Allen Miller
@allenmillerp.bsky.social
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature. Agitator against autocracy.
Schumer is a coward
March 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Schumer is a coward
Three of the world’s most authoritarian regimes met today: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA
February 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Three of the world’s most authoritarian regimes met today: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA
200,000 federal employees laid off for the crime of having been hired within the last year. These are people just after college or who had left previous jobs to enter federal service. They were given an hour to leave.
February 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
200,000 federal employees laid off for the crime of having been hired within the last year. These are people just after college or who had left previous jobs to enter federal service. They were given an hour to leave.
Reposted by Allen Miller
A coup is when unelected persons or parties seize control of the government and govern through unconstitutional means. Musk is trying to do that with the acquiescence of an elected president. Not quite an auto-coup. More like an on-the-side coup.
This at an essential point. If Republicans want to abolish USAID they're as free to do that as with any other part of the government - through Congress. (i.e., follow the constitution) There's a budget process starting right now. Go for it. Doing it this way is illegal.
Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A coup is when unelected persons or parties seize control of the government and govern through unconstitutional means. Musk is trying to do that with the acquiescence of an elected president. Not quite an auto-coup. More like an on-the-side coup.
So we now have an unelected person looking at all our private information with no oversight. Feel safer?
February 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
So we now have an unelected person looking at all our private information with no oversight. Feel safer?
Reposted by Allen Miller
Reposted by Allen Miller
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
Reposted by Allen Miller
Zuckerberg was voluntarily on the stage for the inauguration of a man who just pardoned 1500 criminal thugs who rioted to help him destroy American democracy. A corporate titan worth $211 billion who supports a fascist can be called an oligarch. Sorry (not sorry) if that hurts Zuck's feelings.
On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade said he ran into Mark Zuckerberg last night. "He did tell me how insulting it was to be called an oligarch by President Biden," Kilmeade said.
Zuckerberg is the world's third richest man, with a net worth of $211 billion.
If that's not an oligarch...
Zuckerberg is the world's third richest man, with a net worth of $211 billion.
If that's not an oligarch...
January 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Zuckerberg was voluntarily on the stage for the inauguration of a man who just pardoned 1500 criminal thugs who rioted to help him destroy American democracy. A corporate titan worth $211 billion who supports a fascist can be called an oligarch. Sorry (not sorry) if that hurts Zuck's feelings.
Militias pardoned and released. Websites scrubbed. DEI efforts cancelled. Scientific organizations left. Cancellation of all climate changes efforts. Dystopian nightmare. Day 3.
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Militias pardoned and released. Websites scrubbed. DEI efforts cancelled. Scientific organizations left. Cancellation of all climate changes efforts. Dystopian nightmare. Day 3.
So hey everyone, I find discussions here fragmented and hard to follow compared to Facebook, which I want to leave. What am I missing?
January 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
So hey everyone, I find discussions here fragmented and hard to follow compared to Facebook, which I want to leave. What am I missing?
Reposted by Allen Miller
Facing criticism, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said it will not proceed with a policy to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery.
Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNN
After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shiel...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Facing criticism, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said it will not proceed with a policy to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery.
Reposted by Allen Miller
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
When I hear reasonably educated and articulate people talk about “ending the war on fossil fuels,” I want to know do you just not believe in the science that built your cell phone or do you just not care? #climatechangeisreal
November 28, 2024 at 1:58 PM
When I hear reasonably educated and articulate people talk about “ending the war on fossil fuels,” I want to know do you just not believe in the science that built your cell phone or do you just not care? #climatechangeisreal
This article is one of the best analyses of Democratic hubris I’ve seen.
November 26, 2024 at 11:10 PM
This article is one of the best analyses of Democratic hubris I’ve seen.
This is where I am.
Sen. Murphy: I’m Preparing for Dystopia
In an interview with The Bulwark, the Connecticut Democrat outlines how bad it could get and what his party must now do.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
This is where I am.
What he said.
I swear some people are writing about the election as if Kamala Harris ran on a platform entitled "Toward a Trans Latinx Theory of Intersectionality"
November 23, 2024 at 12:19 AM
What he said.
Reposted by Allen Miller
Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum
November 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum
Reposted by Allen Miller
I sent a student here in '23 and she had a phenomenal experience (of which I was genuinely quite jealous); I also got to visit and was blown away by the excavation on all levels. Tell your students!!
November 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM
I sent a student here in '23 and she had a phenomenal experience (of which I was genuinely quite jealous); I also got to visit and was blown away by the excavation on all levels. Tell your students!!
Linda McMahon for Education Secretary. Woohoo. Wrestling in the schools. 🤼♀️🤼♂️
November 20, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Linda McMahon for Education Secretary. Woohoo. Wrestling in the schools. 🤼♀️🤼♂️
Neoliberalism has hollowed out economic communities. It has led to grotesque inequality where the bottom 50% hold 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. It also tells people that the only thing that is actually real is money.
November 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Neoliberalism has hollowed out economic communities. It has led to grotesque inequality where the bottom 50% hold 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. It also tells people that the only thing that is actually real is money.
Reposted by Allen Miller
“Hegseth agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the woman because he feared that revelation of the matter ‘would result in his immediate termination from Fox,’ where he worked as a host.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says
Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:55 PM
“Hegseth agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the woman because he feared that revelation of the matter ‘would result in his immediate termination from Fox,’ where he worked as a host.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Allen Miller
"They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them. And my clients repeatedly testified, 'What was this payment for?' 'That was for sex.'" abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-te...
Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex
An attorney for two women who testified before the House Ethics panel tells ABC News in an interview that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid both his adult clients for sex.
abcnews.go.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:49 AM
"They essentially put the Venmo payments on the screen and asked about them. And my clients repeatedly testified, 'What was this payment for?' 'That was for sex.'" abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-te...
Watching the news this morning and I see the full normalization of Trump has begun. “We need to find common ground.” No. We need to understand why people voted for a man who freely expresses hate and terrorizes people. We do not need to find common ground with him.
November 18, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Watching the news this morning and I see the full normalization of Trump has begun. “We need to find common ground.” No. We need to understand why people voted for a man who freely expresses hate and terrorizes people. We do not need to find common ground with him.
Tulsi the Hindu and RFK the crusader against big Pharma and Gaetz the pedophile with Elon and Franklin Graham are sure going to make for some interesting times.
November 17, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Tulsi the Hindu and RFK the crusader against big Pharma and Gaetz the pedophile with Elon and Franklin Graham are sure going to make for some interesting times.