Providence Police have identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old native of Portugal, as the man they believe killed two people and injured nine more in a mass shooting inside a Brown University classroom Saturday, they announced Thursday night.

Here's the source of the pdf. riag.ri.gov/press-releas...

Authorities said they’re probing a potential connection between the Brown attack and the homicide of an acclaimed professor at MIT who was fatally shot at his Brookline home Monday night, according to officials close to the investigation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/18/m...

Reed and Whitehouse on the list

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Aww man 😢

"He had big dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon and helping people."

“I kind of knew what happened, you know,” Zoe Weissman said in an interview with the Globe on Sunday. “It’s infuriating. I just can’t believe that there’s going to be kids in the US who have to go through this not once, but twice.”

Following last night’s tragedy in our city, the RI Blood Center is in urgent need of donors. If you have the capacity and are eligible, please consider donating blood. The RI Blood Center’s Providence location (405 Promenade Street) will be open until 7pm tonight. Take care neighbors ❤️

VIDEO: Here are some of the scenes photographer Ryan Welch captured a short time ago when we noticed that investigators were focusing on a window on the first floor of the hotel here in Coventry. www.wpri.com/news/local-n... @wpri12.bsky.social

9 PM: Anyone with information about the shooting is being asked to call the Providence police tipline at 401-272-1111. https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-reports-active-shooter/ 

Providence Police Commander Timothy O’Hara urges residents who live in the vicinity of the shooting to check their home security cameras for any footage that could help the investigation. If you see something suspicious - please immediately call 911.

Police share that suspect is male & dressed in black

Very sad to jump on and see what happened at Brown. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Awful to see such gun violence.

So are they against libraries, social (it has the word right in it) security, Medicare and other public services? Make it make sense.

Fucking hell, @amo.house.gov & @magaziner.house.gov are Yeas of course. Why can't we ever have good things?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January. https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-of-georgia-former-trump-loyalist-says-she-is-resigning-from-congress/ 

Yet another example of ICE agents breaking the law & violating people's rights, in this case a high school student U.S. citizen in #RhodeIsland. Now judges like Judge McBurney are beginning to understand the crucial need for virtual court hearings. www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

SMH

“I’m a monster in human skin, but THIS guy?! Yeeeeesh”

Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Democrat Mikie Sherrill wins New Jersey governor’s race. By @newjerseymonitor.com rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/11/04/r...

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Mamdani just hit ONE MILLION votes in an off-election year. The People’s Movement is flexing its muscles. Trump, and his billionaire donors (and both party establishments) better watch out. A wave of working families is coming to wash you away

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

No Kings PVD. Crowd marching through downtown now

Here’s a list of the New England workers who are currently facing consequences for their online statements about Kirk.

NEW: A forensic audit the McKee administration has refused to release for more than a year shows state officials should have been aware of growing structural issues tied to the westbound Washington Bridge long before it abruptly closed in December 2023 www.wpri.com/target-12/fo...

I’ll be watching for their responses. Thanks Steve reporting on this and asking the important questions.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

So these six RI General Assembly members took an all expense paid trip to Israel paid for by the Israeli government that is committing genocide in Gaza. While at the conference, FM Gideon Sa'ar urged them and American lawmakers to pass anti-BDS laws in their states. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...

There are actually six Rhode Island legislators as part of this delegation. They are: Sen. Peter A. Appollonio, Jr. Sen. Robert Britto Sen. Louis P. DiPalma Representative Thomas E. Noret Representative Christopher G. Paplauskas Senator Leonidas P. Raptakis

So respectfully, what are you and Dem leaders going to do about it?

Worth remembering that a prominent Fox host encouraged the government to murder homeless people last week and is still employed.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Listen carefully to what Jimmy Kimmel said...

Ironically, Kimmel's firing is arguably the one case here where the right to free speech is being violated in a very real sense, considering part of the impetus was a threat from a federal government institution (the FCC)

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel - and anyone one that will actually stand up to the loco Cheeto and his administration, or any media company that will bend the knee. Murrow turning over in his grave

If firing Colbert or Kimmel (or a teacher potentially getting fired in Barrington for opinions) is ok with you - but the comments the person who they criticized is not wrong - you are indeed the problem. Free speech, including political satire is important to our democracy.

I put in a query to the spokespersons for the @rihouseofreps.bsky.social and @risenate.bsky.social

Anyone know who attended from RI? @tednesi.bsky.social @iandonnis.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social I (and I’m sure many others) would love to know. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/

UPDATE: CBS News is reporting that conservative activist Charlie Kirk is dead after he was shot during at an event at a Utah university. Tap the link for the latest updates: https://shorturl.at/uSTt8

I don’t agree with Charlie Kirk on anything - including that some gun deaths are worth it. Saw the video and horrified. Thoughts for him, his family and everyone affected by gun violence.

Hasbro is moving to Boston, where they have the millionaire’s tax, and a great public transportation system (at least as compared to RI). We offered Hasbro a defunded RIPTA and no millionaire’s tax, and they basically asked, “Did you listen when we said what we were looking for?