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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 · 1h
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...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h
Yep.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h
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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h
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.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
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?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h
And our state and our great mountain range and a lot of our rivers--Sacramento, San Joaquin, Merced....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h
There are almost 500 municipalities in California. All maps select some portion of the whole to represent. Which I would assume everyone assumes.....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h
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

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h
How can we replicate this strategy at home?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h
Or didn't since Spanish names are actually a big presence here.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
please read post

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Do you know that or are you just theorizing? Also don't like ICE in principle is not NIMBY. It's not anywhere.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
The New Republic and @gregsargent.bsky.social did it earlier and better.
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
What a nice passage! Who wrote it where?

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
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, Steve Peers

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
"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...."
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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
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 · 2d
I am, I will.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Women Strike for Peace says come over for tea.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d
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