Maia Duerr

Maia Duerr

@maiaduerr.bsky.social

Writer, anthropologist, Zen buddhist practitioner, engaged dharma. Working on a pandemic memoir. 📕 Work That Matters (2017, Parallax Press) Grateful to be a guest on Tewa homelands (Northern New Mexico) https://maiaduerr.substack.com/

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New post up on @buddhistdoor.bsky.social We all have ancestors, and we will all be ancestors. Even if we don’t have biological children, our choices continue through future generations and affect those who come after us. How to practice with this? #Buddhism www.buddhistdoor.net/features/sta...

buddhistdoor.netStanding in the Stream of Ancestors - Buddhistdoor GlobalWe inherit both the gifts and wounds of those who came before us. Buddhist practice offers a path toward transforming that inheritance
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People are dying from USAID cuts, kids are going hungry from SNAP cuts, immigrants are being incarcerated in horrific concentration camps. That is the legacy of Trump, Vance, Miller, Musk, et al. It must end.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected. www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...

Maia Duerr
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New post up on @buddhistdoor.bsky.social We all have ancestors, and we will all be ancestors. Even if we don’t have biological children, our choices continue through future generations and affect those who come after us. How to practice with this? #Buddhism www.buddhistdoor.net/features/sta...

buddhistdoor.netStanding in the Stream of Ancestors - Buddhistdoor GlobalWe inherit both the gifts and wounds of those who came before us. Buddhist practice offers a path toward transforming that inheritance
Maia Duerr
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NM's AG is rocking it...

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

NEW: New Mexico AG, @nmdoj.bsky.social, just announces that a judge has issued a judgment in the amount of $25 BILLION against Meta for lying to consumers and users about how Meta collected, protected, shared, and used their personal information.

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Ronni Diamondstein
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“Love isn’t often a loud expression, a big gesture, or a showy offering. It’s felt more than seen. ‘Love by the way you walk, the way you sit, the way you eat. This world very much needs love.’” Thich Nhat Hanh #kindness

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Rewire News Group
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Voters in seven states will weigh more than half a dozen ballot measures on LGBTQ+ rights, many aimed at trans youth. In Washington, where a sports ban is on the ballot, the state’s school sports group knows of about ten trans athletes among 200,000+ students. By @19thnews.org. buff.ly/1lw3LSp

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Rob Duncan
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#marxism #marxist #marx #communist #classwar #auspol #nswpol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #history #SocialJustice #LongerTables #DemocraticSocialist #Socialist #socialism #LeftIsBest #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness #abolishcapitalism #HumanRights

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Mark Harris
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There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...

nytimes.comWhat Can We See in All the Recent Art About AIDS? (Gift Article)Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.
Maia Duerr
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I find generational 'analyses' pretty lazy, overall. I would never presume that all Gen X'rs are arrogant slackers, nor that Millennials lack a work ethic. The truth is much more diverse and so many other factors are at play. This stuff kinda drives me nuts. Maybe because I'm a Boomer, lol.

Maia Duerr
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Checking out. Thank you to anyone who took the time to sit for a few moments 🙏🙏🙏 Anyone can start a pop-up #meditation any time! Hashtags help us find each other: #Care2sit #OMCru #OMCruBlue #meditation #mindfulness enjoy the present moment!

Maia Duerr
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Morning, everyone! A 10-minute sit is a great way to start Saturday! Check in with hashtags to let us know you’re practicing. Find a quiet space, put down devices, enjoy your breath and the present moment. Check out at the end with hashtags 🙏 #Care2sit #OMCru #OMCruBlue #meditation #mindfulness

Maia Duerr
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Sure the whole Katie Zacharia episode is amusing. But, sorry to bring this up--if the White House process is this inept when bringing on a press sec'ty, I shudder to think what might unfold if a real international/military crisis happens. Their decision-making process is in shambles.

Maia Duerr
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Hey @notpodium.bsky.social -- look, the NYT got it right! "In the interview with Mr. Posobiec, Ms. Zacharia also described the harried process of her hiring, hinting that she wasn’t really ready for what was about to happen when she stepped up to the White House lectern for the first time."

Maia Duerr
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I love this! AI will never EVER do anything remotely like this. This is all we need. Each other and our creativity.

Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Maia Duerr
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The folks at Haymarket are my publishing heroes.

Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to censor ourselves before they even have a chance to do it. We will not do that. We will confidently put resistance politics out there into the world to go along with the movements of people who are actively trying to fight against these systems.”

publishersweekly.comTaking a Stand: PW Talks with Haymarket Books publisher Julie FainLeft-wing press is celebrating 25 years of publishing books on social and economic justice
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! ...a time to honor the first people who inhabited Turtle Island and who still live here, who have tended to the land and waters of this place since time immemorial. It’s a good day to donate to Native-led nonprofits, suggestions in comments. How are you celebrating?

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a bit of hope...

The New York Times@nytimes.com

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Gina Hinojosa, the Democrat running for Texas governor, says that the opportunity for her party “lies not with moderate, affluent Republicans put off by Trump’s norm-smashing vulgarity, but with disappointed MAGA populists,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

nyti.msOpinion | ‘You’ve Lied to Me Enough.’ In Texas, MAGA Voters Are Breaking Ranks.The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
Maia Duerr
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Who is the sadist who designed Medicare? Most complicated thing I've ever seen. Don't bother explaining it to me, I get the difference btw Original Medicare, Advantage, and Supplement plans. But all the A, B, C, D, ad nauseum and exclusions, etc, are the work of a madman.

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Don't even get me started.... why should seniors have to pay anything for the Medicare premium, much less $200 a month??!! While Pete Hegseth has a blank check to destroy the military and possibly the whole world. F this.

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Tewa Women United
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Weds, Oct 7, 9 am #SantaFe #NewMexico City Hall by Sgt Petry Statue (201 W Marcy St) RALLY FOR CLEAN AIR AND THE CLIMATE! NO TO TRUMP EPA ROLLBACKS! New Mexicans Deserve Clean Air, a Safe Climate, and Protection from Pollution! RSVP here: act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...

act.sierraclub.orgRally for Clean Air and the Climate! No to Trump Rollbacks.Trump Oil and Gas Methane Pollution Rule Rollbacks to be Announced in Santa Fe this week. Join the Rally To Protect Communities as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces the Rule Gutting at the New Me...
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I like this idea...

Nanjala@nanjala.bsky.social

I need someone to develop an app where I deposit like $100 at the beginning of the year and then when I click on an article that’s behind a paywall they deduct a cost per article for that specific site and send it to the publication rather than expect me to subscribe to 50 outlets.

Maia Duerr
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Go Pope!

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social

“Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology.” — Pope Leo XIV

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way to go SF nurses!!!

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.

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for all the archaeology nerds in Bluesky land : )

SandeeOster@sandeeoster.bsky.social

Archaeology Teahouse is launching Tea Breaks, a monthly round-up of the archaeological discoveries that slipped past the headlines, plus my honest takes on the mainstream stories. The blogs stay free, but Tea Breaks are my thank-you to monthly subscribers archaeologyteahouse.com/notes

archaeologyteahouse.comNotes — Archaeology TeahouseSmall things from the Keeper's desk — too short for a story, too good to keep quiet.

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University of New Mexico Press
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“This...book is a five-star addition to the way New Mexico shares its long, diverse, and richly fascinating history. A History of New Mexico in 100 Objects deserves a place of honor in every bookshop, library, and waiting room from Abiquiu to Zuni.”—Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author

Maia Duerr
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Yet another way this administration is literally killing people.

ProPublica@propublica.org

ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”

propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...