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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 19h

When the masks came on, the mask came off.
The cosplay is now bleeding into state violence, and even for those used to pointing fingers and calling out authoritarianism, the past week has been a precipitous escalation
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 19h

You can’t get a medal for promoting democracy when you tried to overthrow the democracy you were running.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Peace in Trump’s Time — Except Here

www.nytimes.com

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 20h

Want to know how STUPID @dhsgov is or how gullible they think you are? www.snopes.com/news/2025/10...

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 20h

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 20h

Guess who just got both, the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots? Dear Leader. Maybe you should get them too.

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

When your designated flamethrower is outpacing leadership on both cost and transparency, you don’t have a message problem, you have a reality problem www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-tay...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Making (Some) Sense and We’re All Doomed

The far-right firebrand’s brief detour into reality tells us something about the current political terrain that even MAGA’s purest icons can’t ignore.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Credit to Jim Watson - Getty Images for capturing the essence

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that the Nobel peace prize went to an ANTIFA Latina woman, denying Trump's bid for which he "begged like a dog," does my heart good and fills me with hope.

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward ... freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

For a used jet

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

It seems that a used jet gets a lot of mileage including NATO Article 5-like protection and a US airbase

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist during President Donald Trump's first term and architect of the MAGA movement, told Newsweek in a text message, "There should never be a military base of a foreign power on the sacred soil of America.”

www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...

Trump admin sparks MAGA fury with Qatari Air Force base in US—"betrayed"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. has approved a Qatari Air Force base in Idaho.

www.newsweek.com

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Long live antifa

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 1d

I guess threatening to invade Canada, Panama, Greenland for land conquest or committing war crimes in Venezuela coastal waters or encouraging Putin's invasion, or invading US cities and attacking citizens with US troops just might be disqualifying.

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 2d

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 2d

The specter of Portland “burning” is dim-witted MAGA propaganda. Trump is nakedly threatening to invoke the notorious nineteenth-century act if Dem governors or the courts lawfully exercise their roles in our constitutional schema, in a way that displeases him. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 2d

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
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Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 2d

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
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Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Plenary authority, with its sweeping, unchecked assumption of power, has previously been compared to the powers to rule by decree forced through by the governments of dictators, including Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.the-independent.com

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 3d

1776: 250th anniversary is nigh

Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Secret masked "police" in Portland shoot priest in the head with a "pepper ball" -- they are attempting to instigate riots so they can deploy the Marines against US citizens

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Chriss @chrissmiller.bsky.social · 3d