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David Ryan Miller@davidryanmiller.com |
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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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emptywheel
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Can someone tell me where NYT hid Trump's attempts to disown Heritage's fascist project? I mean, holy hell, that's the only reporting on Trump they do anymore?
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Popehat
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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southpaw
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy
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David Ryan Miller
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At the end of the day, I don't expect this interview to change much, sadly. Every day the media is covering Joe Biden's age/health and not covering Donald Trump's plans for authoritarianism is a day small-d democracy is losing. Whatever the outcome of this maelstrom, it needs to come quickly.
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David Ryan Miller
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On #3, I don't expect an incumbent president to take "you are trailing badly right now, how can you turn this around?" sitting down and not push back on the premise, but the reflexive rejection of any negative prognostications was a bit unnerving.
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David Ryan Miller
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Biden's interview performance tonight was better than his debate performance last week in terms of coherence, but 1) that's a low bar, 2) it did little to change the trajectory of the feeding frenzy, and 3) his stubbornness to admit he's facing headwinds bordered on delusional.
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Brendan Nyhan
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Brendan Nyhan
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Nick Davis
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The medias obsession (not Greg) w insider party politics at expense of covering fascist chickenshits is how democracy dies. Ordinary ppl are only as good as small-d democrats as their news environment permits, and mainstream media would rather focus on Bidens age than murderous fascists.
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Brendan Nyhan
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I don't understand this point. Trump can just pardon them.
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David Ryan Miller
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A good Rhode Islander knows his Rhode Island facts!
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Brendan Nyhan
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What a creative research design x.com/JohnHolbein1...
Paper: t.co/KfeT7yV54c
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Good Authority
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The Supreme Court’s immunity decision sidesteps history.
Those who framed the Constitution agreed that unchecked presidential power was a terrible idea.
Read the latest from @rudalev.bsky.social here: goodauthority.org/news/immunit...
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David Ryan Miller
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I'd be remiss if I did not share this gorgeous white chocolate mocha and pecan sticky bun:
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David Ryan Miller
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"Mean" playing at the local coffee shop this morning, gonna take that as a good omen for the day 💜
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David Ryan Miller
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I guess elderly people are not allowed to make jokes about their own mortality without it being an admission they are cognitively incapacitated? Please.
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David Ryan Miller
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I don't want to dismiss this out of hand, but Olivia Nuzzi has always had the writing style and overall demeanor of a gossip rag columnist, and this story has a lot of "main character syndrome" going on here. I'd like to believe there is serious sourcing behind this to go to print.
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Brendan Nyhan
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What I'm thinking about today 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Brendan Nyhan
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Jacob T. Levy
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It is good and normal for Joe Biden to sleep like an 81-year old, and he's a better president 6 hours a day than Trump was for the 17 minutes a day that he paid attention to anything and the other 12 hours that he was awake doing stupid crap. But still, "needs more sleep" is a disastrous message.
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David Ryan Miller
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Again, where is the torrent of NYT op-eds decrying Donald Trump's lack of decorum in this 4th of July message, declaring him unfit to serve, and demanding he drop out of the race?
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David Ryan Miller
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While the feeding frenzy around Joe Biden continues, here's his opponent referring to the sitting president as a "broken-down pile of crap" and the sitting vice-president as "so pathetic... so fucking bad."
Any forthcoming NYT editorials admonishing this?
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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David Ryan Miller
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This clearly-written, level-headed breakdown of Trump v. United States by @rudalev.bsky.social via @goodauth.bsky.social would be a great teaching tool for anyone teaching Intro American or the presidency this fall.
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan
@elizabethbitmeehan.com
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A democracy, if you can keep it, with headlines like these on its Independence Day. (one of these things is not like the others)
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Peter
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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David Ryan Miller
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V-J day is still a state holiday in Rhode Island (only place)!
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Don Moynihan
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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hammancheez
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Trump: Biden has to be in bed by 8pm but I promise to America I will sleep 3 hours a night in order to fit in the amount of raping stealing and murdering we need to get done to fix this country NYT : Trump promises a robust presidential ambition
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Seth Masket
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I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
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David Ryan Miller
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The New York Times really does prioritize clicks/attention/money over serving as an institutional bulwark of democracy--the system that enables it to exist.
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David Ryan Miller
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Yes very good point, I forgot to note that! A lot of "oh by the way, here is another secret that was just sitting in the background all this time" nonsense, mostly just for the sake of rejuvenating/pushing the plot forward.
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David Ryan Miller
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In the end, parts of the series were entertaining, and I'm trying to appreciate the novelty of it in its time (e.g. strong kickass female lead in early 2000s), but it was often a frustrating watch.
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David Ryan Miller
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The ending of the series had a lot of lazy cliches (Sloane achieves immortality but gets trapped in Rambaldi's tomb--oh please!). Many main characters killed off to close loops, but leaving many unanswered questions (why was Irina trying to nuke DC and London?).
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David Ryan Miller
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The whole "this is an espionage show, but also a mysticism show" was also frustrating. Pick one! The Rambaldi aspect of the show was tiresome, and the showrunners never do the audience the dignity of explaining the backstory (who was Rambaldi, how did he produce all this stuff, etc.???)
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David Ryan Miller
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I had a hard time suspending disbelief that 1) clandestine evil organizations like SD-6 would exist for extended periods of time without a government/team of governments crushing them and 2) those evil organizations outsmart the good guys 90% of the time. Are Sydney et al. unlucky or incompetent?
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David Ryan Miller
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In non-"end of days" news, I finished watching Alias for the first time this morning. I sense that I would have appreciated this show more "in its time" than today, as much of it seems indistinguishable from other espionage drama series that followed it. Spoiler alert critiques to follow below:
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David Ryan Miller
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My favorite political cartoonist, Mike Luckovich:
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Daniel Drezner
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I wrote patriotically today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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David Ryan Miller
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This passage runs through my head every July 4th, and it hits a lot harder today than it has before.
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Bart Bonikowski
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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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Joe Katz
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Jonathan Ladd
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Could you show us the actual words in the Constitution that say the president is immune from criminal law?
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Assistant to the Professor
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All they care about is clicks and entertainment. Democracy be damned.
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Kevin Reuning
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"Politics would be interesting again" is not a good argument for anything
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David Ryan Miller
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This from @atrupar.bsky.social on The Bad Place.
However one feels about the ultimate question on the table, the pace and frenzy with which this discourse around whether a sitting president should step aside/down because of a singular event (that embodies a larger issue) is mind-blowing.
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Philip Bump
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If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Don Moynihan
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From last year:
Trump heard too many govt lawyers say, "you can't do that." So he has been looking for lawyers that will say, "no problem."
SCOTUS just gave an authoritarian legal infrastructure a blank slate to come up with legal rationales for crimes.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-cri...
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Seth Masket
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For a newspaper that works so hard to appear independent of the parties, the NYT is doing an awful lot of work to function as the head of the DNC. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...
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