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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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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6h
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
"he deal Hegseth announced on Friday is unusual in that Qatar will be constructing a new air force facility from the ground up.
Even close U.S. allies typically don't have such military facilities in the U.S." www.axios.com/2025/10/10/q...
Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho
Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.
www.axios.com
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Kind of just had the same rant, only longer. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)
Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Quid Pro Qatar Quo
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.
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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d
Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....
Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)
Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d
we were wrong about the Nobel peace prize but here’s some more about the emergency response rooms anyway news.un.org/en/story/202...
Youth-led ‘emergency rooms’ shine rays of hope in war-torn Sudan
With the war in Sudan triggering widespread violence and instability, youth-driven emergency response rooms (ERRs) are among a growing number of community-led initiatives reaching vulnerable civilians...
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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 2d
Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.
Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’
Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Also not Nobel.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
According the victim's attorney, body camera footage captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
The Guardian remains a major source of news and has no paywall. Based in London, it operates without fear of King Donald. www.theguardian.com/us
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
www.theguardian.com
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Racism, misogyny, corruption of institutions, assaults on the vulnerable, the deaths of thirty million that will transpire as a result of gutting USAID, furthering climate chaos..... The list goes on.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Third: civil society. People are really showing up, especially in L.A., Chicago, Portland. All those people standing up to ICE and standing up for the vulnerable and the rule of law.... (Super-sad that the Washington Post seems to be going to hell now, though.) #nokings
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Not at all Nobel.
Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
www.oregonlive.com
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
I was a columnist at Harper's during #metoo, which was apparently the bridge too far for the publisher; the magazine swung right, starting with attacks on feminism and defenses of abusers. Needless to say, I departed.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
The guy responsible for trying to provoke a civil war via extreme violence on elders, women, children, journalists, clergy, elected officials, workers, longtime residents, and refugees wants a Nobel Peace Prize. The same guy ordering them to murder people in boats in the Caribbean.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Things I don't even have to unpack for you. Has there ever been renaming by threat before? Could the roads be renamed Partisan Threat Way? Font of Innumerable Death Threats Way? My Way or the Highway?
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 2d
There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
According the victim's attorney, body camera footage captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5d
Just heard @stevevladeck.bsky.social on the radio paraphrase Orwell to say that with the Trumpists 2 + 2 = 17.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 5d
Today is the 17th day in a row that House Republicans have refused to come to work.

Instead of preventing health care costs from skyrocketing, they’re preventing the Epstein files from being released.
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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5d
The land of the brave
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