Mike L. Miller, PhD
@justdoeat.bsky.social
Managing Director @ The Moynihan Center, CCNY moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu
Prev: Director @ SSRC, just-tech.ssrc.org | mediawell.ssrc.org
#media #technology #politics #propaganda #disinformation #censorship #surveillance #publicservice
Prev: Director @ SSRC, just-tech.ssrc.org | mediawell.ssrc.org
#media #technology #politics #propaganda #disinformation #censorship #surveillance #publicservice
Yup. @cwarzel.bsky.social and @mikecaulfieldf1.bsky.social refer to this as "the justification machine."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Yup. @cwarzel.bsky.social and @mikecaulfieldf1.bsky.social refer to this as "the justification machine."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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"A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago’s North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour." @wgntv.com
wgntv.com/news/operati...
wgntv.com/news/operati...
October 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago’s North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour." @wgntv.com
wgntv.com/news/operati...
wgntv.com/news/operati...
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✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨
“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
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“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨
“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
🧵⤵
“In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate
Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties”
@ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right.
🧵⤵
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“Mr. Trump has halted virtually all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from places like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that created and led the brutal apartheid regime.”
White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“Mr. Trump has halted virtually all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from places like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that created and led the brutal apartheid regime.”
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this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president
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As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.
April 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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i can’t believe all it took for tesla stock to recover a bit was to do a paid photo op with the president of the united states, have the government designate vandalism on teslas as terrorism, gift multiple politicians and police stations teslas for photo ops, and get corrupt government contracts
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
i can’t believe all it took for tesla stock to recover a bit was to do a paid photo op with the president of the united states, have the government designate vandalism on teslas as terrorism, gift multiple politicians and police stations teslas for photo ops, and get corrupt government contracts
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We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com
That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !
That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !
March 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com
That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !
That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !
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An internal memo predicted that 2-3 million more people per year will die because of Musk's closing USAID.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
Musk is an absolutely depraved and evil man. Defending Stalin, Hitler, and Mao in order to justify firing VA nurses and park rangers? How does one come to hate civil servants so much? Insane, and dangerous.
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
An internal memo predicted that 2-3 million more people per year will die because of Musk's closing USAID.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
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Fantastic tool from U Michigan that shows federal support (via DoE) for schools by congressional district.
poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...
Alaska:
- 16.7% of total educ budget
- 77M in support for low-income schools
- 52M in school lunches for low-inc kids
- 35M in support for disabled kids
poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...
Alaska:
- 16.7% of total educ budget
- 77M in support for low-income schools
- 52M in school lunches for low-inc kids
- 35M in support for disabled kids
» Federal Education Funding Data Dashboard
poverty.umich.edu
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Fantastic tool from U Michigan that shows federal support (via DoE) for schools by congressional district.
poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...
Alaska:
- 16.7% of total educ budget
- 77M in support for low-income schools
- 52M in school lunches for low-inc kids
- 35M in support for disabled kids
poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...
Alaska:
- 16.7% of total educ budget
- 77M in support for low-income schools
- 52M in school lunches for low-inc kids
- 35M in support for disabled kids
Is there an emptier signifier than "conservative"?
February 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Is there an emptier signifier than "conservative"?
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny
February 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny
"If I have a credit card with a $30,000 limit and I have a $2,000 balance and I cancel the credit card, I'm not saving $28,000." 🤦🏽♂️
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.
A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and “woke” cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total.
www.wsj.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"If I have a credit card with a $30,000 limit and I have a $2,000 balance and I cancel the credit card, I'm not saving $28,000." 🤦🏽♂️
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Statement of American Society of International Law President Mélida Hodgson
Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law
Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law
February 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Statement of American Society of International Law President Mélida Hodgson
Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law
Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law
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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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Kids these days don't know that a highly experienced woman lost an election over questions on whether her emails were secure enough.
NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
www.huffpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Kids these days don't know that a highly experienced woman lost an election over questions on whether her emails were secure enough.
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ya know, this seems like something that might have surfaced in a thorough background check… had DOGE staffers undergone them
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ya know, this seems like something that might have surfaced in a thorough background check… had DOGE staffers undergone them