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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Aug 28

So wise! And a helpful read for those who struggle with pleasure-work balance

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 28

Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...

Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture

Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 24

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

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Nobody @jnoor.bsky.social · Jun 30

BREAKING: Over 200 faith leaders and activists are protesting the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit in Washington, D.C.

They’re calling out CUFI’s role in fueling U.S. militarism, backing war with Iran, and supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Follow @therealnews.com for more

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Jun 27

It fills me with #pride 🌈 to be in this newsy segment! My church! My choir!
#loveyourneighbor
#loveperiod
#fiercelove
#revolutionarylove
#selflove
#queerstian
#belovedofgod
#grateful
@revdrjacquilewis.bsky.social
@middlechurch.bsky.social

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WPIX 11 News - Pride at Middle Church

YouTube video by Middle Church

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Jun 25

Join me!

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james 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · May 9

The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · May 10

What those ICE officers did was ASSAULT on US Representatives. May they be so charged.
Let’s go @balint.house.gov, please exert your oversight on any and all ICE facilities or leased facilities in VT. Don’t back down. This is second mile time.
#WWJD
#AbolishICE

Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · May 9

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.

They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · May 2

I’m old enough to remember that there was no Dept of Homeland Security prior to 9/11. That was another moment when fear was used for the fascist, billionaire agenda.
Everyone loves Sen. Leahy, but I believe he brought the ICE data processing center to Williston, VT.
#shame
#AbolishICE

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · May 2

In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights

It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will Bunch

The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police proves the current system is broken beyond repair.

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · May 2

*road

Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · May 2

Stuck at home May Day checklist:
-change W4 to stop paying federal taxes atm
-rescue snapping turtle from busy rode with help from strangers
-donate to NWTRCC
-invite friends to Trans Joy dance party at #TeslaTakeDown
-hug goat babies
#resist
#rewild
Thx for the image @nationaltaxstrike.bsky.social

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · May 1

Vermont Rite of Passage: 22 years and first time getting stuck in the mud. So Vermonty, 2 folks tried to push me out. One neighbor walking the road was an old work colleague. And the tow truck MacGyver was my activist friend’s dad.
#community
#mudseason
#vtlife
#LoveYourNeighbor

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Apr 30

A Columbia University student who was arrested while finalizing his citizenship papers is free this morning.

Photo via Liz Crampton / @politico.com

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 30

MOHSEN IS FREE!!!!
Federal Building, Burlington VT

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 30

Mohsen is free!!!!!!!

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 30

Happening now: we sit vigil for the release of Mohsen Mahdawi.
#freeMohsen
#freeThemAll
#stopICE

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 28

TOMORROW: curious about how to stop financially supporting the regime? Come to the National Tax Strike info webinar 4/29, 8 pm ET. Folks have been participating in war tax resistance for decades. Learn from them what it's like to strike, the risks, and protections. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 23

Locals: On Monday, 8 workers were detained by armed Border Patrol agents on their farm in Richford, VT. Tomorrow (4/24) at 6pm, we'll be rallying at Burlington City Hall to demand their freedom. Sign the petition to add your voice– actn.et/36HLvri0 – and SHARE WIDELY
#resist
#stopice
#fiercelove

Freedom for Farmworkers!

On the evening of April 21st, armed Border Patrol agents entered a Vermont dairy farm and detained eight farmworkers. This is the largest single immigration arrest of farmworkers – and one of the larg...

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 22

I have tried to follow #popefrancis guidance when asked for $ on the street. Give, look the person in the eye, and offer your hand. I did this today. We talked about the pope. I passed by the man again later. He said, “I’ve been sick since I was 16. Schizophrenia. I don’t want to bother nobody.” 🙏🏻

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Apr 18

Good Friday is the story of a man unjustly arrested and rushed to judgment. Diana Butler Bass tells it for our time, using only pictures from the last two weeks, and it hits so heavy
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

Good Friday Now

The cross of imperial violence

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 17

Hey St. Albans, VT, make good on that sign: All Are Welcome Here
#freemohsen
#freespeech
#freerumeysa
#stopice
Hundreds stood on this rural road outside the Northwest State Correctional Facility in the cold and snow to protest the abduction of Mohsen Mahdawi tonight. #resist

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National Tax Strike @nationaltaxstrike.bsky.social · Apr 15

This Tax Day, we're left wondering 1) How will the Courts hold this administration accountable for refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvadorian gulag and 2) How can we as people of conscience financially support a government that does not respect or uphold our Nation's highest law?

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 15

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

snyder.substack.com

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 14

Happening now!
#freerumeysa
#freespeech
#btv
#fiercelove
#loveyourneighbor

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Apr 10

I share this because I want to lift up the heroic #serenity of this woman, Elsy, grabbed by ICE thugs. She knows her rights. She sweetly calms her daughter. She is dignified. She does not deserve this. Her calm presence outshines these armed cowards in face masks. #shameonthem

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Apr 9

“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window

Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

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Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Mar 31

we might still interact with civility, or even with neighborly love.

Take good care,
Maeve

Maeve McBride @mcmaeve.bsky.social · Mar 31

But as I'm curious about people, their stories, and their histories, I wonder about you. Who you are and how you came to carry the beliefs and values that you have. Maybe we'll never have the opportunity to share our stories with each other, but I hope that, as neighbors,

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