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Melissa Gira Grant
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i support this message
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Melissa Gira Grant
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not my scene unfortunately
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Melissa Gira Grant
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as a former adjacent… vendor, i love this
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I’d love to read it! Some of these people, to hear their grievances, seem like they’re still mad about the thirteenth amendment.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Just as important as analyzing what Project 2025 might do is understanding the power behind it and where it came from, for which @sarahposner.bsky.social, @antheabutler.bsky.social, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, and @sarahjones.bsky.social would be great reads.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I’m going to try to do something on the dangerously expansive idea of what “pornography” is according to Project 2025 next
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Me, I’ve been dropping relevant Project 2025 rundowns in any story I can (there’s a lot). My analysis, reading across sections of the “Mandate” document, of Project 2025’s vision of straight white patriarchal power was pub’d in February: newrepublic.com/article/1788...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Melissa Gira Grant
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this thunderstorm is exactly why I needed this chaise
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Melissa Gira Grant
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i hate this “my toddler said”-ass moment also!
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Melissa Gira Grant
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i don’t have tape but i swear this is exactly how it went
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Melissa Gira Grant
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it’s so ridiculous out there—an actual medical professional, who I was paying, while I was on the table and he had a sharp object on his hand, was just like, but we already had a primary???
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Melissa Gira Grant
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no no no he wasn’t watching the news about rose mary woods and the 18 1/2 minute gap in the white house tape when his sister was abducted
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Melissa Gira Grant
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incredible early 90s vibes when mulder is reassigned to phone surveillance and it’s a guy going on about a stripper named tuesday “dancing to that offspring song ‘come out and play’….”
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Seth Cotlar
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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.
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David Noll
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No coincidence that Robinson is using the same "you made us do it" rhetoric as Kevin Roberts--it's a textbook strategy for persuading people to get over their moral scruples and just do it.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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“I have nothing to do with them, including the multiple Project 2025 guys who worked in my administration and the one working on the party platform” newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Seth Cotlar
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Waving away dangerously autocratic & illiberal stuff like the Reawaken America tour as just "church stuff" is how fascism comes to America with the passive assent of millions of apolitical white people who have no deep desire to be "the baddies" of American democracy. www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I remember that going to Tunisia years ago—it was something like “CDG Sud” and the name felt so pointed once I got there
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Melissa Gira Grant
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My take: if you read a report of “moderation” on abortion in the Republican party platform, don’t accept it at face value newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Great thread breaking down what this fight about abortion & the platform might really accomplish—and who pushing this fight might really benefit
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Rural Indexing Project
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Post office Mecca, CA
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Melissa Gira Grant
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also happy birthday eva marie saint
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Melissa Gira Grant
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leaving the movies and seeing fireworks as just a thing on the walk to the train are now my favorite nyc fireworks in fifteen years here
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Nothings Monstered
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Mae West, 1934
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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Anyway journalism is supposed to be the fourth pillar of US democracy. And theres evidence that where theres good journalism there's less governmental corruption. Kind of interesting that NYT has openly positioned itself as anti- democracy imho.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Without looking to fiction, they already have models in US history to draw on: sterilization w/o consent for those deemed “undesirable,” coercive childbearing for those deemed “valuable.” Denying reproductive autonomy, whether by slaveholders or medical professionals, is more the norm than not.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.
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Erin Fogg
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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access
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Melissa Gira Grant
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🫡 pls do not openly plan what sound like (uh) “official acts” on this website ✨
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Melissa Gira Grant
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contempt of congress newrepublic.com/post/183337/...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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meet two of the three guys running the RNC platform committee newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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They've put it in writing (re: pills, but if 1461 + 1462 aka Comstock are enforced, it could also be against any abortion-causing instrument/device), it's like peak he admit it
static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Related and I would add: even if they lose the platform fight, the hardliners already have big back-up plans (see, again: Project 2025) www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.
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Eileen Clancy
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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today.
Short thread with video on Twitter:
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Melissa Gira Grant
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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generally this stuff turns up without looking too hard it is just how it is
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Melissa Gira Grant
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every time I write about some guy on the right I should look up, in addition to a) does he have a tag on Right Wing Watch and b) or appear in a search of Media Matters, but also c) did he back a "stop the steal" lawsuit or other effort, d) where was he on Jan 6, e) was he later subpoenaed for either
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Absolutely—a popular front to defeat Christian nationalism is not the same thing as a campaign to elect Biden, though his campaign appears eager to use the former (again) for the latter
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joshua caleb weibley
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Truly it is the 4th of shit
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Melissa Gira Grant
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smacks of gender
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Melissa Gira Grant
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never forget that even when pat buchanan essentially launched the "culture war" at the RNC in 1992 what he said was: "There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war." it was a religious war first and always. voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/buchanan-cul...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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correct and: part of the reason we're in the situation we're in, and why it's taking some people by surprise, is it's not sunk in for many that no matter what happens in the white house, these guys will retain a base of power. they are operating under an apocalyptic paradigm that justifies anything
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Melissa Gira Grant
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...if we are going to need everyone to get through this, including the people with annoying takes but who are on 'our' side, it makes learning to keep said takes in perspective pretty vital
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Thank you!
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I remember where I was in May 2021 when the first legal challenge to the first ban (AR, still in court) dropped: at the TX state lege while folks were trying to stop their ban (it passed in 2023, was upheld last week). Hat's off to the New York Times, among others, truly. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Melissa Gira Grant
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*not an endorsement of jail, more a "wow yes you do seem sick of winning"
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I went looking for the whole War Room episode this Kevin Roberts/"bloodless" second American Revolution clip was in, and you know for all his "we are winning" pablum, the reason he is thanking a guest host at the top is because War Room's regular host is in jail www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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