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 · 6h

thank you!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

You're very welcome!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

But the people who bombed Vietnam and Iraq didn't listen.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

The American remake of The Death of Stalin, LIVE!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

A good deal of violence against civilians from WWII bombings of cities onward assumes that the will of the people can be crushed and it generally fails. As the piece mentions, partly on the assumption that most people are cowardly and selfish. Mostly we're not.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

On the other hand, for such players, violence is assumed to be powerful but it is both the result of the failure just mentioned, and it often fails to coerce or intimidate people into submitting/obeying, whether it's the people of Vietnam and Iraq or the people of Chicago and Minneapolis.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

Okay thanks! The piece addresses a very specific kind of violence, by regimes and presumably powerful players. But on the one hand, they use violence because they have failed politically: politics is the art of building/retaining power through alliance and persuasion.

Reposted by Steven Heydemann, Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 10 more Steven Heydemann, Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Dominique Bourg, Brooks D. Simpson, Michelle Everson, Michael D. McDonald, Laleh Khalili, Rebecca Zorach, Kate Jackson, Dana Howard, David Darmofal, Monisha Bajaj

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11h

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT

The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

ictnews.org

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

I get the impression you didn't read the piece.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

As for the victim:

Man detained by agents at St. Paul Speedway gas station confirmed alive

Here’s the latest Wednesday around the increased federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and the protests against the killing of 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis last week by a U.S. ...

www.mprnews.org

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

Or dying from his violence. ICE prevented immediate medical aid so we don't know much about the time between the shots and her death.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

I just donated. By the way GoFundMe tries to charge a predatory 17.5% which is way beyond their administrative costs but you can opt out if you notice they're doing that. GoFundMe is a venture-capital-backed private company.

Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 12h

His family identified the injured detainee as Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano; he was dumped in Texas and the family set up a GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-an...
CBP official Bovino also got a softball interview on Monday from Esme Murphy (WCCO – 1/11).

Donate to Justice and Freedom for Mauricio Henríquez Serrano, organized by Maritere Gonzalez

I am posting this fundraiser on behalf of his family, I am in dir… Maritere Gonzalez needs your support for Justice and Freedom for Mauricio Henríquez Serrano

www.gofundme.com

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 12h

Donate to Justice and Freedom for Mauricio Henríquez Serrano, organized by Maritere Gonzalez

I am posting this fundraiser on behalf of his family, I am in dir… Maritere Gonzalez needs your support for Justice and Freedom for Mauricio Henríquez Serrano

www.gofundme.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

International inappropriate touching of exactly the kind parents warn their toddlers against. (I've always thought that rape was violent invasion of sovereign bodies at the human scale; maybe invasion is rape of sovereign bodies at the nation-state scale.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "The United States has demonstrated to the people around the world that we can touch you anywhere at any time or our choosing"

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14h

Following David's lead, I also posted on FB and was surprised by the positive response. Spread the word about what's happening here. People want to know.

I don't post much on here anymore but I need everyone to understand what it's like in Minnesota right now.

It's terrifying here. Our communities are under attack.

ICE is pulling people out of cars, rolling up to business and child care centers, detaining people based on the color of their skin, the language they're speaking, or the simple act of filming ICE. There are "guardians" stationed outside my daughters' schools to make sure kids and families are safe when they're just trying to attend classes. We should not fucking have to do this.

I do not have the words to properly express my fear, anger, and heartbreak. Every day brings new scenes, new horrors that should not be tolerated even once, let alone on an ongoing basis, all encouraged by the president and his supporters, which I know includes some of the people reading this.

We are just a normal city trying to do normal things, but instead we have to worry about federal agents-from the party that claims to support "small government" and "safety"-invading our neighborhoods and making everything more dangerous. Not one person I know in Minneapolis-not a single person, not even my most conservative local acquaintances-supports this or thinks it's anything other than an actual attack on our beautiful city.

Many of our neighbors are immigrants. Doctors, nurses, teachers, the teller at the bank, the Uber driver getting you to the airport-the everyday people who make up the fabric of our city. These are the people being harassed and kidnapped and worse. Good people, not "bad guys." Some families just aren't sending their kids to school right now; some parents aren't going to work.

I logged on and the Facebook algorithm served up a NY Post story about the murder of Renee Good. The algorithm showed me that people I know had liked it. Honestly, shame on you. Shame on you for buying the propaganda. Shame on you for feeding the machine of hatred. Have some empathy. I'm begging you.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

Totally agree (I was joking that a bunch of Buddhist monks in saffron robes in San Francisco would not really stand out.) The response is so beautiful; the acceptance of an invitation to be openhearted and connected.....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

It's that assumption that we are cowardly and selfish that drives a lot of stupid policy decisions from this to bombing civilians. Minneapolis's valor and solidarity should be legend for centuries.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

I mean his own footage shows he was not hit by Good's car and everyone else's shows he strolled away from it nonchalantly after firing three bullets into her face.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

www.nytimes.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

Could you explain how that happened or why you decided to accept unnamed administration whatevers as a reliable source in the absence of any evidence of an injury?

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

Conversation about resistance and possibility with Kafia Ahmed, e.d. of Third Act, @billmckibben.bsky.social, visionary organizer Daniel Hunter, and me at 3pm Pacific/6pm Atlantic today thirdact.org/events/fight...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

This may come as a shock to you, but I wrote a thing.
Begins with ICE violence in Minnesota, ends with the Buddhist walk for peace across the Southeast. Discusses the profound weakness of the administration in the middle.

Weak Violence, Strong Peace: Who We Are in This Crisis

It's getting more extreme out there, especially in Minnesota where the unaccountable army of the Trump regime has, in the wake of its murder, beaten up employees, ripped civilians from their cars, kid...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Silvia Secchi , and 1 more Rebecca Solnit, Rosemary A. Joyce, Silvia Secchi, Caroline T. Schroeder

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18h

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan Hopkin , and 3 more Michael E. Mann, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan Hopkin, Brooke Harrington, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "The United States has demonstrated to the people around the world that we can touch you anywhere at any time or our choosing"

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

IN a perfect world or even a perfect Bluesky, there would be an edit/revision feature. Not sure I would be a bishop in a perfect world....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Weapons will be fired. Lives will be lost. Nouns of attribution will be avoided.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

He's actually pro-Mordor and his child will grow up to realize it. And maybe not be daddy's ventriloquist's dummy.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Oh here!

Donate to TJ Sabula is a patriot!!, organized by Sean Williams

** UPDATE ** I am working on transferring this donation project to TJ - for him to control di… Sean Williams needs your support for TJ Sabula is a patriot!!

www.gofundme.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Where's his GoFundMe? Because Mr Sabula speaks for me and for thee.....

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Clayton Dalton: "The prediction proved prescient. In 2004, a student in Boston died after she was shot through the eye with a pepper ball. A review of nearly 2,000 events worldwide involving these weapons identified 53 deaths and 300 cases of permanent disability, many due to vision loss."

Could Viral Protest Videos Create a Backlash Against ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons?

www.nytimes.com

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

The piece is overall pretty good, but this bothsidesism meets waffledom is why the NYT makes so many of our heads explode. It's an incoherent paragraph; I wonder if editorial rewrote something to create this fuzziness about who what where why when.

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