@robiex3.bsky.social
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Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
Renee Good is at least the fifth death to result in an aggressive immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Other cases include a person fatally shot by ICE outside Chicago and two people who died after being struck by vehicles while fleeing authorities.
Driver shot in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person killed in U.S. immigration crackdown
A motorist who was fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person to die since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration crackdown last year. The...
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
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Reading List #3 for 2025
January 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Reading List #3 for 2025
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Reading list #2 for 2025
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Reading list #2 for 2025
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Start of book list for 2025!
January 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Start of book list for 2025!
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
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An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
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“The prime minister was watching a disaster movie / when we found him. We are the /
media we cried. Run.”
Read “The Eloquence,” a poem by Jorie Graham.
media we cried. Run.”
Read “The Eloquence,” a poem by Jorie Graham.
The Eloquence
A poem by Jorie Graham
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“The prime minister was watching a disaster movie / when we found him. We are the /
media we cried. Run.”
Read “The Eloquence,” a poem by Jorie Graham.
media we cried. Run.”
Read “The Eloquence,” a poem by Jorie Graham.
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And here's how to order Killing Spree. Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Killing Spree
A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose “great body of work . . . has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of...
us.macmillan.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And here's how to order Killing Spree. Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Thank you @lrb.co.uk for including this poem in this fantastic issue.
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social
Demonstration www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social
Demonstration www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Demonstration’
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thank you @lrb.co.uk for including this poem in this fantastic issue.
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social
Demonstration www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social
Demonstration www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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NOVEMBER 15th 2025
3:30Pm to 5:00pm
SAY IT read by Jan Zwicky
with GARTH Martens, followed by a conversation with TIM LILBURN
OPEN SPACE ARTS SOCIETY: 510 Fort St, 2nd floor (wheel-chair accessible lift)
More info:http://planetearthpoetry.com/specialeventzwickyandlilburn
3:30Pm to 5:00pm
SAY IT read by Jan Zwicky
with GARTH Martens, followed by a conversation with TIM LILBURN
OPEN SPACE ARTS SOCIETY: 510 Fort St, 2nd floor (wheel-chair accessible lift)
More info:http://planetearthpoetry.com/specialeventzwickyandlilburn
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
NOVEMBER 15th 2025
3:30Pm to 5:00pm
SAY IT read by Jan Zwicky
with GARTH Martens, followed by a conversation with TIM LILBURN
OPEN SPACE ARTS SOCIETY: 510 Fort St, 2nd floor (wheel-chair accessible lift)
More info:http://planetearthpoetry.com/specialeventzwickyandlilburn
3:30Pm to 5:00pm
SAY IT read by Jan Zwicky
with GARTH Martens, followed by a conversation with TIM LILBURN
OPEN SPACE ARTS SOCIETY: 510 Fort St, 2nd floor (wheel-chair accessible lift)
More info:http://planetearthpoetry.com/specialeventzwickyandlilburn
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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
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‘For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and measure – harbour a fullness of time which is neither mere chronology nor novelistic plot.’
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green · Chi Chi Trillip Trillip: Jorie Graham looks ahead
For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and measure – harbour a fullness of time which is neither mere chronology nor novelistic plot.’
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Join Bhikkhu Bodhi online Sept 28 in the Awareness in Action series. His perspective around genocide, war, peace and sanity is essential to hear at this time. Free, online, donation appreciated.
www.upaya.org/program/enga... With Roshi Joan.
www.upaya.org/program/enga... With Roshi Joan.
September 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Join Bhikkhu Bodhi online Sept 28 in the Awareness in Action series. His perspective around genocide, war, peace and sanity is essential to hear at this time. Free, online, donation appreciated.
www.upaya.org/program/enga... With Roshi Joan.
www.upaya.org/program/enga... With Roshi Joan.
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This month, we celebrate the heritage, culture, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities.
Our country is stronger because of the contributions of immigrants.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
Our country is stronger because of the contributions of immigrants.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
September 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This month, we celebrate the heritage, culture, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities.
Our country is stronger because of the contributions of immigrants.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
Our country is stronger because of the contributions of immigrants.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
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From “ You Must Live” —recent Palestinian poetry from Gaza and the West Bank, available where you buy books from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Just a Loaf | Khaled Juma, Tayseer Abu Odeh, Sherah Bloor
For ten or so daysI’ve been searching for a loaf,just a loaf.They said it vanished from global warehouses.A child saw it take to the stage,or was it
www.nybooks.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From “ You Must Live” —recent Palestinian poetry from Gaza and the West Bank, available where you buy books from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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God I am feeling this poem by Jorie Graham:
“…pull the
bloody bodies from the invisible
where we are putting them daily—
no, every minute, no,
faster—we are o-
bliterating the one chance we had to be
good.”
“Time Frame”
“…pull the
bloody bodies from the invisible
where we are putting them daily—
no, every minute, no,
faster—we are o-
bliterating the one chance we had to be
good.”
“Time Frame”
August 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
God I am feeling this poem by Jorie Graham:
“…pull the
bloody bodies from the invisible
where we are putting them daily—
no, every minute, no,
faster—we are o-
bliterating the one chance we had to be
good.”
“Time Frame”
“…pull the
bloody bodies from the invisible
where we are putting them daily—
no, every minute, no,
faster—we are o-
bliterating the one chance we had to be
good.”
“Time Frame”
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"Leadership is about the humility of knowing that my practice must continue. I’m never set; I’ve never arrived; I’m always empty." A reflection from the late Dr. Larry Ward, from the Buddhadharma archives.
I Will Follow in the Direction of Hope
Larry Ward looks at the path of leadership, and how we get entangled along the way.
www.lionsroar.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Leadership is about the humility of knowing that my practice must continue. I’m never set; I’ve never arrived; I’m always empty." A reflection from the late Dr. Larry Ward, from the Buddhadharma archives.
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"When we are able to manifest this practice, which is not different from studying the Buddha Way, we have forgotten the self. A forgotten self is the self that no longer perceives itself as the center of the universe but rather as one of the many elements of the universe."
Dropping Body and Mind
In her new book, Meeting the Myriad Things (Shambhala Publications), American Zen teacher Shinshu Roberts unpacks Dogen’s famed text Genjokoan (“Actualization of Reality”). Here she dives into Dogen’s...
www.lionsroar.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"When we are able to manifest this practice, which is not different from studying the Buddha Way, we have forgotten the self. A forgotten self is the self that no longer perceives itself as the center of the universe but rather as one of the many elements of the universe."
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Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza.
But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
Stethoscope Story #8
This is "Stethoscope Story #8" by Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza.
But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
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There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
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Jorie Graham
"When the End Starts"
all of us are shopping.
Our lists are made out carefully.
Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.
…
Massacres
happen during
express checkout. The hospital is gone by the time
my remote clicks the car
…
the young journalist is
gone, the student’s gone, the mother…
"When the End Starts"
all of us are shopping.
Our lists are made out carefully.
Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.
…
Massacres
happen during
express checkout. The hospital is gone by the time
my remote clicks the car
…
the young journalist is
gone, the student’s gone, the mother…
August 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Jorie Graham
"When the End Starts"
all of us are shopping.
Our lists are made out carefully.
Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.
…
Massacres
happen during
express checkout. The hospital is gone by the time
my remote clicks the car
…
the young journalist is
gone, the student’s gone, the mother…
"When the End Starts"
all of us are shopping.
Our lists are made out carefully.
Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.
…
Massacres
happen during
express checkout. The hospital is gone by the time
my remote clicks the car
…
the young journalist is
gone, the student’s gone, the mother…
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New Substack article! 🚨 buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.substack.com/p/how-buddhi...
How Buddhist Values, Practices, and Insights Contribute to the Movement for Democracy and Justice
How Buddhist Values, Practices, and Insights Contribute to the Movement for Democracy and Justice
How Buddhist Values, Practices, and Insights Contribute to the Movement for Democracy and Justice
The Buddhist Coalition for Democracy (BCD) aims to bring together a broad range of Buddhist practitioners from many lineages and with varied political perspectives to participate in the movement to re...
buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.substack.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New Substack article! 🚨 buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.substack.com/p/how-buddhi...
How Buddhist Values, Practices, and Insights Contribute to the Movement for Democracy and Justice
How Buddhist Values, Practices, and Insights Contribute to the Movement for Democracy and Justice