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Tari Ajadi

@tariajadi.bsky.social
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Working on transformative justice & social impact in St. John’s, NL. Making my way through.

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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This is the best political campaign of my lifetime. I don’t want to hear about Obama or anyone else. This is how you do it! This has to be the model!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/06/2025
“I’m not going to claim CEOs are that special. It’s just somebody has to tell others . . . ‘This is where we’re going.’ And AI is not particularly good at that yet.” AI can do everyone else’s job, but CEOs are just too important to automate. How convenient!
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Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’
Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Join @anikaganness.bsky.social next Wednesday, May 14th as she wraps up her postdoctoral fellowship with a talk on “The Past, Present, and Future of Child Welfare in Canada.” This event will be hosted in person at the @IRPP.org! Learn more and register for the event here: irpp.org/irpp-event/c...
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The Past, Present and Future of Child Welfare in Canada - IRPP
Join us in Montreal on Wednesday, May 14 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for a talk with IRPP postdoctoral fellow Anika Ganness.  Why are children from racialized and immigrant backgrounds more likely to end up...
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
It's important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy's disbelief in germ theory isn't based on speculation or deduction; it's based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden."
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I'd rather have suicidal empathy than no heart at all. While the cruelty is the point for these ghouls, I still firmly believe there are more good people in the world than evil. I'm grateful to @charlieangus104.bsky.social for bringing light into these dark times & defending #ChildRights
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Aaron S. Veenstra @asveenstra.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
In general we need to internalize the fact that bad faith actors never “have a point” because having a point isn’t the point.
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
There’s nothing better than some Elections 101 on an Easter morning right? Right?! In all seriousness, I hopped onto @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social’s show Just Asking to talk about our electoral system. Check it out, and go vote! #canadaelection #elxn45 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The Debates Commission is a disaster. #debate2025
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Who thought this leader’s choice segment was a good idea? What are we doing here? #debate2025
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
How can he have a plan in the Middle East when he has no security clearance to get briefed? He just said that Muslims bring foreign conflicts and target Jewish communities I smell Islamophobia #cdnpoli #debate2025
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
These questions are terrible. This is worse than last night for sure. #budget2025
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This horrifying debate on crime is a great indicator of the complete capture of the public safety file by the CPC and media collaborators. It’s a joke. #Debate2025
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The moderator is not doing a good job. I prefer the approach last night. Cut the mics! #Debate2025
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
What is Blanchet talking about? Can we please try to be serious for a moment? #Debate2025
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Absolutely. I’m already rolling my eyes.
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
As a follow-up to this post, if you'd like to give the article a read, please access it via this link. I have a limited amount of free copies for access if you are not able to access via an institution (but DM me and we can sort that out very quickly!): utppublishing.com/eprint/JG9AS...
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Policing the Uptown: A Historical Narrative Analyzing Black-Led Coalitions in Response to Police Brutality in Halifax in 1991 | Journal of Canadian Studies
This article delves into the historical context of Black resistance to racial oppression in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It focuses on a critical juncture in the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism in the city—the “Uptown Riots” of 1991. Through archival research and interviews with community members, the article explores how Black activists organized and responded to the municipality, province, and federal government’s complicity in racial oppression during and after the Uptown Riots. The concept of racial institutional orders is employed to analyze the complex relationships between Black communities advocating for self-determination and the governing institutions perpetuating racial concepts of Black inferiority and victimhood. By examining the continuity of resistance and the reconstitution of the dominant racial institutional order, this article sheds light on the enduring impacts of this incident on the affected communities.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 13/04/2025
It gets even worse once you learn about the history of these organizations. These are REFORM jails and prisons. Rikers was considered a “model penitentiary”! brooklynrail.org/2020/02/fiel...
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All Jails Fit to Build | The Brooklyn Rail
“Borough-based” jails are nothing new in New York City. The original incarnation of Lower Manhattan’s notorious Tombs facility, opened in 1838, replaced the British colonial jail built before the Revo...
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 13/04/2025
I think it’s just a tipping point thing. When you have your first exposure to, say, 50 horrifying stories about cops and prisons, you think the system can be fixed. 500? You’re thinking it has to be seriously downsized. By the time you read about horror #50,000? Burn it down.
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Ted Rutland @tedrutland.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"You killed someone for nothing. We want justice now." Calls for justice after Abisay Cruz killed by the SPVM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDV...
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Calls for justice after Montrealer dies following SPVM intervention
YouTube video by CityNews
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Rest in power, Abisay Cruz, and all those killed by police officers here in Montreal and anywhere else. We can never accept the death of a human being as a justifiable consequence of policing; I remain disgusted with the SPVM, the BEI, and with the city.
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Montrealers rally around family of man who died after police operation in Saint-Michel | CBC News
Two events were held Sunday to call attention to the deaths of three people after police intervention - two of which took place in Montreal. One of those people was 29-year-old Abisay Cruz whose death...
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Ted Rutland @tedrutland.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Signe de l'état des médias à Montréal, qui ont assumé le rôle de sténographes des déclarations policières, le meilleur reportage sur le meurtre policier d'Abisay Cruz a été livré par Hockey30. hockey30.com/nouvelles/co...
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Commotion à Montréal : Un père de famille battu à mort par la police
Sur hockey30.com, on s’autorise parfois à sortir de la glace pour plonger dans ce qui brûle.
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
we need to have an honest conversation about our drug policy for the first time ever
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 18/03/2025
This is fucking abhorrent. It’s also how local policing works in the US too. “Gang databases” are basically racial profiling dragnets and there are literal toddlers in those datasets. This is another reason why abolition is so urgent www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cal...
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The way to fight fascists is not to placate them. And yet, as @kwardvancouver.bsky.social is pointing out, we’re accepting Trump’s logic and the police state that comes with it. Somehow, even with existential crises staring us in the face, policing is the answer some crave. I’ll never understand it.
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I'm proud to announce that my article "Policing The Uptown" has been released in the Journal of Canadian Studies @utpjournals.bsky.social - this is an adapted chapter from my upcoming monograph with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & a piece I'm really proud of. Check it out!
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Policing the Uptown: A Historical Narrative Analyzing Black-Led Coalitions in Response to Police Brutality in Halifax in 1991 | Journal of Canadian Studies
This article delves into the historical context of Black resistance to racial oppression in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It focuses on a critical juncture in the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism in the city—the “Uptown Riots” of 1991. Through archival research and interviews with community members, the article explores how Black activists organized and responded to the municipality, province, and federal government’s complicity in racial oppression during and after the Uptown Riots. The concept of racial institutional orders is employed to analyze the complex relationships between Black communities advocating for self-determination and the governing institutions perpetuating racial concepts of Black inferiority and victimhood. By examining the continuity of resistance and the reconstitution of the dominant racial institutional order, this article sheds light on the enduring impacts of this incident on the affected communities.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
it's your boy again, once again respectfully tapping the "support worker-owned, independent media" sign
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/01/2025
For people who need villains to wear shirts saying “I’m the villain,” here you go.
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Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages
AI totally "crashing" everyone's wages is a necessary stepping stone towards a better future, argues billionaire Marcus Andreessen.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Protest won’t be a dominant tactic this time&that’s good.No shade to previous iterations but it’s smart to change tactical repertoires over time.Variety of tactics is critical. Deep organizing(local community building&service based)is needed/happening now.That’s an improvement made from experience.
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I spoke with the @thestar.com @raisapatel.bsky.social about cultural appropriation and the word "woke". It's a frustrating conversation to say the least. Given that we're now in "silly season" across the country, be ready for much more of this sloganeering: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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How Pierre Poilievre successfully weaponized the word ‘woke’
A word born from Black empowerment movements has become emblematic of Conservatives' strategy to distance themselves from the ruling left.
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OmiSooreDryden @drdryden.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A few places where I’ll be… pls join me and share w friends #GotBloodToGive #AntiBlackHomophobia #BloodDonation
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Desiree Weber @desireeweber.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The creation of meaning about how to interpret events is a central site of political struggle The last two days have seen an attempt to launder a Nazi salute as anything but, to define the category of biological sex in anti-scientific much less humanitarian terms — and much more Don’t let them!
Murray Edelman, Political Language and Political Reality, Political Science journal, 1985 http://www.jstor.org/stable/418800
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thanks so much @eandreweditor.bsky.social! I’m thrilled to be working with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social on this project:
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 09/01/2025
I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I'm pleased to announce that my dissertation received the 2024 Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) - for more on the award, check out this link: cags.ca/prizes/the-c...
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
...and (in what appears to be a banner day for my social media usage!) I got to chat a bit with CBC Montreal about what we might expect in our federal and provincial politics this year: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I posted this on the other site (for my sins) and I'll repost here: There's no point in refuting these arguments on Bluesky (read any Black Studies scholar ever instead). What is notable is how quickly this deeply Canadian form of racism will reinscribe itself into policy. 1/
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Since I'm hoping to keep Bluesky as a strictly professional experience, I wanted to share a few of the things I've been working on. First, I have a chapter (co-authored with Kristin Good) in this excellent volume that's just been released - check it out: utorontopress.com/978144263497...
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University of Toronto Press - Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective
What does a comparative approach add to our understanding of Canadian municipal government, city governance, and municipal policy-making? Canadian Urban Gove...
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Tari Ajadi @tariajadi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I guess I'm doing this now.
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