Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the radicals and feminists and radical feminists who got 90% of a country's women to refuse to do work at the jobsite or at home

Sources:

https://bluestockings.com/ 
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icelandic-women-strike-economic-and-social-equality-1975 
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/raeda-adalheidar/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 
https://normlex.ilo.org/dyn/nrmlx_en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::NO:11310:P11310_INSTRUMENT_ID:312245:NO 
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/avorp-raudsokka/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/europe/global-womens-strike-international-womens-day-intl/index.html 
https://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/teaching/texts/Redstockings%20Manifesto.pdf 
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Redstockings 
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gender-equality-by-country 
https://villagepreservation.org/2022/05/09/redstockings/ 
https://daily.jstor.org/the-bluestockings/ 
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-pay-gap-grows-despite-equality-efforts/ 
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/ 
https://www.france24.com/en/20200731-vigdis-finnbogadottir-the-world-s-first-elected-female-president 
https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/stories/womens-right-to-vote 
https://english.hi.is/news/womens-strike-2025 
https://www.routesnorth.com/language-and-culture/icelandic-last-names-a-simple-guide/ 
https://lens.monash.edu/gender-equality-behind-icelands-paradise-for-women-image-lies-a-hidden-care-gap/ 
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/iceland-redstockings-womens-strike-feminism 

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Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the radicals and feminists and radical feminists who got 90% of a country's women to refuse to do work at the jobsite or at home

Sources:

https://bluestockings.com/ 
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icelandic-women-strike-economic-and-social-equality-1975 
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/raeda-adalheidar/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 
https://normlex.ilo.org/dyn/nrmlx_en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::NO:11310:P11310_INSTRUMENT_ID:312245:NO 
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/avorp-raudsokka/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/europe/global-womens-strike-international-womens-day-intl/index.html 
https://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/teaching/texts/Redstockings%20Manifesto.pdf 
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Redstockings 
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gender-equality-by-country 
https://villagepreservation.org/2022/05/09/redstockings/ 
https://daily.jstor.org/the-bluestockings/ 
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-pay-gap-grows-despite-equality-efforts/ 
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/ 
https://www.france24.com/en/20200731-vigdis-finnbogadottir-the-world-s-first-elected-female-president 
https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/stories/womens-right-to-vote 
https://english.hi.is/news/womens-strike-2025 
https://www.routesnorth.com/language-and-culture/icelandic-last-names-a-simple-guide/ 
https://lens.monash.edu/gender-equality-behind-icelands-paradise-for-women-image-lies-a-hidden-care-gap/ 
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/iceland-redstockings-womens-strike-feminism 

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Margaret reads you some non-fiction with advice for organizers

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Margaret continues talking with defendant Isaac Sant about the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities and federal repression

links referenced:

Alexio fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid 

Wired article on HSI spying: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-in-us-history/ 

NYtimes article on Operation Puppet Master: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html 

Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund 

The first article to note the correlation between the Northside events and the drop in abductions: https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/23/their-escalation-and-ours-how-the-fight-against-ice-in-the-twin-cities-gained-momentum 

Guardian article on nspm-7 defendants union:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/trump-protesters-antifa-defendants-union 

https://nspm7union.com/ 

https://minnesota15.org 

https://prairielanddefendants.com/ 

https://www.defendmichigan8.org/ 

https://pjals.org/spokane3/ 

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Margaret talks with defendant Isaac Sant about the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities and federal repression

links referenced:

Alexio fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid 

Wired article on HSI spying: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-in-us-history/ 

NYtimes article on Operation Puppet Master: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html 

Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund 

The first article to note the correlation between the Northside events and the drop in abductions: https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/23/their-escalation-and-ours-how-the-fight-against-ice-in-the-twin-cities-gained-momentum 

Guardian article on nspm-7 defendants union:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/trump-protesters-antifa-defendants-union 

https://nspm7union.com/ 

https://minnesota15.org 

https://prairielanddefendants.com/ 

https://www.defendmichigan8.org/ 

https://pjals.org/spokane3/ 

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Margaret reads you a comfy, cozy story about a robot colony on the moon, and one robot's journey to find a new home--and have her tarot cards read

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Margaret talks with historian Ben Egerman about his work studying less-trodden queer history

Find Ben's book at: https://redemmas.org/titles/51654-a-gay-little-history-of-maryland-volume-1/ 

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Margaret talks with historian Ben Egerman about his work studying less-trodden queer history

Find Ben's book at: https://redemmas.org/titles/51654-a-gay-little-history-of-maryland-volume-1/ 

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Margaret and Hazel read you a found documents story about a government experiment gone wrong

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Margaret continues talking to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets

Sources:

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham 
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/ 
https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/ 
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial 
https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later 
https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/ 
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701 
Jim Henson, Idea Man
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones

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