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Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Is Devastating Children
Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Is Devastating Children
​If you care about children; if you say you’re “pro-life;” if you consider yourself a good or moral person, you should care about how the US treats all children.
Rachel Rutter
"The Problem With Plastic": How Pollution Is Worsening Climate Crisis & Hurting Our Health
"The Problem With Plastic": How Pollution Is Worsening Climate Crisis & Hurting Our Health
Democracy Now! speaks with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late.
13 min
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
A feature doc with George Monbiot, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Robin Dunbar that explores the current crisis in social connection, juxtaposed with its fascinating historical origins. Through a series of intimate interviews and beautifully shot scenes, The Power of Friendship...
49 min
Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a 'Toxic Lie' Pushed by Plastics Industry
Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a 'Toxic Lie' Pushed by Plastics Industry
"These corporations and their partners continue to sell the public a comforting lie to hide the hard truth: that we simply have to stop producing so much plastic," said one campaigner.
Brett Wilkins
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step outside the self-help narrative and confront the system that created these conditions in the...
Tim Hjersted
Why Trump Supporters Are at a Breaking Point
Why Trump Supporters Are at a Breaking Point
Nearly 5 million people in Florida get their health care through Obamacare plans.
9 min
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
Tim Hjersted
The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward
The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward
Forget chasing fleeting joy. The pursuit of happiness can leave us isolated, but cultivating contentment and wonder builds resilience, deepens connection, and makes life more enduring.
Martina Moneke
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
Richard Heinberg
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
This post is dedicated to men, however you define yourselves. Because right now there’s so much talk circulating about masculinity, touting warrior culture and the need for men to be more manly men, that it’s important to understand what patriarchy actually is.
Starhawk
How Billionaires Are Using the Shutdown to Rob You | Breakthrough News
How Billionaires Are Using the Shutdown to Rob You | Breakthrough News
Eugene Puryear discusses the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, now entering its third week, as Republicans refuse to budge on cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies that would strip healthcare from over 14 million Americans. He explains how Republicans are trying...
11 min
Doctor Explains Why They're Terrified to Speak Out
Doctor Explains Why They're Terrified to Speak Out
Mid-surgery, Dr. Elisabeth Potter was called by UnitedHealthcare and questioned about whether her patient’s stay was justified.Her video about the shocking interaction went viral.Now, United won’t let her surgery center in their network.-----
9 min
They're Trying to Kill Us
They're Trying to Kill Us (2023)
Why do people of color suffer from disproportionately higher rates of chronic disease? From producers Chris Paul and Billie Eilish, this film investigates the link between diet, disease, poverty, racism, and corruption, unraveling what keeps us sick.
104 min
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green
Whether conversing with friends, family, spouses, teachers, bosses or employees, the methods in which we’ve learned to communicate often fail us. There is much misspoken/misunderstood and all parties deal with frustration and confusion as a result. As a remedy, NVC teaches...
23 min
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence (2022)
In America, most female homicide victims are killed by their current or former partner, and one in four women experiences domestic violence or abuse. In this documentary, I ask a simple question: is it possible to reduce these endemic levels of male violence?
71 min
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson (2017)
When Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary national debate and was greeted by vigorous attacks from the chemical...
115 min
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would post-growth have to put forward?
Florent Marcellesi
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
Bryce and Misty have spent the last 12 years building a cob home, homesteading, living off the grid, and homeschooling their two daughters. They live without a car, so for transportation, they use taxis and bicycles, and they eventually hope to have a cart that their two...
29 min
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
Boredom isn’t a bug—it’s a feature. Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks explains why boredom unlocks creativity, activates a powerful brain network, and might even protect you from depression. Learn how the mind wanders—and why that’s a very good thing.For more insights on...
6 min
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
Most American towns before the 1950s were already 15-minute cities. What changed wasn’t freedom—it was corporations dismantling transit to profit from cars and sprawl.
Tim Hjersted
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert
“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect, you will lose the connection.”
7 min
Who's Getting Rich Off Health Grifts?
Who's Getting Rich Off Health Grifts?
Make America Healthy Again and the wellness-to-woo pipeline may seem fresh and new, but they're actually the result of 50 years of political scheming, special interest lobbying, scammers, and well-intentioned practitioners.
17 min
Your Reality Narrows After Trauma — Here’s How To Expand It
Your Reality Narrows After Trauma — Here’s How To Expand It
What if the way you see the world is shaped by trauma you haven’t fully processed?
7 min
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.
Films For Action
A CEO Wanted To Run Healthcare Like Taco Bell. Here’s How His Patients Are Doing.
A CEO Wanted To Run Healthcare Like Taco Bell. Here’s How His Patients Are Doing.
Two dialysis giants control the industry — and they're gaming the healthcare system. DaVita and Fresenius are pushing out and intimidating patients, and sometimes refusing to send them to the hospital. It's all done to boost profits and make more off the dialysis business.
16 min
I Worked for Big Pharma: What I Saw Will Shock You
I Worked for Big Pharma: What I Saw Will Shock You
Lisa Pratta was a sales rep for drug manufacturer Questcor — then she became a whistleblower. She witnessed bribes and was screamed at to illegally sell a multiple sclerosis drug. So she went after the pharma giant.
10 min
How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood
How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood
Dupont and 3M have been secretly poisoning America for decades. PFAs — also known as forever chemicals—are now in our food, water, clothes, and our blood. These companies knew its chemicals were highly toxic. But they chose to use them on everything you own.
19 min
Living With Dying
Living With Dying (2022)
Living With Dying is an intimate glimpse into the experience of facing a life limiting illness and of caring for a loved one in that situation. In honest and tender interviews, 12 residents on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia share their personal reflections on being a...
56 min
life changed when i realized the rules are made up / my journey to an off-grid life
life changed when i realized the rules are made up / my journey to an off-grid life
reflecting on my journey to a life of peace and joy as i celebrate my 38th birthday on this beautiful planet. ~ i recently launched my Patreon! if you enjoy my videos and reflections, and would like to see a little more, or if you'd simply like to support my content creation...
7 min
The Divided Brain
The Divided Brain (2019)
THE DIVIDED BRAIN is a mind-altering odyssey about one scientist's quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental, and social issues.
79 min
We Found The Real Government Waste & Fraud. Trump Endorses It.
We Found The Real Government Waste & Fraud. Trump Endorses It.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the recently-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. says that he wants to expand Medicare Advantage — a program that former health insurance executive Wendell Potter calls “one of the biggest scams [...] we’ve seen in this...
14 min
Bernie Sanders PERFECTLY Explains Why Americans are OVER This Bulls**t System
Bernie Sanders PERFECTLY Explains Why Americans are OVER This Bulls**t System
During a CNN town hall, Bernie Sanders explained why so many Americans have lost faith in our political system: corruption. He explains how special interests are stacking the deck against voters and why politicians are complacent.
24 min
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
The Alt-Right Pipeline Almost Got Me. Here’s Why It Failed
Something stopped me from going alt-right: being happy.
26 min
"Can't Look Away": New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids
"Can't Look Away": New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids
"Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media" is a new documentary that exposes the real-life consequences of the algorithms of big tech companies and their impact on children and teens.
16 min
How Stoicism Became Religion for Immature Men
How Stoicism Became Religion for Immature Men
Stoicism is the most misunderstood school of philosophy. Right down to the way we use it in the English language. This beautiful school of thought, designed to help us live a virtuous life in service of others has been bastardized and corrupted by marketers.
26 min
They Voted for Trump. Here’s Why They Feel Betrayed
They Voted for Trump. Here’s Why They Feel Betrayed
Two-thirds of people in California’s 22nd Congressional district rely on Medicaid. But the majority of the district also voted to elect President Trump in 2024. We went to talk to residents to see what they think about Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid. One Trump voter told...
8 min
The 'Friendship Recession' Is Killing Us.
The 'Friendship Recession' Is Killing Us.
Some thoughts about loneliness. - Fads
21 min
PFAS: The Secret Toxins in Your Body
PFAS: The Secret Toxins in Your Body
What does a rain jacket or a pan have to do with our health and environment? A lot. They can contain "forever chemicals” or PFAS, which are seriously harmful and never degrade. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.
11 min
The Importance of Still Showing Up for Life Even When It Feels Like the World Is Crashing Out.
The Importance of Still Showing Up for Life Even When It Feels Like the World Is Crashing Out.
“This is for the tragic optimists those who see the world burning but still plant seeds. Those who hold the weight of despair in one hand and the stubborn hope for something better in the other, and if that sounds like you , come be tragically optimistic with me.” - Dasia...
39 min
Tea Creek
Tea Creek (trailer)
Against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis, Jacob Beaton, a passionate Indigenous entrepreneur, has embarked on a remarkable journey. His vision is to transform his family farm into a beacon of hope for Indigenous Food Sovereignty. In a world where the...
2 min
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care
What does medical science say about transgender / gender affirming care? Dr. Anthony Youn dives deep into the studies, claims, and expert professional recommendations from an open minded point of view.
14 min
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
A tour of MIUFI (Michigian Urban Farming Initiative) and interview with its manager - Quan Blunt.
13 min
The (Many) Crimes of United Healthcare, Explained
The (Many) Crimes of United Healthcare, Explained
Yapping bout the whole united healthcare situation, insurance, lobbying, and more.
13 min
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. Sapolsky has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, an...
62 min
How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids
How Junk Science is Being Used Against Trans Kids
This researcher has been studying the history of Trans kids for years. Here’s what you need to know.
7 min
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film (trailer)
"Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Film" featuring the groundbreaking work of Zen teacher & therapist Barry Magid.
2 min
How Corporations Raided Medicare
How Corporations Raided Medicare
Corporations have turned Medicare Advantage into a money-making scheme, denying patients care to generate profits. For Megan Bent, it may have cost her father his life.
12 min
Whistleblower Exposes Health Insurers' Most Evil Scheme
Whistleblower Exposes Health Insurers' Most Evil Scheme
A health insurance whistleblower is exposing their most appalling practice. It’s called prior authorization — and it’s part of a money-making scheme based on denying and delaying patients care. But doctors are fighting to reform it.
13 min
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
Why are so many doctors being forced to take out payday loans to make ends meet? Trying to answer this question led us to a giant monopoly that's been slowly plundering every part of our health care system.
14 min
The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam
The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam
Private health insurance corporations are trying to trick seniors across America into signing up for Medicare Advantage. Is it less expensive? No. Is it better coverage? Also no. It’s just another way for corporations to skim more money off the ill.
13 min
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
We must challenge the logic of empire and violence—both state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the profit-driven healthcare system.
Tim Hjersted
The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism
The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism
'ello guvna. Feeling crushed under the crippling weight of capitalism's chaos? You're not alone. Let's yap about The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism—a journey through despair, hope, and the absurdity of it all.
60 min
The Red Pill Lie
The Red Pill Lie
There is currently a movement known as "red pill" that is handicapping young people and dooming them to a lifetime of failed relationships. They're the disease presenting themselves as the cure. I talk about why they're wrong and provide some actual guidance from my...
80 min
The Answer Isn't Online Masculinity
The Answer Isn't Online Masculinity
Young men aren't okay... so why aren't more people talking about it?
25 min
The Hidden Cost of Doomscrolling
The Hidden Cost of Doomscrolling
How to un-panic yourself from online hell.
26 min
The Narcissist Scare
The Narcissist Scare
Top 10 signs you are ontologically evil! Number 7 will SHOCK you!
58 min
The Soldier’s Heart: Returning From the Iraq War With PTSD
The Soldier’s Heart: Returning From the Iraq War With PTSD (2005)
The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, how to survive. But who teaches them how to live with themselves? Examining an underreported story of the Iraq war: the psychological cost of those who fought it.
56 min
Under Poisoned Skies: Iraq's Toxic Oil Fields
Under Poisoned Skies: Iraq's Toxic Oil Fields (2024)
From the front line of climate change in Iraq, BBC News Arabic unmasks an invisible killer: air pollution, investigating a hidden epidemic of cancer and the deadly impact of oil production on children and the planet.
52 min
Obesity Nation: How America is Eating itself to Death
Obesity Nation: How America is Eating itself to Death (2024)
Never in all its history has America been so obese. The obesity rates keep climbing. 160 million Americans are severely overweight. Faced with this staggering figure, healthcare professionals are trying to find new, more efficient, and more aggressive treatments for this illness.
55 min
Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat
Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat
In September 2021 a diverse group of veterans from The Netherlands participated in a psychedelic nature retreat organised by Psychedelic Insights, called Psychedelic Warriors.
39 min
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