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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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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 15h

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 · 4h

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 · 2h

I’ll name two even!

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 4h

Fuck yesssssssss that’s how you do it folks.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 4h

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

Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 15h

Morning.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

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 · 22h

Yesssssss

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 23h

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.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.theguardian.com

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

I also use this logic when responding to people (usually on the liberal side) who talk about people being repressed in “red states” as though they deserve it. There are good folks under bad government at every level and we should be their Allie’s.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

Well my response wasn’t to your post it was to the comment I responded to.

And if you wanna know why leadership rejected things, I’m sure there’s plenty to read on it that could help you understand?

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

The calls have been for liberation for a long time among many people. Sounds like she’s Irish and over there it’s been a call for aaaaages, well before this latest gruesome chapter.

Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

Right? I try to tell people this would be like saying all US Americans deserve violent oppression because “we” elected Trump. I don’t know how to make it any clearer that a people isn’t their government.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

🐋

*Totally normal person asking me how my day is*

Me:

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

How it is, there is no telling

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1d

People think that furloughing/shortchanging police and military personnel makes them disloyal, but in reality it makes them demand bribes from civilians during spurious enforcement actions

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 1d

What’s more depressing: that he doesn’t know what communism is? Or that he doesn’t know what Fascism is?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. Nevadans have a front row seat to.. Trump’s transformation of the U.S. economy from a free market to a command economy, complete with the ability for Trump to manipulate the market.. in favor of his own investments, .. friends or family.”

@lasvegassun.bsky.social
lasvegassun.com/news/2025/oc...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 3d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Quistote @kquist.bsky.social · 2d

Ok I knew about Poldark but somehow missed Rivals (just googled) and goddamn I didn’t know I needed mustache porn like this 👀

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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