The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit Important new book by Rebecca #Solnit The synopsis: #RebeccaSolnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, ...

The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca Solnit
Important new book by Rebecca #Solnit
The synopsis:
#RebeccaSolnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, ...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!

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...

Rebecca Solnit: "Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker." #solnit #administration #US
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-unb...

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy

'The anti-immigration and pronatalist policies add up to fantasies of redirecting the demographic future of this country. Both amount to, in the end, dim-witted bullying by haters ...'
#trump #maga #policy #racism #misogyny #solnit #immigration #abortion #ICE #feminism #authoritarianism #fascism

True Stories #429 - The Mansplainer Rebecca and a friend went to a party. Their male host decided to "teach" them about "very important" things.

📣 New Podcast! "True Stories #429 - The Mansplainer" on @Spreaker #andrews #eagweard #feminism #mainsplaining #maybridge #men #misogyny #rebecca #river #seth #shadows #solnit #stories #technological #true #west #wild #women

‘Authoritarianism, resistance’ mark this pivotal American moment | CBC Radio Political analyst Rachel Maddow and writer/activist Rebecca Solnit are sharp observers of Trump 2.0. They discuss the global impact (including his beef with Canada), and where they see effective domes...

#canada #solnit #maddow #authoritarianism www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

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“Notes on the New America”
Is a good talk about #America today.

#political analyst Rachel #Maddow & #writer #activist Rebecca #Solnit are sharp observers of #trumpregime 2.0 They spoke to Nahlah Ayed & a #Canadian audience about the #globalimpact”

#uspoli #canadiannews #cdnpoli #usnews #politics

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable...Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin, quoted in the Rebecca #Solnit book, No Straight Road Takes You There (2025)

"My dearest wife,
It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze...." #Solnit

20 LIBROS & AUTORES FAVORITOS

#Shakespeare
Divina Comedia
Quijote
#Bernhard
#Nabokov
#Walser
#Kafka
Tractatus
#Sebald
Miss Lonelyhearts
#Whitman
#Benjamin
El extranjero
Algo elemental
#Carson & #Solnit
#Borges
Libro del desasosiego
#Berger
Tristes Trópicos
#Perec

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📖 “Cuídate y recuerda que cuidar de alguna otra cosa es una parte importante de cuidarse a uno mismo, pues estamos entrelazados con los tres mil millones de cosas que integran esta prenda única del destino que ha quedado ensuciada y rasgada, pero que se sigue tejiendo, zurciendo y lavando.” #Solnit

‘A truce with the trees’: Rebecca Solnit on the wonders of a 300-year old violin Made with all-renewable materials, this violin from 1721 reflects a time of magnificent culture – a global gathering from before the climate crisis

Read this piece in @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s new essay collection. Recommended reading.

Also recommend you pick up NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAkES YOU THERE for more of her brilliant, thought-provoking work.

www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j...

#booksky #solnit

Please read what R. #Solnit has written about the demonstrations in #LA. It’s a testimony of moral clarity.

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself One of the great joyful mysteries of writing comes when work whose creation arose from the writer’s innermost desires somehow meets those of its readers. I let this book loose in the world with no …

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself lithub.com/20-years-of-...

#booksky #solnit

“Remember successes of the past”. #Solnit says

“Authoritarian takeover not inevitable” #Zunes says

Original post on english.elpais.com

Hollywood’s big lie about disasters: In crises like Spain’s blackout, the natural reaction is […]

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Rebecca Solnit: ‘It’s encouraging that Trump and the manosphere push back so much on the accomplishments of feminism’ The writer, one of the United States’ most prominent feminists, speaks out about the attacks on women’s autonomy in her country

Rebecca #Solnit : ‘It’s encouraging that #Trump and the #manosphere push back so much on the accomplishments of #feminism

#bluecrew #demcast #bluewave #proudblue #Dems #GOP #US

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Favourite quote of the day, from Rebecca #Solnit, about Elon #Musk and #DOGE - The Department of Government Efficiency:

"It's about efficiency in the same way that the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four was about truth."

.Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of #uncertainty is room to act. . . . .Hope is an embrace of the #unknown and the #unknowable.” Rebecca #Solnit...

If you’re a man who wants to be an ally to women but doesn’t know where to begin, Rebecca Solnit is an excellent place to start. #heforshe #equality #solnit