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Constructing a Military Dictatorship: A Strategic Outline of Authoritarian Drift How Trump is dismantling the Bill of Rights piece by piece, turning freedoms into privileges, and training Americans to live as if their liberties were already gone.

Implementing Project 2025, Trump is methodologically dismantling of freedoms—speech, press, assembly, due process, the vote, and thought itself. And using fear to try to convince us to live as if our liberties were already lost.

#Democracy #Authoritarianism #Trump #CivilLiberties #Anthropology

Ohne Unterstützung der Zivilgesellschaft kann die Wissenschaftsfreiheit nicht verteidigt werden. Runter vom hohen Roß und Verbündete suchen.

Selbstbezogen will der Elfenbeinturm sich vor dem Mob retten und in academic spaces den Sturm überleben. "Ohne Wissenschaftsfreiheit keine Freiheit." Aber umgekehrt auch nicht!

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón on the Practice of Startlement How poetry can help us decenter ourselves and find greater connection

In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher @sharonsalzberg.bsky.social sit down with Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

"If you spend your life devoted to noticing and to looking, your sense of self begins to dissolve." —Ada Limón

Bowing ~ Shunryu Suzuki
https://justdharma.org/bowing-shunryu-suzuki/

#ShunryuSuzuki #ego #practice #Buddha

Myanmar Junta to Demolish Buddhist Monasteries Under Pretext of “Archaeological Excavations” - Buddhistdoor Global The Myanmar central government confirmed plans to raze Christian and Buddhist landmarks in Taungoo, echoing a wider pattern of attacks on religious institutions since the 2021 coup

BDG news: Myanmar Junta to Demolish Buddhist Monasteries Under Pretext of “Archaeological Excavations”

🔗 Read more at BDG: tinyurl.com/y6j6wuj

#Buddhism #Theravada #Myanmar #Burma #Junta #Archaeology #BuddhistTemple #BuddhistHeritage #War #Oppression #MilitaryGovernment

Das ist richtig gute linke Kommunikation.

Die Wut ist berechtigt.
Menschen sind nicht so, sie werden böse gemacht.
Die Probleme sind systemisch.
Kulturkämpfe sind Ablenkung und Sündenböcke.
Labour ist Teil der Problems.
Alles hängt zusammen.
Es muss so nicht sein, es kann besser sein.

Walsatia

a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books . Alt: Linus van Pelt (of the Peanuts) doing his own research.

🧵Thread that gathers studies, reports and news on what I’d like to call #ContraAI : showcasing the detrimental effects of #ArtificialIntelligence, particularly in the realms of #research and #education. If you want to contribute posts on the theme, add them below.
No posting of AI prompts, please! 🤖

Grandmothers against fascism

St. Georg, Hamburg

Dalai Lama affirms that “the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue” after his passing "I hereby reiterate that the Gaden Phodrang Trust has sole authority to recognize the future reincarnation," he writes. "No one else has any such authority to interfere in this matter."

www.lionsroar.com/dalai-lama-a...

Hansaplatz in #Hamburg

Kanada als Vorbild: Fünf Punkte für nachhaltige Migration Angetrieben von der AfD, die die jüngsten Anschläge durch Asylbewerber nutzt, um immer weitere Verschärfungen in der Migrationspolitik zu fordern, schlittert die Bundesrepublik gegenwärtig in eine…

Migrationspolitik wird hierzulande fast ausschließlich reaktiv und von rechter Seite gar rekonstruktiv verhandelt. Wie eine Migrationspolitik aussehen könnte, die sozial und nachhaltig ist, skizzieren Naika Foroutan, Harald Bauder und Ratna Omidvar: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Wendland

Fascinated to learn how this will actually be checking the citations. Presumably not by popping into the Warburg Institute, taking the relevant book off the shelf, and checking the page as I once recall doing as peer-reviewer for an OUP journal.

YouTube video by tenzin jamphel Loten Namling, a Tibetan artist presenting a traditional Drekar song to HHDL 2025-05-30

Buddhist friends, an offering. A few days ago. Even online, witnessing such a moment is no small thing. We receive a mindstream offering—not unlike the ancient disciples of Milarepa sitting at the edge of a cave. It’s a transmission, an empowerment. Close your eyes.🙏🏻

youtu.be/uwepdDM3OME?...

Tibetan Ritual Deer Mask Dance

A major component of Cham is removing obstacles and overcoming all negativities for all sentient beings.

#Buddha #Dharma #Sangha #Tibetan #peace #compassion

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist "I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times

www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

I went to see my dentist only for the design

Großensee

Hahnheide - my beloved

Rote Grütze mit Rhabarber!

Do you see "them"?