Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with writer and podcast host Andrew Ti about how an informal union of children shut down the nation’s biggest newspapers and won their rights.
Original Air Date: 6.19.2023

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Margaret talks to you about Trump's latest boogieman, the Italian hacktavists who helped free the internet
Sources:
https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/f8e99026-0049-4da6-bd2e-1b5a9d84b477/content
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specially_designated_global_terrorist
https://www.icnl.org/resources/research/ijnl/solving-the-necessity-conundrum-what-the-drug-war-can-teach-us-about-due-process-for-u-s-charities-in-the-fight-against-international-terrorist-financing
https://web.archive.org/web/20160126020743/http://www.jta.org/2009/05/28/news-opinion/united-states/holy-land-founders-get-life-sentences
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/palestinian-political-prisoner-shukri-abu-bakers-poetry-book-debuts-in-houston/
https://anarchistnews.org/content/go-forth-and-multiply-may-10-100-1000-servers-spark
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Margaret reads you a surreal story about the surreal Southwest, written by one of her favorite authors
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Margaret reads you an essay about the lying machines that will soon be ruling the world
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Margaret reads you an essay about how we have to soberly confront the realities of climate change and look for ways we can collectively take action
Source:
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/beyond-climate-optimism-beyond-climate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/climate/coral-reef-recovery-time.html
https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/carbon-footprint-coined-by-big-oil-to-blame-you-for-climate-change
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-have-i-heard-eating-meat-bad-climate
https://solarunitedneighbors.org/resources/what-to-know-about-plug-in-solar/
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