Maia Duerr
@maiaduerr.bsky.social
writer, anthropologist, zen buddhist practitioner, engaged dharma, career alchemist.
📕 Work That Matters (2017, Parallax Press)
Grateful to be a guest on Tewa homelands (Northern New Mexico).
https://maiaduerr.substack.com/
📕 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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Maia Duerr
@maiaduerr.bsky.social
· Jun 1
Radical Openness in Volatile Times - Buddhistdoor Global
In a time of great upheaval, a key quality of the Dharma is its ability to give us support and stability—if we are open to it.
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This is a good time to remember that #anarchism and #mutualaid is baked into #Buddhism.
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www.buddhistdoor.net/features/rad...
This year's #NewMexico Legislative Session is half over, but you can still come to the Roundhouse and see quite a show -- political and otherwise. Read all about it here!
#SantaFe #nmleg
postcardsfromnewmexico.substack.com/p/the-people...
#SantaFe #nmleg
postcardsfromnewmexico.substack.com/p/the-people...
The People's House
New Mexico's State Capitol is the best show in town this month
postcardsfromnewmexico.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:25 AM
This year's #NewMexico Legislative Session is half over, but you can still come to the Roundhouse and see quite a show -- political and otherwise. Read all about it here!
#SantaFe #nmleg
postcardsfromnewmexico.substack.com/p/the-people...
#SantaFe #nmleg
postcardsfromnewmexico.substack.com/p/the-people...
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On Mindful Democracy by @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social is here.
27 reflections on interdependence, mindfulness, and compassionate civic engagement—a steady presence in challenging times.
Available now at www.parallax.org/product/on-m...
#interdependence #mindfulness #parallaxpress #booksky
27 reflections on interdependence, mindfulness, and compassionate civic engagement—a steady presence in challenging times.
Available now at www.parallax.org/product/on-m...
#interdependence #mindfulness #parallaxpress #booksky
February 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
On Mindful Democracy by @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social is here.
27 reflections on interdependence, mindfulness, and compassionate civic engagement—a steady presence in challenging times.
Available now at www.parallax.org/product/on-m...
#interdependence #mindfulness #parallaxpress #booksky
27 reflections on interdependence, mindfulness, and compassionate civic engagement—a steady presence in challenging times.
Available now at www.parallax.org/product/on-m...
#interdependence #mindfulness #parallaxpress #booksky
The only ones who benefit from an extremely divided population are the billionaires.
February 3, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The only ones who benefit from an extremely divided population are the billionaires.
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The Immigrant Safety Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 5-3! 🙌🏽 HB9 now moves to the Senate Floor for a final vote. This is a major win but the work isn't over.
📢 We need you to take action now. Call, email or visit your representative and tell them to support HB9! #nmleg
📢 We need you to take action now. Call, email or visit your representative and tell them to support HB9! #nmleg
February 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
The Immigrant Safety Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 5-3! 🙌🏽 HB9 now moves to the Senate Floor for a final vote. This is a major win but the work isn't over.
📢 We need you to take action now. Call, email or visit your representative and tell them to support HB9! #nmleg
📢 We need you to take action now. Call, email or visit your representative and tell them to support HB9! #nmleg
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With Elders' Blessings from Tewa Women United
🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿
...It is our right to be happy, healthy, healing, and whole as we ground ourselves in our homelands as beloved families of Mother Earth.
🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿
...It is our right to be happy, healthy, healing, and whole as we ground ourselves in our homelands as beloved families of Mother Earth.
February 1, 2026 at 3:58 PM
With Elders' Blessings from Tewa Women United
🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿
...It is our right to be happy, healthy, healing, and whole as we ground ourselves in our homelands as beloved families of Mother Earth.
🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿
...It is our right to be happy, healthy, healing, and whole as we ground ourselves in our homelands as beloved families of Mother Earth.
This is EXCELLENT
I truly believe discourse about voters (especially those who may have voted for Trump) would go better on this app if everyone was using the spectrum of allies as a framework
commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...
commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...
Spectrum of Allies
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
commonslibrary.org
February 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This is EXCELLENT
Recently I returned from a 10-day journey, a kind of pilgrimage to my roots in Southern California and to bring my mom and dad’s ashes closer to their longtime hometown, Pasadena. Here's the story...
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Take a Little Trip With Me...
a westward pilgrimage, with a dash of magic
maiaduerr.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Recently I returned from a 10-day journey, a kind of pilgrimage to my roots in Southern California and to bring my mom and dad’s ashes closer to their longtime hometown, Pasadena. Here's the story...
maiaduerr.substack.com/p/take-a-lit...
maiaduerr.substack.com/p/take-a-lit...
“Fascism is a new name for the terror the Negro has always faced in America.”
-Langston Hughes, 1936
-Langston Hughes, 1936
February 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
“Fascism is a new name for the terror the Negro has always faced in America.”
-Langston Hughes, 1936
-Langston Hughes, 1936
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TWU joins many groups, including Somos Un Pueblo Unido and @aclunm.bsky.social, to support HB 9: the Immigrant Safety Act. Please keep this bill moving to the finish line! Call your senator and rep today, ask them to support HB 9.
#NMLeg #NewMexico #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrantJustice
#NMLeg #NewMexico #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrantJustice
February 1, 2026 at 12:31 AM
TWU joins many groups, including Somos Un Pueblo Unido and @aclunm.bsky.social, to support HB 9: the Immigrant Safety Act. Please keep this bill moving to the finish line! Call your senator and rep today, ask them to support HB 9.
#NMLeg #NewMexico #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrantJustice
#NMLeg #NewMexico #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrantJustice
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Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner
Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org
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Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org
gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Mamdani names reformer Stanley Richards to steer chaotic Rikers complex
Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.
gothamist.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner
Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org
gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org
gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
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News cycles are being manipulated to make people think a problem has been solved when it hasn’t. Bovino removed didn’t change anything but people have been tricked into thinking it did, so they move on. Same as it was.
Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.
Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.
January 30, 2026 at 11:49 AM
News cycles are being manipulated to make people think a problem has been solved when it hasn’t. Bovino removed didn’t change anything but people have been tricked into thinking it did, so they move on. Same as it was.
Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.
Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.
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"I vowed that if I could not have peace at that moment, I would never be able to have peace.
If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
January 30, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"I vowed that if I could not have peace at that moment, I would never be able to have peace.
If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Many of us have a long way to go to learn what real community organizing looks and feels like.
today's strike attempt feels slapdash and hashtaggy. last friday in the twin cities was organized from out of the communities over weeks of hard work and close connection. i hope today does some good but it's just not comparable.
I have some thoughts about people saying that they won't shop at small business who aren't participating in the "general strike" today. I say this as someone who loves shopping locally and small who is also not allowed to strike as a public employee.
Mainly: there is a lot of performative action.
Mainly: there is a lot of performative action.
January 30, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Many of us have a long way to go to learn what real community organizing looks and feels like.
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Feb 1: COURAGE to end violence and brutality and to realize the greater Measure of Our Humanity: Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, online, 11-12:30 MT, free.
www.upaya.org/program/the-...
www.upaya.org/program/the-...
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Feb 1: COURAGE to end violence and brutality and to realize the greater Measure of Our Humanity: Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, online, 11-12:30 MT, free.
www.upaya.org/program/the-...
www.upaya.org/program/the-...
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Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
what a great service to our communities!
January 28, 2026 at 1:04 AM
what a great service to our communities!
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Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor.
Let's get it done.
Let's get it done.
January 27, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor.
Let's get it done.
Let's get it done.
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Stephen Miller exudes evil—hate, arrogance, racism, mendacity, cruelty, malice, sexism, and a servant and protector of rapists and pedophiles.
He is the one to go after.
He is one of the evil heads at the top.
Bovino is just a cosplayer, now patsy.
He is the one to go after.
He is one of the evil heads at the top.
Bovino is just a cosplayer, now patsy.
January 27, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Stephen Miller exudes evil—hate, arrogance, racism, mendacity, cruelty, malice, sexism, and a servant and protector of rapists and pedophiles.
He is the one to go after.
He is one of the evil heads at the top.
Bovino is just a cosplayer, now patsy.
He is the one to go after.
He is one of the evil heads at the top.
Bovino is just a cosplayer, now patsy.
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Bovino is not leaving Minneapolis cause he wants to. Not cause Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Vance or Trump want him to go.
He’s leaving because the extraordinary “ordinary” citizens of that great city - by peacefully protesting en masse - kicked him out.
Lesson to be learned. We have power.
He’s leaving because the extraordinary “ordinary” citizens of that great city - by peacefully protesting en masse - kicked him out.
Lesson to be learned. We have power.
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Bovino is not leaving Minneapolis cause he wants to. Not cause Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Vance or Trump want him to go.
He’s leaving because the extraordinary “ordinary” citizens of that great city - by peacefully protesting en masse - kicked him out.
Lesson to be learned. We have power.
He’s leaving because the extraordinary “ordinary” citizens of that great city - by peacefully protesting en masse - kicked him out.
Lesson to be learned. We have power.
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Jodo Shinshu minister Rev. Blayne Higa delivers a cry for healing, justice, and hope in Minnesota
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #minnesota #ice #immigration #minneapolis
www.blaynehiga.com/post/a-cry-f...
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #minnesota #ice #immigration #minneapolis
www.blaynehiga.com/post/a-cry-f...
A Cry for Healing, Justice, and Hope
Do we have the courage to stand against state-sanctioned violence, cruelty, and fear wherever we are? Can we be brave enough to imagine and build the just, humane, and compassionate world that should ...
www.blaynehiga.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Jodo Shinshu minister Rev. Blayne Higa delivers a cry for healing, justice, and hope in Minnesota
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #minnesota #ice #immigration #minneapolis
www.blaynehiga.com/post/a-cry-f...
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #minnesota #ice #immigration #minneapolis
www.blaynehiga.com/post/a-cry-f...
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
"The storm is here. It’s been here all along, as the communities of color and native people who have always been targeted by our federal government will remind us."
ruthzakarin.substack.com/p/for-minnea...
ruthzakarin.substack.com/p/for-minnea...
For Minneapolis, today
I am doing what I do when I don’t know what to do — try to find words. Try to find the right words.
ruthzakarin.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"The storm is here. It’s been here all along, as the communities of color and native people who have always been targeted by our federal government will remind us."
ruthzakarin.substack.com/p/for-minnea...
ruthzakarin.substack.com/p/for-minnea...
If you need a break from .... everything ... read this. A liturgy for what cannot be saved.
www.deathandbirds.com/p/the-overtu...
www.deathandbirds.com/p/the-overtu...
The Overturned
a liturgy for what cannot be saved
www.deathandbirds.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
If you need a break from .... everything ... read this. A liturgy for what cannot be saved.
www.deathandbirds.com/p/the-overtu...
www.deathandbirds.com/p/the-overtu...
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This year’s #NewMexico Legislative Session is off and running! It's just 30 days, ending on Feb 19. There are a few important bills related to environmental, reproductive, and gender justice we're following and we've prepared a guide to help you participate: bit.ly/TWU-nmleg
#nmleg #Native #Pueblo
#nmleg #Native #Pueblo
Your Guide to the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session: Get Involved with Tewa Women United | Tewa Women United
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January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
This year’s #NewMexico Legislative Session is off and running! It's just 30 days, ending on Feb 19. There are a few important bills related to environmental, reproductive, and gender justice we're following and we've prepared a guide to help you participate: bit.ly/TWU-nmleg
#nmleg #Native #Pueblo
#nmleg #Native #Pueblo