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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 · 9h
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....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h
Weapons will be fired. Lives will be lost. Nouns of attribution will be avoided.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h
He's actually pro-Mordor and his child will grow up to realize it. And maybe not be daddy's ventriloquist's dummy.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h
Oh here!
Donate to TJ Sabula is a patriot!!, organized by Sean Williams
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h
Where's his GoFundMe? Because Mr Sabula speaks for me and for thee.....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
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?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Who should we really worry about going too far? Is that what residents are really saying? The passive tense "weapons will be fired" avoids who's wielding and firing those weapons and who murdered a local less than a week ago.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Language: "But even some of those in favor of the community defense efforts were on edge that protesters could go too far. Residents said they were worried that with the number of agents patrolling the area and heightened tensions, weapons will be fired, deliberately or by accident."
‘Like a Military Occupation’: Clashes Rise With Federal Agents in Minneapolis
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
“.. Federal agents grab a woman to drag her away from her car, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.”

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 20h
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target
Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, the child porn factory known as Grok is merging with the Department of Pushups. Maybe they will launch the Epstein papers into orbit?
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
One can be neither optimistic nor defeatist as you just said. That's pretty much how I define hope: there are possibilities; let's seize them.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Also why is it that people want to surrender so loudly? If you believe that it is absolutely too late and there's absolutely nothing you can do wouldn't it make you want to curl up quietly in fetal position, speaking of preemies, rather than trumpet loudly about it?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
From the newsletter, of course.....
On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter)
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Seems like time to re-up:
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality; we take vows – spiritual vows, marital vows, oaths of office, become accountable for our words when we testify under oath in court or in Congress or just make a verbal commitment. Our words shape reality when we tell someone they're worthless or valuable, beautiful or ugly, beloved or unloveable, which is a bit like chanting "I believe that you will win." Or lose. A friend of mine reminded me that the word encourage literally means to instill courage; we can do that or its opposite with how we speak, with what we say, with how we show up. It's not the only work we can do during this emergency, but it's an important part of it. It's a big part of how we express a spirit of defiance, of resoluteness, how we act with the knowledge that emotions and attitudes are contagious, be they fear or courage, strength or weakness, kindness or cruelty. Which is why it makes my head explode – picture this head as a volcano and these words as lava – when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics. There's a lot of "I believe that we will lose" on social media and in the news. One way it shows up is when journalists report on some of the rubbish spewing from the mouth of the geriatric clown/felon we have to call president as though his every utterance had the weight of law, as though words will become actions, as though the actions will succeed, as though they will not be met with opposition, as though they believe he will win.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
And unlike a lot of people trying to jump from the house to the senate, she already represents the whole state (because it's so tiny while also being so huge).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Oh wow, two indigenous women entering the senate the way two entered the house a few years back, Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland.....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
I think she'd be our first indigenous woman senator, and I also think she's kind of great (and who can resist "fish family freedom" as a slogan?).
marypeltola.com Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 2d
My name is Mary Peltola, and I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for fish, family, and freedom – and that begins with fixing the rigged system in DC that’s shutting down Alaska.

We need systemic change if we're going to lower costs, save our fisheries, and fill our homes with abundance again.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks! I often check who's trying to pick a fight and it's often tiny accounts or suspicious-seeming ones..... And yeah, then block and lord do I hide a lot of dumb/hostile/off-topic comments.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Why I wrote "voting is a chess move, not a valentine" almost a decade ago. (Why do people expect to vote for their ideological twins and nothing but in a country of 330+ million?)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Yep: Appelbaum said, "Danes told me that because the US can already do whatever it wants on the island, they had come to a conclusion: Trump just wants the U.S. to look bigger on a map." Trump is obsessed with bigness, and Greenland looks even bigger on the Mercator projection....
Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition
"A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis Trump had created over Greenland," Anne Appelbaum said the other day on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter. "Danes told me tha...
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 2d
My name is Mary Peltola, and I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for fish, family, and freedom – and that begins with fixing the rigged system in DC that’s shutting down Alaska.

We need systemic change if we're going to lower costs, save our fisheries, and fill our homes with abundance again.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
Nope.
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Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov
"I am head of the defence committee in Denmark It is my job to be on top of security in Greenland and I get all relevant information about it. I can assure you that your fantasies about a big threat from China and Russia against Greenland are delusional."
Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova Those in Europe, claiming about “imaginary Russian and Chinese threats” in the Arctic, either have not been paying attention to what was happening in the Arctic in the last ten years, are not able to connect the dots between the Western Hemisphere & Indo-Pacific region, or both. 4:17 AM · Jan 11, 2026 · 51.2K Views Rebecca Solnit Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova · 9h Link to read https://open.substack.com/pub/velinatchakarova/p/cold-war-20-is-inevitable?r=rd5fm&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov · 6h I am head of the defence committee in Denmark It is my job to be on top of security in Greenland and I get all relevant information about it. I can assure you that your fantasies about a big threat from China and Russia against Greenland are delusional. You are the threat. Not them. Ted Lieu @tedlieu Dear @usairforce , @USNavy , @USArmy @USMC : Greenland is part of Denmark, a NATO ally. If Trump orders the military to attack Greenland without congressional approval, that would be an illegal order. You will disobey the illegal order. Your oath is to the Constitution, not Trump. Quote Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024 · 19h Daily Mail: President Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland but is being resisted by senior military figures https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15452323/amp/Donald-Trump-orders-army-chiefs-plan-invade-Greenland-President.html 7:24 PM · Jan 10, 2026 · 834.8K Views Rebecca Solnit Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics · 15h Trump is the head of the military. You are calling for insurrection and you should be charged with treason. Ted Lieu @tedlieu · 15h Only Congress can declare war.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d
Trump has just declared himself the "acting president of Venezuela" over on Truth Social in case you're wondering about his mental health.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d
It’s been one month since 100% of the Epstein files were due by Act of Congress. Thus far they’ve only released .6% of them and are using murder and war to distract you from this fact.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d
E pluribus fucking unum.