NEA Rhode Island is built to last: founded in 1845, still running strong in 1926, and flooring it for worker power in 2025! #happyfriday NEARI staff pictured: Alex Lucini and his 1926 Studebaker, Mary Barden, Onelissa Martinez, Sam Howard, Bridget Almon, and Stephanie Mandeville

What a great story - @redsox.com & @nyyankeesofficial.bsky.social should visit these gentlemen! ❤️⚾️💙

Jamelle Bouie writes beautifully about some ugly truths.

This will keep happening to non-trans girls and women who aren't perceived as sufficiently feminine to fucking weirdos.

Bigoted betrayal of Americans serving our nation. Just disgusting.

hi there, I am using this rare footage capturing the moment of a journalist being born as a ploy to get you to read a thread about what I do at WIRED as director of multiplatform video ↓↓↓↓↓

We’ve had PBS Passport for years and it IS worth every penny - we doubled our contribution earlier this year.

The one or two times a year I find myself in a situation where I have to make new friends of a big group of strangers makes me so appreciate kids and what we ask of them socially.

“…with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Happy birthday to the republic, “if you can keep it.” 🇺🇸

How many times do we have to say it? Working families need health care more than billionaires, giant corporations and greedy CEOs need another tax break.

Teachers at The Met School vote to unionize with NEARI "This vote was our way of standing together and saying: we love this place, and we believe it can be even better.” steveahlquist.substack.com/p/teachers-a...

This was a fantastic speech in person. Check it out online here

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla.”

🙌 VICTORY: The infamous "End DEI portal", which was built to intimidate teachers who didn't agree with the Trump administration's anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, has been shut down. Learn more about this and two other recent victories for inclusive education:

Found this bicentennial @providencejournal.bsky.social in my dad’s basement. Increasing my expectations for the 250th, ProJo!

NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden released the following statement on the passing of R.I. Senate President Dominick Ruggerio: www.neari.org/about-neari/...

Powerful testimony.

👇🏼

Rumeysa has a hearing today after a State Dept. reports found no terrorism links. The unidentified ICE officers who abducted her less than 60mi away said, “We are not monsters, we do what the government tells us.” Events like this should chill you to the bone. www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

“I’ve been with Bally’s for 12 years," Bally’s casino employee Phil Farinelli, said. "I survived stage 3 neck and head cancer and stage 1 lung at the same time. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I’m here – to say we shouldn’t be subjected to this ... [while] helping the state earn revenue."

OMG. IYKYK.

When hundreds of thousands of people coordinate across an entire nation to protest governmental policies, that’s not a page 18 story. That’s not a “see more in section B” situation. That’s front-page news. Period.

a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

@bostonglobe.com: three pages on historic #handsoff rallies from Saturday. @providencejournal.bsky.social: zero. When does ProJo go to bed, on Thursdays?

Congratulations to all the 14 yr old Floridians & Arkansans whose governors want them to drop out of school & work 13 hour shifts to screw in tiny screws on iPhones so the tech/crypto bros in the govt can have the newest iPhones to react with a fire emoji to the classified intel in the group chat

I’m supporting my daughter today, but a piece of my heart is with my brothers and sisters waving that NEARI flag!!

ICYMI: You've probably heard about the vast array of agencies the HHS layoffs gutted, but somewhat less focused-on were the communications teams that were laid off. I talked to laid-off workers in the comms offices in 5 divisions of HHS, and all said their offices had been emptied or nearly so. 1/x

Corey Booker is at hour 15 on the senate floor and there are over 36,000 live viewers on YouTube alone right now.

So they have enough diplomatic juice for Bukele to gleefully offer up gulag services but not enough to get back the people they illegally renditioned there? Girl, Biden got Brittney Griner out of enemy *Russia* and you can't get your little friend to the south to undo your oopsies? Weaksauce.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Pay no attention to my ham-fisted cabinet jeopardizing national security while I distract you with this nonsense…

March 28, 2025

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

They’re not.

We say working class in Rhode Island. See you at noon today.

NEARI Executive Director Mary Barden on the Trump EO: "Dismantling the Dept. of Education robs America’s students of the promise of a full and fair education. Students and their families in every Rhode Island community will be harmed by Trump and Musk’s wrecking ball." Read the full statement:

💪🏼 We STAND UP when workers are fired without cause and safety protections are gutted. 💪🏼We STAND UP for our students, patients, and communities. 💪🏼And you better believe we SHOW UP when the super rich take what belongs to the people. ✊🏼 JOIN US! Open to all who care about workers bit.ly/ri-labor-rally

Kaine: "A bully can take something from you, but you shouldn't hand it over to him. So I'm voting no."

So proud of this NEARI member! I get to work with these amazing teachers every day - raising up their voice to protect public schools and the freedom to read and learn.

conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge blocks mass firings of federal workers for now, orders thousands reinstated in lawsuit by states.

AG Neronha joins coalition in suing Trump Administration to stop dismantling of Department of Education: "With this action, the Administration will cause children harm that cannot be undone, the potential effects of which may continue for the rest of their lives." www.riag.ri.gov/press-releas...

This story is super depressing and drives home, yet again, how some people in the MAGA cult would just go along with train cars and ovens, should it come to that: apnews.com/article/trum...

The Democrats are bringing auction paddles to a knife fight.

“Nate Cavanaugh is listed as being paid just over $120,500 per year. According to DOGE’s official website, the average GSA employee makes $128,565 and has worked at the agency for 13 years.”