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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

newrepublic.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

you know…. I imagined it was bad but I could not have imagined this

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h

Thank you!

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h

lol always

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

it's just some blogs (I am telling myself) I have only assigned myself some posts, anyway see you tue

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

it's so reliably good! all I've changed is sometimes I add in a few handfuls of dark-ish chocolate chunks/chips

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h

it's my first time! debating containers like the rest of my garden, or the ground, in zone 7b

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

I mean I am also catching up on laundry and figuring out where to plant my fall bulbs and probably procrasti-baking smitten kitchen's pumpkin bread

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

it feels increasingly ludicrous to step out of the news like I am about to do until Tuesday so that I can tackle all the TKs in my book ms, but also some of the TKs are "the red and lavender scare," "Jane Crow and the law," "Carceral creep," "A zone of lawlessness," "A new founding" so

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

thx, Susan

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

"Jack Posobiec, a far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist... called Bray a 'domestic terrorist professor.' 'The day after the Posobiec tweet, I received a very direct death threat saying that someone was going to kill me in front of my students,' says Bray." Jack was at the White House on Wed.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11h

"...at the airport, after they had already scanned their passports, received boarding passes, checked in their bags, and cleared security, Bray says he and his family were not allowed to board their flight... 'For 20 minutes [United Airlines] couldn't even figure out what had happened,' says Bray."

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

newrepublic.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

a new confederated NAAG

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

it is only because Pritzker and Newsom are already floating leaving the National Association of Governors that I am reading this list as a preview of a spin-off from National Association of Attorneys General

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 15h

Fairweather federalists: A coalition of MAGA attorneys general file amicus brief supporting Donald Trump’s militarization of a sovereign state and city.

Of note: This is not surprising, given some of these same actors supported overturning the election results in states Joe Biden won.

Counsel for State of Iowa

ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN SUPPORT
Austin Knudsen
Attorney General of Montana
Gentner Drummond
Attorney General of Oklahoma
Lynn Fitch
Attorney General of Mississippi
Catherine Hanaway
Attorney General of Missouri
Alan Wilson
Attorney General of South Carolina
Steve Marshall
Attorney General of Alabama
Tim Griffin
Attorney General of Arkansas
James Uthmeier
Attorney General of Florida
Chris Carr
Attorney General of Georgia
Raúl R. Labrador
Attorney General of Idaho
Theodore E. Rokita
Attorney General of Indiana
Kris Kobach
Attorney General of Kansas
Liz Murrill
Attorney General of Louisiana
Michael T. Hilgers
Attorney General of Nebraska
Marty Jackley
Attorney General of South Dakota
Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas
John B. McCuskey
Attorney General of West Virginia

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

“Trump's twin directives on domestic political violence have caused confusion; lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security are scrambling to figure out how to implement them legally, according to two DHS officials not authorized to speak publicly.”

www.reuters.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

They list @chirla-org.bsky.social as one of the groups they’re going to go after. CHIRLA has been fighting for immigrant rights since the Reagan admin. I’ll be standing by them if the admin comes after them.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

Mark Bray this morning:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

can’t tell if it’s correctly putting the event and its guests in their place or skipping over an important point that this AP story on Rubio’s note to Trump refers several times to the “antifa roundtable” only as an “influencer event”

AP photos show Rubio's urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed President Donald Trump a note during a White House event, hinting that a Mideast peace deal was close.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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