C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Thanks to the Trump admin, the IRS’s FREE Direct File tool will not be available next tax season. This tool lets Americans file taxes without paying an expensive service. This is just another way that Trump is helping big corporations profit by screwing over working people.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

I don't feel at liberty to comment directly on any of the handful of recent public health related headlines out of RI but I can't over-emphasize how important real-time interstate and international collaboration are in getting a handle on disease transmission and food contamination

Providence Ward 3 Councilor @sueanderbois.bsky.social's entry into the LG race opens up a third City Council seat next year. (Wards 5 and 11 have term-limited councilors.) One person who *won't* be running is School Board member @coreyjonespvd.bsky.social, who narrowly lost to AnderBois in 2022.

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

I was saying to a non-media-industry friend the other day: IMO, the media story of Trump 1.0 was a lot of outlets/institutions failing to rise to the challenge of covering Trump properly. The story of Trump 2.0 is that large swaths of the news media are now captured or compromised.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

Food pantries near you 🍎 RIPTA is proud to support access to essential resources across #RhodeIsland. Visit RIPTA.com/Food to find local food pantries and the bus routes that serve them.

Thank you RIPTA for putting this food resources guide together!

Amazon is firing 14,000 employees so that it can invest more in AI. Record profits for billionaire CEOs has never stopped greedy corporations from screwing over working people. The system is rigged.

A spokesperson for Brett Smiley said the Providence mayor “has committed to signing” the amended Community Police Relations Act, a 2017 ordinance that already puts limits on how much police can cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Last night, I carved my first pumpkin ever and decided to memorialize Mount Pleasant High School. In times of great darkness, it is a real joy to add just a bit of light.

📣 IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY TURN IT INTO A COMMUNITY PANTRY ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE

This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.

When I moved to Providence in 2016, my rent was $750 for an attic one bedroom and that was HIGH. Same spot is more than double now.

JFC.

#BREAKING: In the Illinois National Guard case, #SCOTUS is asking for additional briefing on one of the key substantive questions (and one flagged by my Georgetown colleague @martylederman.bsky.social in an amicus brief): Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.

🔥🔥 Shame on @aaas.org. Their capitulation harms 🧪. Have they not learned that giving in to a bully is not the way out?

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House. This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

If @governor.ny.gov can get Amtrak to cap fares at $99 each way for trips between NYC & Albany (starting spring 2026), @govdanmckee.bsky.social should do the same for Amtrak service between Providence & Westerly! Especially now that RIPTA’s express bus service to Westerly has been severely reduced!

Brett smiley made it worse as part of his plan to remediate traffic from the bridge. Didn't do shit for traffic clearly but it did make it extremely hard to to cross and patronize those businesses

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

There will be a Palestine contingent. We are meeting at City Hall at 1 and will join the March when it comes by. The anti fascism movement must center Palestine. Both Israel and the far right use same weapons and same tactics to enforce their violence.

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

A bunch of new people have followed me this week. Nice to see you all here! I wrote this book. If you have between $15 & $30, you could buy it, or donate that amount to a Palestinian fundraiser, immigrant defense effort, or environmental justice organization www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-...

I PRd my 5k and got to chat with one of the people I saw on the train. The correct link is here, the event is 200k short of raising 2 million: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

It's so cool to be on a subway at 730am and see a handful of people all heading to the UNRWA fundraiser 5k. There is still time donate. Palestine still needs our money and our solidarity: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

Good reporting from the ProJo's Kathy Gregg: "Six Rhode Island lawmakers took an expense-paid trip to Israel in September, following a trip there earlier this year by Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos that has now drawn some flak."

Kathy's piece mentions @jackiegoldman.bsky.social's recent op-ed criticizing Matos's trip. A quote: "it strikes me as hypocritical for Lt. Governor Matos to talk about food deserts in Rhode Island while supporting a political regime that is imposing famine conditions on millions of people."

Great op-ed by @jackiegoldman.bsky.social. While I support @sabinamatos.bsky.social’s work on hunger and food deserts, her Israel views have long been problematic. With the famine in Gaza, backing up the Netanyahu regime in yet another trip to Israel is especially irresponsible. t.co/mv4OFjzEZJ

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

G'mar chatima tova, may you have a safe and meaningful fast and may you be inscribed in the Book of Life. May this Yom Kippur give you the spiritual grounding you need for the many fights for liberation ahead. If you.need a place to celebrate Yom Kippur, I'm helping lead these services:

Some #PVDlocal/#RIlocal neighborly actions for you. Sometimes with a fundraiser, I think, "Am I glad people are doing this thing? Yes. Could *I* do it? No? Then let me kick in." neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

Yom Kippur/sweeping authoritarianism anxiety had me up early today and I logged on to work at 5:40. But at least my coworker is comforting.

Let's testify for our neighbors who can't safely do so. The proposed changes to the current ordinance are here: council.providenceri.gov/wp-content/u...

#PVDlocal: The Mayor's promises that PPD won't cooperate with ICE have proved empty. On 10/6, City Council's holding a hearing that could lead to a prohibition on police-ICE cooperation, as well as some protections for schools & courts. Get your testimony ready. 10/6, 5:30pm, City Hall, 3rd floor

As per uzh, watching someone's kid so that person can go, giving someone a ride, delivering someone's testimony for them are all legit forms of community participation

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out. They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.