Ida Mojadad
🔹public policy grad student @ UCLA
🔹lightly editing @ SF Public Press + SPJ NorCal board. priors: SFGATE, The Frisc, SF Chronicle, SF Standard, SF Examiner, SF Weekly. more @ idamoj.com 🇮🇷💖🇺🇸
- "A city turned to ash before our eyes, and we burned with it" No easy feat to reconstruct this massacre, one of many still being tallied..
- Reposted by Ida MojadadThey watched Israel do this with every Palestinian they killed for two years and so they never imagined it wouldn't work
- … Furthermore, according to two other sources with knowledge of the situation, top officials in the Trump White House reminded their federal colleagues in and outside the West Wing that Pretti should be referred to as a “terrorist” in written statements and public messaging, no matter his background
- NYT has been toying with the headline but should absolutely keep and blast this one www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
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- Reposted by Ida MojadadProtest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos www.tpr.org/border-immig...
- Reposted by Ida MojadadSince July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- There's an episode of Black Mirror in which soldiers are unwittingly programmed to see humans as mutants they call roaches who are actually victims of genocide. I think about that episode a lot more these days. That and Vampire Diaries, the recurring plotlines about their humanity being switched off
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- Reposted by Ida Mojadad"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
- if it makes anyone feel better about…everything else, it’s looking like the coming robot war is not focused on humans at the moment
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- Especially stoked to do this with COYOTE, working with the great @emmaruthless.bsky.social and again with @nuala.bsky.social. Give it a read and support COYOTE!!
- At home in the dark during SF’s massive blackout last month, as journalist @idamoj.bsky.social scrambled to save food, she also wondered how we got here. It’s too simple to cast PG&E as the only villain, she argues: Why aren’t we talking about the CPUC? www.coyotemedia.org/in-the-dark-...
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- Reposted by Ida Mojadad"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
- Reposted by Ida MojadadHorrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- new SF publication alert! huge fan of the concept, and also the neon logo they came up with
- at least 538 estimated killed in Iran amid mass protests, internet, international phone calls and electricity shut offs. it was about the same number but within a year of the 2022 protests. please don't treat these numbers as normal, just like we wouldn't here.
- during Trump 1.0 an Iranian elder told me the US is looking more like what she left behind, what my parents left behind. Today, it’s not lost on me that there are protests raging in both countries, both fueled by anger over state violence
- Reposted by Ida MojadadThis is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
- Reposted by Ida MojadadI can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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- this man is a true patriot. this is from 2010 when he facing a 6-year sentence archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blog...
- Reposted by Ida MojadadNew, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
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- Reposted by Ida MojadadThe New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area
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- Reposted by Ida MojadadIn the past week, the Trump-Vance admin: –Bombed Nigeria –Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader –Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean –Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba –Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)
- Reposted by Ida MojadadBest thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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- actually reads like it was drafted by the White House, cherry on top is the argument that Maduro will be in the “humane American prison” system
- Reposted by Ida MojadadPeople are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
- Reposted by Ida MojadadThree million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
- Reposted by Ida Mojadadhey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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- the propaganda alarm bells are ringing off the hook here jesus christ read a real story -> www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
- Reposted by Ida MojadadWrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- stumbled across an old article I wrote for SF Weekly at a YBCA exhibit the other day 😭
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- THIS part is so critical. at home I barely knew what was happening and couldn't even load the PG&E website. there needs to be coordinated outreach to check on people in affected areas, especially for seniors and those with disabilities missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-r...
- unfortunately, you need to assemble a case with pictures and receipts but will definitely be giving it a try. and make sure to at least hound them for the $30 credit for every 24 hours your power was out if it doesn't show up on your bill within 2 months sfstandard.com/2025/12/22/s...
- you know 97% of SF may have power again but for the 3% of us who still don’t it majorly sucks. Two nights without electricity and scrambling all day to keep what we can from going back and charging up isn’t cute!!
- Reposted by Ida MojadadThe CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
- Treasure Island has no permanent medical service nor are there plans for any despite major developments expected to bring 20,000 more people by 2042. In the meantime, a clinic on wheels rolled onto the island www.sfpublicpress.org/treasure-isl...
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- "“If you’re not willing to give my child a puberty blocker shot, which is an evidence-based, legal, medically necessary care, then what are you going to do? Stop providing abortions? Stop providing vaccines? It’s just a really slippery slope.”" Read this. sfstandard.com/2025/12/09/s...
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- Reposted by Ida MojadadRead this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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- Reposted by Ida MojadadThey’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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- riding a bus in LA during the evening rush hour is the closest one can get to riding the Harry Potter knight bus in California
- The way to say you miss someone in Farsi is that "your place is empty," which is 100% how it'll feel when returning to Cal Academy. RIP to an SF icon 😭
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- even after a high profile fuck up the mayors office is outsourcing basic vetting to local journos
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- “One deputy, Sgt. Ibarra, reportedly taunted the women that the videos would be posted online, but they’d have to blur their genitalia,” Chan wrote in the public defender’s complaint.”
- Reposted by Ida MojadadTrump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
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- Reposted by Ida MojadadHey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
- Reposted by Ida MojadadFor folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
- it is so crazy making to be in a room full of people coughing and you’re the only one masking, not even the people coughing, and it’s treated as completely normal again to just blatantly get each other sick all the time without a care in the world
- rich for someone who spent their journalism career, in which they did no real reporting, complaining about journalism practices
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