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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In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.
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Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible gothamist.com/news/mayor-e...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani picks Bill de Blasio veteran for top deputy
He named Dean Fuleihan as first deputy and Elle Bisgaard-Church as chief of staff.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible gothamist.com/news/mayor-e...
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"Among Western... commentators there is a tendency to enmesh it within a framework of the domestic culture wars in their societies. They have repurposed a debate about the persecution of Nigerian Christians for the globalization of their local grievances."
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Some straight talk about Nigeria's 'Christian genocide' controversy
A long post documenting the history of religious strife in Nigeria and critiquing popular arguments surrounding a complicated debate
coogunmodede.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"Among Western... commentators there is a tendency to enmesh it within a framework of the domestic culture wars in their societies. They have repurposed a debate about the persecution of Nigerian Christians for the globalization of their local grievances."
coogunmodede.substack.com/p/some-strai...
coogunmodede.substack.com/p/some-strai...
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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if you can help my niece we would really appreciate it
Desperation
PLEASE HELP and/or BOOST
Down to needing $250 even URGENTLY for my prescription meds that have run as of yesterday — day 2
If you can help me out with it, you can do so here:
www.PayPal.me/DeeDentalDamn
#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest
#TransCrowdFund
THANK YOU!
PLEASE HELP and/or BOOST
Down to needing $250 even URGENTLY for my prescription meds that have run as of yesterday — day 2
If you can help me out with it, you can do so here:
www.PayPal.me/DeeDentalDamn
#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest
#TransCrowdFund
THANK YOU!
Pay Den Elms using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/DeeDentalDamn and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
if you can help my niece we would really appreciate it
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Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.
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Let’s us do it dears, really you can’t imagine how it’s scary for me bc Im the only one can rebuild our family and It’s my responsibility, let us do it hand by hand I swear if just everyone clicked repost we will reach to everyone.
We can I swear, I will sleep and see the results at morning 🥲❤️🩹
We can I swear, I will sleep and see the results at morning 🥲❤️🩹
I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone.
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Let’s us do it dears, really you can’t imagine how it’s scary for me bc Im the only one can rebuild our family and It’s my responsibility, let us do it hand by hand I swear if just everyone clicked repost we will reach to everyone.
We can I swear, I will sleep and see the results at morning 🥲❤️🩹
We can I swear, I will sleep and see the results at morning 🥲❤️🩹
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From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
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For one week only, all proceeds from my #BakeOnceAWeek Compound Butter sale will support Kindred On The Rock, Staceyann Chin’s community farm in Jamaica, devastated by the hurricane.
Each small-batch baton = a seed toward rebuilding. 💛
Orders close Nov 15
Ships Nov 17
bit.ly/CompoundButterBatons
Each small-batch baton = a seed toward rebuilding. 💛
Orders close Nov 15
Ships Nov 17
bit.ly/CompoundButterBatons
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
For one week only, all proceeds from my #BakeOnceAWeek Compound Butter sale will support Kindred On The Rock, Staceyann Chin’s community farm in Jamaica, devastated by the hurricane.
Each small-batch baton = a seed toward rebuilding. 💛
Orders close Nov 15
Ships Nov 17
bit.ly/CompoundButterBatons
Each small-batch baton = a seed toward rebuilding. 💛
Orders close Nov 15
Ships Nov 17
bit.ly/CompoundButterBatons
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Mohammed @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social is really not ok. Despite the ceasefire it seems he will never return to his farmland that meant everything to him. He struggles with despair supporting his whole family on donations. He means a lo to me & so many have been touched by his huge heart. Can we help?
Help Mohamed Get His Family to Safety
Hello, this is Meave Gallagher, the sponsor of this fundraising campaign for our dear friend, Mohamed Ahmed, the displaced Palestinian farmer growing a small farm in Mawasi, Khan Yunis. His original g...
chuffed.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mohammed @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social is really not ok. Despite the ceasefire it seems he will never return to his farmland that meant everything to him. He struggles with despair supporting his whole family on donations. He means a lo to me & so many have been touched by his huge heart. Can we help?
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I know the idea that ICE and BP will be prosecuted en mass is comforting but it absolutely isn’t going to happen. If you actually care about this issue you should be more serious about it.
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I know the idea that ICE and BP will be prosecuted en mass is comforting but it absolutely isn’t going to happen. If you actually care about this issue you should be more serious about it.
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
lmao 🤌🏾
'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
lmao 🤌🏾
'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
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This isn’t a small note.
I don’t hate Biden with the intensity so many on here do (and not looking to relitigate that here).
But he was always really conservative on policing, and he hadn’t really changed, and lots of changes he could have at least started never happened, and that’s really bad.
I don’t hate Biden with the intensity so many on here do (and not looking to relitigate that here).
But he was always really conservative on policing, and he hadn’t really changed, and lots of changes he could have at least started never happened, and that’s really bad.
This is just a small side note, but one of the things that astonished me most about the Biden transition was there seemed to be no plan whatsoever to root Trumpism out of the fed bureacracy. Firmly believe we'd be in a much better place had they taken that on....
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This isn’t a small note.
I don’t hate Biden with the intensity so many on here do (and not looking to relitigate that here).
But he was always really conservative on policing, and he hadn’t really changed, and lots of changes he could have at least started never happened, and that’s really bad.
I don’t hate Biden with the intensity so many on here do (and not looking to relitigate that here).
But he was always really conservative on policing, and he hadn’t really changed, and lots of changes he could have at least started never happened, and that’s really bad.
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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my new mayor getting sexual predators off the streets on day 1 i KNOW thats right
Dave Portnoy threatens to pull Barstool from NYC over ‘Communist’ Zohran Mamdani’s win: ‘Hate the guy’
Portnoy made the comments during a livestream on YouTube last week as it became clear that Mamdani would win the mayoral race.
nypost.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
my new mayor getting sexual predators off the streets on day 1 i KNOW thats right
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Hello brothers and sisters, I send you greetings from Gaza. My brothers and sisters, please help me overcome the circumstances I am living in; they are truly dire. Imagine yourself supporting 13 people in a camp. Please share and donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hello brothers and sisters, I send you greetings from Gaza. My brothers and sisters, please help me overcome the circumstances I am living in; they are truly dire. Imagine yourself supporting 13 people in a camp. Please share and donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
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having a young child is like having a friend on a serious "I NEED to talk to someone about my new hobby" bender, but the hobby is human existence
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
having a young child is like having a friend on a serious "I NEED to talk to someone about my new hobby" bender, but the hobby is human existence
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This is so neat- Fedaa and Motaz had a film made about their life in Gaza while Fedaa was a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital that is going to be screened on the 16th and also in some film festivals!
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is so neat- Fedaa and Motaz had a film made about their life in Gaza while Fedaa was a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital that is going to be screened on the 16th and also in some film festivals!
how does my 4-year-old niece wake up every day ready to talk constantly until she goes to bed?
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
how does my 4-year-old niece wake up every day ready to talk constantly until she goes to bed?
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Former DNC chair and NY assemblyman Michael Blake is primarying Ritchie Torres.
You might remember Blake from the primary debate where he kept saying the quiet parts out loud. He's calling out Torres AIPAC backing, and his inattention to the material needs of his constituents in the Bronx
You might remember Blake from the primary debate where he kept saying the quiet parts out loud. He's calling out Torres AIPAC backing, and his inattention to the material needs of his constituents in the Bronx
Michael Blake to challenge Rep. Ritchie Torres in Democratic primary | NBC New York
YouTube video by NBC New York
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Former DNC chair and NY assemblyman Michael Blake is primarying Ritchie Torres.
You might remember Blake from the primary debate where he kept saying the quiet parts out loud. He's calling out Torres AIPAC backing, and his inattention to the material needs of his constituents in the Bronx
You might remember Blake from the primary debate where he kept saying the quiet parts out loud. He's calling out Torres AIPAC backing, and his inattention to the material needs of his constituents in the Bronx
last harvest of the season 🌱
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
last harvest of the season 🌱
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This is literally straight Ratzellian Hitlerism
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is literally straight Ratzellian Hitlerism