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Bruce Miller

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Politics and history and sometimes economic policy, too.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 2h
Trump won't be able to do anything about Guilfoyle. She was on the inside for years. In the *family.* She knows where all the bodies are buried.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 7h
"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."
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Voters in Key States See AI Industry Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: Poll
"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 14h
Germany’s conservatives: ready to rerun 1933? The far-right AfD party - supported by luminaries like J.D. Vance and Elon Musk - won a notable state parliament victory in Saxony-Anhalt. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/germanys-c... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/10/germ...
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proda26.bsky.social @proda26.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is sometimes said that God works in mysterious ways. The same is true of a lot of today’s Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who says, “the most dangerous candidate for Congress right now [is] the Democrat running as a so-called moderate.“ www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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Mike Johnson: Anti-God Marxist Democrats Seek to ‘Take Over Everything’ in Two or Three Election Cycles
Mike Johnson previews GOP strategy for the mid-terms: smearing Democrats as anti-God communists.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WaPo: "his unscripted, meandering speaking style" NO. If you want to make excuses for him re LA and SD, you say that he is often incoherent. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Trump gets caught in the weave and hands Democrats a target
The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.
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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 07/10/2026
Trump Has Granted $6B in Contracts to Arms Makers His Sons Have Invested In Truthout truthout.org/articles/trump-has-gra… Tip your reporter →
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Trump Has Granted $6B in Contracts to Arms Makers His Sons Have Invested In
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Airbnb co-founder writes $8M check to California Voter ID campaign The contribution tracks Joe Gebbia’s move to the right, marking his largest political contribution in California. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Airbnb co-founder writes $8M check to California Voter ID campaign
The contribution tracks Joe Gebbia’s move to the right, marking his largest political contribution in California.
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Walter Ötsch @woetsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bekanntes Muster: Niemals Verantwortung übernehmen. Immer sind die, die als Feinde bereits markiert sind, die Schuldigen. #AfD agiert genauso, genau so wird Politik generell diskreditiert.
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well, gosh! Gavin Newsom's first wife is getting bad press lately! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Round-Up: The Greatest Deportation Campaign In American History, God's Judgment On America, & Cue The Midterm Freak Outs www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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Losin' Texas
The Greatest Deportation Campaign In American History God's Judgment On America Midterm Election Freakouts
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It turns out that AI is good for some things: "A North Carolina man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of millions of dollars in royalty payments." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/a...
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A.I. Music Fraudster Who Drew Millions in Royalties Is Sentenced to 18 Months
Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, earning him as much as $8 million.
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jamelle Bouie and Sam Seder on how Democrats need to fight Trumpism Decades of neoliberal policies and mediocre political reporting have taken a toll on the Democratic Party. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/an-over-ca... Blogspot: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/jamelle-bo...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Charlie Pierce also has thoughts. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Why the Hell Did People Cheer When Trump Said Iran Could “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego?
We’re supposed to care for our fellow Americans, not wish them death to win some pointless war.
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proda26.bsky.social @proda26.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Many Democratic progressives understandably have reservations about CA Gov. Gavin Newsom. But he responded the way any responsible Governor should to Trump's statement that Iran "could take out a city. Let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.” thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Newsom calls for 25th Amendment after Trump’s remarks on California
President Trump is stoking outrage among California Democrats and at least one House GOP candidate after he suggested at a midterm rally that he would allow Iran to “take out” Los Angeles and San D…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/10/2026
Investors are witnessing ‘the best earnings and margin growth in our lifetime’ spurred by lavish spending on the AI build-out, with S&P 500 profits forecast to have risen 27% from a year earlier, according to Goldman Sachs. ft.trib.al/hZYrase
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Emaldrien de Argutus @emaldrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
6000 Angestellte klagen wegen Rassismus gegen Tesla. Dabei werden sie von Vorgesetzten nicht nur als N* bezeichnet, sondern auch wörtlich als »Sklaven«. Anwälte von Tesla gaben sich derweil als Regierungsmitarbeiter aus, um Zeugen zu beeinflussen, und argumentieren, das N-Wort wäre akzeptabel. 😳
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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NO! Y’all really got to stop doing this! A far-rightist doesn’t stop being far right just because you realized there is someone further right. Also, they are often not so much “further” right, they are differently far right! BOTH Rees-Mogg AND Tucker are threats to liberal democracy!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trumpism, in a nutshell.👇
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 06/10/2026
OPINION: "With traffic in the Strait of Hormuz hovering below 15% of prewar levels, oil prices have increased from US$65 a barrel before the conflict in Iran began in February 2026 to more than $100 a barrel in mid-September," Joshua Busby and Greg Pollock write. buff.ly/xU3CR4l
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Opinion | Fuel Prices May Rise Higher Still
Joshua Busby and Greg Pollock write that the global oil market has largely exhausted its emergency measures meant to keep fuel prices low.
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 06/10/2026
“We have become so accustomed to the president blatantly lying about the election, threatening people, using the court process and administrative powers granted to him to try to intimidate voters,” said @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social. “So there is in my view a real necessity to clarify the law.”
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/10/2026
On August 18, Trump’s USDA officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest. The rule protects forests from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development.
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Trump’s Repeal of Roadless Rule Would Declare Open Season on Protected Forests
A public policy expert described the move as “the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”…
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Democrats are terrible because their failures are what elected Trump, who I am pretty much okay with.
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republicans repenting of their political sins – usually when they not longer have a practical possibility to undo them – is one of the artifacts of the Trump 2.0 regime. Here is Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina promoting a new book telling us how bad Trump is. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Sen. Tillis says his vote for Hegseth was 'biggest regret of my career' in new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For Karl Rove, isn’t this Mission Accomplished? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LiE...
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“THE GOP IS TAKEN OVER BY N*ZIS” - Bush Republican ADMITS IT ALL! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How did our Tech Overlords decide that posturing like James Bond movie villains would a good thing? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I mean...not everybody would be there to speak German. Quite a few less people in fact.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nazi party upset that it's full of nazis
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Robert Pape on political violence It’s a complicated subject. And it’s not a matter of “both sides do it” Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/robert-pap... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/robe...
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump's ICE thugs are breaking apart families and building a reign of terror in our communities. We need to abolish ICE now.
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wrestling with “the spectacle” The Situationists had something to say – even if it’s hard to tell what that was. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/wrestling-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/wres...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Polling in the US on the politics of the “working class” (which pundits find it surprisingly hard to define) Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/polling-in... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/poll...
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M LeMont @mistersalesman @mistersalesman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hello everybody!
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Russia and Ukraine, a war with no end in sight Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/russia-and... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/russ...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Put it this way: If Talarico wins and Dems win the Senate, he gets to start using Blue Slips to try to reverse the shitshow that is Texas and Fifth Circuit judiciary. But if he wins and Mike Lee is SJC Chair, Trump will start stacking the Northeast with nutbag judges.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bad guys you may never have heard of: Danube Institute of the United States [DIUS], defending “Western civilization” Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/bad-guys-y... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/bad-...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed schools FOX News hack about asking sleazy questions El-Sayed treats Jesse Watters as what he is, a polemicist attacking him on a partisan basis. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/abdul-e-sa... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/abdu...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Correct. This "deal" gives the US nothing it didn't have before—ie, before Trump threatened a previously close and loyal US ally, said "who cares about NATO?", and unleashed lackeys in search of their own financial deals in Greenland. (See also: Trade war with Canada. War on Iran, etc)
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Effective and constructive foreign policy requires actual diplomacy And the Trump 2.0 regime is serious deficient on that score. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/effective-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/effe...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Full E.U. Treaty members have an explicit mutual-defense obligation to each other. Even EU-friendly members of the US foreign policy establishment would blow a gasket over that idea. Clever diplomatic provocation! 2/2
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The suggestion that Canada could become an "associate“ EU member - currently not an existing status - is among other things a way of diplomatically threatening the US while not making the kind of challenge that E.U. membership would be. 1/2 edition.cnn.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Canada is pursuing a ‘unique alliance’ with the EU as US ties remain fraught. Here’s what we know | CNN
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday that Canada become the bloc’s first “associate member,” a move aimed at shoring up their economies in the face of increasing trade...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Spain's data protection watchdog said it has received the first reported notification of a personal data breach allegedly carried out by an artificial intelligence agent, a case that suggests autonomous ​systems are beginning to play a direct role in cyberattacks." www.reuters.com/business/spa...
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Spanish data watchdog publicises first AI agent-linked data breach report
Spain's data protection watchdog said it has received the first reported notification of a personal data breach allegedly carried out by an artificial intelligence agent, a case that suggests autonomo...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The latest round of hand-wringing over not pandering to the radical right (Saxony-Anhalt edition) Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-latest... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Carter Doctrine and the US role in the Middle East today The Carter Doctrine represented a major step toward the involvements the US later took in the Greater Middle East. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/the-carter... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-...
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Bruce Miller @brucemillerca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
US-Israel War on Iran – until 2029? The problem is that the only way of avoiding a years-long war is for the US to pull out of the war. And leaving a war is also a very complicated thing. Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/us-israel-... Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2026/09/us-i...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spoke with some of 600+ people who were punished for Charlie Kirk-related speech over the past year — about the anxieties they’ve faced, the crazy reasons they were fired or even arrested, and what their life has been like since:
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A Year Ago, Charlie Kirk Was Killed. Meet the People Who Were Fired for Speaking Out About Him
In the year since the murder of the far-right commentator, those who were punished for comments about his death have met mixed fortunes. Over in Dallas, the GOP’s mad midterm Trumpapalooza began.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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