Polly Springhorn (she/her)

Show poster with text: EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDS TONIGHT (phog masheen, Usufruct, Casino Space Travel, Lee Scott), Saturday, March 7th, 2026. Starts at 8:00 p.m. As Free As You Want It To Be. the Show is Free. Beatnik Lounge, 61597 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, CA 92252. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Usufruct (yours truly and @dubiouscandy.bsky.social ) live tonight at the Beatnik Lounge in Joshua Tree! (along with phog masheen, Casino Space Travel and Lee Scott)

One Magical Movement: A Poet's Occult Journey with David Bowie - Arts & Culture, Culture, Living, Music Reviews, Paganism, Perspectives, TWH Features, Witchcraft Witchcraft & Pagan News - In 2020, Lauren Parker was driving through the desert listening to David Bowie's 1976 album "Station to Station," starring one of Bowie's most haunting characters, the Thin W...

#pagan #davidbowie
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In-house art critic
#parrotsky

Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds The 55 pilot whales, which had to be euthanised, had been following a female having a difficult birth, scientists believe

“If a member of the pod was in distress, this species’ well-documented social cohesion would have led others to aggregate closely in a protective response."
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Purple Glow of Forests: Researchers Observe Electrical Discharges from Trees for the First Time - News, Paganism, Science, The Wild Hunt, World Witchcraft & Pagan News - A new study reveals that thunderstorms may electrify entire forests. Researchers detected faint corona discharges leaping between leaves, producing ultraviolet flashes across...

"The study shows that storms do not merely pass over forests; they may briefly electrify them, making treetops glow in ultraviolet pulses that human eyes will never see. It may not be a mystical force, but it is magical nonetheless."
#pagan #trees
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Tiny, lost and constipated: what a baby turtle told Australian scientists about warming seas The arrival of loggerheads in New South Wales shows these ‘sentinels of climate change’ are being forced into unknown territory

#climate #climatecrisis #climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Editorial: Trans rights are human rights — and religious liberty is on the line - Editorial, News, Paganism, Religion, Religion, The Wild Hunt, U.S., World Witchcraft & Pagan News - As trans Americans face escalating legal restrictions, religious liberty is being invoked not as protection for minorities but as justification for exclusion. For Pagan tradi...

"The use of religious freedom to increasingly marginalize the trans community is a canary in the coal mine for future steps on minority faiths."
#pagan #trans
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US supreme court blocks California privacy protections for trans students State laws had limited sharing of information with parents about gender identity of trans students in public schools

#uspol #california
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

March 3, 2026 About a week before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, attacking Iran alongside Israel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine warned that the lack of support from allies and deplete...

"[47] has launched a military action that by his own admission is not an emergency situation like those anticipated by the War Powers Act, and thus he should have asked Congress for authorization to send troops and money to Iran."
#uspol
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I NEST
#parrotsky

Usufruct is me and @timwaltersphoto.com

Minnesota launches investigation that could bring charges against US immigration officers US county attorney is ‘confident’ her office will be able to pursue charges in cases which led to criticisms of use-of-force policies

#uspol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

Enraged, ashamed, heartbroken
#uspol
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

March 2, 2026 The Economist’s Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom noted that Trump appears to be workshopping the causes for his attacks on Iran and his goals for the war by talking to journalists.

"In the ideology that honors violent domination, Trump’s bombing Iran without regard for the Constitution or international law, when no president before him had done so, proves his strength."
#uspol
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Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely?

Good morning 🌞 🌵🦂

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

😡
#uspol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#swpaca26 salon c-d

#swpaca26

is CAFFEINATED.
#swpaca26

Repping @chseminary.bsky.social at #swpaca26 !

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

😱 😡
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Hidden Household Gods in Cologne: First Lararium North of the Alps Found - Europe, News, Paganism, Religion, Science, TWH Features, Uncovering the Past, Witchcraft, World Witchcraft & Pagan News - Excavations beneath Cologne’s future Jewish museum have uncovered a rare 2nd-century Roman household shrine: the first lararium found north of the Alp that is reshaping our u...

#pagan
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Death Valley erupts in wildflowers in sign of developing superbloom Record rainfall in famously arid California park has caused a wildflower eruption nearing levels of a superbloom

#climate #climatechange
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

February 25, 2026 At last night’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump went on offense, seeming to try to set the terms for the upcoming midterm elections.

"Philosopher Eric Hoffer noted that once people are wedded to a strongman, they will cling to him ever more tightly as his behavior becomes more and more erratic."
#uspol
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#swpaca26

#swpaca26 @chseminary.bsky.social

February 24, 2026 Four years ago today, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” involving dozens of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities before dawn.

"The sudden switch of the U.S. away from its traditional allies in favor of Russia has dramatically reordered the globe."
#uspol
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