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Six people of varying ages, genders, and ethnicities face the camera while standing in the Midwest Buddhist Temple's kitchen. Trays hold sandwiches in the process of being assembled. Photo is from the temple's Facebook page.

The crew at Midwest Buddhist Temple assembled and delivered over 400 sandwiches to unhoused neighbours in Chicago today. They also dropped off plastic mats for bedding that the temple's Women's Association wove.

#buddhsm #buddhism #engagedbuddhism #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #unhoused #chicago

Dear friends, to give a sense of the app’s impact so far, we have put together a thorough but easily browsable report for the year 2024 – the first of many more to come!

Find out more on our blog 👉🏽 plumvillage.app/the-impact-o...

With gratitude,
Plum Village App Team

#mindfulness #Buddhism

Kuwera (or Kubera), the god of wealth, as depicted in reliefs at the Candi Mendut temple in Central Java, Indonesia, built around 824 CE. The carved stone relief shows him as the husband of the goddess Hariti, and he is also known as a guardian of children and the king of the Yakshas. In Javanese culture, Kuwera is also a character in traditional wayang kulit (puppet shows).

Kuwera
bronze
Central Java
9th century

#kuwera #kubera #java #bronze #statue #9thcentury #indonesia #hariti #hotai #hotei #laughingbuddha #budai #buddhistmonk #maitreya #buddhism #buddhiststatue #buddhistsculpture #sculpture #art #ancientart

Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.

Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.

If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.

Supreme Court rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction Maxwell was convicted for her role in recruiting and grooming girls who were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

NEWS: Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's challenge to her criminal convictions:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

Het allerleukste aan het hebben van volwassen kinderen is dat je verlost bent van de onvermijdelijke schoolplein/luizen/schoolreis/knutsel/voorleesmoeders met hun misplaatste, luide, onuitgesproken onzekerheid vermomd als minachting a la Angela de Jong.

En kleinkinderen. Die zijn ook leuk. 🥰

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

apnews.com/article/chic...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Virginians want prices to come down, not go up. I'm going to keep fighting for a deal that prevents marketplace health care premiums from going up by more than double.

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

Other options are available

I feel like that is important to remember. Because one day a lot of people will distance themselves from this very obvious, very much on the record monopsony and authoritarianism and claim it was all a conservative boogeyman.

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

Lessons from a Red Scare The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.

"The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression even if that feels hopeless...the history of the first red scare teaches us that a better future is possible and worth fighting for."

Nice @davidrlurie.bsky.social historical meditation here:
www.publicnotice.co/p/emma-goldm...

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Misdirected savior lust pointed at machines that burn he planet seems too on the nose but I’ve not been chosen the write this season.

This is extremely irrational and a huge waste of resources. Like most means testing, it explodes administrative costs and restricts care in the name of policing imagined crimes of access. It’s loony and we just need to start saying it.

This is excellent news from the Dakota Nation, for whom the 49th parallel has only ever been a colonialist fiction.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

New poll on the California redistricting amendment has it at 54% yes, 36% no.

punchbowl.news/article/camp...

I hope they back together soon 😉

They think we forgot with all these they're throwing at us. NOPE

RELEASE THE FILES!

The Supreme Court v. Democracy The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

The Supreme Court returns to the bench to start its new term today—and the coming year does not look pretty. Here, @ElieNYC breaks down the most dangerous cases slated so far—and explains why this court will never stand up to Trump.

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

WIC runs out this week

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles