James Miller (Millermena)
The Casual Analyst: thecasualanalyst.com
Expert on pro-democracy movements & the fight against autocrats in Ukraine, Russia, Syria & beyond. Liveblogging & OSINT pioneer, Twitter OG turned refugee (Millermena). Trying to save my own Republic
- I've made thousands of dollars on crypto since 2020. I never hold any of it for more than a few days. Crypto is a picker chip, mostly good for gambling. Cash it out and move on
- I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but there will not be free and fair elections in November
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)In Kash's mind, FBI agents are not law enforcement officers. They are soldiers in a political battle against Trump's domestic opponents, of whichever party.
- Democracy really is dying in darkness www.nbcnews.com/business/med...
- Stay at home Dad's too
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw
- Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)THOU SHALT NOT PROTECT PEDOS!!! WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SENDER’S NAME REDACTED?!?
- This kind of incrementalism would be quaint a year ago, now it's just plain stupid. Chuck "Peace In Our Time" Schumer just isn't fit for this moment in history
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Naah, I want them on trial.
- Concerned about the surveillance state? Email is your enemy. It tracks your contacts, creates a permanent record of who you talked to & in some cases what you talked about. There are solutions. You need to know the risks & understand email is not always the best way to chat youtu.be/yLZ-mk9Ao58
- A 67-year old citizen sent an email to a prosecutor urging him not to deport an Afghan refuge back to the Taliban. A few hours later Google said he's under investigation by the government. THIS is why this video series, and these protests, are so important www.thedailybeast.com/department-o...
- The latest in my video series on protecting protesters from a Federal government that is out of control. Time to rethink your email youtu.be/yLZ-mk9Ao58?...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Spanish PM Sánchez: The owner of X, himself a migrant, used his personal account to amplify disinformation about the sovereign decision of my government to regularize 500,000 migrants who live, work, and contribute to the success of our country.
- DHS Goons Use Bonkers Secret Weapon on 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen www.thedailybeast.com/department-o...
- The latest in my video series on protecting protesters from a Federal government that is out of control. Time to rethink your email youtu.be/yLZ-mk9Ao58?...
- 1. Epstein files are gross & prosecution is WAY overdue 2. Some lists of names are irresponsible & lacking context. Some may be the work of Putin's bots just to make everyone look bad. A name in an email is meaningless. Proof? I mentioned both Epstein & Putin in this post & am connected to neither
- For instance: Bernie is in there... because Epstein hated him. Walter Cronkite was pictured talking to him, probably at some fundraiser. David Brooks spoke at an event where JE was in attendance. I've seen lists with all 3 mentioned today. Context matters. Don't let trolls manipulate us further
- Surveillance Is Already Here — How Governments Track People at Scale AND Why You Need to Focus on Being Smart, Not Invisible www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryd9...
- Over 1000 pages link Jeffrey Epstein to Vladimir Putin, another 10,000 to various high-level players in Moscow. Was Epstein Island one big honey trap? This would match the patterns we know about Trump, Epstein, Russia, sex, and influence ca.news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epst...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Epstein received and forwarded Rick Warren devotionals? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- In the last 36 hours Ukraine has won a massive battle, turning the tide in Kupiansk & capturing significant amount of Russian soldiers. Russia has fought so hard for this position, has been constantly rebuffed, finally had a breakthrough and it looks like it was a trap www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
- Unbelievable, and yet this is exactly what we've been warning about. Folks, write down this administration's trespasses on one piece of paper, the trespasses of King George on another, and ask someone which is worse? Hint - it's time to get organized right now
- They are arresting journalists. They killed Alex Pretti for filming. Digital security is no longer optional. I’m launching a video series on how everyday people protect themselves—starting digital, moving physical. Watch & subscribe: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)"We're going to pursue [prosecuting journalists] to the ends of the earth" is itself a whole thing before you get to the ", promised the Civil Rights Division leader"
- here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)🚨 Russian attack on bus kills driver one day before his birthday. A 48-year-old bus driver was killed on the spot following a Russian strike on a public bus in Kherson, local officials confirmed.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.
- Rubicon moment. - If you live in a free country they don't arrest journalists for doing their job. - If they arrest journalists for doing their job you don't live in a free country #DonLemon #Fascists
- RED ALERT! Former CNN journalist Don Lemon reportedly arrested in connection with Minnesota protest This is an ALARMING attack against the 1st amendment. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
- The latest in my video series. Please subscribe to grow this channel. Lots more content in the pipeline.
- Everyone knows activists should be using Signal. Does everyone understand why? Let's teach our people how to protect themselves from a Federal surveillance state that's out of control, and also the limits of the technology they already use. Get smart, stay safe www.youtube.com/watch?v=glil...
- Bam. Actual action from Healey www.reuters.com/world/us/mas...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)“A child reportedly collapsed on a deportation flight, reportedly forcing the plane to turn back to the US. The child was reportedly taken to the hospital upon landing, but ICE reportedly would allow only one parent to join the child, while the other parent would be deported.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
- 📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: A report from Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered over 1,000 credible reports of abuses in ICE and broader immigration detention facilities — including medical neglect, denial of food and water, mistreatment of children and pregnant women, and physical/sexual abuse. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Day 1436 of Russia's all out war on Ukraine. Jumble up the numbers and you get 4361, the number of days since Putin launched his original invasion of Crimea. Because Putin wasn't stopped in 2014, things get worse and worse. Anyone got the message yet? A flimsy "peace deal" won't stop a psychopath.
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- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Tom Homan is a wannabe con man.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)If you are an activist you probably know you need to use Signal. But do you know why? This is part 3 in a series on how protesters & activists can reduce risk & exposure in a surveillance state Please remember to subscribe to the channel so you see future videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=glil...
- Dear activists & protesters, Is Signal right for you? This video is part 3 in a short series on how protesters and activists can reduce unnecessary exposure in a heavily monitored environment. No hype. No magic claims. Just limits, tradeoffs, and realistic use www.youtube.com/watch?v=glil...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)As an aside, Schlitz was a two-time clerk for Scalia. www.fedbar.org/wp-content/u...
- “.. This list should give pause to anyone — no matter his or her political beliefs — who cares about the rule of law,” Judge Schiltz added. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
- 100%. If this was Egypt we'd be calling ICE "security forces" "cracking down" on "dissidents" who are confronting "the regime." We would note the rhetoric used by Trump admin & how it lines up with both evidence & activist reports. And our reporting would be evidence- backed & beyond reproach
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
- As a journalist I reported on Iran's 2009 Green Movement. A famous activist there told me that he goes home after it gets dark. "I don't mind getting shot. I mind getting shot in the dark." Because the only difference between a martyr and just another dead body is a camera
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)#BREAKING: During a town hall event on Tuesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social was assaulted by an attendee who sprayed her with an unknown substance and demanded she resign from Congress. She declined treatment and continued the event a few moments later.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)We are at a tipping point on ICE and immigration enforcement. The shootings are so unpopular that Trump appears to have lost his edge on both deportations and immigration more broadly. Abolishing ICE is net popular with independents. & Bovino is out! 2026≠2024 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...
- I'm making a video series on how activists can defend themselves against surveillance. It's not about becoming invisible, it's about being smart. Subscribe to the channel, it helps spread the word. "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this" youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Miller must be pulling what's left of his hair out. Trump really is senile & narcissistic. If you praise him enough he'll change course. But if he doesn't get his Insurrection Act by picking flights with blue states the midterms move forward & he'll be impeached. Trump can't follow his own plot
- Woah. Trump TACO'd so hard he demoted Bovino?
- BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Know your "role" and remember... NPCs aren't heroes
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Live updates: Free to access * More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says * Asylum-seeker taken by ICE had no criminal history in Maine, attorney says * Wife of detained man says he was moved despite habeas petition and judge’s order
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
- The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)The good people of Germany have found this post and now I know that the word “clown” is the same in both languages. I’ve also been building quite a collection of German insults, so thank you and wilkcommen.
- ICE backing down in Minneapolis
- Surveillance isn’t theoretical anymore—it’s already shaping how protests and organizing are policed. This is video 2 in a series on how activists and organizers can stay effective under growing government surveillance. youtu.be/Ryd9XnxtQrc?...
- Events in Minneapolis mean the resistance against an increasingly-authoritarian state is no longer hypothetical. Targeted surveillance is real. No tool is foolproof. You can reduce risk, but can't eliminate it. Video 2 in on how activists and organizers can mitigate risk: youtu.be/Ryd9XnxtQrc?...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)The BBC is the world's most respected broadcaster. @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social is its most respected fact checker. Here he analyses, frame by frame, what happened in Minneapolis. Border Patrol removed Alex Pretti's gun, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 shot him — TEN times in five seconds. The Trump regime is lying to us.
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- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Perhaps the most politically important thing about Zohran Mamdani is that it seems like he really, really likes New York and New Yorkers.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public
- Otto Ohlendorf was the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, responsible for killing more than 90,000 Jews in Ukraine in 1942. At Nuremberg he didn't claim he didn't do it, he claimed it was self defense. Remember this as you hear Republicans defend ICE today. Remember this
- The Republicans right now are saying there are 5 lights. It's not that they see things differently than you do. It's not even that they are in denial. They are telling you that they will kill you if you don't see five lights #thereareFOURlights #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #minneapolis #ICE
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
- The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported. economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
- I was called an alarmist and a partisan hack for predicting this was coming, despite mountains of evidence I provided that this was coming. For years. Derailed my career. I'm so tired of being right
- I literally never thought I'd see the day where the NRA criticized this regime
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
- Video of Alex Pretti reading a dedication to a veteran who passed away. Pretti was a high achiever, could have worked anywhere. He chose to work at the VA & accept the corresponding pay cut so he could honor & help our vets. Do not let them get away with this www.instagram.com/reel/DT6j_1t...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
- JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- This is weak tea. During an authoritarian takeover of a country there are only two sides: - fascist - anti-fascist If governors are not protecting the people against the fascists then they are enabling the fascists. My guess: probably every single blue governor will enable the fascists
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Mood in minneapolis right now
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
- Since we're all going to need these videos sooner rather than later I am making a series of trainings about how protesters can defend themselves against the surveillance state. This is the first of many, coming as quickly as I can make them, so please subscribe for more
- Digital security isn’t about being invisible. It’s about understanding when attention changes the rules. New video on protest surveillance & metadata: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpV...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)The agent in the black beanie appeared to fire the first shots, as the agent in the brown beanie doesn’t draw his gun until after the first shots are fired.
- Murder, state sanctioned execution
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Multiple federal agents can later be seen struggling with the man who is shot. One federal agent is seen approaching with empty hands, before reaching around the man’s waist.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
- Reposted by James Miller (Millermena)37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
