Teja Ray Shankara

Earth Day 2025: Saving Democracy Could Save Our Species multi-partisanship could prevent human extinction

The fact that right-wing politicians turned the climate into a political weapon is terrifying, yet it also offers one small area of hope….
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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Has anybody else been feeling worried about the president possibly invoking the Insurrection Act on April 20th? Well, after reading a potentially wild scenario about it, here: https://www.sfchronicle....

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Chief Justice John Roberts Should Speak the Truth On Live Television a supermajority can save our democracy

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Russia Works to Divide Americans understanding the extent to which online Russian propaganda divides U.S. citizens

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack ⚠️💢😡 Excerpt from post below: PROJECT 2025 AND THE INSURRECTION ACT: THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN: This isn’t speculation. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 lays out a detailed strategy for permanen...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Well, I don’t understand much of economics, but economists say that the president’s tariffs will raise everyday prices for Americans…. and, actually, they have been saying that since back during the c...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Yesterday I shared this cheerful sunflowers image with a post about the U.S. president viewing Canada like Putin views Ukraine 🍁🌻… this morning I removed this happy image from that post because it tot...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack !! 🫨🙃 Disturbing excerpt below, freaky times, eh!! 🍁🌻 Conservative writer David French: "As I told a Canadian journalist, Canada is Trump’s Ukraine: "I did not mean that Trump is preparing to invad...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Olivia Troye was a political appointee under Bush, and a national security official during the current president’s first term. Her bio on substack reads: "Former national security official & VP Pence’...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Hello Everybody! 😍🌷🌸❤️🔥 Well I wasn’t sure what my goal was going to be for Spring, so I guess I’m going to continue with the same theme I made for Winter, and call this the Spring of Engaging. I don...

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An Invitation to Red Voters: When the President Crosses Your Red Lines, Come Join Us Around the Purple Fire understanding the role that Fox Entertainment played in spreading the red fire

Dear Americans who are disturbed by the president....

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Dear Americans who are disturbed by the president….

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Olivia Troye was a political appointee under Bush, and a national security official during the current president’s first term. Everyone concerned about Social Security should read her post below, in w...

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Happy Spring Equinox, Northern Hemisphere! 🌷🌸🌷🪻🌷❤️🔥

Pentagon restores a few webpages honoring servicemembers but still defends DEI purge The Pentagon says internet pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were mistakenly taken down.

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack 💢😡💢 Although I know that America continues to have deep problems with racism, I never ever would have thought that this would be possible in the United States. I am so sad and sick about this story, w...

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‘The Interview’: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat (Gift Article) The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.

For a deeper dive into Senator Chuck Schumer's thinking:
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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Last night I was reviewing a book I read a few years ago by Sister Chan Khong (senior disciple of the late Zen Buddhist Master, Thich Nhat Hanh), in which she wrote something that feels really relevan...

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It’s common knowledge that Americans have become polarized, but do most Americans know that Russia actively works to divide Americans?

Teja Ray Shankara on Substack In my Program 2026 post, I shared the link for this article (gift link available for 23 more days). It is lengthy, and as a slow reader it took me half a day to read it, but it was worth it because it...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Whew! 🫨 This week I sent my Program 2026 post out to politicians, journalists, billionaires, and others, totaling 38, including a couple of organizations. It was tedious work, and I’m glad it’s over! ...

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Teja Ray Shankara on Substack A more color-accurate photo of my new "fleur de lis” ornament, which is delighting my mind…. An interesting synchronicity happened with it: I got it to have something purple above my writing desk, as ...

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Now is not the time to remain rigidly partisan. Rather, multi-partisanship is our path forward. 🟣🟢🟡☮️🔥🟣🟢🟡

Program 2026: Sparking Fires of Delight and Cooperation to Win Back Both Chambers of Congress open.substack.com/pub/purplefi...

Teja Ray Shankara on Substack Just called my Representative again, now that they voted.  I left this voicemail message:  "I'm calling to express my anger and dismay that Congressman Mark Messmer voted Yes on the House Budget res...

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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org : 5calls.org

Teja Ray Shankara on Substack America does not want a king. In fact, 50.1% of voters did not vote for this buffoon who apparently looks in the mirror and delusionally sees a king. In case you missed it, the president has now begun...

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Welcome to Purple Fire (Formerly Blue Fire) gathering a coalition of red and blue (and green and others) to save our constitutional democratic republic and build up the middle class

In this essay, I wrote that bipartisanship is our path forward. But, as I will present in a post soon, it is actually multi-partisanship which will be our path forward. 🔴🔵🟣🟢🟡☮️🔥

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Welcome to Purple Fire (Formerly Blue Fire) gathering a coalition of red and blue (and green and others) to save our constitutional democratic republic and build up the middle class

Now is not the time to remain rigidly partisan. Rather, bipartisanship is our path forward. ☮️🔥

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Opinion | The Trump Crisis Deepens (Gift Article) The president is using every tool at his disposal to reshape the American founding.

the quote in this post was from this gift article by David French:

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