Travis Millman
@travismillman.bsky.social
Serial entrepreneur, entrepreneurship educator, strategic advisor, and business developer who cares deeply about making the world a better place and resisting the forces of darkness
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Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
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Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
August 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
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After his trial runs in LA and DC, Trump is now reportedly planning to permanently keep 600 National Guard troops on standby to deploy into any American city facing protests.
This is the stuff fascism is made of.
This is the stuff fascism is made of.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
After his trial runs in LA and DC, Trump is now reportedly planning to permanently keep 600 National Guard troops on standby to deploy into any American city facing protests.
This is the stuff fascism is made of.
This is the stuff fascism is made of.
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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
May Day Strong: We are the Many · May Day Strong
This is a local companion action to the big May Day Strong rally in Foley Square at 5 p.m. for folks who can't make it to the city but want to make their voices heard and have a visible presence in ou...
www.mobilize.us
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
Bracing reading. Though Agent Orange’s tariff and mass deportation policies will accelerate inflation, other less discretionary forces, with climate change being the big one, will likely keep it moving higher…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk | Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli
As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bracing reading. Though Agent Orange’s tariff and mass deportation policies will accelerate inflation, other less discretionary forces, with climate change being the big one, will likely keep it moving higher…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI – report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is really chilling.
This is really chilling.
US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI – report
State department launches AI-assisted reviews of accounts to look for what it perceives as Hamas supporters
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI – report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is really chilling.
This is really chilling.
The wise and understated Timothy Snyder on why Trump’s “peace initiative” is not serious. 5 simple tests in 2 minutes of video. Incisive. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Is it a peace process? (short video)
Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The wise and understated Timothy Snyder on why Trump’s “peace initiative” is not serious. 5 simple tests in 2 minutes of video. Incisive. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Canceled my Washington Post subscription. No thanks, meddling oligarchs!
February 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Canceled my Washington Post subscription. No thanks, meddling oligarchs!
The ever clear-eyed and insightful Timothy Snyder nails MuskTrump’s use of “fraud” as a political tool to delegitimize government. Must read. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The "Fraud" Fraud
How DOGE destroys
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The ever clear-eyed and insightful Timothy Snyder nails MuskTrump’s use of “fraud” as a political tool to delegitimize government. Must read. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...
Bracing words from Poland’s eloquent Foreign Minister. We Americans should be ashamed to the core that our previous role as an advocate of order and (mostly) reliable defender of democracy and justice has been terminated.
Bracing words from Poland’s eloquent Foreign Minister. We Americans should be ashamed to the core that our previous role as an advocate of order and (mostly) reliable defender of democracy and justice has been terminated.
MUST WATCH: Sikorski in brutal and beautiful takedown of Putin and Trump.
OMG, we needed that. The Polish Foreign Minister's speech in the U.N. yesterday is the strongest, most ‘efficient’, in parts even poetic, political rhetoric I have heard for decades. Thank you, Radek.
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...
Bracing words from Poland’s eloquent Foreign Minister. We Americans should be ashamed to the core that our previous role as an advocate of order and (mostly) reliable defender of democracy and justice has been terminated.
Bracing words from Poland’s eloquent Foreign Minister. We Americans should be ashamed to the core that our previous role as an advocate of order and (mostly) reliable defender of democracy and justice has been terminated.
Why are the headlines NOT “Israel violates ceasefire agreement”?! While the facts detailed in these two stories more or less tell the same story, the headlines fail to accurately identify which party is violating the agreement.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Israel Delays Prisoner Release After Hamas Frees 6 Hostages: Live Updates
Israel was supposed to release 620 Palestinian prisoners soon after the hostages were handed over. Officials gave no reason for the delay.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Why are the headlines NOT “Israel violates ceasefire agreement”?! While the facts detailed in these two stories more or less tell the same story, the headlines fail to accurately identify which party is violating the agreement.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Holy New Mexico Sunset!
February 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Holy New Mexico Sunset!
Inspiring and reassuring protest today in and around Union Square Park. Thousands turned out in spite of the cold to express their disgust with grifter Trump and his unelected billionaire sponsor Musk.
February 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Inspiring and reassuring protest today in and around Union Square Park. Thousands turned out in spite of the cold to express their disgust with grifter Trump and his unelected billionaire sponsor Musk.
How about the lunatics don’t get to run the asylum instead? How about criminal behavior is addressed BEFORE elections so that people can vote accordingly? Grifters gonna grift. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams
A top Justice official said New York Mayor Eric Adams should not have to face trial given his reelection campaign and the fight against crime and illegal immigration.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
How about the lunatics don’t get to run the asylum instead? How about criminal behavior is addressed BEFORE elections so that people can vote accordingly? Grifters gonna grift. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
History, perspective, wisdom, and just a little bit of hope from the incomparable M Gessen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
History, perspective, wisdom, and just a little bit of hope from the incomparable M Gessen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
This is who these people are. JD Vance and Elon Musk should be ashamed, but that's part of the Catch-22 here. They have no shame. Also, note the clown in the bronze face paint. How is walking around like that not considered certifiably crazy?
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
Elon Musk and JD Vance Agree On Rehiring DOGE Employee Who Wrote He Was “Racist Before It Was Cool”
The staff member, 25-year-old Marko Elez, resigned after The Wall Street Journal revealed previous social media posts.
www.vanityfair.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is who these people are. JD Vance and Elon Musk should be ashamed, but that's part of the Catch-22 here. They have no shame. Also, note the clown in the bronze face paint. How is walking around like that not considered certifiably crazy?
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
It’s really bracing to see just what an outlier the US healthcare system is for all the wrong reasons. substack.com/@etopol/note...
Eric Topol on Substack
An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.
substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It’s really bracing to see just what an outlier the US healthcare system is for all the wrong reasons. substack.com/@etopol/note...
Intentionally destroying the international order the US helped to build. #ForShame
www.thedailybeast.com/marco-rubio-...
www.thedailybeast.com/marco-rubio-...
Marco Rubio Pulls Out of G20 Summit Over ‘Very Bad’ Focus on DEI and Climate
The secretary of state is skipping one of the biggest events in the diplomatic calendar because it’s too woke.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Intentionally destroying the international order the US helped to build. #ForShame
www.thedailybeast.com/marco-rubio-...
www.thedailybeast.com/marco-rubio-...
Note to world. The xenophobic buffoon is not acting in the best interests of the US or the world and does not speak for us. l.smartnews.com/p-iDPNDrb/Yk...
In major policy shift, Trump says the US should take over Gaza and does not rule out using US troops (USA Today)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday ahead of a meeting with Israel's prime minister that Palestinians living in Gaza should want to relocate dur...
l.smartnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Note to world. The xenophobic buffoon is not acting in the best interests of the US or the world and does not speak for us. l.smartnews.com/p-iDPNDrb/Yk...
So Trump is openly talking about an active role by the US in perpetrating ethnic cleansing in Gaza. #NotInOurName #ForShame
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Trump promises to turn Gaza into ‘the Riviera of the Middle East.’
The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, his first in-person meeting with another world leader since returning to power.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
So Trump is openly talking about an active role by the US in perpetrating ethnic cleansing in Gaza. #NotInOurName #ForShame
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
At a local service shop getting my car inspected. Fox News on the tv, ofc. An anchor interviewing a rightwing sane-washing “economist” carefully (ie w maximum positive spin) acknowledging the potentially catastrophic impact of Trump’s incredibly self and other destructive imposition of tariffs .
February 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
At a local service shop getting my car inspected. Fox News on the tv, ofc. An anchor interviewing a rightwing sane-washing “economist” carefully (ie w maximum positive spin) acknowledging the potentially catastrophic impact of Trump’s incredibly self and other destructive imposition of tariffs .
And now for something rather more bracing from the clear-eyed Timothy Snyder who minces no words as he describes the ongoing Coup. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And now for something rather more bracing from the clear-eyed Timothy Snyder who minces no words as he describes the ongoing Coup. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Hello world! Shutting down by enshitified Meta accounts and coming over where the sky is bluer. Here’s a little something I saw last night to celebrate the shift.
February 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hello world! Shutting down by enshitified Meta accounts and coming over where the sky is bluer. Here’s a little something I saw last night to celebrate the shift.