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 · 7h

Unfair to oceans.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8h

This glorious part of a glorious thread.

Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

"My buddy Steve, who doesn't wash his ass and calls women 'females,' whose last steady job was cleaning the 7-Eleven hot dog machine and he got fired, can't get laid. Here's 4,000 words about why that's the fault of Susan, a constitutional lawyer/supermodel who rescues puppies in her spare time."

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

It's not.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h

I have no idea. There are lots of small-scale fishermen in the region and lots of transport by water, and also people fleeing Venezuela by boat. But what's the "this" this boat looks like?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, it's one of the several boats they've bombed. The one the current inquiry is about, described and pictured here:

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...

www.cnn.com

Reposted by Ann Bartow

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h

This is the small open boat Team Hegseth bombed and then bombed again. It's almost 1700 miles by sea from Trinidad to Miami. There is no way this boat was headed for the US.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h

Glad I was here for the swearing and doing my best to be here for the destruction/good housecleaning.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Jonathan Portes, Michael E. Mann , and 30 more Anne Applebaum, Jonathan Portes, Michael E. Mann, Elizabeth Saunders, Rebecca Solnit, Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin, John Horgan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Amir Attaran, Dustin Mulvaney, Joseph Schafer, David S. Cohen, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Alison Johnson, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, David Murakami Wood, Mark Rice, Andrew Rudalevige, Nathan Richardson, Olivier Jourdan, Christina Pagel, Daxton R. Stewart, Aviel Roshwald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Aidan O’Sullivan, Virginia Sapiro, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal, Jesse R. Lasky

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit

Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Been tiresome to get comments on this post from people who didn't bother to figure out how it works/what's on offer. If not surprising.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit

Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a gift article version of my article in the Atlantic about how to lower electricity prices.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Electricity Should Be Free at Noon

And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Ben H. Ansell , and 26 more Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law, Ben H. Ansell, Rebecca Solnit, Nandita Sharma, Ashish Arora, Steve Peers, Michael A. Clemens, Mark D. White, Diane Ravitch, David Rothschild, American Library Association, Anders Nilsson, Juan Cole, David R. Miller, Michael Zimmer, Scott A. Imberman, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Michael D. McDonald, Michael Jones‐Correa, Ann Bartow, Henry Jones, Simon Lester, Jon Dean, John Mecklin, Aidan O’Sullivan, Timothy D. McBride, Dunlap, David Darmofal

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Do they think this is an answer to illicit use of artistic work? I know, in Trumpworld you answer the question it would be fun and convenient to pretend they asked, whether it's a judge or anyone else.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Really you came here to say that?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe read instead of guessing or at least don't comment if you can't be bothered? "That means that rightsholders can expect at least $3,000 per title (less costs and fees), which will be shared among the rightsholders for that title (if there is more than one rightsholder)."

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

What a sleazy defense of honest critiques, a transparent attempt at a validation of the editorial dept.'s sins. A lot of us share a view that groveling before power, sanewashing, elitism, etc. is a challenge to our values, not our views.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”

Interview by Patrick Healy with Joseph Kahn
Why does The Times publish work that challenges our audience’s assumptions at a time when many people want their views validated?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Patchwork quilts as distinct from whole-cloth quilts seem like a particularly American art form, and the United State is itself a patchwork of cultures, regional identities, ethnicities – this country's old motto e pluribus unum (out of many one) is a patchwork motto and one under attack...

Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Parks's Historic Protest

I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Really useful advice for authors on how to deal with the Anthropic settlement. In my case, I'm trying to figure out whether I or my publishers are the reproduction-rights-holders, which matters for where the payouts go.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more i...

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Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Alan Richardson , and 1 more Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Alan Richardson, Greg Linden

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

thank you

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. Came out of that inspiring evening yesterday and my determination that these two occasions need to be commemorated.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 6 more Rebecca Solnit, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael Kevane, David R. Miller, Jon Dean, Élisabeth Vallet

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

NYT:
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike

Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”

At the White House on Monday, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, read a statement that said Mr. Hegseth had authorized the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, “to conduct these kinetic strikes.”

She said that Admiral Bradley had “worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.”

According to five U.S. officials, who spoke separately and on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation, Mr. Hegseth, ahead of the Sept. 2 attack, ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.

But, each official said, Mr. Hegseth’s directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out not to fully accomplish all of those things. And, the officials said, his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing that at least two people on the boat survived the first blast.

Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him.

Her scripted remarks at a news briefing elicited a furious backlash within the Defense Department, where officials described feeling angry at the uncertainty over whether Hegseth would take responsibility for his alleged role in the operation — or leave the military and civilian staff under him to face the consequences.

“This is ‘protect Pete’ bulls---,” one military official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations, told The Post.

Leavitt’s statement “left it up to interpretation” who was responsible for the second strike that killed the two survivors, a separate military official said, imploring the White House to provide clarity on the issue.

One official said of Leavitt’s statement, “It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.” Another person said some of Hegseth’s top civilian staff appeared deeply alarmed about the revelations and were contemplating whether to leave the administration.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I see what you're saying now. Sorry! (I thought you meant that I was writing as if she was where it all started rather than that the struggle for civil rights was ongoing--but I see the Civil Rights Movement as when the long struggle picked up momentum and employed new tactics.)

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

And wrote about the quilt and related matters here. Thanks for all you do, Marisa.

Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Parks's Historic Protest

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

I saw a bunch of panels yesterday, behind Nancy Pelosi in this picture, as she spoke at the National AIDS Memorial fundraising gala and scrolled through lots more on the digital kiosk at the event....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

We can see the panels she made for the AIDS quilt but I would love to see the quilts she made herself.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Of course Cleve Jones and the AIDS quilt do a star turn in this piece.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Given that Rosa Parks was working with the NAACP, it should be clear that I'm not saying it started with her, but today is about her.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Now it's fixed.

Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Parks's Historic Protest

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

And ugh, that should be Rosa Parks's. Wrote the whole thing in a couple of hours this morning and off I go to correct that apostrophe after s business.

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