Steffi Elizabeth Thomas

PhD student Education Policy, IU Bloomington #2018_ResearchFellow @palnetworkHQ | education , caste and gender | holds personal views = feminist = political

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Just witnessed this clip.  

Nas can be set aside; his Zionist position is already known and requires no further dissection. He is a known but common evil. 

What truly demands reckoning are Nikhil Kamat and Tanmay Bhat, living exhibits of everything that is rotting at the core of contemporary Indian public discourse.  

These are men who have been handed enormous platforms, cultural capital, and the ear of millions, yet remain staggeringly, almost comically unlettered. 

Their influence is not merely harmless celebrity; it is actively corrosive. They wield the power of mass communication with the unearned confidence of those who have never once been intellectually challenged in their own circles.  

This is Dunning-Kruger effect in its purest, most grotesque form: men so profoundly ignorant, so Jahil, that they lack even the self-awareness to suspect their ignorance. 

They speak with the swagger of Jawaharlal Nehru, but their thoughts are as shallow as a WhatsApp forward.

Worse still, they have created for themselves a esoteric little ecosystem, a mutual-admiration sauna where they all soak together, marinating in the same shallow certainties, reinforcing one another’s blind spots until their shared mediocrity begins to feel like wisdom. 

In that echo chamber, ignorance does not merely survive; it becomes doctrine. 

And that is the real tragedy.  India, in 2026, finds itself in a strange and humiliating intellectual dark age, not because the country lacks brilliant minds, but because the loudest, richest, and most visible ones are precisely the ones least equipped to carry the decent conversation. 

A single serious intellectual pushback, a solitary honest question asked with precision, would reduce these paper-tiger pundits to dust. 

Yet no one in their orbit ever delivers it. 

This is not comedy. This is a civilisational decline wearing a thick dark hoodie in deep Bombay summers, casually planning the next exotic holiday, asking whether you’ve tried that dish yet, peddling twenty-day weight-loss miracles, and cracking jokes while an entire nation quietly forgets how to think.

[Rose Christina Topno @RoseCTopno]

A note from an unhappy & disheartned @makemytrip customer - Unable to reschedule a flight since 1 week. Please provide immediate resolution @makemytrip @makemytripcare

[Road Scholarz @roadscholarz]

Anganwadi workers in Chhattisgarh will be on strike tomorrow. Reason? Digital tyranny in the distribution of take-home rations (THR), now conditional on Aadhaar, recipient OTP, photo uploading, etc. AWWs are threatened with salary cuts if they fail.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

This earth has never known a people so deranged by hate and supremacy to the point that our annihilation is all they strive for, individually and collectively.

[Road Scholarz @roadscholarz]

2/2 "In the formal sector, Indian women enjoy a full 26 weeks of paid maternity leave. In the unorganised sector, they get Rs 5,000 flat if they are lucky enough to manage all the PMMVY hoops and loops. These double standards are mind-boggling."

[Clare Hinchcliffe @Subversivite]

Right. So Keir Starmer, who is complicit in war crimes by selling arms to Israel, is not in prison

But my daughter Zoe, who took action against an Israeli arms factory in the UK, *is* in prison (6 months without trial & counting) 🤔

https://t.co/RUO5wiFZMf

[Road Scholarz @roadscholarz]

"The current KYC framework needs urgent revision. Failing that, it will soon make more victims like Ramman. And for every visible victim, thousands suffer in silence."

[Dr. Ruchika Sharma @tishasaroyan]

A woman dies, and before dying gives a proper declaration that her monstrous husband brutally r@ped her, leading to her hospitalization. She then dîed in the hospital due to a *perforated rectum*. Her husband r@ped and kílled her, and the court set him free.

Her déath, her declaration, her pain, none of it mattered, because marital r@pe laws don't exist as women might *misuse* them. Let that sink in!!!

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

These are the South Africans (or very strong connections to apartheid South Africa) running America.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

The Modi government has sold its workers to Israel to “replace” Palestinian workers, failed to bring back workers tricked into fighting for Russia, and says nothing when the U.S. deports Indians shackled by the leg.

The world sees us and treats us exactly like we treat our own.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

The body of Dr. Refaat Alareer was just transferred from its initial burial site in Gaza City to the official Bin Marwan Cemetery in eastern Gaza.

Refaat was laid to rest beside his brother Salah, his sister Asmaa, and their children, in adjacent graves. @itranslate123

[Steffi Elizabeth Thomas @Lizbeth_steff]

@Abdullah_Om3r03 Hi

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

The State of Israel ordered UNRWA to vacate all premises in occupied East Jerusalem and cease its operations in them by 30 January 2025.

This order is in contradiction to international law obligations of UN member states including the State of Israel, which is bound by the General Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.

United Nations premises are inviolable and enjoy privileges and immunities under the United Nations Charter.

The State of Israel is a signatory -without reservations- to the General Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and enacted its provisions in its domestic law.  These provisions oblige the State of Israel to respect United Nations privileges and immunities, including respect for United Nations premises.

UNRWA property and assets including in East Jerusalem are immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation, and any other form of interference.

Claims from the Israeli authorities that UNRWA has no right to occupy the premises are without foundation. They promote anti-UNRWA rhetoric, placing the Agency’s facilities and personnel at risk. The Government of Israel has stated publicly that the aim to vacate UNRWA premises in Sheikh Jarrah is to expand Israeli illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.

The State of Israel must take all appropriate measures consistent with international law obligations to ensure that UNRWA’s property and installations are respected and protected.

UNRWA statement on 26 January 2025: https://t.co/AWgmubI5jF

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[Steffi Elizabeth Thomas @Lizbeth_steff]

Education with AI and using it to replace actual interventions with a committee disregard to the environmental damage it does!

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.

And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind

[Steffi Elizabeth Thomas @Lizbeth_steff]

Looking for your votes for this photo I clicked & submitted for a phoyo contest at my university.
https://t.co/x0BIzwz2ed

[Global Education Cluster @GlobalEdCluster]

The war in #Gaza will set children's education back by up to 5 years, says a study by @UNRWA & @Cambridge_Uni.

As focus shifts to rebuilding the 🇵🇸 #education system, children need urgent support to restore learning losses and their hope for the future.

https://t.co/nKJ0NxGLJe

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Meanwhile, Shai Davidai has been harassing and doxxing students for over 15 months. He still hasn’t been suspended or fired, even though he has at least 50 official complaints made against him.