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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.

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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Sociology 24%
Political science 21%

Reposted by Nathan P. Kalmoe

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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Yep.

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.
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?

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.....

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.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce

How can we replicate this strategy at home?

Or didn't since Spanish names are actually a big presence here.

please read post
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...

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.

English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
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.

Do you know that or are you just theorizing? Also don't like ICE in principle is not NIMBY. It's not anywhere.

Part of why I was (and am) such an Elizabeth Warren fan: that was part of her platform when she ran for the 2020 nomination.

What a nice passage! Who wrote it where?

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit

Rep. Stansbury: "The U.S. government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence pedaling scandal in the history of the United States. And Donald Trump is right at the center of it."

Reposted by Joanna L. Grossman

This is a game in which Bad Bunny wins and the teams are inclusion versus exclusion. Wins on behalf of the former.
Trump is badly losing the war over ICE, not just on the streets, but also in the culture. As Bad Bunny shows, this has become a culture war unto itself. Trump-MAGA's initial hubris has been utterly deflated.

I've got fresh data illustrating the point. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness
MAGA’s hatred of the Super Bowl halftime performer reflects a hubris about what parts of the culture are “theirs.” But those assumptions are proving more wrong every day.
newrepublic.com
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
message from MN

Is Cruz arguing that the current vote must line up with the vote that favored Trump? That there is something fishy if it isn't? Because this seems like an incoherent objection. I mean, it's Ted Cruz, but what does he mean?

I am, I will.

Women Strike for Peace says come over for tea.
Trump is badly losing the war over ICE, not just on the streets, but also in the culture. As Bad Bunny shows, this has become a culture war unto itself. Trump-MAGA's initial hubris has been utterly deflated.

I've got fresh data illustrating the point. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness
MAGA’s hatred of the Super Bowl halftime performer reflects a hubris about what parts of the culture are “theirs.” But those assumptions are proving more wrong every day.
newrepublic.com

Executioner washes his hands. But it's not even an execution: it's a corruption, a throttling, a degradation, and a betrayal.
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them