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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/09/2026
‘Across London, the number of families in temporary accommodation is 73,000, more than twice the number in 2011 – an estimated 210,000 people in all, nearly half of them children.’ @jamesmeek.bsky.social on London’s housing crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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James Meek · ‘What kind of people do they think we are?’: On Social Housing
Now that Southwark has become desirable, the patches of neglect are placeholders for the chains and high-end outlets the...
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fluffiness, wind blown Rosebay willow herb along the lanes #seedheads #wildflowerhour
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Nature and the environment, this time. You can only pick one. So ... which one?
12 vintage ladybird books about nature are laid out in a 4 x 3 grid, showing their different covers 
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/08/2026
They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive
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They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive
I was the top student in my university class but when the Taliban took Afghanistan again I was forced to marry and my dreams of being a pilot ended
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some big things we’ve been working on in the background and the hospital opening date… niallharbison.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...
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A Year Of Saying No To Everything
Complete focus
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/07/2026
Hosta hideout and a queen bee – readers’ best photographs
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Hosta hideout and a queen bee – readers’ best photographs
A selection of Guardian readers’ photographs from around the world
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pretty blue harebell #campanularotundiflora #stillflowering #wildflowerhour north Kent meadow this afternoon amongst the drying grass
Blue bell shaped flowers in dry on slender dark stem
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/07/2026
If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels Abbey
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If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels Abbey
The idea that former colonies should pay reparations makes perfect sense to the new right. But have they got the telescope the right way round, asks author and broadcaster Nels Abbey
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Swift Awareness Week everyone! Swifts making themselves wonderfully aware in my heatwave skies atm. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Migrating swifts loyally return every year to nests in buildings, study finds
Conservationists emphasise importance of protecting nesting sites used by ‘strongly faithful’ red-listed species
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/06/2026
AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Media, Tories and Labour are all complicit but… “Reform has been cynical and reprehensible... It has worked tirelessly to prevent a rational or compassionate conversation about this subject, preferring instead to create a climate of hysteria and mob rule.” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/443...
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The immigration myth Farage is desperate for you to believe
The right has relied on public ignorance in order to stoke anxiety around immigration
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We're sometimes shy about allegiances but how will you vote? Please share! I'm a floating butterfly voter agonising between Purple Emperor, Brown Argus, Swallowtail, Brimstone and Large Tortoiseshell (so exciting it is back!) @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly
Butterfly Conservation poll is open until 7 June with choice of 60 species from small tortoiseshells to purple emperors
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 11/05/2026
Important to understand Reform UK is just a rebadged Brexit party, which was just a rebirth of UKIP, which had folded in core of Referendum Party and was previously a rebadge of Anti-Federalist League. It's all the same grift, with same grifters, and has not appeared out of nowhere in just 8 years
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2026
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/04/2026
Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr
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Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr
If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Farmworker Day, California. Wrote about the shift from celebrating an individual to a collective.
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We live among statues of lone heroes. But change comes through collective action | Rebecca Solnit
As Cesar Chavez Day becomes Farmworkers Day, we must remember that the hero is the movement
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/03/2026
rough (like uff in buff) cough (like off in scoff) drought (like ow in cow) though (like o in no) thought (like aw in saw) through (like oo in woo) Enough.
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/02/2026
A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur – in pictures
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A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur – in pictures
Images taken by the French humanitarian Jérôme Tubiana document the shifting patterns of a gruelling conflict that shows no sign of abating
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/02/2026
When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’ | Rafael Behr
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When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’ | Rafael Behr
The debate over banning under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy’s digital infrastructure, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“When we see the hazel catkins turn yellow, we know that spring is not far off” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
A blackbird is purchased on the ground of a wooded bank near a lake on a misty winter day. Overhead, hazel catkins droop.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wrote about all that kind of stuff here:
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/01/2026
The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to act together | Mark Carney
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The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to act together | Mark Carney
In a speech to Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney lays out the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending. Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now 1/
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed today! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/01/2026
‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK
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‘It takes a town to raise a family’: the community sponsors supporting refugees in the UK
Groups are coming together across the country to help refugee families settle and integrate into local life
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.
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Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition
"A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis Trump had created over Greenland," Anne Appelbaum said the other day on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter. "Danes told me tha...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/01/2026
When racists shout ‘Go home’, and you come from 15 places, what to do? | Hugh Muir
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When racists shout ‘Go home’, and you come from 15 places, what to do? | Hugh Muir
A DNA test showed me that theoretically I have links to a long list of countries – and that the way we look at belonging makes little sense, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/12/2025
The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall
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The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall
I love many shows on the streaming channels, but the BBC is our storyteller. It defines a nation and its culture – and we must defend it, says former BBC director general Tony Hall
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Christmas to bollard fans across the world! #WorldBollardAssociation
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
CEO of Lush says that if you don't agree with his stance in support of the Palestinian people and Gaza Shop somewhere else I've been a fan of Lush for years, just wish isn't wasn't so expensive! - Still, another reason to keep shopping there ☺️
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
My essay on this whole deal.....
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Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/12/2025
My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff
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My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff
The party’s astonishingly speedy growth disguised shallow roots – and its success has brought a level of scrutiny for which it simply isn’t ready, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Other work of the Ladybird artists Redwings in Winter Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Cluster of Red Wings perched on frost-traced branches set against a pale background suggesting snow
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11 ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin
Finally-detailed, mixed-media illustration looking down into a valley under light snow and a blue sky
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/12/2025
Once more for the haters...
London is #1 graphic.
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Justin Ng @justin-ng.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Another classic photobomb moment from Larry. I don't think Mr. Zelenskyy minded at all.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Column. British politicians do a lot claiming to face the world as it is, while their actions speak of yearning for the world as it was. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be dealing with the world as it is, but seem to yearn for a world that has disappeared, says the Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
US to sever ties with civilization.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/10/2025
What will Labour sacrifice for its housing targets? A standoff in south London is putting it to the test | Anna Minton
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What will Labour sacrifice for its housing targets? A standoff in south London is putting it to the test | Anna Minton
In Peckham, developers unwilling to meet affordable housing quotas are facing down residents and the council, says author Anna Minton
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