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...

May it be so

If you're an online content-creator, you shouldn't miss this.

unfuckingbelievable

breaking

This is the energy we need to beat these fascist fucks.

Some happy news.

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.

Not sure I ever shared an article from USA Today before, but this was good to see.

Great article from @jimvermin.bsky.social

Getting to be Ramones weather

The moment Mohsen Mahdawi was released from ICE custody in Vermont.

Big update in the Mohsen Mahdawi story today!

"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."

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

A sticker for these times.

"This is not immigration enforcement. This is repression. This is authoritarianism."

Me at 17, rocking a Pere Ubu shirt. (And a Wacky Packages sticker on my bass.) David Thomas, RIP.

Gah!

Hey! Follow my @equimerton.bsky.social “Flashes” account for visuals & music & the like. For example, my first post there:

She was as fine a human as I've known, that's for sure.

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.

"His quest for a way to deal with his suffering eventually led him to the Buddha’s teachings," recalls Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi about Mahdawi.

This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

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

H/t: @konchognorbu.bsky.social

Joyful noise to gladden the mind

Buddhist punk is a thing. Latest example: dukkhacrust.bandcamp.com/track/samsara

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.

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...

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)

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 $.

"Our goal is to spread empathy of some kind, always has been." Great band / great song.

As a former Somervillian, i beseech those who are able to go!

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.

Buddhist punk. It's a thing. Here's another example. sutras.bandcamp.com/album/awaken...

Text STOP2Quit to stop national security group chats

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.

He was right then, and he’s right now.

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.

Writing is pulling it out of your ass clinically with feelings involved

Anyways...

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

How to replace Chuck Schumer as leader.

[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

"This acquisition ensures that Pettibon's legacy will be preserved and made accessible for future generations of scholars, curators, and artists..." Right on.

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.