Mira Jacob
@mirajacob.bsky.social
Author/ Illustrator/ Partner In Crimes
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“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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My friend @mirajacob.bsky.social takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it: mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
My friend @mirajacob.bsky.social takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it: mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
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THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.
Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.
Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
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Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙
March 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙
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Letting this piece of writing from Kaveh Akbar (via @mirajacob.bsky.social on IG)
wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend?
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend?
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Letting this piece of writing from Kaveh Akbar (via @mirajacob.bsky.social on IG)
wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend?
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend?
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Circling back on this…
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Circling back on this…
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Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available! bit.ly/4bH094Y
March 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available! bit.ly/4bH094Y
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The second story on this Selected Shorts episode is performed by Rita Wolf. In “Death by Printer” by @mirajacob.bsky.social, technology both helps and hinders a widow as she copes with loss. You can listen to the story wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/41WMm5Z
(Photo by Kevin Yatarola)
(Photo by Kevin Yatarola)
March 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The second story on this Selected Shorts episode is performed by Rita Wolf. In “Death by Printer” by @mirajacob.bsky.social, technology both helps and hinders a widow as she copes with loss. You can listen to the story wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/41WMm5Z
(Photo by Kevin Yatarola)
(Photo by Kevin Yatarola)
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A great thread from @caseyparks.bsky.social on the hearing Judge Reyes is giving to a challenge to the trans soldiers ban.
DoD officials have said the military spent $52 million between 2014 and 2025 on gender dysphoria treatments for troops — so an average of $5.2 million a year. According to Judge Reyes, the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra treatments.
March 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A great thread from @caseyparks.bsky.social on the hearing Judge Reyes is giving to a challenge to the trans soldiers ban.
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
I know it’s just Wordle but today’s taking me 4 tries makes me feel like I’ve failed South Asian.
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I know it’s just Wordle but today’s taking me 4 tries makes me feel like I’ve failed South Asian.
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Too many folks on the wrong end of this curve
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Too many folks on the wrong end of this curve
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"As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the department’s processing of disability rights complaints ground to a halt ... That has left students—including a 12-year-old boy with autism and epilepsy who’s been unwillingly assigned to remote schooling—without recourse"
America’s kids are already suffering under Trump’s education policies
What Trump and DOGE want to do to the Education Department, explained.
www.vox.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the department’s processing of disability rights complaints ground to a halt ... That has left students—including a 12-year-old boy with autism and epilepsy who’s been unwillingly assigned to remote schooling—without recourse"
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A BOOK TOUR SO BIG IT’S BASICALLY A CLOWN CAR STUFFED WITH SUPERSTARS
February 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A BOOK TOUR SO BIG IT’S BASICALLY A CLOWN CAR STUFFED WITH SUPERSTARS
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What a disgrace.
Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.
*This* is how democracy dies.
Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.
*This* is how democracy dies.
Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order
The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group …
thehill.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What a disgrace.
Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.
*This* is how democracy dies.
Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.
*This* is how democracy dies.
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The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things
February 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things
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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
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🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨
70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle].
Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB
70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle].
Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB
February 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨
70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle].
Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB
70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle].
Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB
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Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.
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DC folks: Elizabeth Warren, Indivisible, the CFPB union and others rallying outside the CFPB building tomorrow at 4:15
February 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
DC folks: Elizabeth Warren, Indivisible, the CFPB union and others rallying outside the CFPB building tomorrow at 4:15
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This is it. This is the take.
February 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is it. This is the take.
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So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media
The Pentagon is doubling the number of media outlets losing their workspaces.
OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN,
Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR.
IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.
OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN,
Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR.
IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.
February 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media