Andrea Grimes
bitch kraken / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
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- I was very temporarily physically disabled when I lived in the Bay Area (ACL tear) and tried to get local lefty groups to just TELL ME or ANYONE if there was a step up/down into the venue or the house we were meeting at (or steps to the bathroom) and the crickets were LOUD
- we don't talk enough about how the 1995-2010 online publishing era produced truly remarkable on-the-spot writers, the skill is unparalleled
- There's much historical precedent for this white supremacist, xenophobic fuckery, but notably the "bounty hunter" abortion bans of 2021+ explicitly encourage right-wingers to position themselves as state-sanctioned vigilante enforcers who stand to benefit monetarily from fucking with their neighbors
- Wrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062
- Reposted by Andrea GrimesThank you so much to the @eff.org for this amazing conversation, and for all of your ongoing support for Digital Defense Fund as we meet the tech security needs within and beyond the abortion access movement!
- NEW EPISODE, NEW SEASON: What if we saw digital autonomy and bodily autonomy as two sides of the same coin, inseparable? @katerosebee.bsky.social joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn & @thejasonkelley.com on “How to Fix the Internet.”
- GET 'EM GREG
- TINA! TINA! TINA!
- HUGE congrats to my @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @tinavasquez.bsky.social, a James Beard Finalist! Her work on connections between immigrant communities and food is so good; this piece on the garbage food farmworkers are being forced to eat while picking our produce is amazing.
- Reposted by Andrea GrimesA victory for Rümeysa Öztürk! She will be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont while her case is heard—including a hearing for potential release on bail this Friday. FULL OPINION: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- NEW: #Ozturk wins at the Second Circuit! Stay of transfer denied, administrative stay vacated.
- one of the most gratifying things about being a @theflytrapmedia.com co-founder is the breadth of work we do for and with each other. i've gotten to edit and copyedit the kinds of stories i'd never otherwise have had the ability to work on. so let me brag on us for a minute??? 🧵
- Reposted by Andrea Grimesnever how are you brown cow or nice to see you brown cow
- tom holland doesn't even do it for me and this does it for me
