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Radical democracy & engaged dharma (NVDA) are my jams & still an abolitionist but Fox News got something right when they called us that - ask me about it! Dharma practitioner & Extinction Rebellion NYC Mindful Rebel! Dad & partner. Guitar student. He/they
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
*narrator* the gas tax is how we pay for fixing bridges and highways
"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"
"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."
Healing is a sequential process
It is impossible while the wounding is ongoing
Healing is for the wounded
Healing involves pain
It is a thing a damaged body does
Failure to completely heal is not failure to heal
Healing is its own reward
Healing is a mindful thing
www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-h...
as a constant-yet-fluctuating disaster, which for most people mostly happens in the news, but if you work in a related field it's changed everything, and at any time the effects can randomly devastate someone you know or somewhere you live,
this presidential administration is weirdly like COVID
- Landlady really should have been on the list - they’re part of a lineage that started with tUnE-yArDs then Afuche… via Ian Chang
Defund the military.
We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.
That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.
Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.
on an ongoing basis (as well as other new horrors) and relying on word to get out that out sufficient. Are there other ways that would have addressed your concerns in your case? Crafting the "perfect" statement is hard. I'd welcome a brief discussion (I'm sure you're very busy so not expecting it)
But around October 7th... the response wasn't clear / unified and it resulted in a rift. Some left the sangha (incl teachers for other reasons). The question is ...are public statements from the current sangha helpful (necessary) or is sharing the ethical opposition to the genocide in Gaza (cont'd)
Thank you for this podcast. I went back and listened to the referenced "Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?" as I've been exploring what groups /sanghas / lineages can do. I'm part of a sangha where the teachers are very clear and the current sangha feels aligned (cont'd)
Should be prosecuted… illegal orders
Today I wrote about a proposed solution to a cult(ure) of abuse, which is to create a culture of healing, and about what conversations are (and are not) necessary in order to do so.
www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-h...
In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.
The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
5. Max and Francesca co-own a home in Washington, D.C., where they lived for years and brought a daughter into the world. The sanctions against Francesca include a block on this property that bars Plaintiffs’ from enjoying it or its value indefinitely, constituting an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. 6. L.C., Max, and Francesca also continue to face irreparable harms to their Fifth Amendment due process rights. Max and Francesca’s spousal relationship, and their parental relationship with L.C., has effectively been turned into criminal activity. Both Max and Francesca’s chosen professions have been, and continue to be, impaired through the termination of longstanding relationships, canceling of professional opportunities, and limitations on their ability to engage fully in their professional lives. 7. At its heart, this case concerns whether Defendants can sanction a person — ruining their life and the lives of their loved ones, including their citizen daughter — because Defendants disagree with their recommendations or fear their persuasiveness. Sanctions, used appropriately, are a powerful tool to disrupt and undermine the activities of terrorists, criminals, and authoritarian regimes. Sanctions are abused, however, when they seek to silence disfavored points of view and to violate the constitutional rights of people the government does not like.
Via @seamushughes.bsky.social, Treasury has blocked Francesca Albanese, her spouse, and their US citizen daughter from accessing her property based in IEEPA sanctions.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.
"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating."
www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
Just finished listening to this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social, specifically the segment with Daniel Suhr, and holy shit if you want an infuriating example of the "we as a society need to start caring about and having consequences for lying" thing, this guy should do nicely
Nina Simone, who would have been 93 today, on time www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/21/n...
Tour de force article
… poop, palimpsest and Kant
Sign - IF YOU'RE NOT ON A GOVERNMENT WATCH LIST BY NOW, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. @vanishingny
We are not retreating … join/support us (link in subskeet)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/n...
The FBI’s apparent probe of Extinction Rebellion NYC comes as the Justice Department ramps up its surveillance of activists protesting immigration enforcement.
Nonviolent Climate Activist Group Says It's Been Targeted by FBI 'Terrorism' Task Force
"This is an escalation against the climate movement as a whole, and the next phase of this administration's crackdown on dissent," said Extinction Rebellion.
A few years ago, I suggested that society's repression of vs. the climate movement would escalate, even if *we* didn't escalate.
And presto: "Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism".
Activist group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation
Activist group Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation https://aje.news/e2afqs
