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Rebecca Solnit

4 months

We're proud of our climate anthology Not Too Late, but we also wanted to provide more practical answers to the questions about how to get involved so many ask. So we're adding this chapter to the book that's also a free download here. Please share!

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Rebecca Solnit

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2 years

I once titled an essay "The Slow Road to Sudden Change," because even what is imagined as overnight change or revolution usually had a long build-up. Mushrooms give us a great metaphor for this.

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2 years

Barbara Ehrenreich is gone. I'd say "May her memory be a blessing" to those who were with her; may it be a scourge to those who were against her, as it was during her life. May she rest in power, may her words keep working

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1 year

And as always....

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3 months

I cancelled my New York Times subscription this morning. I'll miss the recipes. p.s. You don't have to like Biden to dislike a newspaper fawning on a clown who wants to be a dictator.

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Mary Wollstonecraft's grave on George Orwell's 119th birthday. Feminism has a long history, and so does the fight against lies and authoritarians.

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My friend Harriet reminded me that Easter is the anniversary of when the three women went to Christ's tomb and found he wasn't there, and angels explained what happened, but the apostles didn't believe them.

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1 year

She fights the fossil fuel industry, the Davos crowd, world leaders, the status quo, and the patriarchy face to face. One little kickboxer who only fights one guy at a time should have known better. Greta: knockout in one round, and she didn't have to try.

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1 year

The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water.

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1 year

Oh my!

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1 year

Cate Blanchett: “When I was making Tár, I read a lot of @RebeccaSolnit . She was a great solace to me. And she observed that the answer to most either/or questions is both.” @nyfcc

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2 years

Could we stop having history all the time? I'm trying to get some work done.

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2 years

The arc in which many significant events unfold is weeks to years to decades, but the news tends to obsess about the inception, then drop the story. I've seen so little about Pakistan's floods and Iran's uprisings lately. We need a form of news that's not so addicted to the new.

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8 months

One of the crucial things to remember is that victory often looks like nothing--in this case three prisons that won't exist, other times the forest that wasn't cut down, the pipeline that wasn't built, the cruel law that wasn't passed.....

Dana Sweeney

@HeyDanaSweeney

8 months

Alabamians have been fighting massive new prison construction like hell, and we’ve been winning. In 2019, we were told that three huge private prisons would be operating in the state by now. Because ordinary people got organized, those prisons will never be built. Don’t give up.

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2 years

Almost eleven years ago Occupy Wall St. erupted and pundits rushed to pronounce it a failure and then over, and what happened with student debt today was an offshoot of OWS whose impacts can still be felt in many ways. It's not over. Change never is.

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2 years

I collect climate good news (not to ignore the bad, but to keep people motivated to make more climate good news and face the bad).

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11 months

Today would be a good day for the president to declare a climate emergency.

The Climate Emergency

The science is clear. The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear. Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels has emitted enough greenhouse gases (GHGs) to signif...

www.unep.org

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3 months

They're coming after your birth control, your same-sex marriage, your no-fault divorce, your queer or trans kid, your state's child labor laws (if they didn't already overturn them) in the next phase of Make America 1858 Again. And of course abortion.

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10 months

We spent a lot of time trying to convince people climate is real and urgent; that has mostly been accomplished. Now we have to convince people that we can do something about it, that we have the solutions, that most people already take climate seriously and support action...

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1 year

I'm putting together the resource section for this book due out April 4. Best organizations and resources for climate action you know? Globally, of course! THANK YOU!

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9 months

This is huge, fantastic, and heroic: "Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision"

Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

“This is a monumental decision," said a lawyer for the young plaintiffs, and could influence similar cases in other states.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The New York Times isn't reporting the news. It's shaping it, with consistently negative framing about Biden in the context of the election. Today's front page:

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9 months

"You begin to liquidate a people by taking away its memory. You destroy its books, its culture, its history. And then others write other books for it, give another culture to it, invent another history for it." - Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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1 year

The Buffalo blizzard: Right-wingers are as usual obsessed with "looting"--a word to make shoplifting and theft exciting--because that justifies their grim view of human nature and their boundless enthusiasm for brutal law enforcement and the carcereal state.

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2 years

On rest as resistance.

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2 years

"They seemed to see despair as a form of solidarity and hope as a betrayal. But you shouldn’t mourn those who aren’t dead. Doing so stuffs the living into coffins, at the very least in your imagination."

Why climate despair is a luxury

Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.

www.newstatesman.com

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10 months

I keep saying I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis. You can feel absolutely devastated about the situation and not assume this predicts outcome...

We can’t afford to be climate doomers | Rebecca Solnit

It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

The next phase in the war against women is not really what I wanted for my birthday today. But I'll take it personally and fight my best.

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11 months

Hello deranged/conservative NYT editorial denying that birth control fails and a lot of women who get pregnant do so while married w/kids and others get pregnant from coercion and noncooperation from male partners. Tying it to "promiscuity" is malicious bullshit.

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2 years

I regret to say that writing this has not served to prevent it from continuing to happen. You'd think. But. Nope. Yeah. Hell.

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2 years

The queen is dead. May the king be some kind of climate champion, within his limits, to counter the fossil-fuel executives who just took over running the UK.

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1 year

@MazdaNYC Hey Mazda, you don't have permission to co-opt my book about WALKING, not driving.

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2 years

Monday had no idea that by Friday Joe Manchin would support a climate bill and Texas's Oliva Julianna would raise $1.7 million for abortion access. The possible outshines the probable again. #hopeinthedark #nottoolate

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1 year

Machismo and climate denial, as well as alliance with the fossil fuel industry, is a package deal for the right.... Wrote this very quickly yesterday....

Greta Thunberg ends year with one of the greatest tweets in history | Rebecca Solnit

Thunberg’s funny exchange is a reminder of the connection between machismo, misogyny and hostility to climate action

www.theguardian.com

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21 days

Epigraph to Orwell's Roses, because it's such a brilliant reminder that warnings are not prophesies of doom: their premise is that we are deciding the future with what we do or fail to do in the present. That we have choices.

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5 months

If it were up to me, @doctorow 's term "enshittification" would be 2023's word of the year. It's an indispensable term for what tech's corporate giants do, over and over.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

11 months

Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can, leaving just enough to keep the lock-in going. 1/

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10 months

Climate defeatism is a form of destructive emission that needs to be capped, especially when coming from comfortable homes in the global north.

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2 years

I'm compiling a list. What are the biggest/ best climate victories you can think of? Outside US is bonus. Thanks!

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1 year

Just in case Twitter's drunk driver crashes the car: Thank you all the smart climate and feminism and politics people I've followed and learned from, and also the wits. And anyone who proved you could be kind, even on Twitter. Have some flowers.

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2 years

Got the Thoreau Prize today which “recognizes sustained, essential contributions to the legacy and vitality of Thoreauvian studies and ideals through extraordinary scholarship or service.” From the Thoreau Society.

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9 months

The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions and "On a global scale, Feng said, there is mostly consensus that the richest 10 percent may contribute to 40 to 50 percent of the global carbon emissions based on consumption."

The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions

About 15 days of emissions from the richest American was equal to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10 percent in America, research found.

www.washingtonpost.com

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7 months

I'm a writer because I want to write. I don't want a machine to do it for me..... what is the point of handing over the job of understanding something more deeply, seeing the pattern that underlies? Why would I want to give up that profound experience?

Author Rebecca Solnit Found ‘Half’ Her Books in a Dataset Used to Develop AI

“It's just part of my ongoing horror at Silicon Valley,” the acclaimed writer said.

www.bloomberg.com

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2 months

The film Oppenheimer nuked the Bechdel test. And disappeared the great physicist Lise Meitner, she who first comprehended that atoms could be and had been split.

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7 months

It's clear for that too many imagine the two parties as a husband and a wife, and the Democratic wife is supposed to placate and coddle the husband and help him look good no matter how dangerous, abusive, and destructive he is--and he is never supposed to do the same for her.

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2 years

This one goes out to Elon Musk (and Mark Zuckerberg and the rest): It is as if these petty tyrants live in a world without honest mirrors, without others, without gravity, and they are buffered from the consequences of their failures.

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6 months

I wrote about billionaires and climate for the Guardian's great series on our unequal impact. "But billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life."

Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble | Rebecca Solnit

The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

www.theguardian.com

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5 months

Ceasefire, for good. ‘Hope’ by Sliman Mansour.

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2 months

We interrupt all this terrible news for the moss and lichen report.

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11 months

Don't forget that what the trash in the Supreme Court is doing is overturning victories and rights we won before--to abortion, to debt relief, to wetlands protection, to equality for same-sex couples and queer people, to economic justice....

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2 years

Ben Ehrenreich accompanied the announcement with a comment redolent of his mother’s spirit: “She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.”

Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81

Writer of the 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed died on 1 September, her son announced

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Things more damaged than a Van Gogh painting, because climate change is infinitely more damaging than the most debatable climate protest. (I'm not justifying the tactics, just contemplating the scale of things.) Pakistan, Florida, New Mexico 2022. Homes, lives, habitats, hopes.

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3 months

They're obsessing about Biden's age, as they did about Clinton's emails, while downplaying Trump's crimes already committed--a rape, an insurrection, a whole lot of financial crimes-- and threats to commit far more.

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2 years

Being friends with @monaeltahawy is like being friends with lightning, and here's one of her flashes of illumination (and her, pointing to it).

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1 year

When I was a young writer, I was constantly told that originality was the goal. These days I see the convergence of ideas in a shared vision of a better world and the possible routes there as the highest good. So I'm elated when my work aligns with others'...

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"In just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election."

Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media.

Since the 2016 presidential election, an increasingly familiar narrative has emerged concerning the unexpected victory of Donald Trump. Fake news, much of it produced by Russian sources, was amplif...

www.cjr.org

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2 years

Strategy is understanding that the things you want are where you are headed, not where you start. Strategy is figuring out how to get there and doing it.

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2 years

How have universities kept their respectability when their economic model is: convince teenagers to borrow vast sums of money, sending them into longterm debt that will prevent many of them from pursuing the professions in which they got their degrees?

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I can't stop thinking about these students who found out, during hours of violent attack, that neither their school nor their city would protect them. The police watched, made no arrests.

Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus

Four student journalists were attacked by Pro-Israel counterprotesters early Wednesday morning.

www.latimes.com

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4 months

Darn! I forgot to celebrate the anniversary of the Greatest Tweet ever Tweeted, but in that space between the birth of the baby in the stable and the three wise guys arriving we should install an annual commemoration of this climate/feminist wisecrack heard around the world.

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1 year

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy @getalife .com

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1 year

There is only one kind of mass shooter.... The eternal media fuss about his mysterious unknown motives is a tedious distraction; lots of people experience the difficulties and unhappinesses these people do and don't go shoot lots of people.

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2 years

Everyone responded so strongly to my mushrooming metaphor the other day I thought I should expand on it with what might be my favorite essay in recent years, David Griffith's Queer Theory for Lichens. 1/4 + link in #4

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Why are such a high percentage of replies from strangers basically reprimands and unwarranted corrections? When did scolding become so many people's reflexive response, in those mashups of assumed authority and implicit anger?

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10 months

Now is a good time for POTUS to declare a climate emergency.

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The extreme heat waves and fires and floods ripping across the planet are climate change in action. We need to stop burning fossil fuels!

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@JDVance1 You never showed any interest in all the straight white male mass shooters' race, gender, or sexual orientation, and they are the great majority of mass shooters, so actually you don't care about mass shooters or their victims and are just using this for your anti-trans agenda.

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I am regularly assured that conservative white men are the acme of brave heroic manliness and also told they are threatened/upset by a movie about a doll, sex ed, queerness, books, women, wind turbines, solar panels, non-Christian religions, indigenous rights...

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Dear God, 2023 was not what I ordered and I tried to send it back because it did not fit very well and was uncomfortable. You have sent a replacement instead of a refund and I hope this 2024 works better. But could you replace the fascists with fuchsias? thank you, Rebecca

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8 months

I feel that you all are falling short of the appropriately celebratory response to this very large news.

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Donald Trump is no longer in business in New York State. A judge canceled all of his business certificates and appointed a judge to monitor the assets. Barring an unlikely reversal by an appeal court, the assets will be sold and Trump, Don Jr., & Eric are barred from business.

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Where there's smoke there's fire (if not nec. nearby), which you would not know from a lot of US media. Canada is burning.

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3 months

I guess they're proud of how they did in 2016.

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Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well at first people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those requests, no matter how kind or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finance as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose.

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10 months

Climate change is violence, and we need more articles focusing on the will to harm and kill by elites and fewer somehow treating insurrectionary behavior by the oppressed as the issue. That framework is a defense of an indefensible status quo.

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“In a study published in Science, Marshall Burke, Solomon Hsiang and Edward Miguel show that an uptick in temperature of just one standard deviation above the long-term mean drives an increase in the frequency of unrest of almost 15%. …” (1/3)

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Arundhati Roy famously said: “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Today I can hear her exhaling as wind and see her shining as the sun. The future is coming. California energy mix right now (yellow is sunshine):

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Renewables are currently providing 153% of load on @California_ISO grid. Insane.

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"She worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department." --Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

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1 year

I'm just old enough to have voted for Jimmy Carter in my first election. The other guy won, as you may know, whatever age you are, and took the White House solar panels down.

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Seventeen years ago today, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. What ensued was far from a natural disaster, even leaving aside what role climate may have played in superheating the water that gave rise to the hurricane. 1/

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It's the misogyny. Again. Five women dead, one man who tried to protect one of them. Nine more women & two men and a baby injured. The murderer's father: "He wanted a girlfriend and he's got no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain." .

Bondi Junction mall attack: 'Obvious' killer targeted women, Sydney police say

Joel Cauchi, 40, fatally stabbed six people in a crowded Sydney shopping centre on Saturday.

www.bbc.com

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2 years

The stupidity in Bret Stephens's NYT piece on climate is almost unfathomably vast. Technologies for eight feet of sea level rise are what?

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1 year

@DrJenGunter Anger in men is mostly seen as a reaction, often a legitimate one, to some external thing. In women it's too often seen as a personal failure she should extirpate with pills or hormones or maybe a lobotomy, never mind the external thing.

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There is a colossal climate demonstration on September 17th, in NYC, with sister marches around the country, because on "September 20th in New York, the UN Climate Ambition Summit will gather world leaders to commit to phasing out fossil fuels."

March to End Fossil Fuels

Join our mass demonstration in New York City calling for Biden to #EndFossilFuels

www.endfossilfuels.us

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@jn_arsenault One thing I've started to say a lot is that I respect and empathize with despair as an emotion, but it's best not confused with an analysis. You can feel terrible and remain committed, be heartbroken and know the future is being made in the present.

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The first thing to remember about the damage done by the US supreme court this June and the June before is that each majority decision overturns a right that we had won. (Wrote this Friday, published this morning.)

The US supreme court has dismantled our rights but we still believe in them. Now we must fight |...

The court is part of a gang of reactionaries clawing back rights we already won, which means we can win them back

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

This is like Jeffrey Epstein running the child safety summit, Goebbels opening the Jewish Studies symposium, Pol Pot in charge of the human rights conference. Oil company CEO chosen to head next UN climate talks.

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The CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil (ADNOC) will now run the upcoming climate talks at COP28 in Dubai. "[This is] tantamount to a full-scale capture of the UN climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists.”

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The ongoing assertion that Democrats must eternally placate and please Republicans and never ever the other way around is an arrangement that often makes me think of a bad/trad marriage with, of course, Democrats as the wife....

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This Is Just To Say BY SAMUEL JOHN THOMAS & AMY TOO I have eaten the rights that were in the law books and which you were probably trusting for your survival Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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I sleep under this black swan, which I like for its beauty and because 'black swan' means a rare or unexpected event that's also an impactful one. Flocks of black swans fly through our era. I think of them in connection with those things regarded as unlikely or unimaginable...

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Politics is mostly grim stuff I focus on out of a sense of responsibility. Toward what I love and care about, and not forgetting that is important. Yesterday's walk.

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For the sake of all of us, men need to stop having weird go-away shut-up reactions to powerful women.

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Climate scientists! What are the stories/ facts/ frameworks you either don't see in the media or see distorted and misrepresented, the things you wish people knew? How do you want to see public awareness deepened and shifted?

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2 years

The courage of these women in Iran is breathtaking. May they prevail. Feminism has in little more than half a century made amazing changes in millennia-old patriarchal societies; it has so much more work to do, everywhere.

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2 years

In #Iran , mass protests have escalated into a hot phase: The rallies began after the murder of 22-year-old girl Mahsa Amini. She was beaten to death with sticks by the so-called "morality police" for allegedly breaking hijab rules.

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It is so nice how every time you say something here, complete strangers sweep in with correctives demonstrating they are evangelical cranks, nitpickers, didn't read first, or presume that any 280-character utterance contains the whole of your knowledge and beliefs to date.

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Rebecca Solnit

@RebeccaSolnit

1 year

I'm struck by how routinely people don't want to do anything whose successful outcome is not guaranteed when it comes to big stuff like climate. (Imagine if people played games that way. But also imagine the dismalness of history if everyone was that way.)🧵

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Rebecca Solnit

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Today is publication day. We are proud and honored to bring together these visionary voices in this accessible, broad-ranging anthology. Scientists, frontlines activists, policy experts, visionaries, voices from Australia to West Virginia, the Marshall Islands to New Orleans.

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Rebecca Solnit

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The Times employs a lot of people, including some of the most execrable columnists imaginable, but also many superb journalists, whose work, when not bent to the editorial agenda, is valuable and sometimes important. I want to acknowledge that. But I still had to quit.

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Rebecca Solnit

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Somehow that aligns nicely with this holiday whose English name is really that of a pagan fertility goddess. "Eostre, also called Ostara or Eastre, is a Germanic goddess associated with spring and the dawn." Thus the rabbits and eggs and generally fecund springtime themes.

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Rebecca Solnit

@RebeccaSolnit

2 years

After the revolution, people will read before commenting.

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Rebecca Solnit

@RebeccaSolnit

2 years

@haymarketbooks The relevant passage:

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Rebecca Solnit

@RebeccaSolnit

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What is clear to me in so many of these frameworks is that progressives/liberals/Democrats are imagined as the wife whose job it is to keep the Republicans/the right/the husband in line by being nice and calm and not upsetting him. Otherwise "she made him do it."