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David Ryan Miller
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Asst Prof American University (American institutions). Fmr. asst prof ETSU & UC-Riverside & Vanderbilt post-doc CSDI. WUSTL, URI, & GWU alum. Taylor Alison Swift is my muse. www.davidryanmiller.com

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David Raymond Miller is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 63rd mayor of Toronto from 2003 to 2010.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves.

Once again, no.

The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, David R. Miller, Dean Eckles

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4h
We should expect more from government than being "not crazy" and not write columns praising them for meeting this pathetically low bar statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/08/t...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
This might sound a little wild to some people, but I actually don't think it's a good thing that the senile, dementia-ravaged president of the United States believes in so many ridiculous lies that his basic grasp of reality is questionable.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 4h
They don’t have the juice or manpower for it. This is not late 1930s Germany. There is no state monopoly on media. They are wildly unpopular.
mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

Reposted by David R. Miller, Gerald Friedman, Stephen Ryan

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h
the imaginary Boston Globe front page was just one term too early

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, David R. Miller

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h
Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.

The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 12h
It's been 7 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared that the United States will "run" that state indefinitely.

Still no member of the House has introduced articles of impeachment connected to these actions.

Today would be a great day to do so.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14h
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 20h
Feel like he’s breaking the 4th wall bc he realized this is kinda f’d up
Richard scarry image of pigs eating hot dogs

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 20h
It’s wild to think that if any of us were laying in our bed tonight and ICE came in and shot us Vance and company would 100% justify and support it. Anything short of complete submission to the Trumpian police state justifies your murder.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h
The USDA just cut off ag aid to MN
erinmayequade.bsky.social Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 21h
They’re targeting and invading Minnesota. Cutting off all of our federal funding and flooding our state with federal agents with no purpose. They’re here to terrorize, cause chaos to justify their unlawful cruelty. Enough.
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Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, A. E. Dessler, David R. Miller

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21h
Many of you have become drama-addicted doomers, and you seem to think it's important for the rest of us to join you.

Yes, things are bad. But change is within our power. Grow up. Act like sober, responsible adults in a democracy instead of cynical, all-is-lost teenagers.

Now get off my lawn.

/5x

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Kim L. Scheppele, Elizabeth Sharrow , and 21 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 21h
NEW: These are ICE agents removing evidence from the shooter's home. They are not DOJ, they are Jonathan Ross's friends and coworkers, not DOJ.

This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"
Face shot closeup of ICE agent removing a PC from Ross's home same ICE agent

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 22h
Donald Trump continuing to try to disprove Richard Neustadt by showing that presidential power is the power to command (private actors):

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%."
Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be “ripped off” by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration. AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 22h
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Reposted by David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h
The behavioral explanation is that this is all a bunch of unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women. But the institutional and political economy explanation is that people whose politics are based in unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women shouldn't have guns or authority

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 22h
Our president and his underlings are at war with states
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 Official White House Rapid Response account. Supporting @POTUS 's America First agenda and holding the Fake News accountable. MAGA! 60 Following 1.3M Followers Post See new posts Conversation Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 NEW: @USDA is suspending all federal funding to the State of Minnesota — effective immediately.

Reposted by Kori Schake, David R. Miller

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Lindsay M. Chervinsky @lmchervinsky.bsky.social · 23h
This week marks the 250th anniversary of Common Sense. I wrote about it and why Paine’s words still matter today.

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To Make the World Again
Common Sense at 250
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
REPORTER: The Capital Planning Commission is concerned the 89,000 square foot ballroom is going to dwarf the rest of the rest of the WH. Do you worry about that?

TRUMP: No no. People love the ballroom. We need it. If we would've had the ballroom today, we could've had all the oil companies there.

Reposted by David R. Miller, Tim Stephens, David Darmofal

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23h
The Kennedy Center with no more operas but with the "premiere" of "Melania: The Movie" kind of says it all.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 Official White House Rapid Response account. Supporting @POTUS 's America First agenda and holding the Fake News accountable. MAGA! 60 Following 1.3M Followers Post See new posts Conversation Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 NEW: @USDA is suspending all federal funding to the State of Minnesota — effective immediately.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do.

What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP

He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
“So which is it to be? A stand for liberty in the spirit of Thomas Paine, or acquiescence to the depredations of our own mad King George? The rule of law or the rule of Trump?”

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We Have the King That Thomas Paine Feared
The rule of law was central to the American experiment. Is it still?
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