Rebecca Solnit

4 days ago | inkl.com | Rebecca Solnit

Always with a glass-half-full view of the world, Rebecca Solnit is soon appearing at this year’s Hay Festival - (Trent Davis Bailey)“You become prolific by being the sort of nerdy person who stays home alone more than most people could stand, so just keep that in mind,” Rebecca Solnit says kindly when I say that prepping for a conversation with her is an intimidating task.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rebecca Solnit

On 5 April, millions of people rallied against the Trump administration and its campaigns of destruction. In small towns and big cities from Alaska to Florida, red counties and blue (and a handful of European cities), they gathered with homemade signs full of fury and heartbreak and sarcasm.

1 month ago | razorcake.org | Alison Braun |Bob Rob Medina |Rebecca Solnit

Mar 27, 2025Alison Braun’s first book covered punk artists from the ’80s and early ’90s, while her second volume, Shot in the Dark, focuses on the metal and thrash scenes of the same era. This hardcover book features a diverse array of artists. Some are well-known, including Slayer, Metallica, Motörhead, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Others may be lesser-known to those outside the metal genre, such as Corrosion Of Conformity, Kreator, Exodus, and Testament.

2 months ago | meditationsinanemergency.com | Rebecca Solnit

— 9 min read The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of the prerogatives of power is to be in charge of blame, and abusers routinely exercise that power to make their own acts someone else's fault.

2 months ago | meditationsinanemergency.com | Rebecca Solnit

I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're hacking away at the US government and international alliances and good relationships with everything and everyone from the European Union to Canada and Mexico to a whole lot of the American people. They think they can go it alone.