Bruce Miller
@brucemillerca.bsky.social
Politics and history and sometimes economic policy, too.
The risks of Democratic “centrism” (which often means supporting *Republican* positions)
Reflecting on Obama’s politics as President.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Reflecting on Obama’s politics as President.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The risks of Democratic “centrism” (which often means supporting *Republican* positions)
Reflecting on Obama’s politics as President.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Reflecting on Obama’s politics as President.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The newest US National Security strategy
Yes, it’s weird. It comes from the Trump 2.0 regime. What else could we expecxt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-newest...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Yes, it’s weird. It comes from the Trump 2.0 regime. What else could we expecxt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-newest...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The newest US National Security strategy
Yes, it’s weird. It comes from the Trump 2.0 regime. What else could we expecxt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-newest...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Yes, it’s weird. It comes from the Trump 2.0 regime. What else could we expecxt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-newest...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The current round of diplomacy around the Russo-Ukraine War
Feckless? Corrupt? Very corrupt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-curren...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Feckless? Corrupt? Very corrupt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-curren...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The current round of diplomacy around the Russo-Ukraine War
Feckless? Corrupt? Very corrupt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-curren...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Feckless? Corrupt? Very corrupt?
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-curren...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Regime change in Venezuela – a huge mess that Trump 2.0 may be about to make
It’s worth remembering how the regime change operation in Iraq in 2003 started out.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/regi...
It’s worth remembering how the regime change operation in Iraq in 2003 started out.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/regi...
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Regime change in Venezuela – a huge mess that Trump 2.0 may be about to make
It’s worth remembering how the regime change operation in Iraq in 2003 started out.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/regi...
It’s worth remembering how the regime change operation in Iraq in 2003 started out.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/regi...
How Trump’s Eternal Peace Plan for the Middle East is going
Zvi Bar’el: “Israel’s military actions in the past several days raise questions about its true intentions in Lebanon and Syria.”
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/how-trumps...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
Zvi Bar’el: “Israel’s military actions in the past several days raise questions about its true intentions in Lebanon and Syria.”
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/how-trumps...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
How Trump’s Eternal Peace Plan for the Middle East is going
Zvi Bar’el: “Israel’s military actions in the past several days raise questions about its true intentions in Lebanon and Syria.”
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/how-trumps...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
Zvi Bar’el: “Israel’s military actions in the past several days raise questions about its true intentions in Lebanon and Syria.”
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/how-trumps...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
The Trump regime’s lawyers are doing legal gymnastics to argue that murder isn’t murder.
Trump officials say second strike aimed to destroy suspected drug boat instead of crew
Officials hew closely to secret memo which gives legal cover to firing on boats even if it would kill people on board
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The Trump regime’s lawyers are doing legal gymnastics to argue that murder isn’t murder.
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Hillary Clinton thinks you are stupid.
She thinks that people have concluded that Israel committed genocide because of TikTok.
A politician who voted for the Iraq war because of a pack of lies thinks young people are being brainwashed by disinformation.
Incredible.
She thinks that people have concluded that Israel committed genocide because of TikTok.
A politician who voted for the Iraq war because of a pack of lies thinks young people are being brainwashed by disinformation.
Incredible.
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Hillary Clinton thinks you are stupid.
She thinks that people have concluded that Israel committed genocide because of TikTok.
A politician who voted for the Iraq war because of a pack of lies thinks young people are being brainwashed by disinformation.
Incredible.
She thinks that people have concluded that Israel committed genocide because of TikTok.
A politician who voted for the Iraq war because of a pack of lies thinks young people are being brainwashed by disinformation.
Incredible.
Ronald Reagan is not a model of the road away from Trumpism. He was one of the most important builders of the road that got us to Trump in the first place!
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Ronald Reagan is not a model of the road away from Trumpism. He was one of the most important builders of the road that got us to Trump in the first place!
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Scott Bessent said something remarkable on Fox News yesterday. If Russia attacked Europe, he said, the US would... sell us weapons - but no troops. NATO kaput, in other words. Should this not be headline news across Europe? Is it not a sign of EU brain death that it is not?
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Scott Bessent said something remarkable on Fox News yesterday. If Russia attacked Europe, he said, the US would... sell us weapons - but no troops. NATO kaput, in other words. Should this not be headline news across Europe? Is it not a sign of EU brain death that it is not?
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Hitler’s “Kristallnacht” pogrom, 1938
An infamous pogrom staged by the Nazis a few weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
An infamous pogrom staged by the Nazis a few weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hitler’s “Kristallnacht” pogrom, 1938
An infamous pogrom staged by the Nazis a few weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
An infamous pogrom staged by the Nazis a few weeks after the Munich Agreement was signed.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/hitlers-kr...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/12/hitl...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
"costs of wind, solar, and batteries have continued to plunge; they made up 94% of the U.S. grid’s new capacity in 2024. They now generate more than a quarter of the electricity in California — and a third in Texas. And battery storage is expanding even faster, growing by two-thirds in 2024."
In 2015, I wrote the first big article inside the war on coal for
@politico.com. Ten years later, I wrote about how the war is going for @canarymedia.com. The @sierraclub.org is still winning the war, but Trump and AI are complicating the endgame.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
@politico.com. Ten years later, I wrote about how the war is going for @canarymedia.com. The @sierraclub.org is still winning the war, but Trump and AI are complicating the endgame.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Can the war on coal still be won?
Ten years ago, the U.S. was on track to phase out coal by 2030, thanks to the Sierra Club. Now Trump and AI are delaying the fuel’s decline.
www.canarymedia.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"costs of wind, solar, and batteries have continued to plunge; they made up 94% of the U.S. grid’s new capacity in 2024. They now generate more than a quarter of the electricity in California — and a third in Texas. And battery storage is expanding even faster, growing by two-thirds in 2024."
Reposted by Bruce Miller
OPINION: "The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ 1620 landing and 1621 feast erased a great deal of religious history and narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America—at times excluding groups such as Native Americans, Catholics and Jews," Thomas Tweed writes.
Opinion | How the Pilgrims Took Over Thanksgiving
Thomas Tweed writes about how traditional stories of Thanksgiving have excluded its impact on marginalized groups.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
OPINION: "The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ 1620 landing and 1621 feast erased a great deal of religious history and narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America—at times excluding groups such as Native Americans, Catholics and Jews," Thomas Tweed writes.
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Krissy called me down to the kitchen to have me eat a last bit of Thanksgiving leftovers so she could put its container into the dishwasher, and I just got a stern look from the dog warning me not to overstep into her territory ever again
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Krissy called me down to the kitchen to have me eat a last bit of Thanksgiving leftovers so she could put its container into the dishwasher, and I just got a stern look from the dog warning me not to overstep into her territory ever again
Reposted by Bruce Miller
As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Excellent read, thanks @wsj.com
Imo this is the reality #Europe has to face:
Trump and #fossilfuel & #Bigtech Billionaires want business with #Russia and also welcome a weak and unstable #Europe unable to regulate Tech oligopoly risks and Carbon emissions
Imo this is the reality #Europe has to face:
Trump and #fossilfuel & #Bigtech Billionaires want business with #Russia and also welcome a weak and unstable #Europe unable to regulate Tech oligopoly risks and Carbon emissions
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Die #Brandmauer, die der Verband der Familienunternehmer aufgeben möchte, ist kein hübsches Dekoelement. Sie ist eine tragende Wand dieser Republik.
Sollte der Verband, noch einen Funken Geschichtsbewusstsein haben, sollte jeder Kontakt zur Afd eingestellt werden. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Sollte der Verband, noch einen Funken Geschichtsbewusstsein haben, sollte jeder Kontakt zur Afd eingestellt werden. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Einige Unternehmen bandeln mit der AfD an - das ist mehr als beschämend
Nach 1945 erhielt die deutsche Wirtschaft, oft schwer belastet, eine zweite Chance. So kam sie zu großem Reichtum. Das Geturtel einiger Lobbyisten mit der AfD ist auch deshalb mehr als beschämend.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Die #Brandmauer, die der Verband der Familienunternehmer aufgeben möchte, ist kein hübsches Dekoelement. Sie ist eine tragende Wand dieser Republik.
Sollte der Verband, noch einen Funken Geschichtsbewusstsein haben, sollte jeder Kontakt zur Afd eingestellt werden. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Sollte der Verband, noch einen Funken Geschichtsbewusstsein haben, sollte jeder Kontakt zur Afd eingestellt werden. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
The drastic reduction in US commitment to European security has Europe scrambling to strengthen their own cooperation with each other and to deal with the challenges of the Ukraine war.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/john-mears...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/john-mears...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The drastic reduction in US commitment to European security has Europe scrambling to strengthen their own cooperation with each other and to deal with the challenges of the Ukraine war.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/john-mears...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/john-mears...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/john...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.
Reposted by Bruce Miller
GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
So he was "homegrown" + trained by the CIA, working for the Zero Unit in Afghanistan, which had a reputation for the following:
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Here’s a Look at the D.C. Shooting Suspect’s C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
So he was "homegrown" + trained by the CIA, working for the Zero Unit in Afghanistan, which had a reputation for the following:
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
This is another iteration of the Trumpists‘ mantra that immigrants are criminals.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is another iteration of the Trumpists‘ mantra that immigrants are criminals.
Reposted by Bruce Miller
And who can forget www.latimes.com/california/s...
Video: Armed agents drive off with child after detaining her father
Federal immigration agents detained a man in Cypress Park whose toddler was strapped into the back seat of his vehicle. Two agents toting weapons climbed into his car and drove off, video showed.
www.latimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
And who can forget www.latimes.com/california/s...
Reposted by Bruce Miller
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
"Trump, who is in Florida for Thanksgiving, vowed to ensure that the shooter — whom he called an 'animal' — 'will pay a very steep price'.”
Funny that he didn't say anything like that about the violent mob who stormed the US Capitol on 01/06/2021. Oh, wait, they did it on his behalf.
Funny that he didn't say anything like that about the violent mob who stormed the US Capitol on 01/06/2021. Oh, wait, they did it on his behalf.
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Trump, who is in Florida for Thanksgiving, vowed to ensure that the shooter — whom he called an 'animal' — 'will pay a very steep price'.”
Funny that he didn't say anything like that about the violent mob who stormed the US Capitol on 01/06/2021. Oh, wait, they did it on his behalf.
Funny that he didn't say anything like that about the violent mob who stormed the US Capitol on 01/06/2021. Oh, wait, they did it on his behalf.