Rod Meade Sperry
@rodmeadesperry.bsky.social
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Editor/writer, delighted husband, musician, artist, dogfather, sanghamate, punk singer, foole
still more buddhist punk: "ecstatic black metal" that “fuses Zen Buddhist thought with queer history” and includes a song called "Bodhidharma"
agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...
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The Spiritual Sound, by Agriculture
10 track album
https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-spiritual-sound
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The sleeping giant is awakening
After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-is-awakening
about 2 months ago
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If you're an online content-creator, you shouldn't miss this.
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Advice from a Ghost
In the wake of Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation, here's what comedy people need to do. [Folks, I just posted this to Substack, because those are the people I think really need to hear it, but just in case...
https://online.americanbystander.org/advice-from-a-ghost/
about 2 months ago
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unfuckingbelievable
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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-trump-fcc-brendan-carr
2 months ago
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Wayne Shorter Wanted Everyone to See His Archives. Soon, They Will.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/arts/music/wayne-shorter-archives.html
2 months ago
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New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by immigration officers inside Manhattan court | CNN
New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal officers inside a Manhattan immigration court on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson for his office.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/us/brad-lander-ice-arrest-nyc
5 months ago
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Marisa Kabas
5 months ago
This is the energy we need to beat these fascist fucks.
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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism
5 months ago
Some happy news.
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Roshi Joan Halifax recovering, "doing great" after heart surgery
"All is going in the right direction," reports Upaya Zen Center. "Thank you for your loving care."
https://www.lionsroar.com/roshi-joan-halifax-recovering-doing-great-after-heart-surgery/
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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism
5 months ago
Roshi Joan Halifax underwent major heart surgery this morning,
@upaya.bsky.social
has announced. Please visit their post for more info, and join us in wishing Roshi Joan all the best for every moment in her healing and beyond.
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The Spirit of Care - Roshi Joan Halifax Updates + leave you messages HERE
Visit this page for updates and to leave a message for Roshi Joan as she heals from heart surgery.
https://www.upaya.org/2025/06/roshi-joan-updates-the-spirit-of-care/?fbclid=IwY2xjawK1dvFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFBdVVkdEJISEkyeFhNSU1FAR6xTO1CC0RIdGQvbb5R9OO-awmzEGLYcnYPLaqMRXpIOIzwTVPK-w-9P9lsvQ_aem_OPvf6axdN9YFbudGrzwrjg
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Not sure I ever shared an article from USA Today before, but this was good to see.
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Trump lied about LA protests to deploy the National Guard. He wants violence. | Opinion
President Donald Trump wants you to believe the second-largest city in America is in ruins, destroyed by 'insurrectionist mobs.' It's a dangerous lie.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/09/la-protests-ice-trump-violence-national-guard/84106671007/
5 months ago
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Great article from
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FLAG once again proves that not all punk band reunions are created equal
The hardcore supergroup featuring former members of Black Flag at Punk Rock Bowling was more than a reunion show. It felt like history in the making, especially in the wake of their original band's ev...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-05-29/flag-reunion-black-flag-punk-rock-bowling-keith-morris-fat-mike-punk-rock-museum
6 months ago
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Getting to be Ramones weather
7 months ago
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ACLU
7 months ago
The moment Mohsen Mahdawi was released from ICE custody in Vermont.
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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism
7 months ago
Big update in the Mohsen Mahdawi story today!
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Judge orders release of Buddhism-informed activist Mohsen Mahdawi
Mahdawi’s case has found support in some corners of the Buddhist community, most notably in via letters from mostly American Zen teachers as well as from Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi.
https://www.lionsroar.com/judge-orders-release-of-buddhism-informed-activist-mohsen-mahdawi/
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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism
7 months ago
"I am practicing here my constitutional rights, not to call for any destruction of anyone, not to fight anyone. I'm saying we need peace."
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Mohsen Mahdawi at peace, meditating, he tells NPR in prison interview
It is the first media interview with Mahdawi -- the detained student activist and former president of Columbia University’s Buddhist Association -- or any of the students detained by the Trump adminis...
https://www.lionsroar.com/mohsen-mahdawi-at-peace-meditating-he-tells-npr-in-prison-interview/
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Michael Li (李之樸)
7 months ago
Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.
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equimerton
7 months ago
A sticker for these times.
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"This is not immigration enforcement. This is repression. This is authoritarianism."
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Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention.
The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/opinion/trump-rumeysa-ozturk-ice.html
7 months ago
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equimerton
7 months ago
Me at 17, rocking a Pere Ubu shirt. (And a Wacky Packages sticker on my bass.) David Thomas, RIP.
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Pere Ubu's David Thomas, dead at 71
Rest easy, David. You one of a kind.
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/pere-ubus-david-thomas-dead-at-71/
7 months ago
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Hey! Follow my
@equimerton.bsky.social
“Flashes” account for visuals & music & the like. For example, my first post there:
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7 months ago
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She was as fine a human as I've known, that's for sure.
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Chris Murphy
7 months ago
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism
7 months ago
"His quest for a way to deal with his suffering eventually led him to the Buddha’s teachings," recalls Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi about Mahdawi.
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Student activist and former Columbia Buddhist Association leader Mohsen Mahdawi detained; facing deportation
A Vermont federal judge has decreed that Mahdawi is not to be moved out of the United States or Vermont until he orders otherwise.
https://www.lionsroar.com/student-activist-and-former-columbia-buddhist-association-leader-mohsen-mahdawi-detained-facing-deportation/
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scha·den·freu·de
7 months ago
This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.
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muscular baby jeb lund
7 months ago
potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence
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H/t:
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...
https://theonion.com/trump-calmly-reminds-nation-that-desire-the-root-of-all-suffering/
8 months ago
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Joyful noise to gladden the mind
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Otoboke Beaver: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
https://youtu.be/wIfg-Ye0FVk?si=FgYVwqJfWuV5zWxb
8 months ago
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Buddhist punk is a thing. Latest example:
dukkhacrust.bandcamp.com/track/samsara
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Samsara, by Dukkha
from the album Dukkha
https://dukkhacrust.bandcamp.com/track/samsara
8 months ago
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The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that the death toll is likely to surpass 1,000. Mandalay and Sagaing have taken on a great deal of damage. Even the famed Bagan temples, near Sagaing, have been further compromised after first sustaining significant damage in 2016’s earthquakes there.
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Myanmar’s major earthquake — and how to help
On March 28, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, with its epicenter near Mandalay.
https://www.lionsroar.com/myanmars-major-earthquake-and-how-to-help/
8 months ago
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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism
8 months ago
Myanmar has been hit by a 7.7 earthquake, which Amnesty Intl’s Joe Freeman says "could not come at a worse time ... Over a third of the population will need humanitarian assistance this year [while] impacts of US aid cuts are just starting to bite."
donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/myanm...
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Myanmar Earthquake Emergency
Donate now to the Myanmar Earthquake Emergency and help people affected by this disaster
https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/myanmar-earthquake-emergency
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)
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Ellen Roche
8 months ago
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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"Our goal is to spread empathy of some kind, always has been." Great band / great song.
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Winnipeg's Propagandhi breaks silence with 1st new song in 8 years
YouTube video by CBC News Manitoba
https://youtu.be/fAYVMj0fsFM?si=t6kHYX_h-f0XULw4
8 months ago
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Seth Zuihō Segall
8 months ago
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New Buddhist Coalition for Democracy launches, issues Call to Action
“As Buddhists, we are called upon to witness, respond to, and resist the ongoing systematic destruction of norms and institutions that allow free societies to flourish,” the Buddhist Coalition for Dem...
https://www.lionsroar.com/new-buddhist-coalition-for-democracy-launches-issues-call-to-action/
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As a former Somervillian, i beseech those who are able to go!
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8 months ago
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Bruno J. Navarro
8 months ago
BOSTON (AP) — A Turkish national who is a doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by federal agents without explanation, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation.
https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892
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Buddhist punk. It's a thing. Here's another example.
sutras.bandcamp.com/album/awaken...
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Awakening of the Spirit, by Sutras
2 track album
https://sutras.bandcamp.com/album/awakening-of-the-spirit
8 months ago
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Nancy Rogers 🦋
8 months ago
Text STOP2Quit to stop national security group chats
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
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Nancy Barile
8 months ago
He was right then, and he’s right now.
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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Taco Bell Quarterly
8 months ago
Writing is pulling it out of your ass clinically with feelings involved
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The Ghost of Future Xmas Past💙💛
8 months ago
Anyways...
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Andrew Lawrence
8 months ago
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
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Winter
8 months ago
How to replace Chuck Schumer as leader.
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born miserable
8 months ago
[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
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"This acquisition ensures that Pettibon's legacy will be preserved and made accessible for future generations of scholars, curators, and artists..." Right on.
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Raymond Pettibon donates personal archives to Getty museum
Famed artist Raymond Pettibon has donated his personal archive to the Getty museum. The museum has been collecting Pettibon items since 1992 and the new additions includes written notes, zine mockup p...
https://www.punknews.org/article/85081/raymond-pettibon-donates-personal-archives-to-getty-museum
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Dana Gould
8 months ago
There are two Americas. You can be in Red America or Blue America. A fascist or a libtard. A nazi or a commie. But what it really comes down to is the children or the adults.
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