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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%

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.

I guess fact-checking is another liberal conspiracy?

The Only Thing Stronger Than Hate Is Love: Minneapolis version.
This is Minneapolis:

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit

This is Minneapolis:

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.....

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"

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.

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.
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"

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.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit

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.

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?