#rebecca-solnit — Public Fediverse posts

Attention #California: #RebeccaSolnit has some information to help you in the upcoming #primary #election for #governor.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-case-for-climate-champion-tom-steyer-in-the-california-governors-race/

Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/

“We often speak as though we are here to toil, endlessly planting and cultivating seeds and seedlings. But we have also feasted on harvests from what was sown and tended by those who came before.”

Rebecca Solnit // The Beginning Comes After the End

#CommonplaceBook #RebeccaSolnit #Quotes

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"The United States is destroying itself.

The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment.

The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.

(. . .)

But trying to understand motives is something of a hobby when the focus needs to be on consequences. We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain and ultimately remove them. They will not last for ever, and we need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged and corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality. But not to return to the way things were."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction

USAnian liberals are v funny.

#RebeccaSolnit rightly observes that the #USA is being dismantled from within, but somehow thinks that's a Bad Thing™. :D

Yes, #Solnit really wants readers to believe in the virtue myths of an empire founded on violent conquest and racism, built on genocide and the Big Lie of "liberty". 🤣😅

Solnit is course right that #Trump is a depraved, crooked monster. But her notion of another, virtuous America, is a Big Lie.

Why does #TheGuardian publish this crap?

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/flowers-bloom-on-soldiers-graves-lessons-in-power-and-consequence/
#RebeccaSolnit

An excellent summary of the destruction and long term consequences of #Trump and the #maga movement. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction #uspol #worldpol #reconstruction #rebeccasolnit

The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit review – a manual for coping with change https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/09/the-beginning-comes-after-the-end-by-rebecca-solnit-review-a-manual-for-coping-with-change #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #SocietyBooks #PhilosophyBooks #HistoryBooks

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/rebecca-solnit-slow-revolution-far-right-cannot-tolerate #RebeccaSolnit #Books #Culture #PoliticsBooks #UsPolitics #Society #Feminism #TheFarRight #Environment #Race #ClimateCrisis #ProtestUs

Mittagspause mit @RebeccaSolnit und Blick auf die Universitätsbibliothek der @unituebingen - Solnit's "Thr Beginning Comes After The End" ist das LA Times "Most Anticipated Book of 2026" #amreading #RebeccaSolnit #uspol #Feminism #NativeRights

"Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender." @RebeccaSolnit speaks with David Marchese for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html

#RebeccaSolnit #Interview #ClimateChange #Activism

"It’s this idea that we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-my-never-ending-quest-for-clarity/

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#RebeccaSolnit #interview

"Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
As the old saw goes, the only constant is change. But change doesn’t always feel as overwhelming as it does right now. We are living in an era of widespread democratic backsliding, sweeping technological disruption and the slow-motion disaster of the climate crisis, to name just a few of the most troubling societal upheavals. But what if, despite all that, there’s a different and more hopeful story to tell about change?

That’s the question at the heart of 'The Beginning Comes After the End,'t he new book by the prolific and critically acclaimed progressive writer Rebecca Solnit. A thematic sequel to her classic 'Hope in the Dark,' the book shines a light on the vibrant world often hidden within our own seemingly gloomier one — a world that has embraced ideas of interconnection, ecological care and political equality. It’s not a naïve book — Solnit is keenly aware of the challenges we’re all facing — but it provides a stabilizing counterweight to the feeling that the world, of late, has spun dangerously off-kilter."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html

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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, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.”

https://kottke.org/26/03/beginning-comes-after-the-end
#Politics #authoritarianism #fascism

For our latest questionnaire, Rebecca Solnit, author of The Beginning Comes After the End, talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using
https://longreads.com/2026/03/04/questionnaire-rebecca-solnit/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #interview #RebeccaSolnit #longreads #authors #writing

Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "Whose Story Is This?" von der wie immer grossartigen @RebeccaSolnit 💚 Über Frauen und das #Patriarchat, Amerika unter #Trump und die bereits erreichten Fortschritte in ihrer Lebenszeit. Ihr Text zu Statuen und Strassen liess mich hoffen dass auch der Münchner Flughafen und die Stuttgarter Konzerthalle eines Tages nicht mehr nach alten Nazis benannt sein werden. 🌈💚 #feminism #RebeccaSolnit #amreading #Bookstodon #AOC #ClimateChange

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#RebeccaSolnit

Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "Cinderella Liberator" von der grossartigen Rebecca Solnit, die einen Essay als Nachwort anschliesst. Verwandlung nur um zu sein wer man werden möchte. 👍 #RebeccaSolnit #Märchen #fairytales #Bookstodon

One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/one-long-year-later-its-not-over-and-we-havent-surrendered/
#RebeccaSolnit

"How Venezuela stole its own oil on its own territory is something I would love JD Vance to explain in a war crimes tribunal, but the short version is imperialism plus the habit of Republican administrations of regarding the fossil fuel industry as inseparable from government and making its interests the top priority" #RebeccaSolnit - file under #FossilCapital #Venezuela
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/five-facets-of-the-attack-on-venezuela-by-the-rogue-nation-the-us-has-become/

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/06/trump-immigration-whiteness?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#RebeccaSolnit

‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/29/if-i-was-american-id-be-worried-about-my-country-margaret-atwood-answers-questions-from-ai-weiwei-rebecca-solnit-and-more?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#MargaretAtwood
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