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Jed Miller

@jedm.bsky.social
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Columbia Heights | former UWS 3 Bridges | former ACLU, NYT Balding | former hair #responsibletech #civilrights #datagovernance

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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In the American tradition of the Masked Battle of Lexington & Concord, Shay's Masked Rebellion and Hooded Normandy.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Look at this photo. Look at it. Am in Maine, not DC today. But we should all ride with this young woman forever.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
100 years ago.
The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote something for @techpolicypress.bsky.social about Chatrie and the limits of courts in reining in police surveillance powered by private enterprise.
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Works are by Thaler Pekar @deepaiyer.bsky.social @rekha6.bsky.social @romainmurphy.bsky.social MKMinani Alisha Bhagat @keefemurren.bsky.social @scoxsmith.bsky.social @elmirab.bsky.social @dunagan23.bsky.social Eboné Bishop @jedm.bsky.social @mythilisk.bsky.social Rashida Boyd @meowtree.bsky.social
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It was an honor to have my reflection included in this zine declaring political hope amid a time of dissolution and laying-bare. Thank you @linasrivastava.bsky.social. Here's to keeping honest and keeping at it.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Oh, it sucks when someone steals your shit, doesn't it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...
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Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
With massive dependency on Taiwan chip supply, "there is increasing concern that inaction by some of Silicon Valley’s most important companies risks destabilizing the global economy." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
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The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...
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DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority.
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Politico @politico.com · 24/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffries will endorse Mamdani for NYC mayor, after nine months of pressure and just before early voting begins Saturday. That leaves Schumer as the last key person in the state's Dem leadership to withhold support.
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After a lengthy wait, Jeffries to endorse Mamdani
The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
👀 When is research not exactly facts. When it's Silicon Valley.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Who's in the room when legislators make tech decisions? What makes communities visible? What makes science legible? Some highlights from CAT Lab @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Summit on NY State tech policy. citizensandtech.org/2025/10/at-c... w @eleag.bsky.social @natematias.bsky.social
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At CAT Lab Summit on New York State Tech Policy, a Call for Listening - Citizens and Technology Lab
For most of us, daily life depends on government data of one kind or another. Your payroll taxes (or unemployment check), the bus schedule, your property taxes or medical bills—all of these are genera...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Throttled by Meta.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I don't think Dowager Countess dry delivery meets the moment, NYT.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@mashagessen.bsky.social on 'angry grief': "[Robert Jay] Lifton used this term when he carried out research on the 1968 My Lai massacre in South Vietnam, in which American soldiers killed as many as 500 unarmed civilians ... in one hamlet. 1/4
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"In a sign of the continuing chaos in Nepal, where many official documents and records have gone up in smoke, Ms. Karki’s online biography was unavailable. In fact, the entire Supreme Court website was not operational."
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Iran Likely to Have Moved Nuclear Components Ahead of Fordow Attack - @mazmhussain.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-nucle...
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Iran Likely to Have Moved Nuclear Components Ahead of Fordow Attack: Iranian Nuclear Scientist
Despite the Trump administration's claims, Iran's nuclear program has not been "totally obliterated."
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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Unfolding reactions to SCOTUS stripping/limiting lower court power to issue nationwide injunctions. See NYT, and @katiephang.bsky.social on Substack: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Live Updates: Trump Hails Supreme Court Ruling Limiting Nationwide Injunctions
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
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'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Advocacy in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia shows that Global South demands gain traction in platform governance when they align with Western priorities, are amplified by international allies, and build trust with marginalized communities, writes Mai Van Tran.
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Lessons from Resisting Big Tech Power in Southeast Asia | TechPolicy.Press
It is more important than ever for Western donors to champion the inclusion of digital rights in their development aid agendas, writes Mai Van Tran.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
As Malaysia investigates possible Chinese local use of restricted chips, this explainer on remote poaching I helped develop remains very timely. Researcher Min-yen Chiang goes deep on how China continues sourcing chips and expertise. www.opentech.fund/news/how-chi...
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How China is Poaching Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry to Power Its Digital Authoritarianism: A Supply Chain Analysis
ICFP research reveals how the CCP is acquiring advanced AI and chip technology to expand the scope of its information control regime.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So far, the two let's-normalize-war alerts I've gotten are from NYT and the UK's conservative standby The Spectator.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New Yorkers
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025
So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
More accurate headlines. 2024: Netahyahu OKs Biden exaggeration of ceasefire prospects. 2025: Netanyahu OKs Trump proxy saber-rattling.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
On Russian relationship w/Iran: "Iran has supplied Russia with Shahed kamikaze drones to be used on Ukrainian targets, and last year, there were reports that Russia received hundreds of Fath-360 ballistic missiles from Iran." @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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How will Russia respond to the Israel-Iran conflict?
A delicate balancing act awaits Russia, one of Iran’s key allies that also maintains ties with Israel.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14/06/2025
I get so tired of all the ways pundits talk around Democrats’ real problem, which is so obvious that an entire industry exists to obfuscate it. They cannot describe, let alone attack, the real sources of injustice in this country because to do so would indict themselves and their donors.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Watching Karen Hao, Emily Bender & Alex Hanna discuss links between AI as an "empire" (Hao's book) and AI as a "con" (Bender/Hanna book). "'Empire' and 'con' are both powerful frames to look at what AI is doing, and doesn’t actually do." @karenhao.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/chall...
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Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The quote marks are attempting a lot of work here. George Lakoff called.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Oh come the fuck on.
Elon Musk is back to thinking about the existential fate of humanity, according to NYT.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
You know how customer service bots and standard search engines like saying "Did you mean ...?" Too often the Google AI Overview still feels like that. No, I didn't. Please show me my results. "Operator... Operator..."
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I don't usually post basic outrage posts, but the idea that the media is credibly talking about Trump "pushing" Putin to do anything is just ... *gestures wildly* *pounds bar* *McConaughey tears* ... really offensive.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"'Innovation' is bullshit." Prof. Neil Richards of Washington University. It's a concept wielded as a"self-serving, self-contained selective ideology that contains only the things that tech companies think are good." #framewars @knightcolumbia.org More Neil here: source.washu.edu/experts/neil...
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
As Musk team harvests data across agencies, US attacks its longstanding "structural prohibitions" against a massive federal database. @juliaangwin.com in dialogue with @ellenwapo.bsky.social at @knightcolumbia.org event in DC. More in Julia's Apr. 30 op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
ICYMI last week the European Commission decided to refer Czechia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice for not appointing a digital services coordinator and not laying down the rules on penalties under the Digital Services Act ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Commission decides to refer CZECHIA, SPAIN, CYPRUS, POLAND and PORTUGAL to the Court of Justice of the European Union due to lack of effective implementation of the Digital Services Act
The European Commission decided to refer Czechia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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Michael Brennan @michaelbrennan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative is giving grants to civil society orgs fighting spyware abuse. Learn more + apply by June 13th at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding
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Apply for funding — Spyware Accountability Initiative
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Is that stupid person in the room with us right now?
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Empowering a partisan FTC to enforce ambiguous legislation is a recipe for weaponized enforcement that risks durable progress in the fight against image-based sexual abuse." - @beccabranum.bsky.social of @cendemtech.bsky.social via @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
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Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This one glance should quash any talk that it was not FLOTUS but a double.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Realism and clarity about latest attacks on the left's support infrastructure. Post by Julia Rosen: www.linkedin.com/posts/juliak... @actblueorg.bsky.social
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Trump to target ActBlue in presidential memorandum | Julia Rosen
Update: The text of the morandum is out and it's not nearly as bad I feared (link in comments). At this point, the administration is tapping the DOJ to investigate ActBlue and "take appropria...
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Government contractors like Bezos and Musk are not the only ones making free speech decisions for profit reasons. "Paramount [CBS] controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
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Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Purported draft EO re. State Department would narrow US Africa strategy to "coordinated counterterrorism" and "strategic extraction and trade of critical natural resources." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
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Trump Draft Order Would Drastically Overhaul U.S. State Department
The draft executive order would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump, May 2023: "“If I’m president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours." #ukraine #fraud www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/p...
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READ: Transcript of CNN’s town hall with former President Donald Trump | CNN Politics
Read the full transcript of CNN’s presidential town hall with former President Donald Trump moderated by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
👇 Remember that joke, "Daddy drinks because you cry?" 👇 finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump says he decided on 90-day tariff pause because people were 'yippy' and 'afraid'
President Trump made yet another quick pivot on trade, announcing that he would authorize a 90-day pause on his reciprocal tariff plans for most countries and telling reporters he did so because peopl...
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PERSIST. @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We had a night! 1. Susan Crawford crushed Schimel in WI, an absolute landslide. 2. Cory Booker lit up the Senate floor making history. 3. FL01: +17pts toward Dems since Nov! 4. FL06: +19pts toward Dems since Nov! This momentum’s real. Let’s keep pushing. #BlueWave #ElectionWins #KeepGoing
Because We Persist
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