Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her. RI Congressman @magaziner.house.gov tried to help, questioning Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem about this & other cases. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

R.I. man found dead in the cold. RI State Council of Churches calls for better coordination to provide people with shelter in this winter’s frigid weather. “We need to become better prepared as a state,” Harrison Tuttle said. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/m...

A Rhode Island man is facing charges in Florida, where prosecutors allege he exploited a young girl he met on the online video game Fortnite, and coerced her into “creating and sending hundreds of pornographic pictures and videos.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/m...

Newly released body-worn camera video from Brown University mass shooting shows how police responded. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

ICYMI: A 51-year-old man was allegedly murdered on the street in Providence by four children. His family wants answers. From @camilo-fonseca.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/08/m...

Concentration camps: "I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine."

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen, traveled with his Madison-area soccer team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament. He saved up money so his mom could take time off work to go with him. But while they were there, ICE took his mom, who has been detained ever since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

"No single path to healing." Brown University gathers to remember two students killed in December shooting www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/07/m...

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

@riaclu.bsky.social asks Brown University and other colleges not to share video feeds with Providence police www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/06/m...

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Love this little Rhode Island promo that Providence's nail cooked up for @globeri.bsky.social, a la Super Bowl ads. www.nail.cc/rhode-island...

Proud to have worked on this story (and many others) with @joemenn.bsky.social. He is a legend and it is so stupid that he was laid off. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

UPDATED with comments from @mattlamountain.bsky.social, @jakebissaillon.bsky.social and @dawneuer.bsky.social -- @risenate.bsky.social confirms former majority leader Michael J. McCaffrey as state judge www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...

Why do they all look the same?

"On Thursday morning, the Post’s website hosted a story about the bloodletting — written by an Associated Press reporter. For this once-great media organization, the retreat from the news couldn’t be signaled any clearer." — Jill Abramson @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/o...

In Providence, four boys, ages 11 and 12, are charged with murder after police say they attacked Rony Alonso, 51, last month. He died three days later. Now, there’s one question everyone is asking: How could this have happened? W/ @stephmachado.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Warwick voters reject additional $50m bond to build new high schools. Opponents say the vote shows taxpayers are sick of “out-of-control spending.” Advocates say the vote might curtail new athletic fields that could attract and retain students. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/m...

Quite a statement from Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux on restricting cooperation with ICE. He calls out DHS leadership & White House for their handling of accusations of excessive force by ICE. He says he wants no part of it. “Law enforcement cannot break the law to enforce the law.”

If you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.

Rhode Island DOT chief resigns amid Washington Bridge fallout. Governor McKee, who is seeking reelection in 2026, said Alviti will resign effective Feb. 27, and his administration will conduct a nationwide search for a successor. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/m...

A GofundMe has been set up to help pay the legal expenses of a Rhode Island widower fighting his in-laws' court petition to visit his toddler. Scott Naso believes his in-laws gave meds & gave medical advice that contributed to his wife's death & sickened their baby. gofund.me/40e15597a

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Records confirm ICE eyeing massive warehouse for regional detention facility in Merrimack, N.H., report @amandagokee.bsky.social & @reporterporter.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/03/m...

NEW: More than half the members of the Providence City Council are either renters or landlords (and the mayor's a landlord too) Here's how they are thinking about the rent control debate heating up at City Hall www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/m...

Wait, is that illegal?

Trump’s brazen ploys and proclamations about interfering with the administration of America’s elections are a grave threat to our democracy.

Experts fear that Americans are losing their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction — and that fewer people seem to care about the difference. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...

Gift article -- Chilling story about government intimidation of free speech. US Homeland Security is targeting Americans with secretive legal weapon. wapo.st/4rtfCw8

N.H. inventor Dean Kamen on leave from the nonprofit he founded, after longstanding ties to Epstein surface. The records include a 2013 email from Kamen thanking Epstein for “hosting an incredible visit to a magical place,” after his visit to Little Saint James. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/02/m...

Where do the candidates for R.I. attorney general stand on open records legislation? The four Democrats running to succeed AG Neronha answered questions about a proposed overhaul to the Access to Public Records Act, and a separate bill to make crash data public www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/02/m...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

NEW: Juveniles now charged with murder in an attack on a 51-year-old Rony Alonso earlier this month allegedly threw rocks at a vehicle and attempted to assault the driver the day after the attack, police records show. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/m...

ICE has weapons of war... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... ...and surveillance: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t... ... including face recognition app Clearview AI. In 2024, DHS was only using Clearview for child exploitation investigations. Now use includes investigating "attacks on law enforcement."

Police release video of former NE Patriots fullback shoving elderly man in North Providence gym www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/m...

@dawneuer.bsky.social spent years advocating for legislation supporting abortion rights, marriage equality, and gun safety. And, she said, “These historic bills didn’t pass because of former Senator McCaffrey — they passed because he could no longer block them.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/29/m...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

ICE’s job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

The number of children in ICE detention on an average day has skyrocketed 6x since Trump took an office. Families complain of poor medical care and worm-infested food. "It’s only a matter of time before we see a child die," one advocate said. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...

Pawtucket refused to release the police report on the wrongful arrest, saying the record isn't public because there were no charges. The @riaclu.bsky.social says that argument is “outrageous, absurd, and dangerous.”

It's striking how Central Falls has turned over both the police report and the body camera footage and Pawtucket has (once again) dug in and refused to release the legally-required arrest report, and now somehow developed a novel legal theory that the report isn't subject to disclosure.