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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Every goddamn word of this nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Every goddamn word of this nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
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Latest article.
Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese immigrant, was found dead in an ICE custody facility in Pennsylvania with his hands and feet bound. While the county coroner ruled his death as a suicide, his family is suing to obtain records that may explain the circumstances of his death.
documentedny.com/2025/11/13/c...
documentedny.com/2025/11/13/c...
Queens Family Demands Answers After Chinese Immigrant Found Bound in ICE Jail
Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese immigrant, was found dead in an ICE custody facility in Pennsylvania with his hands and feet bound. While the county coroner ruled his death as a suicide, his family is suing to...
documentedny.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Latest article.
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✊Bushwick’s #KnowYourRights & Community Defense Mass training!
This Saturday, November 15th, come learn how to protect yourself, support your neighbors, and stay prepared in the face of federal overreach.
RSVP here to secure your spot: tinyurl.com/bushwickyr
#WeKeepUsSafe
This Saturday, November 15th, come learn how to protect yourself, support your neighbors, and stay prepared in the face of federal overreach.
RSVP here to secure your spot: tinyurl.com/bushwickyr
#WeKeepUsSafe
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
✊Bushwick’s #KnowYourRights & Community Defense Mass training!
This Saturday, November 15th, come learn how to protect yourself, support your neighbors, and stay prepared in the face of federal overreach.
RSVP here to secure your spot: tinyurl.com/bushwickyr
#WeKeepUsSafe
This Saturday, November 15th, come learn how to protect yourself, support your neighbors, and stay prepared in the face of federal overreach.
RSVP here to secure your spot: tinyurl.com/bushwickyr
#WeKeepUsSafe
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"The camp consists of temporary tent structures meant to house up to 5,000 detainees and relieve overcrowding at other Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities."
Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says reut.rs/4qRPCLg
Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says
Detainees at the largest U.S. migrant detention camp endure foul-tasting drinking water, rotten food and inadequate healthcare, according to a U.S. congresswoman who called the tent facility in El Paso, Texas, "inhumane."
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"The camp consists of temporary tent structures meant to house up to 5,000 detainees and relieve overcrowding at other Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities."
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Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast!
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast!
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
In Flatbush, we put together a graphical whistle code card to reduce translation needs. Files are here if you want to adapt for your neighborhood. Outside NYC, just print front. We're doing mini whistles because we can 3d print them for 5-7¢ each. We keep us safe. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In Flatbush, we put together a graphical whistle code card to reduce translation needs. Files are here if you want to adapt for your neighborhood. Outside NYC, just print front. We're doing mini whistles because we can 3d print them for 5-7¢ each. We keep us safe. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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The Democratic Party needs to change. Here in Brooklyn we've been organizing for years to kick out the old machine and transform the local party into the grassroots powerhouse it should be.
2026 could be the year we finally do it! But we'll need your help!
Sign up for updates and become a member:
2026 could be the year we finally do it! But we'll need your help!
Sign up for updates and become a member:
New Kings Democrats
Learn about New Kings Democrats, a progressive, grassroots political organization committed to bringing transparency, accountability, and inclusionary democracy to the Kings County Democratic Party. w...
www.newkingsdemocrats.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Democratic Party needs to change. Here in Brooklyn we've been organizing for years to kick out the old machine and transform the local party into the grassroots powerhouse it should be.
2026 could be the year we finally do it! But we'll need your help!
Sign up for updates and become a member:
2026 could be the year we finally do it! But we'll need your help!
Sign up for updates and become a member:
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Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Gillibrand and Schumer’s voicemails still have room on their DC numbers! Took me 3 minutes!
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Gillibrand and Schumer’s voicemails still have room on their DC numbers! Took me 3 minutes!
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Great @chicagotribune.com piece!
Inside Chicago’s Growing Resistance Movement
By Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social
Inside Chicago’s Growing Resistance Movement
By Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Great @chicagotribune.com piece!
Inside Chicago’s Growing Resistance Movement
By Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social
Inside Chicago’s Growing Resistance Movement
By Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social
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Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
How does one invest in left-wing media without a far-right billionaire coming along in a few years, buying said media, and remodeling it in his own image?
That seems to be a recurring problem.
That seems to be a recurring problem.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
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Now singing:
I don't know but I been told
ICE takes kids at six years old
Say it loud and say it clear, Immigrants are welcome here
Something bout this isn't right
Why does Broadview work for ICE?
I don't know but I been told
ICE takes kids at six years old
Say it loud and say it clear, Immigrants are welcome here
Something bout this isn't right
Why does Broadview work for ICE?
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Now singing:
I don't know but I been told
ICE takes kids at six years old
Say it loud and say it clear, Immigrants are welcome here
Something bout this isn't right
Why does Broadview work for ICE?
I don't know but I been told
ICE takes kids at six years old
Say it loud and say it clear, Immigrants are welcome here
Something bout this isn't right
Why does Broadview work for ICE?
This is *delightful* journalism. Read all the way through the update.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
A Final Indignity: Cuomo's White Ford Bronco Got a Parking Ticket
Thanks to an eagle-eyed New Yorker, who saw the car illegally parked outside of the ex-gov's Sutton Place apartment on Wednesday, and reported it to 311.
hellgatenyc.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is *delightful* journalism. Read all the way through the update.
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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We're just past 3000 letters now! And I did make good on my promise. I'll be emailing raffle winners tomorrow. Please keep sharing the letter if you live in NYC [after signing one yourself].
Once we past 2000 letters, I am going to raffle TWO library mystery packs to celebrate. What is in those? Well it's a mystery, hahahahaha. actionnetwork.org/letters/city... [I will have fun putting them together]
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We're just past 3000 letters now! And I did make good on my promise. I'll be emailing raffle winners tomorrow. Please keep sharing the letter if you live in NYC [after signing one yourself].
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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IT'S NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN" IF THEY ARE HARMING AND KIDNAPPING AND TERRORIZING PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS.
IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.
IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.
@reuters.com Preschool teacher abducted without a warrant taken away in front of children.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
IT'S NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN" IF THEY ARE HARMING AND KIDNAPPING AND TERRORIZING PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS.
IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.
IT'S RACISM AND INTIMIDATION.
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FUCK UP THE SYSTEM ALERT:
Southerners on New Ground is organizing a Grocery Solidarity Network for folks in the South. You can sign up to be a grocery deliverer/funder or grocery recipient. I signed up to support Central Texans, you can do the same for your area!
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Southerners on New Ground is organizing a Grocery Solidarity Network for folks in the South. You can sign up to be a grocery deliverer/funder or grocery recipient. I signed up to support Central Texans, you can do the same for your area!
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
FUCK UP THE SYSTEM ALERT:
Southerners on New Ground is organizing a Grocery Solidarity Network for folks in the South. You can sign up to be a grocery deliverer/funder or grocery recipient. I signed up to support Central Texans, you can do the same for your area!
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
Southerners on New Ground is organizing a Grocery Solidarity Network for folks in the South. You can sign up to be a grocery deliverer/funder or grocery recipient. I signed up to support Central Texans, you can do the same for your area!
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
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New Yorkers if this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
New Yorkers if this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.
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If you are going to solicit pieces from experts with a voice, let them use their voice.
Your job as an editor is to help the writer be clear in the translation from thought to page. And know when to get out of the way.
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Your job as an editor is to help the writer be clear in the translation from thought to page. And know when to get out of the way.
🧵👇
I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you are going to solicit pieces from experts with a voice, let them use their voice.
Your job as an editor is to help the writer be clear in the translation from thought to page. And know when to get out of the way.
🧵👇
Your job as an editor is to help the writer be clear in the translation from thought to page. And know when to get out of the way.
🧵👇
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New graffiti art in my Rogers Park, Chicago, neighborhood.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
New graffiti art in my Rogers Park, Chicago, neighborhood.
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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
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In contrast, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's campaign is closing with community and pluralist joy. I canvassed today and so many people we met on the street looked at our Mamdani materials and broke out into smiles. It's the polar opposite of what Dean Obeidallah writes about in this great essay.
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In contrast, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's campaign is closing with community and pluralist joy. I canvassed today and so many people we met on the street looked at our Mamdani materials and broke out into smiles. It's the polar opposite of what Dean Obeidallah writes about in this great essay.
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The truest thing anyone has ever said On Here is @prisonculture.bsky.social's bang-on statement that most Americans simply do not know what's going on. And people continue to equate "illegal" with "impossible." (If you doubt that, read my mentions.)
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The truest thing anyone has ever said On Here is @prisonculture.bsky.social's bang-on statement that most Americans simply do not know what's going on. And people continue to equate "illegal" with "impossible." (If you doubt that, read my mentions.)