”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.”
”You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.”
”…the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/magazine/rebecca-solnit-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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
Normalité catastrophique et état d’exception permanent : la guerre civile comme horizon invisible
De Solnit/Fritz à Agamben, la « normalité catastrophique » (catastrophe devenue routine) rejoint l’« état d’exception permanent » : sous couvert de sécurité, la guerre civile latente structure le pouvoir moderne. Pourquoi imaginer la fin du monde est plus facile que la fin du capitalisme ? Parce que cette violence structurelle est déjà notre « normalité ». #Agamben #Solnit…
De Solnit/Fritz à Agamben, la « normalité catastrophique » (catastrophe devenue routine) rejoint l’« état d’exception permanent » : sous couvert de sécurité, la guerre civile latente structure le p…
It has never been easy to be an immigrant to the United States – for most economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers make life here a struggle, even if they were escaping a worse life elsewhere. The utterly evil bill that just squeaked through in Congress, among other harms, aims to make
Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story with this sentence in it: "Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email
🌟 Let's dive deep into the essence of "Hope" before we explore the realms of self-care. Hope isn't just a whimsical notion; it's a powerful force for change. As Rebecca Solnit beautifully puts it, hope is the light in our darkest moments, a beacon worth fighting for. Just like your mental, physical, and emotional well-being, hope is a battle worth winning. Let's join Ms. Solnit in igniting a spark within us all to embrace hope in the shadows. 💪✨
"#Elections are won, to state the obvious, by how the electorate turns out and votes. The electorate votes based on how they understand the situation and evaluate the candidates. That is, of course, in large part shaped by the #media, as Hannah-Jones points out, and the media is right now campaigning hard for a #Democratic party loss. The other term for that is a #Republican victory. Few things have terrified and horrified me the way this does." (#Solnit)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit
#Solnit 💯: "Much has been said about the age of the candidates, but maybe it’s the corporate media whose senility is most dangerous to us. Their insistence on proceeding as though things are pretty much what they’ve always been, on normalizing the appalling and outrageous, on using false equivalencies and bothsiderism to make themselves look fair and reasonable, on turning politics into horseraces and personality contests, is aiding the destruction of the United States."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/28/debate-losers-american-people
#Solnit 💯: "Much has been said about the age of the candidates, but maybe it’s the corporate media whose senility is most dangerous to us. Their insistence on proceeding as though things are pretty much what they’ve always been, on normalizing the appalling and outrageous, on using false equivalencies and bothsiderism to make themselves look fair and reasonable, on turning politics into horseraces and personality contests, is aiding the destruction of the United States."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/28/debate-losers-american-people
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