Wagatwe Wanjuki
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antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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I just screamed bloody murder after I closed my curtains because a GIANT gecko SPRINTED across the wall. this room is cursed.
is that dark thing in the corner a giant bug/spider or just a piece of trash? I won't be investigating further
January 25, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I just screamed bloody murder after I closed my curtains because a GIANT gecko SPRINTED across the wall. this room is cursed.
is that dark thing in the corner a giant bug/spider or just a piece of trash? I won't be investigating further
January 25, 2026 at 9:29 AM
is that dark thing in the corner a giant bug/spider or just a piece of trash? I won't be investigating further
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As a historian with a focus on the history of news media and communication: the reported news itself was/is never ‚what happened‘. It is a construction, an interpretation, a mediated version of a perceived event. And therefore news reports were always about making realities.
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 9:25 AM
As a historian with a focus on the history of news media and communication: the reported news itself was/is never ‚what happened‘. It is a construction, an interpretation, a mediated version of a perceived event. And therefore news reports were always about making realities.
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i’d also be super interested in talking to people at these companies about the vibe after your bosses ate popcorn with the president during a political assassination. signal in bio.
If you work at Apple, Zoom, Amazon and AMD (not to mention Palantir or Nvidia) i think you should organize, unionize, and hold your fascist enabling CEO accountable.
You are powerful together
You are powerful together
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
January 25, 2026 at 9:20 AM
i’d also be super interested in talking to people at these companies about the vibe after your bosses ate popcorn with the president during a political assassination. signal in bio.
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Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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These three stories were all published this week. Abolishing ICE is a reproductive justice issue
January 25, 2026 at 4:04 AM
These three stories were all published this week. Abolishing ICE is a reproductive justice issue
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There it is. You want me to trust that you have my beat interest at heart while you pine for the old days of civility when Black people were being killed in the streets by local police instead of federal agents. You hate trump but you do NOT hate state sponsored violence against us.
January 22, 2026 at 11:14 PM
There it is. You want me to trust that you have my beat interest at heart while you pine for the old days of civility when Black people were being killed in the streets by local police instead of federal agents. You hate trump but you do NOT hate state sponsored violence against us.
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I'm sorry but using Uber on safari is BONKERS
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I'm sorry but using Uber on safari is BONKERS
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I have seen other people suggest this moderation list. I don't use it personally and haven't really skimmed it much.
Adding @karnythia.bsky.social and @thewayoftheid.bsky.social to this list really calls the judgment of the list maker completely into question.
Adding @karnythia.bsky.social and @thewayoftheid.bsky.social to this list really calls the judgment of the list maker completely into question.
January 22, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I have seen other people suggest this moderation list. I don't use it personally and haven't really skimmed it much.
Adding @karnythia.bsky.social and @thewayoftheid.bsky.social to this list really calls the judgment of the list maker completely into question.
Adding @karnythia.bsky.social and @thewayoftheid.bsky.social to this list really calls the judgment of the list maker completely into question.
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"[W]hat unfolded in Oakland was hardly the bold crime-fighting initiative [Gavin Newsom] promoted on television."
"Black people and Latinos each made up around a third of CHP stops." "[F]ar higher than [Oakland's] Black population, at 19%."
"They are racially profiling."
#California #USA #Policing
"Black people and Latinos each made up around a third of CHP stops." "[F]ar higher than [Oakland's] Black population, at 19%."
"They are racially profiling."
#California #USA #Policing
What happened when Gavin Newsom sent a 'surge' of state troopers to fight crime in Oakland
The governor promised a crackdown on crime. But in the first year of the surge, state troopers arrested very few violent criminals. Instead they stopped 15,000 Black and Latino drivers.
www.typeinvestigations.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"[W]hat unfolded in Oakland was hardly the bold crime-fighting initiative [Gavin Newsom] promoted on television."
"Black people and Latinos each made up around a third of CHP stops." "[F]ar higher than [Oakland's] Black population, at 19%."
"They are racially profiling."
#California #USA #Policing
"Black people and Latinos each made up around a third of CHP stops." "[F]ar higher than [Oakland's] Black population, at 19%."
"They are racially profiling."
#California #USA #Policing
I made it without a hitch!
'bout to take my new passport for a spin around the block. wish me luck!
January 22, 2026 at 11:56 AM
I made it without a hitch!
I've seen some of this in action in Kenya. As if the colonizers haven't done enough damage...
January 21, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I've seen some of this in action in Kenya. As if the colonizers haven't done enough damage...
'bout to take my new passport for a spin around the block. wish me luck!
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
'bout to take my new passport for a spin around the block. wish me luck!
fuck
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:31 PM
fuck
just thinking about ICE eating at a Mexican restaurant before they rounded up and kidnapped people.
January 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM
just thinking about ICE eating at a Mexican restaurant before they rounded up and kidnapped people.
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i want to open up a store that only sells pleated pants and call it Bitch, Pleats
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
i want to open up a store that only sells pleated pants and call it Bitch, Pleats
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Outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy has (pocket-)vetoed the most important 2/3 of the Immigrant Trust Package passed by the Legislature nj.gov/governor/new...
nj.gov
January 20, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy has (pocket-)vetoed the most important 2/3 of the Immigrant Trust Package passed by the Legislature nj.gov/governor/new...
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Murphy also issued a bunch of pardons today, notably including:
-Michael Sica, a corrections officers' union leader who unsuccessfully covered up the beating of inmates at the Union County Jail
-Al Coutinho, a disgraced former assemblyman who resigned to plead guilty to stealing from a charity
-Michael Sica, a corrections officers' union leader who unsuccessfully covered up the beating of inmates at the Union County Jail
-Al Coutinho, a disgraced former assemblyman who resigned to plead guilty to stealing from a charity
Phil Murphy went from considerably to the Legislature's left in Term 1 to, in Term 2, somehow to the right of the Legislature, which I have previously described as "what if the New York IDC was most/all of the Democratic caucus?"
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Murphy also issued a bunch of pardons today, notably including:
-Michael Sica, a corrections officers' union leader who unsuccessfully covered up the beating of inmates at the Union County Jail
-Al Coutinho, a disgraced former assemblyman who resigned to plead guilty to stealing from a charity
-Michael Sica, a corrections officers' union leader who unsuccessfully covered up the beating of inmates at the Union County Jail
-Al Coutinho, a disgraced former assemblyman who resigned to plead guilty to stealing from a charity
if anyone has like $10 to spare so I can grab some food before picking up my passport and getting home, I'd super appreciate it ❤️🙏🏾
this is adding hundreds of dollars to my trip budget that I technically cannot afford, so if anyone wants to take pity/offer sympathy ❤️
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January 20, 2026 at 4:53 PM
if anyone has like $10 to spare so I can grab some food before picking up my passport and getting home, I'd super appreciate it ❤️🙏🏾
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please help with transportation, kait's really ill and probably needs to go to the ER
links in kait's bio
links in kait's bio
oh yeah this is bad news I’m SICK sick
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
please help with transportation, kait's really ill and probably needs to go to the ER
links in kait's bio
links in kait's bio
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Waiting until there's an activist murdered then giving her family millions is not a path towards liberation.
Materially supporting families doing what they need to do to stay safe from the fascist militias roaming the streets kidnapping anyone who's not white is. Please support this fundraiser:
Materially supporting families doing what they need to do to stay safe from the fascist militias roaming the streets kidnapping anyone who's not white is. Please support this fundraiser:
This was just given to me by someone on the frontline in Minneapolis.
This fundraiser is organized by a group of neighbors, community organizers, and friends to help with housing payments for the neighbors in the Bryant neighborhood.
Share, give, share, and give again!
#MutualAid
#AbolishICE
This fundraiser is organized by a group of neighbors, community organizers, and friends to help with housing payments for the neighbors in the Bryant neighborhood.
Share, give, share, and give again!
#MutualAid
#AbolishICE
Donate to Support Bryant Families in Urgent Need, organized by Bryant Neighborhood
This fundraiser is organized by a group of neighbors, community organizers,… Bryant Neighborhood needs your support for Support Bryant Families in Urgent Need
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January 20, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Waiting until there's an activist murdered then giving her family millions is not a path towards liberation.
Materially supporting families doing what they need to do to stay safe from the fascist militias roaming the streets kidnapping anyone who's not white is. Please support this fundraiser:
Materially supporting families doing what they need to do to stay safe from the fascist militias roaming the streets kidnapping anyone who's not white is. Please support this fundraiser:
TODAY'S THE DAY. PRAY FOR ME
my passport expires 3 days too soon to leave the country so now I have to travel 10 hours round trip to get a new one the day before my flight 🌚
January 20, 2026 at 11:44 AM
TODAY'S THE DAY. PRAY FOR ME