Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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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 · 9h

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.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

I guess fact-checking is another liberal conspiracy?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

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

Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social · 11h

This is Minneapolis:

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Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social · 11h

This is Minneapolis:

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

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.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

I'm so glad. I began it for one great activist I admire; I'm glad it's good for another.....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

If only giant networks could hire people who can understand Spanish. Of whom there is no shortage.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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"

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

Yep.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

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.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 21h

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?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h

And our state and our great mountain range and a lot of our rivers--Sacramento, San Joaquin, Merced....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h

There are almost 500 municipalities in California. All maps select some portion of the whole to represent. Which I would assume everyone assumes.....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h

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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

How can we replicate this strategy at home?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

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

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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...

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.

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.