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babalang.bsky.social
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)
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Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

No Kings signs from MA

ICE crossed a line in LA

The president of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itnoo announcing a reciprocal travel ban on Americans: "Chad has neither airplanes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad does have its own dignity and pride."

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

Calgary adding fluoride back into drinking water starting June 30- after rise in cavities and plebiscite that supported the move. @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.