Today I am thinking about the escalating threats and violence our state legislators have experienced over the past few years. This piece I wrote with Dave Daley in 2021 feels as urgent as ever. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/14/opinions/capitol-riot-should-have-seen-coming-goldstein-daley
Gaby Goldstein
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The New York TimesPolice in Minnesota Seek Gunman in ‘Multiple Targeted Shootings’
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings-politicians/minnesota-shootings-politicians?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-newyorktimes
In @newrepublic, LiJia Gong and I explore how GOP-controlled state legislatures, desperate to maintain unearned power, increasingly preempt local efforts to protect abortion access. Bluer cities + polarized legislatures = we gotta fight for state power. https://newrepublic.com/article/173776/republicans-blocking-cities-ability-protect-abortion-preemption
In @newrepublic, LiJia Gong and I explore how GOP-controlled state legislatures, desperate to maintain unearned power, increasingly preempt local efforts to protect abortion access. Bluer cities + polarized legislatures = we gotta fight for state power. https://newrepublic.com/article/173776/republicans-blocking-cities-ability-protect-abortion-preemption
Working Families PartyGood News: Michigan's Clean Slate Act is expunging non-violent convictions from the records of about 1 million residents who have gone years without re-offending.
These minor offenses will no longer block residents from employment, social programs, securing housing, and more.
https://wwmt.com/news/local/michigan-clean-slate-law-expunges-old-criminal-records-crime-free-state-police-courts-convictions
David RothschildI hope they force every editor at The New York Times to read this opinion piece in The New York Times showing how the mainstream media (led by The New York Times) by emphasizing isolated examples of right-wing-extremists not being loved on elite universities WHILE ignoring Republican states using states to make swaths of speech illegal, they have misinformed all of US on the true threat to free speech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html
Josh OnIt is back! https://theyrule.net
They Rule is an interactive visualization of the interlocking directories of the largest US companies. It shows that 87 of the top 100 US companies in 2021 were connected through shared directors on their boards. It allows visitors to browse through the board-room connections, and create maps they can share with others. Visitors can find links between companies by clicking on the chair menu in the top left and printing out their maps.
David KayeHUGE VICTORY for freedom of expression - for authors' rights, children's rights, #LGBTQ+ rights, everyone - in the European Court of Human Rights today.
please share widely!
#Lithuania first banned & then imposed a warning label of a book of fairy tales that, among other things, depicted same sex relationships in a positive light. The Court today found that violated European guarantees of freedom of expression. details here: https://www.article19.org/resources/lithuania-free-expression-lgbtqi/
Bryan SchottThe Utah Senate passed a measure banning doctors from prescribing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy or surgery for transgender youth #utpol #utleg
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/01/20/breaking-utah-senate-approves/
Rick KlauHi (again!). Re-posting my #introduction to say hi from my new home at sfba.social.
Most recently, I was California’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer, where I led the Office of Digital Services. I'm working on something new. (Stay tuned!)
Before that, I spent 13+ years at Google (first in BD, then a PM on Blogger, Google+, and YouTube, then at Google Ventures). Got to Google via the FeedBurner acquisition in '07.
After a much-needed break, I'm excited to get back to engaging here. 👋🏻