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/
Pretend we’re dead on the same turkey trot playlist as sweet home alabama
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Pretend we’re dead on the same turkey trot playlist as sweet home alabama
Can confirm
At half:
Draymond +16
Sengun -21
Draymond +16
Sengun -21
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Can confirm
Am at the NBA Cup and somehow I didn’t realize that would be the case lol 😂
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Am at the NBA Cup and somehow I didn’t realize that would be the case lol 😂
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It's hyper-gendered! Like Louise says. Nurses vs tradesmen. And that's a big part of everyone's problem with my workplace and workplaces like it. Because 47% of women 18-34 have a bachelors and 37% of men.
"Democrats buy into that stereotype of because they're college graduates, they must be also white, cosmopolitan, wealthy elites, instead being like, "No. To be part of the working class these days often still requires like some form of college education," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's hyper-gendered! Like Louise says. Nurses vs tradesmen. And that's a big part of everyone's problem with my workplace and workplaces like it. Because 47% of women 18-34 have a bachelors and 37% of men.
Heh but he told her editor or whatever
If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Heh but he told her editor or whatever
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my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
My dissertation turns 10 next month and I've been dipping in to see if there's anything in there worth pulling out and working with, and each chapter is effectively about a different emotional struggle that would be familiar today.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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It is not just the market reacting to a relative lack of demand. It is about mortgages, insurance, transit, the infrastructure required to serve stores, and the entire picture of real estate development. It is not a market failure. It is how the entire public/private matrix is engineered.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It is not just the market reacting to a relative lack of demand. It is about mortgages, insurance, transit, the infrastructure required to serve stores, and the entire picture of real estate development. It is not a market failure. It is how the entire public/private matrix is engineered.
someone driving by is blasting billy idol on their tinny car radio:"dancing with myself."
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
someone driving by is blasting billy idol on their tinny car radio:"dancing with myself."
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Cheap delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
What if I told you Walmart is not the only store trying to move into low-cost delivery? And this is about Atlanta because this is about Atlanta opening a city-subsidized grocery store.
And lastly, cheap delivery is a more than adequate replacement for a physical store. This is about physical stuff!
And lastly, cheap delivery is a more than adequate replacement for a physical store. This is about physical stuff!
And why should someone have to bear the cost of food delivery? Or be restricted to Walmart? And how did this become specifically about Atlanta? So many goal posts.
Anyway delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store in accessible proximity of where one lives.
Anyway delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store in accessible proximity of where one lives.
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Cheap delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
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This piece leaves out an important issue: many university libraries have had their collection budgets reduced to the point they struggle to maintain access to subscription databases. If you can’t buy large quantities of print materials, the collections age to the point that they aren’t useful.
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This piece leaves out an important issue: many university libraries have had their collection budgets reduced to the point they struggle to maintain access to subscription databases. If you can’t buy large quantities of print materials, the collections age to the point that they aren’t useful.
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Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
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this week in make it make sense, the @chicagoreader.com’s weekly news roundup:
1/ ✊ the remaining residents of the south shore apartment building raided by feds in september are unionizing to demand immediate repairs and move-out assistance.
(via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social)
1/ ✊ the remaining residents of the south shore apartment building raided by feds in september are unionizing to demand immediate repairs and move-out assistance.
(via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social)
Make It Make Sense: Tenants of buildling raided by feds unionizing
Plus: Layoffs at SAIC’s Video Data Bank, community members fight demolition of a southwest-side power plant, and more.
chicagoreader.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
this week in make it make sense, the @chicagoreader.com’s weekly news roundup:
1/ ✊ the remaining residents of the south shore apartment building raided by feds in september are unionizing to demand immediate repairs and move-out assistance.
(via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social)
1/ ✊ the remaining residents of the south shore apartment building raided by feds in september are unionizing to demand immediate repairs and move-out assistance.
(via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social)
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Hard not to notice that this is describing a landscape where public aid is pretty brutally means tested, and thus it's very, very difficult to climb out of the trap of housing/childcare/healthcare if you aren't supremely lucky
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hard not to notice that this is describing a landscape where public aid is pretty brutally means tested, and thus it's very, very difficult to climb out of the trap of housing/childcare/healthcare if you aren't supremely lucky
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More and more are saying it!
the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org calendar of (not just) literary events is a feat of cheerful stamina and I am in awe, weekly
🙇♀️ @msatris.bsky.social
🙇♀️ @msatris.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
More and more are saying it!
contemplating a first-year seminar that's just about college football. we would get into the seedy history of the sport and muscular christianity, militarism, settler colonialism, the NCAA 'student-athlete' fiction, racial capitalism
so it'll be about football but not ABOUT football
so it'll be about football but not ABOUT football
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
contemplating a first-year seminar that's just about college football. we would get into the seedy history of the sport and muscular christianity, militarism, settler colonialism, the NCAA 'student-athlete' fiction, racial capitalism
so it'll be about football but not ABOUT football
so it'll be about football but not ABOUT football
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When a school in California is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, this is basically how it should go, right?
UC Berkeley (1) fires losing football coach, (2) will continue to pay him $10.9 million, (3) hires prominent anti-vax wacko as interim coach. Great work, California! #highereducationpriorities @governor.ca.gov
Cal makes an extremely unlikely, controversial choice for fill-in coach
Nick Rolovich is set to lead the Bears for at least one game this season.
www.sfgate.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When a school in California is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, this is basically how it should go, right?
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November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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thought we were doing a simple meal, but kids have demands. so: turkey breast roulade AND smoked (brined, experimental) turkey breast. roasted sweet potatoes with onion, garlic, chilis. assorted winter greens (collards/kale) from garden. MAYBE gourmet mac+cheese. pies: cranberry custard, pumpkin.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
thought we were doing a simple meal, but kids have demands. so: turkey breast roulade AND smoked (brined, experimental) turkey breast. roasted sweet potatoes with onion, garlic, chilis. assorted winter greens (collards/kale) from garden. MAYBE gourmet mac+cheese. pies: cranberry custard, pumpkin.
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✅ mezze 1 (butternut squash + tahini spread)
✅ mezze 2 (white bean mash + aioli + dill)
✅ mezze 3 (beet + yogurt spread)
✅ cranberry tart
✅ pies + ice cream acquired
to-do yet today: mushroom wellington prep, gratin
✅ mezze 2 (white bean mash + aioli + dill)
✅ mezze 3 (beet + yogurt spread)
✅ cranberry tart
✅ pies + ice cream acquired
to-do yet today: mushroom wellington prep, gratin
this year's t-giving:
- 3 mezzes
- charlie bird's farro salad
- ottolenghi's curried carrot mash
- ott's lime and coconut potato gratin
- ott's chicken w/lentils, squash, daqa
- mushroom wellington
- that nyt cranberry curd tart
- local bakery pecan pie, buttermilk pie
- ice cream
- 3 mezzes
- charlie bird's farro salad
- ottolenghi's curried carrot mash
- ott's lime and coconut potato gratin
- ott's chicken w/lentils, squash, daqa
- mushroom wellington
- that nyt cranberry curd tart
- local bakery pecan pie, buttermilk pie
- ice cream
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
✅ mezze 1 (butternut squash + tahini spread)
✅ mezze 2 (white bean mash + aioli + dill)
✅ mezze 3 (beet + yogurt spread)
✅ cranberry tart
✅ pies + ice cream acquired
to-do yet today: mushroom wellington prep, gratin
✅ mezze 2 (white bean mash + aioli + dill)
✅ mezze 3 (beet + yogurt spread)
✅ cranberry tart
✅ pies + ice cream acquired
to-do yet today: mushroom wellington prep, gratin
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They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.
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Re: last repost, I grew up in the 80s hearing about the ways income thresholds and even having two parents at home could get people kicked off already inadequate aid. The war on poverty became a war on poor, working folks long ago.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Re: last repost, I grew up in the 80s hearing about the ways income thresholds and even having two parents at home could get people kicked off already inadequate aid. The war on poverty became a war on poor, working folks long ago.
precisely the kind of movie I'd watch on a long-haul flight between meals, work and naps. I wonder if I'd make it through lol
ETERNITY has charming performances and an interesting romantic setup and also a vision of the afterlife that will make you feel like your brain has suddenly evaporated. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
Eternity’s Vision of the Afterlife Will Drive You Crazy
Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner act out a love triangle in a strange world that makes no sense.
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
precisely the kind of movie I'd watch on a long-haul flight between meals, work and naps. I wonder if I'd make it through lol