Maureen Flaherty 🍉

It’s Summer Streets in NYC! Gonna bike from Ditmas to Inwood right after this cup of coffee. Can’t lament the wholesale destruction of civic life without participating with wholesale enthusiasm in civic life! www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...

"They don't burn crosses anymore, they burn the system from inside, and call it patriotism.

And we don't call them what they are.

We say 'partisan', or 'polarized', or 'controversial', but changing the uniform doesn't change the Klan. They walk through the front door now."

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If you're angry about anti-science garbage like canceling MRNA research & vax policy, call HHS Secretary office 202-690-7000. If you get full voicemail, HHS main # is 877-696-6775. Ask them why he's picked the wrong side in the war on cancer. If your family member had polio, tell RFK he's a numty.

Trump is literally asking to decimate the population of Los Angeles.

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers,

Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet.

An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Just one example of Patriot Front and their ride, a Penske truck, in Springfield, Missouri, this June: sbj.net/stories/pens...

I was larking a couple weeks ago day and someone fishing said it was shameful that I was only taking the pretty and historic bits and I should pick up *all* the trash.

My larking beach is a poorly-capped dump a mile long that has been eroding for 90 years.

Thanks for sharing it so I could preorder it and then gleefully save it for a vacation day. I read it in 2 days.

I'm a Democrat who left Texas. New GOP maps will silence Latino voters. | Opinion Texas Republicans have hijacked a special session called to help flood victims. I refuse to sit back while they silence communities and rig democracy.

What is happening in Texas is a naked partisan power grab. Texas Republicans are working at Trump's orders to try to rig the maps and keep GOP control of the House in 2026. We stand with courageous Texas Democrats who are fighting this outrageous action. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Today via the garbled speaker on my train, I gathered that the Q would be running local all through brooklyn & lower Manhattan and we’d be delayed at alllll those stations. I was so thrilled.

Just me, a whole lotta chilly AC & The Payback by @kashana.bsky.social

I finished it & it was excellent!

we need to stop letting them set the parameters for discussion of their attack on vaccine development, just because they want to talk about mRNA vaccines exclusively as a COVID/other respiratory virus thing doesn’t mean we have to

mRNA research is about CURING CANCER and they are against that

Current Progress and Future Perspectives of RNA-Based Cancer Vaccines: A 2025 Update RNA-based cancer vaccines are a breakthrough cancer treatment that trains the immune system to recognize and attack specific cancer cells. Recent clinical trials show impressive results, with one mela...

honk if you support pancreatic cancer and melanoma

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Oooooo. These ones are stunning too. www.instagram.com/p/C9xJqYSs9d...

Rectangular boxes are easier to transport.
If you have a dishwasher, the one hour cycle is magical for all your prep dishes.
Fill sauce containers from a gravy boat or measuring cup that you fill with a ladle.
Packing 80 meals took us 1.5 hours.
Drop the food & go. Getting thanked is not the point.

Stuff we learned:
If you don’t know someone with a restaurant wholesale store account, many let you shop for one day as a guest.
80 lbs of chicken is a LOT.
You need your neighbor’s oven.
Do more prep the day before. No, more than that.
Oven baked rice in 5 lb quantities is a revelation. Season it.

A white piece of canvas that says in red and blue paint “CUIDADOS NO POLICIAS COSAS GRATIS Trae lo que puedas, Toma lo que necesitas ! PODER COMUNITARIO

white canvas painted with red and blue letters that say “CARE NOT COPS FREE STUFF Bring what you can, Take what you need! COMMUNITY POWER”

Plastic container steamed up. Cubes of feta, chicken and a container of greenish sauce visible. Hot sauce packet in foreground.

5 plastic tote bags filled with containers of hot meals on a piece of concrete behind a car.

If you’re upset about Gaza and feeling overwhelmed, call your reps and cook for some hungry people in your neighborhood. On Thursday and Friday, a friend & I & our teens prepped & delivered 80 hot meals for a mutual aid distribution that’s been going for 18 months. We felt powerful.

A closeup of a black backpack strap on a wooden table with a visible repair. In the background, a green & gold metal Hallab Lebanese sweets tin is blurry and one can presume it does not contain baklava

Feeling pretty proud of this backpack repair done in the hour before departure for camp WITHOUT unloading the backpack.

Also, dansk cookie tins are not the best sewing notions cookie tins.

The gulf between popular opinion and policy on Palestine in country after country is unreal.

The establishment parties around the world are torching their credibility with voters, and for what? To help Israel commit genocide?

I honestly can't understand it

Oooooo. I didn’t know the 2nd one was out! Thank you. I have so many boring tasks to do in next two weeks and I can listen to this while I do them.

Don’t, under any circumstances, give this government any information unless you are legally compelled to. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m also not an idiot.

Stupid can be genuinely damaging for decades in the wrong hands.

Farts have made me barf but looking back on them has only ever made me laugh or gag. And sometimes they were also in hands: one time my kid announced to the entire B68 bus that “ITS OK MAMA I FARTED ONTO MY HAND SO NOBODY WILL KNOW!”

analyzing maternal deaths by changing committee composition, not tracking deaths as pregnancy related, etc. Before they started messing with stat analysis & data collection, maternal mortality had doubled.

Indiana isn’t doing much better with rural health: 42% of its rural hospitals have closed.

progressing labor (with meds, scheduled C, early recognition of uterine hemorrhage) become even more expensive emergencies. And another 25% of rural hospitals are at risk of closure.

And it’s difficult to track maternal mortality because Idaho legislators have intentionally slowed and stopped

Fewer hospitals and OBs mean less prenatal care. Less prenatal care means EVERY delivery is more risky, babies and parents are less healthy and prepared, and longer travel times to the few remaining L&D units make the slightly complex cases that could be managed easily during a normally

50% of Idaho rural hospitals have closed their L&D units because … they lose money. Staffing shortages post-Dobbs have sped up closures because OBs face criminal charges for attempting to make professional choices that might conflict with vague abortion laws, which malpractice policies exclude.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Thank you!

This will stick with me:

"Solutions are expensive!"
- drought/flood/heat/sea level rise: not free”

I watched Sneakers with my kids and totally convinced them it’s the best genre. We’ve never planned one though. Adding to summer list.