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Philip Loring

@philiploring.com

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Human ecologist and storyteller. Regeneration and Social Justice. Global Director @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). 🏳️‍🌈

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · Feb 25

“When we put into the world an alternative notion of how it could or should be, we take a little bit of power away from the people who tell us that this is all we can have.”

Why I want you to believe in unicorns:
conservechange.medium.com/i-believe-in...

I believe in unicorns

If you want to change the world, you should too.

conservechange.medium.com

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 8h

Once again the raisin cinnamon bagel getting no love 😂

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 14h

may have been!

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 17h

Breaking: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer also did not win a Nobel Peace Prize

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18h

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise & resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk & remind us freedom must never be taken for granted.”

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 17h

Separately, how in the Bluesky did this post from @kattenbarge.bsky.social three months ago show up in my feed? Not complaining but that’s more of a threads thing isn’t it?

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 17h

I think this is right: establishment dems are more afraid of the country becoming progressive than they are of it being fascist.

Why? Because progressives come for inequity at its root cause and that impacts elite’s power and portfolios while also benefitting the republican base.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jun 20

The smears against Zohran coming from the Democratic establishment are also a sign of fear—they’re more scared of the party becoming progressive than they are of the country already being fascist. If Zohran wins, it signals a reckoning. If Cuomo wins, they can keep the failing status quo intact.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 17h

We all know we don’t need to talk about the Trump Nobel outrage show? No one really thought he would win it. It’s just the next thing they’re filling space with to keep people angry.

Let it fizzle.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Jfc they all are literal predators

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Why didn’t he just let the air out of her tires?

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Yah ok.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Tom: <s>sorry I’m writing the articles I want and not the ones you want. </s>

Queer folks: “um, yes cis het white man whose right to exist is not being actively threatened, that is exactly the point. “

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Tom Nichols: “I know! I’ll use my platform to write a piece about the language politicians are using.

Queer folk: “you mean all of the hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric from the right, right?”

Tom: “no I mean democrats dropping f bombs”

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

oh dear God

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

The biggest reason I can't take this opinion seriously is because I can guarantee that Mr. Nichols has not written about the dehumanizing language toward trans people all year by Republican politicians. To me, that is far more profane than VP Harris or Mr. Schumer uttering the word "fuck" publicly.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Kenvue should bookmark this video for their eventual defamation suit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Just made the cut

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Nobody tell this guy that Juliet wasn’t actually a scarlet letter.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

No “well actually” will ever be as much of a well actually as this well actually. Lol

Amanda Daria Stoltz, PhD @sciencebarbie.bsky.social · 1d

wait I'm dying

"That is, in fact, not what happened to Ophelia. Ophelia in Hamlet did not kill herself because she wasn't dating an NFL player."

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

i dunno I think this column is actually romantic

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Laptops with a co-pilot key are going to be the new keyboard with integrated trackball

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

And that means protestors and protest planners need a plan for how they will watch out for and diffuse any emergent violence. We should self identify as people willing to play peacekeeper and security roles at protests, for example.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

I also think we need to watch out for hired instigators / false flag activities that try to make us look violent when we refuse to be.

There is no bottom to what they are willing to do. Nowhere they will not go to get their way.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

I remember when Very Smart People™️ were calling our behavior at the hands off and no kings rallies “too cringe”

Trump & Co. want us to get aggressive, violent even, because that’s what they’d do, and that’s the pretext they need for their own escalation

We fight that by instead showing up with joy

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

Most “evidence” the media offers of a “culture war” is like this. Fueled by outrage on one side and imagined on the other.

It is not a volley/escalation in a culture war to put Bad Bunny on the stage. Or to write “happy holidays” on a coffee cup.

It’s an enactment of diversity. They hate diversity

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d

1. Trump Culture War quote.
2. Johnson CW quote.
3. *Imagined* Schumer CW quote.
4. “These culture wars get sillier by the day.”

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

This is not law enforcement

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

I’m in a bar in DC full of of people younger than me and they are playing Life of a Showgirl start to finish and everyone seems really happy about it.

Just saying.