Maureen Flaherty
@maureenflaherty.bsky.social
woman in construction working on climate adaptation - magpie - twin mama - Flatbush public school parent - beachlarker - mutual aid welcoming our newest neighbors in Flatbush -
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All day yesterday, as I braced for disappointment, I repeated this quote to myself.
To all of you hopeful fighters, good morning. You won a round.
To all of you hopeful fighters, good morning. You won a round.
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Merry Christmas, nerds. Here’s a pretty song for you from Taylor Mac’s Christmas Album. youtu.be/TRcgJPujiXM?... .
How Can I Keep from Singing
YouTube video by Taylor Mac - Topic
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Merry Christmas, nerds. Here’s a pretty song for you from Taylor Mac’s Christmas Album. youtu.be/TRcgJPujiXM?... .
This is my home. Some of my classmates worked on almond farms from the minute they got home from school til bedtime and did their homework on the bus both ways. This administration is changing their hard-fought pay raises that still aren’t enough.
"Ava" shares, "This is how the almond fields in CAs Central Valley look at dawn when we arrive to pruin the trees. They are shrouded in fog and the air is full of moisture. The weather is cold but we work hard despite the elements. This is how we feed our families." #WeFeedYou
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is my home. Some of my classmates worked on almond farms from the minute they got home from school til bedtime and did their homework on the bus both ways. This administration is changing their hard-fought pay raises that still aren’t enough.
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The Mexican restaurant La Madre in Minneapolis is giving away free whistles.
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The Mexican restaurant La Madre in Minneapolis is giving away free whistles.
If you want to make your ADHD kid feel better about himself, I highly recommend leaving the house without taking the whistle blitz materials you spent several days printing and bundling.
And then needing to return a second time for your phone.
And then needing to return a second time for your phone.
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you want to make your ADHD kid feel better about himself, I highly recommend leaving the house without taking the whistle blitz materials you spent several days printing and bundling.
And then needing to return a second time for your phone.
And then needing to return a second time for your phone.
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Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.
Until the mid-1970’s, a man could not be convicted of rape in New York State based solely on the testimony of the woman he raped. A second witness was required because the female rape victim was deemed unreliable.
Feminism has not failed women.
Feminism has not failed women.
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.
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Yuanxin is six years old. He sat in a classroom in our neighborhood. His family fled danger seeking safety and were met with state violence and deportation instead. This is a moral failure. Demand accountability. Support local immigrant defense efforts. Refuse to let this happen in silence.
December 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Yuanxin is six years old. He sat in a classroom in our neighborhood. His family fled danger seeking safety and were met with state violence and deportation instead. This is a moral failure. Demand accountability. Support local immigrant defense efforts. Refuse to let this happen in silence.
Reminder: seeking asylum is legal and something generations of people have found here. They came to the US seeking safety for their family. What danger have they been returned to?
A Chinese father and son who were arrested by ICE and separated inside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan last month have been reunited — and then swiftly deported to China.
Father and Son Separated by ICE Deported Together to China
After his arrest on Nov. 26, Fei Zheng was held at the Orange County Jail upstate. His son was in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Reminder: seeking asylum is legal and something generations of people have found here. They came to the US seeking safety for their family. What danger have they been returned to?
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At Tompkins Distro we support our neighbors with hot food, treats, fruit, pantry items, hygiene supplies, coffee & cocoa, and other resources such as masks, covid tests, know your rights info etc
We could use some help with handwarmers this winter!
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We could use some help with handwarmers this winter!
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
December 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
At Tompkins Distro we support our neighbors with hot food, treats, fruit, pantry items, hygiene supplies, coffee & cocoa, and other resources such as masks, covid tests, know your rights info etc
We could use some help with handwarmers this winter!
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
We could use some help with handwarmers this winter!
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
This.
This is how we fight in New York.
We got you.
This is how we fight in New York.
We got you.
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This.
This is how we fight in New York.
We got you.
This is how we fight in New York.
We got you.
There is a very grumpy dude who pushes a granny cart through Flatbush with the bangin-est boom box and tonight, he rolled past my house blasting this.
I threw open the door to let it in and weep a little.
youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
I threw open the door to let it in and weep a little.
youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by SamCookeVEVO
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
There is a very grumpy dude who pushes a granny cart through Flatbush with the bangin-est boom box and tonight, he rolled past my house blasting this.
I threw open the door to let it in and weep a little.
youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
I threw open the door to let it in and weep a little.
youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...
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Human beings are being kidnapped and tortured. If you're in the Philly, Delaware, Maryland area, I need your help!
I'm printing whistles to keep our neighbors safe!
Looking for people willing to put kits together, fold zines, put on key rings, 3D print more, or distribute them.
I'm printing whistles to keep our neighbors safe!
Looking for people willing to put kits together, fold zines, put on key rings, 3D print more, or distribute them.
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Human beings are being kidnapped and tortured. If you're in the Philly, Delaware, Maryland area, I need your help!
I'm printing whistles to keep our neighbors safe!
Looking for people willing to put kits together, fold zines, put on key rings, 3D print more, or distribute them.
I'm printing whistles to keep our neighbors safe!
Looking for people willing to put kits together, fold zines, put on key rings, 3D print more, or distribute them.
This bill is a nightmare.
I'll be calling Gillibrand later.
In this house, we stand up and fight for trans folks. Full stop.
I'll be calling Gillibrand later.
In this house, we stand up and fight for trans folks. Full stop.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This bill is a nightmare.
I'll be calling Gillibrand later.
In this house, we stand up and fight for trans folks. Full stop.
I'll be calling Gillibrand later.
In this house, we stand up and fight for trans folks. Full stop.
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214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.
Be the light we'll remember you for.
Rob Reiner and his family were eating dinner next to us in a schmancy restaurant on my 21st birthday. We sat around a bar facing into the kitchen. When his wife stepped away, I asked "are you...." "Nah," he replied, "I just look like him. 21 huh?" then said
Rob Reiner and his family were eating dinner next to us in a schmancy restaurant on my 21st birthday. We sat around a bar facing into the kitchen. When his wife stepped away, I asked "are you...." "Nah," he replied, "I just look like him. 21 huh?" then said
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Be the light we'll remember you for.
Rob Reiner and his family were eating dinner next to us in a schmancy restaurant on my 21st birthday. We sat around a bar facing into the kitchen. When his wife stepped away, I asked "are you...." "Nah," he replied, "I just look like him. 21 huh?" then said
Rob Reiner and his family were eating dinner next to us in a schmancy restaurant on my 21st birthday. We sat around a bar facing into the kitchen. When his wife stepped away, I asked "are you...." "Nah," he replied, "I just look like him. 21 huh?" then said
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In other words, if you're non-white, ICE/CBP will assume you are a non-citizen until you can prove otherwise, and they won't accept your Real ID as proof of citizenship.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In other words, if you're non-white, ICE/CBP will assume you are a non-citizen until you can prove otherwise, and they won't accept your Real ID as proof of citizenship.
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Yall you gotta order your Christmas gifts by the end of the weekend.
December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yall you gotta order your Christmas gifts by the end of the weekend.
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"My takeaway is always that this is a citywide, nationwide, twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week need for protests. This is a nearly infinitely wide highway, and we need every single lane to be occupied."
Our Interview with Rachel Cohen -@cohen489.bsky.social
progressive.org/magazine/lan...
Our Interview with Rachel Cohen -@cohen489.bsky.social
progressive.org/magazine/lan...
Lanes of Resistance
An interview with Chicago-based activist Rachel Cohen.
progressive.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"My takeaway is always that this is a citywide, nationwide, twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week need for protests. This is a nearly infinitely wide highway, and we need every single lane to be occupied."
Our Interview with Rachel Cohen -@cohen489.bsky.social
progressive.org/magazine/lan...
Our Interview with Rachel Cohen -@cohen489.bsky.social
progressive.org/magazine/lan...
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In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney.
More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...
More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...
More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...
More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...
ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment | The Associated Press
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
www.ap.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney.
More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...
More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...
More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...
More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
Call Jeffries and your own rep and tell them you don’t want this corrupt MF in this role when any number of people could fight against the kidnappings happening all over this country.
House Democrats are set to restore the corrupt oil stooge Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-Texas) as the ranking member on the Appropriations Homeland Security subcommittee
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Call Jeffries and your own rep and tell them you don’t want this corrupt MF in this role when any number of people could fight against the kidnappings happening all over this country.
900 whistle cards assembled today! Mostly newcomers.
Almost everyone felt empowered to take a bundle of 25 to canvass here in Flatbush.
#weprotectus
Almost everyone felt empowered to take a bundle of 25 to canvass here in Flatbush.
#weprotectus
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
900 whistle cards assembled today! Mostly newcomers.
Almost everyone felt empowered to take a bundle of 25 to canvass here in Flatbush.
#weprotectus
Almost everyone felt empowered to take a bundle of 25 to canvass here in Flatbush.
#weprotectus
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i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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This week we are averaging 750-1000 whistles distributed per day- and those are just the ones our volunteers are providing and coordinating.
Be safe, form a crowd, and BLOW THOSE WHISTLES.
Be safe, form a crowd, and BLOW THOSE WHISTLES.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This week we are averaging 750-1000 whistles distributed per day- and those are just the ones our volunteers are providing and coordinating.
Be safe, form a crowd, and BLOW THOSE WHISTLES.
Be safe, form a crowd, and BLOW THOSE WHISTLES.
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded: