Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.

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Rebecca Solnit is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.

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Political science 21%

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up calling it rattlesnake grass. Was stunned when I walked Walter Benjamin's final route from France to Spain/Port Bou, to find many of the same plants, including this grass.....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

All hail her commitment, and hooray for how she looks like the Laverne and Shirley version of Liberty Leading the Masses.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration, back turned and eyes averted from the truth about Epstein.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Credit: "Observers record federal agents at the scene after a multi-vehicle crash following an apparent pursuit by a federal agent near the intersection of Selby and Western avenues in St. Paul. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune)" For the pictures above, not the one the link pops up here.

‘Crazy fast’ ICE chase in St. Paul ends with multi-vehicle crash, fleeing driver injured

A witness said the motorist was “barreling down the road” before colliding in the intersection with another vehicle.

www.startribune.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Was Niels Hooper your editor at UC Press? Didn't mean that Spanish was or is only place names, but that's one way it's powerfully present no matter who you are.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Would add that a lot of monolingual English speakers speak English less than very well.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I know. Sigh. Didn't make the map; couldn't find a better one.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much -- I'd add it's about the past not the future; I see hope as coming from the past, from the record of how things work and what we've done.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Hated by the right people is a badge of honor.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Jamie Raskin uses his introductory statement to introduce a bunch of the survivors, sitting right behind Pam Bondi.

ABout 15 people sitting in the audience of HJC hearing.

A Capitol Hill cop is hovering over them.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Don't overlook that a lot of immigrants are highly skilled, and you don't just drop in to do what they do/did.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Deleted post; thanks.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

It is a huge disruption.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

How it started, how it’s going, would love to be an airline exec right about now (to say nothing of 1,000s of people whose travel plans were completely fucked for no reason)

NY Times updates from a half hour ago about United and Southwest scrambling to rebook flights

NY Times updates from a few minutes ago saying “no biggie”

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

How it started, how it’s going, would love to be an airline exec right about now (to say nothing of 1,000s of people whose travel plans were completely fucked for no reason)

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Jesus lord, do you think my success rides on getting a majority of the population? This is a newsletter, not Bad Bunny's halftime show.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

I guess fact-checking is another liberal conspiracy?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

The Only Thing Stronger Than Hate Is Love: Minneapolis version.

Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social · 2d

This is Minneapolis:

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Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social · 2d

This is Minneapolis:

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

It's a conspiracy of dunces using their monolingualism to believe something that's convenient for them to believe and also untrue and easily checked out, but I guess they've all been post-truth for a while.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so glad. I began it for one great activist I admire; I'm glad it's good for another.....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

If only giant networks could hire people who can understand Spanish. Of whom there is no shortage.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Alford: "On Bad Bunny - we're still investigating. There's info out about the lyrics. I don't speak fluent Spanish, but if it's true what was said on natl TV, we have a lot of Qs for entities that broadcast it & we'll be talking w/ the FCC. This could be worse than the Janet wardrobe malfunction"

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

In this newsletter installment, I wrote up the best case I could for why we are winning and they are losing. It's really long and more a list/review than an essay, peppered with images about what's happening and how people are reading it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:

Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination

I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Yep.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

In other words, Spanish is not a foreign language. It's woven all through the history, culture, and communities of the United States, especially the Southwest, California, and Florida. You cannot name the most important parts of California without Spanish.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

The Oceti Sakowin (Dakota and Lakota people) have just established a tipi camp at Mni Owe Sni/Coldwater Spring, directly across from the Whipple Building.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

But my point or my map's point is that actually most of the most important places in California have kept their Spanish names. Stripping them out strips out the heart of the state.

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