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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

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Beneath the Bodhi Tree - sample reel Work in progress sample of in the documentary in progress Beneath the Bodhi Tree: Journey to Healing. A film about Buddha, trees, and us. Beneath the Bodhi Tree is…

Just released this new version of the video sample for our Beneath the Bodhi Tree production. This includes excerpts from our interviews with @mikeshanahan.bsky.social, @dghaskell.bsky.social, and @joanhalifax.bsky.social.

Moral Outrage: Useful or Destructive? Depends How You Use It Roshi Joan Halifax explains the dark and light sides of moral outrage and encourages us to find ways to use it to benefit all beings. One summer evening in the sixties, I stepped out of the building…

Outrage these days is understandable, but not a strategy. Good exploration of moral outrage from @joanhalifax.bsky.social

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This month's Calligraphy program with Sensei Kaz and Dr. Bruce Linton is offered in person + online. Learn more by following these links!

Online is FREE + by donation.

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I might be off, wrong even, after reading this Letters from an American by @hcrichardson.bsky.social —but it sure seems to me that the Trump administration is focused solely on increasing power and increasing violence against anyone opposed. OBBBA must not pass.

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#MuskMustFall Global Day of Celebration Elon Musk is done at DOGE, but we're just getting started. On June 28—Elon's birthday—let's celebrate everything we've achieved and a recommit to the long fight still ahead. Our birthday gift to the…

In one week we're throwing one massive, global Crappy Birthday party for Elon Musk. Find your local action and come out to join us. Bring a friend. Let's party and ruin his big day #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

Tell Congress: No War with Iran The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...

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NO KINGS Sacramento · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Sacramento to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/Bl9T6Y8p

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

“They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”
• REBECCA SOLNIT

It is too horribly perfect that Musk's Grok is spewing racist inanities while fueled by huge methane generators that are menacing the health of Memphis's Black communities.

Putin not on Kremlin list of officials attending Ukraine peace talks in Turkey The Russian president had been challenged by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to meet in person at the talks on Thursday.

Trump will have to generate an infeasibly massive amount of spin to be able to blame Zelensky for Putin chickening out of the Turkey talks.

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YouTube video by Rep. Doris Matsui Congresswoman Matsui: "Thanks to Medicaid, Nicholas is headed to college."

Nicholas was diagnosed with TWO rare diseases, Beta Thalassemia and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Doctors said he wouldn’t live past 18. But this fall, thanks to Medicaid, he’s headed to college.

Medicaid gives kids like Nicholas the ability to fight. Nicholas is why we fight.

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A rainbow-hued, splayed stack of books by Rebecca Solnit on a bookstore counter

We flew this one and all the books flew out of the store in the hands of a single customer.

Frank Ostaseski is giving a Dharma Talk tonight! We will gather in Taizando to watch as Frank streams in. Please join us. You can also join us online. 5:30pm MDT.

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Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow:

George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

This…this is a real post.

Poilievre is outta Poiliarment. That’s how much they hate Trump.

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I’m deeply honored to be recognized at @legaldefensefund.bsky.social's 37th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner. This powerful evening celebrates the changemakers fighting for racial justice and equality—and I’m humbled to stand alongside them. www.naacpldf.org/events/nejad/nejad-2025/

🗣️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Kellogg: When Russia claims they're winning—NO, they’re not. If they were, they would have already won by now. It’s time they face that reality. I believe Ukraine is in a strong position, and the Europeans have really stepped up in support.

Tesla pulling workers, sales dropping

Cybertruck is a failure, Tesla collapse incoming. #TeslaTakeDown

YouTube video by Rep. Doris Matsui Congresswoman Matsui: Republicans "Playing Political Games with Californians’ Clean Air"

Republicans claim to defend states’ rights—then do everything in their power to stop CA from setting our own emissions standards.

Instead of playing political games with Californians’ clean air, Republicans should stand up to Trump, end the tariffs, & bring down costs.

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Hell No RTO Banner Drop · May Day Strong State Worker Unions and their supporters will hold a speak-out at Crocker Park across from the art museum followed by a banner drop to say HELL NO TO RTO this International Workers' Day! Stop by and ...

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YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it. To permit such officials to freely "annul the judgments of the courts of the United States" would not just "destroy the rights acquired under those judgments"; it would make "a solemn mockery" of "the constitution itself." United States v. Peters, 9 U.S. (5 Cranch) 115, 136 (1809) (Marshall, C.J.). "So fatal a result must be deprecated by all." Id.

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration: "The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

YouTube video by Rep. Doris Matsui Congresswoman Matsui: "Donald Trump will not win."

#SocialSecurity is a promise made BY the American people TO the American people.

We see what the Trump Administration is trying to do and we won’t let it happen. I will find every available avenue to stop these attacks on you and your family.

Donald Trump will not win.

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