKED THREE COMPANIES IN MAY: WSJ
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This slogan might need to be updated.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Trump admin is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias. The National Park Service is planning to add about a dozen signs outside the museum at an estimated cost of $84,000, according to a letter from the Interior Sec'y.
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The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The FT asks Claude to draft a risk-factor statement for Anthropic’s prospectus. 🤓 @financialtimes.com @alphaville.ft.com www.ft.com/content/29f0...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A former top elections official is accusing Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins — a Republican — of changing local election results, trying to deceive a federal judge in a voting administration case, and illegally using state funds to influence a St. Louis County election.
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Former elections official accuses Missouri secretary of state of altering results, misleading judge • Missouri Independent
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is a used of changing local election results, trying to deceive a federal judge in a voting administration case and illegally using state funds to influence a...
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/c...
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Iran war has cost on average $246 million per day in its first five months, CBO finds
The Congressional Budget Office calculated the Defense Department's Iran war cost through Aug. 1 at $38.1 billion.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Swedish Club Warns Cape Horn Is No Simple Panama Canal Alternative
A tightening Panama Canal is once again forcing shipowners to weigh longer routes around South America, but the Swedish Club is warning that Cape Horn and the Strait of Magellan...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Randi.Doeker @randidoeker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There was TP panic then too. The funny part was grocery stores would be out while places like Kmart and Walgreens had plenty becz no one thought about buying TP at any place other than a traditional grocery store.
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