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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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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/ -
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
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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
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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/
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗻𝗶𝘁 -
Though even the update seems out of date now (2015), Solnit's grasp of the breadth of narratives outside of our vision & our obsessiveness with some despairing ones is a healthy and needed perspective.
#books #bookreviews #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #rebeccasolnit #hopeinthedark #virtuesignaling #despair #hope #politics #activism #mentalhealth
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'More than 200 contributors skewer the New York Times' coverage of trans people': https://www.alternet.org/200-contributors-skewer-nyt-trans/
'Numerous, eye-opening examples of how the "Old Gray Lady," as the paper is often called, positions and frames transgender people and the issues they and their families face are packed into the letter, which compares the paper's coverage to "far-right hate groups." Perhaps one of its most consequential call-outs is how The Times' reporting is used by anti-LGBTQ state lawmakers and other officials to support anti-transgender legislation and policies.'
Every person who seriously reads The New York Times and considers their political output knows they mainly pander to advertisers and press releases from the White House.
From Chomsky/Herman's 'Manufacturing Consent':
'New York Times editor Max Frankel, who said in an interview that “we’re an establishment institution, and whenever your natural constituency changes, then naturally you will too.”'
Noam Chomsky :chomsky: in his book '9/11':
'To quote the lead analysis in the New York Times (September 16): “the perpetrators acted out of hatred for the values cherished in the West as freedom, tolerance, prosperity, religious pluralism and universal suffrage.” U.S. actions are irrelevant, and therefore need not even be mentioned.'
Via William Blum's 'America's Deadliest Export: Democracy':
'This war [in Iraq] is the most important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan … it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad. (Thomas Friedman, much-acclaimed New York Times foreign affairs analyst, November 2003)'
Chomsky again, in https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/dismantle-all-of-this-stuff-a-conversation-with-noam-chomsky:
'A couple of days ago I had a talk with a group of Latin American activists. They were from all over Latin America. Well, just for fun, I read for them a column that appeared in The New York Times that day by one of their top foreign affairs specialists. It was about how the United States has been committed to the rule of law, human rights, and democracy. They just burst out laughing. They’re living in the real world, not the world of US intellectual culture.'
Chomsky in his book 'Global Discontents':
'If you look at polls, plenty of people are opposed to surveillance. The ones who support surveillance are the ones who are as deluded as people like Thomas Friedman or Bill Keller at the New York Times, who think that we have to have surveillance for the sake of security—not noticing that the very administration that is calling for defense against terrorism is maximizing terrorism and the threats against us.'
From Chomsky's book 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals':
'Others are missing from the list of honored dissidents, for example, the six leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, who were brutally murdered by Salvadoran forces fresh from renewed training by U.S. forces, acting on the specific orders of the U.S. client government. In fact, they are scarcely known at all. Few even know their names, or recall the events. The official orders to murder them have yet to appear in the United States anywhere near the mainstream, not because they are secret: they were published prominently in the mainstream Spanish press. This is not an exception. It is the rule. The facts are not in the least obscure. They are well-known to activists who protested the horrendous U.S. crimes in Central America, and to scholarship. In the Cambridge History of the Cold War, John Coatsworth writes that from 1960 to “the Soviet collapse in 1990, the numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and executions of nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly exceeded those in the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.” When we turn to coverage in media and intellectual journals, we find that the picture is reversed. To take one of many striking illustrations, Edward Herman and I compared the New York Times coverage of the murder of a Polish priest—whose assassins were quickly found and punished—with the murder of one hundred religious martyrs in El Salvador, including Archbishop Óscar Romero and four American churchwomen, whose assassins were long concealed, while the crimes were denied by U.S. officials and the victims subjected to official contempt. The coverage of the murdered priest in an enemy state vastly exceeded that of one hundred religious martyrs in the U.S. client state, and was radically different in style in the way predicted by a propaganda model of the media. This is only one illustration of a highly consistent pattern over many years.'
From Rebecca Solnit's book 'Whose Story is This?':
'One way we know whose story it is has been demonstrated by who gets excused for hatred and attacks, literal or physical. Early in 2018, the Atlantic tried out hiring a writer, Kevin Williamson, who said women who have abortions should be hanged, and then unhired him under public pressure from people who don’t like the idea that a quarter of American women should be executed for exercising jurisdiction over their own bodies. The New York Times has hired a few conservatives akin to Williamson, including climate waffler Bret Stephens. Stephens devoted a column to sympathy on Williamson’s behalf and indignation that anyone might oppose him.'
...and:
'This misdistribution of sympathy is epidemic. The New York Times called the man with a domestic-violence history who, in 2015, shot up the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, killing three parents of young children, “a gentle loner.” And then when the serial bomber who had been terrorizing Austin, Texas, was finally caught in March 2018, too many journalists interviewed his family and friends and let their positive descriptions of the man stand, as though they were more valid than what we already knew: he was an extremist and a terrorist who set out to kill and terrorize Black people in a particularly vicious and cowardly way. He was a “quiet, ‘nerdy’ young man who came from ‘a tight-knit, godly family,” the Times let us know in a tweet, while the Washington Post’s headline noted that he was “frustrated with his life,” which is true of millions of young people around the world who don’t get a pity party and also don’t become terrorists. The Daily Beast got it right with a subhead about a recent right-wing terrorist, the one who blew himself up in his home full of bomb-making materials: “Friends and family say Ben Morrow was a Bible-toting lab worker. Investigators say he was a bomb-building white supremacist.”'
#TheNewYorkTimes #TransRights #Trans #NoamChomsky #WilliamBlum #RebeccaSolnit #MaxFrankel #ThomasFriedman #BillKeller #EqualRights #propaganda
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Spiragli di #speranza
L' editoriale di Giovanni De Mauro su #Internazionale di questa settimana riprende (e traduce) alcuni estratti della prefazione del libro di Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the dark nell'edizione più recente (2016):
https://archive.fo/oBisxSono parole di cui al momento si sente un gran bisogno.
La prefazione e il testo originale si possono leggere in rete a questo indirizzo:
https://imp.dayawisesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hope_in_the_Dark_Untold_Histories_Wild_Possibilities_Rebecca_Solnit.pdf
#Hope #RebeccaSolnit #Letture
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#RebeccaSolnit talks to the #StartMakingSense pod about the #NoKings protests: https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-102225/
Her piece in The Nation, "The Right is Lying About Left-Wing Violence": https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/left-wing-violence-myths-protest/
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La esperanza no es una promesa... es un llamado a actuar y hacer que otro mundo sea posible 🙌
El mensaje de la escritora Rebecca Solnit:#mensaje #esperanza #rebeccasolnit #hope #futuro #vivir #actuar
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"I Stand With Penguins!"
yasaman posted "How to Comment on Social Media" by Rebecca Solnit and mefites are offering their cheeky addendums.
https://www.metafilter.com/202363/How-to-Comment-on-Social-Media-by-Rebecca-Solnit
#commenting #lithub #RebeccaSolnit #satire #SocialMedia #funny
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”. I’m still digesting it, it was really good - written around the turn of the century (this one, in case like me until recently that makes you think start of the twentieth! Oh god how are we in the 21st century?) it is a book that expects you to think rather than spoonfeeding.
It covers the emergence of walking as a thing in itself rather than just what everyone does to move, engaging with questions of meaning, politics and gender in relation to that. It also touches on the alienating nature of car travel in separating us from one another and the world around us.
It is well worth reading: highly recommended. I’m going to have to add some more of Rebecca Solnit’s works to my book-hoard: they all look interesting.
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"We have work to do, and I see some of it being done. We have to do a lot more, and we have to do it wholeheartedly, and we have to do it not knowing exactly what it will take." -- Rebecca Solnit
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-get-ready/
#RiseUp #RebeccaSolnit #resist #democracy #MutualAid #RiseTogether #PeoplePower #principles #values #love #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #USConstitution #law
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This essay by #rebeccasolnit resonates with me. Throughout my life, I have been happiest & healthiest when most focused on creative work, community, and positive action for the common good. If we focus on what we have to gain from confronting climate change and wake up from our fear and despair, the possibilities open up. #climatecrisis #climatedenial #climateoptimism #Community #climateactionow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/ -
> .. they talked about the May 2017 cyberattacks.. compared to the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic.. Honeywell noted, the vulnerability came from a lack o.. “#DisciplineAndHygiene .” She insisted that in today’s #NetworkedWorld, we were dealing with the same problem: “Nobody’s washing their hands.” She noted that all kinds of widely used software were full of such bugs..
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/05/easy-chair-15/
#RebeccaSolnit on #OnlyConnect #HowardsEnd #EmForster w/
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"The choices #tech titans make in their personal lives [..] show that a segregated, shrouded life is their ideal. But they profit off technologies which, while encouraging our own social withdrawal, are focused on capturing as much information about us as possible."
#RebeccaSolnit reads her powerful LRB essay, "Losing #SanFrancisco"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
#SiliconValley #cities #gentrification #inequality #BigTech #plutocracy #TechFutures #TechBros #TechCulture #SiliconValleyRight -
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·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/
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@flockofnazguls @franchot I agree! From my Canadian perspective, even Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren are pretty tame, though I adore them. No one questions our current #corporatism, #capitalism, #extractivism, eternal growth, rampant individualism... it's as if they're laws of nature, not just arbitrary systems made up by rich & powerful humans. I love this essay from #RebeccaSolnit (no paywall) on the #ClimateCrisis as an opportunity.
#wecandobetter #abundancemindset
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/ -
“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
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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
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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?
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Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/flowers-bloom-on-soldiers-graves-lessons-in-power-and-consequence/
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‘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
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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
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"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
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"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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"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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NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==
NOW PLAYING == The Interview with David Marchese and Lulu Garcia-Navarro 3/6/26 - Author and #activist Rebecca Solnit Says Trump's Strongest Foil Has Been Here All Along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOJ_uaffG5s #news #books #activism #progressive #left #uspol #hope #RebeccaSolnit #NYT #vsn #radio #equality #trumpism #farright #humanrights #theocracy #environment #climate https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116194233266175501
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The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca SolnitImportant 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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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"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
