1. Why Megan Rapinoe’s brother, Brian, is her greatest heartbreak, and hope.

2. Best Practices for Bodhisattvas on Lion’s Roar. “Traditional Buddhist vows can seem pretty hardcore, but they’re really just maps for a good human life. Zen teacher Josh Bartok translates them into values we can all relate to.”

3. Why INFJs Should Start A Blog. Guess I made the right choice all those years ago. 🙂 In related news, 6 Reasons Why Introverts Make The Best Writers.

4. You Don’t Need to Clear the Decks to Focus on Important Work on Zen Habits.

5. People Celebrate Halle Bailey’s Role In Live-Action ‘Little Mermaid’ With Gorgeous Fan Art. In related news, Fans Overflow The Internet With Fan Art After Disney Announces The New Ariel.

6. Jack Kornfield – Heart Wisdom – Ep. 95 – Poetry in Dharma with Alison Luterman.

7. The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years. “The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.”

8. DHS Inspector General Finds ‘Dangerous Overcrowding’ In Border Patrol Facilities. In related news, Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. on the New York Times, and Migrant Caregivers Separated From Children At Border, Sent Back to Mexico, and Border Patrol leadership reportedly knew about derogatory Facebook group for years, and Joaquin Castro smuggled a camera into Border Patrol station — the detainees wanted pictures to be shared, and Ocasio-Cortez details ‘horrifying’ conditions at migrant detention facility.

9. ‘The greatest threat to mankind is the cowardice of the Democratic Party’: Ocasio-Cortez spokesperson.

10. Middle school teacher secretly ran white supremacist podcast. (video)

11. What if instead of well-kept grass, we used our time and resources to fill our lawns with fruits and vegetables? (video) In related news, After 6-Year Battle, Florida Couple Wins The Right To Plant Veggies In Front Yard.

12. George Takei to publish graphic novel on his childhood in US internment camp.

13. 7 Subtle Signs Your Trauma Response is to ‘Fawn.’

14. How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time, a TED Talk. “Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of … eating, walking or generally ‘living while black.’ In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing — while challenging us all to level up.”

15. Good Influences: Ragen Chastain, Founder of Fit Fatties.

16. The Trump campaign wants you to believe these stock footage models are MAGA supporters. (video)

17. Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming, Study Finds on the New York Times. In related news, Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis.

18. Donald Trump’s “Inoffensive” War on Reality.

19. Helping Kelly Heal on GoFundMe.

20. She was told she would never be a serious dancer. Her answer? A spot in Katy Perry’s music video. (video)

21. Book Cover of the Award-Winning Book The Poet X Plagiarized.

22. Today, I Joined the Resistance by Theodora Goss.

23. Trump’s controversial “Salute to America” July Fourth event, explained.

24. Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant on the New York Times.

25. An interview with Jenna Hollenstein about Intuitive Eating. (video)

26. The Link Between Verbal Abuse and Anxiety That No One Talks about.

27. Disabled And Here Free Stock Photos. In related news, Representation Matters, “The best high-resolution, royalty-free stock image collection focusing on inclusion and diversity.”

28. Angry Cockatoo Tears Down Anti-Bird Spikes And Throws Them To The Ground. This is what resistance looks like.

1. 12 Ideas For Sensitive Introverts To Make A Difference In The World (Without Getting Overwhelmed), which reminds me of a post I wrote, Activism for Introverts and Highly Sensitive People.

2. Wisdom from Pema Chödrön, “The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.”

3. 3-year-old makes cupcakes. (video) Happy Birthday, Roman!

4. Good stuff from Austin Kleon: A bag of words and Life on Creativity, a Good Life podcast interview.

5. Health At Every Size (HAES): A Guide for Binge Eating Recovery.

6. “Sandman”: Netflix Orders Neil Gaiman Comic Book Adaptation Straight to Series. This series was my introduction to graphic novels. So good.

7. Border Control agents have a secret Facebook group that’s full of racist, sexist memes. In related news, Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S. on The New York Times, and How Regular Americans Can Help Reunite Migrant Families, also on The New York Times, and Highlights magazine denounces family separations in a blistering new editorial, and Taking Action on Immigrant Detention a summary of reported recommendations (Google doc), and This furniture company is facing backlash over its business ties to migrant child detention centers — now its employees are walking out in protest (video), and These Are The Companies Profiting From Detaining Migrants At Border Concentration Camps, and The Youngest Known Child Separated From His Family at the U.S. Border Under Trump on The New York Times.

8. American Border Study: Two Bodies in a River, a poem by Jed Myers.

9. F.D.A. Names 16 Brands of Dog Food That May Be Linked to Canine Heart Disease on The New York Times. We recently switched our dogs off a grain-free food. We had to go with Purina, because it’s the only one we could find with salmon as a protein source that wasn’t also grain-free (Sam is allergic to chicken), and our vet said Purina is one of the only companies who has a canine nutritionist on staff to help formulate their foods.

10. When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: ‘Hope is contagious.’

11. Open Letter: To my Trump-supporting family. “So now, two and half years into the alternative reality, I’ve come to grips that this isn’t some insane nightmare. This is reality. And seeing how Trump supporters (yourselves included) have behaved since then, I really was a fool for ever believing America stood for anything else.”

12. Navajo Artist Creates ‘Make America Native Again’ Hats to Critique Donald Trump’s Campaign Slogan.

13. When Other White People Attack You.

14. The Playboy Interview With Tarana Burke. “A candid conversation with the activist who launched Me Too more than a decade before Weinsteingate.”

15. ‘I Carry It Within Me.’ Novelist Colson Whitehead Reminds Us How America’s Racist History Lives On. In related news, This Death Row Lawyer Says Americans Won’t Be Free Until We Face Our Racist History. “An HBO documentary about Bryan Stevenson sounds an urgent call to examine the nation’s past, from slavery to lynching.”

16. This school sends students to yoga class instead of detention, and the results are incredible. (video)

17. The Free Black Women’s Library amplifies the voices of female African American writers.

18. Beautiful, Never-Before-Seen Photos of New York City’s 1977 Pride March.

19. 24 Memoirs from Plus-Size Writers for Your Summer Reading List.

20. Murderous White Supremacist Sentenced to Life in Prison for Charlottesville Attack.

21. “One Day at a Time” Will Get a Season 4 on CBS’s Pop After Being Cancelled By Netflix.

22. Wyclef teaches Tig Notaro to dap with the help of #AskAlexa. (video)

23. NYPD: It’s Not Racist When a Cop Calls You the N-Word.

24. Redemption After #MeToo? In related news, Comedy clubs that book Louis C.K. don’t care about their staff’s safety.

25. Photographer Helps Save Lives of Pit Bulls With Adorable Flower Crown Portraits.

26. 8 Must-Reads by Women Who Take on White Supremacy and Patriarchal Power.

27. Why Narcissists And Gaslighters Blatantly Lie — And Get Away With It.

28. ‘She’s Not My Type’: Accused Again of Sexual Assault, Trump Resorts to Old Insult on The New York Times. “E. Jean Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine, said in a CNN interview on Monday that she fought back when Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room.”