Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)

Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.

Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Powerful healing here!

a dog wearing a green hat with the words appreciate you behind it ALT: a dog wearing a green hat with the words appreciate you behind it

In other words, this is an appreciation post for everyone who follows me AND is not a bot!

I woke up this morning to a couple of hundred follows by accounts with random images for profile pics and LOTS of emojis for bios. Sorry if you’re real 😛 but I have to assume these are all bots… and... figure out how to block them… which I don’t have time for. why.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

I think I would like to write a column. Does anyone want to give me a column

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

Important new piece by Indigenous scholars—including ecologists @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social and @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social (who is here at #ESA2025 this week)—who set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

In this clip from GAZA: JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE, we see Anas al-Sharif reporting fearlessly in Gaza. Yesterday, Anas was killed.

Our documentary also features Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera journalist killed in 2024.

Share the clip, watch the film & access resources: bit.ly/3FG6QbY

WATCH: D.C. mayor Bowser calls Trump takeover of DC police ‘unsettling’ D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the city had reached a 30-year low in violent crime.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the city had reached a 30-year low in violent crime.

Israel has assassinated five more Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, killing them in an airstrike Sunday targeting a media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital. Among the dead is veteran correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who reported extensively from northern Gaza since October 2023.

And, more info: iabsinfo.net/conferences/

Here’s the line-up (Central Eu Time)

Universität Leipzig: Livestream Felix-Klein-Auditorium If you would like to play the live stream in an external player (e.g. VLC), use the following streaming URL:

Folks who are not at #IABS (Intl Association of Buddhist Studies Conf at Leipzig) but wish they were, check out this line up on multi-disciplinary panel "Buddhist Responses to Nature, Ecology, and the Climate Crisis" - no registration required. www.urz.uni-leipzig.de/en/unsere-se...

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

Live, I whisper to it. I see you. Live and thrive. No matter how much they want to eradicate you, you belong here. Its endurance feels portentous. It is a metaphor. It is a prayer. All over the world, we are praying for you to survive and thrive.

Wild onion flowers that look like domed explosions of lavender fluff with a bee on top of one of them.

The wild onion are taking over the lawn, re-indigenizing an alien deathscape with beauty and tenacity. I murmur encouragement when I can since there’s only so much re-wilding I can actively nurture in the yard and I’m stretched so thin these days.

The national guard in a Black neighborhood is not a distraction, okay? That’s fascism.

Yall are waiting for the “big thing” and he’s building it in your face.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

I’m seriously going to print this out and stick it on my office wall.

No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Protesters in Israel march against Netanyahu’s plan to escalate Gaza war Families of hostages were among the protesters amid new fears over the 50 remaining captives, with 20 of them thought to be alive, held by Hamas.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Israel to protest against the Netanyahu government’s plan to expand its military operation in the Gaza Strip.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Meu Deus. 😱😭

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

31 Nobel Laureates Warn: The Signs of Fascism are Here "However, we are optimistic that once we acknowledge the signs of fascism, we can defeat it again."

When Time magazine, obituaried for the last 10 years with glee by serious credible news outlets, is willing to put this together and all those very same serious newslets are playing hopscotch with rightwing randos. (Wired gets a pass!) time.com/7294056/sign...

Conditions In Texas Prisons Might Be Unconstitutionally Hot Since 2001, hundreds of incarcerated people have died from heat-related causes in Texas’s non-air conditioned prisons.

Jace Coones was not sentenced to be broiled alive yet he died of excessive heat exposure in a Texas prison cell

As the heat keeps killing people, courts are being forced to acknowledge that climate change is making the state’s prisons unconstitutionally hot

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework