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Rebecca Solnit
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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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TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 4h
Trump administration seeks to expedite removal of 5-year-old Minnesota boy
#Trump
Trump administration seeks to expedite removal of 5-year-old Minnesota boy
The Trump administration is seeking to expedite the removal of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, days after a federal judge in Texas ordered their release from an immigration detention center. The federal government filed a motion earlier this week to end asylum claims for the Ramos family, according to the...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h
Your bio is perfect for this thread: birdwatching and ICE OUT NOW.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h
Your whole city and its twin are my heroes.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
People who would like to explain that this means something other than what it says: it should say what it means, and it's fair to take what it says for what it means, when waved about at this very moment in history (not that other 1930s one).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
You mean George and Mary Bailey?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
I'm with Third Act, an army of nice old ladies (and men, but more ladies).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Exactly: this inexactness when it gets slung around.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
The suffragists were a diverse lot when it came to racial justice politics.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Actually a whole lot of stuff going back to the environmental justice movements and back further to the abolitionists is nice ladies. It's kind of nice ladies all the way down. (Not all ladies are nice, not all nice people are ladies; insert 4000-word qualifier here.)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
While people who would probably qualify as liberals risk their lives in the frozen streets of Minneapolis (and do similar brilliantly organized solidarity work in New Orleans and Chicago and many other cities), not sure what this is supposed to mean.
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"Every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene committee meetings till the boots are in the halls."
― Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa.bsky.social)
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene breakout sessions and committee meetings til the boots are in the halls 21:18 23 Sep 20 Twitter Web App

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
And the unstoppable @jkbjournalist.bsky.social
Understanding Epstein's Crimes
Sex trafficking isn't widely understood. Here is what Epstein did.
jkbjournalist.substack.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
But also:
noahshachtman.bsky.social Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 20h
Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
Finneas and Billie

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Meanwhile:
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h
Epstein sent women to one of the heads of a British anti-trafficking charity:

“Lea and Epstein are understood to have been introduced by Sarah Ferguson’s friend…Epstein asked to meet Lea after being told that they ‘shared the same interests’…”

Ferguson is former Prince Andrew’s ex-wife.
Epstein ‘sent woman to British anti-trafficking charity boss’
The AllSaints investor Lyndon Lea, a board member of an anti-trafficking charity, was also apparently introduced to several models at a New York party
www.thetimes.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
I didn't want to write about the facts of the Epstein case--that's well covered--but the mechanisms of silencing that allow(ed) these epidemics of gender violence to go on so long. So I went back to where I said it best, in my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.
Breaking the Silencing Machine
In many ways this society has moved toward a democracy of voices, as people who for their race or gender were shut out of systems of power and possibility – out of jury duty, professions, institutions...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 20h
Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
Finneas and Billie

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
and pathetic and narcissistic and I think that as Trump is losing his grasp on cognition and life he's grabbing at everything else, including his shamefully shameless versions of self-immortalization.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
It is, and thanks back.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
Exciting to find out you all know about many birds!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h
Epstein sent women to one of the heads of a British anti-trafficking charity:

“Lea and Epstein are understood to have been introduced by Sarah Ferguson’s friend…Epstein asked to meet Lea after being told that they ‘shared the same interests’…”

Ferguson is former Prince Andrew’s ex-wife.
Epstein ‘sent woman to British anti-trafficking charity boss’
The AllSaints investor Lyndon Lea, a board member of an anti-trafficking charity, was also apparently introduced to several models at a New York party
www.thetimes.com

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Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈 @lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan A. Eisen, Tom Clark , and 13 more

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 1d
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d
"Every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene committee meetings till the boots are in the halls."
― Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa.bsky.social)
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene breakout sessions and committee meetings til the boots are in the halls 21:18 23 Sep 20 Twitter Web App

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Hope is not extinct.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 1d
Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
"Annie Farmer is one of many people who testified in court about Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell. She says they sexually abused her when she was 16 years old."
The DOJ released the final Epstein files. Where do the survivors go from here? : Consider This from NPR
The Justice Department says their review into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is done, with the release of millions of documents and thousands of images and videos last Friday.Annie Farmer is o...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
This Guardian headline a few days ago confounded me because WE ALREADY KNOW. Of course there's lots of new information in the files about how Musk, Gates, etc. were creepy creeps cuddling up with the creep-in-chief even after we knew.