A Laughing Monk

A Laughing Monk

@lekshay.bsky.social

Tibetan Buddhist monk, living half time in Nepal teaching monks in a monastery. Loving kindness and compassion. Essential!

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In Tibetan Buddhism, we do a lot of visualizations when we practice. In my extreme effort to visualize MAGAs voting for a Democrat, I fail beyond beyond. The pollsters are blowing a lot of hot air at us. . . The Democrats are not going to take either the House or the Senate. Sorry, Pollyanna.

OK. I'm officially mystified. WHY is the president completely OBSESSED with putin? I'm starting to wonder if there is a sexual component. I mean, it's clearly an OBSSESION! Meanwhile, we're abandoning the good people of Ukraine. The president has a crush on putin. I love it!

Hear, hear! 🙏

D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social

🕊️ Not a day should go by that we don't consider the people who were here thousands and thousands of years before us. We will always be visitors to their land, and we have been abhorrent guests. Knowing that, the VERY LEAST we can do, is honor them -- especially on Indigenous Peoples’ Day ...

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Raw Story: Republican campaign literature is piling up at party headquarters in western Michigan because volunteers aren't showing up to deliver it to voters, the latest sign that weariness with Trump could cost the GOP in November. This is an interesting development! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

I was walloped along side my head this afternoon as I heard about trump's diesel deal with putin. It's heartbreaking to realize, for the umpteenth time that our president is not a decent person. He lies all the time. He cannot be trusted to be kind or decent to other people, even Americans. 😞

Why, oh, why does the US continue to support a country like Israel? We are suppling the weapons they are using in their genocide and are just as guilty as they are. Stop the killing. 🙏

The Nation Magazine@thenation.com

For Israel’s E1 settlement plan to become a reality, it must address a persistent thorn in its side: Khan al-Ahmar, a village of roughly 200 members of the Jahalin Bedouin community and home to the area’s only elementary school serving Bedouin children.

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#OH07 Tax cuts for the wealthy? When you’re working so hard? And when belt-tightening is needed? You're told to sacrifice. Brian Poindexter is a union ironworker running for Congress because workers built this country, & deserve leaders who've actually lived that reality. #ResistanceUnited #Pinks

I haven't been on Bluesky for a while. Been recovering from major surgery and no time for anything else. Now I see a light at the end of this months long tunnel Woohoo! I might soon be OK! Science and Medicine is the BEST! Thank each and every one of you! Bless all of you. 🙏

This is essential! Change. Get the Dems off their behinds and CHANGE!

Stevens: Endorses Abdul Slotkin: Endorses Abdul Nessel: Endorses Abdul Peters: Endorses Abdul Whitmer: Endorses Abdul Harris: Endorses Abdul DSCC: $30M helping Abdul OBAMA: Endorses Abdul Leftists: "WHY DO MODERATES WANT ABDUL TO LOSE???" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/b...

Yes! Voting matters. PERIOD! Vote. Be heard. Take responsibility.

South Carolina Democratic Party@scdemocrats.bsky.social

Thirteen people showed up and decided who would lead that town. Your vote isn’t symbolic. It can be the margin. You and your friends, coworkers, or classmates could be the 13 votes that flip a race in South Carolina. 💙🌊 Every seat matters. Every vote counts.

Not since the Nixon administration have we seen such a vindictive group of people. And Senators. What Rand has done to Fauci is criminal. Fauci dedicated his life to healing people. Rand? His life has been dedicated to improving his well being. Period.

Oh, this breaks my heart. Why do we have such killing machines in this country?

Sarah Good@sassy0210.bsky.social

Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by nearly half - but after George W Bush let it expire, mass shooting deaths more than doubled - because it’s the damn guns. FUCK the NRA. Gun Reform Now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

I must check in today and voice my vehement opposition to that man in the former white house. Will he ever face any consequences for his countless crimes? Maybe not in my lifetime but one day. Maybe later in this life, or in his next life. Or the next one? Karma never forgets or forgives.

OK. One of the things I dislike to the EXTREME are the hot dog eating contest. Any food eating contest makes me feel ill. When people are starving right here in our country, we are flagrantly wasting food - in a public forum. Shame, shame, shame on us!

Well, Chuck finally something helpful!

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov

A perfect picture of Trump's presidency: Americans are losing their homes, cutting back at the grocery store, and drowning in bills, while Trump's top priority is cleaning up the Reflecting Pool. America needs a president, not a pool boy.

Wow. How quickly he's bringing us down. It's sad that his supporters aren't smart enough to connect the dots. Actions have consequences. You do one thing, another thing happens. Simple science...

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Ten Horrific New Revelations About Trump’s Surrender to Iran at Versailles If you think you know how bad things are, or how bad they are about to get, you do not. This will be a summer and fall of fire and mass death; the Versailles Surrender has only forestalled it a few days.

Yes! Breathe and be here as much as possible. This is an amazing planet full of incredible life! 🙏

CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦@corrina.sheshed.rocks

Sometimes we forget how extraordinary this planet really is. Whales singing across oceans, forests communicating underground, oceans glowing at night & stars whose light began its journey long before us. The world is beautiful. Don’t forget to make room for wonder. #SheShed #Wonder #PlanetEarth

Sadly, I will now boycott CBS. I have avoided it since the big payoff but now I won't watch my favorite shows: CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation and the PGA tournament. Game over. . .

Triple HEAR, HEAR! That man wants to be everything, everywhere. Resist!

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

Freedom 250 is the White House’s hijack of America250, the official nonprofit entity celebrating America’s birthday. America250 was founded by a bipartisan U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, established by Congress in 2016. www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

OMG! The Former White House is about to become the center of a circus. What a sad, sad, era we're living in now. Dignity? Respect? Tradition? Hogwash! Let's have SPECTACLE! Yippee! He knows what people want. Boy, howdy. 🤡

Wow. Thank you for sharing this. It makes my heart smile. 🙏

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

No major update on the fawn other than no major news is good news. Yesterday morning there was no sign of the fawn. We were out all day. This morning I went to do some yard work and as I was getting set up I heard rustling in our neighbor's yard and saw a doe climb out from under the front stairs...

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The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

Hear hear! Hit them where it hurts - their precious Southern school football and basketball programs!

Raelle@jazchaz.bsky.social

Gerrymandering has Black America under attack NAACP & CBC are striking back Asking black athletes to avoid schools in the south where their talent is wanted for coffers, not the voice from their mouth. Pls support athletes seeking scholarships elsewhere in states where when they speak, people care.👊🏻

Minute by minute, moment by moment, that man is destroying the world. We deserve it. We voted for him. The world doesn't deserve this. The world deserves to be free of America. I feel so bad for everyone suffering because of our actions. Because of us. . .

Well, who knows what will happen but three cheers for these patriotic officers!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

Bingo!

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Air power alone doesn’t win wars. Symbolic strikes don’t create strategy. And if you engage in war, you either commit to an achievable outcome or you shouldn’t start it in the first place. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.