Maria Rodale
mariarrrr.bsky.social
Maria Rodale
@mariarrrr.bsky.social
Author. Artist. Activist. Crone.
Life.Unfiltered @substack
Love. Nature. Magic.
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
We’d like to share a remembrance for Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, who has passed away. Her life and work helped preserve history, expand whose stories are told, and inspire generations to come.
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
The more we see of Chinese EV's the more we realise just how shit and out-of-date Tesla really is.

"Ignore that! Look over there! Fake robots and a Mars mission which will never happen! Please believe me, don't tank my fraud!"
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
pedophilic behavior
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Liberty falls, McDonalds remains standing.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
In a purely transactional country like the U.S., “exit” is the most powerful strategy of resistance.
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
I give these books as baby/kid gifts all the time. I love them so much and the kids and parents do too. It’s fun to add to their collections as time goes on. And this is coming from someone who takes their Aunt cred *very* seriously.
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
Groups of dudes who self-segregate & talk each other into believing that they are uniquely brilliant & everyone else just doesn't get it ... are responsible for some of history's most florid horrors.
It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reposted by Maria Rodale
It's decided.

Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all.

Energy independence starts now.

link.europa.eu/tykVJf
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM