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Melissa Gira Grant
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author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (@littlebrown.bsky.social, 2KTK) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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“It's this whole, like, what is filmmaking?“
January 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
truly feels like The Year For It, the last thing that got me to go to Mass was to witness this in Chicago…
January 14, 2026 at 3:25 PM
it is also my birthday (and the Roe anniversary) and I quit the Church 30 years ago but seeing Homan’s mug that close to Mary……..
January 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
did the winter sowing—seedlings TK
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence
January 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
My story on where things were at in the struggle to restore abortion access in Missouri, despite voters rolling back a near-total ban, for TNR's June 2025 issue: newrepublic.com/article/1946...
January 9, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Bring the war home:
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 PM
This was where we were one year ago. newrepublic.com/article/1902...
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
ICE shoots three people in two days, and you want to talk about this being an “incantation”
January 9, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Still seeing Renee Good described as having a child (she had three children) now “orphaned,” still, tonight, and her wife described as “a person who said in a video that she was her wife.” Her IG had a 🏳️‍🌈 emoji!! Her ex-husband even acknowledges her “current partner” (AP).

apnews.com/article/ice-...
January 8, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I wrote a kind of January 6 piece for 2026: newrepublic.com/article/2049...
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
real question, are they going to end up at MDC? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
what
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
sun is streaming in as we hear about people who ICE came for and people who stood with them
January 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM
guys it is extremely cold on broadway but people are sticking thru it
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
en route to the mayor’s street party
January 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
impossible to excerpt, here is one run: leahsottile.substack.com/p/66-clarity...
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
not lost on me that the street party stretches to Zuccotti Park nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/29/e...
December 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

1994 is the year that made me, in no small part due to Under the Pink.
December 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
out at last from twelve days isolation, nothing better than this to go out to
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
and I’m out
December 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
not the worst sick situation (past me thought ahead to order xmas cookies and nice tea)
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM