Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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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To close out Black August, Margaret sits down with Bridget Todd and Hazel Acacia to finish talking about one of the most iconic Trek episodes ever made (S6E13: Far Beyond the Stars of Deep Space Nine)- and you're invited
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