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Jeff Miller

@liberalclaptrap.bsky.social

Some might call it that. Conscientious objector. Retired Technology Director, ACLU of Ohio. Musician. Views are my own, until they go viral. Also on๐Ÿงต, same handle. Wooster, Ohio, he/him.

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'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirkโ€™s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ โ€œ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐˜.โ€

Note also the data cited from the ADL regarding the source of extremist attacks and domestic terror plots, near the bottom of the article.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

20.09.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hopefully, also your data!

19.09.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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With Ohio population projected to drop, DeWine urges college recruitment Gov. DeWine calls on university trustees to attract both in-state and out-of-state students as a projected demographic crisis looms.

The irony of an article that reports the Governor lamenting Ohioโ€™s population loss and his desire to increase student enrollment and retain graduating students, accompanied by a picture of him signing a bill that will decrease student enrollment and reduce student retention after graduation.

19.09.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Protest in Wooster, Ohio, in front of Wayne County courthouse. One protester has a sign with this text on the back: โ€œSmall Willy? Rev your engine!โ€

Protest in Wooster, Ohio, in front of Wayne County courthouse. One protester has a sign with this text on the back: โ€œSmall Willy? Rev your engine!โ€

A beautiful day in Wooster, Ohio, for a public witness against authoritarianism in our country. Zoom in to see how one attendee was very well prepared - through the simple flip of their sign - to respond to the haters : )

01.09.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Choosing Your Tools With so many companies and websites offering tools geared towards helping individuals improve their own digital security, how do you choose the tools that are right for you? We donโ€™t have a foolproof list of tools that can defend you (though you can see some common choices in our Tool...

Choosing your security and privacy tools is an ongoing process, not a one-time purchase or download. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...

20.08.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If you are looking for reasons to be hopeful - something that seems to be in short supply these days - I encourage you to read this article.

13.07.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œIโ€™m Hackinโ€™ It.โ€

13.07.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think this headline is incomplete. It should say, โ€œGOP leaders in US Senate struggle to lessen pain of Medicaid cuts for rural hospitals, but with little concern for people who need healthcare.โ€œ

25.06.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a state notorious for corruption in & at the Statehouse, legislators are now poised, via the latest version of the budget bill, to torch public access to key legislative documents. This is how a legislature with things to hide from the public & media shamefully operates. 1/6

25.06.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.

ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.

23.06.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14374    ๐Ÿ” 4998    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 338    ๐Ÿ“Œ 147

Yikes. I just used an app password to set up email notification for a backup program. Here I was, thinking I was being careful. Glad I was using a throwaway Gmail account.

23.06.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Protect Yourself From Metaโ€™s Latest Attack on Privacy Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you. Exploiting a technical loophole, the company was able to have their apps snoop on usersโ€™ web browsing. This tr...

Metaโ€™s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Hereโ€™s what to do next.

20.06.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Congratulations!

16.06.2025 00:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s right! Itโ€™s up to us, friends.

www.acluohio.org/en/donation-...

14.06.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Know Your Rights | American Civil Liberties Union

Know your rights in lots of different scenarios:
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

#Protest rights, rights when stopped by police, #immigrants' rights, and more:

11.06.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints Proposed rule change could pave way for president to fire economists whose figures prove politically inconvenient

Staff members at the Bureau of Labor Statistics could be fired for releasing accurate economic information that doesnโ€™t match this administrationโ€™s narrative. Combine this with their earlier proposal to change the way that GDP is calculated, and future economic reports will be meaningless.

19.05.2025 02:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stadiums, schools, libraries remain knotty items as June 30 budget deadline looms: Thomas Suddes If youโ€™re an Ohioan who loves his or her public library, and benefits from its many services, it might be very shrewd to send emails or letters, or make phone calls, to your Ohio General Assembly memb...

โ€œSo: Thereโ€™s enough state money, (likely $1 billion-plus next budget year) to subsidize private schools in Ohio, but not enough money to achieve statewide fairness in funding Ohioโ€™s public schools?โ€

www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...

18.05.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump administration acknowledges another error in a high-profile deportation In a late Friday court filing, immigration officials said a claim by a Guatemalan man โ€” a key plank of the governmentโ€™s response in a class action lawsuit โ€” was based on erroneous information.

These arenโ€™t errors. They are willful actions. Everyone in the U.S. is entitled to due process. Everyone.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

17.05.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NSF cuts endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life โ€ข Ohio Capital Journal Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science Found...

The termination of grants, reductions in staff, cuts in the budget, and slashing of research and training programs - even if reversed by a future administration - will negatively impact our country for decades.

ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/16/n...

17.05.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Motherโ€™s Day, lets talk about why birth rates are really declining | Katrina vanden Heuvel Itโ€™s one thing to incentivize giving birth. Americans deserve leaders who will fight for those kids after theyโ€™re born

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

11.05.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce Food safety in America is under attack.

Think Iโ€™m finally posting something that isnโ€™t critical of the Trump administration? Keep reading. But itโ€™s not just this administration that bears the responsibility.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

11.05.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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USDA, DOGE demand states hand over personal data about food stamp recipients The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.

"What they're building is a surveillance weapon and it can be put to all sorts of adverse uses in the future."

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

11.05.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Remembering May 4, 1970.  67 shots, 13 seconds, 9 wounded, 4 murdered.

Mary Ann Vecchio screams as she kneels over the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller on May 4, 1970.
John Filo / Getty Images

Remembering May 4, 1970. 67 shots, 13 seconds, 9 wounded, 4 murdered. Mary Ann Vecchio screams as she kneels over the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller on May 4, 1970. John Filo / Getty Images

04.05.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

That pictureโ€ฆ

27.04.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Public isnโ€™t buying Trumpโ€™s message about Kilmar Abrego Garcรญa, polls show More Americans say Abrego Garcรญa should be returned to the United States than say he should remain in prison in El Salvador, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Friday.

โ€œThe strategy reflects Trumpโ€™s approach to his second term: Hit back, double down, donโ€™t apologize โ€” and change the subject to immigration, when possibleโ€ฆ But this time, the strategy doesnโ€™t appear to be working.โ€

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

27.04.2025 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Approval Rating Tracker: Majority Say Trump Presidency Is โ€˜Scaryโ€™ And โ€˜Chaoticโ€™ In Latest Poll The latest survey, released April 25, shows 54% disapprove of Trump's job performance.

They say April is the cruelest month.

โ€œTOPLINE - Less than half of voters approve of President Donald Trumpโ€™s job performance and his handling of seven major issues in a new New York Times/Siena pollโ€”the latest in a string of damning surveys as Trump approaches 100 days in office.โ€

27.04.2025 11:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Senate Bill 1 suppresses free speech, undermining our democracy: J. Bennett Guess Senate Bill 1 is clearly unconstitutional and, until repealed or overturned, will lead to the suppression of free speech and individual liberties. The ACLU of Ohio remains steadfast in our commitment ...

โ€œHard stories of how progress is initiated and sustained, often against entrenched systems and great societal prejudices, is the substance of our American strengthโ€ฆ teaching the power of how everyday people participate in shaping their own destinies, the very essence of democracy.โ€

25.04.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Places of worship are meant to be spaces for faith, hope, and spirituality โ€“ these sensitive locations should not be symbols of fear, deportation, or surveillance.

We cannot allow the Trump administration to terrorize Ohio communities. www.acluohio.org/en/publicati...

24.04.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ACLU of Ohio Releases Guidance for Sensitive Locations, Including Places of Worship, Health Centers, and other Private Establishments from Immigration Enforcement Today, the ACLU of Ohio released three new fact sheets, offering guidance for places of worship, health centers, and other private business establishments in Ohio to protect individuals accessing

These new fact sheets provide clarity on applicable federal and state laws, answer frequently asked questions, and provide recommendations for establishments to protect their staff and visitors from immigration enforcement. www.acluohio.org/en/press-rel...

22.04.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฐ We just released new resources for places of worship, health centers, and other private businesses in Ohio to protect individuals accessing these important places from overreaching immigration enforcement.

We cannot allow the Trump administration to terrorize Ohio communities.

22.04.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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