Matt W Miller

Federal troop deployments to US cities cost taxpayers $496M and counting The Trump administration's deployment of federal troops to six U.S. cities has cost taxpayers about $496 million through December.

Tell everyone you know

HALF A BILLION $

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I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers.

I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Screenshot of an X post by Jamie Bonkiewicz. The top post says, “The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now.” Below it is another post from the same account that says, “Here’s video,” with a video preview image showing a bald man standing on a covered porch, seen from a low angle, with white ceiling panels and a porch column behind him.

Look what the Feds are doing now to intimidate people into silence.

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

Unlawful ICE raids are
taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart

Shameful

What a cover.

The Build - Cutleaf Journal On one of those bright cerulean popping mornings just at the beginning of summer break, when I was about 13, my dad took my two brothers and me to the lumber

Recently published essay about fathers and fatherhood as we approach Father's Day:

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One of My Babies Twenty years ago, I found myself teaching a man who was responsible for an unimaginably horrific crime. I turned my back on him just when he needed me and have regretted it ever since.

Narratively just published my prize winning essay about my time teaching in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men: One of My Babies www.narratively.com/p/one-of-my-...

Noem Gets Epically Schooled By Dem Senator After She Proves She Has No Clue What 'Habeas Corpus' Is The incompetence is off the charts.

The incompetence is off the charts.

Congratulations to @mattwmiller.bsky.social, MFA candidate in Nonfiction! He was selected as a finalist in Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize. 🎉

https://www.narratively.com/p/meet-the-grand-prize-winner-2024-memoir-prize

February 2025 Poetry Feature: New Poems by Our Contributors MARC VINCENZ <br> Oh, you genius, you beehive, / you spark, you contiguous line— / all from the same place of origin // where there is no breeze. // All those questions posed … / take no notice, the i...

Pumped to have a new poem, "Cleveland" up at @commonmag.bsky.social . The poem may start off as a dig at myself and the city and middle age but turns into love for the people there so a big shout out to all my friends in and from The 216

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The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

“I hate Illinois Nazis”

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

More of this, America.

Return of the King - Cutleaf Journal By the time Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy was lighting theaters like fired up beacons, so much of my dad had been broken by sickness, by surgery, by pain and the impossibility of full recovery.

My dad would have been 80 today. Loved taking us to the movies. Here’s an essay about one of the last times I took him to the movies.

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Great but crushing book

Wonderful essay in Sport Litertate by my friend Eric Stinton about teaching set against the subculture of chicken fighting in Hawaii.

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Great Crow poem www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/crow-...

Great poem by my dear friend Maggie Dietz up in Verse Daily!

Barker House by David Moloney. Beautiful but it’s spring 2020 release overshadowed by Covid.

Guess which ‘one’ hasn’t figured it out yet?! 👇

Just one guess. 🇺🇸

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in conversation on 'SOUL!' (PART 1) | ALL ARTS Vault YouTube video by ALL ARTS TV (ALL ARTS)

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Plus Betty White

Katy Didden

I've been reading Book of Disquiet!

My Newman enamored wife wife has said more than once she'd dig him up to have her way with his rotted corpse. I may direct her to the ghost. Less mess? Less digging for sure.