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Neighbors, our community has suffered a terrible tragedy. My heart breaks for the students who lost their lives to senseless gun violence and their families - and all in our community affected.

My heart breaks for every student and community across our nation. A fresh pain, an old wound. Yes, here. Yes, our community. Yes, Brown. Yes, this tragic, preventable horror happened again. We can prevent gun violence. We chose not to.

Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer. www.brown.edu

Brown is not just my alma mater. It’s half a mile from my home. It’s part of my district. I can hear the sirens. My heart breaks. Unimaginable, heartbreaking. Preventable.

Sending so much love to my Brown community.

In a shock to absolutely no one, the spineless dem’s “plan” to reopen the government and force an ACA vote didn’t work and healthcare subsidies are gone. Healthy people will take the tax penalty. Sick people will go broke or die. Those are the options in 2026.

Merger announcements like this one really make me miss Lina Khan.

The fact that Netflix could afford to buy warner brothers means they could've afforded to let us share passwords.

I joined 100+ state legislators from CT, ME, MA, NH, NY, RI & VT urging Congress to stop federal actions hurting our region’s farms & food systems. The Northeast stands united for farmers & local food! 🌾 #NortheastStrong #SupportLocalFarms @sixaction.bsky.social stateinnovation.org/wp-content/u...

The House just voted to “denounce the horrors of socialism” while people can’t afford rent, groceries, or a doctor’s visit. Gabe Amo and Seth Magaziner voted with Republicans. You don’t get to campaign on helping working people then go to DC and condemn the ideas that make our lives affordable.

ICE agents stalked a high school intern, took his photo, then surrounded a RI judge’s car and threatened to smash the windows to pull him out. They had misidentified him — and they did not care.

Let me get this straight. Republicans want democrats to accept abortion restrictions that will endanger millions of Americans in exchange for health care subsides for millions of Americans.

My grandfather had a favorite saying I like to bring up at times like this. “Don’t piss down my back and tell me that it’s raining”. No healthcare, no deal. Hold the line.

If senate dems cave now, this shutdown would have been for nothing. Billionaires still get tax cuts. Millions lose healthcare. Hold the line.

Now not the time for dems to fold. We had huge W’s less than a week ago now some dems are going to vote to end ACA tax credits. Have we learned nothing?

If these billionaires cared about people over profits, they wouldn’t pay ANY of their employees so low that they qualify for public benefits.

Republicans have decided that forcing states to scramble to feed people by Nov 1 is a better option than sitting down with Democrats and negotiating to get the government out of this shutdown. Why? Because they desperately want to line the pockets of their billionaire buddies.

It would cost RI roughly $1 Million a day to fund SNAP without the federal government…

SNAP benefits will not go out Nov. 1 because the President is only willing to illegally fund ICE and not food for 40 Million Americans.

The President’s authorities under Article II are limited to responding to an armed attack/the threat of one and do not apply here. These continued strikes — 27 killed to date — risk getting the U.S. into a full fledged war.

We have now struck 5 boats in the Caribbean illegally for allegedly smuggling drugs. At this point congress is condoning this behavior.

Hello Southside PVD community! Join @mackdistrict6.bsky.social & I at this meeting to provide updates (to the best of our current knowledge) on key issues in the Southside area of Providence as well as invite dialogue on other pressing matters of importance in the Southside.

Impressive grassroots effort by some young policy and political entrepreneurs.

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/govern...

All eyes on Gaza. All boats in the Sumud Flotilla intercepted and peaceful activists arrested in international waters. Gaza City given final removal order, any left will be considered a terrorist.

Who own the airwaves and whose ring do they kiss? Trump and the FCC. Nexstar (owns 30 ABC affiliates) and Sinclair (owns 40) won’t being back Kimmel. 70 markets now get different media. This is concerned.

Nextstar and Sinclair refuse to bring back Kimmel tonight. So lot of markets will not see his show return. Don’t fall for the headlines. We keep boycotting. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/k...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

The goal is to keep us silent. Make talking about slavery taboo, so it can be repeated. Make condemning hate speech an attack on their idol. Make people afraid to speak, even rich powerful white men, and you control what gets covered. Democracy dies in darkness.

HBCU’s are on lockdown following the Charlie Kirk gun death yesterday. Earlier this week SCOTUS ruled that ICE could use racial profiling in their stops for people they believe are in this country illegally. These two things are connected. Here’s how 🧵

Oh also, I’m not seeing much on the Colorado school shooting today… Condemn the gun violence every time, for every person. It’s the guns. It’s the guns. It’s the fucking guns.

It should really worry all of us that unilaterally condemning gun violence is painted as a surprisingly bipartisan issue. I want to fight for a world where the expectation is we all vehemently condemn political violence and gun violence. Every time. For everyone. Period.

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

Millions of working families already facing a growing affordability crisis will now pay higher prices for their electricity. Delaying the Revolution Wind project means delaying reliable, American-made energy the Northeast urgently needs. Let’s say #YestoWind. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ea...

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

Jokes aside, if Biden was AWOL for four days and had nothing on his sked for a holiday weekend: -CNN would permanently show a running clock on the last time Biden was seen in public -Alex Thompson would publish multiple stories a day on Axios -Chris Cillizza would crank out 56 "But His Age" stories

Join me and special guest Senator @mackdistrict6.bsky.social on Thursday for community, connection and action to fight for Planned Parenthood patients and protect access to care for all Rhode Islanders! #IFightForPP www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/pp-votes-r...

All the resources to hunt down crime but none of the resources to stop them violence of forcing people into poverty. Lower the rent. Raise the wages. Invest in youth.

Providence, we are now in a mass surveillance city. It’s not “futuristic”, this is a slippery slope. Given the rise of fascism…this is terrifying. www.providence journal.com/story/news/crime/2025/08/19/real-time-crime-center-providence-police-taking-virtual-policing-to-the-next-level/85716803007/

Alright now….A permission slip?!?!? Fascism isn’t around the corner, it’s right here in the room with us

@cohen489.bsky.social & @mackdistrict6.bsky.social discuss the widely reported challenge to Obergefell brought by well-known ghoul Kim Davis. There are many attacks on and threats to the LGBTQ+ community, but the greatest threat to marriage equality is pending legislation attacking trans people.

UK police arrested hundreds today at protests over the Palestine Action ban. Absolutely bonkers quote from the police here: “It will take time, but we will arrest anyone expressing support for Palestine Action." Just to reiterate: Simple written or verbal expressions of support are illegal.

People who are migrants. Trans people. People experiencing homelessness. Everyone is next. They have started coming for us. All Americans. But we have lost the soul of this nation and we believe some people are less deserving of human rights. We created the conditions for everyone to be next.

We spend more on criminalizing homelessness than we do solving and providing housing. We don’t care about people, we are about a police state. Veterans, survivors of domestic violence, children, older adults. THIS is who we are saying don’t deserve human dignity.

Invest in affordable housing. Pay people living wages. Invest in affordable healthcare. Invest in robust mental health supports. Invest in resources for people with addiction disparities. Stop criminalizing people.

Policing in the US has yet to end homelessness. Why? Because you can’t throw people away. Democrat and republican leaders have spent so much time divesting in policy solutions that we know work in favor of invest more in our police state. We forget what is possible for our communities.

I am sick and tired of experts telling us how to end homelessness and us consistently criminalizing people who need affordable housing, higher wages, affordable healthcare, and human dignity. DC is a testing ground. Trump chose the only National Guard he can deploy on his own against US citizens.

Trump is taking over DC to tackle “homelessness and crime” but he has offered no solutions to end homelessness and reduce crime. We know what works. We know how to end homelessness. We know how to reduce crime. His latest move is another step towards his police state.