Max M. Miller

I hate corruption, especially when it allows monopolists to continue screwing over consumers. Live Nation/Ticketmaster is an abomination to concert ticketing and should have been broken up. But this corrupt administration always rewards its donors. Join us tomorrow morning!

Iowa pension chief resigns amid concerns about performance figures. This article by FT reporter Sun Yu provides more details into the IPERS CEO resignation, firing and whistleblower lawsuit. These events are connected to a weak and overly politicized governance structure where the Governor has hiring and firing authority over the CEO and appoints 6 of 7 voting board members. The result is a public pension fund which exposes its members and the board to excess risk and risk management challenges, as detailed in this article. "Compared to most public pension systems, IPERS has a quite weak governance structure," said Leon Schwartz, a former chief operating officer at the pension fund." "IPERS' current problem is simply a symptom that came ups and was able to fester more because of weak governance." @FinancialTimes ft.com/content/ab28b1… via @ft

@tenuous Providing an additional layer of legal intimidation and red tape preventing the free flow of information to the public.

@MaxMMillerAT how is this materially different from the current rules around disclosure at agencies?

The Trump administration is trying to undermine Sunshine and whistleblower laws. It’s corporatizing government, a recipe for abuses of power and corruption.

As chair of the billionaire-funded @MajorityDems, @RepAuchincloss's entire political project is to steer democrats away from economic populism and towards the "Abundance Agenda." What this Agenda does is give Democrats permission to stop talking about taxing the rich and regulating corporations. It tells the party to become less concerned with redistribution or worker power. Auchincloss's opposition to the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in Maine is not a one-off. In Feb., he was punching left at Mayor Mamdani. Mamdani ran on economic populism. Taxing the wealthy. Expanding public services. Putting working people over corporate interests. He won decisively.

@chrisNYY15 @KCH_76 @esaagar Can you point to a single wealth tax proposal out there that begins below $50M? And even then, the idea is that the tax only applies to wealth that exceeds that amount, leaving primary homes and retirement accounts untouched.

@KCH_76 @MaxMMillerAT @esaagar Most people their definition of wealth is insane Almost everyone I know has a net worth of at least a million but their wealth is in home equity retirement accts etc.So by the way some people are talking they want to tax these people that arent true millionaire

Not only should they pay, they should pay more

@realWLYanman @esaagar No, it’s not. And that tired and false attack on taxation has lost its luster with American voters. Nice try, though.

@MaxMMillerAT @esaagar That's communism

@JakeAuch So, if and when @grahamformaine wins the Democratic primary and becomes the nominee, you will endorse him over Susan Collins, right?

Susan Collins is a rubber stamp for the worst admin in history. Claims that I would endorse her, implicitly or otherwise, ignore my track record supporting Democrats to take back both chambers. As I said months ago, I find Platner's Nazi tattoo and his commentary about it personally disqualifying. If it were me I'd vote for someone else in the Maine Democratic primary. Regardless of what happens in Maine, Democrats need to take back the Senate and I'll keep working hard to make it happen.

@spartyon1986 @esaagar The point is to draw the line somewhere because not drawing the line anywhere has effectively destroyed this country. Also, any one who puts Milton Friedman in their profile can’t be trusted on any matter of economic policy.

@MaxMMillerAT @esaagar to a poor person, you are likely wealthy: should your net worth be subjected to the whims of the political class??? If you understand that the principle of confiscation is what matters, not the “wealth” you are a smart man. Because the line can be drawn anywhere… If not…

@ArgenTo46 Cute. I’m a Georgist, not a Marxist, but I wouldn’t expect a bitcoin scammer to understand those political economy distinctions.

@MaxMMillerAT no its saying bitcoin cannot be involuntarily requisitioned by nitwit marxists like yourself

bitcoin fixes this 💸

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

Fifty-one Americans in the healthcare industry were included on Forbes‘ annual billionaires list. Americans are paying more than ever for healthcare, and 51 people have become billionaires because of it.

@IamLandon_9 There is a candidate- @jasonvpoulos.

Someone needs to primary him

The President’s Big Beautiful Bill, the Iran War, and Republican spending bills will create a $2 trillion budget DEFICIT in 2026. Financing just the new debt costs more than all federal road & bridge projects, and we will be making those new interest payments each year, forever.

@JamieBonkiewicz I’m so confused by this.

Who gives a fuck?

Wow!

@NickTroiano Being in the pocket of Israel and corporations is hardly putting the country first. Helping those left behind by the American economy is what puts the country first.

Jake is basically doing the thing Dems said they wished Rs would do about Trump for years — put country over party and political power. (It’s more than the tattoo; Platner all but said Dems should ignore the VA Supreme Court.) And the responses from many Dems underscores how both parties are susceptible to justifying the unjustifiable, reinforced by broken incentives. Can’t say Washington didn’t warn us…

@chandlerburr Thanks! If I lived there, I would be supporting @jasonvpoulos.

@MaxMMillerAT Max, Auchincloss already has a challenger: Jason Poulos #JasonPoulos, an AI researcher who's launched a primary challenge in Massachusetts’s 4th District. He entered the race after seeing the destructive effects of AI on people's jobs. He seems excellent. And fuck Auchincloss.

Who wants to run for Congress and lives in this area?

Corporatist Dems are just saying out loud now that they hope MAGA retains control of the U.S. Senate. These “Vote Blue No Matter Who” frauds have always been fascist collaborators, and we should treat them as such.