Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Three of the world’s most authoritarian regimes met today: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA 020
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025200,000 federal employees laid off for the crime of having been hired within the last year. These are people just after college or who had left previous jobs to enter federal service. They were given an hour to leave. 020
Reposted by Allen MillerDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025A coup is when unelected persons or parties seize control of the government and govern through unconstitutional means. Musk is trying to do that with the acquiescence of an elected president. Not quite an auto-coup. More like an on-the-side coup. 27699194
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025So we now have an unelected person looking at all our private information with no oversight. Feel safer? 130
Reposted by Allen MillerDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck. 14640871641
Reposted by Allen MillerDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Zuckerberg was voluntarily on the stage for the inauguration of a man who just pardoned 1500 criminal thugs who rioted to help him destroy American democracy. A corporate titan worth $211 billion who supports a fascist can be called an oligarch. Sorry (not sorry) if that hurts Zuck's feelings. 46664117
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Militias pardoned and released. Websites scrubbed. DEI efforts cancelled. Scientific organizations left. Cancellation of all climate changes efforts. Dystopian nightmare. Day 3. 030
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025So hey everyone, I find discussions here fragmented and hard to follow compared to Facebook, which I want to leave. What am I missing? 120
Reposted by Allen MillerCNN @cnn.com · 05/12/2024Facing criticism, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said it will not proceed with a policy to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery.cnn.comInsurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNNAfter sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shiel... 66979881448
Reposted by Allen MillerDaniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/projects.propublica.orgFind Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your ClaimYou likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f... 9161794310176
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024When I hear reasonably educated and articulate people talk about “ending the war on fossil fuels,” I want to know do you just not believe in the science that built your cell phone or do you just not care? #climatechangeisreal 010
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024This article is one of the best analyses of Democratic hubris I’ve seen. 030
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 24/11/2024 This is where I am.thebulwark.comSen. Murphy: I’m Preparing for DystopiaIn an interview with The Bulwark, the Connecticut Democrat outlines how bad it could get and what his party must now do. 020
Reposted by Allen MillerBenjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum 381401655
Reposted by Allen MillerAmanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I sent a student here in '23 and she had a phenomenal experience (of which I was genuinely quite jealous); I also got to visit and was blown away by the excavation on all levels. Tell your students!! 0166
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Linda McMahon for Education Secretary. Woohoo. Wrestling in the schools. 🤼♀️🤼♂️ 110
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Neoliberalism has hollowed out economic communities. It has led to grotesque inequality where the bottom 50% hold 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. It also tells people that the only thing that is actually real is money. 200
Reposted by Allen MillerKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/11/2024“Hegseth agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the woman because he feared that revelation of the matter ‘would result in his immediate termination from Fox,’ where he worked as a host.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comDefense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney saysDocuments obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth sexually assaulted a woman in 2017. 33555961547
Reposted by Allen MillerRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/11/2024"They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them. And my clients repeatedly testified, 'What was this payment for?' 'That was for sex.'" abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-te...abcnews.go.comLawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sexAn attorney for two women who testified before the House Ethics panel tells ABC News in an interview that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid both his adult clients for sex. 742166453
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Watching the news this morning and I see the full normalization of Trump has begun. “We need to find common ground.” No. We need to understand why people voted for a man who freely expresses hate and terrorizes people. We do not need to find common ground with him. 020
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Tulsi the Hindu and RFK the crusader against big Pharma and Gaetz the pedophile with Elon and Franklin Graham are sure going to make for some interesting times. 110
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comThe Strongman Fantasy (text and audio)And Dictatorship in Real Life 000
Allen Miller @allenmillerp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Thinking about Ovid. He is all about a world in which irony and hyperbolic praise are indistinguishable, and in which they are increasingly the only options other than silence. It’s often a kind of hall of mirrors. 110
Reposted by Allen MillerRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The first rule of authoritarian politics is that there’s only one source of authority. Congress will be expected to give up its role in governing, particularly anything that restrains Trump’s choices and desires. 31177772010
