Maureen Flaherty

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.

This beautiful morning, I once again saw a vision of a future where I open up the internets to peruse fuzzy business like this or a friend announcing a book or art triumph, not to stare into the abyss after finding out about what wretched thing That Man said or decreed overnight.

Being a Dem doesn’t give you a pass on transphobic fear-mongering. For too long, Dems have used the “this election is critical” rallying cry. Fuck that.

The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

More on the meeting right here:

“The revolution is fun!”

Shared with me by a neighbor. Press conference in Flatbush Thursday morning to demand the release of Roberto Lamour, a Haitian neighbor abducted by ICE.

It's time for a Brooklyn Democratic Party that fights Republicans. Join @juliopenabk.com and the Brooklyn Can't Wait coalition Wednesday at 5:30pm to canvass for @mikedecillis.bsky.social and @chrismccreight.bsky.social w/ DNC Vice Chair @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social

need to stop using the terms tech lords/tech bros. instead refer to them as what they are: anti-humanists. especially them AI folks since they plot to replace humanity with tech. these anti-humanists are overseers for the extractive dictates of capitalism, which prizes profits over people/community

I think some silent scientists should read this thread.

Long Beach is where my grandma’s cousin landed after Bialystok and Treblinka and Herzl would be so proud people are fighting back like this. And also beyond pissed that we are back here again but he taught me never again para nadie.

I. Have. Arrived: dude eating sandwich by the coffee machine at nice bodega that let kids use the bathroom during the Knick’s games said “yo I like your pumas. But that coat is ugly.” And I said “thank you I love them but look at you, shiny man!” He blushed & kicked out his magnificent silver shoes.

been thinking about the things that made this event great things like MUSIC and ART and GOOD FOOD (we enjoyed tamales together after distributing information about early voting throughout the neighborhood) #NoKings

Part of NYCs only swing district is right here in BK, & we are turning it 💙 joyfully (and loudly 🎺🥁) 🗳️Early voting starts Oct 24th & we need YOUR help to turn NY11 OUT. Get involved indivisiblebrooklyn.org or w a local group. @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Hello @democrats.org, I do not want to hear from (ever again) - Hillary Clinton - Kamala Harris - James Carville - David Plouffe Just put a box to check: $100 AND YOU WILL NEVER HEAR FROM ANY OF THESE PEOPLE AGAIN and I swear to you you will reap an enormous windfall

If you ever want to know what "cheating on an election" looks like, this is it. Kids having to march from an HBCU to vote.

UFW condemns brutal ICE surge in Central Valley; calls on Valadao’s comments as ‘insulting’ to his constituents. Full statement below. 1/2

A week after he was shot by ICE agents in Marble Hill, Oscar Belgal still has a bullet lodged in his neck. The agents who arrested him, according to a habeas petition filed for his release yesterday, did not have a lawful warrant. hellgatenyc.com/ice-oscar-be...

was talking to friends about this video/topic last week and every last one of them was dumbfounded that there's an easy way to reduce these fatalities by 40 percent, but the city instead is giving out exemptions right and left

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

My New Year’s resolution was “use the presents I’ve been given, even fancy stuff & art supplies”. I always save them for A Special Occasion & they spoil. Living through all this & taking joy in small things IS a celebration. Use your fancy dish towel. YOU, today are the special occasion.

They de-document people based on race, gutted the agency charged with processing papers, issued fines and impoverished them by withdrawing their ability to work. This. Is. Foul. And if they detain you, you’re forced to work for pennies in their camps or be punished. Abolish ICE/CBP/DHS.

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

In Greenwich Village, there used to be “sand hills, sometimes rising to a height of 100 feet, while to the south was a marsh tenanted by wild fowl and crossed by a brook flowing from the north.” More deep history of NYC in Charles Hemstreet’s 1899 book: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n...

Couldn’t find the gift link. So maybe paywalled. But incredibly detailed analysis if identity and violent rep of off agent in yesterdays shooting in nyc www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

Some nights, you take a batch of whistles off the printer and feel it with your whole heart. ICE OUT OF NYC. ICE OUT EVERYWHERE. Shut down the camps. Prosecute the secret police and politicians who engineered this. Put my tax dollars back to feeding kids and giving people vaccines.

BREAKING NEWS: Federal officers have shot a man in New York City.

If you are in D.C., come join us for this conversation @catholicuniversity.bsky.social

I love this! @ me if you can link people to how to get plugged into anti-ICE work in your geography and I'll repost you.

Still tickets left for this!

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...