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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“We’re in these walled-off secret societies. These are state institutions. But it’s one of the only state institutions that the public or the media has no access to. How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in the United States of America?” - Raoul Poole, prisoner
HBO's "The Alabama Solution" was nominated for an Academy Award. But the incarcerated men who produced the footage that made the film possible were just thrown into solitary confinement.
They Collaborated on an Oscar-Nominated Film — Then Got Thrown Into Solitary
The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.
theappeal.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
“We’re in these walled-off secret societies. These are state institutions. But it’s one of the only state institutions that the public or the media has no access to. How can a journalist go into a war zone, but can’t go into a prison in the United States of America?” - Raoul Poole, prisoner
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(TW suicide) One person who died in ICE custody this year is someone I haven’t seen mentioned much—Chaofeng Ge. He was found hanging in a shower room at a processing center. It was declared suicide…even though his hands and feet were tied behind his back. ICE is refusing to give the family details
Autopsy raises questions about death at private ICE detention center
The family of a man discovered dead in the shower room of a privately owned immigration detention center says the Trump administration is refusing to provide the full story of what happened.
www.scrippsnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
(TW suicide) One person who died in ICE custody this year is someone I haven’t seen mentioned much—Chaofeng Ge. He was found hanging in a shower room at a processing center. It was declared suicide…even though his hands and feet were tied behind his back. ICE is refusing to give the family details
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I don’t care who it is. Mental health issues do not make someone a bigot and it’s not an excuse for dangerous, harmful, or abusive behavior
People have psychotic episodes every day without being a bigot, or engaging in sexually inappropriate and/or abusive behaviors
People have psychotic episodes every day without being a bigot, or engaging in sexually inappropriate and/or abusive behaviors
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I don’t care who it is. Mental health issues do not make someone a bigot and it’s not an excuse for dangerous, harmful, or abusive behavior
People have psychotic episodes every day without being a bigot, or engaging in sexually inappropriate and/or abusive behaviors
People have psychotic episodes every day without being a bigot, or engaging in sexually inappropriate and/or abusive behaviors
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“U.S. onslaught, along with criminal mismanagement by the Maduro government, detonated the greatest economic collapse in any nation in recent history that was not the result of an actual war.” 1/2
As #Venezuela skids deeper into a "food emergency," Trump's de facto new alliance with the repressive, corrupt regime there makes the crisis even more deadly. My article @newrepublic.com. @deanbaker13.bsky.social @dceiver.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2056...
Is Trump Going to Let Venezuela Starve?
The country is rapidly tipping into a dire food emergency caused in part by the U.S. blockade.
newrepublic.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:02 AM
“U.S. onslaught, along with criminal mismanagement by the Maduro government, detonated the greatest economic collapse in any nation in recent history that was not the result of an actual war.” 1/2
usually I go my entire time in Kenya without seeing white people, but now I see white people nearly every day??????????
January 26, 2026 at 10:06 AM
usually I go my entire time in Kenya without seeing white people, but now I see white people nearly every day??????????
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I don’t think I’d call them “wannabes” I mean DHS has been recruiting with white supremacist dog whistles. It’s highly likely they hit their target audience and recruited whites supremacists who are now hunting humans and leaving white supremacist symbols behind.
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I don’t think I’d call them “wannabes” I mean DHS has been recruiting with white supremacist dog whistles. It’s highly likely they hit their target audience and recruited whites supremacists who are now hunting humans and leaving white supremacist symbols behind.
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The harms claimed by the far-right are always so fucking abstract "if we let the Left do this, we 'won't have a country'"
Meanwhile the harms claimed by the Left are the Right is using the full force of the State to literally kill us
Meanwhile the harms claimed by the Left are the Right is using the full force of the State to literally kill us
January 26, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The harms claimed by the far-right are always so fucking abstract "if we let the Left do this, we 'won't have a country'"
Meanwhile the harms claimed by the Left are the Right is using the full force of the State to literally kill us
Meanwhile the harms claimed by the Left are the Right is using the full force of the State to literally kill us
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Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Timket, or Epiphany, on 19 January. In the US, ICE knocked the wind out of the holiday in Minneapolis and St Paul in Minnesota, where many people who immigrated from the Horn of Africa live.
A holy day on ICE
ICE agents are deployed in Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge. It is the Trump administration’s largest-ever immigration-enforcement operation, involving up to 2,000 federal agents.
continent.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Timket, or Epiphany, on 19 January. In the US, ICE knocked the wind out of the holiday in Minneapolis and St Paul in Minnesota, where many people who immigrated from the Horn of Africa live.
I'm not in the US but tiktok is asking me to agree to the new TOS. I thought it only applied in America?? is it bc I created my account in the US? if I create a new account here with my Kenyan #, could I avoid the new terms?
January 26, 2026 at 7:08 AM
I'm not in the US but tiktok is asking me to agree to the new TOS. I thought it only applied in America?? is it bc I created my account in the US? if I create a new account here with my Kenyan #, could I avoid the new terms?
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To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 AM
To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
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!