Wagatwe Wanjuki
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
@wagatwe.com
antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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Someone asked me once what white people could do right now to help.

I said make a group of white folks that have the sole purpose of clearing every Black, Brown and Native mutual aid effort they see.

Never heard from them again.
December 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
my friend Mohamed is still raising money to stay alive in the harsh conditions of Gaza. Please boost and give this holiday if you can 🫶🏾
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December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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You can be clear-eyed about what happened without reading about child sexual abuse in granular detail.

I promise.
It is normal to be repulsed, to feel it in our guts. Normal to be shocked, aghast, appalled. But we cannot continue to turn away; we've done that for far too long. This is so much bigger than Epstein. It didn't start with him, and it is going on right now, this very minute.
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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From Kenya to wherever you find yourself today, we want to thank you for your unwavering support and - with the help of our Keepers and some of their little charges - to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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As war profiteers try to manufacture consent to bomb Venezuela for oil, remember in 2018 Venezuela sent 200,000 struggling American families across 15 freezing states 45 million gallons of free home heating oil.

They continued this program from 2005 to 2009.
December 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land.

This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...
Dec. 25, 1521: Enslaved People Revolt in Santo Domingo
Enslaved people on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by the son of Christopher Columbus attempted to free themselves and take over the land in the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas...
www.zinnedproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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On Christmas help some children who don’t have big piles of presents if you can ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Omar. Omar is just 16 and is taxed with helping his whole family. His father was a food industry engineer before the war but he is unemployed now and struggling.
Omar is trying to take care of his younger brothers Hasan, 14 and Emad, 7.
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I’m back after a 3 day suspension for sharing a link to publicly available police reports exposing Blood Tribe nazis. They also removed the post. Bluesky evidently prioritizes the protection of literal, active nazis over community safety. Unfortunately for BT, they’re already in the sunlight now :)
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Happy Chinese food and movie day to the Yidden. Happy Thursday to everyone else.
December 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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So, you're willing to put your rights up for the chopping block first on the purity test then, yes?
December 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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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.

If you can, please help me rebuild my life even the smallest support means the world to me.
repost = rebuild

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
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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There was a female prison nicknamed the rape club. It got closed (eventually) and the Trump administration is trying to reopen it as a migrant detention center

I don't think I need to provide further details.

It's all the same stink
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
just thinking of white liberals who insist everyone left-of-center has to be accommodating/accepting of everyone to "win"

it's clearly bullshit when the people the Right hates most still go crawling to them
December 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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"The war in Gaza has firmly established that the international legal, moral, and political order contains a double standard and was never meant to serve the needs of weaker nations and societies."
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Sudan #Lebanon #Syria #Genocide #Military
Israel's war on Gaza has made genocide an accepted weapon of war. We're already seeing it in Sudan.
Israel's genocide in Gaza set a global norm that views extermination as a 'natural' part of how nations and paramilitary groups wage war. We are already seeing this in Sudan.
mondoweiss.net
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Hewing to "civility" and (already badly derived) norms like "don't prosecute anyone who's ever been president even if they've done actionably, hideously vile things" is uh… yeah it's the American way. From failing to properly hold accountable the Confederacy, to not prosecuting Nixon, to today.
I will never ever ever understand how the Biden administration had all this nuclear-level dirt on Trump and didn't pull the ripcord. You can try to explain it but it will never make sense.
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Just pointing out that this has been the plan all along, aided by the Claremont Institute, and Tom Homan, who have always wanted to see this happen.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.

Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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According to the Lancet, vibrio infections have broken records the last three years in a row. They also degrade ecosystems & cause mass die-offs, including commercial marine species & coral reefs.

Experts say the cost of Vibrio is already in the billions & expected to increase with climate change.
Marine heat waves, intensified by climate change and pollution, are driving the spread of Vibrio bacteria worldwide — pathogens that can cause severe illness, including cholera and “flesh-eating” infections.
Marine heat waves and raw sewage combine to put human health at risk
Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made headlines. Infections of this kind are troublingly on the rise as ocean…
news.mongabay.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I actually genuinely care about supporting artists and have a track record of doing so!

As a show of support, I will buy an album on bandcamp for $13.12 from the first 10 artists who answer all 6 questions.

I know they're hard but I hope these answers move the convo past surface-level takes.
Ok I'm getting quite tired of artists having conservative reactionary takes to this news.

In this QT thread I'm going to ask artists 6 questions to consider, which I'm very willing to hear them out on and will hopefully lead to an interesting discussion.

Please do share your thoughts below 👇
lol spotify got scraped. 186 million songs about to hit torrents

annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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More people should know about Big Freedia, she's amazing
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Since we're coming up on year end, figured I'd do a thread of some of my writing I feel good about from the year. They're all free.

Considering the time of year, this is as good a place to start as any. Don't let ppl make you feel bad for cutting off toxic family.
www.patreon.com/posts/time-f...
Time, Family, Polarization and Risk Assessment | Alex Pagliuca
Get more from Alex Pagliuca on Patreon
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December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Prison guards:

- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.

- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.

- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.

All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Big Freedia's Christmas music >>>>>>>>>>>
December 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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the modern history of the criminal legal system makes it very clear that "just make this thing illegal" or "just give the feds jurisdiction over it" does not accomplish very much.
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM