The Eco-Pagan

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I listened to 170 hours of Joe Rogan’s podcast – trust me, he hasn’t turned against Trump | Michael Marshall The world’s most popular podcaster seemingly disapproving of ICE does not mean he has soured from the administration

We have to be careful when someone in the MAGAsphere seems to say the right thing. Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

As a psychologist, I’ve seen that polyamory doesn’t fix relationships – it reveals them | Carly Dober The success of any relationship hinges on the same pillars of trust, respect, honesty and shared values. Polyamory simply tests their integrity daily

In my personal experience, most people who wave the flag of “ethical polyamory” don’t know what it means. All too often there are unequal power dynamics swept under the rug in these situations—including dynamics around children, health, and financial dependency.

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

I was shocked to learn that the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign in the 70s (with the tearful Indigenous person) was, in fact an effort by the plastics industry to shift the public focus from overproduction to littering.

‘It still rankles’: the French town living in the shadow of being an ayatollah’s refuge Annual remembrance in Neauphle-le-Château revives memories of short exile that reshaped Iran, but which locals would rather forget

Politics often makes strange bedfellows and it’s often critical to know who you are in bed with and what you do with them.

I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson

Proof that AI is, in fact, very, very stupid. That’s why it’s called “artificial intelligence.”

Tonight San Jose McDonald’s workers are ON STRIKE after management told workers McDonald’s WILL NOT do anything to prevent ICE from entering the store, and that if ICE enters the store, *workers should run out of the store to their cars*

Thank you to community allies for joining tonight’s caravan 🧵

Two images side by side. On the left, a tiny book held between fingers labeled “Most doctors’ knowledge of Long COVID.” On the right, someone holding a huge, heavy book labeled “The published Long COVID science,” highlighting the big knowledge gap.

Most doctors’ knowledge of Long COVID vs The published Long COVID science.

Abolishing ICE is the reasonable policy.

This is the moderate position. If the DNC does not fall in line with their constituents, we will replace you.

“Why didn’t the left protest Obama?” Occupy Wall Street occurred entirely under Obama, and Black Lives Matter started as a mass movement under Obama.

Do cows raze the land? Unfortunately, the extremely simplistic narrative that plants are good and animals are bad has been given far too much prominence in the public debate. For sure, industrial livestock production has a ...

An articulate pro-environment voice against the reductionist ideology of veganism as a solution to the climate crisis.

A vegan once asked me why I was looking so much into alternative forms of transportation when, he argued, I could just as easily spend the same amount of money on a used car.

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’ Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

An Internet that doesn’t enslave us, where the likes of Meta, X, and now TikTok become irrelevant and obsolete.

Lit up sign on the top of a snow capped Swiss alpine mountain above the Davos city skyline at night that says: “No Kings.”

"No Kings" above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland…

Classic.

Happy Posting MLK Quotes While Simultaneously Endorsing Brutality Towards People Of Color Day to all who do precisely that. You know who you are.

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive

Being able to find ways to respond to the crisis as a citizen through reaching out to community can be helpful. I’m disappointed that the article didn’t mention activism. That concept is often not within the realm of thinking of may mental health professionals. It should be.

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...

Apparently, the U.S. government and Big Tech have “enshat” on themselves so much that the tech oligarchy may be increasingly worked around or abandoned.

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report? | Norman Soloman If the DNC isn’t open and transparent about why they lost, then how can we be sure they will learn their lesson this time?

Preparing to steal defeat from the jaws of victory in 2026, just as they did in 2024 and 2016. Once again, the DNC proves that they’d rather have fascism than anything remotely resembling socialism.

A photo of me in a coat, scarf, Flo Mask, and hat. I am in a public park in a residential area.

Mockery is never funny.

Doom on you, Jon Stewart. I would never want to share your air.

#oneofthetwo

Sigh. Not cool. Hope Karma doesn’t find them or any of their family members. That Long Covid….

My Twitter account is locked cause I called Jon Stewart a sniveling little asshole for mocking people with long Covid.

Worth it!

Democrats won’t release 2024 election loss ‘autopsy’, DNC chair says Report on Kamala Harris’s loss to Trump would be a ‘distraction’ as party is ‘putting our learnings into motion’

More out-of-touch arrogance from DNC leadership. The more they say “Trust us,” the more reasons they give us not to trust them.

The road to fascism continues to be paved with DNC tone-deaf leadership. They haven’t yet given us any reason not to expect more of the same when they return to power.

The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal | Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen

@baldwin.senate.gov are you proud of your vote to ban TikTok?

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help

Stunning parallels between Clinton’s and Harris’s losses to Trump. The road to fascism is paved with Democratic Party tone-deafness.

We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians

After reading these activists’ stories, it becomes even clearer that the out-of-touch leadership of the Democratic Party has played a pivotal role in the rise of authoritarianism and Trump.

Animism often is part and parcel of many Pagan traditions. This martial touches on ways that animism is very relevant in looking towards the future.

The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory | Stephen Wertheim The conflict is neither a clearcut defeat nor a feelgood victory, but an in-between outcome that contains profound elements of each

An interesting perspective on the definitions of victory and defeat and how wanting everything has led to more suffering.

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“Garbage in, garbage out.”

Centrists are pedophile enablers for many reasons, but the common denominator is always money.
They will always side with the money over the people. Unchecked Capitalism is the enabling force of fascism.

The Democratic Party needs to purge its dependence on celebrities and billionaires.

One reason I have nearly no patience with elites is that they have the scope, power & protection to act & they almost never do. Whether it's an assistant or wrier in Hollywood or a high schooler or carpenter standing beside me at Broadview ICE, I've seen regular people show so much courage. SO MUCH.