Siobhan Millen
@smillen.bsky.social
Member of the NC State Board of Elections, Lawyer, Mom of Four, Grandmother.
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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
July 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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society if he had taken the bus
July 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
society if he had taken the bus
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
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"Good fucking riddance," Lander says of Andrew Cuomo, who was trailing behind Zohran Mamdani tonight
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"Good fucking riddance," Lander says of Andrew Cuomo, who was trailing behind Zohran Mamdani tonight
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I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
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I don’t think we’re getting those $5,000 DOGE checks.
June 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I don’t think we’re getting those $5,000 DOGE checks.
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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
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Great essay (which like all such ia good to argue with). Magazines "never sought out but seemingly always at hand" (in my house it was "Smithsonian"): a mainstay of the lives of intellectually precocious pre-teens in a pre-Internet world.
theamericanscholar.org/kodachrome-e...
theamericanscholar.org/kodachrome-e...
Kodachrome Eden - The American Scholar
With purple prose and oversaturated images, National Geographic reimagined postwar America as a dreamspace of hope and fascination
theamericanscholar.org
May 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Great essay (which like all such ia good to argue with). Magazines "never sought out but seemingly always at hand" (in my house it was "Smithsonian"): a mainstay of the lives of intellectually precocious pre-teens in a pre-Internet world.
theamericanscholar.org/kodachrome-e...
theamericanscholar.org/kodachrome-e...
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The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points
April 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points
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“What would the Founding Fathers think” buddy I don’t care what my regular father thinks
April 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“What would the Founding Fathers think” buddy I don’t care what my regular father thinks
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We all know this doesn't "solve" the problem. But if nothing else, this shatters the assertion that all Democrats can do is to plead with Republicans since they are in the minority in Congress. It should be a reminder that we can, in fact, expect more from our elected leaders.
Do. Something.
Do. Something.
Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador is a form of embodied protest and helped put Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Gracia on the front page of the NYT two days in a row.
As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”
As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”
April 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We all know this doesn't "solve" the problem. But if nothing else, this shatters the assertion that all Democrats can do is to plead with Republicans since they are in the minority in Congress. It should be a reminder that we can, in fact, expect more from our elected leaders.
Do. Something.
Do. Something.
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It’s not like anybody needs me to say this, but federal District Court judges sure do seem to have more guts than every single GOP member of Congress, don’t they?
March 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It’s not like anybody needs me to say this, but federal District Court judges sure do seem to have more guts than every single GOP member of Congress, don’t they?
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Not long…
If the stock market gets a whiff of the executive branch blatantly defying court orders, how long before it figures out that private property rights are endangered?
March 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Not long…
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Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
March 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
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Fact
Hate Kamala’s laugh all you want, but it never crashed the stock market.
March 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Fact
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The difference between Vance and Rubio.
(This is not intended as praise for Rubio or to express empathy for the position he’s in).
(This is not intended as praise for Rubio or to express empathy for the position he’s in).
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The difference between Vance and Rubio.
(This is not intended as praise for Rubio or to express empathy for the position he’s in).
(This is not intended as praise for Rubio or to express empathy for the position he’s in).
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You’re laughing? We’re going to Ft. Knox to see if the gold is there because maybe somebody stole the gold, tons of gold, and you’re laughing??
February 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You’re laughing? We’re going to Ft. Knox to see if the gold is there because maybe somebody stole the gold, tons of gold, and you’re laughing??
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“Hey guys…I know you said you were all about settled law before but can you just toss out this 90 year old ruling! It’s super getting in the way of our fascism. That would be great. Mmmm…kay…thanks!”
February 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Hey guys…I know you said you were all about settled law before but can you just toss out this 90 year old ruling! It’s super getting in the way of our fascism. That would be great. Mmmm…kay…thanks!”
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus