Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️

Extremely grateful for all the contributions, shares, & support, as I attempt to survive GBV, white supremacist workplace trauma, etc. Now behind on housing payments for 3 months, & still urgently in need of $500 for meds, food, & bills, so please donate & share, as much as able!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 paypal.me/kjagoo

Indonesia is battling its worst wildfires in more than a decade, made worse by El Niño. https://to.pbs.org/4e5OU8x

Three doctors who have served on state maternal mortality review committees told ProPublica that Ciji Graham’s death was preventable. “There were so many points where they [doctors] could have intervened,” one expert said. (Published January)

Dream postponed: Hebron groom caught in Israeli military lockdown https://aje.news/ce2hbk

Thwarted separatists are turning on Alberta’s conservative leaders, deepening political turmoil in the province while health care, affordability, and education remain neglected.

White evangelical Christians have been among President Trump’s most loyal supporters for more than a decade. But signs of slippage are emerging ahead of the midterms. https://to.pbs.org/4zZ91xL

Editor Lina Attalah was freed once a $53,400 fine was paid, only to learn of a one-year sentence passed in her absence.

The Trump administration has stepped up efforts to challenge the integrity of elections and assert greater control over how they are conducted. https://to.pbs.org/4il69Ei

The arrest of Ecuadoran opposition leader Luisa González marks a shocking escalation in far-right President Daniel Noboa’s use of the courts to persecute opponents.

The DOJ is appealing a federal judge’s order blocking further tree removal at D.C.’s East Potomac Golf Course. https://www.washingtonsun.com/metro/justice-department-appeals-judge-order-east-potomac-park

A new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll released on Tuesday shows Democrats hold an eight-point lead among likely voters. With independents, that lead grows to 13 points. https://to.pbs.org/4jL0zNQ

Israel's first election since October 7 appears deadlocked, with neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot on track for a majority.

Hasan Piker sued commentator Scott Jennings in federal court, seeking more than $72 million in damages over allegations that Jennings falsely depicted him as advocating the lynching of Black Americans. https://www.washingtonsun.com/legal/hasan-piker-defamation-suit-scott-jennings

With one week until Election Day, the final push is on. President Trump is making a swing through Texas, a state Republicans have long counted on, but where Democrats see an opportunity to make gains. https://to.pbs.org/4sru8Gi

Tanzania’s jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu ends brief hunger strike https://aje.news/qk8sxc

With its stripped-down aesthetics, swift storytelling, and striking shades of black and white, “Fatherland” tells the story of an entire era in roughly an hour. It achieves an almost mythical stature, summoning an inheritance that extends from the ancient Greeks to the Germans.

In Issue No. 12 of Hammer & Hope, Marlon James and Namwali Serpell two writers deeply informed by Toni Morrison, had a wide-ranging conversation about the towering legend of American letter and the slow death of art for the Black working class. hammerandhope.org/article/namw...

Israelis turned out in record numbers for their first election since the Oct. 7 attacks and the war in Gaza. https://to.pbs.org/4e1WIYW

Extremely grateful for the $134.07 that came in today, but I remain desperately in need of $59.81 ASAP for meds, food, bills, etc. (in addition to outstanding housing payments for 3 months, which is stressful as fuck), so please donate & share, as able!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 paypal.me/kjagoo ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

"When I still worked as a psychotherapist, I often combined my personal insights about the catharsis of writing with my therapeutic lens, especially when employing a narrative therapy approach with trauma survivors."✍🏾 - Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW. www.equitableforall.com/articles/an-...

I survived my 1st new client session since these morning migraines have been devouring my spoons as housing precarity, perimenopause, etc. wreak havoc on sleep, anxiety, etc. Hopefully, I get some rest overnight, as I have a gazillion pages of plays to review before Round 1 recommendations are due!🤞🏾

Someone should cast Sophie Okonedo and Gillian Anderson in a toxic sapphic drama immediately.

The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it. This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.

Huh? Wut?

This clown loves Tilly Norwood. Not kidding. Ignore him forever.

I’ve made it to season three and it just needs to be said: God protect Sophie Okonedo and that NAAAAAAASTY bob (complimentary). #SlowHorses

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

Please help Krystal! #MutualAid #HelpSky

"When I still worked as a psychotherapist, I often combined my personal insights about the catharsis of writing with my therapeutic lens, especially when employing a narrative therapy approach with trauma survivors."✍🏾 - Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW. www.equitableforall.com/articles/an-...

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

High turnout in vote widely described as the most consequential in Israel's history.

France’s prime minister has touted shutting down social media in order to quell protests. Even without Marine Le Pen yet in power, the establishment is seeking authoritarian means to crack down on protests.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance shared Ukraine donation data with Russian authorities resulting in his conviction.

A senior State Department official said Tuesday that Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. https://to.pbs.org/4dYrdiC

A grand jury in Washington rejected prosecutors' request to return an indictment charging Cassidy Hutchinson, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. https://to.pbs.org/47LwZ3v

An American Samoan family in Alaska facing felony voting charges unanimously rejected any plea deals. They maintained that they never intentionally broke the law, and they wanted to avoid creating a precedent that could harm other U.S. nationals.

Andre Janones built a WhatsApp army of nearly 11 million subscribers. Did it help Lula win?

The FEC is grappling with outages to its campaign finance filing and alert systems less than a week before the Nov. 3 general election. https://www.washingtonsun.com/influence/federal-election-commission-website-down-suspected-hack

"When I still worked as a psychotherapist, I often combined my personal insights about the catharsis of writing with my therapeutic lens, especially when employing a narrative therapy approach with trauma survivors."✍🏾 - Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW. www.equitableforall.com/articles/an-...

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Debbie Rogers, love you back.

Flavio Bolsonaro and Bibi Netanyahu are gonna be TikTok roomies in Florida by the end of the year.

Making history is not enough. We must make CHANGE.

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There are 30,000 broken streetlights in LA. It's time we turn the lights back on. It's time for a city that works.

This is honestly fantastic. Typically 1/3 of the people in any poll like this support the most heinous, evil bullshit imaginable. So the fact that this is only 13 percent is heartening.

This is mostly true. I was in shock and said if the FBI was going to come arrest me then fucking do it already. Ben was the one who held my hand and told that lawyer to fuck off. But YES. We LOVE the NLG. They found me my lawyers and I will owe all of them my life.

Molyneux sounds like a scab.