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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Nazi 4chan trolls and other APTs (Advanced Persistent Teenagers) have been photoshopping shit for years to insert disinfo into viral news cycles. AI is a problem 💯 but mostly bc no special skills are required. It’s easy, accessible & fast so quantity & velocity go 📈 but it’s already normalized
Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.
This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
January 29, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Nazi 4chan trolls and other APTs (Advanced Persistent Teenagers) have been photoshopping shit for years to insert disinfo into viral news cycles. AI is a problem 💯 but mostly bc no special skills are required. It’s easy, accessible & fast so quantity & velocity go 📈 but it’s already normalized
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It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
honestly, I'd take "third world" problems over American problems any day
January 29, 2026 at 4:09 AM
honestly, I'd take "third world" problems over American problems any day
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They haven't stopped or slowed down kidnapping people in Los Angeles either.
yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.
I don’t know, declaring victory in MN seems premature. They’re still arresting people and brutalizing the community. The changes appear—so far—to be cosmetic
January 29, 2026 at 3:36 AM
They haven't stopped or slowed down kidnapping people in Los Angeles either.
fell asleep worried I hear monkeys breaking in and then woke up with a mosquito buzzing in my ear. I don't think I'm made for this life
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 AM
fell asleep worried I hear monkeys breaking in and then woke up with a mosquito buzzing in my ear. I don't think I'm made for this life
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Related, "polarization" as a problem is one of the most destructive ideas US political science has ever helped popularize.
This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
Rep. Randy Fine on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened"
January 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Related, "polarization" as a problem is one of the most destructive ideas US political science has ever helped popularize.
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Excellent explanation of how ICE moves immigrants from one prison facility to another to deny them access to justice.
January 28, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Excellent explanation of how ICE moves immigrants from one prison facility to another to deny them access to justice.
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Someone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...
In her screams, the desperation of a community under siege by ICE - The Boston Globe
When ICE arrested of Fátima Lucas Henrique, the video of her screaming as agents pulled her from her vehicle resonated across the state.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Someone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Just talked to someone organizing Minneapolis nurses. They're channeling their anger into action.
Going to start doing house calls to care for immigrant neighbors this week and needed some advice.
Our solidarity with others in a shared struggle keeps us strong. 🖤
Going to start doing house calls to care for immigrant neighbors this week and needed some advice.
Our solidarity with others in a shared struggle keeps us strong. 🖤
January 28, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Just talked to someone organizing Minneapolis nurses. They're channeling their anger into action.
Going to start doing house calls to care for immigrant neighbors this week and needed some advice.
Our solidarity with others in a shared struggle keeps us strong. 🖤
Going to start doing house calls to care for immigrant neighbors this week and needed some advice.
Our solidarity with others in a shared struggle keeps us strong. 🖤
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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.