Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

"we have the greatest respect for principles of stare decisis" which is why we're going to overturn a 1935 case that limits the power of our MAGA emperor

This is bad

IT IS THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

Goodnight, friends. Samizdat, economic non-cooperation, culture jamming, silent protests, work-to-rule, guerilla art. These are just a few of the types of everyday resistance anyone can engage in. Learn something new and pledge to give it a try. I love you.

Murdering people in the Caribbean, declaring war on American cities … everything is fine and normal.

Again, it could not be more obvious that the president has declared war on the United States.

Thank you Congressman @amo.house.gov. We cannot give space to bullies.

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

This plus the NY reps being arrested when trying to gain access to ICE facilities plus, you know, all the kidnapping - this is a fascist police system bent on terrorizing and subduing the public. Thank you @katmabu.bsky.social and others who continue to stand up. May we all be so brave.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.

A must watch to calm the nervous system this morning

I’m so sick of waiting for democrats to grow a spine. Who cares that this is mostly symbolic - where’s the symbolic support for your LGBTQ+, immigrant, POC, etc etc constituents? You better believe my senators will be hearing from me.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Thank you RI DOH and Gov for pushing for this. We must take care of our communities and their health.

SCOTUS: "Business owners who dislike homosexuals can refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding." US DoJ: "Business owners who dislike Charlie Kirk cannot refuse to print materials memorializing him."

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

OK folks. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting on Friday to discuss Covid vaccines. If it is possible, I do recommend getting a Covid vaccine before then. I know due to out of pocket costs and prescription requirements in some states it is easier said then done.

How am I already behind? Welcome to #CityCouncil #NewportRI but this time at Pell Elementary because we are rescheduled from last week, when we had an elevator SNAFU. We are on the agenda that we were unable to address last week: cityofnewport.granicus.com/GeneratedAge... (1/?)

Corporation for Public Broadcasting: "In times of cultural regression they remind us of what's at stake & what can still be achieved. Neutrality is not enough. Let's make sure storytelling is not a platform for the privileged, but a public good for all." Cris Abrego, Television Academy Chair #Emmys

Ok I’m rewatching Stranger Things in preparation for the final season and damn this show is good. And pretty frickin scary😳

Hell yeah Boston. More of this.

Our societal failure to consider clean air a human right is hurting us all. FAA doesn’t care about your fume-caused TBI. OSHA doesn’t have clean air standards. People are being disabled by COVID repeatedly acquired in hospitals & schools. Firefighters are denied PPE. Mask up & demand clean air.

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

Rescheduled City Council is TOMORROW, Monday, 9/15 at 6:30pm at Pell Elementary. Same agenda. See you there! If you come in person, bring your own seat or cushion. Your butt will thank you.

Here it is. Thank you @govdanmckee.bsky.social and the state infrastructure that pushed for this. Everyone go get your vaccines and boosters please.

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

Spread calm. Tell the truth. Defend vulnerable people who are under attack. Getting stuck in a reactive mode is exhausting, and exhaustion can make us weak.

Got my Covid booster and flu shot at CVS today. Go book an appointment.

It's noon ET. Have you had a high-protein meal today? Drank a glass of water? Taken your meds? Are you slouching? Gently pull your head up, roll your shoulders back, and slowly rotate your head left and right (3x). Now take a deep breath, and then slowly let it out. Repeat at least five times.

It's always remarkable when we get to see through the pretense to whose lives matter and which ones power mourns, humanizes, and validates in its response to violence, but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything this transparent.

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today

🚨ALERT🚨 There will be NO council meeting tonight due to an issue with the city hall elevator. All meetings must be accessible and location cannot be changed within 48hr because of open meeting laws. Reschedule info will likely be posted soon.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Breaking: Missouri House passes new gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 90% of seats in state Trump won with 58% of vote. Destroys district held by Black Rep Emanuel Cleaver, one of 2 Dems in state Texas was just start of Trump’s sweeping plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Abominable. The only message they will allow is that being a trans person is awful, horrible, to be avoided at all costs - when of course this is false. The experience of trans people being negative is made that way by the people instituting these bans and policies.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

The worst thing about all these actors being involved in Harry Potter is knowing that it mirrors how little allyship we can expect from people we know in real life. How quickly the pretence at allyship is put aside to perform or consume the nostalgia that funds transphobia

Our federal tax dollars paid for this vaccine so we should be able to get it anywhere in our nation. We should not have to do what Gov Healey in Sen Warren’s state of MA is doing to make it accessible - though I’m glad they’re doing the work. RFK Jr and his work are indefensible.

I actually think "we are not giving the GOP a single vote to fund this govt so long as there are troops in our cities or even could in the future be troops in american cities" is a good message and one easily intelligible to the average american.

Tonight at 6:30pm, in chambers or online, join me for #NewportRI #CotyCouncil 👇👇👇

Oh hey I’m quoted in this @ecorinews.bsky.social piece about a potential natural gas moratorium - thanks @aveiary.bsky.social for pointing it out to me. Go read the piece and hopefully we can all work together to move this forward! ecori.org/question-of-...

Welcome to McCarthyism 2.0. The difference this time is that it’s not a relatively junior Senator doing it via committee hearings, but the White House doing it with full cooperation from virtually every arm of the federal and red state governments.

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?

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.