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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 8d

The kid's are alright.

btw it's even better than what the OP claimed. The student journalists actually wrote an entire new solidarity themed paper under a different masthead so that IU administrators could not punish IU journalists for insubordination.

www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

An image of a post by Sara Whitmer on a Meta platform roughly an hour after she originally wrote it:

"I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student newspaper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.

Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.

Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope that everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance."

There were 75 reactions of hearts, likes, & emojis at the time the screenshot was taken, with 12 comments.

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Deb 🏳️‍🌈 @debbarnes.bsky.social · 22d

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Upaya Zen Center @upaya.bsky.social · 23d

You can now listen to Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi's teaching on "Discernment" on Upaya's Dharma Podcast!

As Roshi Joan shares: "His perspective around genocide, war, peace, and sanity is essential to hear at this time." @joanhalifax.bsky.social

www.upaya.org/2025/10/bodh...

Awareness In Action: Discernment with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi (Part 12 - September)

In this session of Upaya’s Awareness in Action series, Bhikkhu Bodhi offers a penetrating teaching on discernment as the heart of engaged Buddhism in times of crisis. He reflects on his journey from…

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 25d

GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA: Thank you for your courage, compassion, and persistence.
May you be safe.
May you reach your destination.
May you serve the hungry and bereft.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Deb 🏳️‍🌈 @debbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 10

@kondamason.bsky.social speaking on equity + equanimity this morning via #AwarenessinAction at @upaya.bsky.social is 🔥 🙏🏽

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Deb 🏳️‍🌈 @debbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West, American philosopher, Theologian, Political Activist

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today, Congress chose to fund cruelty and foster greed at the expense of the most vulnerable in our communities.

We are outraged and saddened by the passage of this profoundly immoral bill. But our work won't stop here.

www.fcnl.org/updates/2025...

Quaker Lobby Condemns Cruel Budget Bill | Friends Committee On National Legislation

Today, Congress chose to fund cruelty and foster greed at the expense of everyday needs like food for children and low-income families, health care, and energy.    The profoundly immoral “One Big Bea...

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · Jun 10

Solidarity.

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · Jun 6

The utter madness of military violence. Consider how we could use all resources given to war/genocide + dedicate them to education, health, + care. We must transform how we educate and care for our young, how we treat our elders, and how we treat our earth and indigenous peoples.

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · Jun 6

Teams trailing by 9+ points in the final three minutes of an NBA Finals game are 1-182 since 1971.

That one win was the Pacers' thrilling comeback last night.

H/T SportsCenter

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Jun 5

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.

Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · Jun 1

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Jun 2

Beaches are meant to hold memories — not plastic waste. Yet, plastic pollution is altering coastlines.

The solutions are there — now is the time to scale them up and #BeatPlasticPollution.

June 5 is #WorldEnvironmentDay.

www.worldenvironmentday.global

Aerial view of waves crashing onto a sandy beach. Overlay text reads: “Hey, it’s me, the beach. I’m made for waves, winds, and footprints. Not microplastics and other plastic trash.”
Logos for Beat Plastic Pollution, World Environment Day, UNEP, and 2025 Jeju Korea are at the bottom.

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · May 28

Francisco Varela: “The only world we humans know is the one we can create together through the actions of our coexistence.”

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · May 26

#1000wordsofsummer starts in FIVE days. This Saturday, May 31! Come write 1000 words a day for 2 weeks straight with 50k+ other people. It’s fun and nerdy and free. Have you started prepping for it yet? 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...

How to Prep for #1000wordsofsummer

Time to get ready, people.

1000wordsofsummer.substack.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · May 9

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.

I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.

Dark, dark stuff.

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · May 8

🧵This week is the National Week of Action Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.

We stand in solidarity with Native advocates rising to honor those lost, support surviving families, and demand stronger protections. #MMIWRActionNow

niwrc.org/mmiwr-awareness

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Apr 28

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

- Prof. Brian Cox

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mamamoo @thelovelymc.bsky.social · May 7

small moments of gratitude can shift your whole perspective

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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · May 5

Today is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Day. We honor the Indigenous women and girls whose lives were taken too soon. We stand with their families and communities in the fight for justice, healing, and accountability.

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Deb 🏳️‍🌈 @debbarnes.bsky.social · May 3

Looking forward to this offering + grateful for this series 🙏🏽

Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · May 3

www.upaya.org/program/awar...
AWARENESS IN ACTION: "Solidarity" Online, free
Roshi Joan, Sun May 4, 11:00AM-12:30PM MT
“The dharma is not a teaching of resigned, mile-high, 'this too shall pass' quietism but of recognizing how things are—and responding.”

May 4th: Awareness in Action—Solidarity with Roshi Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan offers the next session of Awareness in Action, bringing the importance of growing solidarity as one of the means for keeping our democracy open. Free + by donation.

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Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social · Apr 25

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

-Jacob Riis

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · Apr 22

Grace Lee Boggs: “Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.” It is both, critical connections plus critical mass. Both are true, plus there is safety in numbers. Join her May 4!

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · Apr 21

He stood on the side of humanity, and with humility, spoke against against cruelty.

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