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John Leavitt
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Support the troops
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John Leavitt
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Support the troops
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Melissa Gira Grant
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bluesky, so mean to emdashes (and other punctuation but i take that personally lol)
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Sarah Posner
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DeMuth, who traveled with Thomas on this trip, said this, just this week at his NatCon conference
religiondispatches.org/persecution-...:
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Melissa Gira Grant
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what was facebook for the 1930s (you would think after four years of getting deep on the 30s left i would know but nope)
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Melissa Gira Grant
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behold, maybe, an early 21st century popular front:
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I woke up this morning and was like, I hope Jess gets in on this because I am sure it is a lot
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I meant her bluesky username link
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Melissa Gira Grant
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(that's @jesspish.bsky.social I don't know why the link broke I'm sorry!)
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Melissa Gira Grant
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This is the kind of breakdown of Project 2025 we need more of—@jesspish.bsky.social is the leading expert on sheriffs and their myths, and was able to put a lot of history and context to work despite what little detail "Mandate" offered on sheriffs.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Was this related to their wanting to restrict repro/sexual health along strict sex-as-assigned-at-birth lines? But it's a confusing mess because they insist on identifying people only by their sex-assigned-at-birth? In other words, are the condom bans to express anti-trans political aims?
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Amanda
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"Project 2025 is not targeting “pornography” as something that’s harmful to children per se, but rather redefining anything concerning sexuality and gender that they say is harmful to children *as* pornography." - @melissagiragrant.com
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Melissa Gira Grant
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(It's not any better, but I think they'd try to get the librarians and the teachers and the booksellers and others who get the work out into the world to pull our work, first.) (Sorry I do not want to fearmonger, but yeah, it's bad.)
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Jessica Pishko
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Here's exactly why this matters: the GOP knows that the country is quickly becoming more diverse. Democracy -- allowing more people to vote -- means that they are out of office. Being anti-democracy is a fancy way of saying you would like the return of John C. Calhoun.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Their whole "Section 230 is a tool to suppress conservatives online" discourse/conspiracy theory really threw a wrench in their anti-porn talk (or their typical embrace of big business but not big tech)
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I've been marking the whole doc up since Feb, and decided the best way to attack this was on the conceptual level, since tbh while a lot of their policy proposals are unworkable (remove "gender" from all federal programs and laws????) what is behind them remains tangible and destructive
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Also, in the FCC section, there's a bit on revamping Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which, again, doesn't mention porn, but that's part of what motivates those changes (as well as the anti-gender/anti-"sexualization" stuff that you also around current lege they support like KOSA)
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Melissa Gira Grant
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The anti-gender/anti-sexualization rhetoric is all over the HHS and DOE sections, but if you search on "porn" you won't find much of that. Arguably, their demand to re-enforce Comstock would implicate porn, too, but they don't say "porn" (or even "Comstock," you have to search on the statute, 1461)
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Melissa Gira Grant
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For what it's worth, I did note in my first story on Project 2025 that it was an update on the first "Mandate" document meant for Reagan, that it's target was the administrative state, and that the power behind it was not merely a document but the staffing plan... newrepublic.com/article/1788...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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That was John Ashcroft in 2002 but point taken also how the fuck is Ed Meese still alive
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Jack Jenkins
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NEW: Last Spring, I was the only journalist at a worship service Sean Feucht, Lauren Boebert, and others convened in the Capitol.
But there were some folks there I didn't recognize.
Turns out, some are DC insiders helping Feucht influence Capitol Hill: religionnews.com/2024/07/08/t...
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Liz Saila
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See also all of the online obscenity bills over the past couple of years, including KOSA, 13 of which were made into laws this year. & the anti-drag bills - which have been incorporated into the DOD's and State Dept's budget bills for 2025, which have passed the House and await Senate attention now.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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"There is apparently no need for hoods anymore.
That’s what’s changed." @kkdumez.bsky.social's newsletter has been an essential guide to what's going on with the Christian right's embrace of Christian nationalism.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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If the aid wanted Greg Abbott’s prompt attention it should have murdered a protester
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Ursula
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“And if you look to the work of its constitutive groups, Project 2025 is already here, depending on where you live…”
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Even with all the attention now on Project 2025, their fearmongering about pornography has been overlooked. But there it is, on the document’s first page, one item in a litany of signs of the destruction of American values. And that's a sign of how broad their fight on "porn" could be:
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Holly Brewer
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Will it fix anything? Who knows. Is it making people curious enough to go read tax documents? Absolutely
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I’m trying to be encouraged by the vibes and momentum, watching people get pissed off enough to debate if Heritage has a c3 or c4 and what if anything they do violates rules on elections & campaigning, or post screenshots of 990s
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Someone should write a book on that
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I don’t think “but can they do that?” is the most informed question to guide Project 2025 analysis, not without “what do they mean by that?” and “are they already working on that?” and “who are their allies on that?”
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Melissa Gira Grant
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or their rich friends do!
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Incredible that they’re just posting this stuff!
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I don’t write the deks :) but to assess “do they mean jail people watching porn?” would be a different piece
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Melissa Gira Grant
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“The Supreme Court, you see, like Charlie Brown, has hoes”
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Project 2025 includes the call to “outlaw” porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting “porn,” and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:
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Melissa Gira Grant
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The (relative) confidence that this document is too incoherent and self-contradictory to be implemented… well, I’ll be interested to see if that holds when/if this series reaches the HHS, DOE, and DOJ chapters, or anything else touching on gender and sexuality
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Melissa Gira Grant
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trust no one, scully just wrote a check at the grocery store for $11.14
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old roadside pics
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stine's nite club sign, malta, montana, 1987
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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wrote about this real quick www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Marisa Kabas
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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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of course the 19th has one of the rare accurate headlines here
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Melissa Gira Grant
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of course on their second case together krycek goes to tell mulder they’ve got a hostage negotiation and mulder is in a red speedo
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Melissa Gira Grant
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and don’t notice they’re chatting w someone with the same name as the person who wrote the story
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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Melissa warned us!!
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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Actually, the Republican platform leaves the door wide open for a national abortion ban and people are silly to suggest otherwise. Me in Slate:
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Melissa Gira Grant
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are you surprised???!??!
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Melissa Gira Grant
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"it happened to me: i'm the 'media' who covered something someone is telling me 'the media' isn't covering"
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Melissa Gira Grant
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That is what I predicted (not all press are going along)
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Melissa Gira Grant
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well…
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stacy-marie ishmael
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The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is running a campaign to go entirely *tuition free*. If you want US media that is made by more
people with different kinds of experiences and backgrounds and languages, here’s where you can put your money:
www.journalism.cuny.edu/give-to-the-...
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