James Miller (Millermena)
@jamesmiller.bsky.social
The Casual Analyst: https://www.thecasualanalyst.com/
Expert on pro-democracy movements & the fight against autocrats in Ukraine, Russia, Syria & beyond. Liveblogging & OSINT pioneer, Twitter OG turned refugee (Millermena). Trying to save my own Republic
Expert on pro-democracy movements & the fight against autocrats in Ukraine, Russia, Syria & beyond. Liveblogging & OSINT pioneer, Twitter OG turned refugee (Millermena). Trying to save my own Republic
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A Fork in the Road – For Journalism, For Democracy, For Us — The Casual Analyst
The time has come to say the quiet part out loud, and change our mission from observation to action
www.thecasualanalyst.com
I spent 15 years covering events like this... in foreign countries. Hard to believe (and yet I predicted it long ago) that it would come to this in my own. I could no longer sit by and be a journalist, or an analyst. I had to rise up and become an activist. www.thecasualanalyst.com/blog-1/categ...
Border Patrol commander admitted he lied about tear gas incident, judge says, as she restricts use of force by immigration agents in Chicago abcnews.go.com/US/border-pa...
Border Patrol commander admitted he lied about tear gas incident, judge says, as she restricts use of force by immigration agents in Chicago
The incident involving Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, has been a key part of the court proceedings challenging immigration tactics in Chicago.
abcnews.go.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Border Patrol commander admitted he lied about tear gas incident, judge says, as she restricts use of force by immigration agents in Chicago abcnews.go.com/US/border-pa...
I can no longer afford health care. If I get sick I'll die rather than saddle my family with 100s of 1000s of dollars in debt.
Republicans did this, and weak Democrats did this.
We were ready to fight. We were ready to feed our neighbors. We can provide food but but we can't provide health care
Republicans did this, and weak Democrats did this.
We were ready to fight. We were ready to feed our neighbors. We can provide food but but we can't provide health care
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I can no longer afford health care. If I get sick I'll die rather than saddle my family with 100s of 1000s of dollars in debt.
Republicans did this, and weak Democrats did this.
We were ready to fight. We were ready to feed our neighbors. We can provide food but but we can't provide health care
Republicans did this, and weak Democrats did this.
We were ready to fight. We were ready to feed our neighbors. We can provide food but but we can't provide health care
Disaster. (The redest) New England states are the ones caving despite evidence that Trump and the Republican brand is suffering the most in those states.
Unreal
Unreal
Senate reaches deal to reopen government after moderate Democrats cave
Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave
Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Disaster. (The redest) New England states are the ones caving despite evidence that Trump and the Republican brand is suffering the most in those states.
Unreal
Unreal
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Thank you, Senator. HOLD THE LINE
No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Thank you, Senator. HOLD THE LINE
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This is predatory capitalism. They gave tax breaks to billionaires so that folks could get bills like this for healthcare.
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is predatory capitalism. They gave tax breaks to billionaires so that folks could get bills like this for healthcare.
Holy shit, are Democrats really voting for this tonight? The largest protest movement in American history has the backs of the Trump opposition and Schumer is going to make a deal with the least popular president in history?
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Holy shit, are Democrats really voting for this tonight? The largest protest movement in American history has the backs of the Trump opposition and Schumer is going to make a deal with the least popular president in history?
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November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Dick Cheney used the power of his office to target political opponents, revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame because her husband criticised the worst administration in history. He disgraced his office & should have died in prison.
Don't mourn monsters. Don't let others do it either
Don't mourn monsters. Don't let others do it either
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Dick Cheney used the power of his office to target political opponents, revealing the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame because her husband criticised the worst administration in history. He disgraced his office & should have died in prison.
Don't mourn monsters. Don't let others do it either
Don't mourn monsters. Don't let others do it either
Sometimes headlines speak for themselves www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Sometimes headlines speak for themselves www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Meritocracy!
just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Meritocracy!
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Greetings from Kyiv,
where the night was calm,
and November is searching for the last traces of October’s glory.
Have a beautiful Sunday.
where the night was calm,
and November is searching for the last traces of October’s glory.
Have a beautiful Sunday.
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Greetings from Kyiv,
where the night was calm,
and November is searching for the last traces of October’s glory.
Have a beautiful Sunday.
where the night was calm,
and November is searching for the last traces of October’s glory.
Have a beautiful Sunday.
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Here's a screengrab from a video of an ICE agent repeatedly punching a man already on the ground. The man may have broken ribs. Anyone have any more details on his ID? This is attempted murder
Original www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...
Original www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...
November 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Here's a screengrab from a video of an ICE agent repeatedly punching a man already on the ground. The man may have broken ribs. Anyone have any more details on his ID? This is attempted murder
Original www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...
Original www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...
Ukraine launched an airborne operation and tore into Russia's flank near Pokrovsk. One has to wonder whether the strategy was to wear out the Russians then launch this kind of attack to crush them.
Ukraine continues to outfight Russia despite tough odds
Ukraine continues to outfight Russia despite tough odds
Ukrainian GUR infantry dismounting from a UH-60 Black Hawk in Pokrovsk close to Russian positions. 28 or 29 October 2025 ( at 48.29653, 37.13406)
https://www.europesays.com/2536503/
Ukrainian GUR infantry dismounting from a UH-60 Black Hawk in Pokrovsk close to Russian positions. 28 or 29…
https://www.europesays.com/2536503/
Ukrainian GUR infantry dismounting from a UH-60 Black Hawk in Pokrovsk close to Russian positions. 28 or 29…
Ukrainian GUR infantry dismounting from a UH-60 Black Hawk in Pokrovsk close to Russian positions. 28 or 29 October 2025 ( at 48.29653, 37.13406) - EUROPE SAYS
Ukrainian GUR infantry dismounting from a UH-60 Black Hawk in Pokrovsk close to Russian positions. 28 or 29 October 2025 ( at 48.29653, 37.13406) by jisooya1432
www.europesays.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Ukraine launched an airborne operation and tore into Russia's flank near Pokrovsk. One has to wonder whether the strategy was to wear out the Russians then launch this kind of attack to crush them.
Ukraine continues to outfight Russia despite tough odds
Ukraine continues to outfight Russia despite tough odds
MAGA is a cult. How did we get here? It was NOT an organic process. MAGA is a coordinated attack on democracy using weaponized narratives spread across media/social media channels by an alliance of foreign & domestic enemies.
The talk I gave earlier this year youtu.be/Sk10qK77x1I?...
The talk I gave earlier this year youtu.be/Sk10qK77x1I?...
Russian Propaganda & The Republican Disinformation War
YouTube video by Greater Assabet Indivisible Network GAIN
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
MAGA is a cult. How did we get here? It was NOT an organic process. MAGA is a coordinated attack on democracy using weaponized narratives spread across media/social media channels by an alliance of foreign & domestic enemies.
The talk I gave earlier this year youtu.be/Sk10qK77x1I?...
The talk I gave earlier this year youtu.be/Sk10qK77x1I?...
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Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
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The other thing that's happening is that homeless centrists and non-MAGA conservatives are trying to co-opt the Democratic Party for themselves because they have no other reasonable alternative. What they lack in numbers they seem to be making up for in institutional power.
U.S. journalism and punditry completely ignores the fact that the U.S. electorate belief system --including their belief of what Democrats stand for -- is shaped predominately by a massive right wing propaganda network across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable news, and the internet.
Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns
The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.
www.semafor.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The other thing that's happening is that homeless centrists and non-MAGA conservatives are trying to co-opt the Democratic Party for themselves because they have no other reasonable alternative. What they lack in numbers they seem to be making up for in institutional power.
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Democrats: "we need to stop doing identity politics, & focus more on kitchen table issues"
Me: ok, that's a false choice. You can embrace left wing economic populism without throwing marginalized groups to the wolves
Democrats: "oh, we're not doing economic populism either"
Me: ok then...
Me: ok, that's a false choice. You can embrace left wing economic populism without throwing marginalized groups to the wolves
Democrats: "oh, we're not doing economic populism either"
Me: ok then...
two men in suits and ties are sitting at a table with the caption what would you say you do here ?
ALT: two men in suits and ties are sitting at a table with the caption what would you say you do here ?
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Democrats: "we need to stop doing identity politics, & focus more on kitchen table issues"
Me: ok, that's a false choice. You can embrace left wing economic populism without throwing marginalized groups to the wolves
Democrats: "oh, we're not doing economic populism either"
Me: ok then...
Me: ok, that's a false choice. You can embrace left wing economic populism without throwing marginalized groups to the wolves
Democrats: "oh, we're not doing economic populism either"
Me: ok then...
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Russia has no plans to invade:
Moldova..
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But not NATO…
Moldova..
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But not NATO…
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Russia has no plans to invade:
Moldova..
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But not NATO…
Moldova..
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But not NATO…
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this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand
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From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.
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Russia has placed Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of Meduza, on its international wanted list, the country’s Investigative Committee announced on Wednesday.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia adds Meduza co-founder and CEO Galina Timchenko to international wanted list — Meduza
Russia has placed Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of Meduza, on its international wanted list, the country’s Investigative Committee announced on Wednesday.
meduza.io
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Russia has placed Galina Timchenko, co-founder and CEO of Meduza, on its international wanted list, the country’s Investigative Committee announced on Wednesday.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
meduza.io/en/news/2025...