I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
The Democratic Party is directly enabling the war by praising the assassination of Iranian leaders, refusing to condemn the aggression, and approving massive military funding.
We've got some Neighborly Actions this week & next related to getting & keeping people housed--massively important as prices rise, social services starve, & weather becomes more extreme. Housing justice is a community solution to climate anxiety. neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...
Hope kiddo feels better soon and that you all stay healthy
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
Polluting juggernaut Rhode Island Recycled Metals will be appearing before the City of Providence’s Board of Licenses on Friday (hearing starts at 4:32 pm (yes 4:32) on the fifth floor of the Providence City Hall. Here’s the docket: providenceri.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...
Attacks leave dead vs killed
You can also donate to the shoveling effort (snacks, supplies, time), here: www.gofundme.com/f/thank-you-...
Neighbors and I have been doing this since Monday. We have also been clearing overpasses, curb cuts and bus stops (the city wont) It you want to help out or make requests, you can message here: linktr.ee/ProvidenceLa...
A bunch of Boston Herald headlines about SNAP fraud
Something Massachusetts folks should be aware of is that the Boston Herald is running a lot of stories recently on SNAP fraud. This could be an attempt to manufacture consent for some type of ICE surge in the coming months.
@jackiegoldman.bsky.social is running to represent Ward 5 on the Providence City Council! The ward includes parts of the Mount Pleasant, Elmhurst & Manton neighborhoods! Learn more about their platform here:
www.jackiegoldmanri.com
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
Governor McKee's initiative to lower ratepayer energy costs seems more like political theater than effective policy
But that doesn't make the effort less contentious, as environmentalists and business exceutives stake out opposite sides of the issue...
steveahlquist.substack.com/p/governor-m...
Purely watching the olympics to see the 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 domination
Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.
Ok I’ve said this before but SENATOR WHITEHOUSE WHAT THE FUCK. You cannot say you are taking opposing the fascism coming out of the White House seriously and then do this. @whitehouse.senate.gov be so for real
the end result of AI image, video, and audio generation is that society will no longer be able to rely on images or video or audio to represent reality. Children born today will never be able to assume that just because they have seen something on a screen that it is likely to be true.
Loaning yourself 100k for a city council campaign is wild. Wouldn't and couldn't be me, but absolutely is one of my opponents. I don't think someone who can loan himself more in a quarter than most households make in 2 years can understand what the average person is dealing with, but that's just me
I am the right person to take on this fight. I hope to see you at my campaign launch. You can RSVP here: secure.actblue.com/donate/jgforw5
It feels like both a weird and important time to announce my campaign. We are in a time of such darkness and have to have leaders who are going to fight for Providence. For affordable housing, for better streets and services and for our civil rights.
@jackiegoldman.bsky.social announces their candidacy for the open Providence Ward 5 City Council seat this year.
Goldman joins a Democratic primary that includes fmr. Council President and mayoral candidate Michael Solomon, and Simon Sarkisian.
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
Trump is arresting a reporter for covering a news story and meanwhile we don't even know the name of the man who murdered Alex Pretti.
"What works to stop fascism, the Twin Cities is showing us, is when everyone steps up. When everyone feels empowered, even if it’s just to blow a whistle or honk a horn or yell in the snow in slippers...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
This morning, I was driving unhoused neighbors as part of Operation One Dies. It was wild but unsurprising that wealthy neighborhoods were plowed so much better than non wealthy neighbors. All of us pay for city services, yet only some benefit
this is, unfortunately, the time for us to once again call our senators and say fuck you try again
Instead of reckoning with the long and violent architecture of U.S. history, much of peoples' search for explanations collapses into racialized tropes and xenophobic reassurance: This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t China. This is America. We have rights. This is a democracy. This isn’t who we are.
The whole agency needs to go
In our latest, we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way
www.patreon.com/posts/149118...
