Brendan Miller
@brenkjm.bsky.social
I make "The Ideas that Explain the News" on YouTube - using concepts from social sciences to explain the news at a deeper level.
https://brendanmiller.substack.com/
I like chatting politics/books/meeting people - message if you fancy coffee!
https://brendanmiller.substack.com/
I like chatting politics/books/meeting people - message if you fancy coffee!
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I'm looking for some writers and an experienced story editor to help with the channel - please get in touch if you're interested!
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
Also, does anyone have any advice on what forums/ websites / emails lists US journalists go to on the look out for gigs?
I'm looking for some writers and an experienced story editor to help with the channel - please get in touch if you're interested!
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Also, does anyone have any advice on what forums/ websites / emails lists US journalists go to on the look out for gigs?
I'm looking for some writers and an experienced story editor to help with the channel - please get in touch if you're interested!
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I'm looking for some writers and an experienced story editor to help with the channel - please get in touch if you're interested!
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
Ideally want knowledge/love of:
- US politics
- YouTube explainers
More details here: brendanmiller.notion.site/Let-s-work-t...
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Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."
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Chat is it a good sign if the cops are publicly disavowing the regimes actions on Twitter
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Chat is it a good sign if the cops are publicly disavowing the regimes actions on Twitter
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It's a very similar dynamic to the rise of Trumpism. Nobody on the right speaking up or saying anything, as the individual incentive was to keep your head down – but the collective cowardice ending up somewhere really bad.
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It's a very similar dynamic to the rise of Trumpism. Nobody on the right speaking up or saying anything, as the individual incentive was to keep your head down – but the collective cowardice ending up somewhere really bad.
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milfa (mom i'd like to fight alongside)
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
milfa (mom i'd like to fight alongside)
It's finally cold enough that the fruit flies have died
October 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's finally cold enough that the fruit flies have died
Good vid
Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Good vid
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When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
Is Ezra Klein right?
New video from me youtu.be/cttfp_U2UZ4
New video from me youtu.be/cttfp_U2UZ4
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Is Ezra Klein right?
New video from me youtu.be/cttfp_U2UZ4
New video from me youtu.be/cttfp_U2UZ4
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This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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“I voted for none of this."
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“I voted for none of this."
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)
October 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)
Just horrific.
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just horrific.
Just watched Starmer's speech - easily the best I've ever seen from him.
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just watched Starmer's speech - easily the best I've ever seen from him.
September 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.
September 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.
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Kimmelist forces seize control of communications infrastructure.
NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Kimmelist forces seize control of communications infrastructure.
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When Richelieu said "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him" trials were much lower quality. Despite world being complicated many people actually behave honestly; we need more trust in politics. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
Exclusive: No evidence of primary residence violation by Fed Gov Lisa Cook, says Michigan official
The property tax authority in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook hasn’t broken rules for tax breaks on a home there that Cook declared her primary residence.
www.reuters.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
When Richelieu said "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him" trials were much lower quality. Despite world being complicated many people actually behave honestly; we need more trust in politics. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
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Pretty astonishing stuff. Going after members of the Fed who don’t do what you want: bad. Going after them with wrong information that will definitely come out: stupid as hell.
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Pretty astonishing stuff. Going after members of the Fed who don’t do what you want: bad. Going after them with wrong information that will definitely come out: stupid as hell.