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David Ryan Miller

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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

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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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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 2h

It's been 11 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared that the United States will "run" that state indefinitely.

Still no member of the House has introduced articles of impeachment connected to these actions.

Today would be a great day to do so.

David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 2h

The Trump administration's quest to make every crisis a Reichstag fire continues apace.

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 13h

Trump’s Justice Department and FBI are expanding his smear campaign against Renee Nicole Good – and trying to go after so-called ‘left-wing terror networks.’

Read the latest from @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...

Trump Admin Hopes to Use ICE Shooting Probe to Target Soros and the Left

Trump’s Justice Department and FBI are expanding his smear campaign against Renee Nicole Good – and trying to go after so-called ‘left-wing terror networks.’

zeteo.com

Reposted by Laurent Pech, David R. Miller, Holger Hestermeyer

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Explain to me like I'm five what the 2nd Amendment is for if not for this. King George III never said anything this obnoxious or deliberately inflammatory.

REMINDER. “To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one—no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist—can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties. The Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction, into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers, then they will face justice.” @StephenM
13 Jan 2026

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 10h

The president said "Fuck you" to a citizen and only the citizen will face any consequences

BNO News @bnonews.com · 11h

UPDATE: TJ Sabula, the worker who shouted "pedophile protector" at Trump, has been suspended - WaPo

BNO News @bnonews.com · 16h

WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ

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taylorism swift @gospel-sod.bsky.social · 11h

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

Reposted by Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi , and 3 more Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Silvia Secchi, Anne Norton, Mark Rice, Patrick Stokes

BNO News @bnonews.com · 11h

UPDATE: TJ Sabula, the worker who shouted "pedophile protector" at Trump, has been suspended - WaPo

BNO News @bnonews.com · 16h

WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 11h

“Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?” www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: 'Are we really going to be the Gestapo?'

The influential podcaster, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, has been increasingly critical of the president’s mass deportation strategy.

www.nbcnews.com

David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 11h

TJ Sabula has 1000x more courage than most elites in America who have crossed paths with Donald Trump

May he have a long list of job offers if Ford fires him and stellar pro bono representation for the wrongful termination lawsuit

And may he never need to pay for a drink for the rest of his life 🥂

Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 11h

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”

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Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler

A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.

wapo.st

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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 11h

Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler

A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.

wapo.st

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

The quiet part out loud

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

DOKOUPIL: When I travel the country, they tell me they don't feel it because grocery prices are up--

TRUMP: They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months. I inherited a mess. If she got in, you wouldn't have this job right now.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Guy Grossman, Daniel W. Drezner , and 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Guy Grossman, Daniel W. Drezner, David R. Miller, Kate Starbird

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12h

Cutting off funding to almost all opposition-controlled states is an act of dictatorship.

It is outrageous and illegal.

That is our money, allocated to the states by our Congress, under our laws.

Lawless, dictatorial rampage will come to harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans.

Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17h

Here's the full list, according to a DOJ press release dated August.

In effect, every blue state except for Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, and Massachusetts (all except HI had Republican statewide electeds at some point since 2018) will have their funding withheld:

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

AOC: So long as the Republican Party and the Trump administration is using ICE to attack American citizens and shoot mothers in the face. I'm not willing to have a conversation with them about any other bad faith attempts to terrorize US citizens.

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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is openly taunting and humiliating Dokoupilin on air. He's openly invoking Ellison's purchase of Paramount/CBS as the reason Dokoupilin was hired, and warning him against being a real reporter, basically trying to threaten his job. He wants to watch he dog sit when he tells him to sit.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15h

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 13h

"Today is the day that Donald Trump finally became president!"

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 13h

There are higher ed leaders in this country who want to give influence over their schools to a man who just admitted on national TV that he used a merger as extortion to influence the content of CBS News.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Tony Dokoupil: "Mr. President, thank you very much. For the record, I do think that I'd have this job even if the others guys won."

Donald Trump: "Yeah, but at a lesser salary."

[Dokoupil then giggles as they wrap up the segment.]

A CBS News staffer merely reacted with this: "HAHAHAHAHA"

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Richard E. Lenski, Tom Clark , and 5 more Anne Applebaum, Richard E. Lenski, Tom Clark, Melissa Johnson, David R. Miller, Nora V. Demleitner, Nathan Richardson, S. Laurel Weldon

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

So much wrong with this but…they sold his phone?!? Like, for profit?? Now ICE can just confiscate and pawn your property???

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15h

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 13h

Trump Admin Hopes to Use ICE Shooting Probe to Target Soros and the Left

Trump’s Justice Department and FBI are expanding his smear campaign against Renee Nicole Good – and trying to go after so-called ‘left-wing terror networks.’

zeteo.com

Reposted by David R. Miller, Jeannette Sutton

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13h

Now, I'm just a simple country law professor and a fairly average Episcopalian, but something about this strikes me as... unlawful.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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Frederick Winslow Homer Simpson @newdealer.bsky.social · 14h

His escalations are due to his weakness and declining support. And they will only accelerate his decline.
Does anybody think his Minnesota Shitshow is going to swing things back his way and boost his approval ratings?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h

Seems like every day there are more and more people looking at ICE and saying “I didn’t vote for this”.

You did. You voted for a man who handed out MASS DEPORTATION NOW signs to crowds at his rallies.

Did you think that mass deportation was going to be gentle and thoughtful and peaceful?

Reposted by David R. Miller, Kate Jackson, Kevin Grant , and 1 more David R. Miller, Kate Jackson, Kevin Grant, Jesse R. Lasky

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 15h

“The hard part of impeachment is what in the litany of illegal actions [that have] been taken do you actually draft articles on?”

She has got to be kidding me with this. In March of last year I sent her chief of staff a list of 27 impeachable offenses.

Donald Trump has "crossed" line of impeachable offenses, AOC says

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters that Trump has “absolutely” committed impeachable offenses.

www.newsweek.com

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Mark D. White, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 5 more Michael A. Clemens, Mark D. White, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, Michael Zimmer, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, S. Laurel Weldon, Dunlap

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents, business owners and immigrant workers. trib.al/zVm2mk5