Rebecca Solnit
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
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.
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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.
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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.
February 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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.
I guess fact-checking is another liberal conspiracy?
February 11, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I guess fact-checking is another liberal conspiracy?
The Only Thing Stronger Than Hate Is Love: Minneapolis version.
This is Minneapolis:
February 11, 2026 at 3:25 AM
The Only Thing Stronger Than Hate Is Love: Minneapolis version.
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.
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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.
I'm so glad. I began it for one great activist I admire; I'm glad it's good for another.....
February 11, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I'm so glad. I began it for one great activist I admire; I'm glad it's good for another.....
If only giant networks could hire people who can understand Spanish. Of whom there is no shortage.
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"
February 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If only giant networks could hire people who can understand Spanish. Of whom there is no shortage.
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.
February 11, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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.
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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February 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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:
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McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
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.
February 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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.
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.
February 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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.
And our state and our great mountain range and a lot of our rivers--Sacramento, San Joaquin, Merced....
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
And our state and our great mountain range and a lot of our rivers--Sacramento, San Joaquin, Merced....
There are almost 500 municipalities in California. All maps select some portion of the whole to represent. Which I would assume everyone assumes.....
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
There are almost 500 municipalities in California. All maps select some portion of the whole to represent. Which I would assume everyone assumes.....
Someday I hope we get an insider leaking about how NYT headlines, which are often more right-leaning than the reporting, and often misrepresent it, come into being. They're the unsigned editorials of the paper.
February 10, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Someday I hope we get an insider leaking about how NYT headlines, which are often more right-leaning than the reporting, and often misrepresent it, come into being. They're the unsigned editorials of the paper.
How can we replicate this strategy at home?
February 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM
How can we replicate this strategy at home?
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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Among other things, how does Leon “Epstein Island” Botstein think he’s going to raise money anymore? His whole schtick was a pious, faux-profound plea to our better angels, and now that argument has been laughably undermined by his own behavior.
Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein
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February 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Among other things, how does Leon “Epstein Island” Botstein think he’s going to raise money anymore? His whole schtick was a pious, faux-profound plea to our better angels, and now that argument has been laughably undermined by his own behavior.
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Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.
Or didn't since Spanish names are actually a big presence here.
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Or didn't since Spanish names are actually a big presence here.
please read post
February 10, 2026 at 5:49 AM
please read post
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...
It was during another period of right-wingers being stupid about the fact that Spanish was spoken widely here before English was, and that's present in so many place names--and of course before that and into the present in some cases, a hundred indigenous languages were spoken and sung.
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
It was during another period of right-wingers being stupid about the fact that Spanish was spoken widely here before English was, and that's present in so many place names--and of course before that and into the present in some cases, a hundred indigenous languages were spoken and sung.