Ginny Maier
@vbmaier.bsky.social
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Ginny Maier
@vbmaier.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I made a list of Roc peeps as best I could bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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THIS!!
“The Republicans have learned they could hurt our communities, they could hurt everyday people, including their own constituents, and Democrats will fold" - @mauricewfp.bsky.social
“The Republicans have learned they could hurt our communities, they could hurt everyday people, including their own constituents, and Democrats will fold" - @mauricewfp.bsky.social
Shutdown proposal pits Democrats' moderates and progressives against centrist Senate dealmakers
The deal cut by some Senate Democrats to reopen government has refueled the party’s tussle over strategy and identity just days after sweeping election victories had raised hopes that the left’s dispa...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
THIS!!
“The Republicans have learned they could hurt our communities, they could hurt everyday people, including their own constituents, and Democrats will fold" - @mauricewfp.bsky.social
“The Republicans have learned they could hurt our communities, they could hurt everyday people, including their own constituents, and Democrats will fold" - @mauricewfp.bsky.social
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8 ancient Democrats, wealthy beyond what most of us can dream, who’ve never feared that they might go without, who’ve never worried about the cost of medical treatment or medication, screwed those who carry those concerns every waking moment, demonstrating the uselessness of the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
8 ancient Democrats, wealthy beyond what most of us can dream, who’ve never feared that they might go without, who’ve never worried about the cost of medical treatment or medication, screwed those who carry those concerns every waking moment, demonstrating the uselessness of the Democratic Party.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
We are led by individuals who are knowingly setting the future on fire so that they will never experience a tiny bit of personal inconvenience.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We are led by individuals who are knowingly setting the future on fire so that they will never experience a tiny bit of personal inconvenience.
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For the last 33 years, all climate policy, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles of the richest people in the world. Not just billionaires, but those on very high salaries who control every organization in the world.
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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For the last 33 years, all climate policy, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles of the richest people in the world. Not just billionaires, but those on very high salaries who control every organization in the world.
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I feel more like this with every passing year.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
This pretty much sums up the entire ideological dispute between the two American political parties.
What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.
The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.
The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
To be clear, Lindsey Graham, an American senator, has gone on the most popular Sunday morning current events show in the country and suggested that we drop nuclear bombs on Palestinians.
While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I feel more like this with every passing year.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
Has anyone asked the most powerful couple in NY, Joe and Eileen Bailey, what they think? Do they support their buddy Schumer allowing his caucus to give up his negotiating power for nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Has anyone asked the most powerful couple in NY, Joe and Eileen Bailey, what they think? Do they support their buddy Schumer allowing his caucus to give up his negotiating power for nothing?
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Just a reminder that you can always just choose to not watch football
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Just a reminder that you can always just choose to not watch football
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A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Love this story
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Love this story
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This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
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She gave the Bills $600M in state money for the new stadium
“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.
Hochul a 'no' on Mamdani's free bus plan; 'yes' on statewide universal childcare
The price tag to expand a universal childcare program statewide is $15B.
ny1.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
She gave the Bills $600M in state money for the new stadium
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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Compare the damage caused by gen AI to the motivation for the Laken Riley Act.
Then compare how our elected officials respond.
Then compare how our elected officials respond.
Four wrongful death lawsuits were filed against OpenAI on Thursday, as well as cases from three people who say the company’s chatbot led to mental health breakdowns.
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Compare the damage caused by gen AI to the motivation for the Laken Riley Act.
Then compare how our elected officials respond.
Then compare how our elected officials respond.
Fuck this tech
This goes so far beyond creepy.
“‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”
“‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Fuck this tech
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Bail reform not only made New York more just, it also literally made it safer.
Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality.
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Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality.
hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...
Bail Reform Has Made NYC Safer, Yet Another Study Confirms
You wouldn't know it from talking to most public officials, but the 2019 reforms drove recidivism down.
hellgatenyc.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Bail reform not only made New York more just, it also literally made it safer.
Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality.
hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...
Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality.
hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...
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This isn't me arguing that we can't transition off of fossil fuels. This is me saying we should expect oil and gas companies to be hostile to the necessary transition and treat them accordingly and not like they're "going to see the light" because they aren't.
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This isn't me arguing that we can't transition off of fossil fuels. This is me saying we should expect oil and gas companies to be hostile to the necessary transition and treat them accordingly and not like they're "going to see the light" because they aren't.