Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Look at these stats for female prisons in the UK (2013). They show it’s not unusual for ~50% of staff to be men..

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c84...

Given controversy about possibility of trans women in female spaces, why is it never mentioned there are so many men in female prisons?

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

6 11

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Good question. It’s not just Christianity.

rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 14h

Why are weird religious men so frightened of women?

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Just in case you don’t know what Christian Nationalism and how deeply scary it is.

2 1 30

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Just in case you don’t know what Christian Nationalism is and how deeply scary it is.

Jenny @jenjams.bsky.social · Aug 17

Christian Nationalism

Change the Constitution
• Restrict political office to practicing Christians
• Voting by household: head of household (i.e., a man) casts vote for everyone
• Repeal 19th Amendment to again allow states to deny the right to vote on the basis of sex (i.e., women)

14 30

Reposted by Marcus Chown

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 19h

Prince Andrew allegedly told convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “we are in this together” the day after the picture of him with Virginia Giuffre was published

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we are in this together’

www.thetimes.com

2 17 27

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Good question. It’s not just Christianity.

rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 14h

Why are weird religious men so frightened of women?

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Just in case you don’t know what Christian Nationalism and how deeply scary it is.

2 1 30

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Just in case you don’t know what Christian Nationalism is and how deeply scary it is.

Jenny @jenjams.bsky.social · Aug 17

Christian Nationalism

Change the Constitution
• Restrict political office to practicing Christians
• Voting by household: head of household (i.e., a man) casts vote for everyone
• Repeal 19th Amendment to again allow states to deny the right to vote on the basis of sex (i.e., women)

14 30

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Look at these stats for female prisons in the UK (2013). They show it’s not unusual for ~50% of staff to be men..

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c84...

Given controversy about possibility of trans women in female spaces, why is it never mentioned there are so many men in female prisons?

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

6 11

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 1d

Sad author finds copies of his books in Cheltenham Literature Festival book tent - and is made very happy!

www.hive.co.uk/Product/Marc...

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on

#cheltlitfest

@headofzeus.bsky.social

1 1 38

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

Just in case you don’t know what Christian Nationalism and how deeply scary it is.

Jenny @jenjams.bsky.social · Aug 17

Christian Nationalism

Change the Constitution
• Restrict political office to practicing Christians
• Voting by household: head of household (i.e., a man) casts vote for everyone
• Repeal 19th Amendment to again allow states to deny the right to vote on the basis of sex (i.e., women)

8 17

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Cathy @doermanc.bsky.social · Jan 26

This is their christian nationalism belief. Women belong at home in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. They will 100% purge women from the military, and FORCE their Christianity version down our throats,ALL IN P2025 , that thing has detailed all kinds of things-especially penalizing single mothers

1 2 13

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Adrienne Pass @h3xadecimal.theoverpowered.com · Jun 22

"Everything from no-fault divorce to abortion to women having a bank account runs afoul of Christian nationalism and Evangelicalism. Their religion subjugates women and is antithetical to feminism and equal rights."

Kitsyn @kitsyn.bsky.social · Jun 19

We won’t go back.

Gen X: The Only Generation of American Women to Live With Rights

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

open.substack.com

2 5

Reposted by Marcus Chown

This Sandwichman is Tom Walker @thesandwichman.bsky.social · 5d

Christian Nationalism is no more Christian than National Socialism was Socialist.

7 14 160

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4d

Christian Nationalism Is The Antithesis Of Jesus’s Teachings.” A Conversation: I sat down with April Ajoy, someone who grew up in the Christian nationalism movement, and is now doing everything she can to help people understand the movement, understand how it goes against everything Jesus taught,…

Christian Nationalism Is The Antithesis Of Jesus’s Teachings.” A Conversation

I sat down with April Ajoy, someone who grew up in the Christian nationalism movement, and is now doing everything she can to help people understand the movement, understand how it goes against everything Jesus taught, and understand the real threat it is to America. Fascinating conversation.

www.youtube.com

17 62 250

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 17d

"Most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth."
- Haruki Murakami

Might this be humanity's epitaph, if and when the Earth shakes us off like a dog shakes off fleas?

THEY CHOSE TO BELIEVE IN THINGS WHICH WERE FANTASY RATHER THAN THINGS THAT WERE TRUE.

2 14 56

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 10d

Happened to walk past 1 Curzon Square in Mayfair, London today. Discovered that two major pop stars had died there in the same bed - though not at the same time: Keith Moon of The Who (drug overdose) and Cass Elliot of The Mamas and the Papas (heart attack) vintagenewsdaily.com/the-story-of...

2 2 18

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 4d

I'm giving a talk on black holes at the Guildford Astronomical Society at the University of Surrey on Thursday 6 November at 7.30pm. Everyone welcome! www.guildfordas.org/newsitestagi...
fb.me/e/62wSvfNj5
@headofzeus.bsky.social

4 7

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Hannah Gray @hannahellisgray.bsky.social · May 3

Highly recommend this book by @dfdubz.bsky.social

My goodness, it is a breath of fresh air in today's climate of polarisation, tweets & cancel culture

Almost made me want to go & talk to the guy in the Reform UK tshirt today... maybe next time

@camerados-org.bsky.social - think you'll like this

3 5

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Mara Clarke @maraclarke.bsky.social · Apr 23

In this @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social episode, @dfdubz.bsky.social talks up her fab book Six Conversations We're Afraid to Have, and myself, Felicia Yeung and Neil Datta of EPF talk about the threats to abortion access RIGHT HERE IN EUROPE.

🎧https://guiltyfeminist.com/episode/?episode=

1 3 5

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 5d

It's mind-blowing to think that almost 89,000 people have now watched the video of my black hole talk at the Royal Institution. There were only 400 there on the night.
youtu.be/zju1nq3Eoqo
www.hive.co.uk/Product/Marc...
@headofzeus.bsky.social

1 6 28

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 2d

🌿☕ "Avocado" derives from the Aztec Nahuatl word, āhuacatl 🥑

It is also used as an Aztec euphemism for testical

The purchase of an avocado is also an indicator of having arrived into the epitome of the British Middle Class system

No discerning shopping trolley is seen without one💃🌿
@susiedent.com

Close up of a ripe avocado on a kitchen top

2 51

Reposted by Marcus Chown

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979: