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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 · 15m
Because my grandmother was an adult before she got the right to vote, and because I was an adult before the first female supreme court justice got appointed, and because some of the older women I know don't think they'll ever see a female president, and some MAGA dicks think women shouldn't vote.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23m
...because 'marital rape' wasn't a concept until feminism made it one and it wasn't illegal in all fifty states until 1993, because marriage was perpetual consent, aka he owned you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6h
I would presume it's something like: "Femaleness is contagious when exposed on an ongoing basis and ongoing relationships involve cooperation, which is unmanly. Real men just pounce and then scuttle on their hind limbs and fore-knuckles back to the man cave."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h
I've had fake quotes attributed to me and then a whole flock of AI-written posts about me that were a bit weird and distorted. (Thanks so much, boy wonders of the Valley of Silicon; your noble utopian dreams are uplifting, just like you promised.)

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 13h
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
This:
Trump Backs Off Plan to Deploy National Guard to New York City: ‘Other Places Need It More’
President Trump has hit the pause button on deploying the National Guard to New York City, with the commander-in-chief on Saturday saying there are other American cities that "need it more" right now.
www.mediaite.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
It's like Mamdani pushed his shopping cart up and down the aisles of Trump's mind and loaded up on stuff to bring back to his city. Protecting his city from ICE even before he takes office is huge (I mean, obviously Trump is a man of his word salad, but it was worth a try; see link below).
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Laura Loomer and a lot of MAGA are in shambles, Trump says he loves Mamdani now and will be cheering for him. Will consider their conversation about ICE and supports his housing plan for low income families. Also stated that he’d happily live in New York with him as mayor and that he’s a good guy.
Trump looks at Mamdani

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
I guess Russia and Saudi Arabia will be their beacons of....human rights.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy /Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is great.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
And yeah, everything in the description is human rights.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
US to sever ties with civilization.
thelastmileusaid.bsky.social The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1d
Marco Rubio 🤮
adjective
1. So weak, cruel, or pitiful that it provokes a sharp mix of disappointment and contempt.
Image shows Marco Rubio in a suit and tie speaking in front of a blue backdrop with the NATO emblem blurred behind him. A white text box states that the State Department will add new rules to its annual human rights reports, labeling countries that support diversity, equity, inclusion, abortion access, or mass migration as violating human rights. The word Brut appears in the top corner.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
It's been infuriating to see all the pundit-dude denial that misogynoir played any role, & that with myriad disadvantages she came so close means that she did well. Also fun that almost all such analysis amounts to "she should have embraced my exact position," be it centrist, left, whatever.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
So thanks and amen and also damn, @emorwee.bsky.social

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Everything that threatens the status quo upsets the top beneficiaries of the status quo, including women's rights, anti-racism, environmental protection, climate action, any mild redistribution of wealth, etc. and that's been true at least since 19th c. opposition to abolition and women's suffrage.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Immodestly: Mainstream discourse blames the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists, Black Lives Matter, affirmative action, environmental protection, and BIPOC and LGBTQ people. It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities...
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
which is why I was boasting to a friend from Minnesota that the snowiest place in the USA is in California. Mammoth Mountain got 80 feet or so a winter or two ago. Snow, books, literary exiles from Nazis and Boston, etc....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
The East Coast cousin of someone I know once said "Californians don't read books," and there went the UC system, San Francisco's legendary poetry scene, a bunch of Nobel laureates, and so forth. There is a version of us in which we are all airheads in bikinis under a palm tree....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
I'm trying to stay out of this trashy scandal, but there is a climate angle: the dirtbag used the L.A. fires that took many lives and destroyed thousands of homes as an endless metaphor for how she wrecked her life, as in "everything is about me." Which is callous as hell.
Climate disaster is not ambiance
Especially not for an illicit affair with a politician who helped a climate-denying administration come to power.
heated.world

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1d
Marco Rubio 🤮
adjective
1. So weak, cruel, or pitiful that it provokes a sharp mix of disappointment and contempt.
Image shows Marco Rubio in a suit and tie speaking in front of a blue backdrop with the NATO emblem blurred behind him. A white text box states that the State Department will add new rules to its annual human rights reports, labeling countries that support diversity, equity, inclusion, abortion access, or mass migration as violating human rights. The word Brut appears in the top corner.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Right down to the Santa Ana winds nonsense.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
It's comparatively minor, but as a Californian, I was pissed that "west coast editor" was handed to a lifelong east coast whatever.

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Dizzly @dizzly.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone posted this one yet?
Trump makes goo-goo eyes at Mamdani while Reagan’s portrait looks on Meme of man making goo-goo eyes at passing woman while holding hands with upset girlfriend

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d
Laura Loomer and a lot of MAGA are in shambles, Trump says he loves Mamdani now and will be cheering for him. Will consider their conversation about ICE and supports his housing plan for low income families. Also stated that he’d happily live in New York with him as mayor and that he’s a good guy.
Trump looks at Mamdani

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 2d
Socialism won! Join DSA: dsausa.us/join-zohran

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Screenshot of Fox News screen that says “Showdown with Socialism” with pictures of Trump and Mamdani and a chyron that says “Today: Trump meets with Mamdani at the White House”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d
Men control women by having "rages they couldn't control," but they control them very effectively, starting with the choice of where and when to have them.

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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 3d
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.

The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.

Hope that clears things up.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d
I must admit that he has committed many forms of harm, not one. And I'm appalled by what he's doing to those Memphis communities.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d
In the Bay Area, I used to see poor youth hopping turnstiles and be glad they were using public transit. Then BART put in big gates that are probably keeping them from getting around, and free transit would've been much better for the region, which is lousy with billionaires and can afford it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d
Free universal childcare just instituted in New Mexico.
New Mexico is first state in nation to offer universal child care - Office of the Governor - Michelle Lujan Grisham
www.governor.state.nm.us