Stephen Miles
@spmiles42.bsky.social
Former President of Win Without War, lover of Philly sports, and opinionated observer of foreign policy.
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Stephen Miles
@spmiles42.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Whole lotta new folks here 👋 so seems like a good to introduce myself again! On here mostly to talk US foreign policy, politics, and Philly sports, not necessarily in that order.
Excited to see so many old friends here and to make some new ones. Time to build something new for a better tomorrow.
Excited to see so many old friends here and to make some new ones. Time to build something new for a better tomorrow.
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We’re appalled by the attack on @ilhanmn.bsky.social and are relieved she’s safe. We condemn the inciting and disgusting statements from Trump and others that target her and the Somali-American community. Their rhetoric only exacerbates a climate of fear and deadly violence.
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 3:11 PM
We’re appalled by the attack on @ilhanmn.bsky.social and are relieved she’s safe. We condemn the inciting and disgusting statements from Trump and others that target her and the Somali-American community. Their rhetoric only exacerbates a climate of fear and deadly violence.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
All men wanna be rich. Rich men wanna be kings. And a king ain’t happy til he rules everything.
Q: Do you want your Board of Peace to replace the UN?
TRUMP: Well, it might. The UN should have settled every one of the wars I settled.
TRUMP: Well, it might. The UN should have settled every one of the wars I settled.
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 PM
All men wanna be rich. Rich men wanna be kings. And a king ain’t happy til he rules everything.
We have never seen anything approaching this level of corruption. It is staggering and in part because it’s so massive it’s barely ever mentioned. We don’t have to tolerate this theft.
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:08 PM
We have never seen anything approaching this level of corruption. It is staggering and in part because it’s so massive it’s barely ever mentioned. We don’t have to tolerate this theft.
Trump is declaring himself Emperor of Gaza. With billions of pending reconstruction contracts on the line, the corruption is almost unimaginable in scale.
I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump).
www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace
No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot
www.timesofisrael.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Trump is declaring himself Emperor of Gaza. With billions of pending reconstruction contracts on the line, the corruption is almost unimaginable in scale.
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2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
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CPC Chair Emerita @jayapal.house.gov and Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social are in Minneapolis-St. Paul to lead an accountability hearing on the brutality and violence that Trump’s ICE is inflicting on the community. Watch here starting at 10am EST: youtube.com/live/bfVji76...
Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump's Deadly Assault on Minnesota
Congresswoman Jayapal, Ranking Member of the House Immigration Subcommittee, is holding a hearing in Minneapolis-Saint Paul after Trump's ICE descended on the cities with violence and killed a U.S. ci...
youtube.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM
CPC Chair Emerita @jayapal.house.gov and Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social are in Minneapolis-St. Paul to lead an accountability hearing on the brutality and violence that Trump’s ICE is inflicting on the community. Watch here starting at 10am EST: youtube.com/live/bfVji76...
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no one wants a fucking war - poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
7 Out Of 10 Voters Do Not Want The U.S. To Take Military Action
Against Iran For Killing Of Protesters,
Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;
70% Say Presidents Should Seek Congressional Appr...
"Talk of the U.S. military potentially intervening in Iran's internal chaos gets a vigorous thumbs down, while voters signal Congressional approval should be a backstop against military involvement in...
poll.qu.edu
January 14, 2026 at 9:43 PM
no one wants a fucking war - poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
The people of Iran are showing tremendous courage in protesting their brutal, autocratic regime.
They deserve our solidarity, not our bombs.
They deserve our solidarity, not our bombs.
January 11, 2026 at 3:42 AM
The people of Iran are showing tremendous courage in protesting their brutal, autocratic regime.
They deserve our solidarity, not our bombs.
They deserve our solidarity, not our bombs.
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The last two weeks, Trump:
- threatened to take military action against Iran.
- launched strikes on Nigeria, Venezuela and boats in the Pacific/Caribbean.
- called for the US defense budget to be increased by over 60%.
Read the full list of dangerous actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
- threatened to take military action against Iran.
- launched strikes on Nigeria, Venezuela and boats in the Pacific/Caribbean.
- called for the US defense budget to be increased by over 60%.
Read the full list of dangerous actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
January 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The last two weeks, Trump:
- threatened to take military action against Iran.
- launched strikes on Nigeria, Venezuela and boats in the Pacific/Caribbean.
- called for the US defense budget to be increased by over 60%.
Read the full list of dangerous actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
- threatened to take military action against Iran.
- launched strikes on Nigeria, Venezuela and boats in the Pacific/Caribbean.
- called for the US defense budget to be increased by over 60%.
Read the full list of dangerous actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
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"Defeating the forces that frack human beings in order to extract the financial value of their attention is going to require a broad movement."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...
Opinion | The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"Defeating the forces that frack human beings in order to extract the financial value of their attention is going to require a broad movement."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...
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We need to know more about the vetting and backgrounds of ICE agents. Coming after a January 6th anniversary where Trump pardoned the attackers as heroes, how many ICE agents are Proud Boys, insurrectionists and extremists getting paid for political violence? And supposedly with “absolute immunity”?
Frey: "I think [Vance] also asserted that because you work at the federal government you somehow have absolutely immunity from committing crimes. That's not true in any law school in America, whether it's Yale or Villanova or anywhere else. That's not true."
January 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
We need to know more about the vetting and backgrounds of ICE agents. Coming after a January 6th anniversary where Trump pardoned the attackers as heroes, how many ICE agents are Proud Boys, insurrectionists and extremists getting paid for political violence? And supposedly with “absolute immunity”?
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State of play:
Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat):
bsky.app/profile/elio...
Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP):
apnews.com/live/minneap...
Demonstrators met with violence (CNN):
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat):
bsky.app/profile/elio...
Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP):
apnews.com/live/minneap...
Demonstrators met with violence (CNN):
bsky.app/profile/atru...
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
State of play:
Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat):
bsky.app/profile/elio...
Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP):
apnews.com/live/minneap...
Demonstrators met with violence (CNN):
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat):
bsky.app/profile/elio...
Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP):
apnews.com/live/minneap...
Demonstrators met with violence (CNN):
bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Five republicans and even Fetterman voted for a war powers resolution. For those saying Trump will ignore it, maybe so, but this is the nearly the first time Congress has located its spine and even tried to push back on the mad king. It’s a huge deal.
This is a BFD! The Senate just voted 52-47 to advance the war powers resolution on #Venezuela! Five Republicans joined all the Democrats in sending a massive rebuke to Trump's mad king warmaking.
This isn't the end of the line, but it's a really big deal and massive defeat for Trump.
This isn't the end of the line, but it's a really big deal and massive defeat for Trump.
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Five republicans and even Fetterman voted for a war powers resolution. For those saying Trump will ignore it, maybe so, but this is the nearly the first time Congress has located its spine and even tried to push back on the mad king. It’s a huge deal.
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Big setback for the White House as 5 GOP Senators join all Democrats in voting to start debate on a war powers resolution re: Venezuela.
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
January 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Big setback for the White House as 5 GOP Senators join all Democrats in voting to start debate on a war powers resolution re: Venezuela.
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
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It's a small sign but worth noting. Democrats should be only amping up the pressure on this.
No body wants endless wars.
No body wants endless wars.
Big setback for the White House as 5 GOP Senators join all Democrats in voting to start debate on a war powers resolution re: Venezuela.
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
Murkowski AK
Young IN
Paul KY
Collins ME
Hawley MO
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
It's a small sign but worth noting. Democrats should be only amping up the pressure on this.
No body wants endless wars.
No body wants endless wars.
It's almost impossible to overstate the sheer madness of a $1.5 Trillion dollar budget for the Pentagon. To put it in perspective, it's nearly double what the US was spending at the peak of the Cold War, under Reagan, when we had a much larger military, and, ya know, the Cold War.
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
It's almost impossible to overstate the sheer madness of a $1.5 Trillion dollar budget for the Pentagon. To put it in perspective, it's nearly double what the US was spending at the peak of the Cold War, under Reagan, when we had a much larger military, and, ya know, the Cold War.
This is a BFD! The Senate just voted 52-47 to advance the war powers resolution on #Venezuela! Five Republicans joined all the Democrats in sending a massive rebuke to Trump's mad king warmaking.
This isn't the end of the line, but it's a really big deal and massive defeat for Trump.
This isn't the end of the line, but it's a really big deal and massive defeat for Trump.
January 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This is a BFD! The Senate just voted 52-47 to advance the war powers resolution on #Venezuela! Five Republicans joined all the Democrats in sending a massive rebuke to Trump's mad king warmaking.
This isn't the end of the line, but it's a really big deal and massive defeat for Trump.
This isn't the end of the line, but it's a really big deal and massive defeat for Trump.
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“Trumpist foreign policy has nothing to do with, well, making America great again, and everything to do with raising the wealth and status of the Trump family and its hangers-on — what they call our ruling clique.” @pkrugman.bsky.social
The Looting of US Foreign Policy
Goodbye, national interest. Hello, ego gratification and profits for the ruling clique.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
“Trumpist foreign policy has nothing to do with, well, making America great again, and everything to do with raising the wealth and status of the Trump family and its hangers-on — what they call our ruling clique.” @pkrugman.bsky.social
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This is the same Marco Rubio who lied about military action against Venezuela.
These people are habitual liars. They've given us all the evidence we need to know they are liars who cannot be trusted.
These people are habitual liars. They've given us all the evidence we need to know they are liars who cannot be trusted.
Exclusive | Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Aims to Buy Greenland, Downplays Military Action
The secretary of state said the White House is using rhetoric to pressure Denmark into negotiations.
www.wsj.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is the same Marco Rubio who lied about military action against Venezuela.
These people are habitual liars. They've given us all the evidence we need to know they are liars who cannot be trusted.
These people are habitual liars. They've given us all the evidence we need to know they are liars who cannot be trusted.
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Uncertainty and deep confusion cloud the road ahead as Venezuelans across the world celebrate the ouster of #NicolasMaduro.
Check out my latest at Double Click Newsletter
Check out my latest at Double Click Newsletter
Nobody Can Agree On What Comes Next for Venezuela: That's A Problem
Uncertainty and deep confusion cloud the road ahead as Venezuelans across the world celebrate the ouster of Nicolas Maduro.
doubleclick.blog
January 6, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Uncertainty and deep confusion cloud the road ahead as Venezuelans across the world celebrate the ouster of #NicolasMaduro.
Check out my latest at Double Click Newsletter
Check out my latest at Double Click Newsletter
The corruption is so much more massive and rampant than anything we’ve ever seen in the US before.
H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela.
popular.info/p/venezuela-...
H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela.
popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The corruption is so much more massive and rampant than anything we’ve ever seen in the US before.
H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela.
popular.info/p/venezuela-...
H/t to the great @juddlegum.bsky.social for this essential read on Trump’s billionaire buddies making bank off Venezuela.
popular.info/p/venezuela-...
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We can hold compassion for the range of emotions Venezuelans may be experiencing — including positive emotions — and also be clear that regime change by a fascist superpower is dangerous, destabilizing, and sets precedents that will not stop at Venezuela. Those aren’t contradictory positions.
January 4, 2026 at 2:35 AM
We can hold compassion for the range of emotions Venezuelans may be experiencing — including positive emotions — and also be clear that regime change by a fascist superpower is dangerous, destabilizing, and sets precedents that will not stop at Venezuela. Those aren’t contradictory positions.
It really doesn’t have to be this way.
All of this is at its core a choice, and we can choose a different future.
All of this is at its core a choice, and we can choose a different future.
January 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
It really doesn’t have to be this way.
All of this is at its core a choice, and we can choose a different future.
All of this is at its core a choice, and we can choose a different future.
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Will the plan to run Venezuela be unveiled before or after the administration’s healthcare plan?
January 4, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Will the plan to run Venezuela be unveiled before or after the administration’s healthcare plan?