New issue of Pacific World is available for download with research articles, special sections on "American Buddhism, Race, & Power" and "Buddhist Chaplaincy in the US & Japan," and book reviews. pwj.shin-ibs.edu/category/4-6
Excellent list of potential political actions.
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If fear is the goal, then solidarity is the antidote wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/if-f...
The protests are not for Trump to see, they are so you can all see each other and grow. It's not the protest itself that tyrants are afraid of, but the networks and community you can grow from them. Your strength is your unity and that's why the enemy thrives by demoralizing and dividing you. #3E
Three Wins Today (April 12, 2025)
1. Bush appointee judge John Woodcock issued a temporary restraining order against USDA freezing ME school children food funds
2. In Coeur dβAlene, ID the pd has recommended criminal charges against the R Townhall security team who assaulted Teresa Borrenpohl
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@charlotteclymer.bsky.social please follow all Democrats and find out what theyβre doing instead of going on MSNBC and saying theyβre doing nothing
We need to stop with the circular firing squad. There are some incredible things happening I know because I post about them daily.
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Can we get more of this? βThe Japanese American National Museum will βscrub nothing,β Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
βOur community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,β Fujioka said.
Our spring chaplaincy workshop is coming up! Register today. www.shin-ibs.edu/event/ibs-sp...
Who loves the Institute of Buddhist Studies? Me me me!!! www.shin-ibs.edu/supporting-w...
Itβs cake!
So any recorded "changes" in the various demographics are highly suspect.
And for that reason, I think we need to be cautious about drawing any conclusions from the data. The first study was really flawed methodologically in terms of Buddhists. The sample was too small and too geographically limited to accurately capture such a small religious groups as Buddhists.
I'm still digging through the newest Pew Religious Landscape Survey, but it seems clear enough that one of the biggest differences in Buddhists between the 2007 study and the 2023-24 study is that the newer sample included more Asian Americans.
for my Japan/Buddhism nerds, a helpful guide to the gesture called βgasshΕβ
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That drummer is lit.
Holy buddhas, another one. This makes 4 quakes today in Hayward. Yikes.
That was a fun little earthquake, 3.4 magnitude or so in Hayward, just a few miles away. I heard it before I felt it this time, and it felt like the house got hit by a truck.
I've noticed a lot of folks are closing their emails with "Warmly," when it's clear they're room temperature at best.
βIf you instead search, βHow large is the fucking student body at Yale University?β you will instead get a standard list of blue link results, sans-AI summary.β
gizmodo.com/add-fcking-t...
AOC is my lifeline right now. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Someone on Reddit turned it into a Spotify podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6PKY...
Leela has Girl Scout cookie! Buy βem here! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/leela9...
Finally, a good use of AI! Leela is so creative. She made up her own murder mystery, including evidence to both implicate suspects & exonerate them. I got to help create some of her evidence, including a scathing book review, a missing cat poster, & a newspaper article.
Iβve transgressed the conference boundaries and gone feral on the streets of the Gaslamp district, where fit women jog along the marina and pedestrians carry tiny dogs in baby slings.
So many tiny dogs in baby carriers.
At 4pm today!
Come attend the Women in American Buddhism panel with scholars Paula Arai, Courtney Bruntz, Nalika Gajaweera, and Hsiao-Lan Hu at our celebration of Pacific World Journalβs 100th anniversary! At the Omni Hotel, 4th floor, Ballroom C.
Potato chips for dinner because Iβm 51 and why not.
