Jeff Miller
@liberalclaptrap.bsky.social
Some might call it that. Conscientious objector. Retired Technology Director, ACLU of Ohio. Musician. Views are my own, until they go viral. Also on🧵, same handle. Wooster, Ohio, he/him.
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 “𝘆𝗲𝘁.”
Note also the data cited from the ADL regarding the source of extremist attacks and domestic terror plots, near the bottom of the article.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Note also the data cited from the ADL regarding the source of extremist attacks and domestic terror plots, near the bottom of the article.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say
Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.
www.nbcnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 “𝘆𝗲𝘁.”
Note also the data cited from the ADL regarding the source of extremist attacks and domestic terror plots, near the bottom of the article.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Note also the data cited from the ADL regarding the source of extremist attacks and domestic terror plots, near the bottom of the article.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The irony of an article that reports the Governor lamenting Ohio’s population loss and his desire to increase student enrollment and retain graduating students, accompanied by a picture of him signing a bill that will decrease student enrollment and reduce student retention after graduation.
With Ohio population projected to drop, DeWine urges college recruitment
Gov. DeWine calls on university trustees to attract both in-state and out-of-state students as a projected demographic crisis looms.
www.cleveland.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The irony of an article that reports the Governor lamenting Ohio’s population loss and his desire to increase student enrollment and retain graduating students, accompanied by a picture of him signing a bill that will decrease student enrollment and reduce student retention after graduation.
A beautiful day in Wooster, Ohio, for a public witness against authoritarianism in our country. Zoom in to see how one attendee was very well prepared - through the simple flip of their sign - to respond to the haters : )
September 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A beautiful day in Wooster, Ohio, for a public witness against authoritarianism in our country. Zoom in to see how one attendee was very well prepared - through the simple flip of their sign - to respond to the haters : )
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Choosing your security and privacy tools is an ongoing process, not a one-time purchase or download. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...
Choosing Your Tools
With so many companies and websites offering tools geared towards helping individuals improve their own digital security, how do you choose the tools that are right for you?
We don’t have a foolproof list of tools that can defend you (though you can see some common choices in our Tool...
ssd.eff.org
August 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Choosing your security and privacy tools is an ongoing process, not a one-time purchase or download. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...
If you are looking for reasons to be hopeful - something that seems to be in short supply these days - I encourage you to read this article.
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you are looking for reasons to be hopeful - something that seems to be in short supply these days - I encourage you to read this article.
“I’m Hackin’ It.”
'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job chatbot applications
'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job chatbot applications
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications across the United States.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“I’m Hackin’ It.”
I think this headline is incomplete. It should say, “GOP leaders in US Senate struggle to lessen pain of Medicaid cuts for rural hospitals, but with little concern for people who need healthcare.“
U.S. Senate Republicans scrambled Tuesday to restructure several proposals in the “big, beautiful bill” that don’t meet the strict rules for passing a reconciliation package, while GOP lawmakers warned those changes may doom its passage in the House ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/24/r...
GOP leaders in US Senate struggle to lessen pain of Medicaid cuts for rural hospitals • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Senate Republicans were scrambling Tuesday to restructure several proposals in the “big, beautiful bill” that don’t meet their chamber’s strict rules for passing a reconciliation package, while…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I think this headline is incomplete. It should say, “GOP leaders in US Senate struggle to lessen pain of Medicaid cuts for rural hospitals, but with little concern for people who need healthcare.“
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In a state notorious for corruption in & at the Statehouse, legislators are now poised, via the latest version of the budget bill, to torch public access to key legislative documents. This is how a legislature with things to hide from the public & media shamefully operates. 1/6
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In a state notorious for corruption in & at the Statehouse, legislators are now poised, via the latest version of the budget bill, to torch public access to key legislative documents. This is how a legislature with things to hide from the public & media shamefully operates. 1/6
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Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order…
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
June 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.
Yikes. I just used an app password to set up email notification for a backup program. Here I was, thinking I was being careful. Glad I was using a throwaway Gmail account.
Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks, www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail's multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks
Russian hackers convinced targets to share their app passwords in very sophisticated and targeted social engineering attacks
www.malwarebytes.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yikes. I just used an app password to set up email notification for a backup program. Here I was, thinking I was being careful. Glad I was using a throwaway Gmail account.
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Meta’s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Here’s what to do next.
Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy
Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you. Exploiting a technical loophole, the company was able to have their apps snoop on users’ web browsing. This tr...
www.eff.org
June 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Meta’s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Here’s what to do next.
Congratulations!
I made my first #Substack post! An update on #Ohio's evil budget process:
open.substack.com/pub/rachelco...
open.substack.com/pub/rachelco...
Ohio Budget Update
Ready for an update on Ohio's evil budget bill?
open.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Congratulations!
June 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Know your rights in lots of different scenarios:
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
#Protest rights, rights when stopped by police, #immigrants' rights, and more:
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
#Protest rights, rights when stopped by police, #immigrants' rights, and more:
Know Your Rights | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
June 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Know your rights in lots of different scenarios:
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
#Protest rights, rights when stopped by police, #immigrants' rights, and more:
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
#Protest rights, rights when stopped by police, #immigrants' rights, and more:
Staff members at the Bureau of Labor Statistics could be fired for releasing accurate economic information that doesn’t match this administration’s narrative. Combine this with their earlier proposal to change the way that GDP is calculated, and future economic reports will be meaningless.
Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints
Proposed rule change could pave way for president to fire economists whose figures prove politically inconvenient
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Staff members at the Bureau of Labor Statistics could be fired for releasing accurate economic information that doesn’t match this administration’s narrative. Combine this with their earlier proposal to change the way that GDP is calculated, and future economic reports will be meaningless.
“So: There’s enough state money, (likely $1 billion-plus next budget year) to subsidize private schools in Ohio, but not enough money to achieve statewide fairness in funding Ohio’s public schools?”
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Stadiums, schools, libraries remain knotty items as June 30 budget deadline looms: Thomas Suddes
If you’re an Ohioan who loves his or her public library, and benefits from its many services, it might be very shrewd to send emails or letters, or make phone calls, to your Ohio General Assembly memb...
www.cleveland.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“So: There’s enough state money, (likely $1 billion-plus next budget year) to subsidize private schools in Ohio, but not enough money to achieve statewide fairness in funding Ohio’s public schools?”
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
These aren’t errors. They are willful actions. Everyone in the U.S. is entitled to due process. Everyone.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Trump administration acknowledges another error in a high-profile deportation
In a late Friday court filing, immigration officials said a claim by a Guatemalan man — a key plank of the government’s response in a class action lawsuit — was based on erroneous information.
www.politico.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
These aren’t errors. They are willful actions. Everyone in the U.S. is entitled to due process. Everyone.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
The termination of grants, reductions in staff, cuts in the budget, and slashing of research and training programs - even if reversed by a future administration - will negatively impact our country for decades.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/16/n...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/16/n...
NSF cuts endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life • Ohio Capital Journal
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science Found...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The termination of grants, reductions in staff, cuts in the budget, and slashing of research and training programs - even if reversed by a future administration - will negatively impact our country for decades.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/16/n...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/16/n...
Think I’m finally posting something that isn’t critical of the Trump administration? Keep reading. But it’s not just this administration that bears the responsibility.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce
Food safety in America is under attack.
www.theatlantic.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Think I’m finally posting something that isn’t critical of the Trump administration? Keep reading. But it’s not just this administration that bears the responsibility.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
"What they're building is a surveillance weapon and it can be put to all sorts of adverse uses in the future."
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
USDA, DOGE demand states hand over personal data about food stamp recipients
The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.
www.npr.org
May 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"What they're building is a surveillance weapon and it can be put to all sorts of adverse uses in the future."
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
That picture…
"SB 1 is clearly unconstitutional and will lead to the suppression of free speech and individual liberties. The ACLU of Ohio remains steadfast in our commitment to First Amendment rights, and we stand prepared to enforce them." --@jbennettguess.bsky.social 👏🏼
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Senate Bill 1 suppresses free speech, undermining our democracy: J. Bennett Guess
Senate Bill 1 is clearly unconstitutional and, until repealed or overturned, will lead to the suppression of free speech and individual liberties. The ACLU of Ohio remains steadfast in our commitment ...
www.cleveland.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
That picture…
“The strategy reflects Trump’s approach to his second term: Hit back, double down, don’t apologize — and change the subject to immigration, when possible… But this time, the strategy doesn’t appear to be working.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Public isn’t buying Trump’s message about Kilmar Abrego García, polls show
More Americans say Abrego García should be returned to the United States than say he should remain in prison in El Salvador, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Friday.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“The strategy reflects Trump’s approach to his second term: Hit back, double down, don’t apologize — and change the subject to immigration, when possible… But this time, the strategy doesn’t appear to be working.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
They say April is the cruelest month.
“TOPLINE - Less than half of voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance and his handling of seven major issues in a new New York Times/Siena poll—the latest in a string of damning surveys as Trump approaches 100 days in office.”
“TOPLINE - Less than half of voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance and his handling of seven major issues in a new New York Times/Siena poll—the latest in a string of damning surveys as Trump approaches 100 days in office.”
Trump Approval Rating Tracker: Majority Say Trump Presidency Is ‘Scary’ And ‘Chaotic’ In Latest Poll
The latest survey, released April 25, shows 54% disapprove of Trump's job performance.
www.forbes.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
They say April is the cruelest month.
“TOPLINE - Less than half of voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance and his handling of seven major issues in a new New York Times/Siena poll—the latest in a string of damning surveys as Trump approaches 100 days in office.”
“TOPLINE - Less than half of voters approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance and his handling of seven major issues in a new New York Times/Siena poll—the latest in a string of damning surveys as Trump approaches 100 days in office.”