Bruce Miller
@brucemillerca.bsky.social
Politics and history and sometimes economic policy, too.
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Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
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«Deutschland hat seine #DigitaleSouveränität in die Hände von Donald Trump und seiner Freunde der großen Tech-Unternehmen gelegt … Sollte Big Tech irgendwann keine Updates mehr liefern, … wäre das, als schaltete man Deutschland oder Europa mit der Fernbedienung ab.» taz.de/Digitale-Sou...
Digitale Souveränität: Die digitale Abhängigkeit jetzt durchbrechen
Irgendwer muss irgendwo mal anfangen. Mit einer internationalen Allianz, Open Source und klaren Regeln für US-Konzerne könnte sich Europa von BigTech lösen.
taz.de
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
«Deutschland hat seine #DigitaleSouveränität in die Hände von Donald Trump und seiner Freunde der großen Tech-Unternehmen gelegt … Sollte Big Tech irgendwann keine Updates mehr liefern, … wäre das, als schaltete man Deutschland oder Europa mit der Fernbedienung ab.» taz.de/Digitale-Sou...
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Martin Wolf on our essay. "So, what do I hope for from Wednesday’s Budget? Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy. I do not expect it. It may already be too late. But, without that, it is hard to be optimistic about the UK’s future."
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Martin Wolf on our essay. "So, what do I hope for from Wednesday’s Budget? Some sight of a workable and coherent long-term economic strategy. I do not expect it. It may already be too late. But, without that, it is hard to be optimistic about the UK’s future."
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
www.ft.com/content/17e1...
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NEW: Scientists have built an AI genetics analysis model to boost the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases that are estimated to affect hundreds of millions of people worlwide.
It has already been used to help a muscular atrophy sufferer in Senegal.
www.ft.com/content/bc49...
It has already been used to help a muscular atrophy sufferer in Senegal.
www.ft.com/content/bc49...
New AI model enhances diagnosis of rare diseases
PopEVE system outperformed rivals such as Google DeepMind’s AlphaMissense
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
NEW: Scientists have built an AI genetics analysis model to boost the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases that are estimated to affect hundreds of millions of people worlwide.
It has already been used to help a muscular atrophy sufferer in Senegal.
www.ft.com/content/bc49...
It has already been used to help a muscular atrophy sufferer in Senegal.
www.ft.com/content/bc49...
This is a major instance in which Europe should resist the conservative economic dogmas and insist of serious regulation of Big Tech, including cryptocurrency and AI.
The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures. www.wired.com/story/europe...
Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy
The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is a major instance in which Europe should resist the conservative economic dogmas and insist of serious regulation of Big Tech, including cryptocurrency and AI.
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Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
On the “How could this happen again?” question
Mealy-mouthed “triangulation” by centrist parties to coopt xenophobic sentiments is a loser strategy.
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-h...
Mealy-mouthed “triangulation” by centrist parties to coopt xenophobic sentiments is a loser strategy.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/on-the-how...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-h...
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On the “How could this happen again?” question
Mealy-mouthed “triangulation” by centrist parties to coopt xenophobic sentiments is a loser strategy.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/on-the-how...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-h...
Mealy-mouthed “triangulation” by centrist parties to coopt xenophobic sentiments is a loser strategy.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/on-the-how...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-h...
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I talk a lot abt the category error in defining opposition to fascism as Democratic. This guy--a guy on a scooter standing up for immigrants--is an example of why.
With bonus gratuitous potty mouth.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
With bonus gratuitous potty mouth.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I talk a lot abt the category error in defining opposition to fascism as Democratic. This guy--a guy on a scooter standing up for immigrants--is an example of why.
With bonus gratuitous potty mouth.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
With bonus gratuitous potty mouth.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We’ll see more reports like this re: Germany’s changing role
Europe is in the early stages of a “big lift” in adapting their collective security arrangements.
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/well...
Europe is in the early stages of a “big lift” in adapting their collective security arrangements.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We’ll see more reports like this re: Germany’s changing role
Europe is in the early stages of a “big lift” in adapting their collective security arrangements.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/well-see-m...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/well...
Europe is in the early stages of a “big lift” in adapting their collective security arrangements.
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/well...
John Mearsheimer’s overview of his international-relations theory and the UN’s new Gaza resolution
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
John Mearsheimer’s overview of his international-relations theory and the UN’s new Gaza resolution
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What.The.F***?
"The Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol.
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines.
"The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag."
Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines.
"The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag."
Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What.The.F***?
US soldiers are required to obey the law. And are required to disobey illegal orders. Back in the 1980s, I heard rightwing hero Oliver North in a speech in Redwood City CA stressing emphatically that ”of course“ no one should obey an illegal order.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Calls for Executing Democrats Over Message to Military
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
US soldiers are required to obey the law. And are required to disobey illegal orders. Back in the 1980s, I heard rightwing hero Oliver North in a speech in Redwood City CA stressing emphatically that ”of course“ no one should obey an illegal order.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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CDC now spreading anti-vax lies under RFK Jr.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
CDC now spreading anti-vax lies under RFK Jr.
Can’t our Peace President go a whole day without threatening war with some Latin American country?
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/cant...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Can’t our Peace President go a whole day without threatening war with some Latin American country?
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/cant...
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/cant...
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By getting rid of federal data about Black and brown children, women, and families, this administration is making it impossible to see the harm they are wreaking—harm to a generation, harm that will have lifelong effects.
Trump's Data Deletions Will Make It Harder to See How His Policies Harm Children
Without this data, the impacts of manifest Trump administration policies on vulnerable children are hidden from view.
www.commondreams.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
By getting rid of federal data about Black and brown children, women, and families, this administration is making it impossible to see the harm they are wreaking—harm to a generation, harm that will have lifelong effects.
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I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
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Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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Is national policy more responsive to the preferences of white Americans than to those of people of color? When Republicans control the presidency and/or the Senate, yes. White voters are more likely to see legislation they support become law than are Black, Latino, or Asian American voters.
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking - https://cup.org/47BDxm1
- G. AGUSTIN MARKARIAN, @jacobhacker.bsky.social, @maclockhart.bsky.social & ZOLTAN HAJNAL
#FirstView
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking - https://cup.org/47BDxm1
- G. AGUSTIN MARKARIAN, @jacobhacker.bsky.social, @maclockhart.bsky.social & ZOLTAN HAJNAL
#FirstView
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Is national policy more responsive to the preferences of white Americans than to those of people of color? When Republicans control the presidency and/or the Senate, yes. White voters are more likely to see legislation they support become law than are Black, Latino, or Asian American voters.
A regime-change war against Venezuela won’t do much at all to help solve the US drug problems. But it won’t be nearly as quick and easy and the President and Marco Rubio seem to think.
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Peace President Trump’s threats against Venezuela
So, we have a US President who has nothing resembling a conventional strategic vision for US foreign policy. A President who flip-flops cons...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A regime-change war against Venezuela won’t do much at all to help solve the US drug problems. But it won’t be nearly as quick and easy and the President and Marco Rubio seem to think.
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/peace-pres...
Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/peac...
Substack: brucemillerca.substack.com/p/peace-pres...
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Die österreichischen Journalist_innen lassen mich alle aus bei ihren Rankings. Ich sehe das gerade. Sie tun einfach so, als gäbe es diesen Account nicht.
Zum Glück bin ich auch darauf nicht angewiesen. Aber auffällig ist es schon. Bin ja auch geblacklisted.
Nur damit ihr wisst wie es hier so läuft.
Zum Glück bin ich auch darauf nicht angewiesen. Aber auffällig ist es schon. Bin ja auch geblacklisted.
Nur damit ihr wisst wie es hier so läuft.
Es scheint so, als hätte ich den (oder einen der) größten politischen Bluesky-Account(s) aus Österreich. Ganz ohne Medium, Partei oder viel Geld im Hintergrund. Einfach nur ehrliches Community-Engagement. Danke sehr!
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Die österreichischen Journalist_innen lassen mich alle aus bei ihren Rankings. Ich sehe das gerade. Sie tun einfach so, als gäbe es diesen Account nicht.
Zum Glück bin ich auch darauf nicht angewiesen. Aber auffällig ist es schon. Bin ja auch geblacklisted.
Nur damit ihr wisst wie es hier so läuft.
Zum Glück bin ich auch darauf nicht angewiesen. Aber auffällig ist es schon. Bin ja auch geblacklisted.
Nur damit ihr wisst wie es hier so läuft.
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"The longest government shutdown in history....threatened food assistance for 43 million Americans, a stark reminder that the people affected are often not those in the halls of power," Maya Kornberg, author of forthcoming book Stuck, wrote in The Hill. bit.ly/3WVAC1o
In a Congress full of millionaires, raising money becomes the job
This system is preventing some candidates from running while also driving others out of office once they’re elected.
thehill.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"The longest government shutdown in history....threatened food assistance for 43 million Americans, a stark reminder that the people affected are often not those in the halls of power," Maya Kornberg, author of forthcoming book Stuck, wrote in The Hill. bit.ly/3WVAC1o
Red vs. Brown in Chilean Presidential race?
The Chilean Presidential election and reverberates of Trumpism in Latin America
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/red-...
The Chilean Presidential election and reverberates of Trumpism in Latin America
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/red-...
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Red vs. Brown in Chilean Presidential race?
The Chilean Presidential election and reverberates of Trumpism in Latin America
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/red-...
The Chilean Presidential election and reverberates of Trumpism in Latin America
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Blogspot: brucemillerca.blogspot.com/2025/11/red-...
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65 years ago this week, six year old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans with help of U.S. marshals.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
65 years ago this week, six year old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans with help of U.S. marshals.