Melissa Gira Grant

it’s going to be mainly flowers and the fourteenth amendment around here for a bit (until delivery & acceptance)

this is honestly invigorating—maybe because the US far right has been on the rise most of my life, maybe because it suggests why the far right being unpopular is not enough. mostly: because it gives us something we can do

thinking about Orkut

Bluesky has seen enough

(…….was Lula Bluesky’s first head of state….?)

did this for the first time last fall—I moved some of my perennial containers where I raked the leaves under a tree (not too close to the trunk), insulating them. not only did we get some forgotten bulbs popping up under in early spring, we had no aphids this year and lots more moths and fireflies.

Bad Art response to bad art

unearthing the ancient texts bsky.app/profile/bust...

love whoever was like, sure let’s pay to run our pharma ads on THE DROPOUT

computer in your pocket

ICYMI, LA Taco has parted ways with two of its most fearless ICE reporters, Memo Torres and Izzy Ramirez (@eltragon.bsky.social and @izzymirez.bsky.social on here). Neither says why, but it sounds like it was sudden and involuntary.

some day I will not think once about ICE in one day

almost exactly one year ago:

deadlines

New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

policing is a jobs (and retirement) program for men who abuse women

The spectre they're trying to manufacture is that the evil trans menace is going to steal your children in the night - which is rich given Ken Paxton really, actually did attempt to remove trans youth from their parent's custody

The dept. claimed the vehicle helped “locate foster children who have been victims of sex trafficking… Lawmakers questioned why nearly $1 million was spent on mobile surveillance while foster children face shortages in trauma therapy, caseworker support and basic transportation for family visits.”

here for the people (me) who had to choose THE DEVILS last weekend (one week only!) over YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

New: Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an "October Surprise" or a "hoax," as prominent MAGA influencers have suggested, concocted to win votes My interview w/ the congressional candidate, for @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

The culture that produced this ad is the same culture that keeps publishing handwringing takes about therapists “pushing” adult children to go no contact with their parents, despite it being well established that childhood sexual abuse is common.

If anything, install the RECAP plugin so that anything you pay to look at on PACER, it can be the last time anybody has to pay for it. I've relied so much on the RECAP archive and have in turn contributed many, many dockets to the cause 20-40 cents at a time.

How many people will read past the mentions of arrests and charges up top, to read about what followed? (In one case, a plea; in the other, the case remains open.) If the writers had to remove every claim about Belgal attributed solely to prosecutors, what would this story read like?

"you must listen to me complain that my kid cut me off" did not work as a personality, so now they're trying to make it the basis of a grievance movement

That’s Micah Bock, communications director for disgraced former congressman Madison Cawthorn, and who himself was accused in college of rubbing his genitals on a sleeping woman and then defending himself later with the argument that “she was asking for it.”

DHS: "Remigration" is a "battle" for "securing the longevity of .... the people" you know, the fourteen words would have been simpler

“Meta named one of the roads leading to the data center ‘Move Fast Way,’ borrowing from the early motto from Facebook, before it became the larger Meta, ‘Move fast and break things.’ Breaking things are what the Morrises and their co-plaintiffs said the company did, and they want answers.”

not elaborating, but: this kind of content is what happens when you run sex workers off your website

incredibly charmed timing this weekend to catch THE INSIDER with a Lowell Bergman q&a after