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Maria DiPasquale
@mariadip.bsky.social
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*she/her* union communicator, writer, host of the Leftist Teen Drama podcast. NJ born & raised, Brooklyn living ✨ (all opinions are my own)
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Leveled up my status as a Mets wife today by finally acquiring the ultimate Mets girlie accessory 🫡🍦
A selfie of maria at citi field wearing a blue and orange Mets tshirt and a blue hat with an embroidered vanilla with rainbow sprinkles soft serve in a Mets helmet cup as served at CITI field
August 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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when that “your con edison bill is ready” email hits the inbox in the warmer months
Carrie on Sex and the City saying “shall we get more coffee or shall we get guns and kill ourselves?”
June 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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End of an era 🥲 after 4.5 years, today is my last day officially employed by the @rwdsu.bsky.social! It’s bittersweet closing such an important period of my life — I met lifelong friends and comrades who changed me as a person, as a unionist, and as a communicator.
Maria in an RWDSU tshirt holding a handwritten sign at the RWDSU booth at the 2022 AFL CIO convention
May 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Oxford commas for everyone, new pope declares
An altered reductress headline with a photo of the new pope and the reductress logo. The new headline reads: Pope Leo Declares All Grammar Chicago Style
May 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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i'm looking at who else chose to come to this screening of UPTOWN GIRLS and taking in the information and creating new assumptions and analyses btw and i'm pathologizing too. and creating narratives
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I know I’m not the only labor union person whose partner snickered and went, “that’s you” during this Abbott Elementary strike episode
January 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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the labor group chats are alive with the sound of big purp
Julie Andrews as Maria in THE SOUND OF MUSIC dancing and signing through the fields with the mountains in the background
January 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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They had a Backstreet Boys book at the Happy Medium art cafe collage bar that hadn’t been completely cut through! It’s a New Years miracle
Maria at the art cafe Happy Medium in NYC smiling and holding a Backstreet Boys book (the official book) Maria’s collage on black glitter background featuring a photo of the backstreet boys
January 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Ended 2024 with seasonally appropriate watches 🎥
A screenshot of Maria’s Letterboxd account last four watched: a 5 star rewatch of When Harry Met Sally…, a 3 star first watch of Y2K, a 5 star rewatch of The Holiday, and a 1.5 star first watch of The Merry Gentlemen
January 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My mom and sister got me so many cute stickers and collage materials for my new junk journaling hobby and it was the cutest Christmas gift ever truly. can’t wait to create more in 2025! If you’re interested in my lil journal spreads: www.instagram.com/mdipsjunkjou...
A pink, purple, and white sticker with text in a box that looks like a Microsoft Paint esque program: “sry can’t talk rn im doing art girl shit”
December 26, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Finally watched CAROL (2015) and my hot take is that Therese Belivet was an @rwdsu.bsky.social member
A still from the movie CAROL of Therese, a department store clerk, at her job wearing a Santa hat A screenshot of Mariadip’s Letterboxd review for Carol (2015) Watched Dec 23, 2024; “As a department store clerk in New York City in the 1950s, Therese Belivet almost certainly would have been a rank and file union member. Access to the benefits of a union contract would also explain how Therese had enough paid time off to embark on a cross country road trip with Carol Aird. In this essay I will—“
December 24, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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✨personal news✨

I’m honored to step into a new position as Deputy Communications Director @rwdsu.bsky.social! Excited to continue serving our amazing union members and future members in this new role ✊
Maria wearing a red RWDSU tshirt and raising her fist while her cat Vinny sits in her lap
December 19, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Born to find niche cinematic parallels in media for the girlies, forced to work for a living
Bernie Sanders meme: “I am once again asking of anyone has done a parallel gifset of Kate on Bridgerton getting stuck while trying on Anthony’s family ring with her sister Edwina, who the ring is intended for, looking on vs. Julie in The Family Stone getting stuck trying on Everett’s family ring while her sister Meredith, who the ring is intended for, looks on????”
December 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Our tenant association held our first annual cookie swap today and it was such a success. Building community with my neighbors has been one of the best things about this year 🥹
Two tables in a building lobby are covered in handmade cookies on various plates and trays with a hand drawn Cookie Monster “cookie swap” sign hanging above them
December 7, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Since 2021, I have poured so much of myself into @leftistteendrama.bsky.social! We are a small but mighty podcast celebrating (and sometimes critiquing) political moments on TV teen dramas! Available wherever you get your podcasts ✨
a bright pink and white textured background with paper cut out images of a white fluffy cloud and a hand holding an envelope, along with an old school flip phone cell phone and interlocking gold hearts. black text reads "LEFTIST TEEN DRAMA" along with green text reading "hosted by Maria DiPasquale, produced by Jeff McHale."
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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share your Letterboxd top 4 boxd.it/8f8a7
Maria’s Letterboxd “favorites”: Heathers, Bottoms, Pride, and Down with Love
November 15, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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My high ass stays taking photos of yellow flowers
A photo of some big yellow flowers blooming in the front yard of an apartment building in Brooklyn, taken by Maria while she was actively smoking a joint.
October 23, 2023 at 9:45 PM
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so true, king
Screenshot of the Mean Girls October 3 scene with the caption: “On October 3rd, he asked me if I believe in the power of the workers” “Hell yeah brother”
October 3, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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From growing up watching Ryan’s class angst on The O.C. to walking the same picket line today, I LOVE BEN MCKENZIE!
A candid photo of the SAG AFTRA/WGAE picket line in nyc with Ben McKenzie wearing a writers guild shirt
August 22, 2023 at 8:31 PM
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My husband Jeff said we should hang this poster right above the litter box so it looks like it’s our cats Clarence and Vinny’s union poster “like we have in our break room.” (Jeff’s a union cannabis worker.)
A litter box with a framed poster hanging just above it says that “international brotherhood of biscuit makers and allied trades” with two cats, one “baker” and one “farmer.” “From field to tummy, building better biscuits”
August 12, 2023 at 6:33 PM
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me when ncuti gatwa and emma mackey hugged at the end of the Barbie movie
The “they don’t know” at a party meme with “they don’t know I have my Moordale secondary sweatshirt in my bag in case it’s too cold in the theater”
July 23, 2023 at 8:28 PM
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Our new rug — a backordered wedding gift — finally arrived and Clarence approves 😽
Maria’s cat Clarence sits on top of a new floral rug from Rifle Paper Co x Loloi with a floral design in hues of cream, pink, red, blue, green, and yellow.
July 22, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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having a hard time coming up with a first Bluesky post, mind if I just post the hottest pic of me taken on my wedding day? I post about unions, TV teen dramas, and cats mostly 🫡
A candid photo of Maria wearing her white wedding dress with daisies all over it while sitting down putting on her gold sneakers during her wedding reception
July 17, 2023 at 6:09 PM