Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued. They're shoddily made, with panels glued rather than bolted on, and when the glue deteriorates, the panels fall off. What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough, a victim of its own cheapness, an ugly toy falling apart. Authoritarians are obsessed with looking strong, but they are weak in that they must use brutality as a substitute for the more stable and legitimate power that comes from support from the public, the civil service, and the law. From #RebeccaSolnit
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> Let me then mention a coincidence that helped create a network. ( You decide if it’s a conspiracy. )...
https://tomdispatch.com/solnit-on-coincidences-networks-and-conspiracies/
#ConspiracyTheory #TomDispatch #RebeccaSolnit #AdamHochschild
TomDispatch.com · Solnit on Coincidences, Networks, and ConspiraciesI seldom write about the part of my life (as a book editor) that more or less was my life before Tomdispatch, the sideline-that-ate-my-life, carried me off. Sometimes, however, the two parts come together in
Some encouragement for USAns from #RebeccaSolnit.
#stupidCoup #decliningDonald #disorderedElon
PS: also see the comments
“People Get Ready”
Meditations in an Emergency · People Get ReadyEven though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the Bronx
"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
Meditations in an Emergency · People Get ReadyEven though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the Bronx
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Casualitats o causalitats; avui descobreixo que #GeorgeOrwell també era un gran afeccionat a la #jardineria, i que #RebeccaSolnit, l'autoria de "Men explain things to me" va escriure un #llibre biogràfic sobre ell, per títol Orwell's Roses
L'art de marcher de Rebecca Solnit, mon #VendrediLecture (j'en ai entendu parler ici). Je suis en congé et le livre réservé m'attend à la Grande bibliothèque, il faut juste que je trouve le courage de braver la grisaille et les bancs de neige.
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
By Rebecca Solnit
"There are of course numerous organizing tools and civil resistance tactics that might be relevant to such a strategy, but ideally the strategy would inform the sequence of tactics (and not the other way around)."
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/
#Indivisible #Resist #RebeccaSolnit
Meditations in an Emergency · The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what
> .. "..in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."..
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/
#EricaChenoweth via #RebeccaSolnit #NonviolentActionLab #uspol etc
Meditations in an Emergency · The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what
> ... two other.. problems.. one.. the Internet, has been.. addressed and reviled.. But.. that mainstream media itself so sedates and misleads its readers is, in my eyes, a huge factor in how we got here and a huge hindrance in how we get out.
> That AP story I started with--it's like so many stories we've seen about all things Trump with, maybe, the exception of January 6th coverage: it plays down the criminality and the impact..
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-should-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-if-its-on-fire-the-coup-continues/
#uspol #MainstreamMedia #RebeccaSolnit
Meditations in an Emergency · Maybe You Should Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater (If It's On Fire): The Coup ContinuesYesterday 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
"The brain is a connecting organ" --- I.A. Richards
> ... there's often a notion in mainstream journalism that connecting things to other things is editorializing, that the audience should be delivered facts stripped of context in the name of objectivity.
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-should-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-if-its-on-fire-the-coup-continues
#RebeccaSolnit #MainstreamMedia #MediaObjectivity
Meditations in an Emergency · Maybe You Should Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater (If It's On Fire): The Coup ContinuesYesterday 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
From #RebeccaSolnit
#USPol
I learned something new about animal behavior last week, and it seems really timely. A reindeer cyclone is when a herd of reindeer facing a predator put the calves in the center and whirl around fast, making it difficult to impossible for the predator to pick off 1 reindeer. The more of us who speak up the harder it will be to persecute any single person who says trans rights are human rights or what’s being done to immigrants is terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/02/resistance-trump-administration
The Guardian · Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small
"Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say it because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed."
Looking for something to do tomorrow at noon? Why not join #RebeccaSolnit and feminists and fellow travelers to imagine a way forward through the coming storm? https://facebook.com/events/s/the-way-we-get-through-this-is/799613369024488/
facebook.comThe Way We Get Through This is Together: Celebrating CommunityOther event by Rebecca Solnit on Monday, January 20 2025 with 2.9K people interested and 1.4K people going. 29 posts in the discussion.