Melissa Cosgrove
@melissacosgrove.bsky.social
Author of Project Reconstitution, a civic document blueprint for rebuilding democratic integrity through care and relation. Based in Chicago.
https://www.projectreconstitution.org/ | https://cosgrove.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/melissacosgrove
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Writer, philosopher, and systems thinker living at the intersections of disability, care, rupture, and repair. I trace how systems break and what it takes to rebuild with care. My civic document Project Reconstitution is now live: projectreconstitution.org
I usually sign my emails “with care.”
Today I had no care to sign with.
Today I had no care to sign with.
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I usually sign my emails “with care.”
Today I had no care to sign with.
Today I had no care to sign with.
Reposted by Melissa Cosgrove
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
Reposted by Melissa Cosgrove
Reposted by Melissa Cosgrove
The death of two national guardsmen is a horrific tragedy.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The death of two national guardsmen is a horrific tragedy.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
It is also an orchestrated tragedy by a president hellbent on creating a tinder box environment across the country.
Just remembered my first autistic moment was watching Bambi and completely missing that his mom died. They didn’t show it, nobody said it, so kid-me decided she was absolutely alive and well until someone told me otherwise years later.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Just remembered my first autistic moment was watching Bambi and completely missing that his mom died. They didn’t show it, nobody said it, so kid-me decided she was absolutely alive and well until someone told me otherwise years later.
A judge enforcing limits isn’t despotism. The last 11 months sure looked like it though.
A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A judge enforcing limits isn’t despotism. The last 11 months sure looked like it though.
“Blow it up” is a management style. “Restorative rupture” is a transformation strategy. Happy to share the blueprint if CBS wants something that actually works. See: Project Reconstitution.
h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social
h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Blow it up” is a management style. “Restorative rupture” is a transformation strategy. Happy to share the blueprint if CBS wants something that actually works. See: Project Reconstitution.
h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social
h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Real authority comes from integrity, not fear. If we want a democracy people can trust, we have to rebuild it on that foundation.
Read more: projectreconstitution.org
Read more: projectreconstitution.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Real authority comes from integrity, not fear. If we want a democracy people can trust, we have to rebuild it on that foundation.
Read more: projectreconstitution.org
Read more: projectreconstitution.org
ICYMI: Project Reconstitution is now public.
It’s my civic document on how we rebuild trust, integrity, and care into the structure of American democracy.
Read here: projectreconstitution.org
It’s my civic document on how we rebuild trust, integrity, and care into the structure of American democracy.
Read here: projectreconstitution.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ICYMI: Project Reconstitution is now public.
It’s my civic document on how we rebuild trust, integrity, and care into the structure of American democracy.
Read here: projectreconstitution.org
It’s my civic document on how we rebuild trust, integrity, and care into the structure of American democracy.
Read here: projectreconstitution.org
Reposted by Melissa Cosgrove
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
We were never meant to survive alone. Systems endure because their parts hold one another in place. Our politics forgot this. Our future depends on remembering it.
Read my new civic document: projectreconstitution.org
Read my new civic document: projectreconstitution.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We were never meant to survive alone. Systems endure because their parts hold one another in place. Our politics forgot this. Our future depends on remembering it.
Read my new civic document: projectreconstitution.org
Read my new civic document: projectreconstitution.org
Writer, philosopher, and systems thinker living at the intersections of disability, care, rupture, and repair. I trace how systems break and what it takes to rebuild with care. My civic document Project Reconstitution is now live: projectreconstitution.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Writer, philosopher, and systems thinker living at the intersections of disability, care, rupture, and repair. I trace how systems break and what it takes to rebuild with care. My civic document Project Reconstitution is now live: projectreconstitution.org
The dual state is becoming impossible to ignore. One America follows the rules, another lives by exception. My launch essay is now live, and Project Reconstitution is public.
Substack Essay: bit.ly/4a1s28X
Document: projectreconstitution.org
Substack Essay: bit.ly/4a1s28X
Document: projectreconstitution.org
What My Divorce Revealed About the Country We Live In
How survival reshaped the way I understand care
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The dual state is becoming impossible to ignore. One America follows the rules, another lives by exception. My launch essay is now live, and Project Reconstitution is public.
Substack Essay: bit.ly/4a1s28X
Document: projectreconstitution.org
Substack Essay: bit.ly/4a1s28X
Document: projectreconstitution.org
New essay out today. 📝 It starts with Iowa-80 and ends with the story underneath it: who cares for this country and who gets overlooked. Hope you read it.
🔗 bit.ly/4i2qddZ
🔗 bit.ly/4i2qddZ
The Cathedral of the Road
How the world's largest truck stop reveals the hidden scaffolding of American life
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November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New essay out today. 📝 It starts with Iowa-80 and ends with the story underneath it: who cares for this country and who gets overlooked. Hope you read it.
🔗 bit.ly/4i2qddZ
🔗 bit.ly/4i2qddZ
A system that turns hunger into policy has already abandoned the social contract. Care is what gives order meaning. Except America never made care structural, and the cost is unfolding in real time. Hope ya'll are ready.
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A system that turns hunger into policy has already abandoned the social contract. Care is what gives order meaning. Except America never made care structural, and the cost is unfolding in real time. Hope ya'll are ready.
Life keeps committing to the bit: rupture, repair, repeat.
A few days ago, someone with a platform told me I didn’t belong in the conversation. Today, my first paper was accepted — anonymously peer-reviewed — for an academic conference on feminism and myth.
A few days ago, someone with a platform told me I didn’t belong in the conversation. Today, my first paper was accepted — anonymously peer-reviewed — for an academic conference on feminism and myth.
October 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Life keeps committing to the bit: rupture, repair, repeat.
A few days ago, someone with a platform told me I didn’t belong in the conversation. Today, my first paper was accepted — anonymously peer-reviewed — for an academic conference on feminism and myth.
A few days ago, someone with a platform told me I didn’t belong in the conversation. Today, my first paper was accepted — anonymously peer-reviewed — for an academic conference on feminism and myth.
The Atlantic calls it commerce. I see recursion. Taylor is performing the cycle of attention and appetite that defines modern art itself. She’s not the product; she’s the proof. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O
cc @theatlantic.com @skornhaber.bsky.social
cc @theatlantic.com @skornhaber.bsky.social
Taylor Swift’s new chart topper is an achievement of e-commerce, not music, argues @skornhaber.bsky.social:
Buy This Album. Now Buy It in Green.
Here’s how Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl just shattered sales records.
bit.ly
October 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The Atlantic calls it commerce. I see recursion. Taylor is performing the cycle of attention and appetite that defines modern art itself. She’s not the product; she’s the proof. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O
cc @theatlantic.com @skornhaber.bsky.social
cc @theatlantic.com @skornhaber.bsky.social
Defector calls Showgirl bad because it’s “about greed.”
Of course it is. It’s about us. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O
cc @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social @defector.com
Of course it is. It’s about us. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O
cc @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social @defector.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Defector calls Showgirl bad because it’s “about greed.”
Of course it is. It’s about us. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O
cc @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social @defector.com
Of course it is. It’s about us. My essay → bit.ly/48XsG6O
cc @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social @defector.com
Everyone’s dissecting The Life of a Showgirl like it’s confession.
It’s not. It’s confrontation.
→ bit.ly/48XsG6O
It’s not. It’s confrontation.
→ bit.ly/48XsG6O
The Mirrorball Cracked
On the Life of a Showgirl and the Collapse of the Crowd
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October 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Everyone’s dissecting The Life of a Showgirl like it’s confession.
It’s not. It’s confrontation.
→ bit.ly/48XsG6O
It’s not. It’s confrontation.
→ bit.ly/48XsG6O
If Glass House I was about being seen,
Glass House II is about what sees us back.
A reflection on light, distance, and the transparency of the universe; how the cosmos itself is a kind of relation.
🔗 bit.ly/4nCrCtx
Glass House II is about what sees us back.
A reflection on light, distance, and the transparency of the universe; how the cosmos itself is a kind of relation.
🔗 bit.ly/4nCrCtx
October 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If Glass House I was about being seen,
Glass House II is about what sees us back.
A reflection on light, distance, and the transparency of the universe; how the cosmos itself is a kind of relation.
🔗 bit.ly/4nCrCtx
Glass House II is about what sees us back.
A reflection on light, distance, and the transparency of the universe; how the cosmos itself is a kind of relation.
🔗 bit.ly/4nCrCtx
We think of being seen as vulnerability, and seeing as power.
But what if they’re the same thing?
Glass House I explores the quiet reciprocity between sight and exposure — the way illumination reveals us all.
🔗 bit.ly/4mNGO5S
But what if they’re the same thing?
Glass House I explores the quiet reciprocity between sight and exposure — the way illumination reveals us all.
🔗 bit.ly/4mNGO5S
October 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
We think of being seen as vulnerability, and seeing as power.
But what if they’re the same thing?
Glass House I explores the quiet reciprocity between sight and exposure — the way illumination reveals us all.
🔗 bit.ly/4mNGO5S
But what if they’re the same thing?
Glass House I explores the quiet reciprocity between sight and exposure — the way illumination reveals us all.
🔗 bit.ly/4mNGO5S
News about the Flotilla today is not just geopolitical — it’s temporal. This is about who claims time.
I wrote The Tempo of Relation to name precisely that: how dominance accelerates fracture, how relation returns time to us.
🔗 bit.ly/3IRQy10
I wrote The Tempo of Relation to name precisely that: how dominance accelerates fracture, how relation returns time to us.
🔗 bit.ly/3IRQy10
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
News about the Flotilla today is not just geopolitical — it’s temporal. This is about who claims time.
I wrote The Tempo of Relation to name precisely that: how dominance accelerates fracture, how relation returns time to us.
🔗 bit.ly/3IRQy10
I wrote The Tempo of Relation to name precisely that: how dominance accelerates fracture, how relation returns time to us.
🔗 bit.ly/3IRQy10
Duct tape on glasses. A broken laptop screen. A frayed charger. Sometimes survival and creation share the same tools.
September 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Duct tape on glasses. A broken laptop screen. A frayed charger. Sometimes survival and creation share the same tools.