Republican and Democratic leaders alike are pushing back against the Justice Department’s unlawful attempts to collect voter data. bit.ly/49iHMmM

Expanding RI Works means more support for parents and kids working to make ends meet. Send a letter to your legislator now: bit.ly/4wX6mUz #RhodeIsland #EconomicJustice #SupportFamilies #FamilySupport #RIKids #WorkingFamilies #PolicyForPeople @rikidscount.bsky.social

Secure Voters' Rights in RI (all states) so everyone can vote who wants to vote. These hateful and hurtful policies are promulgated by a small, but wealthy and motivated minority. White supremacy isn't going quitely into the night. We have to go to the ballot box and vote to drag it into the past.

Zohran Mamdani: "We will protect tenants from bad landlords block by block. We will support tenant unions block by block. We will deliver some of the strongest and most expansive tenant protections in the United States of America block by block."

Zohran: "We will deliver on the promise we made in our campaign to build 200,000 affordable, permanently rent-stabilized homes. And we will go beyond that and preserve and stabilize 200,000 more."

Thank you @ramirez.house.gov for your leadership. @amo.house.gov as your constituent I’d like to see you co-sponsor this legislation.

Great spot! #EatDrinkRI

Just finding out about this fundraiser now, but you can still donate to help Rhode Island high school student musician Angel Gautreaux purchase a professional quality trumpet by buying tix to this event: www.eventbrite.com/e/rising-sta...

Will this affect the taxes for Providence Mayor's Manhattan condo?

Hello Rhode Island! Fair share from the 1%! Before budget is out tomorrow! • House Speaker Blazejewski - (401) 222-2466 • Senate President Lawson - (401) 222-4901 • Senate Majority Leader Ciccone - (401) 276-5579 MSG: Please tax the Top 1% & put it in the budget. Pay their fair share!

Run for local office in RI. Town Councils & School Committees need candidates. First step: file for candidacy! A guide to dates from the RI SOS here: vote.sos.ri.gov/Forms/Electi... & a simple guide to becoming a candidate here: vote.sos.ri.gov & scroll down to “Be A Candidate”. Make change in RI!

Take Action. Today is the day. Now is the time. Join us at the rally today at 3PM and send a letter to your legislators calling on them to tax the top 1%: bit.ly/4dRCiAU When everyone pays their fair share, everyone wins. #TaxTheTop1% #TaxJustice #RhodeIsland

From Sam Zimmer’s substack: Smithfield, RI, versus a proposed AI Center. Town Hall Unites Community open.substack.com/pub/samhzimm...?

Rhode Island families deserve strong schools, affordable homes, reliable public transit, and accessible healthcare.   Join us this Thursday at the State House as we call on leaders to tax the top 1% and invest in the future of RI. Where: RI State House (Smith St. Side) When: Thursday, May 28 at 3 PM

"I Love Boosters" directed by @bootsriley.bsky.social is lots of fun & if you live in #RhodeIsland you can catch it at the Avon Cinema in Providence - have a great time, support a fun film & our beloved locally owned independent theater. Take @ripta.com's #1 bus to Thayer Street. Don't miss out!

We asked attendees at the People’s Tax Policy Summit what should be front and center on the People’s Agenda. From affordability to opportunity and beyond, hear what they had to say. #RhodeIsland #TaxJustice #PeoplePowered #reels

It is outrageous that the same U.S. officials who committed these blatant war crimes also have the audacity to indict 94 year old Raúl Castro who worked with President Obama to normalize relations between the U.S. & Cuba in 2014, over an incident 30 years ago. #NoWaronCuba #EndTheBlockade

This legislation would help mitigate the effects of the climate catastrophe and lower electric costs for everyday Rhode Islanders - I hope we get to vote on it! ⚓️ 🌊 🌞

Impressive statement by Rhode Island’s faith, business and law enforcement leaders. Well done. dioceseofprovidence.org/news/communi...

Thank you @johnmarion.bsky.social & @commoncauseri.bsky.social for your principled advocacy on behalf of a better Rhode Island for all of us.

Our executive director shares an update on the legislative session from outside the Rhode Island State House. Ready to take action? Contact your state legislators today and ask them to advance the Rhode Island Voting Rights Act (H8334/S3143) to the floor! act.commoncause.org/letters/send...

There are big winners with the Solar Cost Reduction Act. Read about it here. It was voted out of House Corporations Committee last night. @climateactionri.org

Misclassification of workers as independent contractors is a pervasive and widespread problem. A new EPI analysis finds that smaller, less economically secure groups of AAPI workers are often most exposed to the costs of misclassification.

#OtD 26 May 1824 the first recorded factory strike in US history took place when 102 women and girls working at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket RI picketed their factory against a 25% pay cut. After a week they won concessions. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/08/12/e...

Join us at the RI State House as we call on leaders to tax the top 1% and invest in our communities. 📍 RI State House (Smith St. Side) 🗓 Thursday, May 28 ⏰ 3 PM Wear green. Bring a friend. Bring your voice. Can’t make it? Send a letter to lawmakers: bit.ly/4uGxrKk #TaxTheTop1% #RhodeIsland

“The main takeaway is the incredible impact that immigrants have always made to our state,” Latino Policy Institute executive director Marcela Betancur.

What if taxing the rich works?

Steve’s endorsement means a great deal to me. As an independent journalist, he has been stalwart in being a voice for folks often ignored - our unhoused neighbors, our trans community, folks experiencing environmental injustice — and he’s never been afraid to call out leaders and politicians.

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

76% of Americans support bans on surveillance pricing, according to recent polling from @groundwork.bsky.social. groundworkcollaborative.org/news/strong-...

Being poor and unhoused is not a crime: Advocates challenge Mayor Smiley and the Providence Police to stop the abuse "We are not interested in living in a city where our solution is to kick people out of their homes and off the streets, leaving them with nowhere to go. That is not public safety."

Hey Oregon, tell these data center people to eat shit. Here's your toolkit www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

Oped: We are at Code Red for Democracy: The Voting Rights Act needs to be codified into RI State Law this year “Across the South, Black voters are being forced to refight battles their grandparents already won sixty years ago. That is not progress,” said Shahidah Ali. “That is a crisis.”

Let us honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice on this Memorial Day by working for peace, ending the immoral, illegal, unnecessary war on Iran, and stopping the next unprovoked war. These "whenever wars" dishonor our ideals of freedom and democracy.

Political leaders in #RhodeIsland could learn a lesson from Italy: stalling the transition to #renewableenergy leaves you more exposed to price fluctuations from fossil fuels. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

my favorite data centers are libraries

Thank you to all the wonderful Rhode Islanders, including those who are unhoused, who stood up for housing justice today in Providence along with DARE & the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness - & thanks @nbc10wjar.bsky.social & @steveahlquist.bsky.social for your reporting on the speak out

Under Trump, Americans see economy worsening, by nearly 4:1.

After manufacturing a humanitarian crisis on the island, it looks like the regime is preparing for an invasion of Cuba. Email your Members of Congress and demand no war, no blockade, and no collective punishment against Cuba: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...

Etta Tenants Union forms "to protect our rights and make sure that we are not being mistreated by management" “We are not going to stand and let management harass us and violate our rights,” said Etta Tenants Union leader Juliet Hart. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/etta-tenan...

Passed! The federal and state govt may have turned their backs on clean energy & the good, local jobs it supports — but in Providence, we are all in on saving $ for our taxpayers, supporting good jobs & protecting the environment!

"The right to vote is the first right." "We need to protect voting rights every single day." --RI SOS @greggamore.bsky.social at @cleanwaterri.bsky.social Breakfast of Champions

Congratulations Steve! @steveahlquist.bsky.social - well deserved 👏🏽 💐

What is the Green Revolving Fund & why is it so important to Providence?

The way Rhode Island measures homelessness results in undercounts; and criminalization makes things worse The true extent of homelessness is much larger than the PIT Count indicates. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/the-way-rh...

Happy National Rescue Dog Day 🐾🐾 Grateful this little guy rescued us! 🙏

The DOJ will indict one man over something that happened 30 years ago as a pretext for invading Cuba, but it won’t indict *any* men Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls to as recently as 7 years ago as a pretext for protecting those men. Time to remove the word “Justice” from the department’s name.