Karla L Miller

Now it's time to make "abolish ICE" the compromise. The nice thing about a floor is that you can raise it!

How about "prosecute ICE goons, restitution for anyone detained by ICE, and a mass citizenship grant for immigrants and refugees in general"?

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Ahahaha oh my God who is this designed for

At this point I assume anyone using ANY 'AI' feature in ANYTHING is not only lazy and incompetent but actively -- not passively -- contemptuous of whoever is on the receiving end of their so-called work

<<…Carroll received an email invitation to a scientific conference at Epstein’s home on his private Caribbean island. … “But when we asked if [Carroll’s wife] would be a participant, they said ‘she could go shopping with the other wives.’ And we were repulsed by that sexist attitude.”>>

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Oh HELL no

a green sparkly set of dice with black ink

a blue and orange sparkly set of dice with yellow ink

The Fight ICE with Dice Charity Auction is live and has 150 donated items including handmade (and gorgeous dice sets) to support Immigrants' Rights organizations! Check it out!

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But I know at 18 I was absolutely unmoored. A kid brought up in poverty wanting a way out. A kid pressured by a parent. A kid who's going to need years to deprogram MAGA cult rhetoric.

No. I do not wish for death for them.

I wish for a better system so they don't feel a need to do this.

The average recruit into the military is 18.

Before your frontal cortex forms.

And can't really grok scale of consequence.

America is an aggressor and an empire that needs to fall, but I save some empathy for the 18 year olds we're about to kill, too.

No one should be dying to war. No one.

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Pink-slip cuisine: Stone soup An old fable offers a useful go-to recipe for the unemployed and budget-conscious.

I promise this isn't turning into a recipe blog, but I was asked for my tips for eating on a budget. Mexican chicken tortilla "stone soup" is my go-to. medium.com/@karla.mille...

I’m so sorry to hear this. Be gentle with yourself.

UNITED NEVER DEFEATED

Claiming you or your choices or your media preferences or whatever are "apolitical" is actually a declaration of your politics. And a very loud one.

JICYDK.

Karla L. Miller – Medium Read writing from Karla L. Miller on Medium. Hi. I'm Karla. You may know me from the Washington Post Work Advice column (2011-2025). Opinions, errors, swears, and serial commas are entirely mine.

Also, if you like Bluesky Karla, you’ll love my blog. All the words the Post wouldn’t let me print.

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Er … thanks? 😅

GeNeRaL WouNdwoRt and InLé hAvE cOmE for yoUr SoUL

Hell yeah avocados!!

A packaged chocolate bunny whose candy eyes are disturbingly misaligned

Pre-purchasing chocolate Easter bunnies and I am aiming for the most disturbed-looking ones

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

Oh YEAH. My faves:
-Wasa topped with chicken salad for lunch
-Wasa topped with almond butter and really ripe banana slices for breakfast.

Selfie of me and my two cats looking up at the camera. The cats, one tortoiseshell and one orange, are both on my chest, close to my face. The tortoiseshell, Azula, has her paw on top of the orange cat’s paw (Katara).

Closeup of Azula’s paw on Katara’s

I… the cute. I cannot.

Hey, I’m not here to judge (I will judge elsewhere, privately)

Detention hearing scheduled Tuesday for teens arrested in Quakertown ICE protest Officials have not publicly released information about what charges the teenagers face.

Ridiculous! The 5 Pennsylvania high school students who were arrested on Friday for walking out of school to protest ICE ARE STILL BEING DETAINED. www.inquirer.com/news/quakert...

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Email to USA Hockey

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I lost my job. Everybody’s gonna hear about it. Laid off? Dammit, Gondor, call for aid.

So I have some news: In addition to ending my column at the Post, I just lost my day job.

Time to road-test my own advice. medium.com/@karla.mille...

Oo, how long before we get the coca back in Coca-Cola and start handing pipes out to kids again?