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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 2d

Randomly spotting an artist I know in national news.

Good trouble.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith grew up deeply involved in the fight for Indigenous rights. “I’ve been warned my entire life, ‘The FBI’s watching us.’”

Now the agency is focused on her and a new generation of activists challenging a lithium mine in Nevada.

(Published July)

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show

Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...

www.propublica.org

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 4d

Little (maybe 5 year old) boy in the brewery came up to me and said, very seriously, “You know what? Sometimes you have $5 and sometimes you have $7.”

I really feel that, little dude.

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 17d

www.factorypricejewelry.com/en/products/... got it.

Casual Solid Color Aluminium Alloy Unisex Whistle

Gender:Unisex, Pattern:Solid Color, Style:Casual, Classification:Whistle, Material:Aluminium Alloy, Weight:7g, Spu:56589

www.factorypricejewelry.com

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 17d

linktr.ee/pilsenartsco... already provided by op. I can search for non-amazon whistles

Pilsen Arts & Community House | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

Providing space, resources and community engagement through arts and culture.

linktr.ee

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 17d

I don’t have $ to contribute but you can have my time! Happy to fold zines, staple whistles, help walk for distribution

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 17d

@kellycheatle.bsky.social I will happily walk around the neighborhood dropping off whistles into the little free libraries

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 22d

❤️❤️❤️ thank you!!

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 24d

We’ll have a left behind party!

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 24d

Unfortunately, but I can pretend that maybe my birthday will actually be the day!

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 24d

Best birthday EVER

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 24d

Just learned the rapture is happening on my birthday.

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · 26d

You know it’s gotten weird when you’re on the same page as Ted Cruz and Karl Rove.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26d

They’re even turning on their own. Texas Republican Ted Cruz slammed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, calling his behavior “mafia-like” and warning that Carr’s threats to retaliate against media companies for their programming were “dangerous as hell.”

Ted Cruz: FCC chair sounded like 'mafioso' in threat over Jimmy Kimmel

Ted Cruz cautioned that the administration's threats against the media posed a risk to free speech protections in the First Amendment.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Sep 6

If he does at all

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 6

I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 6

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Sep 6

So much time and money will be spent on this

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Sep 5

A very useful way to spend $3

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Please spread the word!
and YES it's also evidently three bux at Bookshop!! bookshop.org/p/books/on-r...

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

bookshop.org

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Sep 5

Has anyone ever gone through a business rebranding? I worked in marketing when a small nonprofit did. Less than 10 staff, small website. It was a whole nightmare for over a year. Changing the name of even a small business is a huge undertaking. I can’t imagine what a nightmare this would be.

NPR @npr.org · Sep 5

The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II.

President Trump plans to rename the Defense Department as the Department of War

The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II.

n.pr

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’d figure out what was needed to make Post a thing again.
One of the old churches and turn it into a concert hall.
Grocery stores. One in each neighborhood.
A new weekly newspaper.

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Just because someone is handing you a bag of dog turds, doesn’t mean you have to take it.”

Was always followed by “Don’t hand out bags of dog turds.”

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh absolutely. The whole “change your text/values/performance or we’ll destroy your organization and come for your community next” is par for the course.

We may never find out if individual collectors are selling off to the same people.

Hopefully we never come to armed troops storming institutions

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Aug 27

Could you mail the European ones, too? Asking for myself/my Swedish nephews.

But yeah, you shouldn’t have to.

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are some fascinating documentaries about the theft of art that happened in wwii.

It’s interesting to me that we’re seeing systemic destruction of the arts again, but this time without the pillaging. Maybe it won’t happen. Maybe it hasn’t happened yet. Maybe we just haven’t heard about it.

Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · Aug 27

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing

Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Aug 27

*I’ve been a book maker since I was a toddler. And had a past life reading that mentioned being a printmaker. I didn’t actively study those things until 15ish years ago though.

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hello. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my career, you might like to know that I have 20 years of arts nonprofit administration experience. And that is the thing I have the least experience in. The reasonable* maximum is 30 years of experience with photography.

I know my shit, thx ☺️

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Amanda Chestnut @blkamanda.bsky.social · Aug 23

I have a better chance of surviving that then Yellowstone. But even that is starting to look appealing.

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