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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

love this Idaho town where everyone has their own spooky attic and that’s about all

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In announcing her decision, U.S. District Judge April Perry quoted both Spider-Man and the 7th Circuit. 7th Circuit: "The greater the power that defies the law, the less tolerant the court can be of defiance." Spider-Man: "With great power comes great responsibility."

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11h

“Very few editors are going to say, ‘You’re not a very good writer and your ideas don’t deserve a public hearing,’” he said. “It is such an obscure and opaque business for people outside of it that I understand the desire to make up stories about why things are happening.”

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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 7h

Becca Good speaking for the first time publicly about her late wife Renee Good at a press conference announcing lawsuits against the U.S. government, ICE agent Jonathan Ross — who shot and killed Renee Good — and high-ranking Trump administration officials

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 8h

Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

I’ve been listening to old (“old”) interviews about community responses to Operation Metro Surge, and January 2026 feels like history that hasn’t ended

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

thank you! I’ve had the sprawling on Ann Getty’s rug image so lodged in my head for years, I forgot the others

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13h

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

Press release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)

Statement from Christa Pike’s attorney Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee

Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.

Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

This is incredibly hard to hear—grateful for those who bear witness.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14h

Struggling with this when even leftists are offering “ending impunity” as a remedy to fascism without acknowledging that what they’re proposing means more punishment, without even describing how more punishment would work

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 22h

the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 21h

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21h

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

the utter futility of appealing to the same system that demanded it must execute Christa Pike, asking it to produce justice for Jane Doe in the Cornell case…

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

if we’re just swapping in vibes-a-like agents why not youtu.be/5Ug-p6vg8vI?...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

what in the not Michael Mann is happening

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

love that Scully (in absence of Mulder) is just drifting around this episode scored to some knockoff Lisa Gerard

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

those are some great guys big and small

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

cheers to you (and possibly the pelicans?) for that

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

(deleted something because no one needs to see that jerk face again today….)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

I don't want to spend my time fighting for the right way to punish the right guy for the right offense; I want the offense to end

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

one future we could begin experimenting with right now is: when, as a way to deal with a problem, we are invited only to invent better ways to punish people, we can refuse

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

truly! is there a rich donor for this, like "Anonymous" (Warren Buffett) was for abortion funds

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

some klingon lawsky shit, I know (but since they implemented 2FA it was not easy to get in there)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

it is a good day to... have (a workplace account on) PACER

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

As ARWW add in the thread, AF Post has been boosted by Elon, the AZ GOP, and other X obsessives (the same foul waters as those keeping Michael Tracey afloat, though he apparently failed here). And Ali Alexander, of course, was a leading Stop the Steal organizer.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

and I left out this guy! like I refuse his existence

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/09/2026

we need to talk about the ‘refreshed’ season 8 credits

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026

it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026

I’m not sure why her initial statement made it to his office, but I completely believe they would decline to bring charges if they thought it wouldn’t be a clear win (which is gross, typical, and also does not mean they couldn’t clear the low bar for criminal conduct to get a grand jury to indict)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026

Running the “redacted” version of her statement…. I did not expect that

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

I don’t know much about this DA’s office, but with this statement he’s def made me want to know.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

The DA’s new statement: www.tompkinscountyny.gov/files/assets...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

“Tompkins County [DA] Matthew Van Houten said Monday that he felt compelled to answer publicly, explaining in a nine-page statement that Jane Doe’s credibility ‘was never in question,’ but in her initial sworn statement … she ‘did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped.’”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

Some legal details here worth highlighting, such as, we are still waiting on a grand jury. “The district attorney’s office will bring the case before a grand jury, he said, and upon indictment it ‘will prosecute the charges zealously and to the fullest extent of the law.’”

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FRC can't compete with prophets, apostles, podcasters, and influencers. Their annual summit used to be a must-attend--and must cover--event.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026

I’ve seen several stories of young women describing rape and sexual assault on college campuses in the last week which strikes me not as a rise in assaults but, given the violence of some of the examples, I fear we’re back in an era of headlines about group assaults, for the Tate/Clavicular era

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

Appreciating you and all the care you bring to these discussions

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026

It’s just the worst possible time, when people are sincerely outraged, like—I’ve learned my lesson

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