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Kevin J. Miller

@kjmiller.bsky.social
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The small press has published my short stories & poems. Amsterdam, New York City, & suburban Chicago have performed my dramatic sketches. I've been a college English teacher for 25 years.

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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Hey, can some rich liberal from Hollywood or Wall Street or Silicon Valley send paperback copies of 1984 to everybody in Congress?
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Jammed up my clunkly old laptop this morning, making it impossible to use. Came up with a stupid idea for fixing it--and it worked! I feel like a comic hero from a piece of pulp fiction.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Tonight as part of my my birthday I watched again one of my all-time favorite films, 1967's The President's Analyst.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Every important conversation I seem to be having only with myself.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Why we all seemed to have been dragged into Crazy Town: A graphic on HuffPost, illustrating a caption about "the Left and the Right" with Trump being of the Right and of the Left ....Biden?! Seriously?! If you're telling me Biden is Left then you're about to tell me up is down.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Jesus, I suck with phones. I forgot my voicemail password, and I can't figure out how to get a new one.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
If I were using an escalator and it stopped working, I would immediately treat it like a staircase and use my legs and feet to keep going up. Did Trump NOT do this? (My apologies. I don't see all the relevant videos.)
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
From President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Smothers Brothers, who had a popular, bold, and very funny political satire TV show in the late '60s. I'm old enough to remember it. They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wow. From an article in The Guardian.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Anyone want to tell me what the hell is going on with Hakeem Jeffries? Here's evidence to spell out to sane, moral people that Charlie Kirk's legacy deserves no dignity or respect: theguardian.com/US-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
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Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
America was founded as an argument, as a debate, and that was built into our legal system, our system of government, and our culture. What Trump has done to Jimmy Kimmel is an arrogantly stupid violation of America's essence, and we must not be passive nor silent.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Terrorist (Jan 6). Rapist. Pedophile. Nazi (the concentration camps). Now Stalinist/censor boss. It all spells T-R-U-M-P.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I really haven't been a fan of late-night comedy talk show TV for years. Nonetheless, it's clear that with what has happened to Colbert and now Kimmel that Trumpism and its followers consider it the beast that has to be brought to heel to make pesky old Free Speech behave.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I've seen the 1st two "Knives Out" movies and the trailer for the third one. Seriously, all of this is shaping up to be the smartest entertainment being made nowadays.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Since we're going to be talking about Charlie Kirk, let me introduce a surprise guest star: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate-Monger
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Hate-Monger - Wikipedia
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
There's a parallel to be developed about the GOP in 2025, 2026, and the Faust myth. It will take somebody more clever than me to pull it off because I think in this case, there are four or five Satans.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A question prompted by books and docs I've read and seen about midnight and cult movies: Does literally anybody nowadays watch THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW on video or in a theater? Talk about thinking that the party was never going to end.
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Via Afrika She/her 🏳️‍🌈 @viaafrika.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Please post everywhere….
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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🤣🔊🆙 Repost please or quote. Just spread the truth 👍
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I'd like to see a Trump "presser" with all the reporters wearing baseball caps with heavy metal logos and cartoon characters just to make it a point how stupid it is for Mr. Vain Arrogance to wear all those baseball caps.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Here's an easy one: One of the Kennedy Center Honorees Trump is going to announce is going to TURN IT DOWN.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The facts of history don't change, but how we see them changes. The collection of clips from 1940s & 50s MGM musicals That's Entertainment was released in 1974. The ad copy was, "Boy! Do we need it now!" Didn't age well, did it, that bit of advertising?
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
#CollegeKidsDoaTrumpUbuRoi The film Medium Cool (1969) (Google it) was made in the full power of its American political/cultural/social moment. Nonetheless, its sharpness & heat make it a timeless classic. With all these cameras around, why is no one making Ubu Roi: A New Day? Do it NOW.
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 19/07/2025
🚨 NEW: The Writers Guild of America is demanding an investigation into CBS’s firing of Stephen Colbert—calling out what could be a politically motivated takedown of one of late night’s sharpest voices. Stand with truth. Stand with Colbert. Retweet to show you’re not backing down.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I now hate the song "Mrs. Robinson." It contains these lyrics: "Going to the candidates' debate/Laugh about it, shout about it/When you've got to choose/Every way you look at it, you lose."
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The ACLU needs to start getting a team together now so they can move on to impeaching and convicting Trump for multiple and rising violations of due process (nameless prosecutors, anyone?) ASAP the winds shifting and the Democrats having even the thinnest majority in the House or Senate.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United. Repost if you agree.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Mark Cousins follows me! Let me try & say something cool: Don't count on any of the Trumps ever reading a novel, having a pet, or appreciating the absurd for its own sake. There's a strident politics about everything they do.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The new SUPERMAN movie is great!
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Pointing at part of my text isn't & saying "that escalated quickly" isn't a got ya. One, I've never seen ANCHORMAN & have no interest in doing so. Two, yeah the shit escalated quickly at that point because my dreams & nightmares will do that, as does "this strange history"
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just finished the 2nd draft of a satirical SF short story I'm working on, satire like how Jonathan Swift used it in the 1600 and 1700's. Mock the news of the day well enough and you make literature.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
DIVISION ZERO, cont: I guess it's expected for it to be quiet on Death Row at two, three in the morning. I foolishly wanted some noise, for the ants and bedbugs to object to death being so near. But further down the corridor there was no sound from the man who had murdered his wife.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Anyone catch the video of the chubby ICE droning on about all the fucks he doesn't have to give while he was (not making this up) swaggering in place? I always thought when you literally swagger you have to cover some ground but apparently not.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
long ago with your fellow man/all ripe with stories of swords, guns, & "blasters"/we all could find you two at the local, tucked on shelves, in a mostly empty can/complications overwhelmed some of us/we fell back onto an addiction to kings and masters
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Opening quote for my work in progress DIVISION ZERO: "Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and angels know of us." -- Thomas Paine
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Here are the opening lines for my novel in progress DIVISION ZERO: "If this story centers on anything, I guess it's death, and how certain people played a trick about death on the public, and how that stopped because death will only put up with so much nonsense."
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
some heroes of legend had multiple personality disorder/their mighty & noble deeds springing from a neurosis well-hidden/some of us keep pen & memory in hand, a simple recorder/& slip in a few scrapes we've been in
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
those loud voices can still hear my whispered objection/& their knights & wizards hate the colors I fly/every compass broken I still found a direction/& on special nights I can hear dragons cry/somebody gave me an itch I can never scratch/a tale as old as tomorrow & I always have the last batch
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
on a quiet night I held a fishbowl/the wind waited for a better time/I came with a dream, a nightmare, & a goal/a bus load of broken gods drew up their plans for one horrible crime/I need a ride to the airport to pick up my fish/I write down every word of the unspoken/where else would I get a wish?
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I just read a pan and then a thumbs up review of The Life of Chuck and I still don't know what the hell goes on in this movie.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
(4) .... The happy ending is done with a magician's genius of misdirection. The nightmare of the moment is we have a national police force behaving like the Mafia and a President who is literally a terrorist and rapist. My novel WIP is a doppelganger of all this. The "hero" ...well....
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
(3) Maybe the 1st novel that made a big impression on me was 1984. I read it several times as a teenager. Orwell's nightmare was the fascism and neo-fascism the free world just defeated would re-emerge in a different form. As Margaret Atwood pointed out, the books actually provides a HAPPY ending...
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
(2) The narrative voice in Wm. Burroughs novels doesn't move toward emotional/spiritual health, for example. B is focused on larger social issues. In the novels of Andrew Vachss, the criminal narrators don't move towards being law-abiding citizens. V knew in his guts that would've been dishonest.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
(1) Writing my novel WIP the only way it can. It doesn't follow all the novel writing advice available online. Big for example: the hero is supposed to be knowingly or unknowingly in pursuit of greater emotional/spiritual health. Yeah, that's not this story and this hero.
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Kevin J. Miller @kjmiller.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I come from a forest of vanilla/& dream of goddesses of peace & sex/I have epic 3D operas in me/it's a hell of a/Burden my silence being the thing that takes stock of the future & wrecks/I'll write you a trilogy/show you the magic/& light in a monster's soul/& all the forbidden place you must go
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