Melissa Gira Grant
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY
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- the thing about “the FBI is now prioritizing immigration enforcement, not ‘real’ crime” could be an opportunity to point out that who defines what is crime is always a consequence of politics
- please enjoy John Oliver taking on ADF, including a pretty faithful re-enactment of a phone call I made in the course of my reporting on them
- still staggering, that this narrative endured even as repeated Covid infections made it more likely that many more people would themselves be made one of the “vulnerable”
- “Homeland Security Investigations” are the same ones dispatched in alleged anti-trafficking raids. Memorably, they were used in the raid on Rentboy ten years ago. www.vice.com/en/article/h...
- really reminded in some responses to ICE arrests of 2020–when some new to protesting police tried to limit opposition to “militarized police” or “unaccountable police,” maybe in an effort to make the police murdering people seem like a departure from the norm and not a feature of policing
- Reposted by Melissa Gira GrantI know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.
- A key element of the administration’s repurposing of wartime and counterterrorism framings to other ends is aesthetic. Here ICE agents are kitted out like wannabe GWOT operators while conducting a raid in the badlands of the Berkshires. www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice...
- truly though cheers to bluesky for giving us "hide reply for everyone"
- one thing about Abolish ICE in this moment is people can see how it’s not going to happen through Congress, but through people’s own ongoing actions, whether that’s legal remedies to free people from detention, coming together to monitor ICE arrests and activity—delegitimizing ICE day in and day out
- The neck gaiters may as well be the uniform now
- Reposted by Melissa Gira GrantNEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.
