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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 · 41m
The one time when I like being flaky and thank you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 42m
Me & Dylan:
Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No."
Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want, Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well, Abe said, "Where you want this killin' done?"
God said, "Out on Hwy 61"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 47m
Update:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 47m
And thanks for reminders that that's just part of the domestic toll; the human sacrifice that was the dismantling of USAID is said to have resulted in 600,000 deaths so far, 400,000 of them children, and JD Vance smiled upon all this.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1h
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
Screenshot of a tweet from Brian Allen on X.com. It discusses JD Vance claiming settlers in the New World found “widespread child sacrifice” and that “Christian civilization ended the practice.” The tweet explains historians say this is fabricated and calls it racist revisionism. Below is an image of JD Vance speaking at a Turning Point USA event, standing at a podium with a slide behind him showing "Oxford, MS" and “University of Mississippi.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1h
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
Screenshot of a tweet from Brian Allen on X.com. It discusses JD Vance claiming settlers in the New World found “widespread child sacrifice” and that “Christian civilization ended the practice.” The tweet explains historians say this is fabricated and calls it racist revisionism. Below is an image of JD Vance speaking at a Turning Point USA event, standing at a podium with a slide behind him showing "Oxford, MS" and “University of Mississippi.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
I have one but now that the butter is pre-grated, a minute or two by hand gets the crust in shape. And these instructions were written for someone trying pie for the first time far away, so no specialized tools required (why bandannas and wine bottles are mentioned).....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
p.s. That fancy Miyoko vegan butter works great, and one of my pies will be vegan.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
Great for later, and inspired me to post my pie instructions. And now to make two apple pies myself.....
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
PIECRUST! A MANIFESTO!
I once wrote someone trying to impress a new love some piecrust instructions and thought I'd share them here:
The secret of good pie is: keep your heart warm but your butter cold.
PIECRUST! A MANIFESTO! I once wrote someone trying to impress a new love some piecrust instructions and thought I'd share them here: The secret of good pie is: keep your heart warm but your butter cold. Ounces or grams, all that matters is a one-part-butter-to-three-parts-flour recipe (only a little more butter and a tiny bit less flour than that makes it easier to work and richer, so cheat with all your warm heart, because reality wants to be richer than the rules). About 1.5-2 cups of flour per pie, butter proportionate. Put the butter in the freezer for a while and then grate it, if you can get a grater. Otherwise chop it as small as you can with a knife or knives and mix it into the flour until the largest lump of cold butter is as small as a pea a princess would feel under her seventh mattress down. I always work it by hand. On the one hand, your hands emit warmth, so you better be fast, on the other, what better tool is there? Take some very, very icy ice water--pour about half a cup of water over lots of ice--and pour some of that that chilly, chilly water into a well in that mixture. Don't overwater; it's easier to add water than thicken a gummy piecrust mix. Mix until you have a flaky pastry that will fall apart a little but mostly hang together in balls of piecrust--you don't want it to get sticky. And you don't want to overwork your dough.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
I wrote this for someone trying a hand at pie for the first time far away, to impress a new lover. I myself learned the secrets of piecrust from an Oklahoma blacksmith, because I did not grow up with that kind of salt-of-the-earth heritage.
the dry goods jars above the counter where the pies are made, in my inner-city farmhouse....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
You can keep love from sticking all over the wrong things--and by love I mean piecrust--by using a muslin cloth that has had flour spread over and rubbed into it (a fine-textured dishtowel or big bandanna can do).
You can keep love from sticking all over the wrong things--and by love I mean piecrust--by using a muslin cloth that has had flour spread over and rubbed into it (a fine-textured dishtowel or big bandanna can do). A rolling pin cover you can also flour is a wonderful addition. Or you can roll it out between two sheets of plastic--an old grocery-size bag is great for this, just cut the handles off and cut it down one side so you can get inside. So then take a great wad--about half your crust--and flatten it a bit by hand, then roll with your bottle or pin, going in all directions. It will not make a perfect circle unless you're insanely manually dextrous, but that doesn't matter. You just want it to be bigger than the pie pan and hang over the edges a little. (Leave the extra pie crust in the refrigerator or freezer; remember: no warming!) Put your bottom crust in, then your fruit, then your top pie crust. You should have two sloppy circles that overhang the pie plate. I use scissors to trim it just slightly larger, then fold and pinch it together to seal the two layers into one. This is very romantic and meaningful and you can analyse it with the apple peeler. A pie will exhale steamily as things heat up, speaking of love, so make some incisions in the upper crust with a knife--you can cut a little pattern in with half a dozen small slits. If you're me, you will also roll the scraps of pie crust into ornaments (I use cookie-cutters to make hearts and stars or if there's a lot of left-over crust, I bake them separately, dusted with a bit of sugar). Bake until the upper crust (which is not a socioeconomic category here) is browned and flaky and, well, looks like pie instead of raw pie dough. Usually this is 45 minutes to an hour. copyright Rebecca Solnit 2025 (aka share away, but do give credit)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
The secret of great pie is perhaps a little like love: the butter and flour want to merge, but not completely. So the cold butter stays a little separate even in the fiery furnace d'amour and that's what creates flaky, light pie crust.
The secret of great pie is perhaps a little like love: the butter and flour want to merge, but not completely. So the cold butter stays a little separate even in the fiery furnace d'amour and that's what creates flaky, light pie crust. NOW you want to put all that back in the refrigerator or freezer unless someone has been peeling apples for you, but even so it should take less time to make the crust than peel all those apples--eight to a dozen for a pie. Core them, cut them up into pieces not too small, not too chunky (you don't want mush, but you don't want huge air pockets between the chunks, maybe 8-12 slices per apple), mix them with sugar and if they're flat a little lemon juice and/or even a tiny bit of grated lemon rind. Cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger can also go into a pie, separately or all together for a spicy pie. If your apples are juicy, mix some flour in with them--this will make the juice thicker and less runny. A tablespoon (of flour or cornstarch or tapioca flour) at most. Meanwhile, put your oven on about 350-375 degrees, or whatever the centigrade equivalent is. About 190, I think. Pie isn't like cake. It's like love. The secret is all in the action, not the ingredients. Mostly. It's also like love in that rules don't completely explain it; practice does. Also every step of it is messy. A wine bottle makes a wonderful rolling pin if there's no rolling pin. Now the tricky thing about rolling piecrust is that it wants to stick to everything. It is confused by attachment theory and you don't want it to stick to the counter, the rolling pin, etc.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
PIECRUST! A MANIFESTO!
I once wrote someone trying to impress a new love some piecrust instructions and thought I'd share them here:
The secret of good pie is: keep your heart warm but your butter cold.
PIECRUST! A MANIFESTO! I once wrote someone trying to impress a new love some piecrust instructions and thought I'd share them here: The secret of good pie is: keep your heart warm but your butter cold. Ounces or grams, all that matters is a one-part-butter-to-three-parts-flour recipe (only a little more butter and a tiny bit less flour than that makes it easier to work and richer, so cheat with all your warm heart, because reality wants to be richer than the rules). About 1.5-2 cups of flour per pie, butter proportionate. Put the butter in the freezer for a while and then grate it, if you can get a grater. Otherwise chop it as small as you can with a knife or knives and mix it into the flour until the largest lump of cold butter is as small as a pea a princess would feel under her seventh mattress down. I always work it by hand. On the one hand, your hands emit warmth, so you better be fast, on the other, what better tool is there? Take some very, very icy ice water--pour about half a cup of water over lots of ice--and pour some of that that chilly, chilly water into a well in that mixture. Don't overwater; it's easier to add water than thicken a gummy piecrust mix. Mix until you have a flaky pastry that will fall apart a little but mostly hang together in balls of piecrust--you don't want it to get sticky. And you don't want to overwork your dough.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
Price of membership.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
What about Andrew Tate rampaging through the minds of British boys?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h
Your summary is so superior to this mild whatever.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 15h
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
AI slop. it's what's for dinner. Thanks tech overlords! Keep looking in the mirror while you sing the song about your utopian genius!
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22h
Hugely gratifying!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23h
Yep. "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the [Democratic] wife to placate and soothe the [Republican] husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
Hugely useful
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A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
It's very possible by looking at other cultures (and I've been blessed to be around gay men since I was 13, who overall refuse the assignment and allow themselves a far wider spectrum of possibilities).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Not shocking they converge in their miserable notions of How to Be a Man.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Are you sure that's not Andrew Tate?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Wonderful to see @maxkennerly.bsky.social speak about it.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d
The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Nate Silver is definitely not the left, but restrictive ideas about masculinity exist across the social spectrum.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Wrote about that in The Mother of All Questions.
A certain kind of emotional wholeness is the price men pay for power, and the renunciations begin early. When I questioned a nephew, as neutrally as possible, just before he turned five, about why pink was no longer among his favorite colors, he knew exactly what we were talking about: “I like girls. I just don’t like girl things,” he exclaimed, and he knew what girl things were and that he must not let them define him. In fact, he already despised them and seg- ued into a tirade against My Little Pony. I thought five was early to be bombarded until I shopped for a friend’s unborn son and was reminded that our roles seize us at birth. Girls get being cuddly, pretty, attractive, and maybe passive: warm colors, kittens and flowers and flourishes. Boys get distance: cool colors and active figures, often menacing ones or ones that are removed from intimacy and emotion—sports figures, balls and bats, rocket ships, cold-blooded animals like reptiles, dinosaurs, and sharks, strange choices for helpless mammals who depend on nurture. Masculinity is a great renunciation. The color pink is a small thing, but emotions, expressiveness, receptiveness, a whole array of possibilities get renounced by successful boys and men in ev- eryday life, and often for men who inhabit masculinized realms—sports, the military, the police, all-male workforces in construction or resource extraction—even more must be renounced to belong.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.