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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 · 3m
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 43m
As for people who think Jews are homogenous, yes the Beastie Boys, Bernie Madoff, Susan Sontag, that ultra-Orthodox rabbi, and Irving Berlin are indistinguishable from each other.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 45m
love the joke "if you put two Jews in a room, you get three opinions." And wrote at greater length about our non-homogeneousness here..... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)
Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
And this one and also lots of essays and illustrations.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
Also includes 25 other maps including these....

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2h
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
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Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h
A veritable semi-semitic Easter Egg hunt I am indeed!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
This might be higher res (still a screenshot from the PDF of the book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas). Still a draft; the Yiddish got reversed by the design program and fixed later.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
It's in our NYC atlas, Nonstop Metropolis, from UC Press, 2016. The work of me and @Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and a whole lot of fantastic contributors.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
I think this is a draft version!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h
Sometimes I think that social media is an endless SAT test (which traps the unwary and is overly alluring to those of us who like doing things with words and information).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
p.s. People who want to go comment on the age aspect should comment elsewhere; I'm picking on the part about glorifying the Tea Party while dismissing No Kings/ #nokings.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Given that midterms are 11.5 months away, yeah.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
This is an interesting reminder that Trump hasn't threatened to grab Canada or Greenland in a while.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for asking. And no one who denies and attacks science can lead science. So no, and I hope the story isn't the whitewash this pitch makes it sound like.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
The Koch Brothers and other corporate interests were behind the Tea Party and media powerhouses like Rush Limbaugh promoted it, while mainstream media covered it uncritically.
The Tea Party Movement: Who's In Charge? By Chris Good APRIL 13, 2009 SHARE AS GIFT SAVE Here is the organizational landscape of the April 15 tea party movement, in a nutshell: three national-level conservative groups, all with slightly different agendas, are guiding it. All are quick to tell you that the movement is a bottom-up affair and that its grassroots cred is real. They are: FreedomWorks, the conservative action group led by Dick Armey; dontGO, a tech savvy free-market action group that sprung out of last August's oil-drilling debate in the House of Representatives; and Americans for Prosperity, an issue advocacy/activist group based on free market principles. Conservative bloggers, talk show hosts, and other media figures have attached themselves to the movement in peripheral capacities. Armey will appear at a major rally in Atlanta, FreedomWorks said.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
The absence of young people in protests against Mr. Trump’s authoritarianism matters, and not just for crowd counts. The No Kings protesters look like, and in many cases are, the same people who protested during Mr. Trump’s first term in office. But older people with signs are old news in the attention economy. As a result, the No Kings protests have had less effect on our politics than, say, the smaller Tea Party protests during Barack Obama’s first months as president, which helped spark a backlash before the 2010 midterm elections. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/opinion/boomers-protest-trump-gen-z.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.ui6r.Ag1dMthOacrp&smid=url-share

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
The surprise factor should have died a while back.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Affirmative action for men is ongoing: "Currently, women make up a fairly small percentage of leadership roles in the UN Member States. In these 193 Member States, 21% of Prime Ministers and 26% of Parliamentarians are women. Female leaders also make up 34% of local government positions."
Countries with Female Leaders 2025
Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.
worldpopulationreview.com

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Dr.hello @drhello.bsky.social · 1d
Kill it in the crib Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business share.google/yHvW345Glzsk...
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Because women who weren't Princess Leia spoke a total of 63 seconds in the first three Star Wars films. Because women couldn't serve on juries in all 50 states until 1968. Because the president is a rapist.
Every Non-Leia Spoken Line in Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy: 63 Seconds Total
A new video highlights the shockingly-little amount of time women spoke on-screen in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
Because "1 in 3 women has, at some point in her life, experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner. Researchers say that most of these women have also had at least one concussion or what a doctor would call a mild traumatic brain injury."
Domestic violence is now recognized as a leading cause of traumatic brain injury
Domestic violence can leave a characteristic pattern of damage on the brain, with the potential for lasting damage as severe as that caused by sports and military blasts.
www.npr.org

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
...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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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 1d
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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.)