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rachel wilkerson miller

@rachelwmiller.com
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Author of The Nice Life (coming Dec 2026) + The Art of Showing Up. 📚 Prev: SELF Magazine editor in chief, lifestyle editor at VICE, Vox, & BuzzFeed. Blog: www.justgoodshit.com

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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 01/10/2026
Thank you so much, I really appreciate this!
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Vox @vox.com · 30/09/2026
Junk journaling is a great way to cope with digital malaise and existential dread. www.vox.com/the-highligh...
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The free, lightly feral hobby that will help you stop doomscrolling
Junk journaling is a great way to cope with digital malaise and existential dread.
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you have a problem with Mayor Mamdani attending the 9/11 ceremony you’re simply a racist piece of shit, I’m sorry, that’s on you, you’re gonna have to live with that until you figure out how to be a better human being
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Don't want to come off as some delicate flower but I'm just not sure I was designed to learn about so many different variations of human depravity all at once
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/08/2026
You either welcome the stranger or you don't. There is no "only build housing for the truly morally deserving and/or people I want to hang out with" policy lever, no matter how hard you post about Community Land Trusts.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Boat Strikes Are Murder www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.
By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
a good rule of thumb for stuff that is actually the future is, it doesn’t jerk off in your face every five minutes about how much it’s the future and how sorry you’ll be if you don’t get on board
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Everyone in the media could decide <now> that they were going to act like adults & not have Steve Kornacki or the needle or any of the other things that play right into the "elections were stolen by late bags of Dem votes" lying. They choose not to. Other, more serious choices are readily available.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/07/2026
what the fuck do you mean "everyone is using AI and nobody admits it." what the fuck do you mean. who are you talking to. you have allowed a demon to devour your soul. begone
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 16/07/2026
wrote about the time i lost my hearing due to an explosion, and OMC's "How Bizarre" for my column at @pastemagazine.bsky.social www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
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The bright and bold summer perfection of OMC’s “How Bizarre”
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/07/2026
nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...
FREE MASKS
AVAILABLE AT DISTRIBUTION
LOCATIONS
To protect the health of New Yorkers, especially those at greatest risk, free KN95 masks are available at public library branches across the five boroughs. These include Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library locations, as well as the following New York Public Library branches: St. George Library Center in Staten Island, the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (the main branch) in Manhattan. Emergency Management is working to expand availability at additional distribution sites and will announce further locations if air quality worsens.
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 09/07/2026
“We deserve a politics of class solidarity rather than class fetishism, one that actually respects the full mosaic of working people, rather than falling for the one cool trick of elevating whichever white guy sounds most like a Super Bowl truck commercial.” thewhitepages.net/p/we-all-des...
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We all deserve so much better
On Graham Platner, but not just Graham Platner
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
do you think a little girl is going to forget the time she had to let an adult look at her genitals to play soccer? the gavin newsoms of the world never think about *how* trans sports bans will be enforced because they're too busy "having concerns" about "girls in sports".
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 30/06/2026
Also, haven’t they published a version of this op-ed several times already? 🫩
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Vox @vox.com · 30/06/2026
These hot, hairy-chested guys have tens of thousands of followers. They're also not real. www.vox.com/culture/4926...
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Why gay guys are falling for AI thirst traps
These hot, hairy-chested guys have tens of thousands of followers. They’re also not real.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to March 2026. Between H.R. 1's enactment in July 2025 and March 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4 million.
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play
a screenshot of a nyt opinion piece titled: we have to stop freaking out about a.i. 
published june 22, 2026 at 5am et

the image accompanying it is a (presumably ai generated) cartoon of a white bald man lying in bed terrified of pixel monsters lurking under his bed
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
zofran should be an otc medication and i will die on this hell
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Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I took a trip to one of the last-ever Beach Boys shows, a band that now consists of only one original member -- the eternally controversial Mike Love. I wanted to witness the end of an American institution. Unsurprisingly, it's ending badly.
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 19/06/2026
This was so good!!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/06/2026
It’s important to remember that every single one of the Black women whom this administration has targeted has endured this kind of burden — often with far higher costs, in dollars, in violent threats, in social costs. And the world averts its eyes from the weight they carry from these attacks.
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 18/06/2026
I kind of love it/get it?! But also this could just be third shift behavior!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Grateful to NYC based writers, authors and scholars who have signed on to An Open Letter to @mayor.nyc.gov urging him to adequately fund our public libraries. I see some @bsky.app mutuals on here as well as some fave writers. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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NYC Public Library Action Network — open letter to Mayor Mamdani
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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 17/06/2026
Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...
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Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget
NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It was fun and I am so happy we organized it. thank you Tony for your contributions to making the event today a good one.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The vibe shift is upon us. Woke 9 has begun.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
When "homeless working adults with minor-aged children" becomes a distinct administrative category—not an anomaly, but a recognized population requiring its own eligibility framework—you know something is very, very broken in our society.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 16/05/2026
kind of love that they were expect it to look like Mamma Mia though
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 13/05/2026
Mayor Mamdani came in $97M short of what he promised for libraries *repeatedly* on the campaign trail and in early Jan this year. Libraries are an essential service in this city and this is frankly super disappointing from a socialist mayor. We want what was promised: just 1/2 of 1% of the budget
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My latest is a reflection on the cycle of dread, disaster, and temporary reprieves we’re all navigating, what that cycle is doing to us, and how we can avoid losing ourselves to it. This edition also includes a roundup of must-read pieces that have helped me think about this moment.
organizingmythoughts.org
This Is No Way to Live
Feelings of powerlessness can be insidious.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 07/04/2026
Wrote a little thing in my newsletter this morning about the way people talk about AI and writing, and the devaluation of labour www.anxietyshark.ca/solve-for-wo...
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Solve for work
There is no written word without a weary hand wielding the pen.
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...
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They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 12/03/2026
not “house” and “field” being the first two options in your little “guess what these words have in common” game @linkedin.com 😭😭😭😭😭
Screenshot of linkedin game pinpoint with “house” and “field” categories revealed and a box that says “guess the category”
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
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rachel wilkerson miller @rachelwmiller.com · 24/02/2026
omg www.theverge.com/tech/883089/...
theverge.com
The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app that shares multiple predictions
Acme Weather embraces the idea that forecasts are never 100 percent accurate.
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