Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
// staff writer, @newrepublic.com
// A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW
(Little, Brown) forthcoming
// PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// member, NewsGuild of New York
melissagiragrant.com
» [email protected]
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
// A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW
(Little, Brown) forthcoming
// PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// member, NewsGuild of New York
melissagiragrant.com
» [email protected]
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
more cursed sentences for today: "Homan’s visit is hosted by UTEP’s chapter of Turning Point USA, the controversial Christian-right group founded by Charlie Kirk"
Students, advocates and leaders push back against Tom Homan’s upcoming UTEP visit
Students, immigration advocates and elected leaders are protesting former ICE director Tom Homan’s planned UTEP talk, criticizing his immigration record and urging support for affected families and co...
elpasomatters.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
more cursed sentences for today: "Homan’s visit is hosted by UTEP’s chapter of Turning Point USA, the controversial Christian-right group founded by Charlie Kirk"
current status: listening to glenn beck's dog food ads before listening to unhinged federal officials
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
current status: listening to glenn beck's dog food ads before listening to unhinged federal officials
thinking about the approximately 5 minutes in the late 2000s when sex worker memoirs were "hot" with certain editors, and one approached me to write one for [a feminist press, not that one] and I was 26 or 27 and said no and at the time felt too old to be saying no but I still stand by that decision
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
thinking about the approximately 5 minutes in the late 2000s when sex worker memoirs were "hot" with certain editors, and one approached me to write one for [a feminist press, not that one] and I was 26 or 27 and said no and at the time felt too old to be saying no but I still stand by that decision
I wrote about the Trump administration's scapegoating of the accused in the shooting in DC last week, an immigrant who was granted asylum, in order to further gut the asylum process and push more travel bans. There are few “distractions” with this administration: only old, bad ideas come back again.
The Radical Honesty of Trump’s Racist New Asylum Policy
Kristi Noem is being pretty direct in her regurgitation of white nationalist talking points.
newrepublic.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I wrote about the Trump administration's scapegoating of the accused in the shooting in DC last week, an immigrant who was granted asylum, in order to further gut the asylum process and push more travel bans. There are few “distractions” with this administration: only old, bad ideas come back again.
it should be a red flag that “indiscriminately targeting immigrants” is still getting cast as a “stunt”
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
it should be a red flag that “indiscriminately targeting immigrants” is still getting cast as a “stunt”
It’s been more than a decade since I’ve had to be in the same room with one of my few old nemeses—an opinion writer who loved Lean In, had a live-in nanny, and once rifled through my bag left in the designated coat bedroom at a holiday party and stole my MetroCard and like $20 besides—
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It’s been more than a decade since I’ve had to be in the same room with one of my few old nemeses—an opinion writer who loved Lean In, had a live-in nanny, and once rifled through my bag left in the designated coat bedroom at a holiday party and stole my MetroCard and like $20 besides—
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if you extend the timeline to march 14th, a month after nex's murder, you include the eventual response of the president of the united states of america. it was - in its entirety - to tell queer youth to call his suicide hotline.
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
if you extend the timeline to march 14th, a month after nex's murder, you include the eventual response of the president of the united states of america. it was - in its entirety - to tell queer youth to call his suicide hotline.
The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.
is it true if you have a book coming out in the next year or so it's asking for it to comment on another book launch? anyway I am enjoying the posts and glad i let my publisher's marketplace sub lapse long ago
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
is it true if you have a book coming out in the next year or so it's asking for it to comment on another book launch? anyway I am enjoying the posts and glad i let my publisher's marketplace sub lapse long ago
wish I knew what I know now so that I understood behind those glowing profiles of women's rights pioneers (well there's a clue) who "helped" out "poor girls" and "unwed mothers" they usually left out the part where "help" meant they sent them to a special jail or installed them as unpaid maids
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
wish I knew what I know now so that I understood behind those glowing profiles of women's rights pioneers (well there's a clue) who "helped" out "poor girls" and "unwed mothers" they usually left out the part where "help" meant they sent them to a special jail or installed them as unpaid maids
oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...
have to write something requiring some time on X and so only now just noticing that the pinned tweet on the official White House account begins, "We realized everyone over at Bluesky probably wasn't seeing our content..." this is just hanging out a sign, announcing yes, they are desperate losers
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
have to write something requiring some time on X and so only now just noticing that the pinned tweet on the official White House account begins, "We realized everyone over at Bluesky probably wasn't seeing our content..." this is just hanging out a sign, announcing yes, they are desperate losers
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Specifically, Roberts and Gorsuch are open to the argument that the subpoena "chilled" donors. (Basically, made them scared to associate with First Choice.) Alleging that government actions "chill" the First Amendment rights of CPCs is a favorite of ADF, as @susanrinkunas.com and I explored here:
Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.
Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicated its importance as a litigation tool.
www.autonomynews.co
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Specifically, Roberts and Gorsuch are open to the argument that the subpoena "chilled" donors. (Basically, made them scared to associate with First Choice.) Alleging that government actions "chill" the First Amendment rights of CPCs is a favorite of ADF, as @susanrinkunas.com and I explored here:
thread from the Supreme Court today:
They are actually laughing at him
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
thread from the Supreme Court today:
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Border Patrol body camera captured this exchange with a young man and the older man (dad?) he was walking with:
“Please,” the younger man says. “He has a disabled child.”
“That’s not my problem,” the agent answers. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
“Please,” the younger man says. “He has a disabled child.”
“That’s not my problem,” the agent answers. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Border Patrol body camera captured this exchange with a young man and the older man (dad?) he was walking with:
“Please,” the younger man says. “He has a disabled child.”
“That’s not my problem,” the agent answers. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
“Please,” the younger man says. “He has a disabled child.”
“That’s not my problem,” the agent answers. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
gift link to the new NYT story on exclusions to "no tax on tips," successfully pushed by Family Research Council, among others, targeting sex workers for IRS scrutiny by excluding tips earned from "pornography" without defining pornography
For ‘No Tax on Tips,’ the I.R.S. Gets Intimate
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
gift link to the new NYT story on exclusions to "no tax on tips," successfully pushed by Family Research Council, among others, targeting sex workers for IRS scrutiny by excluding tips earned from "pornography" without defining pornography
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I remember in mid-2018 sitting down with Zephyr Teachout, then running for New York attorney general, to talk through her call to prosecute ICE officials who broke the law. This was then considered an extreme, fringe position. Maybe if there had been accountability then, we wouldn’t be here now
"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I remember in mid-2018 sitting down with Zephyr Teachout, then running for New York attorney general, to talk through her call to prosecute ICE officials who broke the law. This was then considered an extreme, fringe position. Maybe if there had been accountability then, we wouldn’t be here now
caveat I’m not a media reporter and have zero inside info, but what it looks like from here (sick in bed, reading gossip) is Olivia N was less a hire for VF than a mutual brand activation
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
caveat I’m not a media reporter and have zero inside info, but what it looks like from here (sick in bed, reading gossip) is Olivia N was less a hire for VF than a mutual brand activation
I’m watching PARADISE LOST (the ‘96 doc) for the first time and it feels like a sign (at the time) of things to come and a relic (now) of storytelling and access before true crime ubiquity
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I’m watching PARADISE LOST (the ‘96 doc) for the first time and it feels like a sign (at the time) of things to come and a relic (now) of storytelling and access before true crime ubiquity
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
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Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.
wbng.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
at a certain point, after years of this, it is a choice, not a mistake, if someone brings their First Amendment fantasies to a Christian nationalist fight
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
at a certain point, after years of this, it is a choice, not a mistake, if someone brings their First Amendment fantasies to a Christian nationalist fight
logging off to rest but these quote-posts are healing
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
logging off to rest but these quote-posts are healing
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Not only is this plain historically wrong, but labor unions were some of the most conservative and late to the party elements of counterglobalization movements. Then they claimed responsibility for the successes of the movement (and continue to do so lol)
This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Not only is this plain historically wrong, but labor unions were some of the most conservative and late to the party elements of counterglobalization movements. Then they claimed responsibility for the successes of the movement (and continue to do so lol)
remembering the late 1990s/early 2000s observations of a Day Without Art, a Visual AIDS project for World AIDS Day—and on the web, people turning their own personal websites black
Day Without Art | Visual AIDS
December 1st is Day With(out) Art, held each year as an international day of action and awareness in response to the AIDS crisis.
visualaids.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
remembering the late 1990s/early 2000s observations of a Day Without Art, a Visual AIDS project for World AIDS Day—and on the web, people turning their own personal websites black