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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
This is a game in which Bad Bunny wins and the teams are inclusion versus exclusion. Wins on behalf of the former.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h
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

Reposted by Anna O. Law

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
"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...."
seachanger.bsky.social malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 2d
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood 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. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood 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. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
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?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
I am, I will.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Women Strike for Peace says come over for tea.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, John McLaren, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h
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

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Executioner washes his hands. But it's not even an execution: it's a corruption, a throttling, a degradation, and a betrayal.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
All - after two years of transformation at The Washington Post, now is the right time for me to step aside. I want to thank Jeff Bezos for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as CEO and Publisher. The institution could not have a better owner. During my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day. With gratitude, Will

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
All - after two years of transformation at The Washington Post, now is the right time for me to step aside. I want to thank Jeff Bezos for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as CEO and Publisher. The institution could not have a better owner. During my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day. With gratitude, Will

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1d
"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."

kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...
New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

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TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 1d
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...
thehill.com

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 2d
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood 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. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood 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. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Your bio is perfect for this thread: birdwatching and ICE OUT NOW.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Your whole city and its twin are my heroes.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
You mean George and Mary Bailey?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
Exactly: this inexactness when it gets slung around.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
The suffragists were a diverse lot when it came to racial justice politics.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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.

Reposted by Stephen Jones

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
But also:
noahshachtman.bsky.social Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
Meanwhile:
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
Finneas and Billie