Elizabeth Adetiba, Ph.D.
@eadetiba.bsky.social
Critical scholar. Formerly a lot of things, forever a truthteller. Quick-witted and sharp-tongued. Spoonie. Opinions are all my own. She/Her.
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I feel so totally overwhelmed by the level of moral and intellectual bankruptcy that has completely overtaken this society. And “call your reps!” is not anywhere near an adequate solution to this problem.
Send me a bat signal when folks are ready to finally confront this pervasive sociopathy.
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Send me a bat signal when folks are ready to finally confront this pervasive sociopathy.
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There isn’t a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:
“When people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”
“When people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”
"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
There isn’t a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:
“When people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”
“When people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”
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"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
July 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
WHAT?!?!
It's another small thing but this guy is still a grad student and he gets called "an academic" in this and the anonymity means not having to deal with the fact that you can't call him "Dr."
It's not that I don't think grads should count as academics but I'm pretty sure the Times usually doesn't.
It's not that I don't think grads should count as academics but I'm pretty sure the Times usually doesn't.
His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
July 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
WHAT?!?!
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just to be clear, being from a working class background does not actually make it okay to use the environment-destroying plagiarism machine. All use of AI in writing fiction is morally bankrupt, because it steals and it destroys - and that's not even getting into the betrayal of craft.
July 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
just to be clear, being from a working class background does not actually make it okay to use the environment-destroying plagiarism machine. All use of AI in writing fiction is morally bankrupt, because it steals and it destroys - and that's not even getting into the betrayal of craft.
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I hope for a day Americans will value people's lives abroad just as much, and will treat members of the military like this.
If you know somebody who gets a job with ICE (now that they have a whole country's budget to do violence) you must make your relationship the cost of that job.
If you chill with them, you're one of them.
If you chill with them, you're one of them.
a man in a military uniform salutes in front of a group of men
Alt: a nazi in a military uniform salutes in front of a group of nazis
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I hope for a day Americans will value people's lives abroad just as much, and will treat members of the military like this.
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There's something really gross about the disregard for the incredible and highly available intellectual work of Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani.
I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.
I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.
July 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There's something really gross about the disregard for the incredible and highly available intellectual work of Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani.
I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.
I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.
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3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
You mean ON TOP of this god-awful bill passing, this is how I learned that someone hacked my Alma mater my personal data has been compromised?!?!?!?!
You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You mean ON TOP of this god-awful bill passing, this is how I learned that someone hacked my Alma mater my personal data has been compromised?!?!?!?!
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can’t decide the funnier anti-nepo narrative correction here:
Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor
unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an “African American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League
Columbia turned away the possible future mayor
Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor
unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an “African American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League
Columbia turned away the possible future mayor
July 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
can’t decide the funnier anti-nepo narrative correction here:
Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor
unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an “African American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League
Columbia turned away the possible future mayor
Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor
unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an “African American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League
Columbia turned away the possible future mayor
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His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
July 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
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I think the idea that “people who voted for this should suffer the repercussions” is misguided because the repercussions of this bill are going to impact everyone, including so many people who didn’t vote for it. Political consequences are rarely felt in isolation and only by those who vote for it.
July 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I think the idea that “people who voted for this should suffer the repercussions” is misguided because the repercussions of this bill are going to impact everyone, including so many people who didn’t vote for it. Political consequences are rarely felt in isolation and only by those who vote for it.
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Absolutely incredible how US libs will say anything to launder genocide even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
June 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Absolutely incredible how US libs will say anything to launder genocide even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
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helpful reminder that even the most stone-cold dumb as fuck people can be dangerous fascists — using recklessly dehumanizing fascist language, promoting consonant ideas and policies, etc.
“[These] inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers, that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.” www.al.com/politics/202...
Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
www.al.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
helpful reminder that even the most stone-cold dumb as fuck people can be dangerous fascists — using recklessly dehumanizing fascist language, promoting consonant ideas and policies, etc.
They are setting the stage for full-fledged Balkanization.
a woman wearing glasses and a white sweater is sitting on a couch covering her face with her hand .
ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a white sweater is sitting on a couch covering her face with her hand .
media.tenor.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
They are setting the stage for full-fledged Balkanization.
Like, what really is the difference between ~whatever the fresh hell this is~ and the state of nature as described by Hobbes??
June 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Like, what really is the difference between ~whatever the fresh hell this is~ and the state of nature as described by Hobbes??
A failed, self-cannibalizing state if I’ve ever seen one, whew.
June 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A failed, self-cannibalizing state if I’ve ever seen one, whew.
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Also, all you liberals who were humping Amy Coney Barrett last month really should have listened to me when I told you SHE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Also, all you liberals who were humping Amy Coney Barrett last month really should have listened to me when I told you SHE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEPThe defendants in the case previously argued that supporting PrEP access was similar to supporting homosexuality. bit.ly/3ZOJZ4P
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEPThe defendants in the case previously argued that supporting PrEP access was similar to supporting homosexuality. bit.ly/3ZOJZ4P
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Once we start picking and choosing which librarian-approved books are okay to discriminate against, we open the damn floodgates. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
Supreme Court Requires Schools to Allow Opting Out From L.G.B.T.Q. Stories
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Once we start picking and choosing which librarian-approved books are okay to discriminate against, we open the damn floodgates. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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This Christian theocratic project—of which SCOTUS is a crucial part—depends on kids growing up to be bigots.
Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.
Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.
June 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This Christian theocratic project—of which SCOTUS is a crucial part—depends on kids growing up to be bigots.
Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.
Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.
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A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
June 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
When I told my Barnard students + mentees my bagel order, they damn near wanted to crucify me lmaooooo
June 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
When I told my Barnard students + mentees my bagel order, they damn near wanted to crucify me lmaooooo
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June 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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This is for mass surveillance. RFK Jr. already said he’d use smartwatch data for his “autism registry.” He clearly sees it as a way to get personal health information without running into HIPAA or asking for consent.
It's a bad idea for ANYONE to switch to using a smartwatch or similar. We should be cutting down on our personal data stored and shared from mobile or wearable devices. RFK jr wanting people to switch, immediately raises some serious concerns for privacy, especially regarding health data. cont
RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years
During a House committee meeting Tuesday, Kennedy announced a large-scale ad campaign from the federal government to hype wearable tech.
gizmodo.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is for mass surveillance. RFK Jr. already said he’d use smartwatch data for his “autism registry.” He clearly sees it as a way to get personal health information without running into HIPAA or asking for consent.