John Miller

Tech manager turned investor. Climate and sustainability advocate. Scuba, hockey, travel and reef aquarium enthusiast.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.

Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Everyone watch senior military advisor to Iran supreme leader’s chilling interview to CNN. He makes clear:

Iran wants $24 billion up front and in return… keeps Hormuz & charges “fees”

Iran is Trump’s Vietnam, the choice: capitulation or escalation

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

South Carolina! On Tuesday June 9th dump Lindsey Graham & vote for Mark Lynch @MarkLynchSC !

Mark Lynch is the America First fighter South Carolina needs in the U.S. Senate. He has built a successful business, created jobs, signed the front of a paycheck, and lived the values that Washington politicians only talk about. Mark understands that our country needs secure borders, a strong economy, a serious foreign policy, and leaders who put American citizens first.

Lindsey Graham has had decades in Washington, and the results speak for themselves. South Carolina deserves a senator who will stand with President Trump, fight for working families, defend our freedoms, and take on the political establishment.

I am proud to endorse Mark Lynch for U.S. Senate.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The Iran War Powers Resolution that I cosponsored (opposing the war) just passed the House of Representatives.

The People’s House is sending a message: end this war.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Every year, the Bank Secrecy Act forces financial institutions to file 28 million reports on ordinary Americans — at a cost of $59 billion. The return on that massive invasion of privacy? Only 275 IRS investigations. It’s time to fix it, says Cato's @EconWithNick.

Learn more: https://t.co/h8L2NgeaZD

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

The weirdest part of this may be treating the Director of National Intelligence as a part-time job.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Not sure if this increases or decreases the odds of Scott Bessent punching Pulte in his ‘f*cking face.’ Another wildly unqualified person in a huge role. Zero intelligence experience.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Ambassador, your job is to represent American interests in Israel. With that in mind, please explain what we receive in return for our investment in Israel.

How have Israel’s actions in Iran, Gaza, or Lebanon, to name a few, made America safer & more prosperous?

The arms sales argument is flawed logic. We give Israel money so they can buy American weapons—why not just spend our money on weapons for our own inventories?

The intelligence we get from the Israelis can be useful, but our increasing over-reliance on it has caused our own capabilities to atrophy. We are a sovereign nation. We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests— of course they will put their own interests first. No other nation prioritizes the needs of a different country before its own, because that would be foolish.

Israel can still be a decent partner, so long as we are clear-eyed about the differences between our two countries, and act accordingly. We have to put America’s needs first.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq War, it's a war built on lies. Let’s update the record:

On day one, the president said it was running ahead of schedule. On day 10, he said it was very complete . Day 21, getting very close . Day 32, leaving very soon . On day 39, the President of the United States said a whole civilization will die…

And on the next day, day 40, he declared total and complete victory . Day 67, great progress. Day 79, the clock is ticking. Today is day 92 . And on day 92 Iran's ballistic missiles and drones have not been destroyed. The Strait of Hormuz, which was opened before the war is still closed. The regime is intact along with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium—a stockpile Iran only built after President Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal

[Marko Kolanovic @markoinny]

$12bn - for the reference famous Obama "Pallets" of cash were $0.4bn. Art of the deal.
https://t.co/jsm6LyJebF

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Everyone should read what Senior Vice President of Exxon Neil Chapman says about the oil price surge coming in 2-3 weeks

The next wave of the energy shock is approaching fast

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

Chevron's Mike Wirth said we're weeks away from oil shortages. He sees US gasoline prices potentially rising considerably in the next two months. Listening to market strategists and then talking to commodity producers is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. @ferrotv @annmarie

[Ana Swanson @AnaSwanson]

Howard Lutnick came into office with one of the most complex disclosure forms we had ever seen, with more than 800 companies. An NYT review of those firms -- and their disputes -- sheds light on his freewheeling first year in government.

with @mrothfeld

https://t.co/cUxR1q318D

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

It will take 5+ years to replace 39 days of munitions used in the Iran war

What an absolute disaster

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Operation Midnight Hammer proved we can strike inside Iran from the U.S. without relying on our bases in the region.

Operation Epic Fury proved that our bases in the region are a liability not an asset. Our bases give Iran easy to reach targets.

Pulling out now works in our favor, not Iran’s.