Adia Benton
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
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*in Meryl Streep voice* NOW open for public comment?!
The White House ballroom plan is now open for public comment
Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Members of the public currently have the opportunity to provide input on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White...
savingplaces.org
February 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
*in Meryl Streep voice* NOW open for public comment?!
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DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!
Hi everyone,
I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development.
My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...
Hi everyone,
I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development.
My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...
www.linkedin.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!
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a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing
Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
www.404media.co
February 19, 2026 at 7:25 PM
a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing
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I know Axl Rose is FUMING right now.
"Does everybody like the music?" -- Guns & Roses plays in the background as Trump and Vance pose with the "Board of Peace"
February 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I know Axl Rose is FUMING right now.
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One indication that congress may have miscalibrated the homeland security budget would be the secretary ordering herself an entire Leisure Suit Larry fuckjet
February 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
One indication that congress may have miscalibrated the homeland security budget would be the secretary ordering herself an entire Leisure Suit Larry fuckjet
They’re like… two jobs running two premier national health agencies:
how hard can it be?
how hard can it be?
Our new CDC Director
February 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
They’re like… two jobs running two premier national health agencies:
how hard can it be?
how hard can it be?
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I really appreciate this generous, thoughtful review in @dissentmag.bsky.social.
"Ultimately, Goldstone argues, the homelessness crisis is the result of decades of neoliberal policies that have shifted an ever-growing share of the responsibility for sheltering people into profit-driven hands."
"Ultimately, Goldstone argues, the homelessness crisis is the result of decades of neoliberal policies that have shifted an ever-growing share of the responsibility for sheltering people into profit-driven hands."
After Eviction - Dissent Magazine
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us challenges the widespread public perception of homelessness as a reflection of individual choices, but it also looks beyond the assumption that soaring home ...
dissentmagazine.org
February 19, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I really appreciate this generous, thoughtful review in @dissentmag.bsky.social.
"Ultimately, Goldstone argues, the homelessness crisis is the result of decades of neoliberal policies that have shifted an ever-growing share of the responsibility for sheltering people into profit-driven hands."
"Ultimately, Goldstone argues, the homelessness crisis is the result of decades of neoliberal policies that have shifted an ever-growing share of the responsibility for sheltering people into profit-driven hands."
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Correct. Everything does not need to be computer.
Maybe I'm not talking to the right leftists but nobody has been able to explain to me how it's possible to continue on this path of putting computers in fucking everything—toothbrushes, washing machines, books—without irreparably ravaging and polluting our environment.
@parismarx.com, help?
@parismarx.com, help?
February 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Correct. Everything does not need to be computer.
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This is hugely important💯
With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it
February 18, 2026 at 5:33 AM
This is hugely important💯
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You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...
February 17, 2026 at 11:53 PM
You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...
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Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.
February 18, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.
Finally was able to check out Belle Burden’s book from the library—I need books like this to breeze thru in the evenings — and hoo boy
February 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Finally was able to check out Belle Burden’s book from the library—I need books like this to breeze thru in the evenings — and hoo boy
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Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
I still have his ‘88 campaign clock, bought it in San Francisco: “it’s about time for Jesse”
Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.
February 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I still have his ‘88 campaign clock, bought it in San Francisco: “it’s about time for Jesse”
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"The video of Edwards was the last one recorded in the organization’s first set of investigations in the state, Guillette said, but is not the last video from a North Carolina university that will be released."
Yeah, so that's called
✨t e r r o r i s m✨💁🏼
Yeah, so that's called
✨t e r r o r i s m✨💁🏼
February 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"The video of Edwards was the last one recorded in the organization’s first set of investigations in the state, Guillette said, but is not the last video from a North Carolina university that will be released."
Yeah, so that's called
✨t e r r o r i s m✨💁🏼
Yeah, so that's called
✨t e r r o r i s m✨💁🏼
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From the archives, our episode of Making Jesse Jackson: “Our time has come,” Jackson declared during his famous ‘David and Goliath’ speech while he was running for president in 1984. “Red, yellow, black and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight! Our time has come.”
Making Jesse Jackson
www.wbez.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
From the archives, our episode of Making Jesse Jackson: “Our time has come,” Jackson declared during his famous ‘David and Goliath’ speech while he was running for president in 1984. “Red, yellow, black and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight! Our time has come.”
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In my own research area, you can't overstate the impact of Wiseman's Primate (1974). Everyone in any way related to animal research was discussing it. The Animal Welfare Institute was citing it before congress. The Yerkes laboratories are *still* scared of outsiders because of it. The list goes on.
February 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
In my own research area, you can't overstate the impact of Wiseman's Primate (1974). Everyone in any way related to animal research was discussing it. The Animal Welfare Institute was citing it before congress. The Yerkes laboratories are *still* scared of outsiders because of it. The list goes on.
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I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund!
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
February 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund!
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home
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🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
UT Regents To Vote on Sweeping Course Restrictions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
aaup-texas.org
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM
🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
reminds me of the time I found our main floor powder room completely overrun with toilet paper, toilet full of toilet paper, a broken TP dispenser, and a naked toddler.
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
reminds me of the time I found our main floor powder room completely overrun with toilet paper, toilet full of toilet paper, a broken TP dispenser, and a naked toddler.
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Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it.
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
Frederick Wiseman: TITICUT FOLLIES
YouTube video by Austin Film Society
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it.
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around
so is this on Kellen Browning or his editor
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
so is this on Kellen Browning or his editor
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wow
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
wow
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A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many