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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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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 31m
Were democracy to ever die in America, I imagined it happening at the hands of cunning supervillains.

Not at the hands of the worst shitposters, edgelords, and trolls you could imagine.
mattpolprof.bsky.social Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 1h
Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 1h
Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is

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Jimmy Two Hands (cozy era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 1h
THEY DID THE MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
Wapo or something screencap, picture of dipshits in maga caps and I think one of them is that Nick Fuentes jagoff LETTERS TO THE EDITOR As a conservative, I'm beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys? (Nicole Hester/AP)

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1h
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, David R. Miller

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 7h
what a wild story

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Tom Clark, Melanie C. Green, David R. Miller

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h
Feel like I'm going completely insane. Why is everyone treating this like it's a real thing he can do??? The president can't unilaterally write or prohibit state laws!
Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framew...
www.cnn.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 8h
Quite so: "The way to combat a corrupt deal is to repudiate it — loudly, constantly and on a bipartisan basis .... Anything less by the leaders of either party will only harden and justify Americans’ deteriorating faith in government and the justice system." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...
Opinion | The Pardon That Represents the New Era of Corruption
www.nytimes.com

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 18h
It didn't last 🫠

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 19h
Shockingly the Washington Wizards are winning a basketball game in the fourth quarter (against the Cleveland Cavaliers) 😱

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21h
Decided to put a bow on this experience by writing up a few thoughts on the value of reading and insulting terrible books.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?

TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h
BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.

The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Filed On: December 12, 2025 In re: Donald J. Trump, et al., Petitioners BEFORE: Rao, Walker, and Childs*, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the petition for a writ of mandamus; the emergency motion for a stay pending resolution of the petition for a writ of mandamus and for an administrative stay, and the opposition to the motion for a stay; and the notice of district court orders, it is ORDERED that the district court's December 8, 2025 order be administratively stayed pending further order of the court. The purpose of this administrative stay is to allow the court time to render a decision on the mandamus petition and the stay motion. The administrative stay should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that petition or motion. See D.C. Circuit Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures 33 (2025). Per Curiam

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23h
A proper fishing expedition
Screenshot of article which reads: According to former DOJ insiders, agency political appointees dispatched teams of career civil rights lawyers to California in March, pressuring them to rapidly “find” evidence backing a preordained conclusion: that the UC system and four of its campuses had illegally tolerated antisemitism, which would violate federal civil rights statutes. The career attorneys eventually recommended a lawsuit against only UCLA, which had been rocked by pro-Palestinian protests in the spring of 2024. But even that case was weak, the lawyers acknowledged in a previously unreported internal memo we obtained. It documented the extensive steps UCLA had already taken to address antisemitism, many resulting from a Biden administration investigation based on the same incidents. The memo also noted there was no evidence that the harassing behavior that peaked during the protests was still happening.

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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 1d
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d
I will never forgive RFK Jr. for what he’s done… never.

The layers of hell he has unleashed in many different areas — not just healthcare — over the past two decades have caused so much damage, it’s overwhelming.

He is one of the greatest villains of the 21st century.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d
These Indiana Republicans are civic heroes. Shocking and inspiring to see after the collapse of resistance to illiberalism among so many of their counterparts over the last decade.
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d
The next turn in American politics could be a widespread reaction against Trumpism as a political style, with its vulgarity, hatefulness, and constant threat of violence. If that happens the Republicans who remade themselves in Trump's image will be in trouble.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
Several Republican senators noted on Thursday that constituents opposed a mid-decade redrawing of US House maps and that they questioned the wisdom or the precedent of joining the national redistricting battle. But a number of Republicans, including people who voted for the president three elections in a row, also gave deeply personal reasons over the last several weeks. Sen. Mike Bohacek has a daughter with Down syndrome. He was offended by Trump’s use of a slur for people with disabilities, in a Truth Social post deriding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and said that Trump’s “choices of words have consequences.” Sen. Greg Walker, who represents former Vice President Mike Pence’s hometown of Columbus, said he was among the senators targeted by swatting attempts in the weeks leading up to Thursday’s vote. While law enforcement has not publicly linked the swatting or other threats to a political motive, Walker said he felt voting yes would reward wrongdoing and set a dangerous precedent. Sen. Greg Goode, whose town hall in Terre Haute this fall revealed massive public opposition to mid-decade redistricting, said the new maps would splinter communities with similar interests. He also criticized “over-the-top pressure from inside the Statehouse and outside,” as well as “threats of violence, acts of violence.” “Whether we realize it or not, whether we accept it or not, the forces that define this vitriolic political affairs in places outside of Indiana have been gradually and now very blatantly infiltrated the political affairs in Indiana,” he said in a speech before the vote.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/

(new piece)
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Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 1d
The Constitution didn't change between Jan and Dec. But the purpose of pro-Trump legal writers is clear. To move birthright citizenship from the "Sphere of Consensus" to the "Sphere of Legitimate Controversy" so SCOTUS might feel better about taking Trump's side. Constitutional text be dammed.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d
Seven conclusions about what we've learned about Trumpism and the resilience of American democracy across 2025 — the big one: Donald Trump is losing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump is losing.
Seven conclusions as 2025 winds down.
www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 1d
If you have a written Constitution, it means the rules are, in some significant way, constrained by the text. You can't make it mean simply anything you want.

The Constitution did not change between January and December. If you think the Constitution changed, you might be just making it up.

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking new photos from Epstein estate

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New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday showing the many powerful figures in the late sex trafficker’s orbit, including President Donald Tr...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.

Take notes, college presidents.