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Michelle Teheux

@michelleteheux

articles: 40
total claps: 40,615
top claps: 6,036
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paywalled: 40
active: 2022-08-24 → 2026-09-16

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📢 · Social Issues · 17 SOC · Sociology & Politics · 15 ECO · Economy · General · 15 🏛️ · Politics · 14 ✊ · Equality & Identity · 12 👗 · Fashion · 6 CUL · Culture & Media · 5 ✨ · Lifestyle · General · 5

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#politics ·12 #economic-inequality ·11 #poverty ·9 #lifestyle ·5 #money ·4 #culture ·4 #writing ·4 #capitalism ·4 #oligarchy ·3 #democracy ·2

MI Michelle Teheux

The Strange Paradox of Subscriptions

You probably don’t even realize what we’ve lost, but I do

Nov 21, 2024 · 6 min read · 6,036 claps paywalled #writing #digital-news-media #big-tech

HUM SOC

MI Michelle Teheux

On May 4, 1970, The Mass Shooter On Campus Was The Government

I’m afraid for student protesters again

May 04, 2024 · 5 min read · 3,156 claps paywalled #kent-state #kent-state-shootings #neil-young

On May 4, 1970, The Mass Shooter On Campus Was The Government

ECO ART LIF SOC SPR

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Doing Work You Love Sounds Ideal Until You Try to Pay Your Bills With It

Sometimes I regret not selling my soul, but I could never get a good price for it

Jul 14, 2025 · 6 min read · 2,785 claps paywalled #poverty #work-life-balance #for-love-or-money

Doing Work You Love Sounds Ideal Until You Try to Pay Your Bills With It

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MI Michelle Teheux · The Pub

Objects in My House I Will Definitely Take to the Antiques Roadshow

I am sitting on many museum-quality artifacts

Oct 24, 2023 · 6 min read · 2,446 claps paywalled #antiques-roadshow #antiques-and-collectibles #clutter

Objects in My House I Will Definitely Take to the Antiques Roadshow

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

My Sassy-Pants Up-Yours Piece on LinkedIn

I resisted the urge to tag a couple of people

Jan 06, 2025 · 4 min read · 1,969 claps paywalled #writing #linkedin #freelance-writing

My Sassy-Pants Up-Yours Piece on LinkedIn

SOC

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Signs of A National Infection

We need to clear this up before it kills us

Jun 19, 2023 · 4 min read · 1,883 claps paywalled #politics #trump #working-class

ART LIF ECO SOC

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

We Ruined the Simple Life

What used to be a stable, modest way of living has been priced out of existence

Jul 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 1,671 claps paywalled #simple-life #stress #inflation

ECO SOC HUM

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Americans Have Some Hard Lessons to Learn

You cannot frugal yourself out of poverty, but you can spend yourself into it

Jun 29, 2026 · 5 min read · 1,457 claps paywalled #economic-inequality #poverty #politics

Americans Have Some Hard Lessons to Learn

TCH ECO SOC HUM

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

The Government Is Starting to Fear the Consequences of Economic Inequality

Class anger has officially become a ‘security concern’

May 01, 2026 · 4 min read · 1,352 claps paywalled #class #socioeconomic-class #economic-exploitation

The Government Is Starting to Fear the Consequences of Economic Inequality

SPT

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

What Sports Illustrated and Your Sad Local Paper Have In Common

That’s if you even still have a local newspaper

Jan 22, 2024 · 4 min read · 1,321 claps paywalled #sports-illustrated #newspapers #media

What Sports Illustrated and Your Sad Local Paper Have In Common

ECO SOC LIF HUM

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

What’s Good for Rich Kids is Also Good for Poor Kids

We praise stay-at-home parenting until poor mothers try to do it

Jun 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 1,091 claps paywalled #parenting #childcare #money

What’s Good for Rich Kids is Also Good for Poor Kids

LIF SOC

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Let Them Eat Fast Food

Fast food isn’t cheap. It’s what you eat when you run out of better options.

Jun 13, 2026 · 5 min read · 1,016 claps paywalled #poverty #diet #food

ECO SOC MED HUM

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

How Much of the Mental Health Crisis is Just Everyone Being Broke?

We blame the phones, not the economy

May 27, 2026 · 5 min read · 907 claps paywalled #economic-inequality #money #mental-health

How Much of the Mental Health Crisis is Just Everyone Being Broke?

HUM ECO LIF

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Why American Homes All Look the Same

Beyond the beige: How financial fears stoke aesthetic conformity, and how you can be your authentic self anyway

Jun 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 886 claps paywalled #culture #old-house-renovation #home-decor

MDA SOC SPT

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Big Don’s Golf Club, Cemetery and Document Depository

I have the best golf and the best cemetery and the best Top Secret documents, believe me!

Aug 24, 2022 · 3 min read · 861 claps paywalled #satire #trump #trumps-wall

ECO

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

We Only Wish We Were Being Nickled and Dimed

We are being hit with multiple ‘for-no-good-reason’ financial crises

Jul 03, 2026 · 5 min read · 855 claps paywalled #inflation #household-budget #cost-of-living

We Only Wish We Were Being Nickled and Dimed

ECO TCH SPR

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

When the Dead Start Posting

Why I had to unfriend a dead guy

May 20, 2026 · 5 min read · 753 claps paywalled #death #social-media #impersonation

SOC HUM

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

The Divided States of America

Republican red, Democratic blue and plenty of white

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · 708 claps paywalled #politics #democracy #national-identity

MDA SOC

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

The Chinese Have Been Spying On Me Since 2015

We will never forget the night the balloon came for us

Feb 06, 2023 · 3 min read · 635 claps paywalled #satire #chinese-balloon #helium-shortage

The Chinese Have Been Spying On Me Since 2015

HUM LIF

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

The Writer’s Life

What I actually do all day (and why it never feels like enough)

Jul 05, 2026 · 7 min read · 623 claps paywalled #writing #writing-tips #writers-on-writing

TCH ECO

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

This Tightwad Spent With A Smile

A rare moment when spending money felt right

Jun 16, 2026 · 4 min read · 611 claps paywalled #money #budget #household-finances

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

You Can Tell Real News From Propaganda

Please, don’t be gullible!

Sep 16, 2022 · 5 min read · 594 claps paywalled #media #propaganda #fake-news

SOC HUM SPR

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Rasputin Was One Mad Monk. America Has Many More

How extreme inequality and religious opportunists are destabilizing modern politics

Jun 07, 2026 · 6 min read · 584 claps paywalled #politics #authoritarianism #rasputin

Rasputin Was One Mad Monk. America Has Many More

HUM ECO SOC

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

Let’s Blame Older People for Economic Inequality and Everything Else

What? We ran out of immigrants, people of color and uppity working women to blame?

Jul 15, 2026 · 4 min read · 574 claps paywalled #economic-inequality #politics #capitalism

Let’s Blame Older People for Economic Inequality and Everything Else

ECO HUM TCH SOC ART LIF

MI Michelle Teheux · Minds Without Borders

The Problem With Defining Life by Work

What happens when a society treats paid labor as the only meaningful use of time?

Jun 01, 2026 · 6 min read · 519 claps paywalled #lifestyle #culture #capitalism