Will more Americans embrace renewable energy after the latest oil price surge? YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Straight of Hormuz.” – Bill McKibben

youtu.be/hrNyUaBgvO8?...

Cosmic Kasina Jhāna

Help, I've fallen into barandcocoa.com and I can't get out.

It's a company that an old co-worker started, so naturally I *had* to check it out. :-D

How we respond to these facts–by either turning toward them with curious interest, or turning away from them with hateful denial–is what matters most.

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law Amazon.com: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law eBook : Whitman, James Q.: Kindle Store

It's simple historical fact:

Racialized hierarchies are as American as Apple Pie or Baseball.

www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Amer...

The not-so-obvious truth of living in an individualistic society is that life is a lot richer when we're living for something greater than our own personal comfort and well-being.

“They have planted and we ate. We plant and others will eat.” - My great-grandfather, Siddho Ahmad Fakhoury, on planting olive trees.

Sadly, those same olive trees were taken from him during the Palestinian Nakba.

Thank you Crystal Johnson (for the invitation), and for the rest of the teaching team who showed up with such Big Hearts! ❤️🙏🏼

eastbaymeditation.org

Deep gratitude to the teaching team at the East Bay Meditation Center for inviting me to join their beloved community.

I felt extremely welcomed, and learned a lot from the community dialogue that followed.

I spoke to AI agent Claude YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

This is both a glowing advertisement of AI–because the output is so right on–and a scorching indictment of the unregulated AI industry.

youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?...

What if the best we can do is learn to live with our brokenness, with humility, compassion, & grace?

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 673 Palestinians and injured 1,799.

Ceasefire my ass.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Identity with the absolute is still an identity. ;)

If you aren’t open to being closed then you aren’t truly open.

AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening Why the Same Machinery That Breaks Us Could Also Awaken Us

www.buddhistgeeks.org/p/ai-psychos...

"Perhaps mind is simply what it feels like to be a network of this complexity from the inside." – Christopher Vitale, "Networkologies"

AI Psychosis vs. AI Awakening Why the Same Machinery That Breaks Us Could Also Awaken Us

If AI has the capacity to accelerate delusion, then it also has the capacity to accelerate awakening.

www.buddhistgeeks.org/p/ai-psychos...

Pragmatic Dharma A community of practice dedicated to mastering the art of meditation.

I'm offering a free Introduction to Social Noting tomorrow, for anyone who is interested in learning to practice and facilitate this unique form of Social Meditation–a profound psychotechnology of both presence & connection.

pragmaticdharma.com/events/29674...

James Talarico delivers Democratic primary victory speech YouTube video by James Talarico

James Talarico is the Zohran Mamdani of Texas. youtu.be/VfuU7Qy5bW0?...

Mindful Zionism™️ When "Both/And" Becomes a Shield for the Status Quo

Mindful Zionism™️

When "Both/And" Becomes a Shield for the Status Quo

www.buddhistgeeks.org/p/mindful-zi...

Thanks Robin. 🙏

Great opener!

Mindful Zionism employs conflict avoidance dressed up as equanimity.

Look for it tomorrow morning on the Buddhist Geeks Substack: www.buddhistgeeks.org

"Operation Epstein Fury"

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Tenderness is grief meeting the truth of love.

The core critical argument across all of these is essentially this: the AUMF structure allows Congress to functionally authorize war while maintaining plausible deniability that they "declared" it, and the executive to wage it with almost no constraints on scope, geography, or duration.

Can a president declare war without consulting Congress? Here's what to know President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities without first consulting Congress has drawn sharp criticism from lawmakers who say the move bypasses their constitutional a...

And this was just published yesterday, which surfaces the debate again. www.npr.org/2025/06/23/n...

Ending the Post-9/11 Forever Wars Congress wrongly gave the president carte blanche to use military force, and we’re still paying the price.

A great counter-example, yet there's serious debate among reasonable people on whether or not the Iraq Resolution counts as a Congressional declaration of war, or if, rather, it as Congress giving over carte blanche war powers to the Executive branch.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The last time the US Congress authorized a war was WWII, yet we’ve been at nearly continuous war ever since.

Yeah, I fucking hate it too, but let’s not pretend Trump is an aberration, or that Congress lost their ability to declare war LONG AGO.

It weakens your position to not acknowledge reality.

You’ve learned the wrong lessons from this friend.