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She/her. Friendly neighborhood anti-capitalist bartender & teacher. Former wannabe journalist. Book worm, angry idealist, shaker of cocktails/fists. I make drinks and I read things. Bay Area. Doing a year-long read of Don Quixote #dq25 🫏

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · Dec 13

Bienvenid@s! Below is the Don Quixote 2025 info/schedule/resources sheet.

It's verrry spread out to be compatible with other reads/projects/life events hopefully (I have many right now myself).

Reply here to be added to feed, mark posts with #dq25 or 🫏 for posts to appear.

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Don Quixote 2025 Schedule

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created

NPR @npr.org · 3h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

n.pr

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 8h

He looks like a flash display in a tattoo shop fer reals tho.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

This is the strangest thing about living in Ireland. Irish people talk and think about the genocide 24/7 but you would never guess that if you watch Irish TV. It's like their TV is run by Brits

Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 1d

“He continued: “I think there is a chilling effect on editors and broadcasters who go, ‘why would we bother annoying people? Don’t mention Palestine, will you? Don’t mention Israel, don’t mention Micheál Martin, whatever you do’.””

www.thejournal.ie/mario-rosens...

Mario Rosenstock calls out 'censorship' at RTÉ

Rosenstock was speaking in an interview with Newstalk’s Anton Savage yesterday.

www.thejournal.ie

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 15h

There is an admirable amount of creamy cheesy goo here. Pleasing.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 15h

It lost me at sparkle jeans in a hayloft.

But sadly I kept watching.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 16h

‘Tis The Season!
(For putting on cold weather clothes for the first time in months and finding things in the pockets you’d thought you’d lost!)
🌧️ 🍁 💨

Happy Pocket Treasures Season to you all!!

It’s a cute little bandana with a blue and white pattern all scrunched up cuz I just pulled it out of a jacket pocket and am so happy cuz I’d thought I’d lost it!!

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 16h

This thread might be bad for my earring addiction 😬

Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · Jun 22

My name is Tzipporah and I’m a Mvskoke beader! Here’s some of my favorite earrings that I’ve made, you can also check out my website at cvkvlv.com

Mvto for doing the art share!!

A pair of long beaded dangle earrings in shades of red and black on a bead mat

A pair of beaded fringe earrings featuring little buttery yellow moon shapes against the blue top, that ombre down to purple, light pink, buttery yellow, green, and finally blue again at the edge of the fringe.

A pair of beaded fringe earrings in blue and gold on a bead mat. The gold twist bugle beads catch the light.

A pair of silver, white, and pastel rainbow flat beadwork earrings on a bead mat

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Mandi || Pandalf🍉Comms Closed! @mandipanda17.bsky.social · Jun 22

I am an Indigenous Beader of the Tlingit Nation; I started out with simple flowers and such, but BG3 has evolved it into doing more complex templates and am forever grateful for all the support!

ko-fi.com/mandipanda17

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 16h

Gorgeous!

Tth'ijaaze ("boreal owl") @theeborealowl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Im late but: Im Tth'ijaaze, a disabled Beader, artist, sporadic writer, and Dene human.
My link is: ko-fi.com/theeborealowl

An example of my work is my Beaded Hanafuda Earrings 💕

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Jun 21

Let's get an Indigenous art share going too!! If you're an Indigenous/First Nations artist, vendor, beader, etc, share your work and links below!!

#IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️💛🤍🖤

A picture of various formline stickers piled on top of each other. In bold red gradient text reads "Indigenous People's Day Art Share".

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 17h

I was already depressed that Business is the top major in the US and this….does not help.

School as work in miniature is just so….impoverished.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 1d

Solid aside from the NY Review of Books about Pynchon 🚀

"Trump's sometime ally Elon Musk is especially Pynchonesque, bringing together a number of the writer's fixations: silly names, rockets, drug use, tasteless puns, the fragile egos of plutocrats, and the legacy of European rule in southern Africa, to name a few.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 22h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 21h

I’ll name two even!

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 23h

Fuck yesssssssss that’s how you do it folks.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 23h

When I stayed in the toxic relationship a little too long…..

Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 1d

Morning.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

Consider: the exact type of journalist you’d want and trust to do this type of reporting is the exact type of journalist most likely being body-slammed, hand-cuffed and pepper-sprayed these days. Which doesn’t make for great interview dynamics.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

Yesssssss

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

MARXISM TAUGHT ME WHAT SOCIETY WAS. I WAS LIKE A BLINDFOLDED MAN IN A FOREST, WHO DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE NORTH OR SOUTH IS.
IF YOU DON'T
EVENTUALLY COME TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE, OR AT LEAST HAVE A CLEAR IDEA THAT SOCIETY IS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR AND
RE
THAT SOME PEOPLE SUBJUGATE AND
EXPLOIT OTHER PEOPLE,
YOU'RE LOST IN A FOREST, NOT
KNOWING ANYTHING.
-FIDEL CASTRO

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

What a weird autocorrect for allies

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it’s not like there aren’t a easily understandable reasons you can find if you wanna know….

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Hamas rejects Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal over ‘impossible conditions’

Militant group says it will not accept deal without guarantee of end to Gaza war or full withdrawal of Israeli troops