Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)

It’s not falling apart it’s very intentionally being stripped for parts by a known group of individuals and business interests.

It’s the construction of a new state from the bones of the old. The new state is intentionally an openly fascist corporatist and corrupt facsimile of the previous.

this. basically, i want my childhood back.

What today’s judgment means for Greenpeace USA - Greenpeace A final judgment has officially been entered in Big Oil company Energy Transfer’s massive lawsuit against us.

Photo by Greenpeace and link to support them: www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-tod...

A protest march with a large banner in the front that says “Stand with Standing Rock Sioux. Water is Life. Stop Dakota Access Pipeline."

$350 million! @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social is being bankrupted by Texan energy company, Energy Transfer, for supporting the #StandingRock movement. We as a movement have to stand against this assault. My thoughts on Big Oil hijacking the system & how we respond: burning-bright.ghost.io/embracing-th...

Can’t help but draw a line to writers like Arendt who predicted that science would not hold under authoritarian assault because protocols of ethical accountability were added after the design was already baked, as opposed to being the starting point.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The top cops working to shield Big Oil from the law Oil-funded attorneys general are making progress in their attempts to quash climate lawsuits.

In 2024, the Republican Attorneys General Association received $125k from ExxonMobil; $250k from the American Petroleum Institute; and $250k from Koch Industries, all of whom are defendants in climate lawsuits.. - @emdashsanders.bsky.social

Lit butter lamps in front of various fried khapsey (Tibetan frybread and biscuits) and churpi (dried cheese).

Happy Tibetan New Year! ལོ་གསར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། I wrote on the significance of a Fire Horse year, what refugees are experiencing rn, the importance of rising along with faith leaders, and how the First Amendment has to be protected against assault. Check it out: burning-bright.ghost.io/happy-losar-...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

at the edge of still blackwater waterways in the evergreened sanctuary forest the last snow laces limb and grass in linear and mirrored holding

before spring

Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room . ALT: a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room .

Academics & faculty, the time has come for me to create a separate blog given the limitations of what I can or cannot say in my professional capacity. I would love to know how folks like me - at public institutions - are navigating this! Feel free to dm! 🙏

I’m always baffled by the willingness to overlook that this “progress” is due to massive amounts of theft and grifting.

One of my favorite moments in the documentary is when @chefelenaterry.bsky.social so powerfuly differentiates between nutrition and nourishment! And, woohoo Madison, we finally get a Native cuisine restaurant, thanks to her! 🙏🏽

A set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. Dr. Gretchen Goldman, president and CEO of the Union of Concerned Scientists, calls it a "devastating" development.

Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth with Dekila Chungyalpa | Interfaith Voices Podcast | Episode 24 Dekila Chungyalpa is the founder and director of the Loka Initiative. She is an accomplished environmental program director, with 20+ years of experience in designing and implementing global conservat...

I love it when a podcast interview turns into a great conversation that you don’t want to end like this one w Matt Kendziera, Director of Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, who work on voter registration, immigration, and LGBTQ+ care and equality & more: share.transistor.fm/s/79f95386!

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Nice pop of Badger pride this morning: Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar, UW–Madison had just the one! news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I have not been watching, but I am very happy to hear that Bad Bunny is winning the Super Bowl.

Shout out to the wealthy Indian guy who told me I talk about white supremacy too much and it’s a dead horse.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

5. What this is about is the locus of solidarity. Either you express solidarity with the victims of genocide and the victims of sexual abuse. Or you express solidarity with someone you treat as a hero, who might be assisting the airbrushing of those crimes. There’s a choice to be made.

Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

noooo

so much free speech, so much freedom, we’re all drowning in it.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Top polluters controlled by nations that blocked fossil fuel phaseout Many state-owned fossil fuel firms that emitted the highest levels of pollution in 2024 went on to block a phaseout roadmap at COP30.

It’s worth saying again: this data proves that fossil fuel firms are actively sabotaging climate action and weakening government ambition.

A fossil fuel treaty is not merely an option, but the indispensable mechanism to hold these giants accountable.

www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

That’s it. Tread lightly and humbly. Organizers have created that path you’re walking on right now.

No matter who you are, if this is the 1st time you’re involving yourself locally, LOOK AROUND. Who is already doing this work? Who has built long term relationships of trust with vulnerable communities and don’t need a savior? Where are the gaps where you genuinely can help? Do some meta organizing!