Joyce Millman
@joycemillman.bsky.social
Salon/SF Examiner/Boston Phoenix alum. Seattleite now, Bay Area for 33 years, Greater Boston born & raised. Baseball, Springsteen, hockey. She/her. joycemillman.wordpress.com
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Joyce Millman
@joycemillman.bsky.social
· Jul 11
Easy listening about hard truths - Joyce Millman reviews TWILIGHT HOURS
July 11, 2025EDITOR'S NOTE: Below is the first-to-be-published of our promised summer deep dives into each of the seven albums that comprise Bruce Springsteen's latest release, Tracks II: The Lost Alb...
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I reviewed Bruce Springsteen’s “Twilight Hours”, one of 7 albums in the “Tracks II” box. The Boss croons like the Chairman of the Board, and that ain’t bad, Jack. (I love it.)
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NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.
February 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.
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As a child in school I never could have imagined that as an adult hearing “the vice presence of the united states got booed at the Olympics” my reaction would be an Eriq-Lasalle-in-the-ER-opening-credits fist pump
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
As a child in school I never could have imagined that as an adult hearing “the vice presence of the united states got booed at the Olympics” my reaction would be an Eriq-Lasalle-in-the-ER-opening-credits fist pump
Martin Short, who is already part Muppet.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Martin Short, who is already part Muppet.
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Again, in any functional democracy he is no longer president tonight.
BREAKING: Trump says he 'didn't make a mistake' with his racist video post.
Q: "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?"
Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake."
He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."
Q: "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?"
Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake."
He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."
February 7, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Again, in any functional democracy he is no longer president tonight.
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Breaking MS NOW:
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family
Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.”
www.ms.now
February 7, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Breaking MS NOW:
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
The Clash - I'm so Bored with the U.S.A. (Official Audio)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
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February 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo."
Great read.
Great read.
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo."
Great read.
Great read.
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you have to be a real piece of shit to be a foreign vice president well-known enough to be loathed on sight
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
you have to be a real piece of shit to be a foreign vice president well-known enough to be loathed on sight
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Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.
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HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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“Look at them pretend everything is wonderful. Look at them laugh while the world they run burns. And look at Melania Trump, always in the center of the frame, pretending she’s at a cool remove from all of it. It was fucking gross.”
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'Melania' is so, so, so bad
"It has no journalistic value and even less entertainment value."
www.sfgate.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
“Look at them pretend everything is wonderful. Look at them laugh while the world they run burns. And look at Melania Trump, always in the center of the frame, pretending she’s at a cool remove from all of it. It was fucking gross.”
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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Everything about this is monstrous.
February 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Everything about this is monstrous.
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So, first of all, of course it was Trump.
But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.
But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
So, first of all, of course it was Trump.
But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.
But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.
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This.
Their money and their involvement needs to be Epstein level toxic to any person trying to attain any public position.
Their money and their involvement needs to be Epstein level toxic to any person trying to attain any public position.
Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats.
It's all there.
He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players.
Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.
It's all there.
He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players.
Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.
February 6, 2026 at 7:19 AM
This.
Their money and their involvement needs to be Epstein level toxic to any person trying to attain any public position.
Their money and their involvement needs to be Epstein level toxic to any person trying to attain any public position.
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Our government is being run by horrible, evil, white supremacist monsters. Speak out!
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Our government is being run by horrible, evil, white supremacist monsters. Speak out!
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Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
A satisfying read and I hope it all happens. I choose to believe it will, because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed every day.
Johnny Carson once said the fastest measurable unit of time is that which elapses between when a light turns green in NY and someone honks their horn. But the speed with which Trump's name will be torn off his monuments to himself when he's gone will be greater. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls, Mr. President
Trump's mania to erect monuments to himself will soon, quickly (and gloriously) be undone
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
A satisfying read and I hope it all happens. I choose to believe it will, because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed every day.
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The Kennedy Center’s two‑year shutdown is being sold as routine maintenance.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
The Shuttered Stage: Why Trump Is Really Closing the Kennedy Center
Behind the two-year "revitalization" is a strategic retreat from a historic cultural rejection—and a calculated attempt to overwrite the American story.
andrewweinstein.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:15 AM
The Kennedy Center’s two‑year shutdown is being sold as routine maintenance.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
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This points out something that we've talked about for a few decades by now, the fact that reading and viewing comprehension skills have deteriorated dramatically in the last 40-50 years.
This pro-Trump nostalgia absolutely was confirmed over and over again by the Dems' own internal polling, in a truly horrifying way:
newrepublic.com/article/1882...
newrepublic.com/article/1882...
February 5, 2026 at 11:16 PM
This points out something that we've talked about for a few decades by now, the fact that reading and viewing comprehension skills have deteriorated dramatically in the last 40-50 years.
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Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that with Britta Curl on the U.S. Hockey Team, J.D. Vance & Marco Rubio are at the game sitting with the Lamoureux twins, who are noted transphobes and aligned with Curl wrt to their anti-trans advocacy in sport. Happy Olympics!
February 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that with Britta Curl on the U.S. Hockey Team, J.D. Vance & Marco Rubio are at the game sitting with the Lamoureux twins, who are noted transphobes and aligned with Curl wrt to their anti-trans advocacy in sport. Happy Olympics!
Whew! At least this wasn’t the other thing.
Also, her consultants should just sell her magic beans at this point, because she’d buy them.
Also, her consultants should just sell her magic beans at this point, because she’d buy them.
Kamala Harris’ former campaign account has rebranded to “headquarters_67” (on Twitter), it is now a Gen-Z led hub for progressive content.
February 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Whew! At least this wasn’t the other thing.
Also, her consultants should just sell her magic beans at this point, because she’d buy them.
Also, her consultants should just sell her magic beans at this point, because she’d buy them.
🤞
At this rate, there's a pretty good chance we get an American medalist wearing an "ICE OUT" pin on the stand, which could well be the thing that finally makes him kick it.
Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
🤞
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‘Hey, let’s go listen to a guy who wanted to f*ck his own daughter but he settled for someone else’s trafficked thru Jeffrey Epstein talk about how he won the 2020 election while slurring his way thru a Benzo stupor and call it ‘Prayer Breakfast’.
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
‘Hey, let’s go listen to a guy who wanted to f*ck his own daughter but he settled for someone else’s trafficked thru Jeffrey Epstein talk about how he won the 2020 election while slurring his way thru a Benzo stupor and call it ‘Prayer Breakfast’.
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The last decade I couldn’t wrap my brain around why the NYT would bury Trump stuff at the back of the paper or whitewash his racism and sexism and act like they want him to be president and then we find out the publisher’s grandfather is in the Epstein files and it’s like oh ok pedophiles again.
February 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The last decade I couldn’t wrap my brain around why the NYT would bury Trump stuff at the back of the paper or whitewash his racism and sexism and act like they want him to be president and then we find out the publisher’s grandfather is in the Epstein files and it’s like oh ok pedophiles again.