Now We Know Who Stephen Miller Was In A Prior Life December 21, 2025 I was hoping not to like Rachel Maddow’s new podcast, Burn Order, because who has the time, right? Plus, we all know about the Japanese internment and that, in retrospect, it was a mistake. Well, I have bad news: Burn Order is riveting. And relevant. The good news is that it’s just six episodes that, at 1.3X speed, will go by very fast. I can’t imagine any Republican senators will listen, let alone Stephen Miller or Tom Homan or Kristi Noem; but, boy, should they ever. It’s their story. While we’re on the subject, here is a piece on what it’s like to be detained by ICE, written by Trump’s former fixer. It begins: Four people died in ICE custody this week, proving the cruelty isn’t the arrest itself — it’s the neglect, indifference, and silence that follow once the doors lock. I’ve been out of federal custody for a while now, but the memories don’t fade. They wake you up at night like a phantom pain from a limb you didn’t even know the government could amputate. Since my release from FCI Otisville, I’ve been very clear about what it means to be a human warehoused by the United States government. . . . Don’t miss Burn Order. As my mother used to say, “Let it be a lesson to us all.”