David Ryan Miller

As it turns out, & everyone could have predicted, other countries have agency and domestic politics, too

Another shakedown, the more you cave to the autocrat the more empowered he feels.

The Smithsonian impeachment exhibit, before and after. One of these things is not like the other.

6 Scaramuccis!

"This avalanche of trauma was piled onto him because the luckiest people in the history of the world were convinced that the immigrant down the street might eat their cat." And he didn't lose his grace and forgiveness. If only MAGA could learn from that. www.thebulwark.com/p/can-we-eve...

I was discussing this with a friend today and 1) is the goal is subjugating universities, destroying higher education, both, or something else? and 2) it's another great example of different parts of the regime working at cross-purposes (how do you have a prosperous economy with no higher ed?)

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released a report on the country’s...

Exclusive: HHS used a crony’s discredited Alzheimer’s study as the template for its data-scraping “study” of the causes of autism. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hhs-has...

When you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk.

When you give an authoritarian a nine-figure "settlement," he's going to proceed to shake down all of your friends--some for even more money!

To again paraphrase @brendannyhan.bsky.social, we're endangering the future of the most successful higher education system in the history of humanity. For nothing. Over nothing.

I was told these gentlemen were very passionate about protecting women’s sports.

It is actually insane to honor a traitor in the Capitol of the country he tried very unsuccessfully to overthrow.

The party of celebrating losers.

Ever. Fucking. Green.

In addition to our Article I branch abdicating its power to a rising fascist Article II branch, we now have our Article III branch ceding its checks on executive lawlessness.

Democracy dies in coequal branches laying down their checks and balances.

👇🎯 Again, this is not something most Americans know, nor do they understand its implications (bye-bye, labs & sections for courses your kids need, bc no TAs, etc.), since our university presidents have been totally absent from the public stage & the National Conversation™️

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Trump's Confederacy rises again The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

"There's a critical difference between acknowledging a nation’s history and celebrating its worst moments. In Germany, they don’t erase their shameful Nazi past, but that doesn’t mean they’re erecting hagiographic statues commemorating war criminals."

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

Trump calls for major changes to census amid GOP redistricting effort The order is part of Trump’s broader fight over redistricting.

Don't. Stenographize. Blatantly. Unconstitutional. Stuff. In. The. Headlines. Without. Mentioning. The. Unconstitutionalism.

Democracy Dies In Plain Sight, aided & abetted by a once great newspaper that is now a national embarrassment.

Make the Oval Office Great Again

And by "great," I mean not gaudy as hell

Hi!

Things...are not going great right now.

And the really hard, knotty question is, "What do we do?"

Well, my friends at PD have spent time drilling into what people have done in other countries in the face of authoritarianism to find out WHAT WORKS.

Here's the beginning of our series 👇

I am beginning to think that Republican transphobia does not, in fact, have fuck all to do with supporting the athletic endeavors of women

The U.S. government is run by Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer, and whatever rando Fox puts on TV when Trump is watching

/2 However, something being clearly true as a matter of constitutional law doesn’t translate into something being enforceable without an operative array of institutions and norms, which are failing in America in favor of anti-Constitutional institutions and norms.

Kafkaesque: "according to more than a dozen immigration lawyers across the country... their clients are disappearing into an opaque and labyrinthine system that is obstructing their ability to defend themselves in court" www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... (gift link)

I think mocking you by showing you enthusiastically leading a raid on brown people in heaven is, indeed, criticizing your job.

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of?

The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

Your latest reminder that cryptocurrency ruins everything and is promoted by the worst people imaginable.

When do they just cut straight to Arbeit Macht Frei?

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...