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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 16m

Comedy brunch this weekend to support Flatbush Family Mutual Aid Distribution and our neighbor who's welcoming a new baby soon! This was sooooo good last time I went. www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-bru...

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Comedy & Brunch

Join us for an afternoon of brunch and comedy to support our weekly Flatbush distribution and a comrade starting a new career!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you live where you can walk to your grocery store and other errands, I emphatically recommend getting a collapsible wagon. I’d been Team Grannycart since my living in SF 30 years ago, but the wagons have gotten so good! Technically, I could bike to the store, but biking in Flatbush freaks me

A red and black fabric folding wagon filled almost to the top with groceries, covered by a clear plastic cover

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could call your Senators today and ask them to extend TPS, but also we need to give up on this idea that “temporary” means “temporary” as all the FB bots love to bonus on every story, and allow people pathways to citizenship

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I spy one of my progressive county committee reps, Gina Anderson. She must’ve worn out a pair of sneakers canvassing this year for Rep Your Block candidates and winning her own race! She spends time explaining this process to neighbors, is responsive and proactive.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026

The committee that makes up the Brooklyn Democratic Party held a chaotic meeting Wednesday to elect its leadership team using controversial new voting rules, as an appeals court deliberated on the legality of their actions mere blocks away. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As school and winter asks pile up, Anna Holmes’ new book felt VERY useful. Her points about giving a no or a pause when I don’t actually know how I feel about a demand on my time were wildly helpful. It’s a couple hour listen, read by Anna. 💙📚💡 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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The Power of No by Anna Holmes Narrated by Anna Holmes Audiobook on Libro.fm

A powerful, patriarchy-defying manifesto that will transform your relationship to saying “no”—from the award-winning writer, founder of Jezebel, and former New York Times

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Abolish ICE. This cannot be reformed.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you know anyone who works for DHS or for a law enforcement, probation, etc. agency that cooperates with ICE, read this to them and ask them questions. If you work for a prosecutor/sheriff/police/governor/mayor that says it does not cooperate with ICE, but also does not investigate it, same.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But fruity pebbles are just so good.

Fruity pebbles and Rice Chex
in a blue bowl with milk and a good spoon and a thumb there’s a purple T-shirt in the background

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve been trying to put this in context of my work in construction. NYC building codes are very clear: if I renovate a building & remove the fire alarm system & sprinklers to put up new wallpaper, but don’t put a new fire safety system in place, I go to jail if people die in a fire. Fires don’t

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026

Another must-read from @ftrain.com, a profoundly informed (and undeceived) writer on all things A.I. (n.b. Paul is an Ellie award-winning writer, an entrepreneur and businessman, an insightful theorist of the internet of the olden time, etc. etc.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Sylvia Pellicore @roenok.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just to clarify for everyone: large language models can ONLY output text and images. That’s it. Period. When one of the big companies says “our agent went rogue” what they mean is “we hand-wrote software that blindly executes any code an LLM outputs and let it run completely unsupervised.”

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of my friends just wished my twins a happy 15th birthday and then said “it’s like you’ve been a parent for 30 years!” Suddenly I am sooo extra tired.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The tides truly don’t line up with my schedule this week, but I needed a walk. I rarely even walk the high wrack line until winter because of biting flies Picking up big chunky bits for @marymccarthy.bsky.social and lamp glass for my mosaic making friends and spotted this new friend.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would like to stress that Americans from marginalized groups are letting America know about these mother****ers WAY in advance specifically so we do not find ourselves in a situation where they are the only choice.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ok I’m cooking for 50 and cutting onions and weeping. So what’s on your Songs that Lift You Up playlist? Here’s mine. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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It's All Too Bleak: Pick Me Up, Lift Me From The Dark Place by Maureen Flaherty on Apple Music

Playlist · 109 Songs

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/09/2026

Louisiana argues in FDA case that the Comstock Act, a dormant 19th-century anti-obscenity law, prohibits shipping mifepristone. But if Comstock bans mailing abortion pills, it would also ban supplies sent to clinics—even in legal states. Activists are pressing the DOJ to embrace this interpretation

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‘A Big Deal’: Top Anti-Abortion Group Endorses Comstock Act As a Nationwide Ban

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America had remained silent amid growing calls to enforce the 19th century anti-obscenity law as an abortion ban. That silence ended on Friday.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They actually pick up the phone: I was only on hold for a couple minutes.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As always, beautiful photos from @todseelie.bsky.social. When I drove across the country solo in 2004, I committed to eating only at independent establishments. This forced me to get off 40, and I met so many nice people. A couple weird pies, a whole day lost in the foothills of Alabama eating

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Feel free to message me: the vibes at this are so delightful and friendly and I learn a lot from nice people and meet more neighbors.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ed tech is experimenting on our kids. Last year, my high schooler struggled with a chemistry class for which she had NO TEXT BOOK or hard copy materials of any kind. Additionally, there was no agreed-upon final learning objectives because she would be taking a brand new regents exam at end of year

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good NYC organizations that are always seeking good volunteers: CHIPS - www.chipsonline.org/volunteer @evlovesnyc.bsky.social - www.evloves.nyc PLSN [remote opportunity] - plsn.org Refettorio - www.refettorioharlem.org/volunteer

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Volunteer — CHiPS

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Bel was a varsity soccer player for Springfield City School District…He was on the National Honor Society and a member of the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps”. He was a legal immigrant, and MAGA couldn’t tolerate his excellence, so now he’s dead.

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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say

A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Don’t just limit yourself to tomatoes and zucchini! Has your mint escaped into your lawn? Is your dill or basil about to bolt? Fill a pot with water and bring it all to a distro! Everyone is wary of leafy stuff in supermarkets this summer and fresh herbs make everyone happy.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Again, I can’t sleep. I emptied the brain on the page. lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/on-looking...

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On Looking Over My Shoulder for ICE

No one is safe from ICE terror.

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The regime changed the law so they could "just enforce it." The Holocaust was legal, so was chattel slavery. The Trump administration spread racist lies about Haitians during the elections, the kind of lies and bigoted misinformation that historically proceeds genocide.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Brooklyn, if you’re up, there’s a gap in the clouds!

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/08/2026

She was a pro-trans, pro-vaccine, pro-women's rights union member. This "analysis" from a senior writer should be retracted. There are too many corrections needed to salvage anything of value.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At a meeting which ZERO MAJOR MEDICAL ORGS ATTENDED, recommendations included “phasing out school-based mental health screenings”. At most schools in the country, the only way kids even get screened by overburdened school psychologists is a referral by concerned staff. Mental health is excluded

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NYC has added leading pedestrian green lights and they vary. A friend at DOT told me that some more dangerous intersections have been given longer ped greens and to use it as a guide for extra caution. After chatting with him, I’ve stopped turning left unless I have a left turn signal and holy

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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

RALLY: Join the coalition opposing the Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair’s anti-democratic power grab Monday at 3pm at BK Borough Hall. Tell the Party Chair to respect the vote! partiful.com/e/UzWY6FPbvD...

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RSVP to Rally & Press Conference to Oppose BK Dems Power Grab | Partiful

Democratic elected officials from Brooklyn overwhelmingly slammed Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn’s announced plans to rewrite party rules in order to keep herself in power....

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I just called @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social and her staffer said she hasn’t made a statement yet.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The moral of the story is that if you talk to your neighbors and do stuff in your community, you will bump into friendly faces all the time and YOU MEET THE NICEST PEOPLE. And then the conclave of supers talking shit on the corner offers to slip KYR materials under the doors of all the neighbors. 😭

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Fine. Then mandate that you get unlimited fully covered well-child visits instead of a single one per calendar year. I can’t even *schedule* the well-child visits until the scheduler sends a message to my insurance about what the earliest date they’ll cover is. And they change process yearly.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#ResistanceRoots Matthew Henson was born on this day in 1866 in Charles County, Md. He was an African American Arctic explorer who co-discovered the geographic North Pole alongside Robert Peary. During his life, Henson was given little credit for the critical role he played in their expeditions. /1

Matthew Henson, ca. 1910. Without Henson, Robert Peary’s polar expeditions likely wouldn’t have succeeded. While Peary provided the funding and ambition, Henson provided the practical skills and resourcefulness that kept the men alive. However, Henson was given little credit for his work until late in life. Following his death in 1955, his story faded again from mainstream history textbooks, until a Harvard neurobiologist named Dr. S. Allen Counter launched a crusade to “desegregate history.” Dr. Counter successfully petitioned Reagan to correct the final injustice. On April 6, 1988, Henson and his wife were exhumed from their modest Bronx graves and reburied with full military honors next to Peary in Arlington National Cemetery. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/08/2026

Hey, I made a video for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Please, @mayor.nyc.gov, don't let the billionaires get their hands on our kids! Give us a full 2 year "A.i." moratorium for the schools - for students and teachers, 2K-12! (PLEASE share - and tell the mayor what YOU think at HeyMamdani.fyi !)

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New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In US immigration courts, people do NOT have the right to an appointed attorney. Often, people defend themselves against the full weight of the federal government. In response to mass abductions, detentions & deportations, we need UNIVERSAL legal representation for ALL. #URep

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

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