Who knew?  At the end of Trump's term in office, Americans were shocked as 70,000 ICE veterans turned to meditation after bursting into tears at Truth and Reconciliation sessions.  

Forced into abandoned government housing units for the mass healing process mandated by the courts, called by wags "The Asshole Hilton", the ICE vets were stricken with guilt so paralyzing that they actually took the advice of the protesters to "SHUT THE EF UP AND GO HOME!!!" - which is similar to the practice of committing to long periods of silence with closed eyes.

What are we learning?

Are you asking this question? We need to learn something crucial about community, something we will never forget. Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They are role models. They were not reckless. They did not do the wrong thing. They were killed a stone's throw from their homes. They were both just beyond their front doors. And instinctively they put their personal defense in the smallest acts of kindness.  Renee died saying "I'm not mad at you" and Alex was helping a woman that ICE pushed to the sidewalk. Renee and Alex teach us that ordinary love is to be seen, to be thanked, to be practiced and protected.

Today, Take a Moment 

We honor Dr. King and the loving activists who gave their lives. We hold their lives in memory, as masked men hunt down our neighbors and shoot anyone who argues. 

Foreign and domestic security seeks to surveil, track and neutralize people that are in any way righteously moral, funny in the wrong way, or…just… well, different, other.  Great Women and Great Men died for our rights, but now you can be a martyr just by making an ill-advised u-turn or bird watching a bird thats flown into the wrong backyard. Look up at the sky.   

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Only The Earth Can Stop The United States

The devilish "greatness" of our government, guided by profiteering and the very rich’s expanding circles of murderers…

…will be culled by a giant gardener pulling a noxious weed, as the rise of the Earth against the fossil fuel toxins takes over the planet. I’m not just talking about the fire and flood and drought and sea-rise, which now threatens us, but also the power of life and love and evolution, the endless variety of new life running, flying, swimming, wriggling into being. The thousands of new-to-our-scientsts species that were discovered in 2025 is reviewed by Savitri D in the “News from the Natural World” in this week’s Earth Riot Radio.  Listen in and you will be convinced that new life is vigorously alive.

We celebrate the New Year with a special live performance, in it's entirety. Reverend Billy & The StopShopping Choir get to the heart of the matter.  Start to finish, up and down, this is the message. We are the Earth and whatever it is you do, make the earth part of your work. 

Love is a profit center.  Love is a Hollywood slang word.  Love is claimed by religions, which teach investment bankers to wage wars.Love is a song that we all sing while knowing that there is a responsibility that we are taking on with the use of Love, and so we walk away from our meaningful time with Love, because taken seriously we often attract Indifference, Disease and Hate.  Love would have to be something that we all did at once. It's possible. It's absolutely necessary. It's probably uncomfortable and often fatal.  I love you.

Modern science, the war machine, and the whole tradition of the USA conquering the West is based on the shared belief that we control the Earth's forces. We will save ourselves and the life around us with a very basic - maybe even disorienting and painful - change in what we believe about the Earth. We are a living being inside a larger living being called the Earth. Now that is real.--

Honey, when did humanity become just ridiculous? When did that happen? This morning? It happened fast and very recently.

The machines are humouring us. The machines are eating our children. The machines are feeling lonely today. The machines are finding new investments in Crypto, AI and ICE. The machines have lost control of their bowels but they love waste. The machines are programmed to search for love and bring it back to the market. And if we refuse?

They call 70% of our body - dark matter and dark energy. The experts talk about this part of us the way they talk about outer space.

They resent the fact that the tiny particles that make up most of what we are - cannot be measured or photographed. It doesn't register in their sensitive devices. The mysterious particles do not reflect light. So... don't let some hateful person call you names. You are protected by the natural world of your body. Let's call it the "Fabulous Unknown."

It's ordinary people like you and me solving the little puzzles of everyday life that will obliterate the Google babies.

The robots will give us blow-jobs, the billionaires will pound us with advertising, the lush forests will break the pavement and crush the concrete, and we will emerge and bamboozle the AI robots because the complexity of the Earth is epic, vast, invisibly tiny, unsolvable, orgasmic, comforting. We emerge from the Fabulous Unknown that is there before birth and is there after death, the unknown in a flower's electric airway... the hard rock full of one-celled dancers... The Earth says, "AI, YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS.