melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) forthcoming // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY
melissagiragrant.com
» [email protected]
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
7,236 posts
98,707 followers
3,125 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
probably (I should know this but I don’t) violates rules for FOIA, for discovery, and much more
comment in response to
post
I want to be very clear, because of how Planned Parenthood is characterizing this, that our story does not suggest Planned Parenthood writ large is giving up abortion services. It says that some affiliates may stop providing abortions to keep Medicaid eligibility, while others lose it.
comment in response to
post
and not be back on repeat but it was reporting on sex work that taught me at least ten years ago: if HSI is involved, very likely so is ICE
comment in response to
post
Here you go. "Minutes before the deadline Autonomy News gave PPFA for publication, it appears to have sent a statement about the matter to other members of the media"
comment in response to
post
(bad news: everything else)
comment in response to
post
"In the room where I was detained, there were posters on the wall... it said in English, 'Are you detained and separated from your children?' ... We are normalizing family separation, we are normalizing due process rights violations, we are normalizing the destruction of constitutional democracy."
comment in response to
post
Zohran has already condemned it and called for Brad's release: bsky.app/profile/zohr...
comment in response to
post
NYC is an extremely safe city. ICE and related federal agencies are actively and purposefully making it less safe. As they stir up violence in the coming days, remember which side it's coming from.
comment in response to
post
Or relieved of their jobs, which they are failing to do!
comment in response to
post
and no business writing this with such a clear conflict of interest… “Nitin Nohria is the George F. Baker Jr. Professor at Harvard Business School and its former dean. He is also the chair of Thrive Capital, an early investor in several prominent AI firms, including OpenAI.”
comment in response to
post
Yes indeed! (He was just reposting stuff about a guy me and probably thousands of other people are looking into.)
comment in response to
post
YouTube now as a reporting tool makes makes me feel as if I am being robbed of things I know as I go (it was not always like that!)
comment in response to
post
(no, *you* watched this at like 4am, after getting back from the anti-inauguration show at the black cat, where a pretty decent percentage of the people there were also watching this scene on their phones throughout the night...)
comment in response to
post
I want to know where they shop! (There used to be a Dean and Deluca in the Times building…)
comment in response to
post
and then some
comment in response to
post
they put it in their paper (gift link)
comment in response to
post
transcript: www.cbsnews.com/news/transcr...
comment in response to
post
The real kicker here is they won and they are only going harder on the Volkisch propaganda
comment in response to
post
from the week before the 2024 election: newrepublic.com/article/1877...
comment in response to
post
I’m not even sure it’s that politically deep—some people would just rather feel freaked out than learn to threat model
comment in response to
post
That is such a great moment (and so glad I got to see you that day!)
comment in response to
post
Very good question!
comment in response to
post
it was incredibly sweet to slowly walk two blocks around the public library in the rain with thousands of other New Yorkers who were just happy to be there
comment in response to
post
42nd street was so packed it was barely a march, people were in a relaxed mood though and chanting and checking out each others signs for 90 minutes until we turned onto Fifth and met what was maybe meant to be the “real” march lol
comment in response to
post
it rained almost the whole time so I didn’t post but from the way Bryant Park was setup, almost no one fit, and by the official start time, 40th and 42nd (smaller streets on both sides of the park) were completely packed, with some buses and cars and an Uber shuttle van hastily(?) abandoned on 42nd