Dante Miller
dantemiller.bsky.social
Dante Miller
@dantemiller.bsky.social
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🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.”

EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣
February 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Many thanks for the great discussion! #dma
From panel discussions to research talks to keynote presentations from @aschwab.bsky.social, @filomenac.bsky.social, and Anu Bradford, this conference will help you gain an understanding of the latest research and analysis of competition regulation in digital markets.
February 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Yet another incident where Members of Congress have been barred from entering a federal agency.
They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.
February 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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In today's day and age, with all the information within our reach, ignorance is not the lack of knowledge but the refusal to acquire it. Therefore, people who accept misinformation without questioning it are ignorant by choice. Remember, "Knowledge is Power."
February 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Our communities are not safer after Trump’s pardon of Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road (a drug marketplace reportedly tied to 6 deaths) that facilitated the sale of illicit substances, including heroin. The pardon puts families at risk, just like his decision to pardon violent Jan 6 felons.
Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Tee-rump is such a narcissist. Any protests & unflattering comments sends him over the edge.

Tee-rump’s press conference with BiBi today did not go smoothly. You could see his eyes closing & hear the sniffing; lying is so stressful.

He’s knows things are about to get sweaty -like Rudy sweaty.
a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is sitting in a crowd .
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is sitting in a crowd .
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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‼️The soaring price of eggs has forced Waffle House to add a temporary surcharge on customers’ orders.

The Georgia-based chain is adding a 50-cent charge per egg because of the “nationwide rise in cost of eggs,” according to signs posted at its restaurants. 🥚
Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells | CNN Business
The soaring price of eggs has forced Waffle House to add a temporary surcharge on customers’ orders.
www.cnn.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I see "anticipatory obedience" everywhere right now, and it's really key for us (also in Europe/worldwide) to plan ahead and be ready to resist, bc these trends seem to come with a few years lag after the US (think populist, fascist-friendly gov't takeovers):

www.aaup.org/report/again...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
www.aaup.org
February 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Honored to see House of Bone and Rain on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list!
locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...
2024 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! This list is compiled by the Locus editor…
locusmag.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Trump doesn’t believe in the American Constitution. I don’t think he ever read it.
Any Senator who votes to confirm Russell Vought as head of OMB is very plainly an enemy of the Constitution.
russ vought is very plainly an enemy of the constitution open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
February 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Hi, scary 🏳️‍⚧️ person here with a message for all of you who are falling for culture war distractions while your government is robbing you blind.
February 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Art of the Deal
February 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Can we bring back duels between politicians?

I mean, it’s basic math.
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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People are getting up off the mat.
People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)
February 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Sheldon please grind everything to a halt. There is a coup going on. No cloture, *nothing*.

This is not "business as usual" time. This is "refuse to do work until the coup is over" time. Come on.
February 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Mr. Kennedy has not come remotely close to providing adequate assurances that he will follow the well-established science on vaccines, nor remedy the ways CMS hurts Rhode Island, so I cannot support his nomination.
February 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A couple of (actually serious) thought-experiment questions on where we are and where we’re going:

If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes?

And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?
February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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aren't contracts legal obligations
President Donald Trump issued an executive order late last week canceling recently negotiated federal union contracts in an effort to target federal workers who had inked deals allowing telework.

This followed previous efforts targeting telework more broadly. Here’s what happened and what it means.
Trump is targeting telework. Here’s what it means.
A recent executive order took aim at federal union members with telework protections, the latest in an effort to shrink the federal government.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"here’s what I believe happened: In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary."
What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
www.unpopularfront.news
February 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM