This is what @karenalzate.bsky.social and other legislators who are putting forth bills to fund #RIPTA understand. They will need the support of @joeshekarchi.bsky.social and Val Lawson to get this done.
And Governor McKee needs to get his head out of his rear end on this. /2
AFP: "It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”
On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.
Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit.
We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.
Tesla made $5.7 BILLION in 2025.
It paid $0 in federal income tax.
This is the SECOND year in a row that the company paid zero income tax despite making a massive profit.
The system is rigged.
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
So let’s not try to rewrite history in an election year.
RI has done too little, and moved too slowly, on this Governor’s watch.
Read more from our Office about the need to increase renewable incentives, not, as the Governor proposes, decrease them.
riag.ri.gov/media/7996/d...
Curious about what’s going on with @govdanmckee.bsky.social ’s attempt to gut #RhodeIsland ‘s #renewableenergy programs? Frank has you covered.
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
Hey Rhode Island, McKee’s rollback of renewable energy will mean even higher electricity costs. Tell the Senate Finance Committee: this is not the way. Send a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/budg...
There’s a lot about this that is pure gaslighting-no pun intended. More to come on that.
And I love it when the Governor keeps saying “we” went to court to save Revolution Wind. I just have no recollection of his actual involvement.
Truth is he had no involvement. At all. Whatsoever.
I’ll take this America, please.
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Can confirm.
Brown University and some high school students are arriving at the Rhode State House for the ICE protest.
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
A hero and lady justice
Not much went right this year but to hear of fresh sightings bringing the total to 14 new documented calves for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is most welcome news in these final days of 2025 (photo credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, NOAA permit #26919)
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
I'm reading a piece about how Australia is already tightening its gun laws, less than 48 hours after the Bondi Beach shooting. The piece points out that 64% of Aussies favor stricter gun laws.
So do 60% of Americans, but our elected reps don't give a damn.
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
A really great Sunday story and photos: Illinois mom covers 250-mile distance to reunite formerly detained immigrants with their Chicago families: “They deserve to know somebody cares”
By Rebecca Johnson
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/i...
(AP) — A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
This is really good.
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Second update: not open. 🫠
Update! We drove to MA for dinner with Brock’s family and guess what’s still in my fridge at home. Yep. The Brussels sprouts. I’m now at Wegmans (which is open!). Cheers!
