Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Dad. Husband. Amateur pundit. Patent attorney and IP litigator. Sci-fi movie geek. Chili head. Former rivethead DJ. PHILLIES! DOOP! Saints FC for some reason. Bad spelling. Opinions my own. Here for the lulz.
A reply of mine from a month and a half ago is suddenly getting a ton of new likes. It's weird.
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A reply of mine from a month and a half ago is suddenly getting a ton of new likes. It's weird.
I distinctly remember watching it on opening night with my head thinking, "This is...a genuinely bad movie." The perpetual 10 yo in me kept interjecting, "but it's Star Wars!" In time, my head won the argument. But I went in to Episode II with zero expectations, and I enjoyed it much more.
I saw Phantom Menace in theaters the weekend it came out and that was the first time I considered a movie could truly suck
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I distinctly remember watching it on opening night with my head thinking, "This is...a genuinely bad movie." The perpetual 10 yo in me kept interjecting, "but it's Star Wars!" In time, my head won the argument. But I went in to Episode II with zero expectations, and I enjoyed it much more.
No idea what the root of this discourse is. But I'll note that the distinction between rhetoric and propaganda is an important one.
No. I refuse to write about the graft and destruction around us. My record is very clear about that.
The more serious answer is that if you are using words purely for their emotional and incantatory power, then you are using the same method as the propagandists you're fighting.
The more serious answer is that if you are using words purely for their emotional and incantatory power, then you are using the same method as the propagandists you're fighting.
Jesus Christ! Stop obsessing about the chiseled edge of every word (your pedantry) and pay attention to the graft and destruction going on all around us! The only "damage" done by embracing the spirit of a word rather than the letter, is that more people gather in the concept. Bad thing? Fuck no!
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
No idea what the root of this discourse is. But I'll note that the distinction between rhetoric and propaganda is an important one.
OMG Perea's foot was pointing the wrong way. I can't even fathom that injury.
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
OMG Perea's foot was pointing the wrong way. I can't even fathom that injury.
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FIFA creating a "Peace Prize" to give Trump is so amazingly on brand for both FIFA and Trump that I can't even be mad.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
FIFA creating a "Peace Prize" to give Trump is so amazingly on brand for both FIFA and Trump that I can't even be mad.
It is a crime that this trial was not nationally televised. 🧵
“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It is a crime that this trial was not nationally televised. 🧵
Out of context post of the day. You won't possibly guess who started this.
If I've learned one thing in my life its that goat is delicious.
November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Out of context post of the day. You won't possibly guess who started this.
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Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.
What the fuck are we doing here?
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What the fuck are we doing here?
Hard to describe how insane this is.
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Hard to describe how insane this is.
I heard Justice Donohue speak at an event a couple weeks ago, and I have to say, they hit the exact right tone for defending these seats. They breathed life into the Pennsylvania Constitution and their opponents want to extinguish that. Those opponents did not succeed tonight.
Pennsylvania Justice David Wecht to @boltsmag.org: “The projected victory for the three of us speaks well of our democracy. We all campaigned on the basis of vindicating the Pennsylvania constitution’s free and equal elections clause, and we’re all committed to continuing to vindicate that right.”
Democrats have successfully defended three seats on the all-important Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This means the court will be controlled by Ds through the midterms, and almost definitely through 2028 as well.
My story on the result: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
My story on the result: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I heard Justice Donohue speak at an event a couple weeks ago, and I have to say, they hit the exact right tone for defending these seats. They breathed life into the Pennsylvania Constitution and their opponents want to extinguish that. Those opponents did not succeed tonight.
I'll take this, tbh.
Will Cuomo keep trying and run for governor next year in Florida? Filing deadline is April 24, 2026
RESULT: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City.
The Democratic nominee, and democratic socialist lawmaker, defeats former Governor Andrew Cuomo for the second time this year, after winning against him in the primary.
The Democratic nominee, and democratic socialist lawmaker, defeats former Governor Andrew Cuomo for the second time this year, after winning against him in the primary.
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'll take this, tbh.
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hilarious graphic right now on msnbc as they call it in california
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
hilarious graphic right now on msnbc as they call it in california
Fantastic night in many ways! And this happened!
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Fantastic night in many ways! And this happened!
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
LOL
NBC News Exit Poll: Voters who dislike both parties break for Democrats www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
NBC News Exit Poll: Voters who dislike both parties break for Democrats
Recent trends in voter registration data has suggested a drop-off in registrations for the Democratic Party.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
LOL
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Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.
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These people hate Christianity much more than the most vehement atheist.
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
These people hate Christianity much more than the most vehement atheist.
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If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a Gif.
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a Gif.
Interesting detail:
"If he had not done any research, he said, he would have voted for the GOP nominee, but was turned off by Ciattarelli's avid support for Israel, stances on gun rights, and fervent interest in protecting police."
"If he had not done any research, he said, he would have voted for the GOP nominee, but was turned off by Ciattarelli's avid support for Israel, stances on gun rights, and fervent interest in protecting police."
Unaffiliated voters could swing the N.J. governor’s race. Here’s what some of them think of the candidates.
About 36% of the state’s electorate is unaffiliated, and another 1% are registered with third parties.
share.inquirer.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Interesting detail:
"If he had not done any research, he said, he would have voted for the GOP nominee, but was turned off by Ciattarelli's avid support for Israel, stances on gun rights, and fervent interest in protecting police."
"If he had not done any research, he said, he would have voted for the GOP nominee, but was turned off by Ciattarelli's avid support for Israel, stances on gun rights, and fervent interest in protecting police."
Union losing the 2022 MLS Cup through a stoppage time Gareth Bale equalizer then completely choking the PK shootout has it beat. But last night probably was close to that for Blue Jays fans.
Having slept on it, it’s really set in that the Blue Jays loss last night was one of the most gutting pro sports losses I can remember. Absolutely brutal. My heart goes out to 🇨🇦
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Union losing the 2022 MLS Cup through a stoppage time Gareth Bale equalizer then completely choking the PK shootout has it beat. But last night probably was close to that for Blue Jays fans.
Conservatives will die on this hill, that the original sin of the Democratic Party is the New Deal (and it's extension, the Great Society). They will never acknowledge or contend with the original sin of the GOP: abandoning Reconstruction and declining to actually end the Civil War.
I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Conservatives will die on this hill, that the original sin of the Democratic Party is the New Deal (and it's extension, the Great Society). They will never acknowledge or contend with the original sin of the GOP: abandoning Reconstruction and declining to actually end the Civil War.
The loss of living memory of the horrors of mid 20th century fascism is a really underrated contributing factor to how we got here.
When I was a kid we still had WW2 vets alive and they’d rip any kid talking like this a new one and I think it might be our duty to carry that on
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The loss of living memory of the horrors of mid 20th century fascism is a really underrated contributing factor to how we got here.