Solarina Ho
@solarina.ca
Freelance writer. ✍️ The Walrus, WebMD/Medscape, Globe and Mail, others.🎙️ http://NuVoices.com. Ex-Reuters, -CTVNews.ca. She/Her. Follow≠Endorse | http://solarina.ca
Reading this after reading the @nytimes.com piece on Trump Allies nearing "total victory" in wiping out U.S. climate regulation....
(Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?)
wapo.st/4abXa5w
(Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?)
wapo.st/4abXa5w
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Reading this after reading the @nytimes.com piece on Trump Allies nearing "total victory" in wiping out U.S. climate regulation....
(Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?)
wapo.st/4abXa5w
(Also, I must've been under a rock, but I thought WaPo killed their "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan last year? When did they bring it back?)
wapo.st/4abXa5w
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"'We become their mother, their grandmother, their sister, their brother. We feed them, we clean them, we put them in the chair, we put them in bed. That’s awesome.'"
Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma
It’s immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care for our elderly, and nobody’s lining up to take their place.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
"'We become their mother, their grandmother, their sister, their brother. We feed them, we clean them, we put them in the chair, we put them in bed. That’s awesome.'"
The latest AI freelancer scam, caught by @soleilho.com. As the real Scott Nover says in this piece, credibility is everything for journalists: "When our credibility is undermined or eroded, our jobs — which require us to convey factual information — become much, much harder.”
How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The latest AI freelancer scam, caught by @soleilho.com. As the real Scott Nover says in this piece, credibility is everything for journalists: "When our credibility is undermined or eroded, our jobs — which require us to convey factual information — become much, much harder.”
Great summary of one person's obscene wealth and the things they prioritize. Thinking about how much Melania made from this deal vs the WaPo reporter who was just fired in the middle of a warzone.
Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"
Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"
February 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Great summary of one person's obscene wealth and the things they prioritize. Thinking about how much Melania made from this deal vs the WaPo reporter who was just fired in the middle of a warzone.
Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"
Anyway. "Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5"
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
It's unbelievable how many things still leave me speechless with anger and sadness during these unfathomable times.
Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.
Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It's unbelievable how many things still leave me speechless with anger and sadness during these unfathomable times.
Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.
Laid off by a prestigious and once highly respected publication in the middle of a warzone is the latest.
"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
Devastating.
Devastating.
"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend."
Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
Devastating.
Devastating.
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This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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This piece by @jonrauch.bsky.social is very much worth reading. (Yes, I know, even if your reaction to the title is, "Gee, you don't say!") He lays out the case more carefully, clearly, and systematically than I have seen elsewhere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM
This piece by @jonrauch.bsky.social is very much worth reading. (Yes, I know, even if your reaction to the title is, "Gee, you don't say!") He lays out the case more carefully, clearly, and systematically than I have seen elsewhere.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I'd rather not quote him, but moderates and the right need to hear his message and fury. "They are unprofessional pathetic COWARDS. Because if...an 18-year-old Marine did that in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court martialed, because it would be MURDER...You guys are criminal thugs."
Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 AM
I'd rather not quote him, but moderates and the right need to hear his message and fury. "They are unprofessional pathetic COWARDS. Because if...an 18-year-old Marine did that in Iraq in the middle of a war zone, he would be court martialed, because it would be MURDER...You guys are criminal thugs."
I can not even begin to overstate how gobsmackingly shocked I continue to be (despite everything that's happened over the past decade and especially this past year) at the complete and absolute depravity, corruption, and unequivocal lack of moral decency, integrity, and humanity we are witnessing.
A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 8:31 AM
I can not even begin to overstate how gobsmackingly shocked I continue to be (despite everything that's happened over the past decade and especially this past year) at the complete and absolute depravity, corruption, and unequivocal lack of moral decency, integrity, and humanity we are witnessing.
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Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
January 24, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
(Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.)
The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.
I actually find these figures incredibly depressing and deeply unsettling that it still has this much support.
YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
January 25, 2026 at 8:14 AM
I actually find these figures incredibly depressing and deeply unsettling that it still has this much support.
I love this much-needed thread so much.
man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 AM
I love this much-needed thread so much.
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
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Wind energy for AI is devastating Taiwan’s coastal farming communities
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts
January 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Wind energy for AI is devastating Taiwan’s coastal farming communities
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts
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The EU has found a way to keep electric-vehicle makers happy without flooding the market with cheap Chinese cars
restofworld.org/2026/why-the...
restofworld.org/2026/why-the...
Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs
Europe’s shift toward cooperation over protectionism on Chinese EVs is more political than business-driven.
restofworld.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The EU has found a way to keep electric-vehicle makers happy without flooding the market with cheap Chinese cars
restofworld.org/2026/why-the...
restofworld.org/2026/why-the...
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We broke down BYD’s financials, innovations, and public image in five charts to show where the world’s biggest EV seller stands as it bets on global expansion:
restofworld.org/2026/byd-pro...
restofworld.org/2026/byd-pro...
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 PM
We broke down BYD’s financials, innovations, and public image in five charts to show where the world’s biggest EV seller stands as it bets on global expansion:
restofworld.org/2026/byd-pro...
restofworld.org/2026/byd-pro...
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Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully.
A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.
A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.
In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions
New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.
boltsmag.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully.
A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.
A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.
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Leavitt needs to be grouped with Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Homas, Vance, and Trump himself as modern vehicles of the Klan.
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Leavitt needs to be grouped with Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Homas, Vance, and Trump himself as modern vehicles of the Klan.
Listen to this.
Listen to this.