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Maia Duerr

@maiaduerr.bsky.social

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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/

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · Jun 1

This is a good time to remember that #anarchism and #mutualaid is baked into #Buddhism.

www.buddhistdoor.net/features/rad...

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.

www.buddhistdoor.net

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 14h

A beautifully brutally honest post about what it's like to be on the frontlines of #Chicago right now, by a seasoned and skillful organizer.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 1d

This past week, for 3 days and nights people gathered at the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe in #SantaFe to read names of more than 65,000 Palestinians in #Gaza killed as well as the 800 civilians (Israeli + other nationalities) killed on Oct 7, 2023.

Unfathomable.

This must stop.

#NewMexico

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 1d

How to fuck up a #publichealth system. Thanks, RFK Jr.

#covid

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

www.nytimes.com

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 3d

How can we work with questions as a practice? How do we ask the kinds of questions that have the potential to liberate our lives?

Enjoy the exploration and discover a question that will open up your possibilities…

#Buddhism #meditation #questions

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The Art of Asking Liberating Questions

questions as a transformative practice

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 4d

I miss the days when ballparks weren't named after corporations.

Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like last year's MLB playoffs happened just a few weeks ago. What a weird year this has been.

Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 4d

Boycott.

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Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot: Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 5d

I agree with @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social, our government has become a place where there is no regard for human rights let alone human dignity.

The question posed in this article is “What kind of monsters grab children & take them outside without clothes?“ & then respond with “Fuck them kids.”?

Snapshot: The Attack in Chicago

The night-time raid on a Chicago apartment building and its residents is an ugly escalation by an immoral regime—and an attack on all decent people

www.americaamerica.news

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 5d

Starbucks had the largest pay ratio gap in the S&P 500 at 6,666 to 1 last year. CEO Brian Niccol reportedly pocketed $95.8 million while the average worker earned $14,674, the 8th-lowest median pay of any S&P 500 firm, according to @ips-dc.org report. ips-dc.org/report-execu...

Executive Excess 2025

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.

ips-dc.org

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 5d

I hope this guy is racking up charges at the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 8d

Dragon Room to the left? Love that spot.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8d

Two stories I hope to read soon: how Hegseth's agenda weakens the military and how people in the military are responding to that agenda.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8d

The US military is only 50% white (and it's 15% female) so Hegseth launched an attack on the majority of troops.

https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2022/08/05/90d128cb/active-component-demographic-report-june-2022.pdf

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 10d

gorgeous!

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 10d

tons of rain here in Española too

Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 10d

Just dropped a new Postcard from #NewMexico -- where to find the greatest donuts in #SantaFe

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Donuts de Santa Fe!

pure fun

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11d

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11d

Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."

Donald J. Trump
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At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Tewa Women United @tewawomenunited.bsky.social · 12d

Sept 26 is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. @nucleartruthprj.bsky.social asked Elder Kathy Sanchez what this means to her:

"In my heart, truly it means all life on our Earth Mother will be happy, healthy, and loving."

#nuclearabolition #Pueblo #solidarity

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 12d

I wish I could share your optimism. It seems to me that Americans, on the whole, are far too comfortable to take the kinds of risks needed to actually overthrow fascism. I hope I am proved wrong. We see tastes of it in LA and Chicago, not surprisingly led by working class POC.

Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 12d

that's pretty optimistic.

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 15d

wonderful! thanks for sharing

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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 15d

Buddhist rapture is a lot more boring. You just hang out on the Earth, breathing and trying to be a decent person until you die.

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Maia Duerr @maiaduerr.bsky.social · 15d

Charlie Kirk is the patron saint of whiteness.

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