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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We saw an owl along the Rivanna River this week!

Owl along the Rivanna River, Charlottesville

Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is more Old Testament god than New Testament Jesus. “Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.” - 1 Samuel 15:3

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It was a beautiful snowy morning to go for a walk with Beanie!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Saw a great blue heron on the Rivanna River this morning!

Great blue heron on the Rivanna River in Charlottesville

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 17/08/2025

I’m not against cars. I own one. But we need to make it much, much easier, pleasant, and safer to walk, bike, or take transit than it is to drive somewhere by myself in an empty car. And there’s no way to do that without making some drivers angry. Thankfully, more and more drivers understand.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Some things that Bloomington, Indiana is doing right! 1) Lots of “No turn on red” signs in pedestrian areas 2) Closing streets off to cars and allowing restaurants to use that outdoor space 3) converting unused train tracks into rail trails in the middle of the city 4) Lots of little pocket parks

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The goldfinches are loving the echinacea!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A great blue heron we saw perched on top of a dead ash tree along the Rivanna River in Charlottesville

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Feels like 110 - Try stay cool out there!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Went berry picking with my daughter yesterday and we saw a rabbit!

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Beautiful patterns in the sand and water of the Rivanna River at Riverview Park @cvillecityhall.bsky.social

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The U.S.A. is becoming the laughing stock of the free world - We Ban Books, Close Libraries, Delete History, Deport Immigrants, Cancel Medical and Food Assistance, Close Down Medical Research, Close Down Research, Sue The Free Press; and Now We Nominate a NONPHYSICIAN To Be the Surgeon General!

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 10/05/2025

There are so many things to be mad at right now, but for some reason I'm especially enraged by the fact that there are places in the USA now where a cop wearing a face mask to illegally protect his identity can arrest YOU for wearing a face mask to protect your health

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Doctor B @theedoctorb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just sayin', as someone who grew up Catholic: if you can call the new pope by his chosen name instead of the name he was assigned at birth, you can do the same for the trans folks in your life. It's a sign of respect in both cases.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Bill Gates is one billionaire I can admire for giving away his health to help humanity. He may not be perfect but he is trying to affect positive change!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025

92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/05/2025

President Donald Trump, asked during an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” whether he believes that he needs to uphold the Constitution during his presidency, responded, “I don’t know.”

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Trump says, ‘I don’t know,’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution

The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Very Easy To Agree! You?😊💙

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We saw this Steller’s Jay in Rocky Mountain National Park.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/04/2025

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just hanging out with Beanie

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

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U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Some positive news in these dark times!

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Little projects like this are inexpensive and are part of slowly but making Charlottesville streets safer for everyone

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I used the MyCville app to request new crosswalks across the top of Little High Street and 10th Street NE. This morning workers from the Public Works department painted these new crosswalks! @cvillecityhall.bsky.social

New crosswalk at the top of Little High Street

Public Works department getting ready to paint new crosswalks across Little High Street

Charlottesville Public Works employees working hard to prep for new crosswalk

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This poll says so much about America today!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Huh, weird

DOJ directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
1 hour ago
CAH
CNN
Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is how much the Trump administration loves its American citizens. This is what they call a pro-American immigration policy. Trump loves us enough to chain us down, put our fiances in prison, and ban them from America.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/03/2025

Our statement on the Trump administration making war plans via group chat.

Navy-colored graphic with text that reads: STATEMENT FROM DNC KEN MARTIN Pete Hegseth was unfit to lead the Defense Department even before he risked our national security through his own sloppy handling of sensitive military information. Just like his boss Donald Trump, Hegseth—and everyone else involved—put on a stunning display of recklessness and disregard for our national security. Hegseth should resign, and if he doesn’t resign, he should be fired. It’s crystal clear that our men and women in uniform deserve better—and that our national security cannot be left in Hegseth’s incompetent and unqualified hands.

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Keker, Van Nest & Peters @kekerllp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

“Trump’s new Executive Order underscores how far removed this President, Attorney General and Administration are from our nation’s Constitution and bedrock values. Our liberties depend on lawyers’ willingness to represent unpopular people and causes, including in matters adverse to the Federal Government. An attack on lawyers who perform this work is inexcusable and despicable. Our profession owes every client zealous legal representation without fear of retribution, regardless of their political affiliation or ability to pay. We encourage law firm leaders to sign on to an amicus effort in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to the Administration’s executive order targeting the firm, and to resist the Administration’s erosion of the rule of law.”
– John Keker, Robert Van Nest, Elliot Peters, Laurie Carr Mims, and the Keker, Van Nest & Peters Partnership

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I think disappearing people who are here legally because the state disagreed with their speech is Bad but I don’t have a law degree so what do I know

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

thered be calls for impeachment if a dem did this

A 1 month chart of the DOW falling off a freaking cliff

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The news media gave more coverage to the idea Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 20 years was scandalous than to Trump's promise to destroy the department of education

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Benjamin Randolph @randybenjamin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I love this new sign from Charlottesville Parks and Recreation on the Meade Creek bridge along the Rivanna Trail for the Piedmont Discovery Center. @cvillecityhall.bsky.social piedmontdiscoverycenter.org

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