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 · 5h

We have had so much progress on rights for women, BIPOC, LGBTQ people, and on environmental awareness and action (even with the backlash). I lived through those decades, and I watched the changes.

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 15h

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is documenting the resistance, and it’s an encouraging read.
But the message remains: We keep fighting!!

#MomSky

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

www.theguardian.com

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Upaya Zen Center @upaya.bsky.social · 16h

Awakened Action is this weekend and online for FREE with Valerie Brown, Roshi Joan, Terry Tempest Williams, Christiana Figueres, & Rebecca Solnit.

This Friday, Nov. 14 – Sun. Nov. 16 (all sessions will be recorded) @joanhalifax.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

www.upaya.org/program/awak...

Awakened Action: Making the Future in the Present, Nov. 14 – 16, 2025 (in person + online)

Join renowned writers Terry Tempest Williams and Rebecca Solnit, lawyer and Buddhist teacher Valerie Brown, beloved Zen teacher and social activist Roshi Joan Halifax, and climate activist Christiana ...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

Thinking here of Marshall Sahlin's classic Stone Age Economics, a landmark of anthropology arguing that actually hunter gatherers were often affluent, including in leisure time.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

What part of the world is this based on? The UK? Because it seems to be reflecting industrialization, urbanization, and the enclosure acts in that sudden rise in underpaid hours..... Of course in, say, 1750, indigenous North Americans were living very differently.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h

Hope I see your list. Mine came out yesterday.

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

www.theguardian.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't. I have been thinking of you all since DOGE's rampage.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Go away. You're why we lose.

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare is a human right.

Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Diane Ravitch

𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · 1d

#GVerse #Update - via @calltoactivism.bsky.social
"Just wanted to point out that Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is quite possibly the most vulnerable Senator in America right now and tonight, he voted no on this deal.

This is what courage looks like."

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to say thank you to all the federal workers on this thread; we see you, we know it was brutal; we deeply respect your work and your commitment to the principles we thought they were holding out for.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip Nel , and 3 more Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip Nel, David R. Miller, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Dan Immergluck

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks from a California voter.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.

Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.

Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.

He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Melanie C. Green, McKenzie Wark , and 1 more Rebecca Solnit, Melanie C. Green, McKenzie Wark, Richard M. Carpiano

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Jacob Montgomery , and 4 more Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Jacob Montgomery, Smith, Caroline T. Schroeder, Jason Lyall, Dan Immergluck

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I expected Robin Hood to have a bit more esprit de corps. If you want to give up, maybe don't do it on my posts.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Defeatism is really annoying and generally assumes we know what can and will happen. And there are other versions of history.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

What a correct assessment of she who is both Dr. Frankenstein and the creature.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Well, no we aren't. I'm seeing a lot of courage and shouting out there.

In 2025 We Showed Up: Notes on Resistance to the Regime

A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration an...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I know that there's a 'war on the administrative state' version, and a manosphere/primate dominance display going on, among other factors....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Trump tactics give everyone whiplash from the global economy to federal workers to SNAP recipients to... I wonder how much he thinks that this is art-of-the-deal genius, which maybe did work on the scale of scammy developer and does not work on this scale. Except as a cruelty-stupidity mashup.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

But also maybe it says something about how an upbeat hopeful guy who loves NYC can defeat a shitty serial sexual abuser who disparages the place he wants to govern? Reducing it to generics is stupid (but yeah, Chait).

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 9 more Rebecca Solnit, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Amir Attaran, Ian Campbell, Hilde Van den Bulck, Tuomas Mattila, Daniel W. Drezner, Melanie C. Green, Jelena Subotić, Aurélien Mondon, Dan Immergluck

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

What made more than 50% overall and almost 9% over the next highest vote-getter in this three-way race modest?? Did it blush when we looked at it directly? Did it wear a demure costume?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure no one thinks this is a spreadsheet of everything that ever happened.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

From the piece: Marine Col Doug Krugman explained his resignation from the military in the Washington Post: “Instead of trying to work within the Constitution, or to amend it, President Trump is testing how far he can ignore it.”

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Well some parts of the US military seem to be fighting the Trump administration. And we have yet to see what side the military would take in the case of a direct order. People are working on that. taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

Billboards aimed at troops ask 'is this what you signed up for?'

The signs went up in D.C. and near two North Carolina bases amid the Trump administration’s surge in domestic deployments.

taskandpurpose.com

Reposted by John Drury, Susan Strasser

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Cross-posted at the Guardian.

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

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