Megan wa Mukuria

Founder of @Niayanguke & @ZA_Foundation. Doing the impossible every day & loving it. At the intersection of #socent #innovation #mhm #rights. #liveyourpurpose

[Megan wa Mukuria @MWMukuria]

Join @MedicsForKenya to help us help girls to actualize their right to dignified menstruation. @NiaYanguKe

[Medics For Kenya 🇰🇪 @MedicsForKenya]

📌 Medics For Kenya has teamed up with @NiaYanguKe
We are requesting all those who would like to support us monetarily to do so using their till number shared below. You can as well reach Nia through the hotline shared and on WhatsApp.

[waikwa @waikwawanyoike]

Maraga has refused to leave police custody until all those arrested with him are released.

[Green Belt Movement @GreenBeltMovmnt]

#NairobiNationalPark is not a parking lot.
Today, we stood against plans to excise 90 acres of protected park land for a 1,300-car parking facility. Nine unarmed activists were arrested during the peaceful protest.
Protect nature. Defend civic space.

#NationalParkNotCarPark

[Ian Wafula @Ian_Wafula]

Former CJ David Maraga arrested while protesting the construction of a parking lot inside the Nairobi National Park.

[Ian Wafula @Ian_Wafula]

We found evidence of construction going on inside the Nairobi National Park but @KWSKenya just confiscated our drone. Currently protests by lobby groups and environmentalists are going on over the construction.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A pair of chickadees will bring 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars to their nest box to raise one batch of chicks. One caterpillar every three minutes, dawn to dark, for nearly three weeks.

But North America has 3 billion fewer birds than it did in 1970, and a big reason is housing. Many of these birds nest in tree cavities, and we keep cutting down the dead trees. A nest box is a replacement cavity. You're handing out housing in the middle of a shortage, and the tenants pay rent in dead bugs.

Match the box to the bird:

Chickadees: 1⅛ inch hole: they'll eat your caterpillars and aphids.

Wrens: 1¼ inch opening: they'll eat beetles, earwigs, grasshoppers, spiders.

Bluebirds: 1½ inch on an open post: they'll take down crickets, beetles, and grubs picked off your lawn.

Tree swallows: 1½ inch opening in a box near water: they dine on flies, gnats, and flying ants by the hundreds of thousands a season.

Four boxes sized for four birds and you've drafted an avian crew that works your yard from the soil to the treetops, for free, and sings while doing it.

[waikwa @waikwawanyoike]

I once asked Pheroze Nowrojee why they kept challenging President Moi's authoritarian actions in Court in the 1990s when it was clear they would loose every time. He said:

"For the record! Nothing is more powerful in history than the record."
@ochieljd
https://t.co/k0mkJHze1D

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Irũngũ Houghton @irunguhoughton]

Packed morning.
7-8am - @Arch_KE Chair George Ndege and I speak to @Hot_96Kenya on Nairobi County land scandals
9am - Peaceful protest on the grabbing of 98 acres of Nairobi National Park

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Kenyans need to start asking harder questions about this unexplained money economy.

Many of you have walked into certain hotels, clubs, restaurants, lounges and car yards and found almost no serious business going on. A hotel has empty rooms, an empty restaurant, bored waiters and barely any movement, but if you are told that same hotel deposits millions of shillings every day as sales, even you will be shocked.

That is how dirty money enters the financial system. The money cannot remain in suitcases forever. At some point it must be given a business story. It must be called hotel sales, club sales, restaurant sales, consultancy income, car sales or real estate payments.

In serious jurisdictions, investigators do not just admire cash in suitcases and issue statements. They follow the money into the businesses that are used to clean it. If a club has no customers but claims huge daily sales, if a hotel has no guests but deposits millions, if a restaurant sells one cup of tea in a day but takes Ksh5 million to the bank in the evening, that is where the real investigation begins.

Banks already know these things because banks ask questions when deposits do not match the business reality. The question is why Kenyan authorities are not cracking down harder when everyone can see that some people are not running businesses, they are washing money.

This is why the Ksh65 million allegedly recovered in the Patrick Analo matter should not end as a suitcase story. Authorities must ask where such money was going next, which businesses would have received it, which banks would have accepted it, which assets would have absorbed it and who else is helping this dirty money look clean.

Kenya is full of businesses with no customers but huge money. That is not entrepreneurship but laundering with a business permit.

[Megan wa Mukuria @MWMukuria]

@Wordslinger__ *Nyandarua

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

Hi friends. I am well now and safely back home. Immigration officers in Amsterdam looked at me and thought I can’t have a genuine passport. They hadn’t even opened it. Held me back for so long apparently “verifying” my passport that I missed my flight. When I told them to check the passport because it has stamps and visas, they said those can be forged too. I have passed through Schiphol airport over 10 times if they had cared to look at the passport and checked my name in the system whatever doubts they had would have been cleared without undue delay and anguish. Anyway, they finished “verifying” long after the plane had left said I should be grateful they are getting me another “free flight” like they had found me stranded without a flight back home. When the “free flight” they got me was 24 hours later, they told me to either wait at the airport or figure out where to spend the next 24 hours. No explanation. No remorse. No apology. I don’t know if it was the anger or anxiety that made it very difficult to breathe or even utter a word and caused me a breakdown.. but it is very unfortunate that in 2026 there are people that still simply look at others and assume they are fraudsters or something. Luckily, good friends came to my rescue and also redeemed the reputation of the Dutch just a bit.. thanks @klup and Marnix🙏 we have already filed a complaint and raised the issue in many fora. I hope that at the very least they never racially profile any other person like that again.

[Irũngũ Houghton @irunguhoughton]

Recently reflected aloud in "BATUK: The White Man’s Burden in Kenya" on the dangers of British army operations on Kenya soil with immunity and the imperative that foreign soldiers be held accountable under Kenyan law and in Kenyan courts.
https://t.co/azaNGSeUpS
#NoImmunity #NotOnOurSoil

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

my newest poem - written in honour of humanity, nature and the earth, things we could all lose if we don’t control our unnecessary greed.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The U.S. getting its first trillionaire while 771,480 are homeless, 48 million are food insecure, and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford healthcare, will go down as one of our country’s greatest moral failures.

[Irũngũ Houghton @irunguhoughton]

https://t.co/pkhsDvba8g

[Social Justice Centres Working Group @UhaiWetu]

The government wants more revenue, yet billions continue to be lost through corruption and waste. Citizens should not be the first target. #RejectFinanceBill2026 #SitaSitaMarchForOurLives

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

HRF condemns Dutch immigration officers’ careless treatment on Thursday of prominent, award-winning Ugandan human rights activist Agather Atuhaire on Thursday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, as she returned from the 2026 #OsloFreedomForum in Oslo. The treatment Atuhaire received triggered serious traumatic mental distress from her well-known May 2025 illegal detention and torture in Tanzania.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Dan Aceda @danaceda]

Sooo anyway ... Finance Bill 2026 and The Creative Industry

A THREAD

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.

And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.