The Ohm

At 5 pm tonight we gather outside the gate on the Samoset Resort in Rockport (corner of Waldo and Samoset) where Senator Susan Collins will be holding a party with her wealthy donors — we will stand in nonviolent, candlelit silence to oppose Collins’ record. Join us. audacitycat.com/action-while...

Reading a book is an act of resistance. Ask for a copy of The Nerd Reich at the counter of Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York, with the discount code of BOOKCLUB10. Then come to the book discussion event at 5:30 PM Nov. 19 to plan an activist response! www.facebook.com/events/16846...

Ross Douthat says that people should close their minds and commit to Christianity... ... or the Christian god will judge and torture them. That does not sound like the kind of religion any sane person would commit to. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/viol...

This podcast episode casts a long overdue skeptical eye toward the collaborative story told by Ross Douthat and Michael Shermer about a magical radio that allows ghosts to speak. It's not paranormal for radios to transmit sounds. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/repa...

Ross Douthat claims that Catholic "miracles" are a rational basis for religious belief, but those supposed miracles include a magic foreskin of Jesus, which 31 different Christian churches claimed to have as a religious artifact. Miracles are crass lies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

CBS Pundit Ross Douthat extols literal belief in Catholic church miracles including the supposed magic powers of the mummified foreskin of Jesus, which according to Catholic "scholarship", ascended to Heaven to become the rings of Saturn. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/the-...

Ross Douthat argues that the Christian god is not all-powerful after all, but is a wimp who is unable to defy mathematics. Ross Douthat's fine tuning argument is crude and sloppy. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/cosm...

Angry Christian Nationalists keep downvoting a podcast critically examining the weird religious ramblings of Ross Douthat, but not one of them can leave a review explaining why they disagree with it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Ross Douthat says that reasonable people believe in ghosts and demons, fairies and magic spells, psychic powers and angels. Ross Douthat is off his rocker.

CBS 60 Minutes Christian Nationalist pundit Ross Douthat wrote a book in which he claimed that animals are just machines, like water pumps or bicycles. Douthat says that's proof that belief in religion should be an obligation, not optional. Douthat says this is "logical". 🤯

Ross Douthat advocates for the weird Christian Creationist belief that animals are machines in the same way cars are machines, and he expects us to treat this as evidence that his religion is literally true. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/a-re...

Voices of Audacity Podcast EPISODE 15: An organizer opens up about Graham Platner, weekly 'barn talks' with community members, & care for the environment on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheAudacity... on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t.... on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6clJiTB...

EFT Tapping is magical pseudoscience. Reality is reality. It isn't created by "your energy". Forget the quantum energy BS. It's total bunk. Emotion Freedom Techniques are not trustworthy. Tapping is faith healing, not science-informed therapy.

Zombie Jesus will eat your brain - literally or metaphorically. Christianity asks you to stop thinking and simply believe that you should place your faith in a man who died two thousand years ago and then rose from the grave determined to rule the world. www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Zo...

Maybe establishing a federal government office that encourages wild religious beliefs untethered from reality among those who are trained to attack with guns, bombs, and killer robots is a bad idea. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/podcast/enco...

Right Wing Catholic political commentator Ross Douthat says in his book Believe: "Religious belief is not just an option but an obligation." You can't more direct than that. Christian Nationalists like Ross Douthat want to make Christianity mandatory www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/cath...

EFT Tapping gurus have no shame. They claim that if you employ their services, you will magically manifest huge piles of money. Money doesn't come from tapping your face. Emotional Freedom Technique is not therapy. It's a fraud.

Christian Nationalists want to teach the Bible in public schools? If they really want that, they should teach Book of Revelation chapter 9, in which Jesus advocates torture as a tool of social control. They could use this book in the curriculum. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/store/p/bibl...

The US military has declared that there are no atheists in its ranks. At the same time, Pete Hegseth prays to Jesus to kill his enemies. American Christianity has become a cult of brutality.

Emotional Freedom Techniques - also known as EFT tapping - is a gimmick used by scammers to take advantage of gullible people. Tapping your face doesn't bring you money or love or mental health. Be good to yourself. Walk away from EFT tapping scams.

Don't become a victim of EFT tapping scams. Tapping your face and mumbling affirmations won't make you rich, won't make you mentally healthy, won't get rid of that bad boyfriend. Emotional Freedom Therapy is New Age mumbo jumbo. Don't fall for it. Get genuine professional help.

The benefits of EFT tapping in the Emotional Freedom Therapy are remarkably... nonexistent. It's empty faith healing. Don't fall for this gimmick. You can't tap your way to health. You already know this is a scam. You're smarter than EFT.

Why does Ross Douthat begin his book Believe, which is supposed to be about the rationality of religion, with a bizarre poem by a Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, which claims that the Christian god is a smudge of petroleum? That ain't reason. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/a-po...

EFT Tapping is snake oil. You don’t create mental health and happiness by obsessively tapping your face. So-called Emotional Freedom Therapy is just a rehashed kind of faith healing. Don’t fall for the gimmick. Say no to EFT Tapping scammers.

EFT tapping is religion. It asks therapists to tell their clients that they have invisible magic energies that do not exist. "Emotional Freedom Therapy" is hocus pocus, not scientifically-valid therapy. Leave EFT to the New Age festivals. Leave EFT out of therapy.

"EFT research is decidedly dodgy, and any evidence for what looks like efficacy can be explained by the placebo effect, or by the confounding presence of techniques stolen from other theoretical models, such as relaxation techniques..." untrapped.com.au/the-truth-ab...

EFT Tapping is based on the belief that tapping your face obsessively while muttering the same phrases over and over is a reliable path to mental health. Emotional Freedom Therapy is snake oil. It's not based on reliable independent science. It's faith healing. We can do better.

The EFT tapping space is full of bogus health claims, asserting that EFT helps boost the immune system, or helps cancer patients, or even increases financial income. Emotional Freedom Therapy is hocus pocus New Age religion. It is not real science. Buyer beware.

EFT tapping is pseudoscience: "...lack of evidence that tapping on acupressure points is the active ingredient that resolves psychological disorders, serious methodological flaws with EFT research & the incompatibility of EFT with the ethical practice of psychology" psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

"EFT is not compatible with ethical practice in behavioral health". Therapists who use EFT tapping (Emotion Freedom Therapy) are indulging in untrustworthy pseudoscience - and charging people money for it. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The New Age religious practice of EFT (Emotional Freedom Therapy tapping) masquerades as mental health, but is in fact riddled with get rich quick schemes promising magic money in exchange for paid tapping services. Tapping your wrist won't bring you money. There are no chakras. EFT is a scam.

EFT tapping (emotional freedom therapy) suffers from "an unsupported and implausible theoretical basis and claims in response of representing a 'pseudoscientific' movement." aps.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Studies of EFT tapping are riddled with "inappropriate methods for statistical of combination of results, failure to account for risk of bias in interpreting results, and a failure to explain or discuss observed heterogeneity in effect sizes." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

EFT tapping is not well-supported therapy. "Absent meaningful correction to the original incorrect findings, we remain concerned that emotional freedom technique proponents will continue to advance unfounded claims regarding the purported benefits of acupoint tapping." www.ovid.com/jnls/jonmd/a...

EFT Tapping is the therapy that manages magical energies that flow through the body... ...but is totally not a PSEUDOSCIENCE. Right.

EFT Tapping is faith healing. It's a religious practice derived from the dogma of a Japanese cult. It's not scientifically valid psychotherapy. Don't drink the snake oil.

Buyer beware: EFT tapping is pseudoscience. It's only backed by shoddy industry-insider biased data. There is no independent genuine science showing it gives anything more than placebo impact. Emotional Freedom Therapy? No. Emotional Fraud Therapy.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Therapy - a version of Thought Field Therapy) is not a professional technique of psychotherapy. It is based on New Age spirituality, not rigorous science. It's pseudoscience. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Apple Maps is now defying reality and giving in to Donald Trump's insane fascist fantasy, and renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Fuck Apple. They don't think different. They go along with the crowd. They think fascist.

It reminds me of the Rongovian Embassy to the USA. Ithaca is the capital city of the Liberated Republic of Ontario.

More photos of kayaktivism from the By Land or Sea Vigil at #PortClyde today protesting John Roberts and #SCOTUS. @lcimaine.bsky.social @theaudacitymaine.bsky.social

Car traffic is out of control in Ithaca, New York. We need fewer parking spots, and an annual tax on cars & trucks in order to fund more mass transit choices and pedestrian and bicycle zones downtown. Young and healthy college students don't need their own cars. #ithaca #waroncars #cornell #IC

Episode 8 of The Audacity’s #podcast: Strength in Diversity & the Dangers of Isolation How to navigate a political environment that can leave citizens feeling separated and alone? Lyn and Annegien take strength and inspiration from Audacity’s diversity. #MEPolitics youtu.be/rnm_rSdCdvc?...

The DNC just gave a big middle finger to grassroots activists in the Democratic Party. They're giving gatekeeping power to pick the Democratic presidential nominee to the state that elected Lindsey Graham. South Carolina is NOT at the heart of the Democratic Party. apnews.com/article/demo...

Chief Justice John Roberts is summering all over Maine, without cleaning up after himself. Roberts has made America a land of ICE agents shooting people dead in the street. I think he deserves a little paddling. Bring your kayaktivism on the morning of July 18!

Ithaca is orange. For the third year in a row, deadly wildfire smoke from Canada is covering our skies, making it dangerous just to step outside. This never used to happen. Now it is routine that the very air we breathe is toxic. This is the climate crisis.