Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)
Env strategist, bridge builder, ecofeminist, Himalayan. Working on inner + community + planetary resilience w/ faith & Indigenous leaders on environmental & climate efforts at @LokaInitiative, UW-Madison. Personal account - views are my own. She/ her.
- Shout out to the wealthy Indian guy who told me I talk about white supremacy too much and it’s a dead horse.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)5. What this is about is the locus of solidarity. Either you express solidarity with the victims of genocide and the victims of sexual abuse. Or you express solidarity with someone you treat as a hero, who might be assisting the airbrushing of those crimes. There’s a choice to be made.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
- so much free speech, so much freedom, we’re all drowning in it.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)It’s worth saying again: this data proves that fossil fuel firms are actively sabotaging climate action and weakening government ambition. A fossil fuel treaty is not merely an option, but the indispensable mechanism to hold these giants accountable. www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
- Seeing some folks jumping into mobilizing for the 1st time & not know the difference between an activist & an organizer. I would strongly suggest listening to the latter. They’ve been doing this for a long time, maybe their whole careers, they are in it for the marathon, & THEY WILL KEEP YOU SAFE.
- Something about working on climate for 25 years is that some patterns are instantly recognizable. For eg, when the media establishment denies, delays & then gives in such a way that there is no building power towards consensus, just an unhealthy debate chamber that will perpetually generate clicks.
- "Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
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- The number of privileged people (lookin’ at ya, white Buddhists) that have expressed their sadness, helplessness, rage, despondence & *favored adjective to me & each time, when I’ve said to them, get on the streets, link up with like-minded folks, go into the community, their discomfort is palpable.
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years
- there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)This is the week that the US withdrawal from the WHO is supposed to be finalized I spoke with @npr.org about how damaging the withdrawal will be, especially since RFK Jr has greatly weakened US national capacity to tackle health emergencies www.npr.org/2026/01/20/g...
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)Chicago cops steal not just phones from people. They steal money too. They do this REGULARLY. It has been documented over and over again.
- Honest to Gods, the only real answer is in the Doing. That’s it. Get practical, figure out how to give and get support, organize, and then… DO IT. If you’re online with all of your outrage and none of the doing is happening, I don’t want to hear it. I literally don’t have the time for that. .
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
- Corporate collaborators with ICE. You know what to do. Here’s some listed in the article: Dell. UPS. FedEx. Motorola Solutions. Comcast. AT&T. LexisNexis. Home Depot and Lowe’s. Always Amazon doing evil shit. And, Palantir, absolutely vile. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)I do kinda hope there’s a bunch of like university presidents and CEOs and such seeing Powell’s video and having at least a moment of like “oh, shit, yeah, I guess”
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)Make it viral.
- You gotta wonder if they looked at the Taliban and were like, yep, THAT, that’s just what we want for us…
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
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- You want some good news? We @lokainitiative.bsky.social just launched our PREP (Preparing Religious Environmental Plans) course this week! 40 faith leaders from 15 countries are gathering for the next ten weeks to train together and develop their own faith-led environmental & climate projects!
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- This global neoliberal empire is in collapse, and it will create unimaginable devastation as it falls. As has always happened in human history. But we determine what emerges out of the ashes. We decide what is kept safe. We protect what must survive. We nourish what will thrive. We hold the future.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
- Meditating on Luke 4:18 for Christmas Eve. "The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.”
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.
- The karmic joy of being together on this day, the 10th year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, with the conductor maestro and climate policy matrairch herself, Christiana Figueres, surrounded by a sacred circle of new and old friends! Much gratitude to the Fetzer Institute for making this possible!
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)still thinking of the Smart Bros nodding sagely and saying how it's a terrible tactical mistake for dems to raise the salience of immigration
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- Manjot Kaur’s While She Gave Birth to an Ecosystem.
- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་)"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals." An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
- Calling environmentally concerned & climate conscious #FaithLeaders! Are you searching for hands-on training & guidance fr scientists & experts? Do you want to solve environmental issues in your community but don’t know exactly how to start? If so, join our PREP course: www.lokainitiative.org/prep!
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- If you’re a settler on these lands like I am, one small way to be a good guest is by giving to trusted Native organizations on Thankstaking! Here’s where I’m donating this year: Tribal Elder Box Food Program, led by Loka’s advisors, Gary Besaw & Dan Cornelius! 🙏🏽 feedingamericawi.org/tribal-food-...
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- What does Indigenous resilience & Indigenous joy look like? Here's us last night rejoicing at the premiere of #SacredWisdomSacredEarth at UW Madison! We celebrated four years of hard work by lots of beloved people & honored our respected culture keepers & the next gen of Wisconsin’s Native leaders.
- My favoritest. <3
- Listening to some world-famous "climate leaders" and I’m absolutely exhausted by how we’ve strapped ourselves inside a careening plane made up of neoliberal climate solutions. Basically, they’d rather we die than divorce capitalism. The parallels w the Democratic party could not be more obvious.
- In the middle of travel and flu, I did this wonderful interview for Badger Talks Podcast with Buzz! If you need a moment of peace for the day, fast foward to the last few minutes for a meditation. Check it out: <3
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- Ready to dissociate fr US politics. Any. time. now. brain.
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