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Asst Prof American University (American institutions). Fmr. asst prof ETSU & UC-Riverside & Vanderbilt post-doc CSDI. WUSTL, URI, & GWU alum. Taylor Alison Swift is my muse. www.davidryanmiller.com

David Raymond Miller is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 63rd mayor of Toronto from 2003 to 2010.

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Computer science 28%
Engineering 19%

I also already started because stuff is too damn bleak not to. My tree is even up already!
NEW: Trump pardons the husband of GOP Rep. Diana Harshbarger.

Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved.

His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved.

The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name
Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally
www.nytimes.com
I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

As a reminder, Senate Democrats capitulated to these uncurious, slapdash clowns yesterday.
POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡

@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
You can prevent this kind of thing by having a president who isn't an idiot child

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POLITICO: “.. The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation .. and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.” 🤡

@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I hate to hand it to Bernie Sanders, but I gotta hand it to him here...
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.

Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.

Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.

This is my shocked face:
A systematic attack on the rule of law. Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day.
Breaking MSNBC:

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
First Trump is trying to expropriate $230M from DOJ for himself, now this
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS

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Read one (1) history book and tell me this is ok
New:

On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers

He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

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fwiw...I guess my take after thinking about this for a bit...

1. the real villains remain the Rs, who have decided as a matter of policy that people should die rather than get health care, and who see starving people to death as a reasonable way to force concessions. (1)
This is such a bizarre talking point; I've thankfully never had to use most of the types of insurance that I have for me and my family

This is a good excuse to share my WSJ letter to the editor explaining that "not filing a claim doesn’t mean you didn’t need insurance" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

The critical thing is that Trump now knows what the Democrats' pain tolerance is--SNAP funding and (somewhat) reliable air travel--and can push those buttons again to collapse future opposition

Withstanding an authoritarian speedrun is not for the faint of heart, which many Senate Democrats are....

This is a critical insight from Jake and what I think might be at the heart of the matter

Using the shutdown to accomplish anything (even if only taking a stand against authoritarianism and cruelty) required Democrats to stomach the pain

Some may have reached their breaking point and cried uncle
So it’s just hard to explain this as a strategic decision at all. Instead it looks like what they learned was their own unwillingness to see people harmed by the shutdown and their own lack of leadership, not anything about strategy
New:

On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers

He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

When actors show more spine in the face of an authoritarian speedrun than the elected leaders of the opposition party... it speaks well of the actors and incredibly ill of the opposition party leaders.

The least they can do it put "extrajudicial" in front of "killing"

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So it’s just hard to explain this as a strategic decision at all. Instead it looks like what they learned was their own unwillingness to see people harmed by the shutdown and their own lack of leadership, not anything about strategy

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You can tell that Senate Democrats know they made an awesome deal because they sprang it on us on a Sunday afternoon and then raced it through that same night.

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Credible commitment problem has come for almost anything R's in Congress do. They may mean it but the administration may not.