Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

@babalang.bsky.social

86 followers 280 following 310 posts

Earth-loving, feminist, socialist, white, able-bodied, middle-aged mom, partner, reader, poet, & recovering academic 👩🏻‍🏫 Interested in social & environmental justice, women’s spirituality, community, and the poetry of experience ☮️🌳👣 (she/her)

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t go, Lori. We need everyone who values and has experienced freedom to light the way for the next generation who aren’t going to know it shines brighter than any gilded ballroom. Bring it as scorn if you have to. We need every truthteller

1 3

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 14h

The image was surprisingly hurtful. That’s our house.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 14h

Similar things could be said about the research industrial complex and we just gutted that.

We don’t have to organize society around death dealing as a central concept (or discipline and punishment if you want to look at the prison industrial complex/ICE/policing).

Everything is a choice.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 1d

How the sausage gets made=details most ppl don’t want +won’t agree on.
Start, like a household budget: what are our shared priorities? What do we have to have?

Shelter
Food
Clothing
Healthcare
Education
Jobs
Childcare
Clean environ

Oh–now the Pentagon budget can’t be larger than most countries’?

1 1

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 1d

This was my sign.
It’s not savvy to accept corruption. It’s corrupt.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 1d

Plus we now have evidence that change can be dramatic so why NOT build the solutions–like universal healthcare–we want?

When so many jobs have been eliminated and so many flailing systems broken now beyond repair, I think even moderates are going to say – ok let’s rebuild radically w the good stuff

1 2 7

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 5d

Great photo. He’s so clearly suggesting here that they eat cake.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 5d

You’d think the lesson of 20th & 21st century genocide would be that any ppl can be monstrous, and perhaps identity labels, religion, and nationalities are useless in ascribing good guys and bad motives…

…that it’s whether you do good or evil that makes you good or evil.

Hard concept, it seems.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 7d

Yes and *who* we view as Humanity

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 8d

Latent in the methods underpinning modern computer science, eg,
“Father of Indian Statistics”Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis founded Indian statistical institute with focus on biometrics /social darwinism /eugenics

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 8d

History of statistics plays a starring role in these analyses

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 8d

We do it for ourselves. Because being in the company of many other people who care is to remember that we can be good and kind even under oppressive systems. We can show up for one another.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for passing that on. Good advice

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 8d

Citing Kaba and Hayes
Right on.

Hit the people with some soc med history!
John Ryle
René Sand
We’ve got shoulders to stand on.
✌️

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 9d

wow wow WOW. I’m so glad I asked and thank you for answering. What a list!

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 9d

Sirens and honking in the background are on point!
This country is in crisis.

Join a rally October 18 if only to be reminded that good and kind people are out there ready to build a better world.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 9d

That’s so exciting! What are you reading?

If one were to pitch a free class through the local library in an extremely purple town… what is resonating? (apart from, let’s say, the obvious, your teaching)

1 1

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 18d

No they haven’t.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 18d

Boo!

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 18d

This would be a really good time.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 18d

Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 19d

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi… But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.”

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 21d

Shut it all down! Don’t fund authoritarianism.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 21d

Shut it down. You do not need to fund authoritarianism.

babalang.bsky.social @babalang.bsky.social · 21d

American history is Black history. It’s the narrative that makes us unique from other nations of the world. White supremacy was our founding myth, and slavery our original sin.