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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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h
San Francisco today.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h
Ah, assemblyman!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h
Thank you and the line from these manipulative videos to the murder of Renee Good is a pretty straight line, isn't it?

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 7h
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.

📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
@torontosun.bsky.social you have a journalist spreading hate based on lies aka justifying murder. Is that who you are?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
Would/could an independent Greenland remain with NATO? Which is what's protecting it right now from, well, us.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
Domestic violence.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13h
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h
Border Patrol agents pepper-sprayed, tackled, and handcuffed people on the grounds of Minneapolis’s Roosevelt High School on Wednesday—just hours after ICE officers shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. trib.al/hDj7ofo

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h
"If the greatest lie the devil ever told was to convince us that he wasn’t real, the greatest lie the oil industry ever told us is to convince us that they don’t want oil"

@antoniajuhasz.bsky.social interviewed by @emdashsanders.bsky.social, on the fossil fuel industry's latest big lies:
On Venezuela and ‘the greatest lie the oil industry ever told us’
Author and investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz, an expert in wars fought over oil, weighs in on U.S. oil companies’ efforts to distance themselves from Trump’s raid in Venezuela.
www.exxonknews.org

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h
Blaming the crime surge due to the pandemic on the George Floyd protests is gross. Which were protests against a violent crime. publicaffairs.northeastern.edu/articles/us-...
How Crime Rate Changed During the Pandemic - NEU MSCJ
Here's insight from Northeastern University MSCJ faculty. Learn how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted American life, including illegal activity.
publicaffairs.northeastern.edu

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 12h
250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution.

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13h
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 14h
Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.

The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Well I was just thinking that there are Nazis loose in this country but the anti-Nazis, the people who believe in equality and universal human rights, far outnumber them. I'm genuinely moved and thrilled by how people are showing up and not surrendering.

Also thank you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you, Congressman. Here's a plan. You in Congress could go after the contracts directly; activists can pursue boycotts and protests.
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d
We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...
Map of event locations for #ICEforGood

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Last I checked the Washington Post was news.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you, because there is nothing more charming and ridiculous than the first year or two of precarious perambulation, a reminder that bipedalism is, well, no cakewalk. Now I want the babies walking channel or account here like the @possumeveryhour.io account.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Goes with this.
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AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Unlike Trump, the oil execs realize Trump will not be in power forever and his guarantee likely won't get them very far. Also the facial expressions here are telling and weird.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
An expert I talked to made it sound like they'd be wary for many reasons, including the instability/illegitimacy of the situation. Here's the NYT a minute ago confirming my friend's assessment.
Here’s the latest. President Trump on Friday pressured American and European oil companies to invest $100 billion in rebuilding Venezuela’s dilapidated oil infrastructure, but executives from giants like Exxon Mobile and ConocoPhillips expressed reservations. The oil executives who attended a White House meeting on Venezuela’s future said they would need a stable, secure government there, and changes to the country’s legal and commercial framework to make such large investments, which can take decades to recoup.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
They will if they studied the Iraq war first.

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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 1d
Trump promises oil executives 'total safety, total security' if they invest in Venezuela
Trump promises oil executives 'total safety, total security' if they invest in Venezuela
Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Energy Secretary Chris Wright attended Friday's meeting at the White House with Trump, alongside executives from Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, Valero, Marathon, Shell, Trafigura, Vitol Americas and Repsol.
www.lemonde.fr

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d
We live in a world of tactical wipes, so men's insecurities are a guaranteed gangbuster business

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
The claim this fossil fuel wouldn't be subsidized is as stupid as the rest of what Trump says; military protection for exploitation is a huge expense and therefore subsidy that you and I and the people of Venezuela will pay.
Trump promises oil companies ‘total safety’ in Venezuela as he urges them to invest billions
Country is ‘uninvestable’ today, president told, but CEOs signal they are ready to spend with support
www.theguardian.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d
We live in a world of tactical wipes, so men's insecurities are a guaranteed gangbuster business
"Tactical wipes" which are basically regular wipes in "manly" packaging

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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 1d
You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.
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Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 1d
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”