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No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070/a-paradise-built-in-hell-by-rebecca-solnit/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene

Alexander Rodchenko's classic Russian constructivist 'books' advertising poster; Lilya Brik's face has been replaced with Greta Thunberg's, and instead of shouting the word 'books,' a spray of geometric sunbeams are emanating from her mouth. Superimposed and beneath her is a Soviet propaganda poster of a furiously pointing Lenin. Lenin's skin is Cheeto orange and he wears a straw-yellow Trump wig.

Image:
Stefan Müller (climate stuff) (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greta_Thunberg_spricht_beim_Klimastreik_vor_dem_Reichstag_(51512266778).jpg

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en — Alexander Rodchenko's classic Russian constructivist 'books' advertising poster; Lilya Brik's face has been replaced with Greta Thunberg's, and instead of shouting the word 'books,' a spray of geometric sunbeams are emanating from her mouth. Superimposed and beneath her is a Soviet propaganda poster of a furiously pointing Lenin. Lenin's skin is Cheeto orange and he wears a straw-yellow Trump wig. Image: Stefan Müller (climate stuff) (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greta_Thunberg_spricht_beim_Klimastreik_vor_dem_Reichstag_(51512266778).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit: 9780143118077 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A New York Times Notable Book Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune “A landmark book...

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@Kierkegaanks@beige.party · 3 minutes ago

@pluralistic Although, that image is not as powerful and optimistic as the creator probably thinks it is, even of orange lenin is amusing. The high iq lawyer from the best schools