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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 20m

Question not done justice here. He says something like: take me to your family dinner table; what have you said/done *specifically* to your daughter and son-in-law to denounce white supremacy”

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 26m

Collins: but something something Israel but something something taxes! Yeah I dunno

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly think this might be where his work in public health is helpful here. straightforward message.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]

It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]

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End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.

On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 14h

I ran almost 500 miles to train for this race and raise food bank funds for @fooddepository.bsky.social !! There’s still time to donate: giving.chicagosfoodbank.org/p2p/pages/NR...

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 15h

This sounds like it will go well ... "That includes making [VAERS] available on mobile devices—so doctors can report vaccine injuries on the go". I'm sure that was the hang-up in finding vaccine injuries in the past.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 14h

The guy is just petty and holds grudges. What reason does he even have to name those people

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15h

Tidbits selected by a friend: -one of the upenn trustees is married to a major donor to canary mission -gonzaga u hired a former fbi 'counterterrorism' agent to do antisemitism investigations -in group chat anti-bias investigator @the new school colluded w/ students who filed antisemitism complaint

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15h

“universities use the facade of anti-discrimination investigations to pursue politically motivated retaliation.“ method: analysis of nearly 200 incidents of retaliation, and interviews with 31 targeted employees

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15h

Some findings: “all categories of academic workers are at risk (30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured)” “Two-thirds of cases recorded were people of color, who are disproportionately targeted. But most retaliation is not for classroom speech.“

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 18h

tryna make fetch happen, I see. the fun thing is that it does appear that Jeff likes so many artificial things; he just does not like it when people call them that.

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Tube Amps for Justice @curiousaudio.us · 18h

capitalism could allow for that right now, bitch

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 21h

Irony: her spouse is a bioethics patent attorney, whatever that means … sounds like ethics as compliance

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 21h

Is it tho And also, let’s think about what we know about training for doctors —even in public health

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.

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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 22h

The first thing that underfunded schools have cut near me was bussing. It forces parents to drive their kids and get stuck in traffic and it’s driving them all insane.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why was my first reaction “oh I forgot she was Canadian”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The FDA hit Amazon with a warning letter for selling unapproved herpes treatments… This poses "a serious public health concern," the agency wrote, since people relying on these products "may forgo timely, appropriate medical care, increasing their risk of severe complications”

medpagetoday.com

FDA Warns Amazon Over Herpes Treatments

Products pose 'serious public health concern,' agency said

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No, an anti-AI presenter/presentation with obvious ai images

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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

A stack of business cards reads in English and Korean: Generative AI is unethical, annoying, and anti-art. Anything it touches will fail, and be a mark of shame on human history. I do not wish to discuss this further.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve seen this and it’s … weird

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...and don't forget the part where they penalize sellers for offering lower prices on other sites! So even if you don't shop on Amazon, you're paying higher prices because of them. It's a big part of the upcoming FTC case against the company.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But why does this look like the cover of a British procedural

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Anne Leader @anneleaderphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We got our #NEH grant back!!! Justice delayed but not denied. And, we now have until 2028 to spend the funds. awardsearch.neh.gov/AwardDetail....

awardsearch.neh.gov

NEH Award PW-296829-24, University of Chicago

Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I guess depending on when in the 2000s, there was a different kind of right wing columnist. the pronatalist was one-of-a-kind; i think she ended up having a dozen kids with her college bf/husband (they got married and had the first couple in college) and became a doula

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Now I’m curious about your husband’s year and whether he was on BDH when the weird pronatalist woman was writing her column heh

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember in My Best Friend’s Wedding, those two were “journalism majors” at brown… not a thing

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hehe it is weird how much easy stuff they get wrong

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

The idea they get to live as little dictators over a captive workforce is half the appeal and ideal for a lot of people working in and around football.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The NSF abandoning social science and education researcher is of course a blow to these disciplines, to their universities, and a major barrier to a generation of scholars. It also surrender a large amount of influence over these disciplines to private foundations. Why does they matter?

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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026

Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed amid massive student-led protests. The demonstrations began at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings.

truthout.org

Police Violence Causes Serious Injuries as French High School Students Protest

Students protest teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats and debris.

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i saw Freddie Jackson in concert once and OutKast was right. that voice! RIP

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of city ‘landscaping‘ uses kale and cabbage and I find myself wanting to pick the veggies 😆

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m in the middle category 😂 49 as of 3 weeks ago

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