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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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 23h

This is not law enforcement

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 23h

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.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 1d

Definitely not just them 🏳️‍🌈

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I have some questions, like "Really?" and "Are you *sure* this isn't just you?"

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 2d

“Not all heroes wear capes.” Yeah but some dress like frogs wearing tiny capes.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

My hypothesis is that it’s easier (or more palatable?) for Klein et al. to declare liberalism a failure than to recognize/admit capitalism’s active obstruction of the liberal project

Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 3d

What I’m saying is: were these three dudes and their ilk just Obama-era creatures who are now in a new landscape where their views are more closely interrogated?

Or like…does massive success somehow fuck with your politics?

Or…..I don’t know.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

“Compassion fatigue” is a very weird way to spell callous privilege.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

“If we are going to escape from this horribly fraught time, we are going to defeat the current dominant cultural belief of supremacy with a vision of unified human solidarity, and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra.”

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

Be honest how much did you giggle when you wrote “be better than Ezra”?

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 3d

Every time Taylor Swift releases music there are invariably folks that say its terrible because she didn’t make the kind or vibe of music they thought she should.

Which kind of completely misses the point of Taylor’s music.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

"Redwood tree" 👀

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

How am I supposed to focus on work with Life of Showgirl looping in the background?

Taylor Swift GIF

ALT: Taylor Swift GIF

media.tenor.com

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

Every accusation is an admission, example 9,202,101

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

"AI is the visual language of fascism"

Spot on and in a very multi-layered way.

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 5d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Posted by the President of the United States.

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

How am I supposed to focus on work with Life of Showgirl looping in the background?

Taylor Swift GIF

ALT: Taylor Swift GIF

media.tenor.com

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

spongebob and patrick from spongebob squarepants are talking about taking that

ALT: spongebob and patrick from spongebob squarepants are talking about taking that

media.tenor.com

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

What is it going to take to make these people realize that the system they think they are living and working in simply doesn’t exist anymore?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Judge Simon, at “suggestion” of DOJ, recuses himself in the case over deployment of national guard to Oregon.

Case reassigned to Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee.

ORDER - The Court has reviewed
Defendants' Suggestion of Recusal (ECF 22 ), which was filed by Defendants three days after the Court's telephonic scheduling conference with the parties and less than 24 hours before the scheduled hearing on Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (ECF 6). Although the Court does not believe that recusal is required under either federal law or the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, because it is necessary that the focus of this lawsuit remain on the critically important constitutional and statutory issues presented by the parties, the undersigned U.S. District Judge hereby recuses himself.
The Clerk of the Court has informed the

undersigned that this case has been randomly reassigned to U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut. Unless otherwise directed by Judge Immergut, the hearing on the pending motion will continue to be heard as scheduled on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 15B before Judge Immergut. Ordered by U.S.
District Judge Michael H. Simon. (mja)

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

My daughter approves this joke

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

I am mystified by people who still think petitions are an effective strategy for influencing the federal government.

Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 5d

Who else agrees Kash Patel must resign?

Tell Congress that here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Demand Kash Patel Resign

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

Who are you talking to? “We have to come together” both-sides the divisiveness, deception, and abandonment of norms. Only one party is acting in bad faith, why is the burden on “we”?

Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

This is good.

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 5d

It has been a whirlwind two days. From our launch yesterday to four media interviews today. Nearly 2,000 folks have stepped up to donate to our grassroots campaign. It’s humbling. We are working to come out swinging and take back MO-2 and help working Missourians. ICMYI our kick off video.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 5d

Other than the idiocy of this what do they think it actually accomplishes in terms of public perception of the shutdown?

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6d

We are living in an Idiocracy.