Dan Miller
@meelar.bsky.social
Queens volunteer chapter leader for @opennewyork.org. YIMBY, pro-transit, pro-biking, anti-borders-and-cars. He/him
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Here The Washington Post Editorial Board treats Donald Trump ordering DOJ investigations of his political adversaries as a *political* misstep, never once so much as hinting that it is an *abuse of power*
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Here The Washington Post Editorial Board treats Donald Trump ordering DOJ investigations of his political adversaries as a *political* misstep, never once so much as hinting that it is an *abuse of power*
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me in the downtown area of any city on earth: but despite all of our differences, are we not all siblings and friends?
me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote
me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote
When I am in any city: "wow, I love this city!"
September 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
me in the downtown area of any city on earth: but despite all of our differences, are we not all siblings and friends?
me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote
me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote
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Modernizing our subway system means rethinking how we run it.
Great report from NYU Marron this week on operating the subway, costs, and rethinking how we operate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/nyregion/subway-train-conductors-hochul.html
Great report from NYU Marron this week on operating the subway, costs, and rethinking how we operate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/nyregion/subway-train-conductors-hochul.html
Does the Subway Still Need Train Conductors?
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Modernizing our subway system means rethinking how we run it.
Great report from NYU Marron this week on operating the subway, costs, and rethinking how we operate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/nyregion/subway-train-conductors-hochul.html
Great report from NYU Marron this week on operating the subway, costs, and rethinking how we operate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/nyregion/subway-train-conductors-hochul.html
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I don't know how bad this is on the GOP side, but Democrats have a huge "club" problem. There are dozens of people I could name off the top of my head who have more to say about housing policy than Larry Summers but unfortunately, none of them are DC insiders.
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't know how bad this is on the GOP side, but Democrats have a huge "club" problem. There are dozens of people I could name off the top of my head who have more to say about housing policy than Larry Summers but unfortunately, none of them are DC insiders.
This is a great thread about how to reform the Senate. It's realistic about both the challenge of doing it and the necessity.
I've posted a lot of ideas about this, and it's a bit hard to put it all together. Maybe I should sit down and collect them.
The challenge is immense, but not imho for the reasons people think; unamendability isn't the main hurdle.
One needs to start with a constitutional politics...
The challenge is immense, but not imho for the reasons people think; unamendability isn't the main hurdle.
One needs to start with a constitutional politics...
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is a great thread about how to reform the Senate. It's realistic about both the challenge of doing it and the necessity.
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
This article is a bizarre exercise; how do you write about opposition to immigration without mentioning racism? It's quite clearly the biggest factor--does anyone actually believe that opposing immigration is linked to housing prices, when the vice president is out here saying Haitians eat dogs?
Let's automate immigration policy
Legal immigration could work so much better. One pie-in-the-sky idea for how.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This article is a bizarre exercise; how do you write about opposition to immigration without mentioning racism? It's quite clearly the biggest factor--does anyone actually believe that opposing immigration is linked to housing prices, when the vice president is out here saying Haitians eat dogs?
Jesus, guys, why not just change your logo to a mirror and a razorblade?
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Jesus, guys, why not just change your logo to a mirror and a razorblade?
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New Epstein revelations raise an obvious question: Why didn’t Democrats release these emails earlier? From Ryan Cooper:
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How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s ‘Hours’ With an Epstein Victim? - The American Prospect
The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing with the information all this time?
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November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New Epstein revelations raise an obvious question: Why didn’t Democrats release these emails earlier? From Ryan Cooper:
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A COUPLE OF EMAILS IS NOT A WHOLE NEWS STORY SAYS A FORMER NYT REPORTER
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A COUPLE OF EMAILS IS NOT A WHOLE NEWS STORY SAYS A FORMER NYT REPORTER
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
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That people can argue "hey I should be allowed to keep driving even though I've proven deadly menace, because that is the only way I can reasonably expect to provide for myself & my family" should be considered a national scourge on par with the opioid epidemic or childhood cancer.
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
That people can argue "hey I should be allowed to keep driving even though I've proven deadly menace, because that is the only way I can reasonably expect to provide for myself & my family" should be considered a national scourge on par with the opioid epidemic or childhood cancer.
I'm glad for @agounardes.bsky.social in the State Senate working to put some (still too-mild) restrictions on these assholes.
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
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November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I'm glad for @agounardes.bsky.social in the State Senate working to put some (still too-mild) restrictions on these assholes.
Folks, he's running (for re-election)
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Folks, he's running (for re-election)
This story is much easier to understand if you just flip your vision of the US to understand it as an authoritarian country. Of course criticizing the president will cause problems for a celebrity--t's not like we're free! A strongly anti-Xi singer would face similar issues performing in Shanghai.
Brett Favre rips Bad Bunny as Super Bowl 2026 halftime choice
Brett Favre rips Bad Bunny as Super Bowl 2026 halftime choice
Brett Favre's music playlist likely doesn't include any Bad Bunny songs.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This story is much easier to understand if you just flip your vision of the US to understand it as an authoritarian country. Of course criticizing the president will cause problems for a celebrity--t's not like we're free! A strongly anti-Xi singer would face similar issues performing in Shanghai.
Lots of obvious pitfalls with this, but if it can be made workable, that would be hugely helpful.
“Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out.” electionlawblog.org?p=153001
"Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out." #ELB
NYT: The largest city in Alaska is about to undertake an experiment that feels both inevitable and impossibly futuristic in an era of pervasive mistrust toward elections: allowing all voters to cast b...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Lots of obvious pitfalls with this, but if it can be made workable, that would be hugely helpful.
I think that having a law on the books that every reasonable person agrees would be inhumane and unjust to enforce is corrosive to society in many different ways.
Exactly. As I've argued, polling that asks, "should illegal immigrants be deported, yes or no," tends to get a "yes" answer because it codes as "should the law be enforced, yes or no." (NYT does this and it's absurd). Once pollsters ask *who* should get deported, Trump's agenda is roundly rejected.
Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I think that having a law on the books that every reasonable person agrees would be inhumane and unjust to enforce is corrosive to society in many different ways.
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left NIMBYism is a study in cognitive dissonance and paradoxes:
the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people
the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”
the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people
the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
left NIMBYism is a study in cognitive dissonance and paradoxes:
the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people
the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”
the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people
the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”
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no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
Holy fucking shit, this guy was the president of Harvard. Woke 2 needs to be a cleansing fire.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Holy fucking shit, this guy was the president of Harvard. Woke 2 needs to be a cleansing fire.
Gun people can't be trusted with gun safety. The guy teaching this "class" is the busiest instructor in the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gun people can't be trusted with gun safety. The guy teaching this "class" is the busiest instructor in the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...
Unless your opponents are Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, apparently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3f...
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." [HD] [CC]
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November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Unless your opponents are Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, apparently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3f...
Good for them!
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Good for them!
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"N.Y.C. Casino Bids Promise an Economic Boom. The Reality Might Differ.
As the number of gambling houses has grown across the United States, they are no longer the tourism magnets that they used to be, experts say."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
As the number of gambling houses has grown across the United States, they are no longer the tourism magnets that they used to be, experts say."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
N.Y.C. Casino Bids Promise an Economic Boom. The Reality Might Differ.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"N.Y.C. Casino Bids Promise an Economic Boom. The Reality Might Differ.
As the number of gambling houses has grown across the United States, they are no longer the tourism magnets that they used to be, experts say."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
As the number of gambling houses has grown across the United States, they are no longer the tourism magnets that they used to be, experts say."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...
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The next Democratic administration needs to go on a spree of stripping churches who engage in politics of their tax-exempt status and charging them back taxes.
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/FortWorthCampaignUni_Final-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=89&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/FortWorthCampaignUni_Final-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&quality=89&ssl=1" />Fort Worth’s Mercy Culture Church aims to get more conservative Christians elected through its online Campaign University.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The next Democratic administration needs to go on a spree of stripping churches who engage in politics of their tax-exempt status and charging them back taxes.
NYC is legally capped at only 600 red-light cameras, despite having 13,354 intersections with stoplights. That makes them much less effective as a deterrent. What's the argument against universal red light cameras, exactly? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/11/d...
Drivers Run Red Light, But Cops Ticket Cyclists at Dangerous Delancey Intersection - Streetsblog New York City
Drivers are zooming onto and off the Williamsburg Bridge in Lower Manhattan by running red lights. But cops are targeting cyclists instead.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
NYC is legally capped at only 600 red-light cameras, despite having 13,354 intersections with stoplights. That makes them much less effective as a deterrent. What's the argument against universal red light cameras, exactly? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/11/d...