BRB, Walking Into Mordor.

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

It's... pretty much what it says on the tin. Some car manufacturers are phasing out AM Radio from their cars so they can replace them with their own streaming services - this bill seeks to make them a mandatory feature.

As somebody whose day job is in radio, I totally agree that the amount of ads and the quality of the ads is ridiculous. Personally, I don't find radio to be an amazing source of political news broadcasting.

But do you know what it is really good at? Providing emergency broadcasts during extreme weather events.

When power and internet is down, radio can be one of the only sources of information, and it's helped provide lifesaving information during these times.

(Plus, at least in my area of the country, emergency weather alerts override and interrupt programming when broadcast - even during pesky ads!)

So if you want to toss your signature in support, you can head on over here.

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

Race science, or so-called “scientific racism,” was essentially developed by privileged white people who were really convinced that their prejudices would be borne out by scientific fact. It has a long and complicated history, but to really oversimplify things, some rich assholes decided to divide people up into “races” based on phenotypical differences, and attribute differences in culture to differences in genes. Racists have spent many years ignoring and distorting facts to defend this baloney (Shaun’s video on The Bell Curve is worth checking out on this), and many racists today are trying to make it an acceptable belief.

New Age developed during the 19th and 20th centuries, a time period when these kinds of beliefs were very popular and were being used to justify everything from forced poverty to genocide.

All spiritual belief systems are products of their environments, no exceptions. New Age and its associated alien lore incorporated quite a few of these beliefs, including:

Different races, though able to produce fertile offspring together, actually have completely different evolutionary origins (polygenics).

The purpose of evolution is to produce higher and better lifeforms.

Some races are more evolved than others, and are thus qualified and obligated to guide “lower” races toward enlightenment.

Some races are naturally more gifted in certain areas than others.

Some people born today are the “next step” of evolution and are meant to lead the rest of us toward improvement.

Evolution can go “backwards.” Races can become degenerate or “regress.”

Entire races can be so genetically prone to selfish, manipulative behavior that the only solution is genocide.

We could live in a utopia if it wasn’t for members of genetically backward races mucking things up.

Because these beliefs are typically applied to alien races rather than human ones, the racism can be easy to miss. And yet, it’s no coincidence that the Pleiadians, considered to be one of the most advanced and civilized of alien races, are typically imagined as tall, slender, and pale.

'Despite everything, it's still you'