Jeff Milchen
@jmilchen.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor. Founder of the American Independent Business Alliance and ReclaimDemocracy.org. Much recent writing at UUWorld.org. Pro-democracy, anti-fascist.
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The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I know it's trivial compared to the Trump Regime's myriad assaults on human rights, but this is valuable information to learn and use for persuasion.
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I know it's trivial compared to the Trump Regime's myriad assaults on human rights, but this is valuable information to learn and use for persuasion.
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Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
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Absolute queen shit
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Absolute queen shit
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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One thing that’s become very clear is that corporations understand the Trump administration’s willingness to vindictively punish noncompliance, and view capitulation as pure upside. Which means consumers need to be very, very aggressive about punishing compliance to balance that.
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
One thing that’s become very clear is that corporations understand the Trump administration’s willingness to vindictively punish noncompliance, and view capitulation as pure upside. Which means consumers need to be very, very aggressive about punishing compliance to balance that.
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All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.
Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.
The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.
Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.
Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.
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Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” has prompted an unorthodox form of high-pitched protest: whistles
Organizers have been sending out tiny plastic alarm systems by the 1000's to residents who want to alert others when immigration agents are in the vicinity
Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” has prompted an unorthodox form of high-pitched protest: whistles
Organizers have been sending out tiny plastic alarm systems by the 1000's to residents who want to alert others when immigration agents are in the vicinity
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” has prompted an unorthodox form of high-pitched protest: whistles
Organizers have been sending out tiny plastic alarm systems by the 1000's to residents who want to alert others when immigration agents are in the vicinity
Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” has prompted an unorthodox form of high-pitched protest: whistles
Organizers have been sending out tiny plastic alarm systems by the 1000's to residents who want to alert others when immigration agents are in the vicinity
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It’s a sign of how lost the liberal establishment is that its primary solution to egregious, ineffective, illegal government repression is to require ICE use more surveillance technology while it keeps doing what it does.
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It’s a sign of how lost the liberal establishment is that its primary solution to egregious, ineffective, illegal government repression is to require ICE use more surveillance technology while it keeps doing what it does.
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Gotta say, it takes an *amazing* lack of shame for Louisiana to show up to the Supreme Court to make the exact OPPOSITE argument than they made last year in the same case.
I couldn't do it. But I have, you know, intellectual integrity.
I couldn't do it. But I have, you know, intellectual integrity.
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Gotta say, it takes an *amazing* lack of shame for Louisiana to show up to the Supreme Court to make the exact OPPOSITE argument than they made last year in the same case.
I couldn't do it. But I have, you know, intellectual integrity.
I couldn't do it. But I have, you know, intellectual integrity.
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The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech
This is a hell of a contrast to news that BLM has canceled a solar project in Nevada that would have delivered 6.2 GW of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Lots of ways to understand the contemporary moment but one is the role of owners of immobile assets - oil, gas, coal and land- who want to ensure they can continue to extract rents (and pollute) and who prefer an authoritarian set up to do so. Their threat perception rises with every new eco tech
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Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...
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The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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If you are in the National Guard or ICE and have any information or tips you’d like to share, text me on Signal premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
Your anonymity will be protected
October 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If you are in the National Guard or ICE and have any information or tips you’d like to share, text me on Signal premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
Your anonymity will be protected
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People are also taking action to support folks who are too afraid to leave their homes right now. This includes neighbors and local businesses offering grocery deliveries, as well as barbers making house calls. There are a lot of lanes right now, and a lot of ways people are doing their part.
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
People are also taking action to support folks who are too afraid to leave their homes right now. This includes neighbors and local businesses offering grocery deliveries, as well as barbers making house calls. There are a lot of lanes right now, and a lot of ways people are doing their part.
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Dozens and dozens of delegates exited the hall as soon as Netanyahu appeared. Other attendees cheered them on while the assembly leader banged his gavel and called for “order in the hall.”
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September 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Dozens and dozens of delegates exited the hall as soon as Netanyahu appeared. Other attendees cheered them on while the assembly leader banged his gavel and called for “order in the hall.”
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hey @jimmykimmel.com you won your battle, for the moment, with a lot of help from the public, now pay it forward and have this woman on your show
Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.
I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.
Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.
Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.
September 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
hey @jimmykimmel.com you won your battle, for the moment, with a lot of help from the public, now pay it forward and have this woman on your show
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lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means
More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
September 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means
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Republicans in Congress are dealing big blows to small businesses right now. One looming one is the dramatic increase in health insurance costs for those who buy through the ACA marketplaces. Half— half! — of people under 65 using the marketplaces are small business owners and employees.
About Half of Adults with ACA Marketplace Coverage are Small Business Owners, Employees, or Self-Employed | KFF
This analysis estimates that 48% of adults under age 65 with individual market coverage are either employed by a small business with fewer than 25 workers, self-employed entrepreneurs, or small…
www.kff.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Republicans in Congress are dealing big blows to small businesses right now. One looming one is the dramatic increase in health insurance costs for those who buy through the ACA marketplaces. Half— half! — of people under 65 using the marketplaces are small business owners and employees.
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There’s a certain type of poster that seems to think it’s helpful to stamp out anything hopeful in the name of being realistic about how bad things are.
Don’t be that poster.
We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism.
Rebellions are built on hope…
Don’t be that poster.
We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism.
Rebellions are built on hope…
September 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
There’s a certain type of poster that seems to think it’s helpful to stamp out anything hopeful in the name of being realistic about how bad things are.
Don’t be that poster.
We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism.
Rebellions are built on hope…
Don’t be that poster.
We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism.
Rebellions are built on hope…
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Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.
April 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.