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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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There isn’t a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:

β€œWhen people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”

04.07.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"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.

04.07.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5364    πŸ” 1306    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 64

WHAT?!?!

04.07.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

04.07.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

I hope for a day Americans will value people's lives abroad just as much, and will treat members of the military like this.

04.07.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

03.07.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

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

03.07.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2372    πŸ” 1590    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 224

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.

03.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 97820    πŸ” 38066    πŸ’¬ 4495    πŸ“Œ 2680

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?!?!?!?!

03.07.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€œAfrican American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League

Columbia turned away the possible future mayor

03.07.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1906    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5
While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name CrΓ©mieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.

While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name CrΓ©mieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.

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

03.07.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 856    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 14

I think the idea that β€œpeople 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.

03.07.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely incredible how US libs will say anything to launder genocide even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.

27.06.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

helpful reminder that even the most stone-cold dumb as fuck people can be dangerous fascists β€” using recklessly dehumanizing fascist language, promoting consonant ideas and policies, etc.

27.06.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is HIGH TIME for sagacity to reign amongst us!

27.06.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

God 😩

27.06.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 .

They are setting the stage for full-fledged Balkanization.

27.06.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like, what really is the difference between ~whatever the fresh hell this is~ and the state of nature as described by Hobbes??

27.06.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A failed, self-cannibalizing state if I’ve ever seen one, whew.

27.06.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

27.06.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5373    πŸ” 730    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 39
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEP

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEP

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

27.06.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Supreme Court Requires Schools to Allow Opting Out From L.G.B.T.Q. Stories

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...

27.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

This Christian theocratic projectβ€”of which SCOTUS is a crucial partβ€”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.

27.06.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1035    πŸ” 301    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 12
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.

25.06.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1458    πŸ” 462    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 36

When I told my Barnard students + mentees my bagel order, they damn near wanted to crucify me lmaooooo

26.06.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meals And Medicals For Injured Palestinian Kids - FUNDwithFREEDOM My name is Aishia Mester, and my family and friends live in the North of Gaza, Palestine. Most aid is being blocked at the border, and there isn’t nearly enough to fight back the famine or save my lov...

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You can see Bisan's post about this www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

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26.06.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is for mass surveillance. RFK Jr. already said he’d use smartwatch data for his β€œautism registry.” He clearly sees it as a way to get personal health information without running into HIPAA or asking for consent.

26.06.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

25.06.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6700    πŸ” 3285    πŸ’¬ 392    πŸ“Œ 405

I don’t think y’all understand just how much the entire state of New Yorkβ€”especially the cities upstate!β€”have suffered because of the unchecked greed and drastic jump in the cost of living in NYC.

So if those sociopaths want to leaveβ€”let them!

25.06.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bit rich for Shai Davidai to call for "our colleges" to become "partisan-free spaces for education" has he forgotten what hes been doing for a year and a half

25.06.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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